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"Do You Feel Like We Do" Single by Peter Frampton from the album Frampton Comes Alive! B-side "Penny for Your Thoughts" Released 1976 Recorded 1975 Genre Rock Length 14:15 (album), 7:19 (single) Label A&M Writer(s) Peter Frampton, Mick Gallagher, Rick Wills, John Siomos Peter Frampton singles chronology "Baby I Love Your Way" (live)
(1976)"Do You Feel Like We Do"
(1976)"I'm in You"
(1977)"Do You Feel Like We Do" is a song by Peter Frampton originally on the Frampton's Camel album released in 1973. The song became one of the highlights of his live performance in following years. It was one of the three hit singles released from his Frampton Comes Alive! album, released in 1976, which reached number one on the album charts and became the best-selling live album of all time until Garth Brooks' Double Live album was released in 1998. The Frampton Comes Alive! version of the song was recorded at the State University of New York's Plattsburgh Memorial Hall.[1][2][3] The version from Frampton Comes Alive! is featured in Guitar Hero 5 and as downloadable content for Rock Band 3.
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Writing and recording
The song was written in the early seventies with members of Frampton's band, then called Frampton's Camel. It was released on the 1973 Frampton's Camel album, and was relatively short at 6:44 minutes and not then released as a single.
After the lack of success of the Frampton's Camel album, Frampton performed under his own name, and began touring the United States extensively for the next two years supporting acts such as the J. Geils Band and ZZ Top as well as performing his own shows at smaller venues. As a result, he developed a strong live following while his albums sold moderately and his singles failed to chart.
"Do You Feel Like We Do" became the closing number of his set and one of the highlights of his show. It was considerably longer—over fourteen minutes on Frampton Comes Alive!—and featured a number of instrumental solos. Most famously, Frampton used the talk box, an effects pedal which redirects a guitar's sound through a tube into the performer's mouth, allowing the guitar to mimic human speech.
As a result of the strength of Frampton's live show, A&M Records decided to release a live album taped when Frampton performed at Winterland in San Francisco. Frampton Comes Alive! was originally going to be a single album until Jerry Moss asked "Where's the rest?".[1] "Do You Feel Like We Do" was one of the tracks added to the album as a result of the decision to expand the album to a double album. The track had been recorded live on November 22, 1975 on the college campus of SUNY Plattsburgh in Plattsburgh, New York.[2]
Release as a single
"Do You Feel Like We Do" was released as the third single from Frampton Comes Alive! in September 1976. By that stage, Gerald Ford had invited him to stay at the White House as a result of the success of Frampton Comes Alive!. It was edited down extensively for the 45RPM single and promo single for pop radio stations, but the said single version was still 7 minutes long. (Many radio stations were known to further edit the song down, in order to make it fit in the then-tightly-programmed AM radio formats) It reached number 10 on the US pop charts and number 39 in the UK making it one of the longest songs to reach the US top 10.
Many album-oriented rock stations played the full 14 minute length version, most notably WBCN in Boston, Massachusetts. WBCN is credited with being the first album rock station to play the full length of the album on air. The album went on to top the US charts for ten weeks and became the best selling live album of all time as well as one of the best selling double albums. Billboard Magazine named Frampton artist of the year for 1976 as a result of the success of the album, as did the readers of Rolling Stone Magazine.
Frampton continues to play this song live to close his concerts, and he played the song in his solo spot while playing with Ringo Starr's All-Star band (in 1997 and 1998) with a piano solo of Gary Brooker bass solo of Jack Bruce and the version length was about 19 minutes. The Simpsons episode "Homerpalooza" featured the song with the London Symphony Orchestra supporting Frampton and the Pink Floyd pig which Frampton had picked up from "the Pink Floyd yard sale." However, as often happens when Homer Simpson is involved, things go awry, leading Frampton to say "Homer Simpson wrecks my pig, Cypress Hill steals my orchestra, and Sonic Youth's in my cooler." [3]
Title
The title of the song is "Do You Feel Like We Do", although the lyrics read "Do you feel like I do?". Only after the keyboard solo in the Frampton Comes Alive! version does Frampton sing "Do you feel like we do?". He then sings "Do you feel like we do?" through the talk box in the midst of his extended talk box guitar solo.
Covers
This song is covered by Tesla, off of their 2007 Real to Reel album, disk two and by Night Ranger on their Feeding off the Mojo CD (coupled with the Beatles' Tomorrow Never Knows).
Local H recorded a very faithful cover of the Frampton Comes Alive! version of the song, complete with lengthy talkbox solo and fake crowd noise. It can be found on the "Eddie Vedder" CD single.
On the Strong Bad Main Page of the Homestar Runner website, (accessible through the game Homestar Talker) this song is referenced when the viewer scrolls over the characters button. A clip from the song plays, and Strong Bad says, "Oh check it out, this guy's guitar is totally talking!"
References
- ^ Crowe, Cameron (1976). Do You Feel Like We Do. In Frampton Comes Alive [CD liner notes]. Santa Monica: A&M Records.
- ^ Jacobsen, Neil (February 5, 1976). "FRAMPTON COMES ALIVE". Cardinal Points (Plattsburgh, New York): pp. 5. http://news2.nnyln.net/cardinal-points/suny-plattsburgh-cardinal-points-1975-january-1978-summer/suny-plattsburgh-cardinal-points-1975-january-1978-summer%20-%200439.pdf.
- ^ Cardinal Points (Plattsburgh, New York): pp. 8. November 13, 1975. http://news2.nnyln.net/cardinal-points/suny-plattsburgh-cardinal-points-1975-january-1978-summer/suny-plattsburgh-cardinal-points-1975-january-1978-summer%20-%200392.pdf. Retrieved 2010-05-25.
- "Peter Frampton" article in Contemporary Musicians, Volume 3. Gale Research, 1990. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale. 2005.
- ^ Moss, Jerry. cited in Classic Bands article on Peter Frampton
- ^ Crowe, Cameron (1976). "Do You Feel Like We Do" In Frampton Comes Alive! [CD liner notes]. Santa Monica: A&M Records.
- ^ Peter Frampton in "Homerpalooza" (episode of The Simpsons, originally aired May 19, 1996)
- ^ The live version of the song was used in 2009's Guitar Hero 5.
External links
Categories:- Peter Frampton songs
- 1976 singles
- 1973 songs
- Songs written by Peter Frampton
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