Peter Frampton: On 35th Anniversary Tour Of Frampton Comes Alive! - "We'll Be Doing The Setlist That We Did That Night At The Winterland In San Francisco, But We're Not Recreating It"

Peter Frampton talks about the tour in a new interview with The Globe And Mail's Brad Wheeler. An excerpt from the interview follows: 

Q: In the 1970s, Eric ClaptonN resisted the idea of doing a live album, arguing that a concert was meant to be just one night, which is why he eventually called his album that, Just One Night. This summer, by playing Frampton Comes Alive! in full, aren’t you moving even further away from playing in the moment? 

A: "We’ll be doing the set list that we did that night at the Winterland in San Francisco, but we’re not recreating it. That was just one night, and I’d say the same thing as Eric." 

Q: You won’t be playing it lick for lick? 

A: "No. If you paid me a billion dollars I wouldn’t be able to do it anyway (laughs). I’m not made that way. I am of the moment, always have been. I’m much better at take one than at take two in the studio." 

Read the complete interview at this location. 


Frampton's complete live itinerary can be found at this location.

The three-hour show will feature a complete performance of Frampton Comes Alive!, including the hit singles ‘Baby, I Love Your Way’, ‘Do You Feel Like We Do’ and ‘Show Me The Way’, along with highlights from Frampton’s extensive album catalogue.

Originally released in January 1976, Frampton Comes Alive! is one of the best-selling live albums in chart history. It spent a total of 10 weeks at the top of the American Billboard 200 and sold in excess of 6 million copies. 

Deep Purple: "Phoenix Rising"; Complete Album Streaming Online; "Rises Over Japan" Complete Film Available

Tomorrow, Tuesday June 28th, Eagle Rock Entertainment will release Deep Purple’s "Phoenix Rising" – a two-hour-plus revelatory documentary including 30 minutes of never-before-seen (not even on bootleg) onstage footage from Japan. Phoenix Rising will be released on DVD, Blu-ray, and in a special two-disc DVD/CD package. 

The CD portion is currently streaming in it's entirety as part of AOL's Full CD Listening Party at this location.


The release is cause for celebration amongst Purple fans due to the rarity of material. Extensive interviews with keyboardist Jon Lord and bassist Glenn Hughes tell the tale of a band caught by circumstance into one of its most controversial, extreme and exciting eras of its long career. Ian Gillan and Roger Glover were gone. A young unknown singer by the name of David Coverdale was recruited as was bassist Hughes. The results were the albums "Burn" and "Stormbringer" (both released in 1974). But then Ritchie Blackmore left the band. Against all odds, they rocked on, recruiting Tommy Bolin (from Zephyr and The James Gang). The album "Come Taste The Band" (1975) documents the short-lived Bolin era, an era that all came crashing down when the band announced in July of 1976 that it was breaking up. By December, Bolin would be dead due to a heroin overdose. Nine years of silence would ensue. 


The never-before-seen 30 minutes, "Rises Over Japan", has the Coverdale/Lord/Bolin/Hughes/Paice lineup delivering the goods in 1976 on eight songs: 'Burn', 'Getting Tighter', 'Love Child', 'Smoke On The Water', 'Lazy', 'Homeward Strut', 'You Keep On Moving' and 'Stormbringer'. This segment is some of the only video footage that showcases Tommy Bolin performing in Deep Purple. But - of course - you don´t have to wait for that one. You can now watch the complete "Rises Over Japan" in the clip below:

Status Quo: Great Footage From "Wetten Das..?" In Mallorca

Status Quo performed on Thomas Gottschalk's 'Wetten Das..? ' in Mallorca on June 18th. Footage from the show and a video interview is available below.


Status Quo released their new album "Quid Quo Pro" in June. The band will be touring from June throughout December this year. Go to this location for tour dates.

Adler´s Appetite: New 17 Min Video Interview Posted Online

On June 25, Jay Nanda of the San Antonio Metal Music Examiner conducted an interview with Adler´s Appetite members Steven Adler (drums; formerly of Guns n´ Roses) and Chip Z'Nuff (bass; also of Enuff  z' Nuff) in San Antonio, Texas. You can now watch the chat in two parts below.

Chip Z'Nuff told Gerry Gittelson of Patch in a recent interview that Adler´s Appetite has inked a "massive deal" with an as-yet-undisclosed record company. "We just signed a new deal with this label - I can't mention the label's name right now, but it's a massive deal," Chip said. 

Adler´s Appetite officially recruited singer Patrick Stone (Aces n´ Eights) and guitarist Lonnie Paul following the recent departures of Rick Stitch and Alex Grossi.

Grossi left Adler´s Appetite in order to focus on his work with the resurrected Quiet Riot.


Also watch footage from June 23rd at Revolution in Corpus Christi, Texas below.

SuperHeavy: Mick Jaggers New Project; Snippet Available

Mick Jagger‘s new band SuperHeavy have penciled in September for the release of their debut album. The group’s disc will be preceded by its first single, "Miracle Worker".

As previously mentioned, SuperHeavy’s lineup features Jagger, Eurythmics guitarist Dave Stewart, reggae crooner Damian Marley, soul singer Joss Stone and Indian music composer A.R. Rahman.

The band is set to film a video for the single "Miracle Worker", while another song on the album features Jagger singing lead vocals in Urdu on the Rahman-penned "Satyameva Jayate" (translation: "The Truth Above Triumphs").

During their first week together as a band, SuperHeavy penned 22 songs. They recorded the tunes in different studios throughout the world.

Last month, Jagger commented to Rolling Stone magazine on the album when the news of the supergroup first broke. “It is a different kind of record than what people would expect,” the Rolling Stones singer explained. “It’s not all weird and strange though. I think Stones fans will think it’s a bit odd, but they’ll find most of it accessible.”