Hey, so my guest today is Peter Frampton.
When I think about Frampton, I am immediately transported back to my teens when Peter's music, a little juggernaut of a live album, Frampton comes alive.
It took the world and my life by storm with these anthemic songs like do you feel like we do?
Show me the way lines on my face and baby, I love your way.
I cannot think about those songs without also hearing what became his signature talkbox sound vibrating through my body.
Known in his earlier years for a fierce talent as a guitarist and musician, co founder of one of the first rock supergroups, Humble Pie, and a collaborator with everyone from George Harrison, Bowie and Jerry Lee Lewis, to then Stones bassist Bill Wyman and Ringo Starr.
That album, Frampton comes alive, it changed everything.
It became a global phenomenon and best selling live album for decades.
And following on the heels of that album, just months later, came this equally iconic shirtless cover on Rolling Stone, shot by Francesco Scavillo and accompanied by a feature story written by a then young Cameron Crowe.
Peters ascendancy, powerful as it was, came with a very dark side.
It recast him as a pop star, an idol or sex symbol, an icon in the industry that was built to take advantage of just such a phenomenon.
And the years that followed took Peter, his life, his mental health, and his career into some pretty scary and lonely places.
Before that, childhood friend David Bowie would step back in about a decade or so later with an invitation that set in motion almost a reclamation, a renewed sense of self and passion and direction that fueled Peter to step back into music in a way that nourished rather than emptied him.
Much of Peter's story is beautifully shared in his memoir, do you feel like I do?
Which I devoured, actually, in audio, hearing him tell it in his own voice.
In our conversation, many of the pivotal and wonderful moments and stories along the way, as well as some new revelations, drop into the conversation.
And as we spoke, Frampton also shared his experience living with an incurable, degenerative muscular disease, inclusion body myositis, and how, as he described, he's got these three clocks running in his life that are essentially ticking away as he's unable to travel, hoping to be able to make it to the final few stops of a farewell concert that he planned to play back where he grew up.
And while he's still able, really excited to share this conversation with you.
I'm Jonathan Fields and this is good life project.
Really fun to be able to just spend a little bit of time with you.