John Fogerty, Duane Eddy & Peter Frampton - Witness History III, Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, TN, 4-5-2000

I really like concerts where we get to see musical legends perform together. Here's another one of those. It's from an event called "Witness History III." I'll explain what that was in a little bit. The main thing though is that it consists of short sets by Duane Eddy, John Fogerty, and Peter Frampton.

It seems there were three "Witness History" concerts. I've only found music from this one. All three of them were tribute concerts honoring guitarist Chet Aktins, and all were held at the same venue in Nashville, Tennessee. The first one took place in 1997, the second in 1998. This one, the third one in 2000, also was the last one. 

Pretty much everything I found out about this concert is due to a review by a person who attended it, which you can read here:

http://www.martystuart.com/witnessiii-review.htm

It seems some of the concert was broadcast on T.V., and some of that broadcast has made it to various bootlegs. But what we have here is surely incomplete. For instance, this starts with a set by Duane Eddy consisting of six songs. But the reviewer mentioned above says Eddy played 13 songs. It was probably similar with the Frampton and Fogerty sets as well. And there are other performers we don't have at all. The biggest loss is that Willie Nelson performed a set that we don't have. He was joined by Nanci Griffith and Bonnie Bramlett on a couple of songs. Chet Atkins was there, but it seems he'd suffered one or more strokes recently and wasn't able to perform. He died one year later, at the age of 77.

But on the plus side, what we do have is great, with excellent sound quality. John Fogerty has said that Duane Eddy was a big musical influence on him. He joined in on two songs in Eddy's set. Plus, he and Frampton joined Eddy for the final encore. Furthermore, Vince Gill joined in on lead guitar on songs in both Eddy's and Fogerty's sets. If Gill did any songs on his own, we don't have them.

I found most of this from one source. However, the first song comes from a video I found on YouTube. That makes me think there could be more out there that got broadcast. Hopefully, I'll be able to add to this eventually. But at least enjoy this much for now. 

This album is an hour and 24 minutes long

01 Three-30-Blues [Instrumental] (Duane Eddy & John Fogerty)
02 [Dance with The] Guitar Man (Duane Eddy)
03 talk (Duane Eddy)
04 Shazzam [Instrumental] (Duane Eddy with Vince Gill)
05 talk (Duane Eddy)
06 New Orleans Blues [Instrumental] (Duane Eddy with John Fogerty)
07 talk (Duane Eddy)
08 I Saw the Light [Instrumental] (Duane Eddy)
09 talk (Duane Eddy)
10 Rebel-'Rouser [Instrumental] (Duane Eddy)
11 Show Me the Way (Peter Frampton)
12 talk (Peter Frampton)
13 Can't Take That Away from Me (Peter Frampton)
14 Baby, I Love Your Way (Peter Frampton)
15 talk (Peter Frampton)
16 Do You Feel like We Do (Peter Frampton)
17 talk (John Fogerty)
18 Green River (John Fogerty)
19 Centerfield (John Fogerty)
20 talk (John Fogerty)
21 Proud Mary (John Fogerty with Vince Gill)
22 talk (John Fogerty)
23 Bad Moon Rising (John Fogerty)
24 Hard Times [Instrumental] (Duane Eddy, Peter Frampton & John Fogerty)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/MnzYYncD

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/18aCXULZBs7gBai/file

The cover is a screenshot I took from YouTube videos. The video quality was low. So I took several close-up screenshots and patched them together in order to capture more detail. Then the Krea AI program helped add to the image quality. 

Peter Frampton - Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, 3-6-1974

Here's a concert by Peter Frampton. This took place about two years before he briefly became a rock superstar with the 1976 live album "Frampton Comes Alive!"

Frampton became a rock star even before he turned 18 as the lead singer and lead guitarist of the band the Herd. Then, from 1969 to 1971, he was one of the co-leaders of the popular band Humble Pie. He quit to start a solo career. For much of the 1970s, he struggled to gain fame. For instance, this concert took place the same month he released "Somethin's Happening," his third solo album. It would only reach Number 125 on the U.S. album chart. 

But his lack of popularity would later lead to the massive success of "Frampton Comes Alive!" because he was gradually putting out lots of quality songs that not many people knew about. So when that live album came out, it was like a "greatest hits"-level collection of songs that most people had never heard before. For instance, consider, "Do You Feel like We Do," performed in this concert. It came out on a 1973 album, but wasn't released as a single, so few people knew about it. But it was released as a single off "Frampton Comes Alive!" in 1976, and would hit the Top Ten in the U.S. singles chart and become one of his most famous songs.

So, for this album, one gets to hear Frampton was he was still playing small clubs. In fact, we know this venue, Ebbets Field, only held about 250 at the most. But for a few years in the mid-1970s, many shows from this location were broadcast on a local radio station. That's why we have recordings like this that sound as good as official live albums.

Actually, this is the fifth album I'm posting that was recorded at Ebbets Field. More will be coming soon. So I just started a new "Ebbets Field Concerts" label to help you find the other ones.

Normally, these Ebbets Field broadcasts sound unusually good for their era. However, there were some problems with this one. I used a version where someone else already made some fixes. I left in a note file about that. I made some more fixes. Namely, the volume sometimes surged loud or quiet on the first couple of songs. But I was able to adjust that using the Audacity program. If you listen now, I don't think you'll hear any remaining problems. 

The music is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. 

This album is 53 minutes long.

01 It's a Plain Shame (Peter Frampton)
02 Doobie Wah (Peter Frampton)
03 talk (Peter Frampton)
04 Lines on My Face (Peter Frampton)
05 I Wanna to Go to the Sun (Peter Frampton)
06 talk (Peter Frampton)
07 Do You Feel like We Do (Peter Frampton)
08 talk (Peter Frampton)
09 Jumpin' Jack Flash (Peter Frampton)
10 talk (Peter Frampton)
11 White Sugar (Peter Frampton)
12 talk by emcee (Peter Frampton)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/P9cVKFGS

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/LZSqdUmKOQ6qASV/file

The cover photo was taken in London in 1974. I don't know any more details. I used the AI features inside Photoshop to add most of his left arm (the one on the opposite side of the microphone) because that was missing in the original.

Peter Frampton - Live at the Record Plant, Record Plant, Sausalito, CA, 3-24-1975

I recently started posting albums from the "Live at the Record Plant" KSAN radio show. Here's another one of those. This one is from 1975 and stars Peter Frampton.

For a couple of years in the late 1970s, Frampton was a musical superstar. That was due entirely to the 1976 live album "Frampton Comes Alive!" It hit Number One on the U.S. album charts, and sold eight million copies in the U.S. That was unprecedented for a double live album.

But that was still nearly a year away when this concert happened. This was in early 1975, the same month that the studio album "Frampton" was released. "Frampton Comes Alive!" wouldn't be released until January 1976. So Frampton was still relatively unknown. At the time of this concert, Frampton hadn't had any hits as a solo artist. (However, he'd had more success as a member of Humble Pie before that.) None of his albums sold well either. A big reason "Frampton Comes Alive!" was such a huge success was that his career had essentially been ignored up until then. So the live album served as a kind of greatest hits, with lots of good songs that most people were unfamiliar with. For instance, the 1975 album "Frampton" contained studio versions of "Show Me the Way" and "Baby I Love Your Way." But they tanked when they were released as singles. Only when they were released in live versions in 1976 were they big hits.

This concert contains "Baby, I Love Your Way," as well as the talk-box extravaganza "Do You Feel like I Do." But it curiously doesn't contain "Show Me the Way," even though it was the lead single for the studio album he was promoting at the time. This is pretty different from "Frampton Comes Alive!" because, even though it was performed live, it was done in a radio station studio with no audience applause whatsoever.

The music here is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. 

This album is 57 minutes long. 

01 talk (Peter Frampton)
02 Wind of Change (Peter Frampton)
03 talk (Peter Frampton)
04 Baby, I Love Your Way (Peter Frampton)
05 Baby [Somethin's Happening] (Peter Frampton)
06 talk (Peter Frampton)
07 Day's Dawning (Peter Frampton)
08 Lines on My Face (Peter Frampton)
09 talk (Peter Frampton)
10 Doobie Wah (Peter Frampton)
11 It's a Plain Shame (Peter Frampton)
12 I Wanna Go to the Sun (Peter Frampton)
13 [I'll Give You] Money (Peter Frampton)
14 Do You Feel like We Do (Peter Frampton)
15 talk (Peter Frampton)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/cFvXQXbi

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/m2JN1PrA4p7Oygp/file

All I know about the cover photo is it's from some time in the mid-1970s, probably 1975.

Peter Frampton - PBS Soundstage, WTTW Studios, Chicago, IL, 1-18-2007

Here's another from a long series of episodes of the TV show "PBS Soundstage." This time, it's an extra long episode, featuring Peter Frampton. I believe this actually was two hour-long episodes that made up a single concert.

Peter Frampton will always be associated with one album, and a double live album at that: "Frampton Comes Alive." Released in 1976, it was the best selling album of the year, and went on to have sales of more than eight million albums in the U.S. alone. But weirdly, he didn't have much commercial success before or after that. His second best selling album was "I'm in You," released in 1977, which sold a million in the U.S.

I think Frampton got kind of a raw deal out of this, with most people reducing his career to that one album. He actually put out a lot of good music in a career that's lasted over 50 years and is still going as I write this in 2025. This concert recording includes the big songs from "Frampton Comes Alive," sure, but it has lots of other good songs that weren't on that album. Frampton sings and writes songs, sure, but I think he's especially underappreciated as a lead guitarist. 

Everything here is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. I found video files, converted them to audio, then broke them into mp3s. So this is probably the first time this concert has been shared as an album. 

This album is an hour and 47 minutes long.  

01 Off the Hook (Peter Frampton)
02 Lying (Peter Frampton)
03 talk (Peter Frampton)
04 Lines on My Face (Peter Frampton)
05 talk (Peter Frampton)
06 Show Me the Way (Peter Frampton)
07 Black Hole Sun [Instrumental Version] (Peter Frampton)
08 Nasssau - Baby, I Love Your Way (Peter Frampton)
09 talk (Peter Frampton)
10 Do You Feel like We Do (Peter Frampton)
11 All I Want to Be [Is by Your Side] (Peter Frampton)
12 talk (Peter Frampton)
13 Wind of Change (Peter Frampton)
14 I Need Ground (Peter Frampton)
15 Money [I'll Give You That] (Peter Frampton)
16 talk (Peter Frampton)
17 Can't Take That Away (Peter Frampton)
18 I Don't Need No Doctor (Peter Frampton)
19 While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Peter Frampton)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/3dUYdGGZ

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/ctRVLzfwx30eop3/file

The cover image is from this exact concert. 

Humble Pie - BBC Sessions, Volume 3: 1971-1974

Here's the third and last album of the British band Humble Pie playing for the BBC. This is a collection of BBC studio sessions.

Humble Pie was mainly created so that singer and guitarist Steve Marriott could be in the same band as singer and guitarist Peter Frampton. This worked well for a while, but Frampton left the band by the end of 1971. The first five songs here come from a BBC session in March 1971 when Frampton was definitely still in the band. But all the other songs are from 1972 or later, after Frampton had left.

Everything here is officially unreleased. The first seven songs are from BBC studio sessions. Tracks 8 and 9 come from a BBC TV show called "Full House." Tracks 10 and 11 come from another BBC TV show, "The Old Grey Whistle Test." The last song, "30 Days in the Hole," comes from a BBC concert in 1974. This was the band's biggest hit and best known song. Surprisingly, even though it was released in 1972, I couldn't find a BBC version until 1974. By that time, the success of the band was declining, so it seems they stopped being invited to the BBC. The band broke up in 1975, though there were a few reunions after that, so that's why this is the last volume in this series.

This album is 52 minutes long.

01 I Don't Need No Doctor (Humble Pie)
02 Four Day Creep (Humble Pie)
03 I'm Ready (Humble Pie)
04 Rolling Stone (Humble Pie)
05 The Light (Humble Pie)
06 Road Runner (Humble Pie)
07 Sweet Peace and Time (Humble Pie)
08 Say No More (Humble Pie)
09 Honky Tonk Women (Humble Pie)
10 Black Coffee (Humble Pie)
11 Twist and Shout (Humble Pie)
12 30 Days in the Hole (Humble Pie)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15292110/HumbleP_1971-1974_BBSessionsVolum3_atse.zip.html

I'm not sure when or where this photo is from exactly. But it's from the time Frampton was still in the band.

Humble Pie - BBC Sessions, Volume 2: In Concert, BBC, Paris Theatre, London, Britain, 9-10-1970

Here's the second of three volumes of British band Humble Pie at the BBC. The first and third volumes are mostly made up of BBC studio sessions. But this one is a concert, the only one they did for the BBC (at least that I'm aware of).

This concert took place relatively early in the band's career, while it was still co-lead by Steve Marriott of the Small Faces and Peter Frampton of the Herd. It was shortly after the band's third album, simply called "Humble Pie." They were moving more towards the boogie rock direction that would lead to great success with their 1971 live album "Performance: Rockin' the Fillmore."

The concert was emceed by BBC DJ John Peel; he did pretty much all the talking between songs. As far as I know, it remains officially unreleased. But the sound quality is very good. However, there was a problem to my ears: I thought the lead vocals were too low in the mix. So I boosted them for nearly all the songs using the X-Minus audio editing program.

This album is an hour long.

01 talk (Humble Pie)
02 Four Day Creep (Humble Pie)
03 talk (Humble Pie)
04 I'm Ready (Humble Pie)
05 talk (Humble Pie)
06 Live with Me (Humble Pie)
07 talk (Humble Pie)
08 Stone Cold Fever (Humble Pie)
09 talk (Humble Pie)
10 Hallelujah I Love Her So (Humble Pie)
11 talk (Humble Pie)
12 Walk On Gilded Splinters (Humble Pie)
13 talk (Humble Pie)
14 Sad Bag of Shakey Jake (Humble Pie)
15 talk (Humble Pie)
16 One Eyed Trouser Snake Rumba (Humble Pie)
17 talk (Humble Pie)
18 Big Black Dog (Humble Pie)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15292115/HumbleP_1970_BBSessionsVolum2InConcert__9-10-1970_atse.zip.html

I must admit the cover photo is kind of a fake. I didn't find many good photos of the band in concert from around this time. However, I found two good photos of Humble Pie playing at Hyde Park in London on July 3, 1971. But one of them featured Steve Marriott very well, holding up a fist, yet didn't have Peter Frampton in it at all. The other one featured Frampton well, but Marriott was only a small figure on the side. So I used Photoshop to bring Frampton into the photo that most prominently featured Marriott. Frampton is the guitarist with the light blue suit. Since the lighting and such was the same in both photos, I think the edit works okay, although the right and the left of Frampton's guitar playing is flipped.

Humble Pie - BBC Sessions, Volume 1: 1969-1970

Humble Pie was a British band that initially united the musical talents of Steve Marriott from the Small Faces and Peter Frampton from the Herd. It's time to see what they did for the BBC.

This first album is a collection of BBC studio sessions, with a couple of exceptions. The exceptions are "Wrist Job," done for Dutch radio, and "For Your Love," done for the German TV show "Beat Club." Everything here is officially unreleased. The sound quality is generally very good, though some are better than others.

Humble Pie would soon discover a successful formula with boogie rock, much like Status Quo, but for their first album or two their sound was more varied. That can be seen here. Most of the songs are originals, with a few exceptions, like "Shakin' All Over," Walk on Gilden Splinters," and "For Your Love."

There was some BBC DJ talk on "Sad Bag of Shakey Jake," but I edited it out using the X-Minus audio editing program.

For this album, I relied on the work of Prof. Stoned at his music blog, which you can find here:

http://www.profstoned.com/

He put together the best sounding versions of all of Humble Pie's BBC performances, so I relied on his choices.

This album is 53 minutes long. There are two other volumes coming soon.

01 Natural Born Bugie (Humble Pie)
02 Sad Bag of Shakey Jake [Edit] (Humble Pie)
03 Heartbeat (Humble Pie)
04 Desperation (Humble Pie)
05 Wrist Job (Humble Pie)
06 Shakin' All Over (Humble Pie)
07 Walk on Gilded Splinters (Humble Pie)
08 Four Day Creep (Humble Pie)
09 Big Black Dog (Humble Pie)
10 For Your Love (Humble Pie)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15292117/HumbleP_1969-1970_BBSessionsVolum1_atse.zip.html

The cover photo was taken in 1969. I don't know any other details.

The Herd - BBC Sessions (1967-1969)

In putting together albums for my big BBC project, I've discovered some interesting bands that I'd previously overlooked. One such band is the British 1960s band the Herd. Today, they're best known as the band that started Peter Frampton's music career, as he was their lead singer and guitarist. They weren't around long, but I think this album is a good summary of their career.

The Herd was considered a singles band, but one with psychedelic influences. Their biggest hit, "From the Underworld," is a good example. It's both poppy and psychedelic, telling a version of the ancient Greek legend of Orpheus. That song, plus "Paradise Lost" and "I Don't Want Our Loving to Die" were all hits in Britain, but the band never cracked the charts at all in the US. 

I don't believe any of the band's BBC performances have been officially released, but they've come out on "grey market," a.k.a. unauthorized, albums. All the performances sound just as good as official releases. The only snag is the usual one from BBC recordings of this time period, namely, BBC DJs talking over the music. This affected more than half of the songs here (the ones with "[Edit]" in their names). As usual, I used the audio editing program X-Minus to wipe that talking while keeping the underlying music.

One thing I really enjoy about BBC recordings from this time period is how often artists would play songs that they otherwise never put on record, usually cover versions. That's the case here, with songs like "I Want You," "[Get Your Kicks On] Route 66," "Stagger Lee," "Nitty Gritty," and "Hitch-Hike."

Around 1969, the rock music scene was getting a lot heavier. Peter Frampton was still only about 17 years old, and had become a teen idol for his youthful good looks. He felt the band's image was holding him back, so he quit the Herd and joined the new band "Humble Pie" instead, going in more of a hard rock direction. The last song here, "The Game," was done without him. But the band's commercial fortunes had been on the decline already, and they broke up shortly after that single failed too.

This album is one hour long.

01 From the Underworld (Herd)
02 I Like It like That [Edit] (Herd)
03 I Can Fly (Herd)
04 Paradise Lost [Edit] (Herd)
05 I Want You (Herd)
06 [Get Your Kicks On] Route 66 [Edit] (Herd)
07 She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not [Edit] (Herd)
08 Mixed Up Minds [Edit] (Herd)
09 Mine Exclusively [Edit] (Herd)
10 Our Fairytale [Edit] (Herd)
11 Oo-Poo-Pa-Doo (Herd)
12 I Don't Want Our Loving to Die (Herd)
13 Stagger Lee (Herd)
14 Sunshine Cottage [Edit] (Herd)
15 Love Letters [Edit] (Herd)
16 The Purple God [Edit] (Herd)
17 Miss Jones [Instrumental] (Herd)
18 Nitty Gritty [Edit] (Herd)
19 The Name Certainly Rings a Bell (Herd)
20 You Don't Love Me Anymore [Edit] (Herd)
21 Hitch-Hike [Edit] (Herd)
22 The Game (Herd)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15293034/THerd_1967-1969_BBSessions_atse.zip.html

I don't know the details of where and when this cover photo was taken. Frampton is in the blue jacket on the far left.