Click to watch

Peter Frampton performs "Verge of a Thing"

It’s nearly impossible to reference Peter Frampton without also mentioning his landmark 1976 album Frampton Comes Alive!, one of the best selling live records of all time, having sold over six million copies. Recorded at the Winterland in San Francisco the previous year, it crystallized the airy good time of 1970’s arena rock and introduced a bizarre guitar effect called a “talk box” to the masses, evidenced on songs like “Show Me The Way” and the 13-minute-long “Do You Feel Like We Do?” By then he'd been playing in bands for 11 years, having started at age fifteen with The Herd and later with Steve Marriott in Humble Pie. Frampton headlines the July 18 Tuesday in the Park series at Artpark with secret agents of the British Invasion (evasion?) The Ifs opening at 6:30.