Late Night Studio Kickoff

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I can't write it. I will do a lie.

Peter Frampton’s Birthday Shoutout

Why Frampton Comes Alive Hit

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What Bill O'Reilly said, we'll do it live. If it doesn't suck, we'll do it live. It is the Pat's Peeps podcast number 434. And I'm doing this right after I did my radio show. More on that in a moment. Looking out my studio window into the what I imagine to be the beautiful foothills of Northern California, but it's dark. I can't see anything. It's dark out. It's 1020 at night, 1021. So I just finished my show at 10 p.m. I still had a little energy. I had so many things going on during the day, and I have been for the last couple of weeks. I was not able to get to my podcast. So I thought, you know what? Let me just keep the energy going and let me do a podcast here. Because it was a big birthday today, and I wanted to mention this. And I didn't get a chance to really do it that much on my show. So um by the way, I say my show, I'm the host. My name is Pat Walsh, I'm the host of the Pat Walsh, the aptly named Pat Walsh Show, as we're on KFBK News Radio, 93.1 FM, 1530 a.m. streaming live everywhere on your free iHeart app, and of course, just like this podcast. And um today is the birthday of Peter Frampton. Peter Frampton, who was born on this date in 1950. When you talk about Peter Frampton, you talk about one of the great live albums of all time. I mean, Peter Frampton, he was in Humble Pie. Some people knew Humboldtie. Humble Pie was a great band. I love Humble Pie. Um, but it w they weren't like Led Zeppelin or something on that that level, really, that that the whole world really knew about them. But here's Peter Frampton, a member of Humble Pie smoking. Great album. And then he breaks out on his own. Uh does his own stuff. He had Frampton Comes Alive. I mean, uh Frampton's Camel. He had some albums before this album, but Frampton Comes Alive comes on the scene. And it turns out what a phenomenon this is. Peter Frampton, this double live album, he releases this in 76, same year as wow, so many other good records, uh, including one that comes to mind. Boston's debut came out that year. Uh anyhow, but this came out on AM Records, uh, following four studio albums. And like I said, with very little success and very little sales. Frampton Comes Alive, though, was his breakthrough. It is one of the best-selling live albums of all time. Heck, one of the best-selling albums of all time. One that gets played on the radio all the time. Yeah, show me the way. Baby, I love your way. Do you feel like we do? Those are the big classics from Frampton Comes Alive. Released as singles. All three of them reaching top ten in Canada. And top 15 on the US Billboard Hot 100. And still frequently receive airplay on classic rock radio stations. So this was received, I mean, excuse me, released January 15th, 1976. This record debuted on the charts at number 191. Went to number one. Spent 10 notten consecutive weeks in the top spot through October. Best-selling album of 76. When you think of Boston's debut album and every song on there was a hit song, that came out in 76 as well. This was still a bigger selling album. Truly amazing.

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You know it.

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And Peter has a really unique guitar sound, doesn't he? It's very unique. You can always pick that one out. And I love that when you're a guitar player and you come up with your own sound, very distinctive, but that's saying something. So this album was named Album of the Year in 76, Rolling Stones Reader's Poll. Stayed on the chart for 97 weeks, still number 14 on Billboard's 1977 year-end album chart. Ranked number 41 on Rolling Stone's 50 Greatest Albums of All Time list. And Readers of Rolling Stone ranked at number three in a 2012 poll of all-time favorite live albums. But what it did is it really spawned other albums, you know. If you listen to this, show me the way. And all the hits, all of the hits on here. You know what? I preferred the deep cuts, honestly. But these were the ones that got played on radio. Pat's Peeps, 434. So yeah, this got played constantly on the radio.

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I wonder how you're feeling.

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Peter Frampton, show me the way, right? Then he had baby. I love your way. There was something about the sound of that audience in this album on this album. I don't know, was really recorded well. The audience was recorded well. Yeah, this was on the radio all the time, too.

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Shadows grow solo before my eyes and moving.

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Right, baby, I love your way. But I like other songs and their lines on my face. I wanna go to the sun. This is such a beautiful song!

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She spoke up stranger. That dog, Steve Juba. Kept on trying.

The Talk Box Moment

When Every Band Needed Live

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Anyhow, just a great song. I know I don't want I don't own the rights to this, so I don't want to play the whole darn thing. Anyhow, it's just a beautiful song. I get lost in it. I'm sitting there listening to it. And then, of course, you had Do You Feel Like We Do? Which was again, it gets played on the radio constantly, Peter Frampton. Right? And they did the talk box. He became famous for this talk box. So when I think of this album, which I saw him do this in concert, 1977 of The Day on the Green, with the Outlaw of Santana and Leonard Skinnard, the original Leonard Skinner. And it was great to see that. I was a huge Skinnard fan at the time. What Frampton Comes Alive did is it made every band now have a live album. Every band had to had to have a live album. And it was huge. And I loved them, and I still love live albums, good ones. As I mentioned, we saw Skinnard. As soon as Frampton Comes Alive comes out, Skinnard's touring with him, they come out with their live album. So these are some of my favorite live albums. I'm going to feature on Pat's Peach 434. One more four from the road, Leonard Skinnard, Fox Theater, Atlanta, 1976. I want you to welcome some very old friends of our Lennon Skinner brings back amazing memories well.

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Coming down on me.

Bob Seger And Record Store Memory

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Stevie Gaines, Ed King. That's just a guitarist. Working for MCA, yeah. So Skinnered, one of my favorite live albums. I have a lot of favorite live albums. I remember walking into the record factory right next to the Fashionable Flea, right behind the Florence Center in Sacramento, and hearing this for the first time. I had never even heard of Bob Seeger. From 1975 Life Bullet. And they come out and they do this song that I never knew. Nutbush City Limits. An Icantina Turner tune. Turn me onto Icantina Turner. This was recorded in '75 but released after Frampton comes alive. I remember working all day, building a big cement wall, and thinking, how many records and what records will I buy with the money I earn today? I went back to the record factory. I said, oh yeah, I'm getting that one. Brought it home and rocked.

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This church house gym house. A little schoolhouse house. On US 19. Oh, the people keep the city clean. They call it no bush.

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Interesting how you can hear a cover of a song and it turns you on to the original artist. At that time I only knew Proud Mary by Really by Kentina Turner. But then I had to check this one out. It's got beautiful loser, traveling man, Jody Girl. Uh get out of Dimba Baby. Go go. Oh yeah, I remember all of these. Hey, vo diddle, did it-le. The one that most people remember and rightfully so. It's really a great song, one of the best saxophone solos, right? Turn the page from that album, Live Bullet.

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You can listen to the engine moaning out as one old song. You can think about the woman or the girl you knew the night before.

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Talking about the best live albums of all time. In this case, in my opinion. And there's so many other great ones.

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The way they always do when you're riding 16 hours and there's nothing much to do. And you don't feel much like riding. You just wish the trip was through.

J Geils Attitude That Stuck

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You know, back in the day you'd spend the night at your buddy's house, and I'd go over to Mark Barnett's house, rest in peace. I can't believe we lost Mark last year. I can't, two years ago. I can't believe it. And I'd play this record for him, and man, I'd tell you what, this record changed my life and helped this really helped form my personality. It honestly did. The sarcasm, the attitude of Jay Giles from this live album. Blow your face out album, one of my all-time favorites. Just filled with attitude. Oh yeah. One of my favorite summertime albums to this day.

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Come on, baby. Puts me in the mood. Come on, baby. Come on, baby. Let me have you say yeah. Come on, baby. Come on, baby.

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Come on, baby, don't you?

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There's a place right down the street. Everybody hunted likes to meet. They got a band playing all night long. Everybody moves, they play the song. They do the south side shuffle. They do the south side shuffle.

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One of the things about this album that I have memorized to this day always makes people laugh. Is the intro to Musta Got Lost. There's a song about L A V. It's got a little induction to it. It ain't supposed to be sad. Some people feel might feel it that way. Here we go.

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Hold on, this song has a little introduction to it. Desperation.

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This song changed my attitude, man. I'm still a smart ally because of this.

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Every now and then we do get to desperate. This is a song about L-O-V-E, and if you abuse it, you're gonna lose it. And if you lose it, you're gonna abuse it. If you abuse it, you ain't gonna be able to choose it because you ain't gonna have it further on down the line. Things ain't gonna be so fine. You're gonna be sitting there on your little screen, trying to look and keep it clean. You're gonna be playing bingo all night all alone. That's why you're sitting there by the telephone and you know she ain't gonna call you.

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That's right.

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So you put on the TV and you're watching Johnny Carson segue and writing in the tomorrow show, but that don't got to go, so you turn it off, you turn on the radio, turn on the Powerwall show. So you say, Hey man, I can't. I can't look at the split.

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You start opening up a little book, and there's something there, you gotta overlook it and say, baby, you know that's something on my mind. You say, baby, that's something I'm a man. I know that you're home, and I know you ain't all alone. So you start walking over to a house.

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You walk up to a house, you walk over to a little door, you start pounding on the door, you say, open up the door, bitches a woman go up with the green teeth, and let me hear.

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Nah.

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Right. Well she opens up the door and then you just can't walk up to the baby. You look up the way up and you say on the camera. You don't mean with that.

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Hey, repeater Hey Reputer Peter. Hey, repeat the beauty, let me let me climb up the ladder, yo love. This is what was saying to you. Sometimes you love your grab ain't go to last. And I believe I must have.

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You know, baby, I think I must have.

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You know, baby, I think I must have. I must have got lost.

AC/DC Loud Done Right

UFO And A Band Cover

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Great record. If you're a Jay Giles fan, that is a must. Also, on my list here at Pat's Peeps 434, live albums in honor of Peter Brampton. Come on now, April of 78, Glasgow, Scotland, Riffrath. If you want blood, you've got it. You want blood. ACDC, one of my favorite live records. I mean, they rock so hard on this album, and it's recorded very, very well. Bought this album for my brother Jim to turn him onto rock in 1977. It did the job. He was like, oh my god. He was listening to disco. I saved him. I mean, if you if you like loud music like this rock, I mean like I like it loud sometimes. Some people do not like that. But if you do, and you're in your ride and you're cruising down the road, you got a good stereo, you put this record, you put this disc on, you download this whatever, you crank it. This is so rock. So speaking of hard rock, one of my all-time favorites. Other than this one, so good. I just you gotta hear some of Angus's guitar, man. It's just unbelievable. You know, you know how they do it. So yeah, you want blood? That's a good one. That's a good one. Another one of my all-time favorites, perhaps my favorite. I don't know. I can't say for sure, but certainly could be. From October 13th, 78, released in 79, recorded in 78. Live in Chicago, the name of the album, Strangers of the Night, UFO. And I like I love the intro. And a natural thing kicks in.

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You can't put the first fleet stop.

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You're a fan of UFO, man. It's so good. Only you can rock me, Doctor Doctor. Out on the street, Mother Mary. Love to love, lights out. Rock bottom.

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Don't you think it feels real tight? Wait till we stop.

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Too hot to handle. I mean. Choot shoot. Choot shoot, which is one that my band does. We do this song right here. Uh we do it pretty good, actually, boo. I love this one. Choot shoot UFO from Strangers in the Night.

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Watch a fast album. What's your play the foul? You won't do nothing the foul. Don't you stop it stuck? Lay it down on me, she's dead. Shoot, shoot, shoot it for me. Shoot it for me.

Little Feat’s Underrated Masterpiece

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Thank you for listening to Pat's peeps. 434. I was in the mood to hear these songs tonight. Also, something completely different. August 10th of 77 from the band Little Feet. Waiting for Columbus. Something way different than what we've been listening to. Fantastic double live record.

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Please join me in welcoming. Let's hear it.

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Little feet, man. Cowbell. Highly recommend this very underrated record. Fat Man in the Bathtub. Live at the Lindsner Auditorium, Washington, D.C., August 10th, 77.

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Comeback Monday.

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Oh, it's so good.

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Come back to Wednesday.

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The great Lol George. It's got O Atlanta, Old Folks Boogie, Time Loves a Hero. Spanish Moon, Dixie Chicken, Tripe Face Boogie. Rocket in my pocket, Willin. So good.

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My sweet Jackie.

Grateful Dead And The Eight Track Era

Led Zeppelin Live Greatness

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Makes me think of another sound and another record. Just a couple of more. Then I have a couple of honorable mentions as well. But when I kind of get into that kind of vibe, here's one that I remember my friend Keith Welch after another hard day of work where we both decided, what are we going to go buy? Because we both worked hard and we're going to go buy records. I remember that he bought this one. And when he did, I thought, you know, this is really a cool band. And I kind of got it. It has this same kind of vibe, maybe. I got it. After the first two or three times of listening to it, I'm like, you know, I think I get what they're doing here. Why people love the Grateful Dead. From the live Europe in 72 album. That's P 434. We're doing it live. After I heard that, I became a fan. I was already very curious about the dead. Because they're album covers Wake of the Flood, Blues for Allah. But I loved this. We had one of those eight-track players. If you're around back in the day, an eight-track player that was a portable. Like you could have in the back seat of your car and or in the front seat, and you put an eight-track in, and then if you went to a party or went out to the park or whatever, the two speakers on the end came off of it. You had your own little eight-track stereo system. Just such a cool different sound. So The Grateful Dead Europe 72. Of course, I'm gonna put it in there, not necessarily the one you think, but the one we used to see at the Midnight Movies, the song remains the same. Led Zeppelin, great album, but but but for my money, how the West Was Won is a remarkable live album cut came out much later, released much later, recorded at the same time. Here's a little piece from Daisy Confused 72, Live Zeppelin.

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Ah, it's so good. All right. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

The Tubes Story And Sign Off

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Don't want anyone to shut me down for playing music. And then the final one, and there's other ones. I want to honorable mentions, Rainbow, Richie Blackmore's Rainbow Live, live at Leeds, The Who. Magic Bust from that is awesome. The record is awesome. But I'm gonna play this one. It's kind of personal to me from 1977. This particular record was recorded, Hammersmith Odeon, in London of '77. Even though when I saw it at Portland at the Paramount Theater, they said they were recording this, and they did the exact same show there as they did on this. Alright? And when I spoke to Phi Wabel, the leader and the founder of this band, The Tubes, I was having a conversation with him and I told him, I remember your original intro for the band, which which um comes to this climax of now, time for the number one band of the world from San Francisco, California, the Tubes, right? When I told him that, he's he paused and he went, Wow, you are a fan. Because we haven't I haven't even thought of that in forever, he said. And that was always our open, and I haven't thought of that in decades. He told me that.

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That's how we'll play it. Listen to our singer. Give me up soon, watch how you say.

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By the way, Vince Wellnick is the keyboard player for the tubes. He was the keyboard player back then.

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That's how I'm our guitar player. Roger Steed play it. Listen to it.

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Roger Steed on guitar. Traerie Prince on drums who I accidentally spilled the beer all over his head. I bring up Vince Wellnick because Vince Wellnick went from the tubes and joined the Grateful Dead who we just listened to. And I thought I would finish thing up, finish things up with Vince Wellnick on the keyboards doing a cool song with great percussion and all that. A song called God Bird Change. Live. What do you want from Live is the name of the record. What do you want from Live? Roger Steed on the guitar, really good. See you on the radio. By the way, we'll be live.

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Do it live.