The English musician Peter Frampton is an icon of rock of the sixties and seventies and inclusively in the eighties he was quite a celebrity, I accompany david bowie and Carlos alomar as guitarist of his famous tour spiders glass of tour. Guitarist and composer that along with Steve Marriot formed one of the first super groups of the history Hmble Pie that fused the blues with the rock and that would open the passage to heavy metal, but in this post I focus on one of the anecdotes of the music more Peculiar to history. I live in Venezuela and I was not born to see the great musicians who appeared in the polyhedron of caracas during the decade of the eighties.
Well-known for that peculiar style of playing and the use of vocalaizer.Frampton undertook a successful solo career in which he demonstrated his creative ability and artist with emblematic records that marked a before and after in the history of rock. His album (Frampton Comes Alive!) Is one of the most sold live records in history, which took him for two years for an extensive an in All its splendor.
On October 31, 1980 Frampton and his band had two dates with a total of 22,400 people in the caracas polyhedron that vibrated with the classic alienation that accompanied the musicianship for two years Peter Frampton (Lead vocal, Guitars), Jaime Oldaker Drums), John Rehan (Bass), Arthur Stead (Keyboards, Guitar) after the presentation the band traveled to Panama, their next stop on the tour and a technical fault of the cargo plane where all the band's teams went, Leaving the track was a fire and with it the musician's favorite guitar. A Gibson Les Paul of 54 was lost for more than thirty years.
This is the guitar
With the accident many were the speculations that were made around that the rest of the sinister never appeared the guitar, some speculated that the staff of the airport was robbed, but the destiny and the luck were cast, in the following years the musician had Said that his sound that his sound had changed since his guitar was the one that gave him the necessary sonority that he always sought, during the emblematic tour with his childhood friend David Bowie, the musician played during the whole tour with a yamaha Had given him a bowie for the spiders glass of tour.
At the beginning of 2009 a musician who played in hotels and bars on the island of curacao took a guitar to an acquaintance to repair his guitar, the restorer observed burns in the wood and began to speculate that the guitar was the famous Musician, the restorer bought the guitar to the unknown musician and began to investigate more about the specifications of the model, were a couple of years of conversation with the English musician to be able to verify that this was indeed his guitar. Finally in 2012 the instrument returned to its original owner and the premiere at a concert in New York
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Very good musician and the history about his guitar is amazing.....and your post very interesting too
Gracias amigo.
Peter Frampton es uno de los mejores de las historiaa!
uno de los grandes hermano, buen articulo
Hola @edujazz cada vez que pongas una fotografia debes poner FUENTE: link de la imagen ( las imagenes no fueron tomadas por ti ) asi que debes citar el url .- saludos.