Meet The Framptons

Nice......but if there was one rock star back in 1976 that you would have told me would one day lose his hair, this guy is one of the last I ever would have thought of......sadly, that's the LEAST of his worries these days.......     












From Wikipedia:


On 22 February 2019, Frampton announced he will be retiring from touring with his 'Peter Frampton Finale—The Farewell Tour' commencing on 18 June 2019 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, running through 12 October ending in Concord, California at the Concord Pavilion. The tour features special guest Jason Bonham's Led Zeppelin Evening, as well as Peter's son Julian Frampton on the West Coast stops. He also revealed the reason for the farewell tour; he's received a diagnosis that he has Inclusion Body Myositis (IBM), a progressive muscle disorder characterized by muscle inflammation, weakness, and atrophy (wasting). A dollar of every ticket sold for the tour is donated to benefit Frampton's newly established myositis research fund at Johns Hopkins, where he’s being treated.







Other


In June 1978, Frampton was involved in a near-fatal car accident in the Bahamas and suffered broken bones, a concussion, and muscle damage. Dealing with the pain of the accident led to a brief period of drug abuse.


Frampton has lived in London and various U.S. locations, including Westchester County, New York; Los Angeles, California; and Nashville, Tennessee. He moved to Indian Hill, Ohio, a suburb of Cincinnati, in June 2000. This is the birthplace of his ex-wife Elfers and the city in which they were married in 1996. They chose to live there to be closer to Elfers' family. He currently lives in Nashville.


Frampton cites the September 11 attacks as his reason for becoming a U.S. citizen and seeking the right to vote.



He is a vegetarian.


On 25 June 2019, The New York Times Magazine listed Frampton among hundreds of artists whose material was reportedly destroyed in the 2008 Universal fire.










Equipment


In 1987, Frampton played two natural-finish maple body Pensa-Suhr Strat types, hand-made by New York-based John Suhr. He used a Coral electric sitar, given to him in the late 70s and previously owned by Jimi Hendrix, on David Bowie's 1987 album Never Let Me Down.


On the cover of the double live album Frampton Comes Alive, Frampton plays a highly customized 1954 Gibson Les Paul that was given to him during a concert by his friend Marc Mariana. He continues to play the Les Paul now known as the "Phenix".


Frampton lost his black, custom Gibson Les Paul in a cargo plane crash in Venezuela. Frampton and the Les Paul were reunited 30 years later.


Frampton was known as the artist who made the talk box famous. Frampton's talk box was used to transfer the guitar’s sound through a plastic tube attached to a microphone. The effect is Frampton's melodic guitar simulating speech while asking the audience on the live track "Do You Feel Like We Do?" Frampton also now sells his own line of custom-designed "Framptone" products, including the talk box.




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