Happy B.Day! Peter Frampton 'Baby, I Love Your Way': Oakland, CA Coliseum 7/2/77

[appalachiablue]

Great crowd & fireworks, Independence Day celebrations, 4th of July 1977, Oakland, CA.





David Bowie & Peter Frampton in 1987; they were friends at Bromley Technical School in England.

[BigmanPigman]

1. Happy B-Day!

[appalachiablue]

15. Good, thanks for this one

[mr_lebowski]

2. DAY ON THE GREEN BABY!

at the OACC ... my home away from home!

My dad and stepmom were at this gig ...



My first DOG was the next summer, with Dolly, Elvin Bishop, Linda Ronstadt, and Beach Boys ...

[appalachiablue]

4. What a blast, a giant, sunny coliseum packed with thousands

[mr_lebowski]

6. Those were the dayz my friend ... (nt)

[Eliot Rosewater]

7. Was at "Who Dead" in fact I am in a picture with Peter Townshend, sort of

The neck of his guitar, half my face is obscured, curly hair and glasses...the headstock I guess it is called, the part of the guitar where the tuning is...I am a drummer, all I know about guitars is they are loud.


Was at Cow Palace "Wings Over America" first time I saw a laser show, oh my god..

[mr_lebowski]

10. I was at Dead/Dylan in 1985 or 1986 I believe it was, also a Day on the Green at OACC ...

Cool pic man!

[Eliot Rosewater]

12. Never saw Dylan, dammit...Everybody else it seems, Elvis in Tahoe before he gained weight

Bowie

And all of the bands of that era just about, well not all of course...

[appalachiablue]

14. I think I see you as described in #7 photo, very cool! We saw Dylan in

DC 1978. I saw Elvis when he looked great in 1972 or 1973- I asked, but nobody wanted to go-- their loss, terrific concert.

I missed Santana, Bowie etc., but I saw plenty of others, Aretha Franklin, Ike & Tina (Twice), Bonnie Raitt 4 times, others.

[mr_lebowski]

16. Yeah, I saw a few back in the day man ...

[Eliot Rosewater]

17. It never even occurred to me to save them, DAMMIT, I wish I had

[mr_lebowski]

18. Literally if my house was on fire I'd grab my cat, the bag with those tickets ...

and my bag full of old photographs ... and get those outside before I attempted w/anything else. To call that set 'one of my most treasured possessions' is putting it mildly

[Eliot Rosewater]

5. I was at most of them during that era, and I saw Queen at Winterland...oh my god, I saw basically

everybody including McCartney, The Who, The Stones...

Nothing like Queen...NOTHING

[mr_lebowski]

8. I've seen all them (except Queen) SINCE then, like the 90's and after ...

I remember when the Who Day on the Green was pretty well, I really wanted to go and in fact was in the lot trying to cop tickets that AM, but failed. I wanna say ... it was The Who, The Police, and the Clash, maybe? Like, 1982 or 1983? I remember the Stones playing around that time too but I think it was at Candlestick not a DOG. Though I think they played one in like 77 or 78.

[Eliot Rosewater]

9. See above, my Who Dead experience...1976

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. One of the greats. His guitar work, song writing, one of the best ever.

Were the famous album not been so famous it would be recognized as of the best live albums of the era.

Instead it was made fun of by people, mostly NON musicians...Yes Zappa made fun of him, but he made fun of most everybody.

I really like his talent...

[appalachiablue]

11. 'Frampton Comes Alive' album rocked charts in 1976, 3 top hits

Excellent performer, writer and musician- people who bash Peter Frampton are jealous and sick.

He brought much happiness thru his music and still does.

Love Frampton, in early 1976 I heard him on the radio, bought the hit album but didn't see him on tape for years.
I still remember playing the album, blasting songs thru the apt. windows on spring & summer days in college 1976.
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> Wiki. Frampton Comes Alive! is a double live album by English rock musician Peter Frampton released in 1976. It is one of the best-selling live albums in the United States. "Show Me the Way", "Baby, I Love Your Way", and "Do You Feel Like We Do" were released as singles. All three singles reached the Top 15 on the Billboard Hot 100, and frequently receive airplay on classic rock radio stations. Following four solo albums with little commercial success, Frampton Comes Alive! was a breakthrough for the artist.

> Released on January 6, 1976, it debuted on the charts at 191. The album reached number one on the Billboard 200 the week ending April 10, 1976, and was in the top spot for a total of 10 weeks. It was the best-selling album of 1976, selling over 8 million copies in the US[2] and becoming one of the best-selling live albums to date, with estimated sales of 11 million worldwide.[3]

> Frampton Comes Alive! was voted "Album Of The Year" in the 1976 Rolling Stone readers poll. It stayed on the chart for 97 weeks and was still No. 14 on Billboard's 1977 year-end album chart. It was ranked 41 on Rolling Stone's "Greatest Live Albums of All Time" list...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frampton_Comes_Alive!

[Eliot Rosewater]

13. And he is a rock guitar animal...i.e. FUCKING GOOD

And I see

Thin Lizzy, ‘Live and Dangerous’ (1978)

is on there, saw them too at Winterland