Do You Feel Like We Do
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"Do You Feel Like We Do" is a song
by Peter Frampton
originally on the Frampton's Camel
album released in 1973
. The song became one of the highlights of his live performance in following years. It was one of the three hit singles released from his Frampton Comes Alive!
album, released in 1976
, which reached number one on the album charts and became the best-selling live album of all time until Garth Brooks
' Double Live album was released in 1998. The Frampton Comes Alive!
version of the song was recorded at the State University of New York's Plattsburgh Memorial Hall. The version from Frampton Comes Alive!
is featured in Guitar Hero 5
and as downloadable content for Rock Band 3
.
album, and was relatively short at 6:44 minutes and not then released as a single.
After the lack of success of the Frampton's Camel album, Frampton performed under his own name, and began touring the United States extensively for the next two years supporting acts such as the J. Geils Band and ZZ Top
as well as performing his own shows at smaller venues. As a result, he developed a strong live following while his albums sold moderately and his singles failed to chart.
"Do You Feel Like We Do" became the closing number of his set and one of the highlights of his show. It was considerably longer—over fourteen minutes on Frampton Comes Alive!—and featured a number of instrumental solo
s. Most famously, Frampton used the talk box
, an effects pedal which redirects a guitar's sound through a tube into the performer's mouth, allowing the guitar to mimic human speech.
As a result of the strength of Frampton's live show, A&M Records
decided to release a live album taped when Frampton performed at Winterland in San Francisco. Frampton Comes Alive! was originally going to be a single album until Jerry Moss
asked "Where's the rest?". "Do You Feel Like We Do" was one of the tracks added to the album as a result of the decision to expand the album to a double album
. The track had been recorded live on November 22, 1975 on the college campus of SUNY Plattsburgh in Plattsburgh, New York.
had invited him to stay at the White House as a result of the success of Frampton Comes Alive!. It was edited down extensively for the 45RPM single and promo single for pop radio stations, but the said single version was still 7 minutes long. (Many radio stations were known to further edit the song down, in order to make it fit in the then-tightly-programmed AM radio formats) It reached number 10 on the US pop charts and number 39 in the UK making it one of the longest songs to reach the US top 10.
Many album-oriented rock
stations played the full 14 minute length version, most notably WBCN in Boston, Massachusetts. WBCN is credited with being the first album rock station to play the full length of the album on air. The album went on to top the US charts for ten weeks and became the best selling live album of all time as well as one of the best selling double albums. Billboard Magazine named Frampton artist of the year for 1976 as a result of the success of the album, as did the readers of Rolling Stone Magazine.
Frampton continues to play this song live to close his concerts, and he played the song in his solo spot while playing with Ringo Starr
's All-Star band (in 1997 and 1998) with a piano solo of Gary Brooker
bass solo of Jack Bruce
and the version length was about 19 minutes. The Simpsons
episode "Homerpalooza
" featured the song with the London Symphony Orchestra
supporting Frampton and the Pink Floyd pig which Frampton had picked up from "the Pink Floyd yard sale." However, as often happens when Homer Simpson
is involved, things go awry, leading Frampton to say "Homer Simpson wrecks my pig, Cypress Hill
steals my orchestra, and Sonic Youth
's in my cooler."
guitar solo.
, off of their 2007 Real to Reel album, disk two and by Night Ranger on their Feeding off the Mojo CD (coupled with the Beatles' Tomorrow Never Knows).
Local H
recorded a very faithful cover of the Frampton Comes Alive! version of the song, complete with lengthy talkbox solo and fake crowd noise. It can be found on the "Eddie Vedder" CD single.
On the Strong Bad
Main Page of the Homestar Runner
website, (accessible through the game Homestar Talker) this song is referenced when the viewer scrolls over the characters button. A clip from the song plays, and Strong Bad says, "Oh check it out, this guy's guitar is totally talking!"
Song
In music, a song is a composition for voice or voices, performed by singing.A song may be accompanied by musical instruments, or it may be unaccompanied, as in the case of a cappella songs...
by Peter Frampton
Peter Frampton
Peter Kenneth Frampton is an English musician, singer, producer, guitarist and multi-instrumentalist. He was previously associated with the bands Humble Pie and The Herd. Frampton's international breakthrough album was his live release, Frampton Comes Alive!. The album sold over 6 million copies...
originally on the Frampton's Camel
Frampton's Camel
Frampton's Camel is Peter Frampton's second album, recorded and released in 1973. It was the first album that Frampton recorded in the United States. Most of the album was written in New York...
album released in 1973
1973 in music
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. The song became one of the highlights of his live performance in following years. It was one of the three hit singles released from his Frampton Comes Alive!
Frampton Comes Alive!
Frampton Comes Alive! is a double live album by English rock musician Peter Frampton released in 1976, and one of the best-selling live albums in the United States. Following four solo albums with little commercial success, Frampton Comes Alive! was a breakthrough for the artist.Released on January...
album, released in 1976
1976 in music
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, which reached number one on the album charts and became the best-selling live album of all time until Garth Brooks
Garth Brooks
Troyal Garth Brooks , best known as Garth Brooks, is an American country music artist who helped make country music a worldwide phenomenon. His eponymous first album was released in 1989 and peaked at number 2 in the US country album chart while climbing to number 13 on the Billboard 200 album chart...
' Double Live album was released in 1998. The Frampton Comes Alive!
Frampton Comes Alive!
Frampton Comes Alive! is a double live album by English rock musician Peter Frampton released in 1976, and one of the best-selling live albums in the United States. Following four solo albums with little commercial success, Frampton Comes Alive! was a breakthrough for the artist.Released on January...
version of the song was recorded at the State University of New York's Plattsburgh Memorial Hall. The version from Frampton Comes Alive!
Frampton Comes Alive!
Frampton Comes Alive! is a double live album by English rock musician Peter Frampton released in 1976, and one of the best-selling live albums in the United States. Following four solo albums with little commercial success, Frampton Comes Alive! was a breakthrough for the artist.Released on January...
is featured in Guitar Hero 5
Guitar Hero 5
Guitar Hero 5 is a music video game and the fifth main entry in the Guitar Hero series. The game was developed by Neversoft and published by RedOctane and Activision, and released internationally in September 2009 for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 2, 3 and Wii consoles...
and as downloadable content for Rock Band 3
Rock Band 3
Rock Band 3 is a music video game, developed by Harmonix Music Systems. The game was initially published and distributed by MTV Games and Electronic Arts, respectively, with Mad Catz taking over both roles a year later. It is the third main game in the Rock Band series...
.
Writing and recording
The song was written in the early seventies with members of Frampton's band, then called Frampton's Camel. It was released on the 1973 Frampton's CamelFrampton's Camel
Frampton's Camel is Peter Frampton's second album, recorded and released in 1973. It was the first album that Frampton recorded in the United States. Most of the album was written in New York...
album, and was relatively short at 6:44 minutes and not then released as a single.
After the lack of success of the Frampton's Camel album, Frampton performed under his own name, and began touring the United States extensively for the next two years supporting acts such as the J. Geils Band and ZZ Top
ZZ Top
ZZ Top is an American rock band, sometimes referred to as "That Little Ol' Band from Texas". Their style, which is rooted in blues-based boogie rock, has come to incorporate elements of arena, southern, and boogie rock. The band, from Houston Texas, formed in 1969...
as well as performing his own shows at smaller venues. As a result, he developed a strong live following while his albums sold moderately and his singles failed to chart.
"Do You Feel Like We Do" became the closing number of his set and one of the highlights of his show. It was considerably longer—over fourteen minutes on Frampton Comes Alive!—and featured a number of instrumental solo
Solo (music)
In music, a solo is a piece or a section of a piece played or sung by a single performer...
s. Most famously, Frampton used the talk box
Talk box
A talk box is an effects unit that allows a musician to modify the sound of a musical instrument. The musician controls the modification by lip syncing, or by changing the shape of the mouth...
, an effects pedal which redirects a guitar's sound through a tube into the performer's mouth, allowing the guitar to mimic human speech.
As a result of the strength of Frampton's live show, A&M Records
A&M Records
A&M Records is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group that operates under the mantle of its Interscope-Geffen-A&M division.-Beginnings:...
decided to release a live album taped when Frampton performed at Winterland in San Francisco. Frampton Comes Alive! was originally going to be a single album until Jerry Moss
Jerry Moss
Jerome S. "Jerry" Moss is an American recording executive, best known for being the co-founder of A&M Records, along with trumpeter and bandleader Herb Alpert....
asked "Where's the rest?". "Do You Feel Like We Do" was one of the tracks added to the album as a result of the decision to expand the album to a double album
Double album
A double album is an audio album which spans two units of the primary medium in which it is sold, typically records and compact discs....
. The track had been recorded live on November 22, 1975 on the college campus of SUNY Plattsburgh in Plattsburgh, New York.
Release as a single
"Do You Feel Like We Do" was released as the third single from Frampton Comes Alive! in September 1976. By that stage, Gerald FordGerald Ford
Gerald Rudolph "Jerry" Ford, Jr. was the 38th President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977, and the 40th Vice President of the United States serving from 1973 to 1974...
had invited him to stay at the White House as a result of the success of Frampton Comes Alive!. It was edited down extensively for the 45RPM single and promo single for pop radio stations, but the said single version was still 7 minutes long. (Many radio stations were known to further edit the song down, in order to make it fit in the then-tightly-programmed AM radio formats) It reached number 10 on the US pop charts and number 39 in the UK making it one of the longest songs to reach the US top 10.
Many album-oriented rock
Album-oriented rock
Album-oriented rock is an American FM radio format focusing on album tracks by rock artists.-Music played:Most radio formats are based on a select, tight rotation of hit singles...
stations played the full 14 minute length version, most notably WBCN in Boston, Massachusetts. WBCN is credited with being the first album rock station to play the full length of the album on air. The album went on to top the US charts for ten weeks and became the best selling live album of all time as well as one of the best selling double albums. Billboard Magazine named Frampton artist of the year for 1976 as a result of the success of the album, as did the readers of Rolling Stone Magazine.
Frampton continues to play this song live to close his concerts, and he played the song in his solo spot while playing with Ringo Starr
Ringo Starr
Richard Starkey, MBE better known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an English musician and actor who gained worldwide fame as the drummer for The Beatles. When the band formed in 1960, Starr was a member of another Liverpool band, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. He became The Beatles' drummer in...
's All-Star band (in 1997 and 1998) with a piano solo of Gary Brooker
Gary Brooker
Gary Brooker, MBE, is an English singer, songwriter, pianist and founder of the rock band Procol Harum. Brooker was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire in the Queen's Birthday Honours on 14 June 2003, in recognition of his charitable services.-Early life:Brooker was born in...
bass solo of Jack Bruce
Jack Bruce
John Symon Asher "Jack" Bruce is a Scottish musician and songwriter, respected as a founding member of the British psychedelic rock power trio, Cream, for a solo career that spans several decades, and for his participation in several well-known musical ensembles...
and the version length was about 19 minutes. The Simpsons
The Simpsons
The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series is a satirical parody of a middle class American lifestyle epitomized by its family of the same name, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie...
episode "Homerpalooza
Homerpalooza
"Homerpalooza" is the 24th episode of The Simpsons seventh season and originally aired on May 19, 1996. The plot focuses around Homer's depression about aging and no longer being cool, and his quest to become cool again by joining the "Hullabalooza" music festival as a carnival freak. The episode...
" featured the song with the London Symphony Orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra
The London Symphony Orchestra is a major orchestra of the United Kingdom, as well as one of the best-known orchestras in the world. Since 1982, the LSO has been based in London's Barbican Centre.-History:...
supporting Frampton and the Pink Floyd pig which Frampton had picked up from "the Pink Floyd yard sale." However, as often happens when Homer Simpson
Homer Simpson
Homer Jay Simpson is a fictional character in the animated television series The Simpsons and the patriarch of the eponymous family. He is voiced by Dan Castellaneta and first appeared on television, along with the rest of his family, in The Tracey Ullman Show short "Good Night" on April 19, 1987...
is involved, things go awry, leading Frampton to say "Homer Simpson wrecks my pig, Cypress Hill
Cypress Hill
Cypress Hill is an American hip hop group from South Gate, California. Cypress Hill was the first Latino hip-hop group to have platinum and multi-platinum albums, selling over 18 million albums worldwide...
steals my orchestra, and Sonic Youth
Sonic Youth
Sonic Youth is an American alternative rock band from New York City, formed in 1981. The current lineup consists of Thurston Moore , Kim Gordon , Lee Ranaldo , Steve Shelley , and Mark Ibold .In their early career, Sonic Youth was associated with the No Wave art and music scene in New York City...
's in my cooler."
Title
The title of the song is "Do You Feel Like We Do", although the lyrics read "Do you feel like I do?". Only after the keyboard solo in the Frampton Comes Alive! version does Frampton sing "Do you feel like we do?". He then sings "Do you feel like we do?" through the talk box in the midst of his extended talk boxTalk box
A talk box is an effects unit that allows a musician to modify the sound of a musical instrument. The musician controls the modification by lip syncing, or by changing the shape of the mouth...
guitar solo.
Covers
This song is covered by TeslaTesla (band)
Tesla is an American hard rock band formed in Sacramento, California in 1984. They have sold 14 million albums in the United States.-Formation and Mechanical Resonance :...
, off of their 2007 Real to Reel album, disk two and by Night Ranger on their Feeding off the Mojo CD (coupled with the Beatles' Tomorrow Never Knows).
Local H
Local H
Local H is an American rock duo, formed by Joe Daniels and Scott Lucas in Zion, Illinois in 1987. Local H's 1996 album, As Good as Dead, includes the top 10 hit "Bound for the Floor" Author, rock critic and Rolling Stone contributor Greg Kot and the Chicago Tribune named the band its 2008 Chicago...
recorded a very faithful cover of the Frampton Comes Alive! version of the song, complete with lengthy talkbox solo and fake crowd noise. It can be found on the "Eddie Vedder" CD single.
On the Strong Bad
Strong Bad
Strong Bad is one of the major characters of the Homestar Runner series of animated Flash web cartoons. He is portrayed by Matt Chapman, the principal voice actor and co-founder of the series. Strong Bad enjoys pranking the other characters of the series, along with his ever-diligent lackey pet...
Main Page of the Homestar Runner
Homestar Runner
Homestar Runner is a Flash animated Internet cartoon. It mixes surreal humor with references to retro pop culture, notably video games, classic television, and popular music.The cartoons are nominally centered on the title character, Homestar Runner...
website, (accessible through the game Homestar Talker) this song is referenced when the viewer scrolls over the characters button. A clip from the song plays, and Strong Bad says, "Oh check it out, this guy's guitar is totally talking!"
External links
- [ Allmusic.com article on "Do You Feel Like We Do"]
- Songfacts article on "Do You Feel Like We Do"
- Classic Bands article on Peter Frampton
- Epinions article on Peter Frampton
- Simpsons episode guide on "Homerpalooza"