Members bikehorn Posted October 17, 2007 Members Share Posted October 17, 2007 He's always associated with 3-pickup Les Pauls, but I've seen a few early videos of Humble Pie and he's got a Gretsch of some kind. I seem to recall him saying in an interview somewhere that he had an ES-335 which he traded for the black 3-pickup Les Paul sometime in before the Frampton Comes Alive era because he was having major feedback problems. Am I just dreaming? I can't find anything anywhere that says he was a 335 user and it's driving me insane. What about on record? He and Steve Marriott both have lethal tone on "Rock On" and I wonder what he used in the studio. 335 maybe? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Bbreaker Posted October 17, 2007 Members Share Posted October 17, 2007 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZMmV6xXYFw Clem Clemson is using a 335.....he replaced Frampton. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bikehorn Posted October 17, 2007 Author Members Share Posted October 17, 2007 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZMmV6xXYFwClem Clemson is using a 335.....he replaced Frampton. Yeah, I love that video. Clem was pretty damn good and he gets knocked just because his name isn't Frampton. Great tone too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mister Crow Posted October 17, 2007 Members Share Posted October 17, 2007 On the 'Rockin' the Fillmore' album, he's shown with a black Les Paul Custom, but it's not his famous 3-pickup one. I've also seen him with Gretsch solid bodies in the Humble Pie time. Never saw a Humble Pie era photo of him with a 335. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Old Fart Rocker Posted October 17, 2007 Members Share Posted October 17, 2007 I seem to recall hearing that Frampton got his 3 pup LP from Steve Marriot. I'm not sure about the 335, but he was using something that was having feedback and tuning/intonnation issues. I think there is a pic of Frampton playing the Black Beauty on the inside cover of the Humble Pie live album. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members GarysBlues Posted October 17, 2007 Members Share Posted October 17, 2007 What was used on SMOKIN? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members datstrat Posted October 17, 2007 Members Share Posted October 17, 2007 Here's a great HP cut from the Steve Mariott memorial concert - good stuff from a bunch of geezers! part two: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Psychotronic Posted October 18, 2007 Members Share Posted October 18, 2007 On the 'Rockin' the Fillmore' album, he's shown with a black Les Paul Custom, but it's not his famous 3-pickup one. I've also seen him with Gretsch solid bodies in the Humble Pie time. Never saw a Humble Pie era photo of him with a 335. I believe that 2-pickup Custom is the same guitar as his famous 3-pickup Custom -- he's said that that guitar did not start out as a 3-pickup guitar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Professor Tom Posted October 18, 2007 Members Share Posted October 18, 2007 The story I heard was that he had a 335 that fedback like {censored} and that a member of the audience lent him the three pickup custom for the second show and he liked it so much they made some kind of deal. That guitar was later destroyed in a cargoplane crash. I believe the story appeared in the British magazine Guitarist a couple of years ago when they interviewed him. You may be able to access it on their website. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bikehorn Posted October 18, 2007 Author Members Share Posted October 18, 2007 The story I heard was that he had a 335 that fedback like {censored} and that a member of the audience lent him the three pickup custom for the second show and he liked it so much they made some kind of deal. That guitar was later destroyed in a cargoplane crash. I believe the story appeared in the British magazine Guitarist a couple of years ago when they interviewed him. You may be able to access it on their website. I think this is the story I was thinking of. I seem to recall him being pretty pragmatic about the loss of his guitar, saying that at least people didn't get killed in the accident. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members garthman Posted October 19, 2007 Members Share Posted October 19, 2007 Frampton used to head up a group called "The Herd" (disbanded 1968 I think) before he joined "Humble Pie". I saw them playing live at a weekend festival in 1967 (I think) and they were so bad that after a couple of songs everyone in the audience started throwing things at them (including bottles, mind you!) and drove them off the stage! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members csm Posted October 19, 2007 Members Share Posted October 19, 2007 Frampton used to head up a group called "The Herd" (disbanded 1968 I think) before he joined "Humble Pie".I saw them playing live at a weekend festival in 1967 (I think) and they were so bad that after a couple of songs everyone in the audience started throwing things at them (including bottles, mind you!) and drove them off the stage! The Herd were a prog-lite quartet who had a few minor hits (one of which was From The Underworld), written and produced by the team of Howard & Blaikley, who did the same job for the decidedly rowdier Dave Dee, Doxy, Mick & Tich. Thanks to PF's abnormal youthful prettitude -- DISC Weekly dubbed him 'The Face Of '68', they had a sizable teengirl following although the other three were decidedly older and plainer than PF, who was 17 or so at the time. The keyboard player was Andy Bown, who later resurfaced playing (I think) bass for Status Quo. http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/villa/9500/herd.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Professor Tom Posted October 19, 2007 Members Share Posted October 19, 2007 The Herd were a prog-lite quartet who had a few minor hits (one of which was From The Underworld), written and produced by the team of Howard & Blaikley, who did the same job for the decidedly rowdier Dave Dee, Doxy, Mick & Tich. Thanks to PF's abnormal youthful prettitude -- DISC Weekly dubbed him 'The Face Of '68', they had a sizable teengirl following although the other three were decidedly older and plainer than PF, who was 17 or so at the time.The keyboard player was Andy Bown, who later resurfaced playing (I think) bass for Status Quo.http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/villa/9500/herd.htm Andy Bown is the keyboard player in Quo and another meaningless factoid, The Herd's biggest hit was "I Don't Want Our Loving To Die". It worries me that I'm in possesion of this information. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members csm Posted October 19, 2007 Members Share Posted October 19, 2007 by the team of Howard & Blaikley, who did the same job for the decidedly rowdier Dave Dee, Doxy, Mick & Tich. Bad Typing Day: H&B's other charges were, of course, Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich. So sorreee .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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