ABBEY ROAD LIVE IS BACK!!

If you didn't know, Abbey Road Live is back with us on the road, recording every Frampton Comes Alive 35! performance, and making it available in pristine multi-track, full quality audio via the Collectors Series CD sets.

You can pre-order these now for upcoming shows by going to http://www.abbeyroadliveus.com. What you may not know is that, starting on the upcoming tour leg, you may also order DIGITAL versions at the show, by visiting new automated that Abbey Road Live will be carrying to each show. These simple units, which will be at the Abbey Road Live booth, will allow you to order via your credit card and have a link sent to your email address where you may then download the show afterwards.

FCA! 35 SPECIAL OFFER

To commemorate the 35th anniversary of Frampton Comes Alive!, Universal Music Enterprises has made a limited edition offer exclusively through http://www.frampton.com. The offer features a unique autographed scrapbook containing rare photos and personal reflections from Peter and is accompanied by Frampton Comes Alive! Deluxe Edition. Fans who purchase via iTunes will receive an interactive iTunes LP version of the scrapbook and original Deluxe Edition liners and photos, along with an exclusive cover version of “Do You Feel Like We Do” by Warren Haynes. To order in the US, please go to http://frampton.com/fca35, for Canada: http://www.universalmusic.ca/frampton/#D3486 and the rest of the world: http://store.universal-music.co.uk/restofworld/artists/peter-frampton/icat/peterframpton/.

PETER'S LOST GIBSON LES PAUL GUITAR FOUND ON CARIBBEAN ISLAND OF CURAÇAO AFTER 32 YEARS!!

TWO FANS COLLABORATE TO RETURN FAMED GUITAR PLAYED BY FRAMPTON ON HUMBLE PIE AND FRAMPTON COMES ALIVE! ALBUMS!!



Peter Frampton’s long-lost guitar was recently discovered after its disappearance in a plane crash 32 years ago. In 1980, a cargo plane carrying Frampton’s equipment for an upcoming show in Panama crashed, supposedly destroying all of the instruments on board including Frampton’s cherished 1954 Gibson Les Paul. Thanks to the unyielding work of two dedicated fans, one in Holland and one on the Dutch Caribbean island of Curaçao, as well as the CEO of the Curaçao Tourist Board, Frampton was reunited with the guitar in an emotional meeting last month in Nashville, TN.

The Curaçao Tourist Board helped acquire the guitar from an individual after hearing news that they may indeed have a lead on the long lost and beloved guitar. Together in Nashville, TN at the Gibson Custom Shop, with experts from Gibson Guitar and Peter Frampton, the team confirmed it was the original guitar long missing from Frampton’s collection.

Frampton’s custom guitar was given to him in 1970 by a man named Mark Mariana when Humble Pie played at the Fillmore West. Frampton borrowed Mariana’s guitar for the show and afterward tried to buy it from him, “But to my surprise he said he couldn't sell it to me—he wanted to give it to me!” he notes.

Frampton played the guitar exclusively on Humble Pie’s Rock On and Rocking the Fillmore albums. The guitar also appeared on a number of sessions for other artists including George Harrison, Harry Nilsson, and John Entwistle. Most notably, Frampton played the guitar on the electrifying Frampton Comes Alive!, one of the top-selling live records of all time.

Frampton is ecstatic to have the guitar back in his hands once again. “I am still in a state of shock, first off, that the guitar even exists let alone, that it has been returned to me. I know I have my guitar back, but I will never forget the lives that were lost in this crash. I am so thankful for the efforts of those who made this possible…And, now that it is back I am going insure it for 2 million dollars and it’s never going out of my sight again! It was always my #1 guitar and it will be reinstated there as soon as possible -- some minor repairs are needed. And, I just can’t wait to get Mark Mariana on the phone.”

ANOTHER PRESALE!

Another presale will begin on Thursday, December 8 at 12PM Local Venue Time! Don't forget that there are both presale tickets and VIP packages available at http://peterframpton.artistarena.com.

3/09/12 - Pechanga Resort and Casino - Temecula, CA

Before the Talkbox .....

THE SONOVOX was invented by Gilbert Wright in 1939



For many a sentimental reader, the books of Novelist Harold Bell Wright (The winning of Barbara Worth, The calling of Dan Matthews) made many a dream seem to get up and walk. Last week the aged author's solemn son Gilbert went his father one better: he made real people talk like waterfalls, braying donkeys, barking dogs, slamming doors, locomotive whistles. The appropriate place: Hollywood.

Six months ago, while Gilbert Hunger Wright was meditatively scratching the bristly whiskers on his Adam's apple, he noticed that queer sounds came out of his mouth. When he silently mouthed words, the sounds caused by scratching his whiskers were formed into words. Fascinated, Gilbert Wright, who was once an engineer and radio operator, began to experiment further. Finally he came up with a device which his father, who by that time was also interested, christened "Sonovox."

In the Sonovox, a sound recording of a waterfall, a vociferating animal, rattling dice or whatnot is fed through wires to two little biscuit-shaped gadgets which are placed on each side of the throat against the larynx. These gadgets transmit the sound vibrations to the larynx, so that the sound comes out of the throat as if produced there. The sound is shaped into speech by mouthing the desired words. Thus a grunting pig, relayed through the human voice-box, can be made to observe: "It's a wise pig who knows his own fodder." Walt Disney, as might have been expected, immediately offered to buy the exclusive Sonovox rights for cinema cartoons. Perhaps in the future Donald Duck will utter his irate comments in a real quacking duck's voice.

Gilbert Wright, now a writer, used to be a cowpuncher, a lifeguard, a utility technician, a tutor. Born 38 years ago in Kansas, he graduated (1925) from the University of California, where he studied physics and mathematics. He taught math at a military academy for a year, took to writing short stories. Unwilling to capitalize on his father's fame, he used the pseudonym of "John Le Bar." Liberty found out who he was some years ago; since then he has signed his own name to his fiction.

He has had cinema jobs off & on, worked on the original screen play of Thanks for Everything. Twice married, he has two children by his first wife.

Proud of the Sonovox, he does not regard it as a main-line achievement. Said he: "I'm a writer by trade. If I haven't got a writing job, fine—I'll fool around with this thing. But it's writing I want to do."