WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:03.640 Now my dog is roaming around the studio. Come back, Wolfgang, Come 2 00:00:03.759 --> 00:00:10.800 Wolfgang, Wolfy. Peter Ripton is on the phone for your mommy. How 3 00:00:10.839 --> 00:00:16.640 amazing is that? Oh my gosh, you were like my dog. My 4 00:00:16.760 --> 00:00:20.800 dog is laying on me right now. What kind of dog do you have? 5 00:00:22.320 --> 00:00:30.600 I have a black golden doodle. What's his name? Bigs b Bigsby, 6 00:00:30.839 --> 00:00:33.960 Well, high Bigsby. Wolfgang is over here right now. He's a 7 00:00:33.960 --> 00:00:40.359 big black German shepherd. Oh that's what I had earlier in my life, 8 00:00:40.399 --> 00:00:44.159 had a big, big, long haired shepherd. Yeah. They're gorgeous. 9 00:00:44.280 --> 00:00:49.640 Well, dogs are I feel like people who love animals are automatically amazing human 10 00:00:49.679 --> 00:00:55.439 beings. Well, if you don't like animals, is something wrong with you? 11 00:00:55.759 --> 00:01:00.920 I know, definitely especially dogs, you know, So any anyway, 12 00:01:00.000 --> 00:01:03.519 I guess I guess we're here to talk about a little thing called music. 13 00:01:03.560 --> 00:01:06.599 I think that's been a big part of your life. Now, we could 14 00:01:06.640 --> 00:01:11.000 talk about animals all day long, if you like, sir. But first 15 00:01:11.000 --> 00:01:17.599 and foremost, I have had the pleasure of interviewing you quite a few times 16 00:01:17.599 --> 00:01:21.760 in my career. So I feel very lucky and blessed because, you know, 17 00:01:21.879 --> 00:01:23.879 just my job puts me in this opportunity, and you have really been 18 00:01:23.879 --> 00:01:30.719 a soundtrack for my life, as with others for so many years. To 19 00:01:30.719 --> 00:01:36.280 play your music, to talk to you, and to see you still being 20 00:01:36.319 --> 00:01:41.640 so passionate and out there is just a joy to listen to and to watch. 21 00:01:41.640 --> 00:01:45.879 And you're gonna come to Connecticut on Thursday, March seventh at the Toyto 22 00:01:45.920 --> 00:01:51.000 Oakdale Theater. All the tickets and information are online with that Oakdale Theater dot 23 00:01:51.560 --> 00:01:56.280 com too for tickets and such. But Peter, please tell everybody about what 24 00:01:56.319 --> 00:02:00.239 this tour means to you. And I think, is this like you? 25 00:02:00.239 --> 00:02:02.400 You're not You're a new grandpa too, right, not like brand new? 26 00:02:02.400 --> 00:02:07.280 But is this like yes, right, yes, right before right before Christmas, 27 00:02:07.319 --> 00:02:15.520 second grandchild was born to Annie and Julian Frampton. And the baby's name 28 00:02:15.599 --> 00:02:23.240 is rain So's. She's almost three months old now, I guess, yeah, 29 00:02:23.439 --> 00:02:28.560 so yeah, lots of face FaceTime time, even on tour, right, 30 00:02:28.639 --> 00:02:30.719 even on tour. Did you not say, did I hear that you 31 00:02:30.800 --> 00:02:37.759 came up with Peter Grampton? No? I came up with Franpa Oh FRMPA 32 00:02:37.879 --> 00:02:42.319 Okay, I couldn't remember which one it was. Frandpa Okay, there's I 33 00:02:42.400 --> 00:02:46.560 like Peter Frampo, that's great. Yeah, no, no, but unfortunately 34 00:02:46.639 --> 00:02:52.360 I'm actually pop up because the fruit is I don't think you can say f 35 00:02:52.639 --> 00:03:00.319 R until you're about seventeen. So so anyway, yeah, well, very 36 00:03:00.439 --> 00:03:06.919 very happy and blessed to have two beautiful grand grandchildren. So it's wonderful. 37 00:03:07.000 --> 00:03:10.360 That is fantaxics and you can see Peter franpon never ever say never to our 38 00:03:10.439 --> 00:03:13.800 Thursday March stuff. Tell us all about it because I know we're gonna have 39 00:03:13.840 --> 00:03:19.240 a good time. It'll be so much fun. We're we've got a couple 40 00:03:19.400 --> 00:03:24.319 extra different numbers in this set from last year. So yeah. So it's 41 00:03:25.719 --> 00:03:34.800 we've been rehearsing already and we're about halfway through and yeah, it's going incredibly 42 00:03:34.840 --> 00:03:37.879 well. So the band sounds amazing, so we can't wait to play. 43 00:03:38.840 --> 00:03:44.039 Now. What goes into touring these days that separates from when you were touring, 44 00:03:44.439 --> 00:03:46.400 you know, twenty years ago. Are you still out there partying every 45 00:03:46.520 --> 00:03:52.800 night? Or do we have a bedtime now? Oh what did you say 46 00:03:52.879 --> 00:04:04.159 party? And what is that? No? No, unfortunately it's it's back 47 00:04:04.199 --> 00:04:10.520 to the it's either straight on the bus ontil the next show somewhere else, 48 00:04:10.719 --> 00:04:15.879 or it's back to the hotel. And but I still can't go to sleep 49 00:04:15.000 --> 00:04:20.000 until you at least a couple hours after a show, two or three hours, 50 00:04:20.040 --> 00:04:27.279 because you're pumped up, you know. So it's the adrenaline is going 51 00:04:27.560 --> 00:04:32.759 and uh so, but no, when I'm at when I'm at home with 52 00:04:32.759 --> 00:04:36.199 with me and Bigsby, you know, we get up, you know, 53 00:04:36.399 --> 00:04:42.319 early six thirty seven and see to day. And when you're on the road, 54 00:04:42.439 --> 00:04:46.360 you you don't get up quite as early because you didn't get to bed 55 00:04:46.439 --> 00:04:50.639 until like two or three in the morning. So yeah, it's it's the 56 00:04:50.759 --> 00:04:57.519 same old stuff, you know, except no drinking drugs. Yeah, you 57 00:04:57.560 --> 00:05:01.199 know, your voice, You're very lucky. And I mean, listen, 58 00:05:01.439 --> 00:05:05.800 God bless everybody's out there playing and having fun, because that is what it's 59 00:05:05.800 --> 00:05:13.079 all about. Music is just such a universally healing it's just so universally healing 60 00:05:13.120 --> 00:05:15.160 to have out there, and especially when you've been doing it so long, 61 00:05:15.240 --> 00:05:17.800 right and as long as you have, but you have one of those unique 62 00:05:17.879 --> 00:05:24.399 voices that has stood the test of time. What do you do to take 63 00:05:24.439 --> 00:05:30.160 care of your voice and to keep yourself sounding as you did it it's incredible 64 00:05:30.160 --> 00:05:35.879 to hear how precise and exact you are. Well. I got to the 65 00:05:36.000 --> 00:05:45.240 point in I think it was like the late eighties where I or very early 66 00:05:45.319 --> 00:05:50.920 nineties when I started touring again and I was losing my voice, you know, 67 00:05:51.639 --> 00:05:59.439 because I was over singing and I'd never had vocal exercises or vocal lessons, 68 00:05:59.800 --> 00:06:05.560 and so I decided to go to Lovely Lady in New York, Katie 69 00:06:05.560 --> 00:06:15.360 Agresta, and she's one of the top teachers, vocal teachers in Manhattan when 70 00:06:15.399 --> 00:06:21.839 I was living there, and then I moved to Los Angeles and we've lost 71 00:06:21.879 --> 00:06:29.480 him, unfortunately, the great Ron Anderson. I did quite a few lessons 72 00:06:29.480 --> 00:06:36.040 with him and I still use his one of my You would tape every lesson, 73 00:06:36.120 --> 00:06:40.959 you know, put it on a CD or something, and so before 74 00:06:41.040 --> 00:06:46.279 every show, I don't I don't think about singing before I do those exercises. 75 00:06:46.399 --> 00:06:53.720 And it's about forty five to fifty minutes. So everything is planned, 76 00:06:54.319 --> 00:06:58.879 you know, when I'm on the road, my day is built around the 77 00:06:59.000 --> 00:07:02.560 end result. So I will get up, you know, have breakfast or 78 00:07:02.560 --> 00:07:09.720 whatever, but everything is an ex workout, do all that and then but 79 00:07:10.040 --> 00:07:14.480 you know, two or three hours before the show, I do my vocal 80 00:07:14.519 --> 00:07:20.079 exercises, and it made the world a difference, And I don't know how 81 00:07:20.120 --> 00:07:27.839 I did it without before, but now it just gives you confidence. You 82 00:07:28.000 --> 00:07:32.600 know you're going to be your voice is going to be in tiptop or as 83 00:07:32.600 --> 00:07:40.040 good as you can make it by having by having these doing these vocal exercises, 84 00:07:40.040 --> 00:07:45.639 which it's like, it's amazing how well they help. You know. 85 00:07:46.120 --> 00:07:49.800 I've been playing your music and I've been singing along to you, and I'm 86 00:07:49.839 --> 00:07:55.120 going to read something that I need to fact check if you don't mind, 87 00:07:55.759 --> 00:08:01.399 Are you yes, truly celebrating you're sick ste a year of touring? Could 88 00:08:01.399 --> 00:08:05.519 that possibly be a mistake? No, it's not. I mean, can 89 00:08:05.560 --> 00:08:09.000 you just lie for me? Because that makes me have to recognize my age? 90 00:08:09.000 --> 00:08:11.800 So can we just call you this your fortieth year? Could we do 91 00:08:11.879 --> 00:08:16.399 that? Can we go back all right? Yes? Okay, So tell 92 00:08:16.399 --> 00:08:24.079 me about your forty years of touring? No, because I started touring professionally 93 00:08:24.639 --> 00:08:28.639 where it was semi professional because I was still at school. But when I 94 00:08:28.680 --> 00:08:35.360 was fourteen. So now i'll be seventy four April twenty seconds, so it's 95 00:08:35.480 --> 00:08:41.360 my sixtieth year. That is unbelievable and what a cool deal to be able 96 00:08:41.399 --> 00:08:46.519 to do this for a living, right I you know, I've been talking 97 00:08:46.559 --> 00:08:56.799 to other artists and how lucky we are to well I am, and others 98 00:08:56.840 --> 00:09:01.080 that I know that are still doing really well, like we get to do 99 00:09:01.120 --> 00:09:07.159 this for our entire lives. And like I always say, and even though 100 00:09:07.720 --> 00:09:11.399 during his work, but I always say, I never I never worked today 101 00:09:11.440 --> 00:09:16.519 in my life, you know, because I'm so passionate about the music that 102 00:09:18.519 --> 00:09:26.080 it's like it's the best best thing to play live. It's just I can't 103 00:09:26.120 --> 00:09:30.679 really describe put it into words, but there's something for me. I'm of 104 00:09:30.840 --> 00:09:39.279 the I'm of the moment kind of person musically and and personally. I leave 105 00:09:39.360 --> 00:09:45.000 things to the last minute. But but I've never played the same solo twice 106 00:09:45.039 --> 00:09:48.399 and I don't plan it, plan on it, you know, So it's 107 00:09:48.440 --> 00:09:52.200 everything is like a blank canvas when I walk on the stage. And as 108 00:09:52.279 --> 00:09:58.120 far as what I'm going to play, obviously we have we know the form 109 00:09:58.159 --> 00:10:03.440 of the song. Where when when I get to play a solo, it's 110 00:10:03.480 --> 00:10:07.080 always a different one. Well, that also keeps it fresh and probably what 111 00:10:07.159 --> 00:10:09.799 connects you, you know, with your audience, and do you reach back 112 00:10:09.879 --> 00:10:13.480 into your career like for this, for this particular tree, do you reach 113 00:10:13.519 --> 00:10:16.799 back into Humble Pie or do you reach back into some of the covers maybe 114 00:10:16.840 --> 00:10:20.759 that you've done with Ringo Star and is All Star Band, Like do you 115 00:10:20.000 --> 00:10:24.600 pull some fun stuff out out of that to to kind of mix it up? 116 00:10:24.639 --> 00:10:28.320 And obviously the classics that we we've known to come and love us as 117 00:10:28.360 --> 00:10:33.360 well, But how do you like plan out your playlist? Well, I 118 00:10:33.440 --> 00:10:39.159 think that there's certain numbers obviously that have to be there, and we mix 119 00:10:39.240 --> 00:10:43.960 it up the order and everything. But I think we the last last summer 120 00:10:43.519 --> 00:10:48.720 we did in four weeks the summer and we pulled out two numbers that we'd 121 00:10:48.759 --> 00:10:56.080 never done I'd never played live before, Crying Clown and I Got My Eyes 122 00:10:56.120 --> 00:11:03.440 on You, one from the Frampton Camel record and one from the Frampton record. 123 00:11:03.759 --> 00:11:07.519 And this this year, I'm pulling one from the Something's Happening album, 124 00:11:09.000 --> 00:11:15.759 which is Golden Goose, and it's something I've never played live. We tried 125 00:11:15.799 --> 00:11:20.720 it at rehearsals the first day and it blew us away, just because it's 126 00:11:20.759 --> 00:11:24.200 one of those things I don't know why I've never done it live, but 127 00:11:24.600 --> 00:11:28.279 it's so much fun for us to do, so yeah, we keep on 128 00:11:28.399 --> 00:11:33.879 trying to make it a little different each year. Do you have a memory 129 00:11:33.919 --> 00:11:37.279 of someone that you worked with that you had always wanted to that kind of 130 00:11:37.279 --> 00:11:41.360 brought you back to your fan daze like that made you get a little excited 131 00:11:41.440 --> 00:11:45.039 or giddy er, you know, when you're working with someone that you've looked 132 00:11:45.080 --> 00:11:48.120 up to or wanted to work with? Say, can do you have any 133 00:11:48.159 --> 00:11:52.480 special stories behind that? Yeah? Quite a few actually, but I would 134 00:11:52.600 --> 00:11:58.639 I would have to say that my school chum I went to school with him, 135 00:12:00.120 --> 00:12:07.600 to mister Bowie, David Bowie, that was wonderful when he he asked 136 00:12:07.679 --> 00:12:11.840 me to play on the Glass Spider tour and also and has never let me 137 00:12:11.919 --> 00:12:18.200 down record, so yes it was. It was very special. And David 138 00:12:18.240 --> 00:12:22.559 and I had played on the same stage the same night, but never at 139 00:12:22.559 --> 00:12:28.960 the same time before, so him asking me to be one of the guitar 140 00:12:28.039 --> 00:12:37.679 players featured guitar players was that definitely brought me back. We toured stadiums and 141 00:12:37.720 --> 00:12:43.759 then in the summer and in eighty seven and then and then arenas in the 142 00:12:43.840 --> 00:12:48.279 winter. It was a long tour and he brought me back in front of 143 00:12:48.679 --> 00:12:54.600 so many people as the guitar player, not the pop star, and for 144 00:12:54.720 --> 00:12:58.240 that I've never stopped thanking him and I still do. So. Yeah, 145 00:12:58.279 --> 00:13:03.120 that was very very special. I know it's hard. There are some artists 146 00:13:03.200 --> 00:13:07.840 that I have a hard time with not being here even though I've never, 147 00:13:07.120 --> 00:13:11.039 you know, had dinner with them or anything. But like David Bowie and 148 00:13:11.080 --> 00:13:13.399 Tom Petty, for me, I still I'm like, man, that stinks 149 00:13:13.480 --> 00:13:16.799 right now. I'm still not over those two as of quite yet. But 150 00:13:18.840 --> 00:13:22.279 David Bowie, so I got a chance to see the Glass Spider tour, 151 00:13:22.320 --> 00:13:24.159 which was incredible, and I saw it in Canada, I believe. But 152 00:13:26.240 --> 00:13:28.679 in any event, I digress. Also, I probably should have opened with 153 00:13:28.799 --> 00:13:33.120 this and congratulate you on being one of the fifteen artists who are nominated for 154 00:13:33.159 --> 00:13:37.720 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for twenty twenty four. Is 155 00:13:37.080 --> 00:13:43.320 that exciting to you? Do awards make you excited in the Rock and Roll 156 00:13:43.320 --> 00:13:45.480 Hall of Fame? I mean that's got to be pretty cool. I would 157 00:13:45.519 --> 00:13:54.240 think, well, I'm nominated, which is incredible. I don't expect anything 158 00:13:54.279 --> 00:14:00.399 in my life. I always wait for things to happen. I'm not as 159 00:14:00.559 --> 00:14:05.039 upset as I think a lot of my fans are that I'm not in there 160 00:14:07.360 --> 00:14:13.840 yet. So but it's one of those things that you know, if you 161 00:14:13.879 --> 00:14:16.960 don't expect something and then it comes out of the blue, it's it's it's 162 00:14:18.080 --> 00:14:22.759 very rewarding, you know. So yeah, I'm honored that I've been told 163 00:14:22.799 --> 00:14:28.000 off to be nominated. Now we've just got to see how it goes. 164 00:14:28.120 --> 00:14:30.799 I've got to get the votes. You got to get the vote to vote 165 00:14:30.799 --> 00:14:35.200 for I did the promise. I promise to vote for you. I promise, 166 00:14:35.320 --> 00:14:37.399 and I have it up online and so I know in April those that 167 00:14:37.480 --> 00:14:41.360 stuff goes down, so we will be we will definitely be voting for you 168 00:14:41.440 --> 00:14:46.919 here in Connecticut and on my program. I also want to before we wrap 169 00:14:46.000 --> 00:14:48.960 up, talk to you a little bit about a little bit more about your 170 00:14:48.960 --> 00:14:54.600 personal life. I know, obviously Grandpa, Franpa whatever we whichever, we 171 00:14:54.600 --> 00:14:58.200 would like to say that, and you obviously love your dogs, but you 172 00:14:58.320 --> 00:15:01.200 also are you sed to I read somewhere that you were a vegetarian, and 173 00:15:01.240 --> 00:15:03.080 I wasn't sure if that is something that you still practice. But obviously do 174 00:15:03.399 --> 00:15:07.600 you have a special connection with animals or is there any because you you have 175 00:15:07.679 --> 00:15:09.440 come to the right woman here. I'm like the dog Lady of Connecticut. 176 00:15:09.519 --> 00:15:16.279 So yeah, I love all animals. I think we still have a lot 177 00:15:16.320 --> 00:15:22.759 to learn from them. Well I know we do, but we're too wrapped 178 00:15:22.840 --> 00:15:26.039 up in ourselves. But but you know, I mean I would like to 179 00:15:28.200 --> 00:15:39.679 I I have fostered an element, an elephant, and I follow all the 180 00:15:39.720 --> 00:15:46.840 reality I think is the is the place where they saved U where the elephants 181 00:15:46.919 --> 00:15:50.480 go when they've they've been cut off from the herd and stuff like that, 182 00:15:50.600 --> 00:15:56.799 babies and stuff. So yeah, I'm very much into all all animals and 183 00:15:56.440 --> 00:16:03.120 uh you know you name it, dogs, especially of course. And I 184 00:16:03.159 --> 00:16:10.320 think I'm going to be in the future near future getting much more involved in 185 00:16:12.159 --> 00:16:21.320 working with shelters, foster foster dog owners. And also if it's possible, 186 00:16:22.279 --> 00:16:26.639 I'd like to, you know, raise money so that we could we could 187 00:16:26.720 --> 00:16:34.240 get some we could get some doctors vets that would donate their time and do 188 00:16:34.399 --> 00:16:40.120 spay and neuter. But for that you need a truck that goes into the 189 00:16:40.200 --> 00:16:45.360 different areas where where, and then the doctors offer it for we offer it 190 00:16:45.440 --> 00:16:52.159 for free. That's my goal, because that's the problem with homeless dogs is 191 00:16:52.159 --> 00:16:56.320 is that people don't get them spayed and newted because they're worried that, you 192 00:16:56.360 --> 00:17:03.519 know, the their dogs are going to end up in a shelter and and 193 00:17:03.720 --> 00:17:07.720 not live. You know, So there's there's ways around this. I mean, 194 00:17:07.720 --> 00:17:12.119 it's a big job, but we can do it one dog at a 195 00:17:12.200 --> 00:17:15.680 time, you know. You know, I agree with you and even our 196 00:17:15.720 --> 00:17:18.720 cats. And in Connecticut here there's a rescue that I work with that I'm 197 00:17:18.720 --> 00:17:22.759 a part of, and I won't keep you. I know you've got a 198 00:17:22.759 --> 00:17:26.079 schedule, but like we I'm hosting an event this weekend four Protectors of Animals 199 00:17:26.119 --> 00:17:30.359 and then one for Kenway's cause, and then it's going to be Marty Pause. 200 00:17:30.920 --> 00:17:33.240 So that's going to be fun. But they have a vehicle that goes 201 00:17:33.279 --> 00:17:37.720 around and does just that. But because it takes a lot of money, 202 00:17:37.720 --> 00:17:41.160 it's not as act as we would like it. But it's called It's Hip 203 00:17:41.200 --> 00:17:45.960 to Snip and it's a mobile neuter spade truck. It's called It's Hip to 204 00:17:45.039 --> 00:17:49.440 Snip, which is that's what I want to do. I want to make 205 00:17:51.359 --> 00:17:56.640 I'd like to be able to make more of those available so that that would 206 00:17:56.720 --> 00:18:02.200 be my that's my goal, and I well, I think it's admirable. 207 00:18:02.240 --> 00:18:07.319 I'm a huge fan of yours. Congratulations on an incredible career, an incredibly 208 00:18:07.599 --> 00:18:12.079 just nice human being. I never hear, you know, horrible stories about 209 00:18:12.079 --> 00:18:15.680 you and the media, so I love that. So I love that. 210 00:18:15.000 --> 00:18:19.079 I love that that you're just like one of the great rock and roll artists 211 00:18:19.119 --> 00:18:23.000 of all time. Thank you for being that. Yeah, well, so 212 00:18:23.200 --> 00:18:27.440 far you haven't heard any really bad stuff about me. Well it's not too 213 00:18:27.559 --> 00:18:32.279 late, but I'm just hoping it's more of like maybe maybe, maybe if 214 00:18:32.279 --> 00:18:34.000 it's more rock and roll, Like I don't care if you throw a chair 215 00:18:34.079 --> 00:18:37.039 out a window, Peter, I don't care if you do that. But 216 00:18:37.160 --> 00:18:42.400 like, nothing too nothing too crazy though, No, no, no, 217 00:18:42.519 --> 00:18:47.119 I think I think in the in the seventies, I was, you know, 218 00:18:47.400 --> 00:18:52.759 just like every other traveling musician. So we abused, uh we were 219 00:18:52.880 --> 00:18:57.519 abused than we abused, but it was all in fun, you know, 220 00:18:57.680 --> 00:19:03.599 we we nothing was ever really that bad. You know, we might have 221 00:19:03.680 --> 00:19:07.720 trashed a hotel room or something, but no one ever got heard or anything. 222 00:19:07.799 --> 00:19:10.240 So that's the main thing. Yeah, and I think it was a 223 00:19:10.240 --> 00:19:11.920 prerequisite to trash a hotel room I mean you had. I think it was 224 00:19:11.960 --> 00:19:15.559 like illegal if you didn't. If you were a rock star at a certain 225 00:19:15.599 --> 00:19:18.279 point in time, I think you had to do it. Yeah, yeah, 226 00:19:18.319 --> 00:19:29.200 absolutely, But I just did one really well. Peter Frampton Never Ever 227 00:19:29.440 --> 00:19:34.359 Say Never Tour is Thursday, March seventh, the Toyota Oakdale Theater. You 228 00:19:34.480 --> 00:19:40.640 give your little fluffer over there, you give a big treat from Renee in 229 00:19:40.680 --> 00:19:45.000 Connecticut, from Renee and Wolfe here in Connecticut, and we appreciate you very 230 00:19:45.119 --> 00:19:49.319 much. Talk to my fluffer and my dog. Oh my god, Peter, 231 00:20:00.240 --> 00:20:04.960 and that's how we'll end. And that is how we will end. 232 00:20:06.160 --> 00:20:14.000 Thank you. Version Yes, absolutely all right, goodbye, by bye.