FRAMPTON COMES ALIVE FOR GRAMMY WIN

Guitar legend Peter Frampton finally took home his first Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Album for his latest release ‘Fingerprints.’

Guitar legend Peter Frampton finally took home his first Grammy Award in 2007, for Best Pop Instrumental Album for his latest release ‘Fingerprints.’ This was Frampton’s fourth overall Grammy Nomination but the first two were for his 1976 release ‘Frampton Comes Alive.’ Unfortunately Frampton was going up against another all time classic album released the same year The Eagles ‘Hotel California’ which took home multiple awards that year.

We caught up with Peter Frampton at the Grammy Style Studio just before the awards to find out Peters thoughts on his nomination in 2007.

“I was up for an award there for album of the year, but I made the mistake of releasing ‘Frampton Comes Alive’ the same year The Eagles released ‘Hotel California’ so they won. And rightly so, a great record, and obviously classic record. I’ve been nominated four times, two for this album ‘Fingerprints’ so it’s all nerve racking.”

So after winning the award backstage Frampton talked about how important it was for him to do this album.

“I think the reason for doing this record was I should’ve done it a long time ago because my passion has always been guitar playing and I guess once I got put into that category of more Pop than musician, then it was very difficult to convince people that I was the player that I’d always been. It was very important that I do this for me. When Universal said we’d like to have you back, after being away from their label or A&M for a long time. But I said ‘I don’t know if you’re going to want to sign me because the first records going to be instrumental’ and they went ‘Oh!’ But then they got it, they got the hole idea and it was very important for me to do that.”

Frampton won the award for Best Pop Album going up against David Gilmour, Gerald Albright, Fourplay and Spyro Gyra. Frampton’s version of Soundgarden’s classic song ‘Black Hole Sun’ was also beaten out for best Pop Instrumental Song by The Flaming Lips. Look for Frampton to continue touring the world in support of his Grammy Award winning latest release ‘Fingerprints’ which boasts guests musicians Warren Haynes, Mike McCready and Matt Cameron of Pearl Jam, The original rhythm section for The Rolling Stones Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts and Hank Marvin and Brian Bennett of The Shadows.