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M AY 2 0 1 5 3 3 One night Only courtesyyanncharles Peter Frampton shows ME the way. interview by COlin w. Sargent Comes Alive Maine State Pier M aine State Pier will vibrate on June 27 with an open-air con- cert featuring two class acts Pe- ter Frampton and Cheap Trick. Frampton is in town more than youd guess and is look- ing foward to it. Youll be performing outdoors when you come here ducking seagulls. Any adjustments Im used to it. In 2014 I wrote the title song and six others for the pas de deux ballet Hummingbird in a Box. It was unusual be- cause I played onstage while dancers flew around me. The only other time Id per- formed with dancers was with David Bow- ie on his Glass Spider Tour where there were as many dancers as musicians. In the mid- dle of Lets Dance a dancer stepped on my pedal and turned me off. Another time a dancer stepped on my distortion pedal and blew my sound completely makes a loop- ing squelching sound. But I enjoy coming to Maine. Ive come up many times because Bob Ludwig is in Portland. Once we were playing in the Man With Golden Ears tour and I brought my whole band over there. Since the mid- to late-1980s hes done all of my mastering. Do people try to fit you into a gorgeous box called Frampton Comes Alive Is Hummingbird in a Box a response to that Before my brother was born when I was un- der five wed go to my grandparents for af- ternoon tea and cake. My grandfather had been in the navy for two world wars. One day he took out a very decorative wood- en box. I have something I want to show you. Its magic. Open it. It was a solid block. Sealed. There was no way to open it. I held it up and turned it around looked at the wooden panels. You have to learn the secret of opening it he said. You have to make the right moves. He slid one little piece of wood one way then another. In- side the secret interior was a little drawer that concealed a false bottom. When he slid that open there was a stuffed humming- bird. That was the prize. Hed picked it up during his travels to Asia. Later I taught my brother how to open it. Now my brother has the box. The songs in the ballet are full of reveals too. So with you theres no sense of Oh no hes going to play his new material. Ive always wanted to write something that would be different from anything Ive ever written before. Its a selfish thing. I want to break new ground. Its funny they call it The Merchandising Moment when a musi- cian plays new material. Or the T-shirt Mo- ment. Time to get a beer hon. My audience knows theyre going to get at least one or two new songs whenever I come onstage. You explore silences in The Promenades Retreat. Silences are the best notes you dont play. They make the notes you do play so much more important. Especially with Prome- nades Retreat theres a tension an expec- tation and youve just got to wait for it. A re- petitive little riff just builds and builds and builds. Out of nowhere comes the chorus. Speaking of boxes your Huffington Post interviewer suggested The seventies was sort of the beginning of teen idols Were you wondering what about Elvis Ella FrankieWolfgang Mozarts a good example of a teen idol. Yeah were always going to have that. Weve had Justin Bieber. When musically did you become you Im always evolving but I think Humble Pie was when I became me. What do you like to read Ive been reading Stephen Hawkings book. Not A Brief History of Time but the one that came after that The Universe in a Nutshell. Im sort of geeky. I tend to read manuals. Ringo lists you on his 2015 album. Whats he like Its always fun playing with Richie. Because I played with him on All Things Must Pass Ive known him since I was 21. You used to go into the studio and work with him but now his studio is at home. Him and an en- gineer and me and an amp and there it was. He had the tracks already done. Do you want to play on this one How about this one I play on two of the songs. Hes one of the good guys. What can you do now that you could never have done in 1975 or 1976 Go out of my house. Depends on wheth- er its 1975 or 1976. In 1975 I wasnt really known that well. In 1976 I couldnt go any- where because it was a military operation if I wanted to get somewhere quickly. One day youre nobody. Next day youre a piece of meat. And Im a vegetarian. n