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Thank You Mr Churchill

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Rarely does an album come along of this caliber. From start to finish it is simply amazing. The rocking track with Peter's son Julian, the track with legendary Motown Funk Brothers, Matt Cameron on drums (Pearl Jam / Soundgarden) throughout, and even the instrumental track simply make me speechless. This is classic Frampton evolving and reflecting on the ups and downs in his life. The guitar work is right up there with all the legends. Do yourself a favor and pick up this album. You will not be disappointed. Best album since Frampton Comes Alive!

While I have enjoyed Peter Frampton's music for (many) years, I have equally admired the PERSISTENCE and PASSION he brings to his craft. Like all of us in our lives and careers, Mr. Frampton has experienced the up's and downs ,the peaks and valleys, but thru it all, he just keeps getting better as an artist. With the release of "Thank You Mr. Churchill" I will now need to add the word PERSPECTIVE in what I admire about Mr. Frampton.
This album is autobiographical in nature and deeply personal. He writes about his past, the future and topic's he feels strongly about which only 60 years on this earth, 45 of them as a professional musician can lend perspecitve to.
For you guitar lovers out there, don't worry, he delivers these strong lyrics with the same musical expertise/quality that won him a Grammy a few years back on the all instrumental "Fingerprints" CD.

I'd recommend you purchase the entire CD or album (yes it's on vinyl), If not, (AND THIS WASN'T EASY!) my top three favorites to download for a taste would be "I want it back", "Road to the Sun", "Vaudeville Nanna and the Banjolele". For you instrumental lovers, you will not be dissapointed with "Suite Liberte', A. Megumi and B. Huria Watu.
For me personally, this is Peter Frampton's strongest overall effort in a long and successful career. As I mentioned above, he just keeps getting better!! Lucky for us!

Over the years Peter Frampton has gotten his share of the "raw deal" in putting out music. Ever since he released 'Frampton Comes Alive' that seemed to be his benchmark for every other release that he would ever do and fans of that album just wouldn't forgive him if he even tried to put out something different. Shame on all those who haven't followed Peter Frampton over the years and stopped listening to him shortly thereafter and his live release or even the 'I'm in You' release. Was every release stellar, probably not, but so much was based on the music at the time. With his self-titled release in 1994 and further releases I believe he has matured and just gotten better. He is such an underrated guitar player and when you listen to his previous release 'Fingerprints' you'll have a better appreciation of his guitar talent. With 'Thank You Mr. Churchill' Peter Frampton puts out a stellar effort. From start to finish it is just a great and solid rock album. Forget your pre-conceived notions about Peter Frampton's long blond-haired live glory days from 1976. He is so much more than that as an artist and always has been and this albums just proves that. If you like Peter Frampton then this is one album to surely pick up. It's a keeper and worth every star of the five star rating.

His last album (all instrumental) won a Grammy. If thats the case then this one could be "the one" that gets people to say did you get the new Peter Frampton album? who what? Peter has delivered a fine new album of songs hot guitar solo's. I doubt highly that this album will get any airplay on the dinosouar FM . Too bad this is the kind of album that should play hard rocking mixed ballad songs could this album return Peter to playing madison square? I hope so but only if he wants it. In the past 6 months we have seen a return of Eric Clapton with Steve Winwood, Jeff Beck has been brought back to the spotlight they rose Hendrix from the dead giving him a top selling album and now Peter is up at bat. I hope this is the return of the guitar player
A solid 4 star album and perhaps his strongest ever Studio album bar none. I own 20 of them.


PS check out the guitar solo on "asleep at the wheel" and then the absolutely wonderful ballad that follows it. Where in the hell have we all been (LOL)

I have been a fan of Peter Frampton since his Humble Pie days. What a loss it was to loose their other singer-guitarist, Steve Marriot a few years ago, who was also prominent in the Small Faces. Back to Peter. I had to put up with mp3's while waiting for my CD to arrive. I have nearly all of Peter's commercial releases. I have felt for most of that time that he is a guitarist's guitarist. In his biggest hits the lyrics are great pop-rock with great guitar hooks and riffs, but what I love most about his playing is his solos. They are jazzy and very complex. Like so many people I loved Frampton Comes Alive and have both LP and CD copies of it. The material he did immediately following the mega selling live album was very much a let down and ushered in a low point in his career and personal life. Specifically I mean "I'm In You" and the "Sgt. Pepper's" abomination with the Bee Gee's as "Immediately after". Some of Frampton's 1980's-2000's albums are actually very good, but few people even know of them because they got no airplay. "Comes Alive II" was actually pretty good, it is just that it concentrated on his newer less known material". I have nearly every original official Frampton album , from his 1972 first "Wind of Change" to 2010 "Thank You Mr. Churchill", The new album, Thank You Mr Churchill is the best he's put out since Frampton Comes Alive. From the standpoint of his guitar playing and maturity and choice of playing techniques, it is probably his finest work of art ever.

I've never heard Peter play with such fire. During the solos if I forget that I'm listening to Frampton, he sounds like a combination of Al Di Meola and Eric Clapton. Peter is much less bluesy than Eric of course. The hard rocking songs have great power chords too. His backing band is solid too. On some of the softer tunes Peter plays like his beloved predecessor, gypsy jazz virtuoso, Django Reinhardt. Peter Frampton even owns one of Django's old guitars. Though too fragile to play from what I hear -- he keeps it in a glass museum case. Every song on this albums is different and in many cases totally different from anything he has recorded before. Though his previous instrumental album does show through here and there. Wow, the sound of the CD is fantastic. Clear recording -- like old-school, no compression. Interesting lyrics too. All the tracks are good. Is it time for "Frampton Comes Alive III"?

While no audio recording can compare to Peter Frampton's live performances, this one comes incredibly close. Unlike Fingerprints (which I also love), this CD has only one instrumental track - and that one song puts me in a whole other place. The vocals are spot on, the lyrics are moving, and the song he does with his son Julian is brilliant. I don't think Frampton has ever gotten the credit he so deserves. He is absolutely a guitar god.

THANK YOU MR. CHURCHILL is Peter Frampton's best album in many years. It's very autobiographical and also speaks out against troubling world events, including the Wall Street bailout and the kidnapping of a Japanese girl by North Korea in the 70s. This album is a far cry from the lighthearted music Frampton put out in his earlier days, and it can be depressing at times, but if you give it time, this CD will grow on you.

Ah Peter, Cincinnati has been kind to you... maybe one day i will get to see you play Bogarts again! Thank You Mr. Churchill is spectacular! Reaffirms Mr. Frampton as one of the great Axe Men of our time.

Many years ago I attended a Forbes magazine function where Watergate poster-boy G. Gordon Liddy was the featured speaker. For about thirty minutes the stunningly funny and pointed Mr. Liddy regaled us with story after story pulled from his life's adventures as a political operative including one of his most famous involving the eating of rats to overcome ingrained fears. As he opened the floor up to questions, one young executive asked him -"What does rat taste like?" - To which Liddy replied nonchalantly, "Well, if you must know young man, they taste a lot like squirrel!"

To this day, I still crack-up thinking about the brilliance of that crazy, existentially no context response which tells you everything and nothing at the same time. So if you'd like to know what Peter Frampton sounds like, circa 2010, please see G. Gordon Liddy for guidance. Peter Frampton is the ultimate musical enigma - an acknowledged guitar statesman wrapped in a persona that can never quite escape the rapid, self-inflicted, descent from Superstar to Parody to Pariah that he endured in the late 1970's.

1976's Frampton Comes Alive vaulted him from relative obscurity to the commanding heights of the rock world - quickly crashing with the hilariously self-mocking follow-up, I'm in You and then - finally immolating himself (and the Bee Gees) completely as the clueless star of one of the worst train wrecks in film history - Robert Stigwood's excrementally and excruciating bad, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

All that said, Frampton would need the luck of Lazarus to return to anything approaching relevancy, which makes his newest, spectacular release, Thank You Mr. Churchill, all the more improbable and noteworthy. Churchill is a flat out rock album killer. From the disc's first (title) cut to the last, Black Ice, Frampton throws his guitar muscle and production prowess around to tremendous effect - his playing is articulate, the lyrics matter and his veteran back-up band gives proof upon proof why his live shows are still so critically well received today. Given the somewhat limited notice paid to this record it is a shame that Frampton didn't release it under the name "Paul Hampton" - it deserved much more appreciation than the limited number of spins it received on XM. After many listens, Thank You Mr. Churchill tastes so much better than squirrel. Very highly recommended!

I'm only 26 but I'm a big classic rock fan. I'm one of the few in my generation that think true music talent was in the 70s and that not many bands today have that classic rock sound. Thank you Mr Churchill shows how Frampton can still bring his talent to the 21st century. This is just a great all around album. I believe Frampton's three best albums are Thank You Mr. Churchill, Finger prints and Frampton Comes Alive.