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Peter Frampton Announces Farewell Tour
– Peter Frampton Finale – The Farewell Tour
Peter Frampton is saying goodbye to the road with an excursion stretching from June through October dubbed “Peter Frampton Finale – The Farewell Tour.”
Presented by SiriusXM and produced by Live Nation, the tour features special guest Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Evening, along with Frampton’s son Julian Frampton on the West Coast stops. Today’s announcement promises that surprise guests will appear on select dates.
The tour is sure to feature Frampton’s biggest hits such as “Show Me The Way,” “Do You Feel Like We Do” and “Baby, I Love Your Way.” The singles are included on the legendary guitarist’s fifth solo album, Frampton Comes Alive!, which recently celebrated its 43rd anniversary and remains one of the top-selling live records of all time with over 17 million copies sold worldwide.
“A year before Frampton Comes Alive! we had released the studio version of ‘Show Me The Way’ as a single … and it totally tanked,” Frampton told MusicRadar. “It was pretty strange to put out the live version and watch it go through the roof. It was still the same song. What had changed? AOR was the big radio format at the time. And they were playing Frampton Comes Alive! like crazy. If you put on an AOR station – any station – you’d hear pretty much all the songs from that record.”
Was it strange? Or did the success of the live version simply demonstrate the power of live music?
Rolling Stone included the release on its list of 50 Greatest Live Albums Of All Time. David Menconi writes, “In the summer of ’76, nothing was in the air like Frampton Comes Alive!, the ultimate example of the double-live album with gatefold cover. ‘Baby, I Love Your Way,’ ‘Show Me the Way’ and most of all ‘Do You Feel Like We Do’ came to life in the live setting (all 14 minutes of it). Even the crowd noise sounds sensational.”
Over the years Frampton, who got his start at 16 as the singer/guitarist for The Herd and then co-founded Humble Pie at age 18, has toured with David Bowie, Stevie Nicks, Greg Allman, Ringo Starr, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Cheap Trick, Steve Miller Band, and Bill Wyman’s Rhythm Kings. His touring days have also boasted two years on the road with Peter Frampton’s Guitar Circus, featuring special guests B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Vince Gill, Larry Carlton, Robert Randolph, Don Felder (formerly of The Eagles), Dean DeLeo (Stone Temple Pilots), Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Sonny Landreth, Robert Cray and Roger McGuinn (the Byrds).
Frampton has stayed busy on stage, including playing dozens of shows last year with Steve Miller Band. Box office reports submitted to Pollstar for 2018 include 30 headline reports with an average of 4,378 tickets sold per night and an average gross of $268,055.
Peter Frampton Finale – The Farewell Tour kicks off with a June 18 gig at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tulsa in Oklahoma.
A Citi cardmember presale begins Feb. 26 at 10 a.m. and runs through Feb. 28 at 10 p.m. Tickets go on sale to the general public March 1 at 10 a.m. All times local. VIP packages will also be available.
Check out the routing below.
June 18—Tulsa, OK—Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tulsa+
June 20—Little Rock, AR—Robinson Performance Hall
June 22—Montgomery, AL—Wind Creek Casino & Hotel+
June 23—Chattanooga, TN—Tivoli Theatre+
June 26—Memphis, TN—Orpheum Theatre+
June 27—Nashville, TN—Ascend Amphitheater*
June 29—Salamanca, NY—Seneca Allegany Resort & Casino*^
June 30—Bethel, NY—Bethel Woods Center for the Arts*
July 2—Pittsburgh, PA—Benedum Center for the Performing Arts
July 3—Syracuse, NY—St. Joseph’s Health Amphitheater at Lakeview*
July 5—Montreal, QC—Montreal Jazz Fest- Place des Arts: Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier+
July 7—Gilford, NH—Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion*
July 9—Boston, MA—Rockland Trust Bank Pavilion*
July 10—Philadelphia, PA—The Met Philadelphia*
July 12—Cincinnati, OH—Riverbend Music Center*
July 13—Stayner, ON—Roxodus Music Festival+
July 23—Traverse City, MI—Interlochen Center for the Arts-Kresge Auditorium+
July 25—Detroit, MI—DTE Energy Music Theatre*
July 26—Morgantown, WV—MountainFest Motorcycle Rally*+
July 28—Chicago, IL—Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island*
July 29—Cedar Rapids, IA—McGrath Amphitheatre
July 31—Morrison, CO—Red Rocks Amphitheatre
August 2—Minneapolis, MN—Grand Casino Hinckley Amphitheater*+
August 4—St. Louis, MO—Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre*
August 5—Kansas City, MO—Starlight Theatre*
August 8—Cleveland, OH—Blossom Music Center*
August 11—Atlanta, GA—Ameris Bank Amphitheatre at Encore Park*
August 16-21—Keeping the Blues Alive at Sea Mediterranean+
August 30—Charlotte, NC—PNC Music Pavilion*
September 1—Albany, NY—Saratoga Performing Arts Center*
September 2—Uncasville, CT—Mohegan Sun Arena*
September 4—Jacksonville, FL—Daily’s Place*
September 6—Miami, FL—Coral Sky Amphitheatre at the S. Florida Fairgrounds*
September 7—Tampa, FL—MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre at the FL State Fairgrounds*
September 10—Simpsonville, SC—CCNB Amphitheatre at Heritage Park*
September 11—Washington, DC—The Anthem*
September 13—New York, NY—Madison Square Garden*#
September 14—Raleigh, NC—Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek*
September 21—Houston, TX—Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion presented by Huntsman*
September 22—Dallas, TX—The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory*
September 24—Albuquerque, NM—Sandia Resort & Casino*+
September 26—Phoenix, AZ—Comerica Theatre*
September 28—Las Vegas, NV—Red Rock Resort Spa & Casino+
September 29—Temecula, CA—Pechanga Casino-Pechanga Summit*†
October 2—San Diego, CA—Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre at SDSU*†
October 3—Paso Robles, CA—Vina Robles Amphitheatre*†+
October 5—Los Angeles, CA—The Forum*†
October 6—Tuolumne, CA—Black Oak Casino Resort-Westside Pavilion*†+
October 9—Seattle, WA—Paramount Theatre*†
October 10—Portland, OR—Ilani Resort & Casino-Cowlitz Ballroom*†+
October 12—San Francisco, CA—Concord Pavilion*†
*with Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Evening
†with Julian Frampton
+not a Live Nation date
^general on sale beginning March 22 at 12pm local time
#general on sale beginning March 8 at 10am local time