You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. On Wednesday, November 24th, 2010 at 12:01 am and is filed under A&M, Andy Bown, BBC Radio 1, Discount Records, Frampton's Camel, Humble Pie, Peter Frampton, Rich Packter, Ten Years After, The Herd, The Small Faces, Uriah Heep. Into the Wild is the 22nd studio album by the British rock band Uriah Heep.It was first released in Japan on 12 April 2011 by Universal Music Japan with 12 tracks on SHM-CD and in Europe by Frontiers Records on 15 April 2011 with 11 tracks on a regular CD the album was released on in America. Tags: Andy Bown, Frampton's Camel, Humble Pie, Peter Frampton, Ten Years After, The Herd, The Small Faces I call it finally getting a fair shot at radio. The industry calls this process artist development. Soon after, Peter Frampton’s deserved home runs began. So yeah, SOMETHIN’S HAPPENING is a gem too. Peter didn’t seem to mind one bit that when push came to shove, these two crazies were there to meet Andy Bown. And I’m sure Andy Bown was genuinely surprised at the attention. They both laughed non stop at all my questions, in a most flattering way. It was great fun picking their brains about the past. We both worked at Discount Records, so I’m guessing Rich could justify the meal.Īs far as we were concerned, this was lunch with The Herd. Frampton’s Camel were opening for Uriah Heep that night. Rich Packter, the A&M promotion guy during summer ’74 had set Corinne and I up with Peter and Andy for lunch at the then turquoise and pink circular Holiday Inn restaurant in Downtown Syracuse. He toured that record with former band mate Andy Bown, from The Herd, on keyboards. Listen: (Baby) Somethin’s Happening / Peter Frampton PeterFramptonSmethin.mp3įor the record, the follow-up album, SOMETHIN’S HAPPENING, went fairly undiscovered too. It was a perfect seasonal single and has sentimental value. I never heard it anywhere at the time, although the single ‘All Night Long’ got a lot of daytime BBC Radio 1 play that summer ’73 I’d spent in London. His second, post Humble Pie release was issued as Frampton’s Camel. Glued to the edge of the stage in the Livestock Pavilion on the Syracuse State Fair grounds, overjoyed by the fact that we were seeing members of The Small Faces and The Herd, was half the thrill. Luckily, I saw them open for Ten Years After on that first US tour, not yet Americanized in any way, still kitted out in lime or purple velvet and silk trousers etc. Their early stuff I liked even though it leaned toward the extended blues rock sludge setting in at the time.

If you’re an Anglofile, you give them rope. Here you had a signature member of The Herd and Steve Marriott in the same band.

I loved The Herd, and was loyally into Humble Pie. Once he hit the big time it was uncool to like him. Peter Frampton was, unfairly, a guilty pleasure to loads of folks for years. Listen: All Night Long / Frampton’s Camel 01 All Night Long.mp3 Above / Below: UK Promo Only sleeve (front/back)

Uriah heep the way that it is