According to ultimateclassicrock.com, Peter Frampton is preparing to take his Finale, The Farewell Tour across the ocean just next month, and he is also talking about his next record, which he states will be “the album that should have followed Frampton Comes Alive!” It will be a set of original songs written entirely by himself for the first time since the commercial zenith of Frampton in 1975. Frampton stated that, “I’m not saying there won’t be one cover, but there would not be more, [The next album] will be all me, my own music, all written on my own, like I wrote [1972 solo debut] Wind of Change – come hell or high water, I enjoy co-writing and have done it for ages with various different people, and I always enjoy it. But I think when I wrote on my own, it’s much more unique and … uniquely me. I might do things in writing a song that other people would say, ‘Oh, no, you don’t want to do that. We shouldn’t go there,’ but on my own, I can be like, ‘Uh-uh, I’m going there.”
Frampton went on to say that, “I don’t know when I’m gonna finish it, There’s no rush. I’m taking my time. I want every track to be something that gives me goose-bumps and I go, ‘I’m proud of that.’ There’s not gonna be any filler on it. It’s gonna be the best that I can do, and I’m very excited about it. I’ve got some great material. But this one might take a little longer.”
Frampton is currently working in Nashville where he lives, with Chuck Ainlay, who co-produced and engineered All Blues, Forgets the Words and other Framptton recordings. Frampton stated, “So I have nothing to worry about the technique of making the record, I have the best possible band, and if I use other musicians, in Nashville it’s hard to go wrong. All I have to do is make sure these songs are top-notch and ready to go.”
Frampton also said that the idea of the tour is a little daunting since he hasn’t played a show since October of 2019. Frampton explained that, “I’m playing good, but I’ve never gone out to do a show with my body being in this condition, It’s the unknown for me: What’s gonna happen? What’s it going to be like? I just want to do the best possible show I can do. I don’t want to be the guy that goes out there and the audience goes, ‘Well, I know it’s his final tour. He’s not as good as he used to be.’ I don’t want to be that guy. I want to go out there and be able to fool them that I’m still as good as I ever was.”
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