Do You Feel Like We Do

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“Do You Feel Like We Do”
Single by Peter Frampton
from the album Frampton Comes Alive!
Released 1976
Recorded 1975
Genre Rock
Length 14:16 (LP)
7:19 (single)
6:44 (studio version)
Label A&M Records
Writer(s) Peter Frampton, Mick Gallagher, Rick Wills, John Siomos
Peter Frampton singles chronology
"Baby I Love Your Way" (1976) "Do You Feel Like We Do" (1976) "Show Me the Way" (1976)

"Do You Feel Like We Do" is a song by Peter Frampton originally on the Frampton's Camel album released in 1973. The song became one of the highlights of his live performance in following years. It was one of the three hit singles released from his Frampton Comes Alive! album released in 1976 which reached number one on the album charts and became the best-selling live album of all time until Garth Brooks' Double Live album was released in 1998. The Frampton Comes Alive! version of the song was recorded at the State University of New York's Plattsburgh Field House.

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[edit] Writing and recording

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The song was written in the early seventies with members of Frampton's band, then called Frampton's Camel. The song was originally about waking up with a hangover with the opening lyrics being "Well, woke up this morning with a wine glass in my hand".[citation needed]

It was released on the 1973 Frampton's Camel album which reached a peak of 110 on the US charts. The album version of the track was relatively short at 6:44 minutes and was not then released as a single. The two singles that were released "All Night Long" and "Which Way the Wind Blows" neither of which made the charts.

After the lack of success of the Frampton's Camel album, Frampton performed under his own name as he felt that the band was being confused with Camel. He began touring the United States extensively for the next two years supporting acts such as the J. Geils Band and ZZ Top as well as performing his own shows at smaller venues. As a result, he developed a strong live following while his albums sold moderately and his singles failed to chart.

"Do You Feel Like We Do" became the closing number of his set and one of the highlights of his show. It was considerably longer—over fourteen minutes on Frampton Comes Alive!—and featured a number of instrumental solos. Most famously, Frampton used the talk box, an effects pedal which redirects a guitar's sound through a tube into the performer's mouth, allowing the guitar to mimic human speech.

As a result of the strength of Frampton's live show, A&M Records decided to release a live album taped when Frampton performed at Winterland in San Francisco. Frampton Comes Alive! was originally going to be a single album until Jerry Moss asked "Where's the rest?".[1] "Do You Feel Like We Do" was one of the tracks added to the album as a result of the decision to expand the album to a double album. The track had been recorded live on November 22, 1975 on the college campus of SUNY Plattsburgh in Plattsburgh, New York.[2]

One set of lyrics, through the talk box, appears to be "I want to fuck you", with approval from the audience.[citation needed] However, it is more likely that Frampton said "I want to feel you", which would have been much more fitting with the song title.

[edit] Release as a single

"Do You Feel Like We Do" was released as the third single from Frampton Comes Alive! in September 1976. By that stage, Gerald Ford had invited him to stay at the White House as a result of the success of Frampton Comes Alive!. It was cut down for pop radio stations but the single version was still seven minutes long. It reached number 10 on the US pop charts and number 39 in the UK making it one of the longest songs to reach the US top 10.

Many album-oriented rock stations played the full 14 minute length version (with many disc jockeys taking advantage of that length by taking a bathroom break while the song was playing). The album went on to top the US charts for ten weeks and became the best selling live album of all time as well as one of the best selling double albums. Billboard Magazine named Frampton artist of the year for 1976 as a result of the success of the album, as did the readers of Rolling Stone Magazine.

Frampton continues to play this song live to close his concerts, and he played the song in his solo spot while playing with Ringo Starr's All-Star band. The Simpsons episode "Homerpalooza" featured the song with the London Symphony Orchestra supporting Frampton and the Pink Floyd pig which Frampton had picked up from "the Pink Floyd yard sale." However, as often happens when Homer Simpson is involved, things go awry, leading Frampton to say "Homer Simpson ruins my pig, Cypress Hill steals my orchestra, and now Sonic Youth is in my cooler." [3]

[edit] Title

The title of the song is "Do You Feel Like We Do", although the lyrics read "Do you feel like I do?". Only after the keyboard solo in the Frampton Comes Alive! version does Frampton sing "Do You Feel Like We Do." He then sings "Do You Feel Like We Do" through the talk box in the midst of his extended talk box guitar solo.

[edit] Covers

This song is covered by Tesla, off of their 2007 Real to Reel album, disk two.

This song is covered by Local H as a Demo.

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