Peter Frampton

Mr. Frampton is, as the pages of rock history tell us, a young lad who has gone through
many a musical change, which could be the reason why his new album presents such a
large amount of diversity. Co-leader of the Herd, an A-1 pop rock group in their day, Peter
split to form Humble Pie with Steve Marriott, Greg Ridley, and Jerry Shirley, but left after
the Pie oriented their sound toward strict heaviness (rumors also have it that Pet... More >

Not hard to hear why he wanted out of Humble Pie--with his pretty guitar and air of abstracted yearning, the boy's almost a ringer for Dave Mason. He's equally tuneful, vague, and confused about women ("I wasn't made to do no cooking"?). The difference is that Mason would never cover "Jumping Jack Flash." But if he did he'd take it at the same insipidly insinuating tempo. (Grade: B-)