So he said, 'George.' I said, 'Harrison?' This would be my first Beatle meeting."
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One night he said, 'Do you want to meet Geoffrey?' And I said, 'Geoffrey?' All the Beatles had a code name - I didn't know that. "I was with a friend who was George's personal assistant. Together, he says, they capture the best sounds ever.įrampton also told me, with a lot of laughter, about meeting George Harrison for the first time and learning Harrison's secret name. The worst thing is to play a bit, go, 'ooh, I like that,' then you put your phone on and by the time you've done that, you go, 'oh, what was that?'"īut his favorite pieces of tech are a '50s era microphone called the Telefunken U47, which "slays any other recording microphone," and a Universal Audio Limiter 1176 sound compressor. "I pretty much record everything - I put my iPhone on record as soon as I pick up a guitar, because you never know. "The longer we wait, the less chance there is of me being able to get to Europe to do the final tour there, which is destroying me."Įven so, Frampton is upbeat and funny, talking about how he became a grandfather in 2020 and hopes his granddaughter will call him "frampa." We also talked about his love of old country music, including tunes by Hank Williams and The Carter Family, and about all the tech he's tried for collecting his musical ideas. "It's starting to affect my playing," Frampton said of coping with the inflammatory disease, in an interview for CNET's I'm So Obsessed podcast series. It prompted him to kick off his farewell tour in 2019, and now he worries that by the time coronavirus restrictions ease and tour dates can resume, including a final concert planned for London's Royal Albert Hall, he won't be able to actually use his guitar.
The reason is simple: The clock is ticking - Frampton told fans last year that he has a degenerative muscle disease called inclusion body myositis (IBM) that's affecting his hands. The single, which also features Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits and Roseanne Cash, was recorded to raise money for Help Musicians, a crowdfunding campaign offering financial help to music makers.įrampton, 70, is playing guitar every day and recording musical ideas on his iPhone and storing them in iTunes. 27 to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the day Ben E. He's also contributed a guitar solo to a cover of Stand by Me coming out Oct.
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