On a June night in 1975, Peter Frampton walked onto the stage at San Francisco’s Winterland Ballroom and stretched one of his songs into a nearly 14-minute showcase. Months later, that performance would help turn him into one of the biggest rock stars in the world.
The live version of “Do You Feel Like We Do” became a centerpiece of 1976’s Frampton Comes Alive!, the blockbuster double album that transformed Frampton’s career. Driven by extended guitar work and his famous talk box, the recording became a hit despite its extraordinary length and remains one of the defining live tracks of the ’70s.
The song itself wasn’t new…