Peter Frampton: How I missed playing George Harrison's concert - GuitarPlayer
Frampton knew Harrison. He had performed lead electric guitar alongside him on singer Doris Troy’s self-titled album, produced by Harrison for the Beatles’ Apple Records. He had also played acoustic guitar on All Things Must Pass, Harrison’s first post-Beatles solo album.
“I knew I was going to see George’s shows, and I asked if he needed me to play guitar,” Frampton explained, “but they were overbooked with guitarists.”
Indeed they were. In addition to Harrison, Davis and Preston, the shows would feature Eric Clapton, who was making his first live appearance since his late 1970s shows with Derek and the Dominos.
Depressed over that band’s failure, the death of Duane Allman and his unrequited love for Harrison’s wife, Pattie Boyd, the guitarist had fallen into heroin addiction and withdrawn from recording and touring. Harrison had recruited him for the concerts, hoping it would help pull him out of his decline.
Frampton accepted the news with grace. “I wished him all the best with the show,” he says, “and told him I’d come see it.”
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