Peter Frampton wsg Very Emergency

He was a British teen sensation with the Herd, a hard rock hero with Humble Pie and an international phenomenon with a solo career that included the release of the multi-platinum 1976 album– Frampton Comes Alive, arguably the most successful live recording of all time. He’s guitar legend Peter Frampton, and he’ll light up Meadow Brook Music Festival on Saturday, August 22 at 8 p.m. Very Emergency will open the show.

Tickets at $55 and $45 pavilion and $15 lawn are on sale now at Palacenet.com, The Palace Box Office and all Ticketmaster locations. Special lawn ticket four-packs at $44 are also available.

Tickets may also be charged by phone to American Express, Discover, Visa and MasterCard by calling1-800-745-3000.

A mainstay on the rock scene since the late 1960s, Frampton has enjoyed a career full of accolades and 20 Top Ten hits including 1970s guitar anthems “Baby I Love Your Way,” “Do You Feel Like We Do,” and “Show Me the Way.” He is particularly proud, however, of his 2007 all-instrumental album Fingerprints, which earned Frampton his first Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Album.

“I’ve never done a complete collection of instrumentals,” the Britain-born, Cincinnati-based Frampton says. “This is something I’ve been needing to do for myself for a long time. I wanted to play with people from all over the world, and I wanted to make the selections as diverse as possible. I didn’t want to make a smooth jazz album where the rhythm section plays the same on every tune.”

Fingerprints features Frampton having exhilarating musical conversations with a who’s who of the pop world, including Charlie Watts and Bill Wyman of The Rolling Stones, Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready and Matt Cameron, original Shadows Hank Marvin and Brian Bennett, Allman Brothers/Gov’t Mule slide slinger Warren Haynes, Nashville pedal steel virtuoso Paul Franklin and gypsy guitar maestro John Jorgenson. Frampton is currently working on the follow up to this Grammy Award winning album to be released in January 2010.

Peter Frampton with special guest Very Emergency is part of the Belle Tire Concert Series.