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Peter Frampton plans to close a near career-long loose end with his next album, which he says is the type of record that should have followed the riotous success of 1976's Frampton Comes Alive.
The Comes Alive live album was recorded on tour in support of 1975's Frampton, the studio LP on which "Show Me the Way" and "Baby, I Love Your Way" first appeared.
While Comes Alive solidified Frampton as one of the biggest stars of the '70s, he tells Ultimate Classic Rock that the success also led him to change his creative ways. He began collaborating more on his songwriting and doing more covers.
Looking back, Frampton feels he should have kept a good thing going and wrote on his own for at least one more album.
"[The next album] will be al me, my own music, all written on my own, like I wrote [1972's] Wind of Change — come hell or high water," Frampton said of his next studio album. "I enjoy co-writing and have done it for ages with various different people, and I always enjoy it. But I think when I wrote on my own, it's much more unique and ... uniquely me. I might do things in writing a song that other people would say, 'Oh, no, you don't want to do that. We shouldn't go there,' but on my own, I can be like, 'Uh-uh, I'm going there.'"
He would not set a target for a release date, explaining that he wants to take his time with the new songs to make sure they are everything they can be.
Frampton's 'Finale - The Farewell Tour' continues next month with dates in the U.K. and Europe.
Frampton announced his farewell tour in 2018 and wrapped up the U.S. leg in October of the following year. The guitarist/singer suffers from a degenerative disorder called inclusion-body myositis. He tells UCR that he's still able to sing and player guitar, but he walks with a cane now and will likely perform seated during his upcoming shows.
"The way I look at it is, until I've only got two fingers left, I'm OK, because [legendary jazz guitarist] Django [Reinhardt] had only two fingers. So we're OK."