Peter Frampton an old time friend of Seymour Duncan Family In the intimate setting of the Chumash Casino’s Samala showroom, Peter Frampton brought his legendary songs and instantly recognizable sound to a capacity crowd of 1300 excited fans. It’s clear to see that Peter still loves every moment he has a guitar strapped on, and he brings his audience along for the ride. “Fun” is simply the best way to describe the vibe for the evening. Amongst those singing and vibing along, were our own Seymour, from our custom shop Maricela Juarez (MJ), Cathy Duncan, and VP of operations, Paul Davis. Seymour and Peter are long time friends and of course had a lot to reminisce about backstage. As far as the show was concerned, Mr. Frampton not only reminded everybody how much we’ve loved his music over the years but also just how accomplished he is as a player. It was a great mix of old and new, combining classic hits like “Show Me The way” and “Do You Feel Like We Do” with instrumentals from his 2007 Grammy winning album “Fingerprints” and some truly entertaining new stuff from his upcoming release. Guitars a plenty for this show, including a variety of Les Pauls. Most notable were the Gibson® 335 he used on a killer rendition of Junior Walkers’ Shotgun to open the show, and of course Peter’s signature series three-humbucker Les Paul Custom model. The cool pyramid-shaped Framptone® talk box is still one of the most innovative tone-shapers – simply helping define Peter’s signature sound. As always, he surrounds himself with only accomplished musicians, this time around he’s got Bob Arthur on the keys and acoustic guitar, Dan Wojciechowski (please don’t make me pronounce it) keeping the beat, John Regan on bass, and Adam Lester joining on guitar – playing a variety of Paul Reed Smiths through a pretty cool looking and great sounding 65® AMP.  Some of the bigger surprises of the evening included an appearance by his son, Julian, who is an up and coming player in his own right and a seriously scorching rendition of George Harrison’s While My Guitar Gently Weeps to end the evening. From left to right: Maricela Juarez, Peter Frampton, Seymour Duncan, Cathy Duncan and Paul Davis.