Peter Frampton is getting candid about being ghosted by an iconic rock band earlier in his career. It came at a time when his label dropped him.
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Frampton says that Pete Townshend of The Who fame reached out. Townshend offered Frampton the opportunity to tour with the band. Frampton was immediately appreciative of the idea, but then Towsnhend ghosted him.
"He said, 'I've got this idea. I want to not tour anymore, but I still want to write and be in The Who and I'll write the songs and I wonder what you thought if you took my place in The Who on the road,'" he recalled. "I said, 'Really? Have you spoken to Roger [Daltrey] and John [Entwistle] about this?' He said, 'Eh, no, but I'm gonna talk to them tomorrow about this.'"
Frampton waited for Townshend to call him. But he never did. Ultimately, Frampton called Townshend and told him off.
Peter Frampton Gets Angry
"It took me about five or six calls... and I found him at the studio. All he got out was, 'Hello, Pete.' I said, 'You never called me back, I got nothing going on in my career and I blah blah blah,'" Frampton recalled. "I berated him because 'you left me in the lurch there.' I was feeling so perturbed at the fact that it was there, right in the palm of my hand, and it's gone."
As for his career, Frampton credits David Bowie with helping him to launch a comeback. Years later, Townshend and Frampton finally settled their differences at a Bruce Springsteen concert.
"I saw Pete talking to Bruce before he went on for the second half, and so I just went over and I stood next to Pete," Frampton says. "He suddenly realized someone was standing next to him, looking at him, staring at him, and he looked around me and he smiled, and he kissed me on the top of my head. So we're friends now, from then on."
The two have been friends ever since then.
