Peter Frampton shares the story of writing Baby, I Love Your Way on his Epiphone FT-79 Texan acoustic
Peter Frampton has reflected on the creation of his tracks Baby, I Love Your Way and Show Me The Way, which he both wrote on the same day using a 1964 Epiphone FT-79 Texan.
The tracks were released as part of Frampton’s 1975 self-titled album, and in a new video for Gibson’s YouTube channel, he’s shared a number of stories about the guitar, including how it survived flood damage, and its contributions to the music of Humble Pie.
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In an excerpt from Gibson TV’s The Collection series, Frampton explains, “Steve Marriott had a Frontier Epiphone, the more of a dreadnought shape. This is on every Humble Pie album that I’m on. If there’s an acoustic, this is the one you’re hearing. This is the guitar that I wrote just about every song on the live record with, apart from I Wanna Go To The Sun, which I wrote on piano.
“Show Me the Way, [and] Baby, I Love Your Way – those two were written on the same day, ” he adds. “Kind of like a Dolly Parton story. I was in the Bahamas, took this guitar and my ‘Phenix’ with me, and borrowed Steve Marriott’s cottage. I wrote Show Me The Way in the morning, then as the sun was setting, I wrote [the opening line to Baby, I Love Your Way], ‘shadows grow so long before my eyes and they’re moving across the page.’ Show Me The Way I wrote inside, and Baby, I Love Your Way sitting under a palm tree on the beach in Nassau,” he says.
Watch the video below:
In the full-length video, Frampton goes into further detail on the devastation caused by the Nashville floods of 2010, and the 44 guitars he lost due to the disaster. Many of those damaged were Les Pauls, which were sent to Mike McGuire (who worked on Frampton’s first signature Les Paul) at the Gibson Custom Shop to be fixed.
“He said, ‘There’s so much toxicity in these guitars you won’t be able to get paint on them to redo them.’ And a lot of the Les Pauls just split,” he explains. “There was so much stuff in the water there… there was all battery acid in the water. You name it, it was in the water. It was so horrible.”
He later adds, “I saved my Epiphone acoustic, the ‘64 Texan that I wrote all the songs on,” he says. “A lot of the acoustics, the top and the back… the sides just went like this [split] because they were underwater for three days.”
Watch Frampton’s full The Collection video here:
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