45 years after releasing I'm In You — his followup to 1976's Frampton Comes Alive! — Peter Frampton admits he still has regrets. Despite both the title track and album both topping out at Number Two, Frampton recalls the entire experience as one bad decision after another.
Frampton looked back at attaining worldwide fame with the classic double live album, telling Guitar World, “All of a sudden I realized that I had a lot of friends that I didn’t have before. Everybody had their two cents to put in, especially the people that were rubbing their hands together like this because I suddenly became the hen that laid the golden egg.”
He admits that he was stressed out upon hitting the studio to start the I'm In You sessions — even while Frampton Comes Alive! was still hot on the charts: “I knew that I couldn’t follow it. That album took me six years to write; it was a live ‘best of’ up until that point. There is a number from Humble Pie — 'Shine On,' I cherry-picked (the) Wind Of Change, Frampton’s Camel, (and) Somethin’s Happening (albums). . . That was when I think I started to over-imbibe and wanted to numb myself. The golden hen was now constipated.”