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Article: FRAMPTON COMES ALIVE AGAIN

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July 21, 2000
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So what if Peter Frampton isn't in a position to charge the high ticket prices that some of his boomer-rock peers have demanded in recent years. Frampton still doesn't like it - and he's not about to withhold his criticism.

"It blows my mind. I don't agree with it," says Frampton. "It's called raping the public."If only more artists, managers, and conglomerates (namely SFX) had the same thought, right?

Frampton is keeping his prices very reasonable by rock-veteran standards. He headlines the South Shore Music Circus in Cohasset on Wednesday at prices of $34 and $26 - a fraction of the $250 gouging that was asked for the recently scuttled Diana Ross and the Supremes

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