“Peter Frampton at Royal Albert Hall.”

Frampton Comes Alive has sold more than 20 million copies since its release in 1976. Any full and complete reckoning of the cultural impact of rock superstar Peter Frampton‘s double live album would have to include all the awesome vans inside which the album was listened, the immeasurable quantities of weed, smack, uppers, downers and all-arounders imbibed to the album, and the untold number of babies — conceived to its throbbing rock jams — who are now pushing 50. Since most of this ephemera is inestimable, suffice it to say there was a denim-clad epoch when Frampton Comes Alive pretty much ruled rock and roll.

Peter Frampton at Royal Albert Hall, his new live album, captures the seasoned guitar guru with his longstanding live band composed of keyboard player Rob Arthur, guitarist Adam Lester, drummer Dan Wojciechowski and bassist Steve Mackey. On the album, the quintet runs through the big hits from Comes Alive along with some of the tunes Frampton has been playing more recently.

“Are you all right?” Frampton asks the audience over the wall of overdriven guitar, bombastic drumming, and pulsing piano that signal the launch of “Something’s Happening.”

“I SAID, Are you all right?” he repeats.

This emphatic repetition is probably as old as rock and roll, and goes back at least as far as Aerosmith playing Moe’s Tavern for free pickled eggs on “The Simpsons.”

Of course, “Something’s Happening” also begins Frampton Comes Alive. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

Other hits from Comes Alive include “Lines on My Face” (also from Frampton’s Camel), “Show Me the Way,” “All I Want to Be” and “I’ll Give You (Money).”

Other tracks include “Lying” from the 1986 album Premonition with its Cheap Trick pop-rock vibe and an instrumental version of “Georgia On My Mind” from 2019’s All Blues. Though most associate the song with with legendary rhythm and blues singer and pianist Ray Charles, the song was actually co-written by Tin Pan Alley composer Hoagy Carmichael, whom Frampton has said was his mother’s favorite composer. At a recent San Francisco show he dedicated his performance of it to Carmichael.

At Royal Albert Hall ends with two of Frampton’s biggest hits, including “Baby I Love Your Way” off 1975 album Frampton. Of course, my generation remembers Big Mountain’s reggae version of the song from the 1994 Gen-X rom-com “Reality Bites.” Finally, Frampton and company regale the audience with a nearly 16-minute rendition of Frampton’s most iconic hit, “Do You Feel?”

About 10 minutes into the epic jam, he begins to make his guitar sound like a human voice with the help of his analog talk box. The crowd can be heard cheering over the low key groove, as Frampton and his guitar sing in a single robotic voice. It’s one of the most iconically psychedelic moments of the 1970s, which had more than its share of psychedelic moments.

Perhaps most miraculously, At Royal Albert Hall was recorded two years after Frampton announced his retirement from touring after being diagnosed with degenerative muscle disease inclusion-body myositis. Frampton’s latest live album makes clear that neither he, nor his hits, are going gently into that good night.