Peter Frampton for a health problem changes the way of playing

In 2019 Peter Frampton He announced that he was suffering from the IBM muscle deterioration disease and, although he continued to work – recently confirming 2025 tour dates – his problems are becoming more difficult to deal with.

The myosite from included bodies (IBM) is a slowly progressive degenerative inflammatory disease of the musculature, characterized by weakness, with a late debut (usually arises after 50 years) of some muscles.

“It is increasingly difficult, I must admit it,” said Frampton during his appearance at the Namm commercial event last week, as reported by “Guitar Player”, during which he leaning on a stick to maintain his balance.

He continued: “The worst thing about playing for me is that when I do a solo I have to think about what I am playing. I don’t want to think, I want it to come simply from my heart. This is how I have always played. And now I have to think a little ‘, because I find myself in the middle of the passage and I say: “That finger will not arrive in time!”

He mentioned the example of the jazz icon Django Reinhardtwhich in 1928 lost two fingers in a fire and had to develop a new execution technique. “That’s what I am doing,” Frampton reflected, “because I like music so much. It seems strange: you are losing the strength to play … but I am elaborating – and I like to do it – a different way of playing”.

“People ask me:” Are you not depressed? “. You have to accept the things you can’t change. I learned it in anonymous alcoholics and in many other places. … what I have is not dangerous for my life, thank God, but it is something that changes life, and I follow the flow “.

Frampton (74 years old) revealed that he has ready a new album, which he intends to publish this year and who follows the cover album (from Harrison Ai Radihead) “Frampton Forgets the Words” of 2021. He explained: “I keep saying: ‘Oh, this is the last album; this is the last.