Keith Urban’s appearance at the 2024 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony on Saturday night (Oct. 19) was a jam session — with a backstory.
Urban was there to honor inductee Peter Frampton, one of several musical luminaries joining the Hall of Fame this year. Urban grabbed his guitar and hopped onstage with Frampton to jam out to “Do You Feel Like We Do,” a mid-1970s hit for the English singer-songwriter that’s been a staple of his live show for decades.
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The rock legend’s relationship with Urban spans back decades. The first time they sat down together to write, back in the ’90s, the venue was a far cry from the hallowed stage at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: It was Urban’s dingy early-career Nashville home.
“I was living in an absolutely awful, crap house in a pretty gloomy part of town at the time,” Urban recounted to Billboard surrounding this weekend’s Hall of Fame ceremony.
“And my manager called and said, ‘Hey, do you wanna write with Peter Frampton?’ I’m like, ‘Holy s–t, yeah! Where are we gonna write?’” Urban went on to say. “He goes, ‘He’s gonna come to your house.’ I go, ‘No, no, no. He’s not gonna come to my house.’ But sure enough, he came over to my dwelling and we spent the day just playing music and writing.”
No songs were born out of that day — Urban says he “wasn’t in a good headspace” at the time — but it did serve as a kick-off to a relationship that would stand the test of time, and ultimately lead the two men to share the stage at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
“I was glad we got a good, solid friendship out of it,” Urban sums up.