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The Tubes

Hey,Anyone like the GROUP the tubes?
What's your favorite song/album?
These guys could and can really rock out.
and one thing I like about them is there albums generaly sound great too!
I saw them play at New George's in San Rafeal Ca in the late eighties,VERY good band.
Share your thoughts about this fun group!
mcgarick
ghost_rider
117 posts
 
Never saw the band but one lost summer of fun when I was about 18 was filled with Love Bomb as the sound track to my summer. The tubes are awesome!!! Check out the "Completion Backwards Principle" on vinyl. It blew me away..
martykl
3,578 posts
 
"What Do You Want From Live" offers a good feel for what they were all about... which is a rock based comic musical theater of sorts. Often very funny and still rockin'. Think Meat Loaf meets Weny O Williams for an evening of pot and beer.

BTW, the band was pretty good, but the drummer, Prarie Prince, has moved on to other projects touring with, among others, Todd Rundgren and The New Cars.

Marty
ghost_rider
117 posts
 
Marty, I belive the Prairie passed away about six months ago...
armstrod
618 posts
 
Sushi Girl - Completion Backwards Principle

Back in 1982 or 83 The Tubes and The Indianapolis Symphony (with the fabulous John Nelson conducting) were both at Valparaiso University on the same night. I really wanted to see The Tubes, but the woman I was dating preferred the Symphony, so there we were. As we walked out of the Symphony venue after the show, we heard this incredible racket, so we stopped to listen. It was the Tubes, playing in the basketball gym, and we could hear them all the way across campus! It was then I knew I'd picked the wrong show, and ultimately the wrong woman.

Sigh....

David
gdoodle
113 posts
 
Love the tubes for years. How about the awesome guitar solo on "Talk to ya Later" by Steve Lukather of Toto fame...? not too mention singers "Fee Waybill" - and the hot "Re Styles" ... production by Todd Rundgren.... very zappa-like satire and social commentary

How about the ending lyric/vamp to "What do you want from life"...

..."if you're an American citizen you are entitled to:...
a Merc Montclair, a Mark IV, a meteor,
a Mercedes, an MG, or a Malibu,
a Mort Moriarty, a Maserati, a Mac truck,
a Mazda, a new Monza, or a moped,
a Winnebago--Heck, a herd of Winnebago's we're giving 'em away,
or how about a McCulloch chainsaw,
a Las Vegas wedding,
a Mexican divorce,
a solid gold Kama Sutra coffee pot,
or a baby's arm holding an apple?"
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