The Tubes, She's a Beauty, Talk To Ya Later, & the Magic of Steve Lukather
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Luke is one of the most important and underrated guitarist of our time, he has played on so many hits that people know but didn't know he is the one playing guitar. He is a guitar player a writer a producer and engineer, he is so important in modern music. As you can tell he is one of my favorite musicians.
“Important” is a very good word.
Ya think?
As know by the general public I agree with you. However, similarly to Johnny Winter, Frank Zappa, Roy Buchanan, Rory Gallagher etc, he was a musician's musician. I know EVH regarded him very highly.
Agree 100%. Incredible musician
I was talking to a young musician who stopped over to get some help with his guitar and maybe a free lesson. He asked what guotar players he should play attention to, and the first name I came up with was "Steve Lukather". He said he's never heard of him, to which I replied, "you've never heard of him, but you know his guitar playing".
I played him "Beat It" and told him the main riff was Luke. I played him "Hold the Line" (which he knew fr8m some hip-hop thing), and told him to research Luke and listen to everything he played on.
He came back later with Lionel Ritchie and others.
Another devotee is born.
Luke IS popular music.
3 years ago, I was in a Duran Duran tribute band and we got to open for Tubes at Warehouse Live in Houston. Fee was gracious and hilarious to be with (as was the rest of the band). Concert experience I’ll never forget.
What is your D2 Tribute band called and any videos on UA-cam. Id LOVE to play John Taylor's bass lines in a band. None of the bands I played in would TOUCH Duran, even though they are patented panty peeler songs in the set. All the ladies love the songs, but we had to play 'We're An American Band' So glad they catered to the sleeveless Jean Jacket dude crowd...
Dang, I missed them! Last show near the cost was canceled due to flooding. Was so bummed.
@@monkyman404 I agree and have never understood that attitude. I didn’t get into rock music to play for a bunch of sweaty guys.
I was at that House of Blues show. It was fantastic. The Tubes played the Completion Backward Principal.
Wonderful story!! ♥️
Talk to ya later , and she’s a beauty are my 2 favorite Tubes songs . Did not know Steve Lukather played on them . But I’m not surprised.
Thanks for this great Fee Waybill nterview! Reaffirming what I thought all along, that Steve Lukather was strongly involved in both songs , most notably “ Talk to ya Later”. If folks didn’t actually see the person on the music video then they just assume they weren’t in it.
I always loved She's a Beauty I never knew that was Luke. Mind blown!
I met Fee and he's really cool . The Tubes were playing in this small club in Lancaster and they were so good that that I was jumping out of my seat during White Punks on DOPE .
@@truescotsman4103 I didn't know either until I heard the story on this. Which is weird because if you said "I'm gonna play this solo you've heard many times, but I want you to tell me what famous guitarist played it in the recording" it would take me 5 secs to say Luke!
Listen closer. He created them.
I Love, 'She's A Beauty'!! I had no idea that was Steve Lukather! But it makes sense! What a brilliant guitarist!🎉💖👏👏👏🔥💯
Completion Backwards Principle is a masterpiece in my view. The remaster sounds amazing.
The Tubes were well ahead of their time. Fee Waybill was a consummate performer with a magnificent huge voice and a hell of a range. They put on a phenomenal show live and were comedic in their execution. David Foster was known as the Hitman. I can understand why. And it's pretty much a given that Steve Lukather wouldn't disappoint.
They shot themself on the foot the moment they rid of Foster! Classic case of band being arrogant with the mentality of “if it didn’t originate from us it’s not us!” Look what happened right Foster left 👎🏾
Love She's a Beauty ... always sounds so fresh, like it just came out.
The best, most accurate, fastest in the studio and most amazing musician and composer of guitar parts... Steve lukather
The first album, with 'What do you want from life' and 'White Punks on Dope', remain my favorite Tubes tunes. GREAT live band too!
Me too .
Bought it when it first came out..Loved it..
"I Was A Punk Before You Were A Punk" was another favorite. I had (and may in fact still have) the live album that had all the hits on it back in the day.
"And a baby's arm holding an apple" is by far my favorite rock lyric of all time.
Their first album is my favorite too. Talk about a band with a sense of humor, Wow...
Once upon a time there was a man named Fee Waybill who married a woman named Fay Weebill. They lived happily together until they were old and way feeble, and that is the end of my wee fable.
😂
To see The Tubes live was an experience in itself!
Those were two amazing albums. The Tubes were at the top of their game.
Fee rocks! Love these stories about these great songs!
I was at the namm show one year and there was a band playing in a plastic tent. I was the only person in the room , me and this band. I walked up to a window at the tent and I was standing behind waybill as he was singing "talk to ya later " and I could not believe it !! I was lucky that day !!
I still remember hearing She’s a beauty for the first time! The high harmonies on the chorus blew me away! As well as Steve’s guitar tone! Perfection!
She's a Beauty is an all time favorite song and hearing the genesis of it was fun. Not surprised that David Foster and Steve Lukather were part of it! Thank you for this interview!
Before I go off and say how amazing Lukather is...Fee is an amazing musician and a wonderful human being. They played a show here on Long Island and I had a close friend bumming in LA.
After the show I met Fee and told him about my friend. He customized what he wrote on my friends Shirt.
I mailed it to him and my friend was lifted. "He said, bro, thank you so much."
I said, "Fee gets it"
Thank you Fee for a great show, but also for making my friends day!
Now, as a guitar player for 40 yrs...
Walsh, EVH, Beck, Metheny... Lukather is a Yoda.
Young, up & coming players need to study Lukather.
Cheers 🍷
I absolutely love the Tubes. Such a great band and i love hearing Fee talk about the good ol days😁
"Remote Control" was The Tubes' high water mark. Best album they ever did. All killer, no filler. I knew of them before that. Really liked their first album, too but RC just blew me away. Still does to this day. It's one of my desert island discs. Todd Rundgren's production was the icing on the cake. That album sounds amazing.
I agree. I saw them with Todd Rundgren back in 85. I was only 14 and it blew my mind
Absolutely!!! Love that LP and Todd
@@ejlhejlh6689 In '78 he played all the instruments and climbed the Pyramid
@@ejlhejlh6689I was there too! Outstanding ~ Never forget it 🌟
Bill champlin and Bobby Kimball we’re an intricate part of she’s a beauty…. Bobby delivers the epic lines “why would I lie” … “ she’s one in a million girls” !!
Oh wow, now I hear it. How did you know?
@@fmbighair A-Ha!!! That makes perfect sense. I wish fee and John had touched on that.
The 'CBP' album got me into the Tubes, but it was 'Outside Inside' that defined the summer of 1983 for me. Two back-to-back juggernaut albums which put the Tubes into the stratosphere in the early 80s along side other (what are known today as) heritage acts that can still draw audiences. It's time for a Tubes box-set, CDs, DVDs and LPs.
If I've done the math right, 22 million streams on Spotify = $88,000 to $110,000. Publisher takes half (unless you own your own, in which case double the final figures), split the cowrite 3 ways, subtract other fees, (no pun intended) and his take is roughly $14,000 to $19,000 before tax. Gotta love the music industry. They adapted perfectly to the new technology and never stopped finding ways to screw the artist.
They recorded those songs 30 years before music downloads
Thx for sharing music math , never knew how it works
I always thought artists make the real $ on your
@@hansumjoe Oh, no! Never! The artists have always made the least on sales (back then) and streams (now). They make the most money on touring.
"Completion Backward Principle" is one of my all-time favorites in my collection. "Amnesia" is literally in my top 5 favorite songs list. That guitar riff in the middle gets me every time I hear it.
Ditto. Also, Mr Hate. For years I never knew it was based on a real life San Fran serial killer.
John Beaudin is the absolute best interviewer out there. He knows just when and where to nudge, every interview is gold! Thank you, John, for being a gift to the legacy of music history… 🙌🏻
Thomas, Thanks so much. I really appreciate that...John
Fee's the best rock performer both vocally and physically and I've seen most of them.
Waybill is an awesome singer !
I live for these great storys
The only band who came to town and organized a pickup softball game with a couple dozen fans. Their female vocalists played in high heels. That, is badass in so many ways!
The first Tubes album was way ahead of its time.Saw them in Harvard sq. 1975 ,one of the greatest spectacles ever.Legendaryshow,to bad Bill Spooner left,he was the real mastermind.Bless them for perseverance.
Completion Backwards Principle was my only Tubes album for many years. I had Love Bomb on vinyl but never played it. One day, I did play it and it really grew on me and now I can honestly say the they are one of my all-time favourite bands. I was blown away by them when they played in a small venue in Manchester, UK in 2017. I cannot wait to see them again.
My favorite by a landslide is Primetime. Beautiful and passionate.
Fabulous piece, Talk to ya Later. Brilliant album.
Have loved this song since I was a kid, just like Luke...didn't realize until recently he was such a part of it. Always wondered the story behind it. Very cool. Even all these years later, it's on my "smile list"...songs I know hearing will pull me out of the dumps. I had a friend that loved it also. Both having the same rare illness bonded us, but this song as well. She passed away recently & think of her every time I hear it now...truly one in a million girl.
Fee may not have been able to convince the girl that inspired it to leave her dark surroundings, but the one writing this really thanks him for helping her break out of hers. 💛
Sorry to hear of your friend, peace.
I am so sorry for the loss of your friend.
Fee is a giant, his hands are huge, and you can really tell in this interview how sweet he is, he's just such a great guy. I have met him a few times at performances, he's always so generous and just hilarious. He's always hoped for a break in the industry that he's just never gotten, that I feel he really deserves. And it's not too late, he looks great and would be a great asset on any film set.
The Tubes are such a cool band.
So sad to hear Fee say he didn't think Love Bomb was a very good album. I believe Love Bomb is one of the greatest albums of all time. It's absolutely genius how they move from one song to another keeping one riff from the previous song...to this day, in my top 5 albums ever written.
That hurts. Love Bomb is one of my favorite albums.
The rest of the band said it was their favorite.
This is why I subscribe to and watch this channel religiously. Such GREAT stories! John you and your team do such great work!
Love hearing about how a song is written ✌🍏
One of my top favorite tunes since it first came out in 1981!,
I could listen to Fee Waybill stories all day.
Great interview. Fee's got some really cool anecdotes, and as Tubes lifer I'm so grateful to hear them!
So funny, you doing this piece, as I have recently had The Tubes on my mind, specifically thinking how much it sounds like Bobby Kimball doing backing vocals on the chorus for She's A Beauty, to the point where I looked up the album credits online, and sure enough found nearly the whole band were guests on that album, Outside Inside. There's just no mistaking that certain something that those guys bring. Always loved that song.
Fee Waybill is an amazing singer. When singing live he always hit every note perfectly. Just a couple weeks ago I saw an episode of Sammy Hagar’s road trip where he was interviewing another musician (I can’t remember who) and they both got to talking about what a great singer Fee is.
It was the one where he interviewed Steve Lukather - rip-roaring jam at the end of the episode: ua-cam.com/video/DdyjipWZT9M/v-deo.html
when you need a hit call lukather🎸
Or David Foster
Great! Interview wow! I enjoy listening to these stories thanks for letting Fee just talk! One regret I have is not seeing them in a small club and meeting Fee in ‘89
One of my best concerts I when to. Every show I've attended I've been totally entertained.
Love this interview ! I remember very well when my band ERTH covered the songs ! They were Challenging and fun to learn!
Fee Waybill is one of the best frontmen ever. Luke is a legend for good reason!
Don’t forget Lukather also played the popping bass line on “Talk to ya later.” He _made_ that song.
Everyone forgets ‘Gonna Get It Next Time’, one of Steve’s finest works.
Fee was so outrageous to me as a kid in the 80's, and it's been a joy to discover him as an artist as an adult. The Tubes were 100% entertainment, not just a record making machine. Social commentary, drama/theatrics, and treating audiences like they had more than 2 brain cells. They have no modern contemporary today to compare them to. Rock music used to be fun, and occasionally funny. I just don't see that in modern pop/rap stuff today, and it's a shame. Anyway, I can listen to Fee talk for hours. Thanks, John!
She’s a beauty was huge on MTV. I don’t own any Tubes music, yet remember those songs despite not hearing them for years. Huge, mega hits
I saw The Tubes, Peter Gabriel and David Bowie summer 1983 in Edmonton outdoors. Met The Tubes a day or two earlier at a record store signing and was awestruck and of course blushing/stammering at the two dancers as they signed my album as I was 15 at the time.
Hey Scott, I was there too. What a show. Did you go to any of the "Rock Circus" shows?....John
@@RockHistoryMusic No maybe tooyoung for that plus I grew upin Nova Scotia...I knew of them though. My first concert ever was The Clash at Kinsmen Fieldhouse.
This is an excellent find for me, a terrific interview, and a great story of the history of some of my favorite songs from "The Tubes", I've been a big fan since the 1970s in Australia. I wish the band had more recognition than it received and had listened to Fee Waybill. Thank you!
Another great interview from you John and a great insight from Fee with everything he spoke about.
Love this cut
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Imo Fee had the most natural singing voice of anyone I've ever heard!!! Truly gifted!!
I got to meet Fee and the rest of the guys when I was working security at a summer concert series. Cool guy had a lot of fun with them after the show. Had to walk him back to the hotel. My dad played their album all the time
Gotta love Fee and always loved Steve Lukather!
Out of the Business is another great song. Is that another SL collaboration? THAT should have been the follow-up single.
Great video. Would love to know the back story on the Tubes Tip Of My Tongue produced by the great Maurice White of Earth Wind & Fire. That is another great track with the Phoenix Horns again from EWF.
I freakin LOVE the Tubes!!
The Tubes & Toto, 2 underrated bands with a ton of great tracks over their histories.
LOVE to hear musicians tell these connecting the dots in music history stories ...
I just heard "She's a Beauty" this afternoon! One of my '80's favorites.
Awesome stuff and interview. Been a fan of Luke since Toto`s first album and all his great session work with George Benson, Bozz skaggs and on and on.
If you start digging into the album credits from the 70s and 80s, it's amazing all the times he shows up.
Love Fee, just the coolest guy ever.
Fee and Luke are two of my favorite humans ever. Thanks for this.
Fee's description of how he, David Foster and Steve Lukather banged out The Tubes two biggest hits in minutes, to the chagrin of the rest of the band, is a great microcosm of the session players world in general. It reminds me of the story of The Byrds first two albums. The Wrecking Crew got the album cut of Mr Tamborine Man in 3-4 takes which allowed them to complete several other songs from that album on the same day. On the subsequent album, the members of The Byrds insisted that they play on all of the tracks. This resulted in the band requiring 77 takes over two weeks, just to get the final cut of the song Turn, Turn, Turn 😉
Inside Outside. Love it
Love the Completion Backward Principle! Talk to you Later is my favorite song off that album!
Outside Inside is one of my favorite albums.
I played trumpet in a band called Torch -n- the Bones. Lead singer was Carl Christ who sang lead for an 80s band in Central California called The Med Flies .(huge in the Santa Cruz and Monterey bay areas).
Anyhow, we had 1 guitar player who played everything, lead and rhythm. His name is Dale Kurakawa. Dale got to tour with The Tubes for a couple years. Dale was able to get our band The Bones, mentioned above, to open for The Tubes!!! And get this, we played at the all famous Catalyst in Santa Cruz! They were amazing The Tubes were and it was such a great time and honor to meet them.
Even though I played professionally for 20yrs, that was the highlight of my career.
Brilliant interview. That’s how you interview someone. Really enjoyed that. Thanks very much.
Wow. That answered one of those mysteries you can have in your life. Every once in a while you come across an awesome song or two by a group and think "Great! I'll check out their other stuff." only to find you don't like anything else. The Tubes were that way for me. She's A Beauty and Talk To Ya Later are undeniably awesome songs. Thanks for those anyway.
Fee is a Legend
Fee is/was killer... he had that cool "IT" factor with his vocals, lyrics, attitude. A perfect trio with him, Luke and Foster. Thanks for this interview!
Hahaha fabulous! Love THE TUBES, THEY ROCKED OUT!
Hello Fee Waybill - Met you briefly when you played Ft Myers Fl - When John Wetton and Asia played at Germain Arena - and several band members stayed here overnight and flew out the next day !
R.I.P. John - Great Show with all of the Guest singers like from Kansas and Cheap Trick
Man I love the Tubes, great interview ! These 2 songs are regulars on my Spotify.
To me the two Rundgren produced albums are the Tubes best. Love Bomb is great.
Saw The Tubes in 1980. Crazy show!
Incredible story, love this!
I absolutely love the music video for She's a Beauty... I used to see it all the time on MTV when I was a little kid. I also discovered the song "Out of Control" from the Heavenly Bodies OST. That song is so freaking good.
What did you think of the mermaid scene at bridge of song?
Vince Welnick the last keyboard player for the Grateful Dead. May he rest in peace (~);}!!
Ya, and he sucked. Didn’t hold a candle to Brent. He was a crybaby too. Whined about never being accepted as a true member of the band. Then he killed himself. Zero respect for the suiciders.
RIP Vince, Re Styles, and now Rick Anderson.
It’s these kind of stories that make Fee and The Tubes true Rock legends. I had a rough idea of what She’s a Beauty was all about due to its lyrical content but to hear it directly from Fee makes it even more special 👍🏾
Wait Luke was in those songs too????? Wow he just keeps amazing me! Always loved him and now he's even more impressive as if that was impossible!!!
The tubes are the ones that are underrated - first xxx band that I can recall
You learn something everyday. Somedays, that which you learn is so awesome and cool that it will make your day. This is one such day. Great stuff
Had both of those albums as they came out. Still sound great decades later.
Love Bomb is a GREAT album. The second side kills!!
Of course he knows what a Hoser is, one of the best SCTV episodes ever when they appeared on Gill Fisher's Fishing Musician.
Fishin!!! Wooo!
Sushi Girl! Woooo!
And I don't think they "blowed up real good"!
I met Fee Waybill and Bill Spooner, as they were pounding on the back door to get into the Hult center in Eugene Oregon for someone to let them in before their concert in July 1983 on the outside inside tour, ran up to him and told him I just saw his concert the night before in Portland, and I was seeing them again the following night in Eugene he reluctantly shook my hand, then resumed pounding on the door as a crowd began to gather
great stories. thank you.
Great interview I was lucky enough to see them at the Celebrity Theater back in the day
Thanks, John.
Always thought the tubes were ok , but after this classic letterman show i think theyre awesome !
Got to say that Fee seems to be one of the most unpretentious, genuine nice guys in the biz.
Used to play golf with Rick and the rest of the band were buddies of my roommate Pat Campbellback in the 80's.... Great guys, great band.
Really a good interview. The Tubes where a hot live act back in the day. It has got to be hard to sit back and not be a part of the creative process and creation of your own bands albums. Unfortunately, hindsight is 20/20 as they say. Where are the tubes today.
Yes Steve Lukather is a musical universe all his own. What a beast.
I really like The Tubes album You & Rich.
Thought it was great
Steve is a master's master musician.