The Tubes Singer Fee Waybill on Their Classic Hit 'Talk to Ya Later'
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- Опубліковано 23 сер 2024
- The Tubes rode the top of the charts for years with classic hits like “Talk to Ya Later,” “She’s a Beauty,” and “White Punks on Dope.”
The band has been riding a resurgence of popularity, and its classic 1981 album has been re-issued in an edition called "The Completion Backward Principle (180 Gram Translucent Blue Vinyl/Limited Anniversary Edition/Gatefold Cover)."
The band was touring up until the recent quarantine.
Just before the COVID-19 pandemic hit the U.S., "Extra" Senior Music Correspondent Adam Weissler sat down with legendary Tubes frontman Fee Waybill to talk about the classic album, touring, and creating the MTV hit “Talk to Ya Later” with famed producer David Foster.
I always consider them a 70's Art/Performance Band. They were soo creative and the live shows were absolute spectacles on many levels.
He was right about "Talk To Ya Later"- the first time I heard it, it blew me away. It should have been a massive hit.
Aye me too mate. It slapped me
On the face when it kicked into that bridge.
I grew up in Kansas City and it didn't get any airplay at all. I heard it on a station out of Lawrence, Kansas. The reception was horrible, but I would listen because they played a lot of stuff like this. I actually recorded this off the radio with a patch kit my cousin made for me. I still really dig this song today, and since I have become such a huge Steve Lukather fan, that is a bonus
It was a massive hit as far as I'm concerned. Got airplay in Cleveland for a decade.
The guitar playing on it is " nuts"
@@mikespaccarelli5282Steve Lukather is the guitarist on that song, he's on a million tunes!
“Talk To Ya Later” was one of those early MTV videos when I was a little kid that just blew me away. I absolutely still adore the aesthetic of it.
One of my all time fav 80's tracks. Luke's solo set my soul on fire. Gives me chills to this day.
Some forget just how great the musicianship of this band was.
The "Completion backward principle" is one of the best records I ever owned, every track was just so great to listen to, now I know why. Love the Tubes!
Definitive in my life experience.
I saw The Completion Backwards Principle Tour in the Fall 1981. It was an excellent and fantastically entertaining show. A lot of stuff going on onstage, oftentimes hilarious, and the band was very tight.
"If you can possibly manage the time..." The Completion Backward Principle is a big part of my life. The Tubes are def one of the top rock bands of all time. Absolutely love them. Fee hit a wiffle ball dead center at the first row mezzanine in Cleveland, right in my GF's face, for Sports Fans. I deflected it but was too wasted to catch it. I'm Butterfingers. Fee would possibly remember this.
What a brilliant showman, writer, lead singer....
And actor.
I'm a Brit, but have always loved this band. Saw them just the once, wish it had seen more!
I so wish they'd been bigger here. White Punks was a top 30 hit but that's it sadly
Nice interview! I enjoyed watching. I saw three Tubes shows in a row back in in 2011. I met Fee at the second show and got to chat with him a bit. At the third show, I was standing in line with many other people. I saw Fee in the distance talking to someone. He looked over, saw me and gave me the friendly smile and "nod" because he remembered who I was. That was such an awesome moment. Especially because I was alone and didn't know anyone, but I knew Fee!
What a kind, and gentle man. Nothing like what I thought he be like from the old videos from MTV days. Happy for him, and his troupe.
I'm quite certain you didn't mean "genital". Or hey, maybe you did.
@@moon0halo thanks for the spell check my subconscious was over working that day
I met him twice & I can attest that he is like this to every fan. Very sweet & very personable to every fan he meets. Wonderful rockstar & wonderful gentleman!
David Foster asked Luke to write a rock song for the Tubes. He created Talk to you later and also played on it. The guitar work is amazing on that track!! He also was responsible for She's a Beauty!! David Foster's way of helping The Tubes was Steve Lukather!!!!
The Tubes became Toto featuring Fee Waybill, his solo album Read My Lips was Toto with Fee singing, some of the best shit they ever did was on that solo disc.
@@Ezoangelofdeath One way to see it. But his ways of directing it would bring massive tension into the band.
Thank you. So tired of hearing how wonderful the Tubes are. It was all Lukather.
These guys were soooo underrated, their music was so catchy and made you want to sing along with them, I love their music!
The first time I heard 'Talk to You Later' was on MTV, way back in early 80's. So I listened to it a few days ago - and it still kicks ass. Now it's stuck in my head, and I need to have it on repeat. I guess I am paying my dues for not listening to it in 40 years!
Still one of my favorite human beings. Terrific interview.
He's about as engaging an interview as you'll find. Super cool guy.
Talk to ya Later got to be top 10 rock songs
I love The Tubes, I saw them 5 times, luckily I saw them in January before the quarantine.
Dude aged pretty damned good.
I met Fee Waybill for a couple minutes at an autograph signing session after a Tubes show and got to say hello and shake his hand. I was a little starstruck... it was really cool! I always thought it was awesome that he didn’t really fit the visual stereotype of a rock band singer but nonetheless was an awesome pop/rock singer!
Great songs, great band, love this stuff! Go, Fee!!!!
" uncle Fee"
These guys and girls are amazing. Guitar work-vocal work great visuals. I’m an old musician they are one of the best band’s ever.
What a great artist and an excellent teller... he is one of a kind.
Would love to have seen the band during their mid-and-late 70s heyday. But I was born a bit too late for that and lived in a small market. But I've been a die-hard fan since I started buying records in the late 70s and have road-tripped to see these guys every chance I could (San Juan Capistrano, Nashville, and Atlantic City). And I'm pretty sure I've listened to Fee's first solo album about 100 times.
Could listen to Fee all day. Talk to me now!
EXTENDED VERSION PLEASE ❤️🙏🏼🙌🏼
the tubes shoulda been huge!! loved 'em!!!
Love this band.
Nice work Adam. What a great performer Fee Waybill is and was! Many shows at the Catalyst in Santa Cruz back in the day.
i once passed a joint to fee at the automat during the making of complete backwards principle.great band
Lukather/Foster/Waybill/Prince also recorded She's A Beauty by themselves as well.
Never met Fee, seems like a lovely guy … CBP is a killer album, it really set the bar super high for a pop-rock band: easily one of the best albums from the 80s
Good interview. great band.
My good friend Nancy's bro Vince plays the keys for these guys and "talk to you later"was my 8th grade grad tune Good to hear they're back!!!...... Robby M.
Good to see Fee in good shape.
Fee is an amazing guy.
I love "Talk To Ya Later", "She's A Beauty" and "No Not Again". I worked as a DJ on a radio station that played a mix of 70s, 80s and 90s. During my air show I made sure to slip these songs in nightly. Some nights they found their way into the mix more than once. Lol I'm happy to say that I introduced many of our listeners to The Tubes who might have not otherwise heard them. People started to call and request The Tubes after some time. ROCK ON FEE AND CO.!!!
My fave from them was " she's a beauty"! Love that song
Legend
That’s proper friendship, it’s like meeting an old friend who you haven’t seen for years and you just carry on the conversation where it left off.
I smoked a joint with Bill Spooner and Vince Welnick,1988,The Channel, Boston
FEE, I'm just guessing here, but was it your B-day suit Sports Fan video that made the record companies not take the band seriously, ie was it the Burt Reynolds syndrome? If it was, all I can say is that is the greatest video on the planet... you have not one ounce of shame. It's awesome!!!
Crazy part for me is that Remote Control is The Tubes at their best, edgy, energetic, creative, and doesn’t have that polished Foster finish. Which is why it’s so good.
He is so well aged, he’s in his early 70’s. He’s built like he’s carved out of wood. He seems like a decent man too
Funny how TTYL is one of the most texted acronyms ever!
All these years I thought his name was Thee!! ......I loved their zany music....Talk to you later a great song......He's a hell of an entertainer....
The first 7 Albums - loved them all, then the bomb hit.....
Waybill/Lukather/Foster wrote She's a Beauty fast too!
Quality never goes out of style
Long live Uncle Fee!!!
The BWCP album needs a serious full-on box set for 2023. DVD backstage footage, concerts, outtakes, demos and songs never included.
David Foster HAD done a rock and roll album before The Tubes, he did From the Inside by Alice Cooper three
years before The Completion Backward Principle by the Tubes.
U can hear the Toto in the song brought in by Luke
I love this song, loved the album it came from, but seriously: if someone had woken me up in the middle of the night to force-listen it, someone probably would have been shot.
David Foster makes my stomach feel sick and my butt leak
Is Fee related to Fred Schneider (B52's)?
Jesus H. Steve Lukather is the Forrest Gump of the 80’s.
I had a chick like that.Moved into my place 6 months and never shut up once