The Tubes - Don't Touch Me There / Mondo Bondage - 12/28/1978 - Winterland (Official)
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- Опубліковано 24 сер 2024
- The Tubes - Don't Touch Me There / Mondo Bondage
Recorded Live: 12/28/1978 - Winterland - San Francisco, CA
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Personnel:
Rick Anderson - bass, vocals
Michael Cotten - synthesizers
Mingo Lewis - percussion, vocals
Prairie Prince - drums
Bill Spooner - guitar, vocals
Roger Steen - guitar, vocals
Re Styles - vocals
Fee Waybill - vocals
Vince Welnick - keyboards
Guest: Aynsley Dunbar - drums
Guest: Dick Bright - guitar, vocals on tracks 8 & 9
Summary:
Dust off your imagination and buckle the fuck up-the Tubes are gonna pump the weirdness directly into your face whether you like it or not. With this cavalcade of characters, prepare for everything you've ever known to be obliterated, new wave-style.
If Frank Zappa directed community theatre, he may have come up with something as outrageous as the Tubes' thrift store satire. Ridiculous costumes, elaborate choreography, and a band capable of mastering and skewering any genre of popular music made this revue the premier live spectacle of the mid-to-late 1970s. Naturally, these antics proved nearly impossible to capture in the studio, but their on-stage reputation makes it difficult to deny their significance, then or now.
Captured here during an incredible series of concerts leading up to the close of the Winterland in '78, the Tubes play like the building is being demolished around them that very night. A warm introduction from Bill Graham precedes opening favorite "What Do You Want from Life," which quickly dissolves into a late night info-mercial routine. From there, the band wastes no time featuring material from their then-forthcoming, Todd Rundgren-produced concept record, Remote Control, while still making enough room for crowd-pleasers like "Mondo Bondage" and "White Punks On Dope."
1979 would prove to be a tumultuous year, even for a group so well versed in chaos as the Tubes. Upon its release, Remote Control continued a commercially disappointing trend and the band was dropped from their label. Though they would sign a new deal and enjoy the greatest success of their career in the coming decade, the close of the '70s was a time undoubtedly fraught with uncertainty for Fee and his cohorts. But here they are, at the threshold of the unknown, as a bleak era wanes, fearlessly doing what they do best.
You only get one first time, and mine was the Tubes. God bless rock and roll.
If you’ve never seen The Tubes live then you’ve missed one of the most under rated bands on the planet. They are a very talented theatrical mock shock rock band that started in the mid 70’s. I first saw them around that time & have gone to every show they’ve played in the NY area since. Fee is pushing 70 and his voice is still amazing. The drummer, Prarie Prince, used to play with Alice Cooper & sits in with Todd Rundgren when needed. Go see The Tubes.....you won’t be disappointed, promise!!
Debut album came out in 75.
Fee and I are the same age. I was fortunate to have seen the Tubes perform their second and third shows at the old Agora Theater in Atlanta back in '76. It was simply a mesmerizing show that no one in rock music had ever seen before. The band was tighter than a steel wire around a cable. Guitarists Bill Spooner and Roger Steen were the driving forces but Michael Cotton's synthesizer was relatively new on stage. Of course, holding it all together was the driving beat of drummer Prairie Prince. To this day I don't think I've ever seen faster hands. Phenomenal drumming. Then, there was the artistic, theatrical Fee Waybill. When he came out on those incredibly high shoes to perform "White Punks on Dope", he must have been way over 7' tall. The man was born to perform. He held the audience's attention from the first note to the last. The choreography was designed by a young man who I bought a drink and later treated to an early morning breakfast. . . Kenny Ortega. The was a SF band. Talented beyond words. It was a magical time. The Tubes should have been way more popular. They were far ahead of their time.
Everybody talks about the theatrics that the music was pretty damn good. Prairie on Drums, Vince Welnick on keyboards, Sputnik Sponer and Roger Steen on guitars. Great musicians
Don't even think about it! oooohhhh NO NO NO! Man! That was FANTASTIC!
Watch this one every Valentine's Day!
Seen the Tubes in Dallas TX in 1975 I was 15 yrs old it fucking changed my life
RIP Re Styles 4/23/22
No fucking way! Shit.
Who were the 3 prudes that gave the thumbs down. This ain't She's a beauty! 😏
This is cool, I was there that night
Jere Copeland I was as well!
Man this is Great!!!
Fee and RE !!!!😁
Come on everyone,, sing along!!!!💋💗😎
Same here, in Vancouver I was 17 and I was never the same. Fee ruined me for other men. Figuratively that is.
I was backstage utility crew- had no idea who these artists were. Andrews Amphitheatre, UnIversity of Hawaa Manoa.
Wow!!
...touch me here
Ilove your salty taste.
Get the Truth Contest...wait, screw that, do this instead.