The Tubes - Full Concert - 05/26/74 - Winterland (OFFICIAL)
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- The Tubes - Full Concert
Recorded Live: 5/26/1974 - Winterland (San Francisco, CA)
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Setlist:
0:00:00 - Up From The Deep
0:09:33 - Lunch Face
0:13:09 - Wonderbread Bodies
0:20:05 - The Hip Dip
0:23:08 - Crime Medley
0:26:22 - Town Without Pity
0:29:28 - Mondo Bondage
0:34:10 - Brighter Day
0:39:38 - Bitch / I'm Waiting For The Man / Stand Up And Shout
0:45:45 - Never Amount To Nothing
0:52:52 - White Punks On Dope
Personnel:
Rick Anderson - bass
Michael Cotten - synthesizers
Prairie Prince - drums
Bill Spooner - guitar, vocals
Roger Steen - guitar, vocals
Re Styles - vocals
Fee Waybill - lead vocals
Vince Welnick - keyboards
Summary:
A wild mix of progressive rock theater, multimedia, and scathing social criticism of America's television culture, the Tubes were unquestionably one of the most outrageous groups to surface in the Bay Area. As their name suggests, the Tubes based their performances on the surreal, alternate reality of television in which anything could happen and nothing was off limits. Most of the band's members had spent time in art school and this had a profound effect on their approach to music, which contained extravagant theatrics, including video screens, naked women, motorcycles, dancers, and even chainsaws! After working continuously around San Francisco in the early-1970s, turning many a head in the process, they began expanding their reach to several high profile clubs in Los Angeles, like the Roxy and the Whiskey A Go Go, where they soon became media darlings, soon signing a recording contract with A&M Records.
This Winterland performance from May of 1974 captures the band prior to their first album, opening a bill for headliners Journey and the Mahavishnu Orchestra. While a thoroughly engaging performance and one long time fans are sure to treasure, it also reveals the Tubes' greatest dilemma-how to translate their highly visual stage show to an entirely audio experience. Still, the soundtrack to their bizarre stage show clearly comes across in this performance, despite an abundance of booing from an audience unprepared for the band's onslaught. The strength of front man Fee Waybil's many characters, including Mondo Bondage Fee and Quay Lewd Fee, which both make appearances here, comes across surprisingly well in this context. The often hilarious and sarcastic onstage banter prefacing many of the songs helps to put much of this material in context.
The show kicks off in fine form with an early extended version of "Up From The Deep," featuring impressive musicianship, particularly from guitarist Roger Steen and drummer Prairie Prince, who is truly outstanding throughout this exuberant performance. The Tubes continue with the stimulating sequence of "Lunch Face" and "Wonderbread Bodies" before barreling their way through the "Crime Medley" and eventually into "Mondo Bondage." So much transpires here that it defies description. "Brighter Day," with its infectious James Brown-style guitar riffs, displays a deep funky groove that is undeniable. Following these, Waybil transforms into Quay Lewd for an amusing and swirling blend of the Rolling Stones' "Bitch" segueing directly into the Velvet Underground's "Waiting For The Man" and finally "Stand Up And Shout."
The set builds to a final frenzy with the scathing generation gap commentary of "You'll Never Amount To Nothing," followed by "Love Her Like A Man," a power pop rarity unavailable on their albums. The set concludes with the Tubes taking dead aim at the excessive behavior of their rich, white teenage fan base with the anthem "White Punks On Dope." As Winterland stage manager and master of ceremonies, Jerry Pompili, so eloquently states during his outro announcement, "San Francisco's own Theater Of The Absurd-the Tubes."
Mary Ann, the Professor & Ginger sing back up on WPOD. I love it!
Seeing and meeting the tubes at the soiled dove in Denver was so sick fee waybill had to leave the stage because of lack of oxygen so while he was gone the band did a killer version of frank Zappa trouble coming every day awesome
I would have loved to see this at Winterland , best venue in the S F bay area . I was 13 and couldn't get a ride . Saw the Grateful Dead many time before the shut the doors . You could always get a ride to a Dead show . Tubes were punk rock to me , more please
A fantastic and totally original band from the start!
I love how you can watch live Tubes concerts across 74-79 and see so much about a live music scene that evolved before I was born in a place half a continent away. There’s plenty of material to chart east coast punk developments in that period, but only The Tubes really span the breadth of weird-Cali music and end up at a bizarre fusion of AOR and Zappa by the end of it. The musical literacy is amazing. It makes total sense to see them cover Town Without Pity, but you need a wholistic sense of the entire scene to tell why the dramatic expression in that song appeals to him.
I was at that concert!! I have been looking all over the internet for the Tubes opening up for Mahavishnu Orchestra at Winterland. I don't think I knew who Journey was either, and I honestly don't remember their performance. I was only 16 then and I was a junior in high school. Of course there was weed, acid and liquour involved!
The reason for the lackluster introduction and reception, was that almost everyone was there to see Mahavishnu Orchestra. It was a very odd pairing particularly with the singer l wearing these crazy bondage outfits and insane platform shoes. Years later I heard White Punks On Dope and I actually liked it. I am sure the Tubes fans left when MO started.
Thing that I will never forget is that they had a buffet table on stage with food on it. It starts about ten minutes in to the video, but it's really hard to see. And I am not sure of the band member, but his head popped out of a bowl of salad and he was chewing it like crazy and acting bizarre. Then (about 16 mins in) he started throwing bread, meat, vegetables and fruit out in the audience. I am assuming that the people in front of the stage were fans. The audience started pelting the band with the food they threw out. They were getting hit pretty hard. Then you hear the singer say "we could leave but we're not going to" and then he flipped off the crowd. That was the point they were getting booed.
John McLaughlin ( guitar) and Jean Luc Ponty (electric violin) put on an impressive duel. I went to a LOT of concerts in the 70's and Mahavishnu Orchestra's performance was my all time favorite. I doubt there is footage of their performance but I will keep looking.
Yeah, I was also at this concert. I had just turned 15. I just remember that the Tubes sucked, people were throwing the bread back at the band, Journey was cool and Mahavishnu kicked all of their collective asses. It was the 2nd Mahavishnu which a lot of people weren't expecting since the first band broke up (unfortunately). I was back in the balcony during the Tubes, but went up front of the stage during the later half. I was already a VERY experienced concert goer by that time and WInterland, Berkeley Community Theater, and Great American Music Hall were my three hangouts during the majority of the 70's as all of the best fusion bands would frequently play at those three venues.
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What a fantastic version of "Brighter Day" .
Love the way Prairie fills up the lead part with kick drum.
This is Fing great to see!! Would loved to have seen them at this time,but did not see them until a few years later.Prairie Princes Zickos drums Sound fantastic on this.My all time favorite drummer!!!!
So awesome you posted this. I'm familiar from these tracks from bootlegs, but did not realize Spooner was lead guitar and Steen rhythm back then (it seems).
Jeff Nicholson Oops, only for the first half of the set, then Steen takes over on lead.
"Wonder Bread Bodies" lampoons silicone breast implants. I didn't live on the West Coast but apparently this was already trending there even then.
The "Lunch Face" litany is zany, no doubt, but the later "What Do You Want" is a tour de force. What imagination! Tubs continued to push against the boundaries until....
Is there a studio version of The Hip Dip? Great track!
It can be found on "Dawn of The Tubes" available from Amazon.
What an underwhelming introduction to such a highly dramatic band.
Love the intro. They should have ate in the car.
Hmm, seems like the Tubes are an acquired taste.
a cheap kodak 8mm film movie camera would have been better than this crappy video tape camera
I love The Tubes, but that version of Mondo Bondage is awful. Like cheesy bad Zappa, and boy... augh.