The Tubes 1978 Documentary
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- Опубліковано 24 сер 2024
- The Tubes are featured in this documentary performing in NYC and rehearsing for their second European tour. It was cancelled after Fee Waybill broke his leg running off stage. The Tubes returned to Europe in the fall and headlined the Knebworth rock festival with Frank Zappa.
This footage includes a performance of "Smash the System" aka Terrorist of Rock" which was rewritten for Remote Control as "Telecide." Other songs included are "Boy Crazy" "What Do You Want from Life?" "Slipped my Disco", "Smoke" and "White Punks on Dope."
Singer/Dancer Re Styles is featured in the footage as well. The kid getting beat up is Tubes stuntman, Michael Springer. He was also beat up during "I Was Punk Before You Were a Punk" nightly as a fake crowd member. Kenny Ortega is seen as well recording a video with Michael Cotten and working out the dancer's routine for "Slipped my Disco." Bill Spooner gets laughs during his intro for the song, claiming the Bee Gees ripped them off. Classic Tubes!
Audio is one channel only.
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I saw this show when it came to RI in support of their Lie Album. I was utterly unprepared for what I was about to see. I'e seen literally hundreds of concerts in my 50 years but this one stands out as the most entertaining performance of all. Further, its just wasnt the over-the-top theatrics that was amazing but also the phenomenal skill these musicians had. Unforgettable.
These commenters here are correct. The Tubes were criminally underrated in their day and deserve recognition today.
One of the best bands ever….
Their show in Stockholm, Sweden 77-78 is a memory for life. Thanks to you all, ❤️
Seen this band in 75 Santa Cruz civic Some of the best performers I've ever seen in my life Truly artist
What an amazing piece! I would have done anything to see the Tubes live at this point in time. By the first time I was old enough to see them in '81, they'd calmed the stage show down quite a bit. How unfortunate that so much of the world just never got it. The Tubes are easily one of the most overlooked and underappreciated bands in rock history. They continue to kick ass to this day. Long live the Tubes.
We need more bands like this today.
Best band ever to combine music and theater
If they had made this into a Broadway show it would still be running to this day!
Mark Tarr That is really a great idea!
@@martyc2637 Tommy got to Broadway, why not Remote Control?
After missing them several times over a 30 year period, I finally got to witness The Tubes this summer... they were everything I hoped they would be and more. Like no other band before, or since.
What you saw was the Fee Waybil band, When Spooner left the band died
@@mrhoney2783 Go bore someone else lad.
@@leftpastsaturn67 He is the missing piece for sure.
And here we are in 2022 and the shits all coming back
So true.
Fee Waybill what a nutter! Brilliant group.
Amazing band and great guys to boot! Loved meeting Fee and talking baseball few years ago. I have seen them numerous times and the show is always great
The tubes are an intelligent band. I love them. Reminds me of Devo
According to Hoyle, EASILY thee most underrated Rock & Roll band ever. Think about it. WHat could the TUBES not play? If as some blow hards say, the material produced by Rndgren was their worst? (which is bullshit) then I'd be proud to have been in this band. They didn't become millionaires but they have a LEZGION of fans some like me followed then from the beginning. Definitely one of my favorites and after seeing them more than 15 times from 78/79 until 1987, they never ONCE disappointed. Talk about secret weapons? Two words VINCE WELNIK.Prarie Prince, Spooner, shit, everyone. So glad to have lived in this age.
Remote Control was the best album, my favorite for sure.
I Played the "LIVE ALBUM" until the grooves were worn out. I lost all of my albums in a fire a few years ago.
I heard the first album in 1976 and loved it. I then went to the Hammersmith Odeon for their very first gig in London not even realising they did a stage show. Oh my God! They remain the greatest act I've ever seen live and I've seen pretty much all the big ones since the early 1970's
The "What do you want from...Live" album remains to this day the best live album I've ever heard ! Never had a chance to see them, but they were the most exciting rock band that ever existed on this planet, for me at least ! Both on records and apparently on stage ! Funny fact, I discovered them as I was spending a year in England, and was eager to share this group with my friends, and when I came home in Geneva, saw plenty of posters in the streets, just to discover they had played there...the week before ! Aaaarghhh !
@@MrZimpoppel Having seen the gig where it was recorded i have to tell you the Quay Lude section was heavily censored on the album.
I read about them in a danish (i'm from a tiny scandinavian country) rock anthology book, and found them fascinating, like The Residents, Devo, Zappa, and Beefheart.
I checked their early records out through the danish Library system, and found that I loved them.
Still do.
Great american satirical music. Big talents. Fantastic playing, singing arranging and producing.
Super duper records man!...
Gotta love it!
Saw the Tubes in Edinburgh 79,remote control,amazing. It's a gig I will never forget WOW Marky Shaw
From myself and Meowy Six ,Sorry about the news about Re Styles a true entertainer and part of The Tubes. RIP Re 1950-2022..
We recently lost another Tubes member. RIP Rick 1947 - 2022..
ive seen the tubes counless times in the early seventies, they were some of the funest shows. great shows every time
This amazing band. Really the most unique and versatile of the 1970’s bands, remodeled for the 1980’s. Still touring.
My sister was married to Rick Anderson’s brother. I thought Rick was a genius on bass!
They belong in the R&R HOF.
It is amazing they have been around for over 40 years. I remember hearing WPOD in the early 70's and just blown away.
You've won a free vacation in harm's way. 🤣
What else could you want from life!!
Saw them in Phoenix around this time...This doc. doesn't even begin to give a taste of what seeing a Tubes show was like at their peak....ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE!!!!
Living in the Bay Area, I got to see them at Winterland, Bimbo's 365, the Paramount in Oakland (front row, center), and many other venue's. Each time I saw them they changed their show, Prarie Prince is an earthshaking drummer. It's unfortunate that a lot of people did not get their tongue in cheek humor. They are still rocking hard. Check out their schedule at tubes.com for a performance near you. Can you tell I'm their number one fan?
To smart for America
This is the tubes I know and love!When everyone else was just learning who they were with talk to ya later,I was like man the tubes have been around a long time,and they used to be totally crazy man,just off the wall.It was a stage show like no other!God bless them for being so crazy and different.It literally shaped who I became in life and the way I lived it.
...."...wir wuchsen auf inmitten von Nirgendwo, draußen doublehot, und wir glotzten 15 Jahre lang den ganzen Tag TV - das lässt dich verrückt werden...."
Besser kann man den Ursprung des Punk-Rock/Twisted Theatre, kaum erklären... Great gUys!
They were the first band I ever saw live, in London on their Remote Control tour in the late 70's, supported by Squeeze. Superb concert and they were amazing. I totally agree with garielaigle, one of the most under rated rock bands ever. Excellent musicians and brilliant live. I'll never forget that show. Re Styles was one of the most gorgeous women I had ever seen, mind you I was only 13!
Me too.
These were enormously fun concerts, I got to work on a few of them.
The Tubes and April Wine was my first concert in 1978 ish. Blew my 12 year old mind. Lol
I saw them in 1981 and I’m going to their show tonight!! They rock!!
remember watching this in 1978 and taping the audio on a little cassette recorder. Can't believe i'm watching it 33 years later!
Fantastic job on the documentary! Hat's off to Thetubesproject!!!! My favorite band of all time. Prairie is the best drummer ever with his "off beat" style. They are all great musicians. I like the insane view of the world, or the view of the insane world I should say. Makes the world an easier place to live, with a little help from The Tubes!!!
So much for all the kids playing out on the street, back in the day. Many kids were under a set of rabbit ears.
They still play shows and they're fantastic. If you've never seen them live, there is still time. They will be in Scottsdale this month playing at talking stick resort.
And great they were!
Clydeslope I didn't realize until tonight that it was The Tubes who play that killer song in that Chevy Chase movie "Modern Problems". Ha! I always loved that movie & that song when I was a kid!!
Genius at work!
I would have loved to have seen these guys live. I have literally just gotten into these cats. They were top notch musicians and better than most at that time to my ears.
Way ahead of their time. Still relevant today.
You still can and they're still fantastic. Long live The Tubes.
@@YesOkayButWhy: I will always love The Tubes, but unfortunately Fee’s voice doesn’t have near the power it did in the 70s and 80s. I do wish I saw them do the entire Completion Backwards Principle album live. That would have been cool!
@@b-radg916 50 years past and your voice cannot do the same things, no slight on Fee.
@@rickstalentedtongue910: Yeah, I wasn’t trying to slight Fee, but it is 50 years in, and the person I was replying to was telling the OP that they’re still fantastic. I was just trying to help set expectations.
3.37 RIP VINCE
All I ever knew were the hits, until I discovered their 1975 debut. An underrated classic. If you like artsy prog-rock it's really an undiscovered gem. There's all the Zappa and Genesis comparisons, but early Tubes actually reminds me of early Styx or Queen, hard rock bands trying to find their way; rock harmonies combined with mini interludes and pastiches of sound
A truly unique band.
This is gold! Tubes rocked back then! A lot of peeps didn't understand them,but I did !
Love me some Tubes. Actually fed Fee and the girls some sushi during you know what song at the Santa Barbara Bowl in the early eighties. Yep pretty much elbows on the stage back in them days. Shout out to my man Prairie Prince, big influence.
i was@ Berklee College of Music when i saw "What do you want from Live" advertised and i thought theywere a punk band. i had my head (my only house) handed to me on a silver platter a year later when a friend said " i cant believe yr into Zappa and Beefheart and you havent heard these guys. they're the greatest band in THE WORLD. yeah. then Remote Control came out w/ TODD producing and i saw them@ Wollman Rink Central Pk. NYC and TODD came out for the ENCORE! gotta buy me some new underwear...SLIPPED MY DISCO, BOY
I remember, as a kid, recording this show from the TV using my little cassette machine and a microphone attached to the TV speaker. So glad it's now on UA-cam! Way ahead of their time. !!!!
wow! totally wild! they were so far ahead of their time!
A wonderful, amazing band....thank u!
I was at Knebworth and to this day, it's the most amazing live show I've ever seen.
Just to awesome to believe if you weren't there it's beyond explanation.
I think i have a new favorite band...
This was one of my Tubes Favs. Strange, because I was non-smoker. Fee still had a great voice.
brilliant
I am so happy that I googled "She's a beauty". I wish that I could've seen these shows. I would've followed them everywhere begging to be a roadie or merch girl.
Saw then the first time 75-76 (not sure which) International center Toronto... blew me away
Then in spring 1978 I was working with their opening act at Maple leaf garden Toronto. Got to see the organized chaos backstage ..what a system ... costume changes ...props.... flawless.
sometime around early 80's they were in a bar outside toronto .. good show (no Waybill)
Really great guys ... no Big star BS ... just great guys every time I met them.
it was the unending sound of Bee Gees plus Abba & Boney M which got my 14 yr old bored stiff brain to optimistically tune once more up the AM scale on the hand-me-down radio from stepmum. this time i heard an advert for Asda in Havant which is a town only 40 miles by road & unusual cos we hadn’t commercial radio in our district which was followed by White Punks live version, Do Anything You Wanna Do & Solsbury Hill. I’d never heard any of these on the regular BBC Top 20 & thank the gods that Portsmouth just 22 miles by Crow now had its own station which based its Top40 on sales in 4 record stores in the city & Radio Victory with its authentic presenters loved alternative type stuff & i wouldn’t look back .the mid 1980s took their toll once Victory lost the franchise & generic shite became the norm in our area. Great Band 😁👍🐢
Tubes baby! Fee and company...this is '78! 45 yrs later! They were telling us how junk culture was killing us...makes great art!
What a great band,I saw them in '76 @the Orpheum in Boston.Two hits of orange sunshine-wow-what a mind opening experience.Ranks as one of the best concerts I ever went to.Saw them about 16 months ago and they still rock out.WPOD.
I saw on their "What Do You Want From Live" tour and they were awesome-that was the peak of their insanity. I also saw them on their "Remote Control" tour, which was great but not as crazy. The Tubes are touring again!
I first heard the Tubes on the radio around 1980 playing "White Punks" I fell for it right away ran out and bought that album, possibly because of the era, and the title of the song - I also was under the impression they were a west coast punk band but, they are definitely a Rock and Roll band and one of the best....White punks is one of my favourite R&R tunes of ALL time. I listen to it regularly even after 30 freaking years!!! Crank it up to get me up in the morning!
These guys made "tasteless" Tasteful The had flavour. I never got to see them live - one of my big regrets, I think that would have been a shitload of fun seeing them live in their "Hayday" I was 17 in 1980, and the party was just getting started - and it 'aint over yet!!!!
Great video of a very underated band that got mismanaged.
I wish I could find the original live version of "White Punks On Dope." that was being played on FM radio in San Francisco just before their first album came out. They played it constantly on KSAN 95 and once the album came out I never heard it again.
I still remember on KSAN listening to Dusty Street, she had the best DJ voice ever! Saw the Tubes in small club Inn of the beginning in Cotati - their costumes were so funny!
@@GraniteRoll I went to see The Tubes perform twice at The Old Waldorf in San Francisco in the late 70s when I was still a teenager. They performed on a stage that was in the middle of the room and there was quite a bit of audience participation. They sounded just as good live as they did on their albums. Their 1979 album "What Do You Want From Live?" is still regarded as one of the best recorded live albums ever produced.
I remember in highschool, we had to make a poster collage of stuff we liked from magazine clippings. So i did all the rock bands i liked. The picture of the Tubes got the most comments, tripped everyone out. ...but so did the pic of bloody Gene Simmons to, lol, those teachers & kids were so clueless to what was hip !
was i gutted when he broke his leg, i had front row tickets for the first and last night at Hammersmith
i saw 2tour's and both time's,i wonder'd if i had done acid by mistake.
- it was an incredible experience.
Fee Waybill is one of the Three Most Important People in the World
...and his band is tied for #1 in the world
I'm going to form a pop group called the You Tubes.
My homies!
Tha absolute f***ing best rock band in the history of mankind!!
Thank you !!!
Yup, where it all began & ended -master class Tubs Group! Nuff said.
I saw them in Groningen Holland i think begin of the 80,s ,wat a show.
Brilliant, thanks for posting this. 'I saw her standing there', classic, classic Tubes. Imagine trying to get the Health & Safety killjoys approving a character like Fee brandishing his chainsaw over the audiences heads these days... :-)
I knew alice cooper was from phoenix but didn't know the tubes were also. I'm from Tucson but never saw these guys. Unfortunately for me.
Thanks!
This is fantastic!
The TUBES are so INSANE. IF YOU WERE THERE- HOW CAN YOU POSSIBLY not IMAGINE. I'm Not Even Sure What I Saw! THAT's "The TUBES" Effect. GOOD LUCK trying to explain it.
Brilliant as always, I remember this being shown on TV in the UK; fun to see them all so young, Kenny Ortega looks about 17 :-) I had seen them on this tour and caught their show in Manchester before Fee broke his leg in Leicester. Was this the tour Fee got arrested for obstruction (of Oxford Street!), or was that the year before?
A running chainsaw on stage, what ever happened to a bit of danger in rock n roll?!!
a band whose mature period was their best, check out Whats Wrong With Me , an awesome jewel of a song, these schoolmates of Alice Cooper, whose whacky vision is well worth checking out, i felt they dipped after booting Bill Spooner out but they made seven really good albums with i think Remote Control just about the best of them
Remote Control is their best!
Chopin. Nice one. The thumbnail is killing me. Fee, you were pesche con panna.
They were due to play in Bristol and I had a ticket. Cancelled due to the leg break, Id never been so pissed off. Never got to see em.
yeah, Madonna is in the RnR HoF but not the Tubes. What a joke.
A dream vacation in Barnsley?! 😂 How the hell did they know about Barnsley?
First concert I ever saw. Chico CA, very early 80s. Front row. My bro had picked up my 5’10” self and put me on his shoulders. Just in time for Fee Waybill to turn around and expose his leather chap free butt cheeks. Very much in my face. Good times snd mind blowing.
watching TV all day long...
Amazing band.
Sempre eterni !!
I wonder who they were tied with for #1 band in the world?
Surprised that no one mentioned the alternate lyrics to Telecide beginning at about 16:20. I'd assume it's an early version of the song since the video apparently precedes the release of Remote Control. Wonder if there's a full version that might ever see the light of day.
+Adam L youtube "smash the system" "tubes"
+worsley1 Cool, thanks!
White Punks on DOPE !!!
Just before Remote Control.
These guys and gals were SO unique, funny, odd, quirky, strange and fu.king talented too! However they DID go commercial once' Talk To Ya Later came and cant blame em everyone needed to make some money in music it's expensive touring!
Could you make this mono because I only get sound from one channel which is distracting with earbuds.
Wait 'till they get a whiff of the internet...
From this to High School Musical. Kenny, Kenny, what happened???
Great piece. Too bad one has to cope with the lingering timecode.
A baby's arm holding an apple.
Hooo. What they were saying about the influence of television way back in 1978 - well, you ain't seen nothing yet guys - here's the internet !
and... what to do we have - biggest mobba wowsers...
Who does the voice over, at the beginning of this? Reminds me of the 'As I mentioned near the close of the last record...' from The Completion Backward Principle.
@har9020 i think it's Leroi Jones, one of the Tubes dancers
Rick fuckin Anderson👍
Not exactly a documentary, is it?
That shredded crotch thing could easily come back in style.