The Tubes - What Do You Want From Life - 12/28/1978 - Winterland (Official)
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- Опубліковано 24 сер 2024
- The Tubes - What Do You Want From Life
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.
THE TUBES !! AMERICA'S ROCK GODS !! ,.................... IT'S TIME,.....FOR THE Rock n roll Hall of Fame 2020 !!
Great showmen, great musicians, great songwriters.
I saw them with Pat Travers and have their album. To this day people ask me what do you want and i tell them " A baby arms holding a apple" only somebody who new this song knows what i mean. Great band!!!
I saw the Tubes live in 1980, the most entertaining show I ever saw by far. They had the whole place rocking, just excellent and the band was great live, that can't be said for a lot of other acts I saw back then.
Some bands we have missed the pinnacle of their careers. Tubes are amazing. Still. Go see them in Cali!!
I never saw the Tubes in person but all their concert videos are just nuts. Cool art-rock band that was criminally underrated in their time.
Saw them in 81 when they toured for Completion Backwards Principle with opening act Oingo Boingo. Outstanding show, start to finish.
You still can they still at it.
Eric Steen, saw them for the 8th time last weekend. Still great!
This has to be one of the greatest concerts I've ever seen in my life the tubes and pat travers.. for 4.50 cents.....tower theater UpperDarby .. please listen to..what do you want from live...when people used to release double live albums... imagine that!!!..
Mark Greene I was there!!!
Great band in general! Remote Control!@
The Tubes along with Frank Zappa and The Mothers Of Invention ALWAYS DELIVERED THE GOODS On Stage......Some of The Best Live Shows I ever witnessed!!
I definitely got a Zappa vibe from this
LMAO, downhill Fischer downhill skis, lov it!
Saw 'em live in Detroit many decades ago. Yeah, it really was this nuts! ;)
The Tubes were in a group of bands I rocked to in "The 70's !
Great Band ! I Really Liked the Song: "White Punks On Dope "
Peace & Love,Michael
very grateful for these videos: I always loved the Tubes but before the internet you could only see them on the tube every now and then; if I remember correctly I have seen the Tubes only once between 1970 and the year 2000, enough though to become a life time fan.
I saw them in '77. I think it was the same tour as the London show that they recorded for the live album. At the time I had never heard of them or their music. It was the loudest rock show I'd seen to date (17.) I came away thinking "what the flux did I just see and hear?" Later, after listening to their live album already mentioned, The Tubes became one of my top 3 show concerts of all-time, and one of my top 6 all-time albums. Love the show!
Saw them twice. Super-excellent!!!
Wow! This was absolutely amazing! What an absolutely captivating group these dudes were! I only came here as a Deadhead looking for some of Vince Welnick's previous collabs...now I've got to find more of these guys here on youtube. Thanks for posting.
Please do . Methinks you'll likem.
@@derrellthomas239 oh shit! Thanks for the reminder, Derrell...it looks like I wrote that comment 8 months ago and I don't think that I've yet to take a look at them. Thanks to your reminder, today's the day. Actually, there's no time like the present...
I really miss this time in history!
Norman Guerrero Tyme macheen
Great live band.Saw them twice different both time but mind blowing!!
Wish I could go back in time
Only the Tubes give ski vacation packages at their concerts.
Soo soo sushi!
Amazing archive footage.
Herrlich
thanks
This is what you want!
Me loves da Toooooobz! 💕👍
Dei geni!!!
I saw them in Tucson about that time.
LOVE FEE!!!
Sawbthem twice Paris AND bARCELONA HAD THE CHANCE champagne in Paris AND best Whiskey MINGO LEWIS thanks FROM Ibiza.
Step right up!---Tom Waits
Advertising B.S.--- George Carlin
Bill liked getting his start turn. But considering what all he accomplished (like a =revolution= in popular music in the late 1960s), I think he deserves them.
got to see them when they just got east. Shea,s buffalo ny. 76 or 77. too many doobies since then.
I'm pretty sure it was the Century Theater too many doobies also since then
Oberheim 4-voice synth sighting at 5:25!
The baby holding an apple is in his 40's now.
Well, What do You want from life???
Qualudes for the rest of your life? Hahahhaha! Sounds nice, in these modern times, no less
_❤️BILL GRAM❤️_
I am the baby holding an apple............................................................................
flash cam and ludes. what else is there?
I hope they really have her the free trip and Quaaludes for life?
At least, he’s not afraid to say “big tits”. Fee Waybill knows how to direct his MoJo! He could be a carnival barker or game show host!
A New MOnza >>>>>>>never had one.
The jazz version! hehe
A 3rd Reich swizzle stick ! A Gucci shoe tree ! A Mazda...
A Blunt Stick in the Eye 👁 yummy 😋
KIND OF ROXY MUSIC ON STEROIDS
As the GOP threatens?