The 80s Sing-Along Classic Everybody LOVES…But Has NO CLUE Who Sings It! | Professor of Rock
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- In the prime of his life, Fee Waybill of the Tubes, one of rock’s wildest frontmen was lured into a seedy parlor in the underbelly of San Francisco’s notorious red light district. The rocker was captivated by a young exotic dancer who slinked around inside an enclosed booth with hardly any clothes on. … Falling into a scam, Fee kept shelving out dollar bills, trying to engage in a conversation with the dancer, but she ignored him until he finally wised up and realized he was being a sucker! Fee Waybill eventually paid enough money for the woman to converse with him, and he asked her if she would like to be a dancer with his band. She refused to answer his question, and his session abruptly ended. They say ‘Curiosity killed the cat,’ but in this story…curiosity birthed the smash hit She's a Beauty. You’ll never believe what happened next… Seriously, this is one of those rock and roll song stories that’s stranger than fiction… and I’m gonna tell you all about what happened…free of charge, of course…NEXT on Professor of Rock.
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Today we have the story of an 80s classic that most know by heart from a truly unique band that doesn’t get its due credit in our latest entry into #1 in our hearts… songs that absolutely should’ve been #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 but for perplexing reasons came up just short so we right the wrong. This is one of these classic 80s singalong hits that everyone knows by heart but many middle-of-the-road music fans don’t know who sings it. I’m talking about She’s Beauty be the Tubes…..Known for his outlandish costume changes and character portrayals on stage, Fee Waybill, the frontman for the Tubes, was a spectacle in his own right. One of his main characters, Quay Lewd (a play on Quaalude), was a drugged-out British rock star wearing two-foot-tall platform shoes, a feather boa, and a long blonde wig.
Standing at 6 foot 4 in bare feet, Fee's Quay Lewd costume made him tower over 8 feet tall. Tubes' concerts were filled with explosions, smoke, chainsaws, and a daredevil aerial artist. The band often spent more on their elaborate stage antics than they earned from performing. One day, Fee was tooling around the Red Light section of San Francisco’s Missing District when he was transfixed on a sign outside of a seedy parlor called the Tenderloin that read “Pay a dollar- Talk to a Naked Girl.” Well, it just so happens Curiosity got the best of Fee, so he went inside. The experience inspired the conception of the biggest hit for The Tubes…1983’s “She’s a Beauty.”
Fee attended Arizona State University with plans to study oceanography, but he discovered a passion for acting and decided to pursue it instead. Eventually, he dropped out of college and, while hanging out in Arizona's Verde Valley, met his future bandmates Roger Steen and Prairie Prince. The guys eventually moved to San Francisco. To stand out from the other acts in the Golden City music scene, Fee brought to life a variety of memorable characters during the Tubes live shows.
Poll: What is your pick for the Most ADDICTING SING-ALONG song of all time? One you always have to belt out?
Thunder Road
I'll nominate ... "We Will Rock You" by Queen.
"I'm A Believer" The Monkees
1. Mony Mony - Tommy James& The Shondells/Billy Idol.
runnerups: Shout - Otis Day & The Knights, I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll - Joan Jett, Old Time Rock ‘n’ Roll - Bob Seger.
Long Live Rock, The Who
Fun fact: in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Fee Waybill plays one of the "Three Most Important People in the World", along with Clarence Clemons (of the E Street Band) and Martha Davis (of The Motels).
Martha and Fee sang Monkey Time, the follow-up single to She's a Beauty
Love "She's A Beauty"-A true 80's classic!
Amen! Sing-along classic!
And Talk To Ya Later😅
@@alphatoddioNever heard it before. Listened didn’t like it headline should read almost everybody loves.
Great vocals and instrumentation all around. I have to comment I always thought that the accompanying synths were one of best.
I love singing this song!! Both the lead and backing parts haha
One of my favorite performances of theirs is when they were in Xanadu with Olivia Newton-John. She was doing 40's type music and they were doing hard rock. They started out doing separate parts and then blended the 2 types of music together. It was so cool to hear how well the 2 separate songs fit together by the end of the song!
I was going to mention it but ran out of time!
One of my favorite parts of that movie as well.
@@ProfessorofRock It would be so cool to see you do a show about Xanadu! I love the music in that movie!
@@karaokekraziness3891agreed!
@@karaokekraziness3891 Yes, please!
Not only is Fee a great front man, he's also a great songwriter. Thanks for showing the Tubes some love.
Fee is so damn underappreciated
You betcha!
No kidding!
I LOVE the Tubes!! I'm so happy to see them get the love they deserve. I did guess the wrong song though, I thought it was going to be "Talk To You Later":
"...I met her on the strip
It was another lost weekend
The band was too slick
And the people were twisted
So I asked her for a date
She reluctantly agreed
Then we went to my place
And she never did leave..."
I remember in the ‘70s, a Playboy, maybe Penthouse feature with Fee dressed as “Quay Lude”, with hot naked babes! Instantly caught my attention with songs like “White Punks on Dope”!!!
Unfortunately never saw them in concert or or heard of them again until their ‘80s breakout on MTV, with She’s a Beauty, and Talk to You Later! Was a little disappointed that they were so mild and mainstream at that point! Still, the music, singing, and production was impeccable! Great Music!
Summer of 83! One of the best ever.
same attended molly hatchet hank jr and gearge th. 83 arena club modern english ramones dads a local band george too loud hatcher smaller venue hank jr packed arena rocked fans went nuts zz top medley all 83
Graduated in 83 and had to say, I agree with completely.
I knew nothing of The Tubes other than "She's A Beauty". I thought of them as a one-hit wonder. I'm going to check out all their music, thanks Prof!
Great band. Keep your sense of humor!
Do it!
Check out "Talk To Ya Later"
@@JoseGrullon THAT'S the song I thought this was going to be about! I had this Tubes album on 8-track tape that I blasted in my 1970 Delta 88 Oldsmobile, my first car in 1981.
My dad was an audiophile and radio engineer who installed an expensive 8-track stereo with premium speakers in that car because he loved classical music at high volume.
Daddy gave me that very unsexy but safe "grandma" car because he wanted me to be safe, driving that 4 door land yacht! My friends laughed... until they got in my car and I played this tape at full volume. That car was invisible to police, another thing I loved about it.
As a teen, I loved hanging with my dad on weekends in the garage where I helped him do brake jobs and oil changes on that car, learned to fix minor problems and change tires.
I couldn't have loved that car more if it had been a Camaro!
Daddy was smart, and must have really loved me!☺🤗
@@JoseGrullon I've always loved "Talk To Ya Later."
I’ve always loved this song, not only because of the video on MTV, but just the joy you get singing it. The Tubes are way under rated.
It's such a feel good song!
It’s so exuberant!
Bit like China Crisis in many ways ?
Do you know who the boy in the video was?
Rosanna, Patricia and David Arquette's younger brother (back then) Robert Arquette, he was 13 years old at the time but later he transitioned to a woman and started using the name Alexis, years later though he started presenting himself as a man again, maybe that woman in the video for She's a Beauty put the zap on his head or something.
He was actually in a few movies to including Of Mice And Men with Gary Sinese and John Malkovich, Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Pulp Fiction among others.
Unfortunately he'd contracted AIDS in 1987 and died in 2016 from complications associated with it.
The Tubes' performance of Sushi Girl on SCTV "Gill Fisher (John Candy), the Fishin' Musician" was killer.
Amen to that. That was my gateway to quay lewd.
I can't think of The Tubes without thinking of "The Fishin' Musician". Wasn't it nice for the SCTV network to have a show once in a while that we actually got to see (rather than just the promo), and that ran for more than only a couple of minutes?!?!
Me too!@@merriemisfit8406
Yeah, I was about to post that appearing on SCTV was the height of their career.
Oh yea!!! I remember that when it aired and just a few months ago ran across that episode here on RUclips, The Fishin' Musician, what a classic, the one with Joe Walsh is a good one to.
SCTV was great, I loved that show especially Guy Caballero, the one episode where Joe Flaherty jumped up out of that wheelchair and took off running almost made me piss myself I was laughing so hard, they couldn't do something like that in this day and age, a character that fakes needing a wheelchair would have people going bonkers over it, social media would light up with protests and Flaherty's career would have been over, I'm surprised that wasn't dredged up from his past and he didn't get attacked for it before he passed away.
I miss the 80s. So. Damned. Much.
I'm 57 and feel the same way ..... If you live right you can feel that way again. Trust me.
I CANNOT BELIEVE that "She's A Beauty" was never a #1 hit!! It's definitely #1 in MY heart. I have loved this song since it came out. It's absolutely brilliant and holds up after all these years.
One of my dear friends once saw Fee in a bar. She recognized him and asked if he was him. He replied yes, but wanted to keep a low profile, since it was kind of a disco-ish bar.
I think the Tubes' best album was Remote Control (also produced by Rundgren). It was such a dynamic tour de force, with a fascinating concept. I remember listening to it when I talked to my high school sweetheart for the last time whilst I was at Uni. AS I hung up the phone, I heard the lyric "I won't see you anymore/and if that's what love is for/then I don't understand." How prophetic those words were!
Still... Remote Control remains one of my favourite albums.
I share the same sentiment about THE COMPLETION BACKWARD PRINCIPLE and the song DON'T WANT TO WAIT ANYMORE. Really think these guys are underrated as musicians and songwriters. My favorite cameo by this band...the battle-of-the-bands scene in the movie XANADU. A decent B-movie for Olivia Newton John and Michael Beck with a good sound track.
I saw Fee perform as Frankenfurter in Rocky Horror at a theater in Kalamazoo MI. It was in the late 90s early 2000s. It was epic¡. This band is highly underrated.
Fee Waybill is still a madman and they still put on a great show, highly recommend to catch them if you can! He's also a super nice guy, and if you stay after the show he's almost guaranteed to sign stuff for you
I remember almost driving my dad crazy, playing this awesome song by The Tubes over & over & over again. I would hit that good old "rewind" button as soon as the song would end. 😅 (My mom later told me she loved the song, so she didn't mind my multiple "repeats"! 😊❤) I was, of course, playing it on my huge boom-box, which my parents had gotten me for my 16th birthday. ❤😊❤ I loved the 80s....the good old days, for sure! ❤
Ok...Professor, I've got my ticket stub from the first time I saw The Tubes. I believe it was 1982. The "concert" was held at the Lambda Chi fraternity house in Chico, CA - California State University of Chico. I think I was 18 years old. Maybe 19. The Tubes were set up in a small room inside an old house. I think there were barely 100 people there. There were no spotlights, no stage, no nothing. I literally stood about 5-6' away from Fee during their performance. He had a big ole doobie he would take a hit from & then kept it between his guitar strings at the very top of the fret board. I don't have any photographs from that evening. We didn't take many pictures back then. After they were done playing, they stayed and hung out with all us students. I remember it being very fun but had never seen anything like it before. No one got out of control despite all the pot & beer floating about. I still don't understand why The Tubes were playing at a frat house in Chico. I think I heard one of the members of Lambda Chi knew the band through his father...who was some music guy...? I think about that night often and wonder - how did that event occur? I can send you a copy of my ticket stub. It's a pretty cool ticket (as tickets go). Can you find information about it? I've always wondered what exactly did I attend that night. I mean c'mon, I was standing 5' from Fee the entire time they played.
Holy Crap! I was there too! I was 18 and lived in Paradise .
They also played at the fairgrounds a couple months later with Red Rider. I went to that show too.
Small world!
Yes!!! What do you remember about the Lambda Chi event? Were you a student? Did you take pictures? Do you have your ticket stub?
No to all.
I remember prairie Prince getting naked and the sounding like shit but to the size of the room and a girl that was on shrooms that wouldn't shut up and kept yelling and Fee got in her face.
That girl wasn't me. 😊 I don't remember that at all. Like I said, I remember the event, I can see myself standing in the room right next to Fee. I thought it sounded great but I was used to listening to a local band named Southbound.🙂 Thanks for responding. At least I know I didn't imagine the whole thing. 😎
@@MeemsKasowouldn't it be a trip if that girl was you?! 😁
Yeah the whole thing was pretty strange. As I remember it, my buddy and I were at Tower Records, and a guy he knew asked my buddy if he liked the Tubes and told us they were playing at a frat that night. We told him he was mistaken and that they were playing the fairgrounds in a couple of months and pointed to the list of acts coming to town right there on the list of shows Tower had tickets for.
Anyway, I don't remember why they were playing that under the radar gig but you're right there weren't 100 people there . We walked up to the door and paid like $5 I think for the cover which got you in the door and a cup.
The only reason they sounded like crap was because it was too loud for such cramped quarters.
"More Than A Feeling" - Boston
"Everybody Wants To Rule The World" - Tears For Fears
"In A Big Country" - Big Country
"Take On Me" - A-Ha
"Lips Like Sugar" - Echo and The Bunnymen
"Jessie's Girl" - Rick Springfield
"Don't You (Forget About Me) - Simple Minds
I could go on but those are at the top of my list. :) Thanks Adam!
All of those filled my high school years.
@@addisonesslinger3653 Awesome! :)
So - what happened to Phil Collins?
Who cares?
Great list...need some Bryan Adams and Boys of Summer
"It was definitely worth the trip to the principal's office..."
So true for so many things at that age. 🙂
So true!
Haha!
@@ProfessorofRock You should cover Judas Priest unreleased song You Are Everything which is a cover of The Stylistics song. Produced by the british production team of Stock Aitken and Waterman around 1988. The song has been shelved and never released to date. Only a snippet of it has been leaked online. The holy grail of Judas Priest songs. They actually recorded two other songs with the production team. You should do a video about this one! Who knows maybe with enough exposure the song just might be released due to public demand? Judas Priest was embarrassed by the song hence why it was shelved but it would have been a smash it! Did you know about this? 🧑🎤🎸💽📻
In the 80's, I lived in San Fran. My friend who's name was John, was visiting me and we went to Kearney St. As we were walking down the street, a barker said to John, "Do you want to see a naked lady?" His responds was, "Does she want to see a naked man?"
Absolutely LOVE The Tubes! Glad to see a segment on them.
You and me both!
I recall The Tubes as being a "Six Flags" band. These were bands that were just outside of mainstream success who would perform at Six Flags Magic Mountain, and their performance was included in the price of admission. A few others were Tommy TuTone, Talk Talk, and The Plimsouls... all solid bands!
They actually appeared in the movie, "Rollercoaster" from 1977. I'm not sure if it was at Magic Mountain or not.
I'm so jealous of everyone who was able to be there that I feel like crying! 😭
YES, I saw them at the fair many years ago - so I know what you mean by "Six Flags" band!
@@subversive1219 YES THEY DID! Good Memory!
Fee Waybill, one of the greatest names in rock. And he lives up to it with his talent and creativity. The Tubes were awesome, so glad to see them get some play here.
The opening of She's A Beauty instantly makes me turn up the radio to eleven. One of the best grooves from that time.
Fee Waybill actually co wrote the breakout hit for the group Vixen, “edge of a broken heart”, with Richard Marx of all people
"Of all people"? Check out Richard Marx's #1 rocker "Satisfied." Recently at my music store job, a customer was amazed I knew who Vixen are. Then I mentioned "Edge of a Broken Heart." Have a nice day.
THat's right!
@Michaelroches. I love Vixen's drummer Roxey .
Just saw Rick Springfield and Richard Marx last night what a great show. Marx has wrote lots of stuff for other artists and he played some last night. Marx produced Vixin I always liked them. Forgot which member of Vixin also played with Joe Elliott of Def Leppard on his solo project.
@@shiroibasketshoesHi Bob glad you a fan of Vixen. Last night was so good. Comedy and talent. Both Rick and Richard's voices 👍. No auto tune there.
Someone gave me tickets to the Tubes at a local community college. I was in 8th grade and the show blew me away. It is the most memorable of the many concerts I saw in the 80’s.
Whenever I hear The Tubes I think of the tv show, Square Pegs, and the new wave kid who always wore The Tubes tshirt. That really was a great tv show lol
Agree. Fun show! Sarah Jessica Parker, & Merritt Buttrick 😔(RIP),etc.
I remember that! Sarah Jessica Parker!
Yes!
Wasn’t DEVO on that show too?
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Omg i don’t remember. That would have been amazing
Steve Lukather! This song (album) probably wouldn't exist without him.
The 'Toto connection' could be an entire video on it's own. Toto is the Kevin Bacon of rock and roll.
No question!
I didn’t know Toto was involved in this!
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980Toto was involved in EVERYTHING in the 80’s. They are/were some if the finest musicians to grace the his earth.
@Terk131 toto is still around ,they just opened for Journey in Lexington ky
Thet called Steve Lukather and he was the principal writer.
One of my favorite songs of the 80s, great story!
In the 70s and 80s anytime somebody listed stuff, invariably one of us would add "And a baby's arm holding an apple" at the end. All the Tubes fans would laugh, everyone else looked puzzled.
Where is that line from?
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 It's the final line from my absolute favourite Tubes song, "What Do You Want From Life". If you google the phrase, it's definitely NSFW.
My high school buddies and I would do the same thing much to the puzzlement of the "clueless" around us.
All the gay guys said that back then. It didn’t have anything to do with The Tubes
@@bokesnmokes That's a pretty pathetic bit of trolling there Sparky. You must be a barrel of laffs at the incel meetings.
The Completion Backwards Principle...great album. Fee was amazing frontman. I saw a video when I was a kid. Fed's backed in a locker room with women running around in full football gear. Love the Tubes. Greetings from Nova Scotia!
Sorry for the spelling...Fee was nacked.
Ugh. Sorry.
Thanks!
You are probably thinking of the Sports Fan video. The girls were dressed as cheerleaders, but they dressed Fee in a football uniform (with a catcher's mask I believe). It was on the Completion Backwards VHS.
In around 1983, I saw The Tubes open for David Bowie's "Serious Moonlight" tour at the newly-opened Tacoma Dome in Tacoma, WA. What an incredible show that was!
yeszi recall tubes moonlight friend got me a ticket but was unable to make it they said great show both tubes and bowie said just scalp mine buy beers with cash as everyone did then
I was there! August 11th 1983.. my very first concert, and the first big act to play the T-Dome!!
Still got my ticket stub!
"I'm going to tell you - free of charge"
I see what you did there. ;)
Love this song. Top Tier.
Up there with My Sharona
I was born in 1970. When this video was a hit on MTV, I always wondered about the strange blurring of the screen the kid in his roller coaster car bursts through and the blur on the face of the bass drums as well. Being a naive 13 year old, I didn't ask too many questions. Fast forward 30 years and I saw the unedited version on VEVO probably. HA HA HA. It all makes sense now.
The last time I saw the Tubes, Fee had a costume of a Atari video game controller, with a 3 foot long "Joystick" 🤣
One of my all time favorite songs! Gets cranked every time it comes on my itunes!
FOr sure!
Heading into High School, I was a bit of an introvert. Just before my Freshman year, we packed up and moved several states away. As I headed into my 7th school change, (I'd comment that the only constant in my life was Kasey Kasum, btw)...I'd fallen in love with "She's A Beauty", which had just been released. I got talked into attending a "back-to-school" dance, where I was a complete wallflower with my new friends...then...that synth & guitar! I shouted, "I LOVE THIS SONG!" and almost sprinted onto the floor...and promptly started dancing with a SENIOR...lol...shell cracked, I danced with a member of each grade before the night was over and it kicked off two wonderful years, before we were on the move again! Thanks Fee! Oh, and btw...I should have paid better attention to the lyrics...because the "don't fall in love" (with a stripper) message was learned much later...and cost WAY more thsn a dollar...lol.
Steve Lukather for the win…both times. “Talk to Ya Later” and “She’s A Beauty”. No fluke with Luke.
YES!
I was so surprised to find out Fee wrote songs along with Richard Marx. They are the best of friends and have been Best Man at each other's weddings. How could anyone forget the classic "Attack of the 50-foot woman"? Lol. Thanks a lot Fee.
Never knew of the Tubes, until “Talk to you later”….knocked me out!
Lukather again
Love The Tubes. I was surprised not to hear a nod to one of my favorite songs, Prime Time.
Not only is this an amazing song, but the music video played havoc with all of us young men in the 80’s.
I wish I had seen these guys. I remember hearing White Punks on Dope in the late 70s. I was 15 ot 16. It wasn't the radio, someone had a recording of it. In 81 I joined the Navy. Toured the world. Then in 1983 I was in Perth Aus and a bar there had big screens that played Rugby and cartoon videos to music. When we returned to the states, MTV was everywhere.
This is such a great song. I did not know Bobby Kimball was singing in this. Always learn something from the Professor.
I’m so happy to say that I saw The Tubes between their first and second albums. I took a young lady who had never heard of them and knew nothing about them. I promised her she wouldn’t be sorry and she would not be bored. Her mind was blown. She LOVED it. It was like nothing either of us had ever seen before.
Towards the end of the show Fee mentioned that the (then) new album Young and Rich would be out soon. He had a handful of promo copies that he tossed out to the audience. I was about half way to the back of the auditorium and I’m only 5’8” so I didn’t even stand up to try for one as everyone was going crazy grabbing at them. As I was watching the melee I saw one copy go skipping across everyone’s fingertips and Whoa! It literally landed in my lap. I clutched it with both hands as people looked at me with blood in their eyes. Hah! What a night.
I became a Tubes fan with Completion Backwards Principle. My sister and I saw their Inside Outside Tour in 1983. Guess who opened for them... some wannabe Rock singer Michael Bolton (before he became known) . The row in front of us kept heckling him throughout his set.
The Tubes put on an amazing/crazy /energetic show. My favorite is how they open their shows, strutting on stage in suits and then ripping them off!
"Talk to ya later was one of those I would crank up while driving. Loved it at the dances too!
Don't forget that the Tubes appeared in Xanadu, in one of the most interesting scenes in the movie. It was a morphing of a 40's band with an 80's band into something that brought the two together. It was very clever how it all came together on the screen. Of course the music was outstanding.
Thanks for the info- I didn't know they appeared in Xanadu. The Tubes contributed two of the best soundtrack songs of the 80's with "Gonna Get It Next Time" from Modern Problems and the title track to 1985's My Science Project.
I was a nightclub DJ in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, so I was quite familiar with The Tubes even before “She’s A Beauty”. Great episode, Adam!
Love The Tubes. The banter between Fee and Martha on their cover of The Monkey Time is hilarious! Thanks for this post Prof!
Great song!
I’ve seen that!
Heard it as a kid, and to this day, whenever someone says the word, "monkey", I think of Martha saying -- MY MONKEY?! 😅
It's unfathomable how much we owe to TOTO!!! WOW
Their 1979 album Remote Control was one of the last great concept albums. Todd Rundgren produced it and co-wrote song "TV Is King". "Turn Me On" and "Prime Time" were other favorites off the album. "What Do You Want From Life" was a fun song from their debut album.
Good call!
I need to listen!
Remote Control - The Tubes. Still one of the best concept albums ever! And more relevant today than ever. [smile]
In the music video the kid is played by Alexis Arquette, the brother of Rosanna Arquette, of which, of course the members of Toto, who were working on the album did the song Rosanna. I think there was a connection between Arquette, the tubes and Toto for video.
Steve Lukather co-wrote this song, so a definite connection.
Now it all clicks together!
Like Kevin Bacon, the Arquette family is another one of those "six-degrees of separation" deals: David, Patricia, Rosanna, and Alex/Alexis - who was an early trans advocate who performed as "Eva Destruction". Each of them has had an amazing career worth checking out. Not including their father, actor Lewis and granddad Charley Weaver, they must know everyone in Hollywood by now.
"She's a Beauty" is one of my top 10 FAVORITE songs! Love the Tubes!
Adam does the homework; we kick back and enjoy the music and the fantastic backstories!! Thanks for all your hard work Adam; and thanks for keeping the music alive ( and introducing a lot of it to a whole new audience!!)
This songs brings back memories of My mom singing it out loud when it came on the radio and till this day still one of her favorites
For sure!
Saw The Tubes once. It was as much performance art as it was a concert, but, a glorious experience
What year?
@@ProfessorofRockI want to say early 80s, but, the memory is still fuzzy...
I saw them in one of the Atlantic City casino showrooms, I think possibly '82
Fee's evolution as a vocalist is solid. Listening to the bands earlier songs through the 70s to the early 80s it's amazing how strong he got to be as a singer. Love the band!
Yes!! By the 80s, when he would sing live, he nailed every note perfectly.
They played at my college in the early 80's (before this song came out). When they finished, Fee slapped everyone's hand who were leaning against the stage (mine included).
I had never heard of them before until this song! I still love this song to this day.
The Tubes! Love 'em! Fee was my pick to replace DLR in Van Halen!
Wow, that would’ve been interesting.
Very cool!
@@FredGroenke55 Right?
Really I was so jazzed when my uncle told me Hagar was the replacement. Sammy Hagar is in my top 3 favorites so I'm bias. Interesting thought though.
yes was lots of rumours pre internet days local dj threw around guess fee was probably one
A buddy saw them live in SF back in the mid-70s ... bought the album and brought it back to the UK ... and the rest (in my particular universe) was history ... we bought everything and I got to see them live (along with Zappa et al) at Knebworth in '78 ... great days.
I actually worked with Bill Spooner at a record store in the mid-90s. I think I know the place that inspired the song. Missing district? Nah. There was a peepshow place at the corner of the Financial District/North Beach/Chinatown. The area had a lot of Punk venues in the day. It was also not far from the San Francisco Art Institute.
I literally just listened to this song. Still one of my favorites from back in the day.
Love the Tubes, but I didn’t know Steve Lukather played guitar on that song. No wonder it rocks as much as it does. Great song, great yet unappreciated band.
No kidding!
Lukather is this song’s secret weapon.
He wrote the main riffs and played the guitars and the solo. Same on Talk to ya Later
Best Concert of my life. The Tube's performed in Boston. They were played regularly on WBCN, so I loved their music. But the performance was out of this world.
David Foster was married for a long time to Linda Thompson, who is Elvis’s girlfriend for a while. He’s now married to Katherine McPhee of Smash… at least a 35 year age gap
That's right!
That's so weird. McPhee got her start as a contestant on American Idol.
One of my favorite videos of all time. Back in ‘83 my dad happened to walk into the room while I was watching it with my younger, 9-year-old brother. It was the mermaid scene. My dad was horrified and forbid us from watching MTV again. I protested and won but he kept the prohibition for my bro. But since he was rarely home when we were watching TV, couldn’t enforce it so that was the end of that.
I was the morning DJ in the late 70’s at rock station KSRT, FM 101 in central California. That was back when we could choose most of the playlist. White Punks on Dope and What Do You Want From Life were always in my rotation. Glad they saw some commercial success later on with this great song.
Good morning Adam and music lovers. Ah, The Tubes. Great band. Awesome live shows. The Completion Backwards Principle, which came jst previous to She's A Beauty, is on my short list of best albums ever. I remember being kind of shocked that most of the songs on the album were cowritten by David Foster, who I more associated with Broadway type music than rock. Also shocked that Steve Lukather played the solo on Talk To You Later as I always figured it was Bill or Roger, both being excellent guitarists. I was a little less surprised to learn that She's A Beauty was based on a real experience. It fit with Fee's personality perfectly. Looking forward to learning more details in this vid.
Thanks for this one, Adam.
THanks for watching! Have a great weekend!
@@ProfessorofRock Same.
Have a great weekend and I too learned more about this song today very educational.
Steve Lukather was a busy man back then!
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Still is, I'm sure. He's a true Guitar God. Hi Lilly.
Saw the tubes not long ago at totally tubular festival. They still rock. I even got to shake his hand and talk for a second. Rock on ✌️👍🙏🇺🇸
Loved The Tubes back in the day. Still cover "Talk to ya later" and "She's a beauty" to this day. Great songs from a great band.
Very cool!
Quay Lewd was legendary. Classic rock radio could barely handle it.
❤🎉
Loved The Tubes!
Don't mess with strippers........ they can be savage.
And yes I bought lots of baseball cards, but never shared any with strippers. 😂
Have a great weekend Professor and everybody.
❤
Sage advice!
I dated a couple back in the day. If you want some drama and craziness in your life, date a stripper.
....don't share COMIC BOOKS with 'em, either! ...ha-HAAA!!
Thanks Roger! What's the rarest card you have?
That’s a great song. I used to watch that video on Friday night videos, didn’t have cable. I still play that song on my weekly show the 120. Fantastic track.
By the way... greetings fellow melomaniacs!
Greetings, MeloCode!
@@shiroibasketshoesI hope that you enjoy today's episode!
@@Code.Name.V You, too! I bought the 45 when it came out and I have some other Tubes albums, too.
@@shiroibasketshoesYou my friend, have great taste!
@@Code.Name.V As you're here, you must have it, too! Thanks, my friend! As I "don't want to wait anymore," I'll be getting to the video now; "talk to ya later"!
I saw the Tubes in a relatively small venue in Northern California many many years ago. It was a fun show.
White Punks on Dope!
Your love note story.. awesome! It's amazing the little, harmless things we did as students back then, would manifest a visit to the Principal's Office. Nowadays, a teacher wouldn't bat an eye at an incident such as this...
Not first !
Way to be the last person before second! Well done!
Favorite Tubes song, “Don’t want to wait anymore”. Beautiful song.
The Tubes were one of my favorite bands in the 70s. Went to 2 concerts they headlined in 78 and 79 at the Celebrity Theater here in Phoenix. Incredible stage shows. Don't Touch Me There was one of my favorites.
For those who may not know, the live clip with the guy tied to the pole is "Wild Women of Wongo," from the same album as "She's a Beauty." Absolutely bonkers song.
Oh wow! I will always remember my friend, David, saying to people in our little southern high school , "You've never heard of The Tubes?"
Hr was from a much larger, much more progressive city. I was happy to be friends with someone who introduced me to some of the best music I've ever heard - and it's still true to this day, 40 years later.
I remember the Mtv video of "She's A Beauty" as "Riveting"! I love the whole cheesy carnival ride where the car bangs through the swinging doors, revealing the next scene. .. I also remember seeing the Tubes on SCTV with John Candy as the Fishing Musician.. .. So glad you brought up that reference, Professor! I can't think of the Tubes without remembering the Fishing Musician Sketch. .. Thank You Professor.
I bought this single in '83 and loved The Tubes since the album before, great band maybe the most criminally underrated ever.
So true!
I love this song! I would sing it all the time to my late dog. ❤. She really was a beauty and one in a million 🥰🥰
Love the tubes!
They finally found more success toning the act down, but the album the Tubes with WPOD, mondo bondage, boy crazy, what do you want from life etc will always be my favorite work by Fee & crew!!!
Great effin album…
I saw them live Michigan in 1983. Warm up band was the Plimsouls and Leather Nun. My favorite songs are Power Tools and Let's make some noise. "Drums" was an awesome sight in person.
I knew it was The Tubes by the thumbnail picture of the guy with the long, curly hair. They were in a musical fantasy section of the movie Xanadu and I used to laugh like crazy at how wild his hair looked to me 😂
And I love the song She's A Beauty😊
I fell in love with The Tubes when I was about 7 or 8 when I saw and heard them in the movie Xanadu, and then a few years later they released this “beauty”!
Prairie Prince was one of the secret weapons of The Tubes … a killer drummer with both the chops and an excellent groove; stick an imagination like Fee's, a producer like Foster and an Ax man like Luke on top of Prairie's steamroller … and you couldn't go wrong.
Saw them at the Totally Tubular Festival just last month. The whole show was a ton of fun, and I got to finally see one of my favorites live... Men Without Hats!
I remember seeing the Tubes when I was a teenager. When Momma saw the review of the show in next day's paper, I was in serious trouble for not leaving the show. Apparently, she was not as impressed with "Don't Touch Me There" as I was. LOL.
I remember seeing that THE TUBES would be playing on the Summer schedule at Kings Dominion in Virginia. On that schedule were some other awesome acts with The Cars, Night Ranger, and Heart. The 80s was an awesome time for a rock fan.
I agree. so many great shows!
What a lineup!
I have the album Outside Inside by The Tubes. Played the crap out of "She's a Beauty". Bought it in 1983, still in my record collection 41 years later. And yes, I sing to it as well while it's playing. Nice blast from the past Professor.
Thanks Professor! Tubes fan here. Won tickets from WBCN Boston to see Completion Backwards Principal concert. Great show! Very tight band and theatrical performance. My favorite Tubes album is Young and Rich...still listen to it...alot. RIP Vince Welnick, Re Styles and Rick Anderson.
Whaddya mean “nobody knows!?”
Fee Waybill has always been one of my favorite male vocalists. The Tubes have always been on my playlist!
The guitar solo in “She’s a Beauty” is killer!
I grew up in San Francisco, so the Tubes were a major fixture in my childhood. My parents would purposely drive way out of the way so we wouldn't pass wherever they were playing as the signs were usually off-color and would provoke awkward questions from my sister and myself. Probably the most surrealistic appearance of the Tubes was their duet with Olivia Newton John in Xanadu. I have no clue what the producers were thinking, but they were definitely the high point of the movie : )
Very cool!
I still need to watch Xanadu!
Way back in the early eighties, I remember the Tubes appeared on a local Phoenix kids show. "Wallace and Ladmo", I do not remember which song/s they performed. "Wallace and Ladmo" are well worth the look, even Alice Cooper was on their show.
Very cool!
I was one seat away from a Ladmo Bag TWICE…crushing 😂
I love this song. I had absolutely no idea about the story of this song, or who sung it. Very cool! Thanks.
Thanks for listening