The Tubes - Live in San Francisco (1985)
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- Опубликовано: 23 авг 2024
- Supporting the Love Bomb album at the Village in S.F., the classic lineup (Fee, Roger, Sputnik, Rick, Mike, Prairie, and Vince) with Mingo Lewis on percussion.
Up From The Deep / Overture
Crime Medley
Boy Crazy
What Do you Want From Life?
Poland Whole / Madam I'm Adam
Proud To Be An American
I Want It All Now
No Way Out
Slipped My Disco
God Bird Change
Brighter Day
Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman
Piece By Piece
Malaguena Salerosa
TV Is King
Amnesia
Young And Rich
Night People
Say Hey
Eyes
Muscle Girls
Theme From A Wooly Place
For A Song
Say Hey (Part 2)
Feel It
Night People (Reprise)
Sushi Girl
I Was A Punk Before You Were A Punk
You're No Fun
White Punk Blues
White Punks on Dope
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Simply put...The Tubes should be in the Rock and Roll hall of Fame!!!!
It's 45 years later and I am still singing along with The Tubes !!!!
I'm 78 and I still dig this group!@
The Tubes was one of the greatest Bands ever in Rock history!!!!☠👍🎸🎷🎹🎶🎼🔊
The Tubes were my passed Fathers favorite band. He was at one of their concerts in Royal Oak and was behind the venue. He ran into Vince and ended up smoking pot with Fee and Vince before a show! Great stories, also a show I and my Dad and Mom were at Fee kicked a can of beer onto my mom while wearing the 7 inch heels. The concert ended I had my back to the stage talking to my mother and next thing I know I had to huge hands on my shoulders it was Fee using me as a leaning post to talk to my mom and apologize and give her his Tubes world tour shirt off his back. Best music moment I had.
I saw the Tubes at Royal Oak Theater too. I wonder if it was the same show. They put on an insane show.
Great Story!!
The Tubes have been my favorite band for years but sadly only recently got to see them at Chene Park in Detroit in 2019. I say sadly because it was a festival-type show where they were only able to play two songs, Talk to Ya Later and She's a Beauty. I got to meet the whole band and have them sign a cd and take pictures with them all but sadly the pics got deleted. I feel like you are probably are about my age, early 30s or late 20s, so I'm glad you got to see them with your dad. My dad has said for years he wants to see them with me but it has not happened yet. Royal Oak would have been a much better venue for the Tubes than Chene park, no question.
@@WarlikePeace I'm 37. Got to see them twice both front row. Only bummer they didn't play much from Love Bomb, but they did do a medley of Eyes and Muscles which was amazing!
@Cathode Roy Bummer is The Tubes youtube channel blocked comments my dad had a few on there =(
No band in rock history had the variety of musical styles showcased here They were quite simply at their beautiful best right here
Agreed, and then I say Hey....
Perfect review
i like the tubes but the grateful dead had more musical styles and quite franky were quantom leaps better, although thats not fair the dead was one if not the greatest band ever.
They sure as shit knew how to put together an arrangement!!!
The Tubes are like the olympians of stage performance and mind blowing stamina. 🤯
You haven't truly experienced a concert til you have seen the Tubes live....
Like the Exotic Erotic ball in 84
I’ve seen many concerts growing up in rock and roll rich Cleveland,Ohio. The Tubes, before their break up, were utterly amazing! The 1983 show still ranks in my top five
I remember seeing them at Pine Knob, MI on this tour. Completely sold out. Crowd screaming until our voices were raw. Just had to make sure the Tubes knew how much they were loved.
I remember my brother Glenn coming home with the first album and we couldn’t take it off. Saw their first concert and it blew us frequent concert goers out of the ocean !!! Superb. Met Todd Rundgren at the second concert show!!
I keep watching the Love Bomb medley over and over. Thank God I got to see that live in 85. Totally amazing!!!
Ya, that was pretty amazing!
My dad actually went to see “The Tubes” for the first time in 199-something which turned out to be just Roger Steen who played the entirety of the B side of Love Bomb, by himself with no band. My dad will always tell the story when we pass the place the concert was held (it’s now abandoned and defunct). Apparently something really funny happened too, it was like late January early February in New England (Constant snow and ice) so Roger was on stage all bundled up and when he went to hit one of the pedals and the set list got stuck to his boot and he sat there for a full 10 minutes trying to get it off.
Underrated and forgotten this band was diversified and unique at start ...
Best Progressive Classic Rock/Funk Band ever!
The Tubes ,one of the finest band in the planet !
I was 22 and Tubes "Boy Crazy". So glad I got to see this phenomenal band around this time in Boston. One of my favorite shows of all time...prairie prince's drums moved all over the stage. I won tickets from WBCN radio in Boston on Charles Laquideria's program called Mishegas(sp?) The only radio station in New England probably playing the Tubes. It was a dream come true. I had ALL their albums. One of the best stage shows ever! The theatrics and musicianship, off the charts. This video brought it all back! Great upload.
This B side of Love Bomb is something unbelievable
I agree that this band gets up and goes they are a very phenomenal band
Thank you.....thank you......THANK YOU....!!!!. I NEVER ever thought a full concert would surface. Beautiful.
I love the Tubes they had a great sense of humor but they had kick ass rock songs they made rocking fun
I know these songs inside out, this is like the holy grail. Way before RUclips and the internet there I was as a young teen smoking pot and listening to these brilliant albums ... every song a different genre and musicianship off the scale. My ears loved every sound. So many memorable tunes. Great lyrics, brilliant vocals/harmonies, excellent arrangements and I marveled at how so many musos could create such a rich tapestry without stepping on each others toes. I would sing all the songs in my head during the day at work then sit between the speakers and play my Tubes albums over and over. In the beginning I was confused as to whether Quay Lewd was a separate singer and also the song I was a Punk Before You Were A Punk had me thinking another band was on stage ... I converted one of my friends into a major fan and my brothers got off on Remote Control. TCBP was the last album I bought as I sensed a change was in the wind. It wasn't until I was in my 40's that I started accepting their more commercial LPs ... retrospectively I enjoyed all the songs I'd missed out on and some are gems. Vale Vince Welnick. Thanks Jeff for this classic lineup buzz ... I would have loved to have been able to see this band in their heyday.
You are welcome. I also wish there were more of the later period concert on video out. A commercial release of the joint Todd Rundgren/Tubes tour would be great.
They cleverly laid out with songs with a twisted sense of humor and made hard rocking fun.What do we want from live LOL. I love this band
SO good. And side two of LOVE BOMB, too. Amazing
I saw this tour in Columbus, OH with Utopia opening. It was the craziest show I think I'll ever see!! Awesome.
so glad they get to europe when they can. i've seen the tubes live more than any other band.
Great show, sorry I missed it.
💥 So Very Cool to hear a Live version of "AMNESIA" 😃 from one of my Favorite college albums..1981s "The Completion Backward Principle" = ALL so good !! 🤘😎👍 1:11:22
Thanks Jeff 😊never thought of God bird change as something they'd do live but there you go. Full of surprises.....
I'm 61 and still listening as well!
this is just great stuff & reminds me of their UK tour when I saw them in newcastle - amazing live show with brilliant memories of the 70's!
Just brilliant. I have enjoyed this so much. Thank you for posting it.
They're great. Thank you.
Best band ever! The musical reachness stands Without all the theatricals. Still my favourite.
Kind of surreal seeing Vince Welnick playing
*01* 0:28 Up From The Deep / Overture
*02* 5:08 Crime Medley
*03* 8:13 Boy Crazy
*04* 13:34 What Do You Want From Life?
*05* 19:29 Poland Whole / 20:53 Madam I'm Adam
*06* 25:17 Proud To Be An American
*07* 28:56 I Want It All Now
*08* 33:37 No Way Out
*09* 37:35 Slipped My Disco
*10* 42:40 God Bird Change
*11* 47:29 Brighter Day
*12* 51:11 Attack Of The Fifty Foot Woman
*13* 56:15 Piece By Piece
*14* 1:03:04 Malaguena Salerosa
*15* 1:07:53 TV is King
*16* 1:11:19 Amnesia
*17* 1:19:22 Young And Rich
*18* 1:24:37 Night People
*19* 1:26:40 Say Hey
*20* 1:28:53 Eyes
*21* 1:32:07 Muscle Girls
*22* 1:33:20 Theme From A Wooly Place
*23* 1:33:38 For A Song
*24* 1:36:38 Say Hey (Continued)
*25* 1:37:12 Feel It
*26* 1:41:03 Night People (Reprise)
*27* 1:42:15 Sushi Girl
*28* 1:46:44 I Was A Punk Before You Were A Punk
*29* 1:49:49 You're No Fun
*30* 1:51:19 White Punk Blues
*31* 1:53:32 White Punks On Dope
I was at this show.
I finally saw the Tubes live in London in either 1999 or 2000. It was in a small place called the Ocean and they were fucking great. Fee Waybill, Prairie Prince and Roger Steen from the original line up. Even back then Fee hated rap music.
Yes Poland whole live! I still have the pack of Camels Fee threw out during what do you want from life? And also Vince's towel which he threw out to the crowd. The year was 1977...their first tour of England.. what a night..😊
Saw The Tubes on every tour from live album to genius of america and this is my favorite show ever filmed.song selection is perfect,playing songs from their best album Young and Rich is the highlight for me(Spooner ,fee,and roger taking turns on lead box.).Thank You Jeff
Wow, thanks. I had no idea that Mingo Lewis also plays synth, and I imagine on the album too!
What? A full 2 hr. set and no Don't Want to Wait Anymore? I remember around '81, one of my uncles had a few (maybe even all) of their albums and him telling me how great The Tubes were, and playing The Completion Backward Principle for me. I remember thinking, even as a kid, "What an odd band name and album cover but it sounds great". Then in '83 She's a Beauty just stormed the airwaves and they kinda took their place as one of the great bands of all time, right?!?
Yeah man, thank you so very much.
have a brighter day
I love, love, love these guys.
Prairie kickin it in Feel it. Sounds awesome.
This is superb. So appreciate the upload!
Hmm. Nothing from completion backwards or outside/inside. Glad I saw them on the previous tour.
Thank you so much for posting this!
thanks for the upload . It's too bad the recording engineers did a poor job with the audio
What a set list. And no “Talk To You Later” or “She’s A Beauty”…
JEENYUS!
The tubes, ladies and gentleman, the tubes!
Nice upload, probably one of the most underrated bands in rock history. Just a shame the sound is a bit poor, sounds like they were playing a great set
I erased the double live for too much playing. Grandissimi!
Holy mother this show is fantastic. I saw them on this tour - Love Bomb tour, at the Capitol Theater in Passaic, NJ, but they did not play the deep cuts they're playing here, it was pretty Outside Looking Inside, Completion Backward, Remote Control & Love Bomb oriented, with the usual standards from the 1st album, and it was a great show, but man, I would've loved to hear some of these tunes - God Bird Change, Proud to Be American, Up From the Deep, Young and Rich, so many great tunes, & they are just KILLING.
They were also falling apart at the time, Love Bomb was a very contentious album within the band, Fee hated it - they made a few slick radio friendly albums, and next thing they did was record the very out-there Love Bomb, they got dropped by their label, I believe, mid tour, & then Fee left - this all happened right around the time of this concert.
They did regroup numerous times with different personnel, but eventually Cotton left & Vince went on to join The Grateful Dead, & they're still active & touring, with the core of Fee, Rodger, Prarie & Rick. Thanks to whoever posted this, I can't stop watching it
NO: stanford marching band , nude dancing girls , Quay Lude , Patty Hearst & the Symbionese Liberation Army dancers , Fidel Che Guevara , elton john cameo, mad H-bomb scientist, etc ??? man, what a bummer
imho , the tubes best live concert where in the 1970's
No, no, there were many (still!) better ones. For eyample 12.06.1978 in Offenbach, germany. One of my highlights in my 43 year visitor (of concerets) career.
THIS CONCERT IS MISSING 3 SONGS. MONDO BONDAGE. SHE'S A BEAUTY,(Which has been a big FM hit since 1983.) AND TALK TO YA LATER.(Which is the best rock & roll song ever written.) CAN ANYBODY ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO WERE AT THIS CONCERT TELL ME IF THESE 3 SONGS WERE PERFORMED AT THIS CONCERT OR NOT?
Super boss!
It's now easier to see why the Love Bomb tour was a bust for the Tubes in '85. No doubt this was a full setlist showcase and would have been abbreviated for their road show. Just the same the setlist and production seriously lacks the 'big hits' punch which CBP and Outside-Inside definitely had. Although they do come alive by the time they get to 'Piece by Piece'. It was this original version of The Tubes which made them 'huge' in the early 80s. I'm still looking for a pro-shot of the Love Bomb show once they got on-tour. Two seriously M.I.A. songs from the Love Bomb tour, 'Stella' and 'One Good Reason'.
This is after Love Bomb tour,set list didn't have any songs from young and rich and only played 1 song from 1st album(WPOD).they replaced those songs with out if the business,theme park ,wild women of wongo and tip of my tongue ,show had dancers and props.These shows were done to pay of debt from Love Bomb tour.
@@brianmccain6302 Do you have a timeline for this show? The Tubes were based in San Fran in those days, that's where this show was filmed. I figured it was a warm-up show prior to the LB tour of '85. I remember they were in Canada in June of that year.
@@johnpatterson4272 I live in New York and saw them on Love Bomb tour at Radio city music hall in spring of 85 (with dancers and full stage show) and then in summer of 86 without dancers etc. Doing retrospective show ,prairie was not there mingo lewis on drums show was at great adventure theme park in new jersey.
@@brianmccain6302 The '86 show was without Fee Waybill I believe. I remember they were performing at a strip joint in Toronto (true story) that year called the Grand West. No Waybill as the lead singer, therefore I said no to tickets. They played a dance club in Toronto several years later, and Waybill had rejoined. Early 90s and tickets were sold-out. The Radio City Music Hall show would have been good.
@Cathode Roy Yes it did. In 1985, AM and FM radio were looking for the next "She's a Beauty" from the Tubes and that didn't happen. It wasn't long after the Love Bomb tour that Vince Welnick and Bill Spooner left, and shortly after so did Fee Waybill albeit he returned later.
I say hey to this
SPOONER 👍🏼
Not long before the first breakup
This is so awesome. I was at this show right in front of the stage. I knew they were videotaping. What a great find! Any chance you also have the encore?
I wish I did, but that is all that came to me.
Tell me the encore had to include 'Talk To Ya Later', right?
Killer!!!!
God Bird Change - My favourite Tubes instrumental - no dancers though!
September 24, 1985 at Wolfgang's (The Village)
Thanks!
Thank you for uploading it !
It's a shame Spooner had guitar , amplifier , electronic, etc problems in this concert . COINTELPRO did it !
Where has THIS been??!! Love it.
I'll never forget the 1st time I seen them at the Santa Cruz civic in 75This band was so awesome in the day
awesome
did acouple of commercial poppish cds but love bomb goes back to classic,,almost
When I was like 12-ish I had the biggest crush on young Roger Steen (Low Key I still do…) so 1:02:29 is genuinely satisfying to my middle school hyper-fixation on Roger…as weird as that sounds…
I have seen the tubes more than 20 times through the years. Definitely one of my favorite bands. Prairie Prince is an awesome drummer, and they didn’t need that extra percussionist in there ruining his sound.
Bill Spooner seems to play less and less lead guitar by this time . He was great prior and use to share leads with Roger Steen . Does anyone know if he was having hand or arthritic problems ? be very grateful for answers , merci beau coup .
I interviewed Bill in the mid-90s (for a small Zine I published) and he said that was a decision the record company made at some point. They only wanted one "lead guitarist". . .
@@skok58 What?!! 😬🥴
@@felixfelix7447 I published a Zine in the 90s and interviewed Bill at a club before a gig with his cover band in SF. I didn't post the interview, but there's a pic here. . . facebook.com/skok58/media_set?set=a.109708395729381&type=3
Bill is a friend of mine. In fact, I just talked to him yesterday.. He still plays to this day, so I don't imagine he had any arthritis problems.
@@ausfuhrpramienjagar Bill knows where’s he’s are when he’s behind a guitar !
Oh they are prog rock
Upserp.....the world 🌎♥is pvera
Be Happy
Not Blue....but. pahvoo! Ooooooooommmmmm
Bill Spooner was finally back to his old self in the last 10 minutes . but the mother fucking camera was not on him . i could tell steen wasn't playing that lead in the slow and then beginning of the fast version of white punks on dope . poor bill was having problems with his quitars all night .
Won’t you try to feel it?
Was this the Wolfgang show I remember how tight that show was and how well the band played
Where's Qualude??
Alf and Darla.....!
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Are ya?
What i like about this live performance there is none of that fucking reverb aka echo used here. Jasus ! except for the last song wpod .
Disappointed this concert didn’t include “Don’t Slow Down”.
What's the original VHS source for this awesome show? I would do anything to transfer it with my equipment.
Naar hun " Gelijknamige " album ", " Wat Do You Want from Live "
1:01:22 , request , yes i would like to hear "the funky chicken goes to warsaw poland"
great show anybody know the backstory to this? No concert at the village on set list in 1985 guessing before love bomb tour with rungren. piece by piece lyrics off. before or after being dropped by capital? how was the band getting along during this. why no recorded encores. any other new vids to post? thanks
My understanding is that they did a few of these local career retrospective shows after the Love Bomb tour with Utopia completed. I found reference to one in southern CA on the web. These are said to be the final regular touring shows with Spooner before he split the band.
Jeff Dorman thanks set list has a similar song rotation at wolgangs in September 85 and then shows at the palace theater in la and Santa Cruz in November 85 must have been in there. in interviews fee says he wanted song writing to
1 side of love bomb so they could be as successful as reo speedwagon bill and Roger told me at a club tour in 1987 that in this case love bomb would have been read my lips. I am guessing it was known fee was leaving when this was recorded such a shame tremendous talent in its prime. Thanks again
I'm just guessing here, but I think Fee admired Todd's ability to write 'hits' in the 70's. And I think he wanted to go down that path with Foster and Lukather, helping him hone his skills. In retrospect, they were many other less-mainstream influences that could have helped him carve out a more individualistic solo career but he chose the SoCa/LA industry types. Read My Lips has a very average stuck in the 80's sound. The stuff from the fist side of Love Bomb blows it away.
Band was in debt ($1/2 mil) from self financing great Love Bomb your with multiple cancellations.I saw them during this period prairie not there (scheduled session work), mingo filled in on drums.I believe Fee and Mike Cotten were ready to leave but stayed to tour and eliminate debt.Strange part of snow was David Killingsworth would pop up occasionally during show dancing on top of PA with unplugged playing air guitar.Like this ,show was a retrospective and great,Spooner had to work with mingo a couple of times between songs (might have forgotten drum pattern)
(scheduled session work?)
Weird question maybe, because I LOVE the A&M years and this show is chock full.. but why decidedly no 'crowd pleasing' hits from the Capitol/Foster era (TTYL, Beauty, Dont Wanna Wait, Out of the business).. was this the tour they got fucked on, or the one they did to pay back all the money they may have owed to Capital etc.
This was the era of the band’s breakup, Fee was being a total baby about the bands creative direction and left because they didn’t hire the producer he wanted, so he was checked out (obviously no costumes and leaving stage constantly)
Gibson moderne, so damn ugly, its cool!
Can someone can educate me who "Mingo" is on percussion and guitar like keyboard ? be grateful for replies . thanks
Mingo Lewis percussionist with Santana, jammed at SF club residencies with the Tubes, joined officially for the now album and tour only
@Dean Repa
. Merci , Gracias , Thanks !
What kind of guitar is that, that Bill Spooner is playing?
Pevey, I believe.
Gibson Modern
Fee is drinking a lot of water . mdma ?
Probably lots of coke. It was the 1980s, who knows
@Fredrick Noble Steve Tyler sounded better on the coke and dope than he does sober. Fee is a better singer I agree.
I heard Fee in an interview around 2007 . He said he hated the album Todd Rundgren produced for them , lol . Song Television isn't bad though around 1:08:19 from same album (?)
I think the Todd produced album Fee Waybill didn't like was Love Bomb which was this tour. Fee wanted David Foster to do the third Capitol Album but the rest of the band couldn't stand David Foster. Particularly Bill Spooner. Fee thought a third album with Foster would have more hit records and put the Tubes over the top so to speak. Alas, Love Bomb had Piece By Piece as the only song that made a whimper on the charts, Capitol didn't support the tour, the band fell apart.
Fee wanted David Foster to produce their next album with limited input from band except for Fee with session players similar to many songs on Outside Inside.Band (except Fee )refused and hired Rundgren to do Love Bomb after Fee recorded and put out ReadMy Lips with Foster Lukather and session players which was terrible.
Todd produced Remote Control first...before Love Bomb. Both albums were witty and explosive! WAAAAYYY ahead of their time. By the mid-eighties, kids were seeking MC Hammer/Baby's Got Back and soon hip-hop. TRAGIC!
1:06:10 , It's just not the same without Fidel Castro . bummer .
Not impressed by Spooner's attempt at singing. Very ill advised!
‘Attempt’ ? Bill pretty much has the best voice in this whole band