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Rock Classics #67 - The Tubes

Erinnert sich jemand an "The Tubes" ? - vielleicht @reiseamateur oder @detlev

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Found another RockClassic

9 months no post to my #Rockclassics series anymore - though I covered all I considered a classic for me - when I found something during Cellar tidying work, a 45 vinyl single from "The Tubes" - I loved that song ages ago - a band founded back in 1972 in San Francisco - Rock and Punk - the song I bought was probably the most comercial one. Maybe someone remembers them, they still tour and play as alll these 70ies/80ies Rock bands.

Interesting parts

While they been Punk, rock they used a lot different hooks to music, from dance movies to use sports as background - one interesting one the production of their single "Sports Fans" that was recorded live during halftime of the legendary San Francisco 49ers "The Catch" game - you could see crew members on the side lines in the slow motion replay.

She is a Beauty hit me

Here the original album version followed by a live version from 1983:

This song was from the album "Outside Inside" and made them a bit mainstream (hence I discovered them) and was produced by David Foster - a new approach for the band and exlains a tension between original arty members and the more commercial pop rock guys - album had support in production by several studio musicians -I love from Chicago and Toto.

Since that album I have to admit I did not hear a lot by them and also did not follow - maybe old farts like @steevc @meesterboom know them.

Bought the album as well and also liked that song here.

Comments · 6

@waleedraza(59)· 14h
@meesterboom(81)· 1d
Lol, that's shits too old for me 🤣🤣
@vanje(73)· 2d
Ich kenne einige Songs von ihnen - bevor sie über She's a Beauty Radiotauglich wurden. Mir gefiel, wie sie ihre Provokation gegenüber der amerikanischer Konsum- und Medienkultur irgendwie schräg auf die Bühne brachten. Höre mich gerade wieder rein. Danke für den Tipp.
@davedickeyyall(79)· 2d
I was expecting some obscure sounding bullshit from the band name and the "old fart" reference.. then I hit play.

Hold the fuck on. I know this song. I can almost sing along. WTF... am I a old fart?

!pimp
@steevc(80)· 2d
I've heard of them, but not heard much of the music. I know their live act was a bit controversial. They appeared on a UK music show and that got some complaints for being a bit sexual. Got some similarities with Tom Petty, The Cars and Blondie in the style of that time.

@music-community(72)· 2d

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