The Tubes
1977 April 4 Friday
The Whiskey
Sunset Strip, Hollywood, CA

The AD says this is the last show, but I found this with it. I don't know which is right.

The Tubes March 11 - April 8
Lee Michaels, Van Halen April 9 - 10
Television April 13 - 16
Blondie April 20 - 23
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers April 26, 27
The Babys April 28 - May 1


Source: Audience Tape
Deck: Unknown (Nakamichi maybe)
Mic: Unknown
Sound Quality: (A) EX- sound. Some flaws
Source: Cassette Copy

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The Tubes were:
Fee Waybill - vocals
Bill Spooner - guitar, vocals
Michael Cotten - synthesizer, vocals
Mingo Lewis - drums, percussion
Prairie Prince - drums
Roger Steen - guitar, vocals
Vince Welnick - keyboards, vocals
Rick Anderson - bass
Re Styles - vocals
"productions were choreographed by Kenny Ortega and featured cast members Jane Dornacker, LeRoy Jones, Michael Holman, Michael Springer, Edwin Heaven, Cindi Osborn, Heline Gouax, and Mary Niland from 1975-1977"
**from Wiki**

01. God Bird Change
02. What Do You Want From Life?
03. Golden Boy
04. Swami Intro-Hail, Hail RnR
05. Sex Ed Class>
06. Don't Touch Me There>
07. Mondo Bondage
08. Pimp
09. Love Will Keep Us Together
10. Slipped My Disco
11. Smoke
12. This Town
13. L.A. Connection Comedy group*
14. Pound of Flesh (Johnny Bugger)
15. I'm Just A Mess(Johnny Bugger)
16. White Punks... (Johnny Bugger)
17. Jam-Costume change
18. Stand Up and Shout (Quay)
19. ...On Dope (cut)



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE6c0-q7upg
First be sure to watch the video of
"Pimp" and "Love will keep us together" onYOUTUBE
Different night, same Whiskey show.
There are two loud POPS in the song "Pimp" you have to see the video to know what it is. (Same way I found out)

And a few memories from someone that was there.
I was 16 and won 2 tickets to this show on the radio.
This is my 1st club show, Peter Gabriel at the Roxy a week later was 2nd. I thought all club shows were going to be like this!

For me, this is the Tubes at their best!
For the people that didn't see this show, I'll try to discribe...
The stage had 5 TV sets on pole stands, one higher up than the rest. Most of the show, they showed the band, but the middle one would come on with the announcer or Quay. Any voices that are not the band, are from the TV.
Before the show they played clips from entries to the talent search contest. L.A. Connection was the winner.
Not really fair as they are a comedy group that has been around since the 60's.
They did this exact scetch on the Dick Cavett show with Janis Joplin doing one of the voices.
They ask each person to choose any sound to make, then a conductor will point at them like a instrament in an orchestra. To create a human voice orchestra.
And yes I would have prefered to have the Tubes show complete, and left this out. I didn't tape this show.

There is so much going on in this show that "What Do You Want" is a tame song.
The Sex Ed scene starts with the hail hail R&R intro playing in the dark, so the roadies can move a school desk and blackboard on stage, and each of the Re-styles bring up a school chair/desk, so when they get to "Ring Ring goes the bell' the house lights come on and the stage is now a school class room.
They are drawing lewd pictures on the board when the teacher struts her way into the room.
Fee and her get things warmed up for Don't touch me there, where she is spread out on the school desk.
He ripped her dress off, and they start "Mondo Bondage" girls in leather bondage suit come out on the Go-Go girl walkway the Whiskey has, and they grab chains from the ceiling to look like the are chained up there. and the stangest thing was a rubber screen at the top of the stairs, a girl in a bodysuit came out and did the bump and grind above the audience pressing against the rubber screen. Kinda looked like a wet dream.
And "white Punks" starts with Johnny Bugger, spitting beer from these tiny Coor's cans on the auidence, two guys down in front start a fight with Johnny and the end up pulling him off the stage, all you see is shoving, and fists, as the drag him to the front door of the Whiskey. There is a small hall before you get out to the street, he used that to change into Quay.

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