Jon Hammond at the Organ and Microphone
*WATCH THE FILM HERE: Organ Meets Bigband Rostock
Klostergarten Jon's archive https://archive.org/details/OrganMeetsBigbandRostockKlostergarten by Jon Hammond
Published August 8, 2015 Usage Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Topics LaJazzO MV, Organ Meets Bigband, Klostergarten, Rostock, Jazz Orchestra, Jimmy Smith, Steve Gray, Michael
Leuschner, Landesjugendorchester Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, #HammondOrgan #Jazz #Blues „Organ meets Bigband“ das LaJJazzO M-V LandesJugendJazzOrchester Mecklenburg-Vorpommern https://www.facebook.com/events/846845685410695/ Am 01.08.2015 ist das Landesjugendjazzorchester Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (LaJazzO MV) mit seinem
diesjährigen Solisten Jon Hammond wieder im Klostergarten Rostock zu Gast. Covering Jimmy Smith's Back at The Chicken Shack and The Sermon - Nachdem sich in den vergangenen Jahren das LaJazzO MV mit
den in der Big Band vorkommenden Instrumenten musikalisch auseinandersetzte, wird in 2015 die Jazzorgel musikalisch thematisiert werden. Unter dem Titel "Organ meets Big Band" wird dieses sehr
traditionsreiche Instrument der Jazzgeschichte in den Mittelpunkt der Konzertreihe im folgenden Jahr gestellt. Als Jazzinstrument wurde es von Fats Waller in den 30er Jahren eingeführt und hatte
seine Hochzeit in den 50er Jahren durch seine Vertreter wie Jimmy Smith. Der international renommierte New Yorker Jazzorganist Jon Hammond wird zusammen mit dem LaJazzO MV unter der Leitung von
Michael Leuschner den besonderen Charme dieses Instrumentes wieder zum Leben erwecken. Im Programm sind unter anderem Titel von Jimmy Smith, arrangiert von Steve Gray - eine Leihgabe aus dem Archiv
der NDR-Bigband. Jon Hammond studierte in den siebziger Jahren am Berklee College of Music und am City College San Francisco. Konzertreisen führten ihn quer durch die Vereinigten Staaten und Kanada.
In seiner eigenen 'Jon Hammond Show' spielte er mit Musikern wie Dizzy Gillespie, Paul Butterfield, Jaco Pastorius, John Entwistle, Sammy Davis Jr., Percy Sledge und vielen anderen. Auch in Europa
fand und findet seine Musik unverändert viele Anhänger. Die Medien berichten wiederholt von einem unverwechselbaren und prägenden Sound. Jon Hammond hat u.a. auf der 20. Frankfurter Musikmesse
mitgewirkt und tritt vornehmlich in Hamburg auf. "The Jon Hammond Show" is a funky, swinging Jazz instrumental revue, featuring notable international soloists and reflecting the influences of Miles
Davis, The Crusaders and Jimmy Smith. http://www.HammondCast.com Programm: "Organ meets Bigband" Leitung: Michael Leuschner Samstag, d. 01.08.2015, 20:30 Klostergarten Rostock Producer Jon Hammond
Language English Facebook video https://www.facebook.com/jonhammondband/videos/vb.133709526657853/1105371389491657/?type=3&theater
Youtube https://youtu.be/gX-6UczeyII Vimeo https://vimeo.com/135785907 CNN iReport http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1262828 Leader Michael Leuschner and Jon Hammond with the famous poster for "Organ Meets Bigband" - NDR Jazz archives
special arrangements of Steve Gray come back to life here: 
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The Tubes - Band Tonight in Bremen Germany ladies
and gentlemen! - Coffee Time with The Tubes' Rick Anderson and Prairie Prince - Jon Hammond https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tubes L to R Rick
Andrson, Jon Hammond, Prairie Prince Wiki: The Tubes is a San Francisco-based rock band whose 1975 debut album included the hit single "White Punks on Dope". During its first fifteen years or so, the
band's live performances combined quasi-pornography with wild satires of media, consumerism, and politics.[citation needed] They are perhaps best remembered for their 1983 single "She's a Beauty", a
top 10 U.S. hit with a frequently-played music video in the early days of MTV; and in the 1980 film Xanadu singing the rock portion of the cross-genre song "Dancin'" opposite a big band. Phoenix,
Arizona, United States Genres Rock, punk, hard rock Years active 1972–present Labels A&M, Capitol Website Official website Members Roger Steen Prairie Prince Rick Anderson Fee Waybill David Medd
Past members Vince Welnick† Bill Spooner Michael Cotten Bob Mcintosh Re Styles Mingo Lewis Jane Dornacker† David Killingsworth Gary Cambra The Tubes started as a group of high school friends from
Phoenix and Scottsdale, Arizona. Two Phoenix bands, the Beans and The Red, White and Blues Band, both relocated to San Francisco in 1969 and eventually merged. The new band's core membership remained
largely intact for more than a decade: Fee Waybill (real name John Waldo Waybill) (vocals), Bill "Sputnik" Spooner (guitar, vocals), Roger Steen (guitar), Prairie Prince (real name Charles L. Prince)
(drums), Michael Cotten (synthesizer), Vince Welnick (piano), and Rick Anderson (bass). Singer Re Styles (born Shirley Marie MacLeod) (vocals) and ex-Santana percussionist Mingo Lewis were also
fixtures for much of the band's early history.[1] Show business excess was a common theme of the band's early work, with Waybill sometimes assuming the onstage persona of "Quay Lewd" (a pun on
Quaalude), a drunk, drugged out, barely coherent lead singer, wearing flashing glasses and stilt-like tall platform shoes. Debut album[edit] The Tubes' first self-titled album, The Tubes (1975), was
produced by Al Kooper. The track "White Punks on Dope" was an "absurd anthem of wretched excess" and a tribute to their rich, white teenage fan base in San Francisco.[citation needed] Since then the
song has been covered by Mötley Crüe, and the German rock musician Nina Hagen took the tune and set new lyrics to it (not a translation of the original lyrics), titled her work TV-Glotzer ("Couch
Potato"), and used this song as the opening track of her own debut album Nina Hagen Band, released 1978 on CBS/Germany Records. The album track "What Do You Want from Life?", which became another of
the Tubes' signature songs, satirizes consumerism and celebrity culture and climaxes in a "hard-sell" monologue by Waybill, which name-checks celebrities such as Bob Dylan, Paul Williams and Randolph
Mantooth, as well as well-known products of the period, including the Dynagym exercise machine and a host of American vehicles such as the Winnebago and the Mercury Montclair. Second album[edit] The
Tubes' second album, Young and Rich (1976) on A&M Records, was produced by Ken Scott. It featured "Don't Touch Me There", a suggestive duet between Waybill and Re Styles, which was arranged in
classic "Wall of Sound" style by Jack Nitzsche. The song was co-written by Ron Nagle and Tubes dancer/vocalist Jane Dornacker, who died in a helicopter crash in 1986. Third album, a live album,
fourth album[edit] The Tubes' third album gave way to thematic experimentation with Now (1977) and after their live record What Do You Want from Live (1978), recorded during their record breaking run
at the Hammersmith Odeon, London, England, the fourth album for A&M, Remote Control (1979) was a concept album produced by Todd Rundgren about a television-addicted idiot-savant. The cover of
Remote Control (1979) shows a baby watching American panel game show Hollywood Squares in a specially made "Vidi-Trainer". Music videos[edit] John Tobler opined that with their media savvy and
theatrical skills, The Tubes were born to create rock video, but arrived several years too early.[2] However, the band did produce at least one collection of music videos, which were issued on the
1982 Pioneer Artists laserdisc "The Tubes Video" (this videodisc contained versions of twelve of the band's hits, including "White Punks on Dope", "Mondo Bondage", "Talk to Ya Later", and several
others from yet-to-be-completed "The Completion Backwards Principle" album, in slickly produced music videos based on the group's stage shows). Live shows[edit] The Tubes put their creativity and art
skills mainly into their live performances, in which songs could be full-fledged production numbers, from a beach movie parody for "Sushi Girl", to leather clad S&M hijinks in "Mondo Bondage", to
the game show antics of "What Do You Want from Life?" At their peak, their live act featured dozens of other performers, including tap dancers and acrobats. The Tubes' stage productions were
choreographed by Kenny Ortega and featured cast members Jane Dornacker, LeRoy Jones, Michael Holman, Michael Springer, Cindi Osborn, Heline Gouax, and Mary Niland from 1975-1977. From 1978-1979, the
cast included Sharon Collins, Caty Bevan, and Loryanna Catalano. The Completion Backward tour featured Shelly Pang, Cheryl Hangland, Joey Richards, and Cynthia Rhodes. From 1983-1985, Michelle Gray
(who later married Todd Rundgren) and Cheryl Hangland were principal dancers. Several crew members — including Tour Manager Steve "Chopper" Borges, Lee Collins, and Gail Lowe — made frequent
appearances on stage in various roles as well.[citation needed] The Tubes' live shows in the late 1970s and early 1980s were rife with allusions to mainstream film [Dr. Strangelove (1964), Rollerball
(1975), Saturday Night Fever (1977), Grease (1978)] then-forgotten B-movies [Wild Women of Wongo (1958), Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958)], music (Tom Jones, punk rock, a medley of Nelson Riddle
television themes), contemporary pop culture (Patty Hearst, the Viking program), television (Let's Make a Deal, Fernwood 2Nite, the anime Raideen), and literature (Nelson Algren's A Walk on the Wild
Side), presaging the subcultural reverence and over-the-top theatricality of later groups like The World/Inferno Friendship Society.[citation needed] These shows were expensive to produce, however,
and while they earned the band a reputation for being one of the most entertaining live acts of the time, by the early 1980s, they found themselves short of money. Departure from A&M Records and
tenure with Capitol Records[edit] Their fifth studio album, the self-produced Suffer for Sound, was meant to complete the group's contract with A&M. As its style marked a radical new direction
for the band, A&M opted for a more conservative outtakes / B-sides / oddities selection titled T.R.A.S.H. (Tubes Rarities and Smash Hits) (1981).[3] The band was signed to Capitol Records by
Bruce Garfield and Bobby Colomby, scaling back the live shows to cut costs and redesigning itself as a leaner ensemble with a view to release more accessible hits. Fifth and sixth albums[edit] Suffer
For Sound was not released, so their fifth album release was The Completion Backward Principle (1981), another concept album, featuring the classic rock staple "Talk to Ya Later". The album presented
itself as a motivational business document, complete with shocking pictures of the band members cleaned up and wearing suits.[citation needed] The band also had their first Top 40 hit in the United
States in 1981, "Don't Want to Wait Anymore" (recorded almost entirely by Spooner, without Waybill's participation). The sixth studio album, Outside Inside (1983), followed a few years later and
yielded a few hits, including the number 10 (USA) hit "She's a Beauty". Seventh album and departure from Capitol Records[edit] In 1985, the band teamed up with Todd Rundgren again for their seventh
album, Love Bomb. With Bruce Garfield and Bobby Colomby dropped by Capitol in the company-wide layoffs that took place pre-reorganization, like many of their label mates The Tubes also were released,
however, this occurred just as they were going on tour in support of the album. The band found it necessary to self-finance the tour as a matter of respect to honor their commitment to their fans.
Between this tour's self-financing and the band's continued self-financing of their San Francisco recording studio built in 1980, the tour left the band in a half million dollars in debt, obliging
them to play lesser expensive and smaller venues for a year to pay off their financial commitments.[3] Waybill departs[edit] Fee Waybill had already released an unsuccessful solo album (Read My Lips,
Capitol Records) in 1984, but during this time, he had also happily enjoyed a fruitful writing partnership with fellow Capitol Records label mate Richard Marx, their most popular and well known
collaboration being "Edge of a Broken Heart", recorded by the female band Vixen. Waybill left the band in 1986 ["Fee broke up", one band member said],[citation needed] leaving the band without a lead
singer. Personnel changes[edit] Later in the year the remaining members of the band took on a longtime friend from Phoenix, Arizona, David Killingsworth, as lead vocalist. Killingsworth was the
singer in the Red and White Blues Band with Prairie and Roger. Michael Cotten relocated to New York to pursue a career based on his artwork, stage design and production, and is considered one of the
country's top production designers. In the fall of 1988, Bill Spooner traveled his final tour with the band and left in early 1989. Vince Welnick departed as well to take to the road with Todd
Rundgren in 1989 and then joined the Grateful Dead in 1990. Gary Cambra joined on keyboards and guitar in 1989. He and Roger Steen took over most the lead vocal duties after Killingsworth left in
early 1990. Waybill returns[edit] In 1993, Fee Waybill rejoined the band. This lineup toured Europe and released two albums, a compilation and the 1996 album Genius of America. David Medd joined in
1996 to play keyboards alongside Cambra. In 2001, the band released a live CD, The Tubes World Tour 2001, and continued to tour. Reunions[edit] On April 22, 2005, a reunion show took place at the Rio
Theater in Santa Cruz, CA, with Waybill, Steen, Anderson, Spooner, Welnick and Cotten. 2005 also saw the release of their live album Wild in London. In July 2015, the Tubes started a European and
U.S. tour, including dates in Germany, Sweden, the UK and the United States and featured 5 band members (Fee Waybill, Roger Steen, Prairie Prince, Rick Anderson & David Medd). The Tubes Project
and other milestones[edit] Michael Cotten started "The Tubes Project" in 2005, to save and digitize the band's reel to reel and video tape archive. The collection had been kept in the closet of Tubes
fan club president Marylin Wood's son after being discarded in the late 1980s. Included in the vault are full color shows taped for TV at Bimbos in San Francisco, 1975 and VARA TV from the 1977
European tour. Over 70 interviews were conducted with band members, crew, managers, cast and colleagues such as Re Styles, Todd Rundgren, Al Kooper, Devo and David Foster. Hundreds of photos were
scanned and compiled from band members and fan collections for use in the hour and half documentary. After leaving the band, Jane Dornacker formed the band Leila and the Snakes and later worked as a
traffic reporter. She was killed in a helicopter crash in 1986, whilst giving a live report. In April 2005, the band reunited for a concert at the Rio Theatre in Santa Cruz, California. It would be
the last performance of The Tubes to include Vince Welnick, and the last time the full line up appeared in public. Pianist Vince Welnick, who suffered from depression, committed suicide on June 2,
2006. Gary Cambra left the band in 2006 leaving David Medd as their sole keyboardist. On September 23, 2007, the remaining members of the Tubes reunited in Phoenix for their induction into the
Arizona Music & Entertainment Hall of Fame. On November 10, 2009, "Mondo Birthmark" a CD of previously unreleased rarities was released through the label Fuel 2000. The package was designed by
Michael Cotten and Prairie Prince with rare photos and interviews of the group. The demos also feature former member Bob Macintosh on drums. 1972: Tubes appear in Mitchell brothers pornographic film
Resurrection of Eve as Jesus Bongo and the Millionaires. 1973: Opened for the New York Dolls at the Matrix, Iggy Pop at Bimbos, and Led Zeppelin at Kezar Stadium in San Francisco. 1974: Tubes shoot
"video demo" at California Hall, which lands a record deal at A&M Records, Cotten/Prince paint "Flying Record" mural on A&M sound stage. 1975: Tubes play for two weeks of shows at David
Allen's nightclub The Boarding House in San Francisco, several sell-out dates at The Roxy in Los Angeles and The Bottom Line in New York. On December 31, they sell out Bill Graham's Winterland
Ballroom.[4] 1976: Held residency at Bimbos in San Francisco for one month, Prairie Prince dubbed "The One, The Only" by columnist Herb Caen. Tubes hold "Talent Hunt" at the Boarding House hosted by
Martin Mull; Robin Williams is contestant but loses. 1977: Held residency at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco for one month, the Whisky a Go Go nightclub in Los Angeles for two shows a night
for one month, and Hammersmith Odeon in London for a week. 1978: Headlined the Knebworth Festival with Frank Zappa and Peter Gabriel. On April 3, The Tubes performed live with Dolly Parton on Cher...
Special, in the "Musical Battle to Save Cher's Soul Medley". As the title would imply, the performance was a duel between the forces of good and evil to determine where Cher would spend her eternal
destiny. Dolly Parton was dressed in white and, with a team of brightly clad singers, portrayed an angelic host while The Tubes, dressed in black leather and performing "Mondo Bondage", battled to
send Cher's soul into eternal damnation. The band also performed the song "Smoke (La Vie en Fumér)", about a guy in a trenchcoat winning over a girl at a bar with his cigarette smoking technique,
which employed giant, twelve-foot inflatable cigarettes. At the end of the number the dancers would bash singer Waybill with the giant cigarettes until he was crushed into the ground.[5] 1979: Tubes
play Japan; Cotten/Welnick/Prince/Styles appear on Japanese soap opera. Tubes appear in Andy Warhol's Interview magazine. 1980: Made an appearance in the film Xanadu singing the rock portion of the
cross-genre song "Dancin'" opposite a big band. 1980: Sold out the Roxy Theatre for 12 shows 1981: Record Grammy nominated "The Tubes Video" at Shepperton Studios, one of the first long form video
discs. 1981: Sang "Sushi Girl" and "Talk to Ya Later" on the television sketch comedy program SCTV, Episode #86 airing July 24. 1981: Appeared and sang, "Sushi Girl" and "Don't Want to Wait Anymore"
on Tomorrow with Tom Snyder. 1981: Compose the song "Road Map of My Tears" for the film Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains, in which Waybill and Welnick appear, among other musicians, as the
fictional rock group The Metal Corpses. 1982: Appeared in a commercial for Activision's video game Megamania. 1983: Opened several dates for David Bowie on the Serious Moonlight tour and on this
tour, among other highlights, they were the first artists to ever play the newly opened Tacoma Dome in Tacoma, Washington. At the end of the Bowie tour, they played a few shows featuring their
classic no-holds-barred theatrics in Portland, Oregon, and other west-coast cities. 1985: Tour with Todd Rundgren's Utopia, play Radio City Music Hall. 1975 The Tubes Released: Label: A&M Format:
113 — 1976 Young and Rich Released: Label: A&M Format: 46 — 1977 Now Released: May 1977 Label: A&M Format: 122 — 1979 Remote Control Released: Label: A&M Format: 46 40 1981 The Completion
Backward Principle Released: Label: Capitol Format: 36 — CAN: Gold[6] 1983 Outside Inside Released: Label: Capitol Format: 18 77 1985 Love Bomb Released: Label: Capitol Format: 87 — 1996 Genius of
America Released: October 15, 1996 Label: Critique Format: — — 2002 Hoods from Outer Space Released: May 22, 2002 Label: Brilliant Format: 1 Audio CD — — 2003 White Punks on Dope Released: November
24, 2003 Label: Acadia Records (UK) Budget re-release of The Tubes and Young and Rich Format: 1 Audio CD — — 2009 Mondo Birthmark Released: November 10, 2009 Label: Fuel Format: Audio CD 1981
T.R.A.S.H. (Tubes Rarities and Smash Hits) Released: Label: A&M Format: 148 — 1992 The Best of the Tubes Released: November 17, 1992 Label: Capitol Format: 1 Audio CD — — 2000 Millennium
Collection: The Tubes Released: October 17, 2000 Label: [A&M] Format: 1 Audio CD 1978 What Do You Want from Live Released: Label:A&M Format: 82 38 2001 The Tubes World Tour 2001 (live)
Released: October 10, 2000 Label: CMC Format: 1 Audio CD; 1 Cassette — — 2005 Wild in London Released: October 2, 2006 Label: Snapper Format: — — 2006 Alive in America Released: '76 live broadcast
from LA Shrine Label: (unsanctioned) Renaissance Format: Audio CD — — Singles[edit] Year Song Peak chart positions Album US US Main. Rock UK [7] 1976 "Don't Touch Me There" 61 — — Young and Rich 1977
"White Punks on Dope" — — 28 The Tubes 1979 "Prime Time" — — 34 Remote Control 1981 "Don't Want to Wait Anymore" 35 22 60 The Completion Backward Principle "Talk to Ya Later" 101 7 — "Gonna Get It
Next Time" — — — Sports Fans 1983 "She's a Beauty" 10 1 79 Outside Inside "Tip of My Tongue" 52 — — "The Monkey Time" 68 16 — 1985 "Piece by Piece" 87 25 — Love Bomb "—" denotes releases that did not
chart. Video albums[edit] Year Video details 1981 The Tubes Video Released: November 15, 1981 Label: Thorn EMI Video (Betamax and VHS), Pioneer Artists (LaserDisc), RCA Corporation (CED) Format:
Betamax, VHS, LaserDisc, CED Nominated for a Grammy 1982 The Tubes: Live at the Greek Released: November 1982 Label: Monterey Home Video Format: Betamax, VHS Joe Berger, Koei Tanaka, Jon Hammond
Organ Group Rostock, Klostergarten, Landesjugendorchester, LaJazzO MV, Organ Meets Jazz, Chicken Shack, iLow Haus, AFM Local 6, Local 802 Musicians Union, #Jazz #Blues #HammondOrgan #NDRJazz
Jon's archive https://archive.org/details/MNNCh.1BroadcastOnPublicAccessTVJonHammondShow Youtube https://youtu.be/zw2VOfpHEJ8 Published July 24, 2015 Usage Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Topics Broadcasting, Public Access, Cable Access, MCTV,
Manhattan Neighborhood network, #HammondOrgan Dave Van Ronk, Michael Brecker #MichaelBrecker #BarryFinnerty #musikmesse Alan Pasqua 
The Tubes - Band Tonight in Bremen Germany ladies
and gentlemen! - Coffee Time with The Tubes' Rick Anderson and Prairie Prince - Jon Hammond https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tubes L to R Rick
Andrson, Jon Hammond, Prairie Prince Wiki: The Tubes is a San Francisco-based rock band whose 1975 debut album included the hit single "White Punks on Dope". During its first fifteen years or so, the
band's live performances combined quasi-pornography with wild satires of media, consumerism, and politics.[citation needed] They are perhaps best remembered for their 1983 single "She's a Beauty", a
top 10 U.S. hit with a frequently-played music video in the early days of MTV; and in the 1980 film Xanadu singing the rock portion of the cross-genre song "Dancin'" opposite a big band. Phoenix,
Arizona, United States Genres Rock, punk, hard rock Years active 1972–present Labels A&M, Capitol Website Official website Members Roger Steen Prairie Prince Rick Anderson Fee Waybill David Medd
Past members Vince Welnick† Bill Spooner Michael Cotten Bob Mcintosh Re Styles Mingo Lewis Jane Dornacker† David Killingsworth Gary Cambra The Tubes started as a group of high school friends from
Phoenix and Scottsdale, Arizona. Two Phoenix bands, the Beans and The Red, White and Blues Band, both relocated to San Francisco in 1969 and eventually merged. The new band's core membership remained
largely intact for more than a decade: Fee Waybill (real name John Waldo Waybill) (vocals), Bill "Sputnik" Spooner (guitar, vocals), Roger Steen (guitar), Prairie Prince (real name Charles L. Prince)
(drums), Michael Cotten (synthesizer), Vince Welnick (piano), and Rick Anderson (bass). Singer Re Styles (born Shirley Marie MacLeod) (vocals) and ex-Santana percussionist Mingo Lewis were also
fixtures for much of the band's early history.[1] Show business excess was a common theme of the band's early work, with Waybill sometimes assuming the onstage persona of "Quay Lewd" (a pun on
Quaalude), a drunk, drugged out, barely coherent lead singer, wearing flashing glasses and stilt-like tall platform shoes. Debut album[edit] The Tubes' first self-titled album, The Tubes (1975), was
produced by Al Kooper. The track "White Punks on Dope" was an "absurd anthem of wretched excess" and a tribute to their rich, white teenage fan base in San Francisco.[citation needed] Since then the
song has been covered by Mötley Crüe, and the German rock musician Nina Hagen took the tune and set new lyrics to it (not a translation of the original lyrics), titled her work TV-Glotzer ("Couch
Potato"), and used this song as the opening track of her own debut album Nina Hagen Band, released 1978 on CBS/Germany Records. The album track "What Do You Want from Life?", which became another of
the Tubes' signature songs, satirizes consumerism and celebrity culture and climaxes in a "hard-sell" monologue by Waybill, which name-checks celebrities such as Bob Dylan, Paul Williams and Randolph
Mantooth, as well as well-known products of the period, including the Dynagym exercise machine and a host of American vehicles such as the Winnebago and the Mercury Montclair. Second album[edit] The
Tubes' second album, Young and Rich (1976) on A&M Records, was produced by Ken Scott. It featured "Don't Touch Me There", a suggestive duet between Waybill and Re Styles, which was arranged in
classic "Wall of Sound" style by Jack Nitzsche. The song was co-written by Ron Nagle and Tubes dancer/vocalist Jane Dornacker, who died in a helicopter crash in 1986. Third album, a live album,
fourth album[edit] The Tubes' third album gave way to thematic experimentation with Now (1977) and after their live record What Do You Want from Live (1978), recorded during their record breaking run
at the Hammersmith Odeon, London, England, the fourth album for A&M, Remote Control (1979) was a concept album produced by Todd Rundgren about a television-addicted idiot-savant. The cover of
Remote Control (1979) shows a baby watching American panel game show Hollywood Squares in a specially made "Vidi-Trainer". Music videos[edit] John Tobler opined that with their media savvy and
theatrical skills, The Tubes were born to create rock video, but arrived several years too early.[2] However, the band did produce at least one collection of music videos, which were issued on the
1982 Pioneer Artists laserdisc "The Tubes Video" (this videodisc contained versions of twelve of the band's hits, including "White Punks on Dope", "Mondo Bondage", "Talk to Ya Later", and several
others from yet-to-be-completed "The Completion Backwards Principle" album, in slickly produced music videos based on the group's stage shows). Live shows[edit] The Tubes put their creativity and art
skills mainly into their live performances, in which songs could be full-fledged production numbers, from a beach movie parody for "Sushi Girl", to leather clad S&M hijinks in "Mondo Bondage", to
the game show antics of "What Do You Want from Life?" At their peak, their live act featured dozens of other performers, including tap dancers and acrobats. The Tubes' stage productions were
choreographed by Kenny Ortega and featured cast members Jane Dornacker, LeRoy Jones, Michael Holman, Michael Springer, Cindi Osborn, Heline Gouax, and Mary Niland from 1975-1977. From 1978-1979, the
cast included Sharon Collins, Caty Bevan, and Loryanna Catalano. The Completion Backward tour featured Shelly Pang, Cheryl Hangland, Joey Richards, and Cynthia Rhodes. From 1983-1985, Michelle Gray
(who later married Todd Rundgren) and Cheryl Hangland were principal dancers. Several crew members — including Tour Manager Steve "Chopper" Borges, Lee Collins, and Gail Lowe — made frequent
appearances on stage in various roles as well.[citation needed] The Tubes' live shows in the late 1970s and early 1980s were rife with allusions to mainstream film [Dr. Strangelove (1964), Rollerball
(1975), Saturday Night Fever (1977), Grease (1978)] then-forgotten B-movies [Wild Women of Wongo (1958), Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958)], music (Tom Jones, punk rock, a medley of Nelson Riddle
television themes), contemporary pop culture (Patty Hearst, the Viking program), television (Let's Make a Deal, Fernwood 2Nite, the anime Raideen), and literature (Nelson Algren's A Walk on the Wild
Side), presaging the subcultural reverence and over-the-top theatricality of later groups like The World/Inferno Friendship Society.[citation needed] These shows were expensive to produce, however,
and while they earned the band a reputation for being one of the most entertaining live acts of the time, by the early 1980s, they found themselves short of money. Departure from A&M Records and
tenure with Capitol Records[edit] Their fifth studio album, the self-produced Suffer for Sound, was meant to complete the group's contract with A&M. As its style marked a radical new direction
for the band, A&M opted for a more conservative outtakes / B-sides / oddities selection titled T.R.A.S.H. (Tubes Rarities and Smash Hits) (1981).[3] The band was signed to Capitol Records by
Bruce Garfield and Bobby Colomby, scaling back the live shows to cut costs and redesigning itself as a leaner ensemble with a view to release more accessible hits. Fifth and sixth albums[edit] Suffer
For Sound was not released, so their fifth album release was The Completion Backward Principle (1981), another concept album, featuring the classic rock staple "Talk to Ya Later". The album presented
itself as a motivational business document, complete with shocking pictures of the band members cleaned up and wearing suits.[citation needed] The band also had their first Top 40 hit in the United
States in 1981, "Don't Want to Wait Anymore" (recorded almost entirely by Spooner, without Waybill's participation). The sixth studio album, Outside Inside (1983), followed a few years later and
yielded a few hits, including the number 10 (USA) hit "She's a Beauty". Seventh album and departure from Capitol Records[edit] In 1985, the band teamed up with Todd Rundgren again for their seventh
album, Love Bomb. With Bruce Garfield and Bobby Colomby dropped by Capitol in the company-wide layoffs that took place pre-reorganization, like many of their label mates The Tubes also were released,
however, this occurred just as they were going on tour in support of the album. The band found it necessary to self-finance the tour as a matter of respect to honor their commitment to their fans.
Between this tour's self-financing and the band's continued self-financing of their San Francisco recording studio built in 1980, the tour left the band in a half million dollars in debt, obliging
them to play lesser expensive and smaller venues for a year to pay off their financial commitments.[3] Waybill departs[edit] Fee Waybill had already released an unsuccessful solo album (Read My Lips,
Capitol Records) in 1984, but during this time, he had also happily enjoyed a fruitful writing partnership with fellow Capitol Records label mate Richard Marx, their most popular and well known
collaboration being "Edge of a Broken Heart", recorded by the female band Vixen. Waybill left the band in 1986 ["Fee broke up", one band member said],[citation needed] leaving the band without a lead
singer. Personnel changes[edit] Later in the year the remaining members of the band took on a longtime friend from Phoenix, Arizona, David Killingsworth, as lead vocalist. Killingsworth was the
singer in the Red and White Blues Band with Prairie and Roger. Michael Cotten relocated to New York to pursue a career based on his artwork, stage design and production, and is considered one of the
country's top production designers. In the fall of 1988, Bill Spooner traveled his final tour with the band and left in early 1989. Vince Welnick departed as well to take to the road with Todd
Rundgren in 1989 and then joined the Grateful Dead in 1990. Gary Cambra joined on keyboards and guitar in 1989. He and Roger Steen took over most the lead vocal duties after Killingsworth left in
early 1990. Waybill returns[edit] In 1993, Fee Waybill rejoined the band. This lineup toured Europe and released two albums, a compilation and the 1996 album Genius of America. David Medd joined in
1996 to play keyboards alongside Cambra. In 2001, the band released a live CD, The Tubes World Tour 2001, and continued to tour. Reunions[edit] On April 22, 2005, a reunion show took place at the Rio
Theater in Santa Cruz, CA, with Waybill, Steen, Anderson, Spooner, Welnick and Cotten. 2005 also saw the release of their live album Wild in London. In July 2015, the Tubes started a European and
U.S. tour, including dates in Germany, Sweden, the UK and the United States and featured 5 band members (Fee Waybill, Roger Steen, Prairie Prince, Rick Anderson & David Medd). The Tubes Project
and other milestones[edit] Michael Cotten started "The Tubes Project" in 2005, to save and digitize the band's reel to reel and video tape archive. The collection had been kept in the closet of Tubes
fan club president Marylin Wood's son after being discarded in the late 1980s. Included in the vault are full color shows taped for TV at Bimbos in San Francisco, 1975 and VARA TV from the 1977
European tour. Over 70 interviews were conducted with band members, crew, managers, cast and colleagues such as Re Styles, Todd Rundgren, Al Kooper, Devo and David Foster. Hundreds of photos were
scanned and compiled from band members and fan collections for use in the hour and half documentary. After leaving the band, Jane Dornacker formed the band Leila and the Snakes and later worked as a
traffic reporter. She was killed in a helicopter crash in 1986, whilst giving a live report. In April 2005, the band reunited for a concert at the Rio Theatre in Santa Cruz, California. It would be
the last performance of The Tubes to include Vince Welnick, and the last time the full line up appeared in public. Pianist Vince Welnick, who suffered from depression, committed suicide on June 2,
2006. Gary Cambra left the band in 2006 leaving David Medd as their sole keyboardist. On September 23, 2007, the remaining members of the Tubes reunited in Phoenix for their induction into the
Arizona Music & Entertainment Hall of Fame. On November 10, 2009, "Mondo Birthmark" a CD of previously unreleased rarities was released through the label Fuel 2000. The package was designed by
Michael Cotten and Prairie Prince with rare photos and interviews of the group. The demos also feature former member Bob Macintosh on drums. 1972: Tubes appear in Mitchell brothers pornographic film
Resurrection of Eve as Jesus Bongo and the Millionaires. 1973: Opened for the New York Dolls at the Matrix, Iggy Pop at Bimbos, and Led Zeppelin at Kezar Stadium in San Francisco. 1974: Tubes shoot
"video demo" at California Hall, which lands a record deal at A&M Records, Cotten/Prince paint "Flying Record" mural on A&M sound stage. 1975: Tubes play for two weeks of shows at David
Allen's nightclub The Boarding House in San Francisco, several sell-out dates at The Roxy in Los Angeles and The Bottom Line in New York. On December 31, they sell out Bill Graham's Winterland
Ballroom.[4] 1976: Held residency at Bimbos in San Francisco for one month, Prairie Prince dubbed "The One, The Only" by columnist Herb Caen. Tubes hold "Talent Hunt" at the Boarding House hosted by
Martin Mull; Robin Williams is contestant but loses. 1977: Held residency at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco for one month, the Whisky a Go Go nightclub in Los Angeles for two shows a night
for one month, and Hammersmith Odeon in London for a week. 1978: Headlined the Knebworth Festival with Frank Zappa and Peter Gabriel. On April 3, The Tubes performed live with Dolly Parton on Cher...
Special, in the "Musical Battle to Save Cher's Soul Medley". As the title would imply, the performance was a duel between the forces of good and evil to determine where Cher would spend her eternal
destiny. Dolly Parton was dressed in white and, with a team of brightly clad singers, portrayed an angelic host while The Tubes, dressed in black leather and performing "Mondo Bondage", battled to
send Cher's soul into eternal damnation. The band also performed the song "Smoke (La Vie en Fumér)", about a guy in a trenchcoat winning over a girl at a bar with his cigarette smoking technique,
which employed giant, twelve-foot inflatable cigarettes. At the end of the number the dancers would bash singer Waybill with the giant cigarettes until he was crushed into the ground.[5] 1979: Tubes
play Japan; Cotten/Welnick/Prince/Styles appear on Japanese soap opera. Tubes appear in Andy Warhol's Interview magazine. 1980: Made an appearance in the film Xanadu singing the rock portion of the
cross-genre song "Dancin'" opposite a big band. 1980: Sold out the Roxy Theatre for 12 shows 1981: Record Grammy nominated "The Tubes Video" at Shepperton Studios, one of the first long form video
discs. 1981: Sang "Sushi Girl" and "Talk to Ya Later" on the television sketch comedy program SCTV, Episode #86 airing July 24. 1981: Appeared and sang, "Sushi Girl" and "Don't Want to Wait Anymore"
on Tomorrow with Tom Snyder. 1981: Compose the song "Road Map of My Tears" for the film Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains, in which Waybill and Welnick appear, among other musicians, as the
fictional rock group The Metal Corpses. 1982: Appeared in a commercial for Activision's video game Megamania. 1983: Opened several dates for David Bowie on the Serious Moonlight tour and on this
tour, among other highlights, they were the first artists to ever play the newly opened Tacoma Dome in Tacoma, Washington. At the end of the Bowie tour, they played a few shows featuring their
classic no-holds-barred theatrics in Portland, Oregon, and other west-coast cities. 1985: Tour with Todd Rundgren's Utopia, play Radio City Music Hall. 1975 The Tubes Released: Label: A&M Format:
113 — 1976 Young and Rich Released: Label: A&M Format: 46 — 1977 Now Released: May 1977 Label: A&M Format: 122 — 1979 Remote Control Released: Label: A&M Format: 46 40 1981 The Completion
Backward Principle Released: Label: Capitol Format: 36 — CAN: Gold[6] 1983 Outside Inside Released: Label: Capitol Format: 18 77 1985 Love Bomb Released: Label: Capitol Format: 87 — 1996 Genius of
America Released: October 15, 1996 Label: Critique Format: — — 2002 Hoods from Outer Space Released: May 22, 2002 Label: Brilliant Format: 1 Audio CD — — 2003 White Punks on Dope Released: November
24, 2003 Label: Acadia Records (UK) Budget re-release of The Tubes and Young and Rich Format: 1 Audio CD — — 2009 Mondo Birthmark Released: November 10, 2009 Label: Fuel Format: Audio CD 1981
T.R.A.S.H. (Tubes Rarities and Smash Hits) Released: Label: A&M Format: 148 — 1992 The Best of the Tubes Released: November 17, 1992 Label: Capitol Format: 1 Audio CD — — 2000 Millennium
Collection: The Tubes Released: October 17, 2000 Label: [A&M] Format: 1 Audio CD 1978 What Do You Want from Live Released: Label:A&M Format: 82 38 2001 The Tubes World Tour 2001 (live)
Released: October 10, 2000 Label: CMC Format: 1 Audio CD; 1 Cassette — — 2005 Wild in London Released: October 2, 2006 Label: Snapper Format: — — 2006 Alive in America Released: '76 live broadcast
from LA Shrine Label: (unsanctioned) Renaissance Format: Audio CD — — Singles[edit] Year Song Peak chart positions Album US US Main. Rock UK [7] 1976 "Don't Touch Me There" 61 — — Young and Rich 1977
"White Punks on Dope" — — 28 The Tubes 1979 "Prime Time" — — 34 Remote Control 1981 "Don't Want to Wait Anymore" 35 22 60 The Completion Backward Principle "Talk to Ya Later" 101 7 — "Gonna Get It
Next Time" — — — Sports Fans 1983 "She's a Beauty" 10 1 79 Outside Inside "Tip of My Tongue" 52 — — "The Monkey Time" 68 16 — 1985 "Piece by Piece" 87 25 — Love Bomb "—" denotes releases that did not
chart. Video albums[edit] Year Video details 1981 The Tubes Video Released: November 15, 1981 Label: Thorn EMI Video (Betamax and VHS), Pioneer Artists (LaserDisc), RCA Corporation (CED) Format:
Betamax, VHS, LaserDisc, CED Nominated for a Grammy 1982 The Tubes: Live at the Greek Released: November 1982 Label: Monterey Home Video Format: Betamax, VHS Joe Berger, Koei Tanaka, Jon Hammond
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