OFF: Magazine, Wayne Kramer, the Beans,tubes

[Timothy E Elliott]

re:the tubes-no not really,thought they did a reunion tour & cd in 2000. versions of
`don't touch me there',`mondo bondage',& `white punks...' not to bad,but of course nothing beats the orginals-look for `t.r.a.s.h.' cd in used cd shops,all the great pre-80s
stuff.
heathcliff
Nick Medford wrote:
 >
 > In message <36.17c1e31b.28689674 at aol.com>, DASLUD at AOL.COM
 > writes
 > >at no point was magazine 'theatrical' as the tubes were; c'mon now...
 >
 > I had a feeling someone would pick this up as it's a pretty, umm, oblique
 > comparison... but there are vague musical similarities here and there
 >
 > But yeah, from listening to Magazine it's impossible (and that's putting it
 > mildly) to imagine them having the kind of stage-show for which the Tubes
 > were celebrated.
 > >
 > >when i was a freshman in high school in tempe arizona [71-2], the
 > >coolest/'freakiest' local band was understood to be "the beans"; i've got
 > >about a song and a half on a crumbling cassette.
 > >this is where fee waybill came from, maybe other tubes tambien...
 > >
 > >the beans went frisco 'way, and combined w/a band called [i tink] arizona
 > >and went on to become the tubes....
 >
 > White Punks On Broad Beans... or something... I feel this thread lurching
 > Beefheart-wards...
 >
 > What happened to the Tubes anyway? They descended into AOR hell in
 > the 80s IIRC.. did they ever clamber out again?
 > --
 > Nick Medford