{"id":3874,"date":"2008-02-16T17:19:08","date_gmt":"2008-02-16T16:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/2008\/02\/16\/baby-your-face-is-mutated"},"modified":"2008-02-16T17:19:08","modified_gmt":"2008-02-16T16:19:08","slug":"baby-your-face-is-mutated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/2008\/02\/16\/baby-your-face-is-mutated","title":{"rendered":"Baby Your Face Is Mutated"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Tubes<\/a> are a San Francisco-based theatre rock band founded in the early 1970s and known for their live performances which combined lewd quasi-pornography and wild satires of media, showbiz excess, consumerism and politics.<\/p>\n

Influenced by the Mothers of Invention and Captain Beefheat & his Magic Band — The Tubes performed covers of Frank Zappa’s ‘More Trouble Every Day’ and ‘King Kong’ in a 1972 concert<\/a>, and recorded a cover version of Beefheart’s ‘My Head Is My Only House Unless It Rains’ on their 1977 album, NOW<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Their 1978 album, What Do You Want From Live<\/a>, is considered by many to be the quintessential “live” album. I tend to agree. I was also fortunate enough to see The Tubes live myself in 1981. I was not disappointed. Their live shows are legendary. After they broke up in the late 80s I thought that was it for The Tubes, but fortunately for new fans, after the release of their 1996 “return to form” album, Genius of America<\/a> (after several disappointing efforts in the 1980s), a reformed line-up of The Tubes began touring again, including:<\/p>\n

Fee Waybill (lead singer\/songwriter)
\nRoger Steen (lead guitar\/vocals)
\nPrairie Prince (drums\/percussion)
\nRick Anderson (bass)
\nDavid Medd (keyboards)<\/p>\n

(Note that David Medd was invited to sing on Genius of America by Gary Cambra<\/a> who has since left The Tubes to do solo projects).<\/p>\n

If you can’t see The Tubes live, yourself, there’s always The Tubes Wild West Show<\/a> on DVD (Unlike the live album, it doesn’t have any of those nasty “bleeps” the record company censors loved so much in the late 70s).
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\nBTW, I know who I’d like to dedicate this particular video to…<\/strong><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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