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  • Audio CD (November 10, 2009)
  • Original Release Date: November 10, 2009
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Fuel 2000
  • ASIN: B002QXIMRW
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #9,777 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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1. Hoy Boy
2. White Punks On Dope
3. Wonderbread Bodies
4. Mondo Bondage
5. More / Telstar
6. Artaud Poem (Workman's Hand & Monkey Hand)
7. Mutated
8. Empty Shoes
9. TV
10. Crazy 'Bout Your Daisy
11. Dinosaur Blues
12. The Whittler
13. Let's Do It
14. Haloes
15. Poland Whole
16. Boogie For The People

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Before their top 40 successes in the '80s, even before their '70s emergence with cult hits like "Mondo Bondage" and "White Punks On Dope", THE TUBES were a fully-formed band in San Francisco, complete with an outrageous stage show. These ultra-rare studio recordings from the TUBES archives represent their earliest demo tapes, featuring a dozen songs never available anywhere else in any form.
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5.0 out of 5 stars This one ought to take you back to their wacky and creative days!, November 11, 2009
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For those of you lucky enough to have seen The Tubes in the 70's, this is the disc to remind you of their creative zaniness, unique style, and incredible musicianship!

This collection of rarities could not be further from their commercial success of the early 1980's. This band was truly ahead of its time. Even some of the older tracks on their "Demo Daze" CD from 2001 have their work-in-progress roots on this CD.

This album features several cuts from the Tubes vaults that never made it onto a record, and some that probably kept them from even getting a record deal (if I may paraphrase from the liner notes).

The photo on the back of the CD package shows 9 members (instead of the more well-known 7) and the liner notes and credits list a total of 10 members, past and present. The track listing on the back is also missing one track, but the full and correct listing is on this Amazon page and in the liner notes.

Hard to believe The Tubes were ever this young!

Some bands were meant to be seen and not heard, and some bands were meant to be heard but not seen. This band was meant to be both seen AND heard! Hard to tell which was more important. The Tubes really knew how to put on a show, and this CD is more proof that excellent musicianship, theatricality, and creativity won't guarantee commercial success but just might generate the well-deserved cult status that puts most other bands and music to shame.

The photos in the CD booklet are not to be missed!
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4.0 out of 5 stars The Tubes Most People Don't Know..., November 18, 2009
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My first exposure to "The Beans" came on Audition Nite at Uncle Sam's in Sebastopol, CA for $.50. A friend of mine said "You got to come over and see this. There's a guy up there dressed as a chick." It was Fee as Carmen Miranda doing the Latin Set. The music that they were delivering was rough, but it was so different then anything I had ever heard. They mixed being a great club dance band and really pissing off the male elements as they refused to continually play in "éven" time, thus making it difficult to dance to...

On this collection, you will find great examples of odd time and unconventional tonality...On Hoy Boy, Wonderbread Bodies,Artaud Poem, The Tubes are doing what they do... Roger Steen and Vince Welnick were great soloists in that format. Along with More/Telstar, TV, and especially Dinosaur Blues (one of my absolute favorites), you have the essence of the early Tubes. Michael Cotton was not in the group at that time, thus no synthesizer. It's the type of music that as you listen to it, you just want to keep playing it until you wear the damn disk out.

The first time I saw the twin guitars and twin drummers, for an aspiring musician, it was magical. This is the first collection that I know of that has the late Bob MacIntosh along with Prairie Prince delivering the syncopated beat that made The Tubes special. They are featured in Artaud Poem and in Let's Do It...Just terrific stuff, and long overdue...The Tubes grew into a Freight Train, simply too big and powerful for most clubs to handle...and my band actually did open for them a year or 2 later...

In October 09, I saw them again in Annapolis for the first time in about 15 or 20 years...They still got it!
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