The Tubes

The Tubes

The Tubes are 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...

 released this live album in 2005

2005 in music

-Events:*During the year 2005, 12 rock music albums scored number 1 in the USA. This was the first time even ten albums have scored number 1 since 1996.-January:...

. Wild In London was recorded on 6 December 2004 at Londons' Shepherd's Bush Empire and features some newer Fee Waybill characters such as 'Russell Chaps'. The CD featured a guest appearance by Beki Bondage who dueted with Fee Waybill on "Don't Touch Me There".
There was an accompanying DVD called The Tubes Wild West Show, which has many more tracks on than the CD release.
The line-up features Fee, Roger, Rick, Prairie and Gary Cambra and David Medd.

Track listing

1. "Overture" - 2:32
2. "She's A Beauty" (Foster, Lukather, Waybill) - 5:47
3. "Don't Touch Me There" (Goomacker) - 5:29
4. "Malaguena Salarosa" (Galindo, Ramirez) - 4:17
5. "Russell Chaps Intro" - 1:33
6. "Tip Of My Tongue" (Foster, Lukather, The Tubes) - 5:37
7. "Don't Want To Wait Anymore" (Foster, The Tubes) - 7:05
8. "TV Is King" (Cotton, Prince , Spooner, Steen, Waybill, Welnick) - 3:10
9. "No Way Out" (Prince, Spooner, Steen) - 3:51
10. "Let There Be Drums" (Anderson, Cotten, Prince , Spooner, Steen, Waybill, Welnick) - 3:50
11. "White Punks On Dope" ( Evans, Spooner, Steen) - 8:37
12. "Mondo Bondage" (Anderson, Cotten, Prince , Spooner, Steen, Waybill, Welnick) - 5:46
13. "Haloes" (Kooper, Spooner, Steen) - 5:30
14. "Talk To Ya Later" (Foster, Lukather, The Tubes) - 10:06

Personnell

Musicians

• Beki Bondage
  Beki Bondage
  Beki Bondage is a musician in the punk band, Vice Squad and was one of its founder members in 1978.She featured on the front cover of a number of influential music tabloids such as Melody Maker, NME, Smash Hits and Sounds.In 1983, she left Vice Squad to form the band Ligotage with Steve Roberts of...
  
   – vocals
• Gary Cambra – guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  , keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
  A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
  
  , vocals
• David Medd – keyboards, vocals
• Roger Steen – guitar, vocals
• Fee Waybill
  Fee Waybill
  John Waldo Waybill , known as Fee Waybill, is the lead singer and songwriter of the band the Tubes...
  
  – vocals

Production

• Roger Lomas – engineer, mixing, producer
• Richard Evatt – assistant engineer
• Tim Jones – liner notes