Tubes, The - What Do You Want From Live (A&M AMLM 68460) (NL 1978) (DoLP 24-96 & 16-44.1)

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Tubes, The – What Do You Want From Live

Label: A&M Records
Catalog#: AMLM 68460
Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: Netherlands
Released: 1978
Genre: Rock
Style: Glam

Tracklist:

A1 Overture 5:56
A2 Got Yourself A Deal 4:30
A3 Show Me A Reason 3:28
A4 What Do You Want From Life 5:12

B1 God-Bird-Change 4:48
B2 Special Ballet 1:01
B3 Don't Touch Me There 3:48
B4 Mondo Bondage 3:25
B5 Smoke (La Vie En Fumer) 8:20

C1 Crime-Medley
C1.1 Side Effect-Siren 0:08
C1.2 Theme From "Dragnet" 0:07
C1.3 Theme From "Peter Gunn" 0:34
C1.4 Theme From "The Untouchables" 1:03
C2 I Was A Punk Before You Were A Punk 4:02
C3 I Saw Her Standing There 2:57
C4 Drum Solo 4:20

D1 Boy Crazy 2:40
D2 You're No Fun 3:15
D3 Stand Up And Shout 3:30
D4 White Punks On Dope 8:33

Credits:

Artwork – Chuck Beeson, Jeff Ayeroff, Michael Cotten
Bass, Vocals – Rick Anderson
Choreography – Kenny Ortega
Coordinator [Album Coordination] – Bud Scoppa
Drums – Prairie Prince
Drums, Percussion, Vocals – Mingo Lewis
Engineer [Assistant] – Bob Bullock
Keyboards, Vocals – Vince Welnick
Lead Vocals – Fee Waybill
Lighting – Chris Taylor
Mixed By [Live] – Max Norman
Other [Concert Presentation] – John Curd
Other [Concert Production Lights & Sound] – TFA Electrosound
Other [Dancer] – Cindi Osborn, Lorryanna Catalano, Michael Springer, Re Styles
Other [Props] – Chopper Borges
Other [Wardrobe] – Sharon Hanks
Photography By – E. Beers, Peter Stupar, Steve Emberton
Producer, Engineer, Mixed By, Mastered By – Peter Henderson
Producer, Mixed By, Mastered By – Rikki Farr
Stage Manager – Lee Hanks
Synthesizer – Michael Cotten
Vocals, Guitar – Sputnik Spooner, Roger Steen


Discogs Url: http://www.discogs.com/Tubes-What-Do-You-Want-From-Live/release/641311

Review

by Donald A. Guarisco

Although their studio albums were often hit-and-miss affairs, the Tubes could always be counted on for a good live show during their mid-'70s heyday. In fact, they became a legend in the rock & roll world for their glitzy shows, which included half-nude women performing elaborate dance routines and a variety of characters invented by frontman Fee Waybill, like punk rocker "Johnny Bugger" and blissed-out glam rock icon "Quay Lewd." What Do You Want from Live can't reproduce all this visual stimuli but it does show what many critics forgot to notice about the Tubes, i.e., the fact that they were a really sharp and exciting live band. Stripped of their outre visual surroundings, songs like "Mondo Bondage" and "I Was a Punk Before You Were a Punk" still pack a visceral punch thanks to their effective combination of gonzo humor and catchy melodies. Elsewhere, the Tubes get to show off their surprisingly impressive chops on "Overture," a fast-paced medley that transforms the instrumental highlights of six different songs into one head-spinning pomp-rock blitz, and "Crime Medley," a witty tapestry of crime jazz woven from television theme songs like "Theme from Peter Gunn" and "Theme from Dragnet." The downside of What Do You Want from Live is that some of the numbers are less potent without the choreographed routines surrounding them: "Smoke (La Vie en Fumer)" and "What Do You Want from Life" both feature Fee Waybill talking about the visual chaos surrounding him and this leaves the listener feeling like they're only witnessing part of the joke (if only someone would put out a video of one of the Tubes' shows from this era). Despite this caveat, What Do You Want from Live remains a witty and entertaining live album. It may not win any new converts to the Tubes' camp, but fans of the group will definitely want to check out this entertaining souvenir from the group's wildest era.

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One small thing: little scratch noise in A1 around 3:00 - not dramatic. Have fun, play it loud!