Toyah Willcox and husband Robert Fripp have covered The Tubes’ classic proto-punk anthem ‘White Punks On Dope’ for the latest in their Sunday Lunch series – check it out below. Every Sunday for the ...
For nearly a half-century, Fee Waybill has been the voice and the face of The Tubes, the San Francisco-based band that made a name for itself in the early days of MTV with hit songs like “Talk to Ya ...
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Somewhere, down deep inside each one of us, a Tubes song is playing. Possibly it’s “White Punks on Dope” or it might be “What Do You Want from Life.” Unfortunately, it is probably “She’s a Beauty.” ...
The Tubes are hardly white punks on dope anymore. The founding group members are in their late 60s, after all. They’ve been a band for 47 years and still hold true to some of the theatrics that ...
The Tubes will go down in the rock history books as one of the most exciting, in-your-face, tightknit groups of musicians who epitomized the rock ‘n’ roll extravaganza. Their live shows involved mock ...
This week on Toyah and Robert Fripp‘s Sunday Lunch covers series they’re having a go at “White Punks on Dope,” the 1977 single by San Francisco’s theatrical The Tubes. Toyah has created her own ...
Top rock satires are thin on the ground, so Fee Waybill's inventive mothers seemed ahead of schedule in 1975. The Tubes' debut and the Young & Rich album don't sound so ground-breakingly funny now but ...