Rick Andersen, bassist for the Tubes, has died at 75.
If you never saw The Tubes live, especially in their heyday, then you missed a great show. They used to play Winterland in SF regularly. We saw them a couple of times back then as well back in the '00s. Always killer.
Winterland always video-taped all of the shows. Before the shows and in intervals between the bands, they showed the videos. Before the Tubes broke, we used to see a live WPOD video and wonder WTF? They were quite the spectacle.
Unfortunately, we didn't go to this New Years Eve show.
And for good measure...
a baby's arm holding an apple of course!😀
I saw The Tubes & Oingo Boingo at the Holiday Star Theater in Merrillville IN and also at Great America on the "Inside/Outside" tour. A solid band who put on one hell of a show, and these guys are true musicians: they can really play their instruments! Rick Anderson was a great foundation of the rhythm section with Prairie Prince on drums. And did I mention the show? You got Re Styles on backup vocals, cheerleaders in cute outfits, Velcro suits ("Out of the Business, In To Rock & Roll"), and always Quay Lude singing "White Punks on Dope" on his 3 foot stack shoes at the end. I must tip my hat to David Foster for The Completion Backward Principle album, and Todd Rundgren for Remote Control and Love Bomb. We'll miss ya' Rick, but your music lives on.
Tom