The Tubes

The Tubes are a San Francisco-based theater rock band, popular in the late 1970s and early 1980s, legendary (and/or infamous) for early live performances that combined lewd quasi-pornography with wild satires of media, consumerism and politics.

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Early versions of the band started in and around the University of Arizona in the late 1960s, then took root in San Francisco in 1972. The core band membership remained largely intact for more than a decade: Fee Waybill (vocals), Re Styles (real name Marie MacLeod) (vocals), Bill "Sputnik" Spooner (guitar, vocals), Roger Steen (guitar), Prairie Prince (drums), Michael Cotten (synthesizer), Vince Welnick (piano), and Rick Anderson (bass). Ex-Santana percussionist Mingo Lewis was also a fixture for much of the band's history.

1970s: This article provides extensive lists of events and significant personalities of the 1970s. For an in-depth article on the cultural and social trends of the decade, please see The Seventies...

Pornography: :This article is about pornography, material created with the purpose of sexual arousal. For alternate uses, see pornography (disambiguation)....

University of Arizona: The University of Arizona (UA) is a land-grant institution of higher learning located in Tucson, Arizona. The University of Arizona was the first university in the state of Arizona, founded in 1885 when the state was still a territory. In 2005, total enrollment was 37,036 students....

The Tubes related Images and Photos (experimental)

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