''Outside Inside'' is the sixth studio album by

The Tubes The Tubes are a San Francisco-based rock band. Their eponymous 1975 debut album included the single "White Punks on Dope," while their 1983 single " She's a Beauty" was a top-10 U.S. hit and its music video was frequently played in the early d ...

, released in 1983. It was the second album by the group to be released by Capitol Records. The album was produced by

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. The Tubes had their biggest radio hit with the single from this album, "She's a Beauty". Early US copies of the album used embossed lettering for the

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on the front cover. This made the lettering hard to read. A later version of the cover had the eye chart along with artist and title information printed in red and blue. There are 2 different versions of the song "The Monkey Time". The original included guest vocals from Martha Davis of

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. Other copies used a version with Davis' vocal replaced by Michele Gray. Gray was one of The Tubes principal dancers from 1983–1985, and later married frequent Tubes collaborator and producer

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Track listing

Side 1

#" She's a Beauty" (Foster, Waybill, Lukather) – 4:01 #"No Not Again" (Tubes) – 3:28 #"Out of the Business" (Tubes) – 3:30 #" The Monkey Time" (

Curtis Mayfield Curtis Lee Mayfield (June 3, 1942 – December 26, 1999) was an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer, and one of the most influential musicians behind soul and politically conscious African-American music.

, Tubes) – 3:54 #"Glass House" (Tubes) – 3:31

Side 2

#"Wild Women of Wongo" (Tubes) – 3:57 #"Tip of My Tongue" ( M. White, M. Snyder) – 3:58 #"Fantastic Delusion" (Tubes) – 3:54 #"Drums" (Tubes) – 2:21 #"Theme Park" (Tubes) – 3:13 #"Outside Lookin' Inside" (Tubes) - 0:57

Release history

The Michele Gray version of "The Monkey Time" was also used on the Capitol CD issue of the album. In 2012 Iconclassic reissued the album with the original version of "The Monkey Time" featuring Davis. The reissue also included bonus tracks including B-sides that had never been previously released on CD. The CD was remastered by Vic Anesini and featured extensive liner notes and commentary from band members. The bonus tracks include: #"When You're Ready to Come" (B-side of a single from the album) #"Keyboard Kids" #"Satellite" (an alternate version previously appeared on Bill Spooner's 1980's solo album "First Chud") #"The Monkey Time" (single version featuring Michele Gray on vocals)

Personnel

The Tubes *Rick Anderson - Bass *Michael Cotten - Synthesizer *Mingo Lewis - Percussion *

Prairie Prince Charles Lempriere "Prairie" Prince (born May 7, 1950) is an American drummer and graphic artist. He came to prominence in the 1970s as a member of the San Francisco–based rock group The Tubes, was a member of Jefferson Starship from 1992 to 2 ...

- Drums, Producer, Art Direction * Bill Spooner - Guitar, Vocals *Roger Steen - Guitar, Vocals *

Fee Waybill John Waldo "Fee" Waybill (born September 17, 1950 in Omaha, Nebraska) is the lead singer and songwriter of San Francisco band The Tubes. Waybill has also worked with other acts, including Toto, Richard Marx, and Billy Sherwood. Early life and ...

- Vocals, Mixing *

Vince Welnick Vincent Leo Welnick (February 21, 1951 – June 2, 2006) was an American keyboardist-singer-songwriter best known for playing with the band The Tubes during the 1970s and 1980s and with the Grateful Dead in the 1990s. He was inducted into ...

- Keyboards Additional personnel *Maurice White * Patti Austin - Background vocals *Stacy Baird - Producer, Engineer *Bob Bullock - Assistant Engineer *Bill Burks - Contribution *

Bill Champlin William Bradford Champlin (born May 21, 1947) is an American singer, musician, arranger, producer, and songwriter. He formed the band Sons of Champlin in 1965, which still performs today, and was a member of the band Chicago from 1981–2009. ...

- Background vocals *David Cole - Engineer * Martha Davis - Vocals * Nathan East - Bass *Larry Ferguson - Assistant Engineer * Chuck Findley - Horn *

- Keyboards, Producer *Tom Fouce - Assistant Engineer *Humberto Gatica - Engineer, Mixing *Gary Grant - Horn *

Jay Graydon Jay Joseph Graydon (born October 8, 1949, Burbank, California) is an American songwriter, recording artist, guitarist, singer, keyboardist, producer, arranger, and recording engineer. He is the winner of two Grammy Awards (in the R&B category) wi ...

*Gary Herbig - Horn *

Jerry Hey Jerry Hey (born 1950) is an American trumpeter, flugelhornist, horn arranger, string arranger, orchestrator and session musician who has played on hundreds of commercial recordings, including Michael Jackson's ''Thriller'', '' Rock with You'' ...

- Arranger, Horn * James Newton Howard - Keyboards *Gregg Jampol - Assistant Engineer *Howard Johnston - Assistant Engineer *Ken Kessie - Engineer * Bobby Kimball - Background vocals *Dennis Kirk - Engineer *Jeff Kliment - Assistant Engineer *Paul Knotter - Collaboration *Roy Kohara - Art Direction *

Greg Ladanyi Greg Ladanyi (July 6, 1952 – September 29, 2009) was an American record producer and recording engineer of Hungarian descent, known for his work with many musicians, including Jackson Browne, Warren Zevon, The Church, Caifanes, Anna Vi ...

- Mixing *Jack Leahy - Engineer * Steve Lukather - Guitar *George Massenburg - Mixing *Jim McCrary - Photography *Marnie Moore - Assistant Engineer * David Paich - Keyboards * Steve Porcaro - Keyboards *

Bill Reichenbach Jr. William Frank Reichenbach Jr. (born November 30, 1949) is an American jazz trombonist and composer. He is the son of Bill Reichenbach, who was the drummer for Charlie Byrd from 1962 to 1973. He is best known as a session musician for television, ...

- Horn *Barbara Rooney - Assistant Engineer *Freddy Washington - Bass *Jim Welch - Contribution *David Williams - Guitar *Larry Williams - Horn *Gene Wooley - Assistant Engineer

Charts

References

External links

Outside Inside on Discogs.com
{{Authority control The Tubes albums 1983 albums Albums produced by David Foster Capitol Records albums