''The Tubes'' is the debut studio

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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 day ...

. Songs which received significant airplay from this album include "What Do You Want from Life?" and "

White Punks on Dope "White Punks on Dope", abbreviated as "WPOD", is a 1975 song by San Francisco-based rock group The Tubes from their debut, eponymous album, produced by Al Kooper. The song was written by the band's dual lead guitarists, Bill Spooner and Roger St ...

", the latter of which peaked at number 28 on the

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. The album was dedicated to Bob McIntosh and Tom Donahue.

Track listing

Side One #"Up from the Deep" (The Tubes, Ray Trainer) – 4:28 #"Haloes" (Al Kooper, Bill Spooner, Roger Steen) – 4:53 #"Space Baby" (Bill Spooner, Mike Carpenter, Vince Welnick) – 4:25 #"

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" (Pedro Galindo, Elpidio Ramirez) - 3:52 Side Two #"Mondo Bondage" (The Tubes) – 4:34 #"What Do You Want from Life?" (Bill Spooner, Michael Evans) – 4:01 #"Boy Crazy" (Bill Spooner) – 4:09 #"

" (Bill Spooner, Roger Steen, Michael Evans) – 6:49

Personnel

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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 *

Bill Spooner William "Sputnik" Spooner (born August 16, 1949) is a musician, guitarist, singer and songwriter, and the founder of The Tubes, a theatrical rock band. His songwriting is known for its use of humor and satire. He has released three solo albums ...

– guitar, vocals *Roger Steen – guitar, vocals *Michael Cotten – synthesizer *

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 *Rick Anderson – bass * Prairie L'Emprere Prince – drums *

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– string and horn arrangements ;Technical *Lee Rhett Kiefer – engineer *

Al Kooper Al Kooper (born Alan Peter Kuperschmidt; February 5, 1944) is a retired American songwriter, record producer and musician, known for organizing Blood, Sweat & Tears, although he did not stay with the group long enough to share its popularity. ...

– mixing *Lee Rhett Kiefer – mixing *Roland Young – art direction *Michael Cotten – design *Prairie Prince – design *Ian Patrick – photography *Harry Mittman – photography

Cover versions

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covered "

" on their album '' New Tattoo'', and performs it live in concert on their "Lewd, Crüed, & Tattooed" DVD. The

Nina Hagen Band Spliff was a Neue Deutsche Welle (New German Wave) rock band, active in the 1980s. Three of the members were already playing together in the political rock cabaret ''Lokomotive Kreuzberg'' (founded 1972 in Berlin) before they were 'adopted' by Ni ...

interpreted the song in a German-language version, translated to "

TV-Glotzer "TV-Glotzer" is a song by Nina Hagen Band, first released in 1978 by CBS Records and later, on 29 August 1979, released in United Kingdom. The song is a cover of " White Punks on Dope" by The Tubes, with different German lyrics from the perspecti ...

" (with re-written lyrics about being an East German who lives vicariously by staring at West German television all day) on their self-titled debut album in 1978. In the 1993 film ''

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'', the band N.W.H. (with

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) perform a parody of "White Punks on Dope", titled "White Cops on Dope".

References

The Tubes albums 1975 debut albums Albums produced by Al Kooper Albums recorded at Record Plant (Los Angeles) A&M Records albums {{1970s-rock-album-stub