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(More customer reviews)As a young Jr High School student from the Central Valley of California, I had the chance to see The Tubes the first time in 1975. At that time of the Tubes show "barometer", the tickets said "18 years or older". I guess I just looked older than 13 at that time.
At that time the stage presence of all band members and the sound quality of the live theatre style show was amazing. I returned every year to see them when they came to town. From those series of show I acquired their first live album. Everytime I played that album, I would be able to recollect every nuance of the stage performance I had witnessed with the most recent show. I wore that album, and two subsequent factory cassettes out. I really felt this was the best live recording of a Rock and Roll Show ever... until recently that is.
While not as segued and interweaved as the first live album, The "Tubes World Tour 2001" is equally, if not more so impressive as the first live release. All the old live standards like "Tubes World Tour", "WPOD", "Mondo Bondage", and "Don't Touch Me There" have a fresh and modern flavor while still retaining the old feel. Gone are Re, Spooner, Cotten and of course Vince. But there are new faces and voices that make every song sound as if they were the original players. Prairie that head knocker has sold rhytum reinforcement found in Trey Sabetelli. Dave Medd is awesome as a Mike Cotten replacement, Spooner should be proud of what David Cambera does for the Oct-tet (plus David appears to not break legs while skiing either). Roger Steen is still crisp and flavorful when applying his licks (us Pipestone boys know how to lay it down!). Rick Anderson has grown even more articulate in his bass playing ways. Thanks to him I wanted to play bass on stage. His un-assuming presence IS the backbone for all their "thump"! Leslie Paton is the perfect modern Re Styles. Great voice, sexy tone, and fantastic to look at. In fact I dare say the entire solid harmony of all the vocalists is better than the Tubes of olde.
And then there's Fee. What can you say about a man that can make 5 stage costume changes as fluid as cream without missing a beat, note, cue, or key. Fee still has the personna to keep this big space jet full of rock mutants flying... and the sexual energy to keep all the audience women as wild Wongo-nians at the same time.
The two new tracks on the album, "Digi-Doll" and "Loveline" are hip, sweet, and so full of Top 40 Hook that I'm suprised that even the Radio Disney Network hasn't picked up on them, especially "Digi-Doll" with it video game and computer cyber space references.
This is by far the best release of a Tubes product since 1979's Remote Control in my opinion. The tracking and sweetening of the production is totally and absolutely freaking first class!
Well done kids!
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