The Tubes (album)
The Tubes is the first album by the Tubes. Songs which received significant airplay from this album include "What Do You Want from Life?" and "White Punks on Dope", the latter of which peaked at number 28 on the UK singles chart. The album was dedicated to Bob McIntosh and Tom Donahue, the former of whom had originally played with the band until his death in 1973.
Re Styles, who models on the front and back covers of the record sleeve, would join the band as a vocalist for the following three studio albums.
Track listing
Song timings and credits taken from original LP.Personnel
;The Tubes- Fee Waybill – lead vocals
- Bill Spooner – guitar, lead vocals
- Roger Steen – guitar, vocals
- Michael Cotten – synthesizer
- Vince Welnick – keyboards
- Rick Anderson – bass
- Prairie L'Emprere Prince – drums
- Dominic Frontiere – string and horn arrangements
- Lee Rhett Kiefer – engineer, mixing
- Al Kooper – mixing
- Roland Young – art direction
- Michael Cotten – design
- Prairie Prince – design
- Ian Patrick – photography
- Harry Mittman – photography
- Re Styles – modeling
Cover versions
- Mötley Crüe covered "White Punks on Dope" on their album New Tattoo, and performed it live in concert on their "Lewd, Crüed, & Tattooed" DVD. The Nina Hagen Band interpreted the song in a German-language version, translated to "TV-Glotzer" on their self-titled debut album in 1978. In the 1993 film Fear of a Black Hat, the band N.W.H. perform a parody of "White Punks on Dope", titled "White Cops on Dope".