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Tue Dec 8 12:00:10 CST 2015

When I was a teenager I lived in the S.F. warehouse where The Tubes practiced.  We used to go onto the roof and watch them through the skylight.  During the first show I ever played in San Francisco, a shitfaced Bill Spooner came up on stage, grabbed our guitarist's axe and started jamming Louie Louie.  We kept speeding up the song until it was unrecognizable, and he wandered off the stage.  Good times!

On Dec 8, 2015, at 8:46 AM have a nice day, violet wrote this message:), Charles Albert wrote:

> You had to go there.........The Tubes........here, on NETWORK TV...The Cher Show.......overlook the terrible quality of the recording....
> 
> "your life is smoke, and the world is my ash tray.....and it's a drag."
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wmp_eNA1IeY
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tubes
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> Cover to the Todd Rundgren produced Remote Control
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> http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_250/MI0000/048/MI0000048347.jpg?partner=allrovi.com
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> a few minutes well spent
> 
> http://www.thetubes.com/oldstuff.htm
> 
> in my humble opinion, the greatest live performance ever.....Panatages Theater, 1978.
> 
> Now the best bar band extant.....attended a show in Hampton Beach NH, in 1994 where Fee stood up on behalf of fans being roughed up by steroid buffed bouncers by stomping one on the chest with his size 14 chuck taylor......the state responded by unleashing the riot squad......parking lot littered with mounties, .20 helmet clad cops walking shoulder to shoulder up the stairs of the decrepit Casino to take Fee away...
> 
> Fee Waybill before hip replacement......doing The Mexican Hat Dance.
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKfgahqIAzQ
> 
> a nearly bottomless font of candidates for the Pynchon play-list.
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> love,
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> cfa
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> On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 5:30 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
> 
> Yeah, the ambivalence of it all ...
> 
> Here on Radio KCIF we now have the Nina Hagen Band with "Ich glotz' TV" (a cover of the biggest hit of a group named, yes, The Tubes):
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWzPcDtZZZo
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> 
> On 08.12.2015 10:58, John Bailey wrote:
> Doesn't that song just epitomise the ambivalences of Pynchon's
> writing? Condemning the thing, but also satirising the righteous
> condemnation of it. And making joyous sport out of the friction... I
> mean we've heard P loved The Brady Bunch but is probably no Boob,
> except that that's a contradiction and his writing seems aware of it.
> 
> We do things that may hurt us. Love people who may be bad for us.
> Enjoy entertainments that are in our worst interest and entertain
> interests that bring out the worst in us. I feel this is something
> Pynchon has always grappled with much better than most, neither
> falling into puritan admonishment nor a decadent embrace.
> 
> On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 8:23 PM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen
> <lorentzen at hotmail.de>  wrote:
> THE TUBE
> 
> Oh ... the ... Tube!
> It's poi-soning your brain!
> Oh yes....
> It's dri-ving you, insane!
> It's shoot-ing rays, at you,
> Over ev'ry-thing ya do,
> It sees you in your bedroom,
> And --- on th' toi-let too!
>              Yoo Hoo! The
> Tube....
> It knows your ev'ry thought,
> Hey, Boob, you thought you would-
> T'n get caught ---
> While you were sittin' there, starin' at "The
> Brady Bunch,"
> Big fat computer jus'
> Had you for lunch, now Th'
> Tube ---
> It's plugged right in, to you!
> 
> (Vineland, pp.336-337)
> 
> 
> I'm watching too much TV too, but the thread simply asked for this song. And
> isn't it amazing how Pynchon anticipated 'Smart-TV?'
> 
> 
> On 08.12.2015 05:14, John Bailey wrote:
> 
> A lot of people are loving Mr Robot (which I haven't seen). In the
> Black Mirror vein I believe.
> 
> On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 2:31 PM, Perry Noid<coolwithdoc at gmail.com>  wrote:
> 
> And oh yeah I did like Breaking bad but that was another one whose ending
> annoyed me. The penultimate episode worked better as an ending imo. They
> filmed the first season in Albuquerque during my final year at UNM and my
> compatriate played the bratty kid in the first episode so it was a mandatory
> watch. Show got harder for me to watch after moving out of Albuquerque. Was
> like becoming the outsider and seeing the city with a different perspective.
> Was a dirty place for me and it became clearer when recognizing the
> landmarks with a sufficient physical detachment from the place. I dunno, the
> show felt really icky. Great show though overall.
> 
> On Monday, December 7, 2015, David Morris<fqmorris at gmail.com>  wrote:
> 
> Breaking Bad was superb. I don't know Luther.  Is on Netflix or Amazon?
> 
> On Monday, December 7, 2015, Allan Balliett<allan.balliett at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> Perry - What about Luther ? Or The Wire? You didn't like True Detective?
> Or the "recent" BBC Sherlock Holmes shows? I agree about Man in the High
> Castle. Too many of the binge tv series get sidetracked into unimportant
> character stories. (Good to see that Luther is getting a second coming as an
> American series. If its anything like the clip I saw on Late Night the other
> night, it's going to be a good un.)
> 
> -Allan in WV
> 
> On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 7:22 PM, Perry Noid<coolwithdoc at gmail.com>  wrote:
> 
> When it comes to teevee, sopranos and mad men spoiled me. Nothing else
> has really satisfied me.
> 
> On Monday, December 7, 2015, Perry Noid<coolwithdoc at gmail.com>  wrote:
> 
> I couldn't make it through the first episode.
> 
> On Monday, December 7, 2015, David Morris<fqmorris at gmail.com>  wrote:
> 
> Ten episodes in, and just tolerating it. Way too slowly paced and full
> of irrelevant personal drama interactions.  I haven't read the book, but I'm
> sure the plot is more important in the book than it is in this show.
> 
> David Morris
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