   the tubes are a san francisco-based rock band whose 1975 debut album included the hit single "white punks on dope". during its first fifteen years or so, the band's live performances combined quasi-pornography with wild satires of media, consumerism, and politics. they are perhaps best remembered for their 1983 single "she's a beauty", a top 10 u.s. hit with a frequently-played music video in the early days of mtv; and in the 1980 film xanadu singing the rock portion of the cross-genre song "dancin'" opposite a big band. ==career== the tubes started as a group of high school friends from phoenix and scottsdale, arizona. two phoenix bands, the beans and the red, white and blues band, both relocated to san francisco in 1969 and eventually merged. the new band's core membership remained largely intact for more than a decade: fee waybill (real name john waldo waybill) (vocals), bill "sputnik" spooner (guitar, vocals), roger steen (guitar), prairie prince (real name charles l. prince) (drums), michael cotten (synthesizer), vince welnick (piano), and rick anderson (bass). singer re styles (born shirley marie macleod) (vocals) and ex-santana percussionist mingo lewis were also fixtures for much of the band's early history. show business excess was a common theme of the band's early work, with waybill sometimes assuming the onstage persona of "quay lewd" (a pun on quaalude), a drunk, drugged out, barely coherent lead singer, wearing flashing glasses and stilt-like tall platform shoes. ===debut album=== the tub
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