The Tubes-"The Tubes" (1975)

The Tubes' debut with A&M Records dates back to 1975 and was produced by none other than former Blues Project Al Kooper. The disc endowed with a suggestive cover, with a woman's hand that tears the cover itself revealing its content, contained a pleasant desecration of certain love songs such as "Boy Crazy", a funny denunciation of widespread sadomasochistic customs, "Mondo Bondage" and also included what would become the anthem and symbol of The Tubes, the hypercorrosive "White punks on dope", a true satire of the boring life of the young American from a good family.
In this first album there was already a pale idea of ​​what The Tubes were capable of doing, however not even a special prize awarded by the specialized press for their cover did them justice.
Officially born in 1975, their members came from different bands and all of them had a university culture and a "cultured" and ironically profane approach to the world of show-business, although this made them one of the greatest live bands of all times, but it would also undermine its commercial potential in America.
Album after album none was able to reproduce the enormous visual impact of The Tubes in concert. Indeed it was a stage where the band had its true altar of sacrifices, there they immolated the essence of rock'n'roll to transform it into an enormous visual experience never seen before.
They took influences from Frank Zappa and his Mothers of Invention, Alice Cooper or The New York Dolls, but the dimensions of The Tubes were not even remotely similar to these, the spectacular dimension of their shows dwarfed all the previous ones in an overwhelming way, with some crazy shows that scandalized the press and the wealthiest sectors of society.
The Tubes were too corrosive a band for puritan America and old England, but not so for the rest of Europe.
Even so, they continued to publish good albums and tour continuously, filling theaters and stadiums with the same ease that they were criticized.