This week on Toyah and Robert Fripp‘s Sunday Lunch covers series they’re having a go at “White Punks on Dope,” the 1977 single by San Francisco’s theatrical The Tubes. Toyah has created her own ...

Rick Anderson, the co-founding bassist of the Tubes who was with the band for a half-century and played on “She’s a Beauty,” “Talk to Ya Later” and “White Punks on Dope,” has died. He was 75. The band ...

A concert by theatrical rockers the Tubes may be a bit less elaborate than it was in the ‘70s. But rest assured that the production numbers are still in place and the band’s best-known character, the ...

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A comment on a Tubes video on YouTube says this about the band: “They defy explanation.” That says it all and obviously makes a music critic’s job trickier. Formed in San Francisco at the start of the ...

The Tubes confirm that bassist Rick Anderson has died at age 75. No cause was revealed. He co-founded the group in 1972, after work in a precursor band called the Beans with Tubes bandmates Bill ...