Intended to be the band's first " break-through " album, Caress of Steel sold below expectations and the promotional tour consisted of smaller venues, which led to the moniker the " Down the Tubes Tour ".

His whistle playing can be heard on recordings with Loose Tubes, Django Bates and his album with Chris Batchelor Life As We Know It.

Prior to his next album Beefheart appeared in 1977 on the Tubes ' album Now, playing saxophone on the song " Cathy's Clone ", and the album also featured a cover of the Clear Spot song " My Head Is My Only House Unless It Rains ".

This was followed a year later by the first American video album, The Completion Backward Principle by The Tubes, directed by the group's keyboard player Michael Cotten, which included two videos directed by Russell Mulcahy (" Talk To Ya Later " and " Don't Want To Wait Anymore ").

The Tubes are a San Francisco-based rock band, whose 1975 debut album included the hit single, " White Punks on Dope ".

The Tubes ' first self-titled album The Tubes ( 1975 ) was produced by Al Kooper.

The Tubes ' second album, Young and Rich ( 1976 ) on A & M Records, was produced by Ken Scott.

However, the band did produce at least one collection of music videos, which were issued on the 1982 Pioneer Artists laserdisc " The Tubes Video " ( this videodisc contained versions of twelve of the band's hits, including " White Punks on Dope ", " Mondo Bondage ", " Talk to Ya Later ", and several others from yet-to-be-completed " The Completion Backwards Principle " album, in slickly produced music videos based on the group's stage shows ).

With Bruce Garfield and Bobby Colomby no longer with Capitol, The Tubes were dropped just as they were going on a national tour in support of the album — a tour that would leave the band a half million dollars in debt, forcing them to play low-budget gigs for a year to pay off their debts.

Released in 1976, Young and Rich was the second album released by The Tubes.

Love Bomb is an album by The Tubes produced by Todd Rundgren.

* " Haloes ", a song by The Tubes on the album The Tubes

* Now ( The Tubes album )

In 1978 they released their self-titled debut album, which included the single " TV-Glotzer " ( a cover of " White Punks on Dope " by The Tubes, though with entirely different German lyrics ), and Auf'm Bahnhof Zoo, about West Berlin's then-notorious Berlin Zoologischer Garten station.

Other musicians appearing on the album include George Harrison ( credited as " George O ' Hara "), Mick Taylor of the Rolling Stones, and Prairie Prince, who was later the drummer for The Tubes.

According to The Tubes ' official site, the now out of print video collection contained music videos primarily for tracks that appeared on their 1981 album The Completion Backward Principle.

He partnered with Ladanyi's Tidal Wave Entertainment in 1999 for a year, during which time they co-produced The Tubes ' live / studio hybrid album Tubes World Tour 2001, which featured collaborations with David Foster, Richard Marx and Steve Lukather.

In 1909, construction of two tunnels projects was under way: one called the North River Tunnels, the other, the Hudson Tubes.

In terms of player control, Martian Gothic is very similar to the early Resident Evil game titles: the Vac Tubes function the same way as Item Boxes, and the control of the characters and the camera angles are almost identical ( often called the ' Character Turret ' or ' Tank ' system of control ).

*< cite id = refMark1959 > W Markowitz ( 1959 ), " Variations in the Rotation of the Earth, Results Obtained with the Dual-Rate Moon Camera and Photograhic Zenith Tubes ", Astronomical Journal, vol. 64 ( 1959 ), pp. 106 – 113 .</ cite >

* Dial Switches Message Tubes 1951 article that describes with photos and drawing the basics of how the system operates

Tubes with thin end windows have very high efficiencies ( can be nearly 100 %) for high energy beta, though this drops off as the beta energy decreases due to attenuation by the window material.

The Bachman Tubes beneath Missionary Ridge link East Ridge with downtown Chattanooga.

Tubes rarely lasted longer than a year before needing replacement, especially when the engines were fueled with high sulfur gases like unpurified producer gas or natural gas.

The Tubes, who mixed progressive rock with wild theatricality, and Journey, formed from among some of Carlos Santana's sidemen and eventually experiencing a peak as one of the most popular AOR acts in the United States, were virtually the only acts from San Francisco to gain any sort of fame in the mid-1970s.

Tubes are available with or without a safety-engineered closure, with a variety of labeling options and closure colors as well as a range of draw volumes.

One critic opined that with their media savvy and theatrical skills, The Tubes were born to create rock video, but arrived several years too early.

The Tubes ' live shows in the late 1970s and early 1980s were rife with allusions to mainstream film ( Dr. Strangelove, Rollerball, Saturday Night Fever, Grease ), then-forgotten B-movies ( Wild Women of Wongo, Attack of the 50 Foot Woman ), music ( Tom Jones, punk rock, a medley of Nelson Riddle television themes ), contemporary pop culture ( Patty Hearst, the Viking program ), television ( Let's Make a Deal, Fernwood 2Nite, the anime Raideen ), and literature ( Nelson Algren's A Walk on the Wild Side ), presaging the subcultural reverence and over-the-top theatricality of later groups like The World / Inferno Friendship Society.

On April 3, The Tubes performed live with Dolly Parton on Cher ... Special, in the " Musical Battle to Save Cher's Soul Medley ".

Dolly Parton was dressed in white and, with a team of brightly clad singers, portrayed an angelic host while The Tubes, dressed in black leather and performing " Mondo Bondage ", battled to send Cher's soul into eternal damnation.

The Tubes had their biggest radio hit with the single " She's a Beauty " ( flipside of single was non-album track " When You're Ready to Come ").

The most famous musician to emerge from this era was Alice Cooper, along with Bill Spooner ( most famously of The Tubes ); local stars included The Superfine Dandelion, Mike Condello, The Grapes of Wrath, Phil & the Frantics, P-Nut Butter and Floyd & Jerry.

* " Dancin '" ( ONJ duet with The Tubes ) – Big Band female trio lip-synchs to ONJ's self-harmony ; in fantasy / concept discussed by Danny and Sonny, in the auditorium, leading to choice of " Xanadu " as the name of the club.

Tyseley was once a thriving industrial area with thousands of people working in the area for major companies such as TI Reynolds ( formally Reynolds Tubes ) and Corona, attracting a large number of bicycle and motorcycle manufacturers to the area, and component suppliers.

Shot in British Columbia, Canada, the film also featured Ray Winstone, Christine Lahti, ex-Sex Pistols Steve Jones and Paul Cook, along with Paul Simonon from The Clash, and Vince Welnick and Fee Waybill from The Tubes.

Shortly after arriving the Beans merged with another group, the Red, White and Blues Band, to become the Tubes.

** E ( Mullard – Philips ) Tubes with a 6. 3V heater

Tubes made of Hypalon are easy to manufacture and can be repaired with simple puncture repair kits.

Tubes can be fragile, sometimes generate significant unwanted heat, and can take many seconds — many minutes in critical applications — after powering on to warm to a temperature where they perform within operational tolerance.

The collection had been kept in the closet of Tubes fan club president Marylin Wood's son after being discarded in the late 1980s.

The resulting piece, Tubes, took off after Vladimer persuaded New York Times theater critic Stephen Holden to review it.

* Shortly after the original game was released Duncan Brown — an arcade owner — hacked the level data and made an altered, more difficult version: Tempest Tubes.

This was in spite of the fact that plasmas continued to hold an image quality advantage, but as the president of Chunghwa Picture Tubes noted after shutting down their plasma production line, " Globally, so many companies, so many investments, so many people have been working in this area, on this product.