Now (The Tubes album)

The Tubes
Studio album by The Tubes
Released	May 1977
Recorded	Winter (?) 1977 His Masters Wheels, San Francisco; The Record Plant, Los Angeles; The Record Plant, Sausalito; Funky Features, San Francisco
Genre	Rock
Label	A&M
Producer	John Anthony
The Tubes chronology
Young and Rich (1976) Now (1977) What Do You Want from Live (1978)
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Now is the third album released by The Tubes. It was partially produced by John Anthony. John Anthony left the project after a drug-induced breakdown, Bill Spooner took over and completed the project with the help of engineer Don Wood.

Now features a cover version of Captain Beefheart's "My Head Is My Only House Unless It Rains" and Captain Beefheart also played saxophone on "Cathy's Clone". The project was intended to be a double album but delays lead to cutting several songs including a version of Gene Pitney's "Town Without Pity" complete with horn arrangement by Bay-area comedian/musician, Dick Bright. The cover of Now was drawn by Tubes drummer, Prairie Prince entitled "Tubes Descending a Staircase", and was inspired by a similar drawing in Time magazine of The Ramones. In an A&M leaflet they described the album as "This outrageous and zany band have developed musically and visually since their inception in San Francisco and their previous albums.

Track listing

1. "Smoke (La Vie en Fumér)" (Bill Spooner, Michael Cotten, Vince Welnick)
2. "Hit Parade" (Bill Spooner, Vince Welnick)
3. "Strung Out on Strings" (Bill Spooner, Roger Steen, Michael Evans)
4. "Golden Boy" (Bill Spooner, Michael Evans)
5. "My Head Is My Only House Unless It Rains" (Captain Beefheart)
6. "God-Bird-Change" (Mingo Lewis)
7. "I'm Just a Mess" (Bill Spooner, Roger Steen)
8. "Cathy's Clone" (The Tubes)
9. "This Town" (Lee Hazelwood)
10. "Pound of Flesh" (Ron Nagle, Scott Mathews)
11. "You're No Fun" (Michael Cotten, Vince Welnick)

Personnel

• Fee Waybill - vocals
• Bill Spooner - guitar, vocals
• Michael Cotten - synthesizer
• Mingo Lewis - drums, percussion
• Prairie Prince - drums
• Roger Steen - guitar, vocals
• Re Styles - vocals
• Vince Welnick - keyboards
• Rick Anderson - bass

Additional personnel

• Bud Scoppa - voices

References

• Michael Cotten's upcoming documentary, White Punks on Dope
• Now CD liner notes