Best reason for cancelling a concert EVER.

[bbernardini]

This just in from the official Tubes e-mail list:

"The Bratislava show scheduled for November 26th has been cancelled due to civil unrest in the area."

[bbernardini]

1. Kick!

[asthmaticeog]

2. Another good reason to cancel a concert:

It's the Tubes.

[eyepaddle]

3. duh-doom-tooom-tssshhhh

(rimshot) :D

[bbernardini]

4. Well, that was unnecessary. n/t

[asthmaticeog]

5. 'Twas merely a joke.

The Tubes were my first concert. (Rundgren's Utopia opened. '85?) I was just goofin'. Didn't even realize they were together 'til you posted this, actually.

[bbernardini]

6. 1985 sounds right. Where was it?

And yes, The Tubes are still together, albeit with only 4 original members. They're still pretty kickass, though.

[asthmaticeog]

8. Richfield Coloseum, near Cleveland.

I must ask, how can they pull off the staging in the small venues they're surely playing these days? Seems like half the fun is right out the window.

[MarsThe Cat]

9. i saw them a couple years ago on navy pier in chicago-

they've scaled down the theatrics/costume changes a bit, but Quay still lives...!

[Oeditpus Rex]

10. Weird

Fee's 55 now. Hard to imagine him still doing WPOD.

This should be our national anthem, though:

I'm proud
to be an American
I'm proud
of the groovy things we've done
There's television, free religion, rock 'n' roll, Standard Oil,
Times Square, Jimmy Darren, Corey Wells, and Smokey Bear,
price reduction, reconstruction, Peace Corps, and lots more
Culture that we got to lend

I'm proud
to be an American
And I'm proud
Had a great time bein' one
There's your school and my school and both of us in high school,
surfboards, cigarettes, homework, Southern Comfort
Boy's dean was real mean,
Made us keep our lockers clean
Failed nearly every class
Ditchin' was a gas

I'm proud
to be a young American
I'm proud, just think about it
All the far out things that we've begun
There's revolution, constitution, land, sea, and air pollution,
cold wars, hot wars, gas wars, and confrontations,
constipation, consternation, open-hearted palpitations
Muscular Dystrophy

I'm proud
to be an American
Because we got department stores full of cheap guitars
But when Sputnik plays 'em, you just go go go go!

I'm proud to be an American
(We got two chickens in every garage)
And I wish every other kid could be one
(In my country, the medium is the massage)
'Cause it's impossible to give
Equality and justice to inferior foreigners
too jealous to trust us
(Gimme your weak and your homeless)
(How 'bout checkin' the oil, ah, fella?)

I'm proud to be an American...

[bbernardini]

11. Hell, he's been playing Frank N. Furter in "Rocky Horror" lately.

Doing a good job of it too, from what I hear.

[Oeditpus Rex]

12. Cool

From Johnny Bugger to a sweet transvestite. He refuses to be typecast. :7

[carpetbagger]

7. That's also the best reason ever for getting out of school.

I got about three days off from 5th grade in 1980 for riots in Miami.