Rick Andersen, bassist for the Tubes, has died at 75.
If you never saw The Tubes live, especially in their heyday, then you missed a great show. They used to play Winterland in SF regularly. We saw them a couple of times back then as well back in the '00s. Always killer.
Winterland always video-taped all of the shows. Before the shows and in intervals between the bands, they showed the videos. Before the Tubes broke, we used to see a live WPOD video and wonder WTF? They were quite the spectacle.
Unfortunately, we didn't go to this New Years Eve show.
And for good measure...
a baby's arm holding an apple of course!😀