Released May 1977 | Length 42:09 Release date May 1977 Label A&M Records | |
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Recorded Winter (?) 1976 His Masters Wheels, San Francisco; The Record Plant, Los Angeles; The Record Plant, Sausalito; Funky Features, San Francisco Similar Young and Rich, The Tubes, Outside Inside, Genius of America, Remote Control |
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Now is the third album released by The Tubes. It was produced by John Anthony. Fed up with constant meddling from Bud Scoppa and Don Wood under the direction of Bill Spooner including surreptitiously remixing a track when John was not at the studio, John Anthony was advised to quit the project by Jerry Moss. Head of A&M A&R Kip Cohen said they took advantage of John and believed they overran the budget to bump up their union fees. Bill Spooner took over and completed the project with the help of engineer Don Wood and Bud Scoppa. John believes in retrospect he should not have tried to be "one of the boys" with this band but remains proud of his idea to get the band playing again live in the studio liked they used to do in the Bay Area bars. "My Head Is My Only House Unless It Rains" is a firm Anthony favourite and sonically shows what he was trying to achieve.
Contents
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".
2012 Reissue
Real Gone Records reissued Now with Young and Rich the band's second album as a 2-CD set. The liner notes included comments from drummer Prairie Prince. Unlike the reissues from Iconclassic, this reissue had no bonus tracks. This reissue is currently out of print.
Track listing
- "Smoke (La Vie en Fumér)" 4:50 (Bill Spooner, Michael Cotten, Vince Welnick)
- "Hit Parade" 3:35 (Bill Spooner, Vince Welnick)
- "Strung Out on Strings" 4:10 (Bill Spooner, Roger Steen, Michael Evans)
- "Golden Boy" 4:00 (Bill Spooner, Michael Evans)
- "My Head Is My Only House Unless It Rains" 4:30 (Don Van Vliet)
- "God-Bird-Change" 3:18 (Mingo Lewis)
- "I'm Just a Mess" 3:10 (Bill Spooner, Roger Steen)
- "Cathy's Clone" 3:30 (The Tubes)
- "This Town" 3:15 (Lee Hazlewood)
- "Pound of Flesh" 3:00 (Ron Nagle, Scott Mathews)
- "You're No Fun" 4:51 (Michael Cotten, Vince Welnick)
Personnel
"Special thanks to: Captain Beefheart, Bernie Krause, Rick Bright and his Sounds of Delight Orchestra, Rob Lawrence and Harry Duncan".
Songs
1Smoke (La Vie en Fumer)4:58
2Hit Parade3:41
3Strung Out on Strings4:14