Download the debut tube album, Alive in FLAC or mp3 format below. This re-release includes extended notes and production details never available before as well as the complete artwork.
tube LIVE at The Warfield Theater San Francisco, CA in support of The Sisters of Mercy on October 6, 1999.
Shortly after the completion of this tour while in scenic Cologne, I would be told I had less than 36 hours to live. At the time I did not care. Note the vocal content in this work, which if misinterpreted, as it was in my case – might be deadly.
“he said the only thing that burns in hell is the part of you that won’t let go of your life…”
Perhaps a healthy interpretation of this concept could be rephrased as a suggestion to “Let Go” of trying to excessively control your life.
“if you’re frightened of dying, and you’re holding on, you’ll see Devils tearing your life away, but if you’ve made your Peace, then the Devils are really Angels – freeing you from the earth.”
In great wisdom, Franklin Delano Roosevelt advised us that: “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” My main man Yoda, in Star Wars – The Empire Strikes Back, informs us that: “Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.” Regarding Peace, it is my experience that making it is an action rather than a thought or intention.
Lastly, at the opening of the studio recording and later in this live recording, a voice clearly states:
according to this, you’re already dead
Contempt prior to investigation meant that: when this video was recorded, outside of my physical body – this statement was FACT.
Believe.
A little improvisation I recorded courtesy of Mario at Alternate Mode. DrumKAT Represent!! Like The Highlander – there can be and only is ONE LOVE IN THE KOSMOS.
These Combinations, made up of 4 Step Fragments (duple meter) are notated using frankentab. (See Linear Concepts for term definitions.) Remember: There are only two styles of electronic dance music: Boom-Boom and Boom-Bap. The third style, transcendent and non-dual, is both.
Try using two of these combinations applied to a simple Form Pattern such as AAAB. Here is a quick example using the last two combinations which yield a linear phrase in 3 voices:
A: FLRF LLRREnjoy!
In my first year at Skidmore College, I was asked to join my dream band at the time. They covered mostly progressive rock songs and even wrote their own material. Here is a video of us playing one of my favorite songs: Interstate 4001.
My often overlooked House music moniker Donut Boy, (born on tour with The Sisters of Mercy when I… yup you guessed it: ate all the donuts on the tour bus, late at night before breakfast) was featured as a podcast on Beantown Boogiedown courtesy of Nickdawg.
Thanks, bro! (
Mixed by DJ Not, who ironically is not a DJ. DJ Not has an account for your listening pleasure on MixCloud.
In the morning when you rise, keep your eyes on The Prize. Now here’s a word to the wise, wear your favorite disguise, and you better try it on for size, cuz only dead men tell no lies.
I got a new gun rack in my pickup truck, steel horse shoes and broken luck. With a couple of bucks you know a pocket full of silver, a pocket for a gold a way to make ends meet, until I grow old where the music and wine are every bit as fine as the women that were mine. Good times bad times, failed and tried, lost and cried, I’ve lived and died.
That woman in the local saloon she was as sweet as could be; she said we should go back to her room – who was I to do a thing but agree? But here comes the posse and the gallows pole cuz the lovely little lady whose heart I stole was married to the man he got me runnin’ for my life he’s yellin’ after me: she was my lawful wedded wife!
The game is up I gotta make a stand, lay your cards on the table be a street fightin’ man, he got two buck teeth now, steady as I go, it’s a knock down drag out blow-by-blow, I gotta learn to duck the rifle blasts and to make the left turn at the top of the pass, near the bottom of the canyon where the river runs through, out behind the mountain where the skies are blue…
Well I fell out of love just a while ago when The Lord above said it’s a one man show
My red hot kisses under mistletoe are on the yellow brick road with more miles to go
Well pack it on up now, time to swing low; New York, West Broadway in Soho
With a pocket full of pistol hung like a gigolo, let me count the ways in which the mood is indigo: got 1 for the other on a 2 way street, 3 sheets to the wind the 4 horsemen greet at the 5 o’clock shadow where they call deep 6, a half a dozen of the other got the 7 year itch
8 days a week and 9 lives to give, 11 hours and the clock strikes 12 you live
Without 10 that you found all you got is one lost and
Maybe then it’s better that you never know the cost
There comes a time when the things you might recall are lost and found at the office down the hall, if the shit don’t boot then it’s time to reinstall but the easy way out is not to feel at all…