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The Tubes’ lead singer goes solo for hard-driving rock record

BY CHRISTINA FUOCO-KARASINSKI hard-charging political commentary on perfect sense: Waybill

The Tubes’ lead singer, Fee Waybill, says “Promise Land” and the crossover counmoved to Scottsdale in he’s happy his new solo album, “Fee Waytry vibe, “Still You on the Inside,” written the 1950s and grew up bill Rides Again,” has seen the light of day. by Marx, Nickelback’s Chad Kroeger, and at 68th Street and OsIt’s been a passion project for him and his Chris Daughtry. born Road in Southwest longtime writing partner, pop-rock star The talented guests on the album also Village. He remembers Richard Marx. include Michael Landau, Vertical Horizon riding his horse around

“We’ve been working on this record on singer Matt Scannell and drummer Josh town and hitching it up and off for seven years, Richard and I,” he Freese (Nine Inch Nails and Sting). in front of drug store or says. “Don’t Want to Pull the Trigger” is a movie theater.

“The first song we wrote was ‘Faker.’ I hard-driving, relentlessly addictive addiThings have changed. went back and looked at my lyric sheet tion to the album. It begins with a voice Now the area is full of hipand it said ‘2013.’ Over the years, we did memo that Marx sent to Waybill. sters, and parking spots one here and one there. We had rough “He originally texted me that little innow lie where hitches The Tubes’ lead singer Fee Waybill says he’s happy his new solo album, “Fee versions of some of the songs and then tro part and I was listening to it on my were located. Waybill Rides Again’. (Submitted photo) years went by.” phone,” says Waybill, who has written “It’s all different, but I grew up on a “I was ensconced in the theater depart

In early 2019, Waybill and Marx decided songs with Marx since 1983. “Elizabeth, horse until I was about 16, 17 years old— ment at ASU,” he says. “I still love the theto do something with the songs. my wife, heard it and said, ‘That’s so cool. until rock ‘n’ roll music took ahold of me,” atrical stage. There’s a little theater in Au

“We had been dragging this through Why don’t you attach that somehow to he says. “Until I moved to California, I was gusta, Michigan, called the Barn Theatre, the dirt here for six or seven years,” he the intro of the actual recorded song?’” on a horse every day. It’s great to get back it’s the oldest for-profit summer stock says with a laugh. “We tweaked here and to it. Now I can play gigs and ride horses.” theater. I started working there in 1998 there and redid some stuff, wrote a couArizona boy He attended ASU, where he hoped doing the ‘Rocky Horror Picture Show.’” ple new songs.” Waybill’s album cover—designed by to study oceanography and transfer to He starred as Frank N. Furter, but his

Besides “Faker,” the album features the The Tubes’ Prairie Prince—recalls a very Scripps Institution of Oceanography in favorite play is “Spamalot,” for which he melodic and soulful “Say Goodbye,” the Arizona red-and-orange sunset. It makes San Diego—until he discovered acting. plays King Arthur. Waybill was scheduled to return to Scottsdale to play Talking Stick Resort in

TITAN CLINICAL RESEARCH September for his birthday. The COVID-19 pandemic nixed those plans. He enjoys traveling to Arizona in better times, either

Clinical research provides an opportunity to play a more active role in to perform or to see his brother, who lives your own health on a ranch in Cave Creek. He’s looking forward to the time when

STUDY OPPORTUNITIES concerts return. He isn’t interested in streaming shows, although he’s frequentContinuous care and compensation Check For Undiagnosed Atrial ly approached to do them. “I don’t want to do it,” he says. “I keep provided Fibrilation Or Atrial Flutter turning them down. This is not what we do. We try to reach them eye to eye and - Must be 70 or older and insured translate that joy from across the footVenous Leg Ulcers - z Week through Duration Medicare A&B - Can Complete Remotely lights. “I don’t want to play at a drive-in with everybody sitting in the tailgate of their car with a crappy speaker hanging from the window.” COVID nearly stopped “Fee Waybill Rides Again” as well. “The whole music business shut down,” he says. “But we thought everyone is sitting at home quarantining. We thought it would be nice to give them something to listen to, spread the joy a little bit. “I’m so glad we did. We’ve received such EMAIL: INFO@TITANCLINICALRESEARCH.COM CALL: ( 602) 314-4349 a good response. It has brought a little bit of joy to people who are hunkered down in the house wearing a damn mask.” 18 | SEPTEMBER 2020 www.LovinLife.com

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