So where should the tubes be?

"But don't know how a 70 year old Fee Waybill is going to pull off "White Punks on Dope".

Maybe an update is in order? - Angry seniors on Medicare!

@tomic601 I’m a huge Tubes fan as well and saw Fee Waybill perform years back.  His persona on stage was quite the jerk but in person after the show proved to be a lovely, warm person.  
I haven’t found tube sources I like (although I’ve  heard about a tube based strain gauge phono stage) but I have a full tube pre (Atma-sphere) which I only use the line section of, and tube input section of my amps (BHK300’s).

It doesn’t sound at all Tubey or euphonic, but with the right recording sounds very lifelike.  My reference is live music, not other Hifi systems.  

Way off topic but I have a promo LP pressing of the Tubes What Do you Want From Live that sounds fantastic. - I think its a white label radio station copy. When I moved to NYC’s East Village in the late 80’s everyone was dumping their vinyl for CD, and obviously a lot of people in the music business lived in the ’hood. Many of the LP’s I bought at the time were promo copies and some included white label radio pressings, which are often the best sounding pressing of a title I have. I was an early CD adopter and when I got my first high end rig after college, I found my $100 technics table (with an AT12SA Shibata cart) trounced CD and modest DACs of the era, and bought about 2500 lps when people were selling them by the milk crate for a buck or slightly more. A friend in that neighborhood recently told me in that era he left 2000 lps on a street corner one day for people to just take.