The Completion Backward Principle

== Background ==

== Background ==

After the release of their fourth studio album, ''[[Remote Control (The Tubes album)|Remote Control]]'', and after their time filming and recording for ''[[Xanadu (soundtrack)|Xanadu]]'' and its soundtrack, the Tubes found themselves dropped by record label A&M. The group spent much of 1980 searching for a new label, eventually finding Capitol Records through [[Bobby Colomby]] of [[Blood, Sweat & Tears|Blood, Sweat, & Tears]].{{Cite web|last=Adams|first=Christopher|date=February 4, 2020|title=Interview with The Tubes lead singer Fee Waybill – The Completion Backward Principle|url=https://fortheloveofbands.com/2020/02/04/interview-with-the-tubes-lead-singer-fee-waybill-the-completion-backward-principle/|access-date=March 27, 2021|website=ForTheLoveOfBands|language=en-GB}} Reportedly, their three-album contract with Capitol allowed the label to drop the Tubes if any of the three records were not commercially successful.{{Cite web|first=Thom|last=Jennings|title=Talkin' the Tubes' 'Completion Backward Principle'|url=https://www.niagara-gazette.com/news/night_and_day/talkin-the-tubes-completion-backward-principle/article_c9b2a95e-0e73-5a91-9954-6a075f7a1c10.html|access-date=March 27, 2021|website=Niagara Gazette|language=en}} Colomby claimed the band needed a new producer in order to achieve the commercial success they had been looking for, and eventually introduced the group to David Foster. Foster, who had just come off of [[Earth, Wind & Fire]]'s ''[[I Am (Earth, Wind & Fire album)|I Am]]'', agreed to produce the group. Some time after this, lead vocalist [[Fee Waybill]] alleges that he discovered a spoken-word motivational record from the 1950s in a record store, and used the sales pitch as the central concept to the band's next album.{{Cite web|last=Cashmere|first=Paul|date=March 12, 2019|title=The Tubes to Perform Entire 'The Completion Backward Principle' live|url=http://www.noise11.com/news/the-tubes-to-perform-entire-the-completion-backward-principle-live-20190312|access-date=March 27, 2021|website=Noise11.com|language=en-US}} “The sales technique was that ‘imagination creates reality,’ which it turns out, was a metaphor for someone like me, who grew up singing Beatles songs around the house dying to be in a band,” Waybill said in later interviews.{{Cite web|last=Cashmere|first=Paul|date=March 12, 2019|title=The Tubes to Perform Entire 'The Completion Backward Principle' live|url=http://www.noise11.com/news/the-tubes-to-perform-entire-the-completion-backward-principle-live-20190312|access-date=March 27, 2021|website=Noise11.com|language=en-US}} The 2011 remaster liner notes claim keyboardist Michael Cotten instead found the record.

After the release of their fourth studio album, ''[[Remote Control (The Tubes album)|Remote Control]]'', and after their time filming and recording for ''[[Xanadu (soundtrack)|Xanadu]]'' and its soundtrack, the Tubes found themselves dropped by record label A&M. The group spent much of 1980 searching for a new label, eventually finding Capitol Records through [[Bobby Colomby]] of [[Blood, Sweat & Tears|Blood, Sweat, & Tears]].{{Cite web|last=Adams|first=Christopher|date=February 4, 2020|title=Interview with The Tubes lead singer Fee Waybill – The Completion Backward Principle|url=https://fortheloveofbands.com/2020/02/04/interview-with-the-tubes-lead-singer-fee-waybill-the-completion-backward-principle/|access-date=March 27, 2021|website=ForTheLoveOfBands|language=en-GB}} Reportedly, their three-album contract with Capitol allowed the label to drop the Tubes if any of the three records were not commercially successful.{{Cite web|first=Thom|last=Jennings|title=Talkin' the Tubes' 'Completion Backward Principle'|url=https://www.niagara-gazette.com/news/night_and_day/talkin-the-tubes-completion-backward-principle/article_c9b2a95e-0e73-5a91-9954-6a075f7a1c10.html|access-date=March 27, 2021|website=Niagara Gazette|language=en}} Colomby claimed the band needed a new producer in order to achieve the commercial success they had been looking for. Their first choice was [[Mike Rutherford]] of [[Genesis (band)|Genesis]] who was a fan of the band but reluctantly had to decline. The next pick was [[Bob Ezrin]] who just came off of the success of co-producing [[Pink Floyd]]'s blockbuster double album/rock opera [[The Wall]]. In the end they the group was settled on David Foster. Foster, who had just come off of [[Alice Cooper]]'s [[From the Inside]] and [[Earth, Wind & Fire]]'s ''[[I Am (Earth, Wind & Fire album)|I Am]]'', agreed to produce the group. Some time after this, lead vocalist [[Fee Waybill]] alleges that he discovered a spoken-word motivational record from the 1950s in a record store, and used the sales pitch as the central concept to the band's next album.{{Cite web|last=Cashmere|first=Paul|date=March 12, 2019|title=The Tubes to Perform Entire 'The Completion Backward Principle' live|url=http://www.noise11.com/news/the-tubes-to-perform-entire-the-completion-backward-principle-live-20190312|access-date=March 27, 2021|website=Noise11.com|language=en-US}} “The sales technique was that ‘imagination creates reality,’ which it turns out, was a metaphor for someone like me, who grew up singing Beatles songs around the house dying to be in a band,” Waybill said in later interviews.{{Cite web|last=Cashmere|first=Paul|date=March 12, 2019|title=The Tubes to Perform Entire 'The Completion Backward Principle' live|url=http://www.noise11.com/news/the-tubes-to-perform-entire-the-completion-backward-principle-live-20190312|access-date=March 27, 2021|website=Noise11.com|language=en-US}} The 2011 remaster liner notes claim keyboardist Michael Cotten instead found the record.

== Recording ==

== Recording ==