Fee Waybill

Musician

Birthday September 17, 1950

Birth Sign Virgo

Birthplace Omaha, Nebraska United States

Age 73 years old

Nationality United States

#52743 Most Popular

1950

John Waldo "Fee" Waybill (born September 17, 1950, in Omaha, Nebraska) is the lead singer and songwriter of San Francisco band The Tubes.

Waybill has also worked with other acts, including Toto, Richard Marx, and Billy Sherwood.

Waybill moved to Scottsdale, Arizona, in the 1950s and grew up in the Southwest Village area.

He then attended Arizona State University, where he had planned to study oceanography.

Ultimately, he discovered acting and decided to pursue that as a field of study.

Waybill eventually dropped out of college and, while hanging out in the Verde Valley of Arizona, got to know his future bandmates, Roger Steen and Prairie Prince.

1980

Waybill, along with the Tubes, appeared in Robert Greenwald's Xanadu (1980), and Lou Adler's Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains (1982).

In the latter film, he played the character Lou Corpse, the washed-up frontman of a band called the Metal Corpses.

During the early 1980s, Waybill appeared as himself on a short-lived television program called Rock 'N' America, usually performing as a street reporter who annoyed pedestrians with nonsensical interviews.

He also made a cameo in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure as one of "The Three Most Important People in the World", and appeared, both acting and performing with The Tubes, in one of the "Fishin' Musician" skits on Second City TV.

In addition to his work with the Tubes, Waybill now works as a record producer.

He was the producer for a number of pop music artists including singer-songwriter Richard Marx.

Waybill and his wife, Elizabeth, live in Los Angeles' Hollywood Hills area.

1984

In 1984, a year after the Tubes released one of their most successful albums, Waybill released his first solo album called Read My Lips.

1996

In 1996, Waybill released another album called Don't Be Scared By These Hands.

With the Tubes, Waybill would perform as crippled Nazi Dr. Strangekiss, country singer Hugh Heifer, glam rocker Quay Lewd, and punk parody Johnny Bugger.