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Tommy Dunbar and Jon Rubin formed The Rubinoos while still in junior high school. By age fourteen, after playing a few school dances, they graduated to the club circuit. In 1975 the band was signed as one of the original acts on the newly formed Beserkley label. The Rubinoos made their recording debut that year with the song Gorilla, on the Beserkley Chartbusters LP. By 1977 the boys had finished recording their first LP The Rubinoos. Gene Sculatti of The New York Rocker called it “the best pop album of the decade.” The first single, a cover of the Tommy James classic “I Think Were Alone Now,” reached the top 40 nationwide and the top 10 in many major U.S. cities. Appearances on Dick Clarks American Bandstand, The Rolling Stone 10th Anniversary TV Special, and features in numerous Teen Magazines helped put The Rubinoos into the pop consciousness. At the same time, the group was receiving a lot of attention overseas: critical acclaim and airplay in Europe, and top tens in Japan and Australia. In 1978 they left for their first European tour. The first show was an appearance on German TV’s Rockpalast. The rest of the tour took them through northern Europe performing concert dates and appearing on assorted TV shows such as Top Pop (The Netherlands), Old Grey Whistle Test, and Rock Goes to College.
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  • SignalSongs

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  • alcoholismuss

    хуитичные. говнище

    21 Apr 2012 Reply

  • PrettyStar

    мелодичные

    15 Feb 2012 Reply

  • ummanturkoglu

    awesome band

    25 Jan 2012 Reply

  • promisedeyes

    Those Lennon/McCartney vibes on all their tunes... <3

    23 May 2011 Reply

  • AITSooDA

    Bästa bandajävla!!

    13 May 2009 Reply

  • PappaWheelie

    "Gorilla, that's what I want you to call me/I'm so big you got to love all of me..."

    8 Aug 2008 Reply

  • RnRDemon

    Love The Rubinoos cause they're so poppy!

    31 Mar 2008 Reply

  • davidboner

    Avril can burn in Hell, but I pity the Rubinoos because the Stones' lawyers are going to rip them apart.

    24 Dec 2007 Reply

  • holocausts_r_us

    Why the hell would ANYONE tag this as Avril Lavigne. Disgraceful.

    14 Dec 2007 Reply

  • Big_Baby_Jesus

    I'm guessing Avril is creatively bankrupt.

    12 Oct 2007 Reply

  • sgrumpf

    I'd never heard of this Avril Lavigne until someone said she stole a Rubinoos song...

    20 Sep 2007 Reply

  • hank_kingsley

    sing a song of raaaaaaaaaaaape

    23 Aug 2007 Reply

  • LittleEd

    Lol, yeah. I agree, these guys were totally unknown 'til Avril came to take'em out of the hole.

    14 Aug 2007 Reply

  • jazz182

    its amazing how much publicity this band is getting after the whole avril lavigne thing!!christ almighty...

    6 Aug 2007 Reply

  • jcharles65

    I had Thanksgiving dinner a few years back (actually, almost a decade ago) with a group of folks that included Jon Rubin. He was producing bands at the time. Nice guy.

    29 Jul 2007 Reply

  • kingofgrief

    I interrupt this thread of smack-talking by teenage consumer drones and meathead Swedes to announce that I got both the new Rubes box AND the Party of Two reissue in the mail today. I am therefore a happy, happy boy. We now return you to your ill-advised Avril sycophancy already in progress.

    25 Jul 2007 Reply

  • DarkManiac

    This Band is dead, sucks, and its pathetic all the people saying she stole the song just beacuse she use some words... They want fame saying avril copy this piece of crap. whatever most funny is see all the people that says avril steal this before, and now they say that she didnt copy but still bad and stuff. If u dont now dont talk ;)

    12 Jul 2007 Reply

  • Biyu_copy

    Avril Lavigne is just bad u-u

    10 Jul 2007 Reply

  • walowalo

    bit pathetic to sue avril for copying as the two songs are completly different except for like three or four words of the chorus. and how many has seriously heard this band before they sued her? maybe it's time to look yourself in the mirror and ask yourself why you are suing people to left and right america.

    8 Jul 2007 Reply
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