Tube Bar

Tube Bar is a prank call

Prank call

A prank call is a form of practical joke committed over the telephone. Prank phone calls began to gain an America-wide following over a period of many years, as they gradually became a staple of the obscure and amusing cassette tapes traded amongst musicians, sound engineers, and media traders...

 comedy

Comedy

Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...

 album by the Bum Bar Bastards. After the Tube Bar Bootleg Tape was published by TeenBeat Records

TeenBeat Records

Teen Beat is an independent record label, originally based in Arlington, VA, now based in Cambridge, MA. It was founded by Mark Robinson in 1984 at Wakefield High School along with Phil Krauth , Andrew Beaujon , Tim Moran , and Ian Zack .The label was originally set up like a lending library...

 in 1988, the creators Jim Davidson and John Elmo came forward and released their first official release with the now-defunct Detonator Records in 1993.
The album features their prank calls to Louis "Red" Deutsch at the Tube Bar.

Reportedly due to a breach of contract

Contract

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 and copyright

Copyright

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 debates, the Bum Bar Bastards had a falling out with Detonator. In 2001 Laugh.com released a reprint of the Detonator CD and in 2007 T.A. Productions. released a modified

Modified

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 version licensed from the Bum Bar Bastards that featured new remastering

Audio mastering

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 and splitting the tracks into parts. The 2007 release is the same as Tube Bar Collector's Edition

Tube Bar Collector's Edition

-Tube Bar Collector's Edition:Tube Bar Collector's Edition [2-CD Set] is a prank call comedy compilation by the Bum Bar Bastards. This 2 disc album is a compilation of the previous 2 albums Tube Bar and Tavern Tour....

Disc 1.

Track listing (1993 Release)

1. "Tube Bar - Red"
2. "Red's Crapper"
3. "Tom"
4. "Interlude"
5. "Judy"
6. "Red Again (originally titled More Red)"

50:23 mins

Track listing (2007 Release)

1. "Tube Bar Red 1"
2. "Tube Bar Red 2"
3. "Tube Bar Red 3"
4. "Tube Bar Red 4"
5. "Tube Bar Red 5"
6. "Tube Bar Red 6"
7. "Tube Bar Red 7"
8. "Tube Bar Red 8"
9. "Tube Bar Red 9"
10. "Tube Bar Red 10"
11. "Red's Crapper"
12. "Tom 1"
13. "Tom 2"
14. "Judy"
15. "Red Again 1"
16. "Red Again 2"
17. "Red Again 3"
18. "Red Again 4"

50:23 mins