Who else saw Coming out of Shells tour on stage along time ago?

[Egon1982]

I remembered when i was 8 going on 9 28 years ago when my mom bought me a ticket to Tingley coliseum in Albuquerque to take me to see this concert live.

I also remembered getting the soundtrack on cassette with a program as a kid and i had a blast seeing the turtles live on stage.

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

Did you see Getting Down in Your Town too?

[Egon1982]

Originally Posted by Original TMNT Cartoon Fan

Did you see Getting Down in Your Town too.

Nope, i had not but i had fond memories of seeing Coming out of their shell live on stage.

[Leo656]

I seen it at Six Flags. It was glorious.

I mean, it was cheesy as f*ck but it was what it was supposed to be. I dug it.

I maintain that there's about four songs on that record that are actually pretty spiffy.

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

Originally Posted by Leo656

I mean, it was cheesy as f*ck but it was what it was supposed to be. I dug it.

Some people act it as if it was a comic, cartoon or film, and judge it as a TMNT universe. It isn't. It's just the Ninja Turtles on stage.

[Egon1982]

Originally Posted by Leo656

I seen it at Six Flags. It was glorious.

I mean, it was cheesy as f*ck but it was what it was supposed to be. I dug it.

I maintain that there's about four songs on that record that are actually pretty spiffy.

I agree with that, love that Skipping Stones song.

[IndigoErth]

Nah, I wasn't lucky enough to get to do those sort of things. At nearest it probably went to Philly, about a 45 min drive, and I have at best maybe a vague memory of being aware of the shows existence back then.

Originally Posted by Leo656

I seen it at Six Flags. It was glorious.

Aw, assuming you mean Great Adventure, the same one we always went to on the rare occasion... lucky.

As corny as it is, I don't really feel any loss for missing out, but back then I'd have been all over that.

[Leo656]

Indeed. Front row, too!

My best friend was a few years older than me - we were 7 and 10, I think - and the whole time beforehand, he was "too cool" for it. Then once it started he was into it like everyone else.

There's a few songs that are better than they deserve. The title track, "No Treaties", and "Count On Us" probably hold up better than anything else.

Also, can admitting all this do something to erase that "Grinch" label that follows me around all'a time? I like lots of things, just selectively. And if I was trying to engineer a reputation or setting myself up as an Arbiter Of Taste, I damn sure wouldn't be publicly copping to EVER liking This Sh*t, nah'mean?

[Prowler]

Originally Posted by Leo656

I seen it at Six Flags. It was glorious.

I mean, it was cheesy as f*ck but it was what it was supposed to be. I dug it.

I maintain that there's about four songs on that record that are actually pretty spiffy.

I kinda like Pizza Power.

[pferreira]

Guys I live in the UK. I didn't even know Coming Out of Shells was a thing until the early 2000s when I started to get back into TMNT properly via the Internet. Maybe ignorance was bliss?

[Prowler]

Originally Posted by pferreira

Guys I live in the UK. I didn't even know Coming Out of Shells was a thing until the early 2000s when I started to get back into TMNT properly via the Internet. Maybe ignorance was bliss?

Neither did I. I don't think they ever toured outside of USA.

[Shortfuse]

I'm not sure if they toured the UK, but I remember seeing features in UK newspapers and magazines with the Turtles in their stage outfits in the early 90s.

[MsMarvelDuckie]

Originally Posted by Leo656

Indeed. Front row, too!

My best friend was a few years older than me - we were 7 and 10, I think - and the whole time beforehand, he was "too cool" for it. Then once it started he was into it like everyone else.

There's a few songs that are better than they deserve. The title track, "No Treaties", and "Count On Us" probably hold up better than anything else.

Also, can admitting all this do something to erase that "Grinch" label that follows me around all'a time? I like lots of things, just selectively. And if I was trying to engineer a reputation or setting myself up as an Arbiter Of Taste, I damn sure wouldn't be publicly copping to EVER liking This Sh*t, nah'mean?

I will agree with that list. Skipping Stones and No Treaties are hands down the two best. But Count on Us and Coming Out of Our Shells are both good too. (I prefer the slow version).

Don't get me wrong, Cowabunga and Pizza Power are fun, but cheesy as f***. Though I DO really like Tubin, too.!

[Leo656]

Yeah, "Tubin'" isn't bad.

"Cowabunga" is... something.

I still have my program from Pizza Hut. I still remember when my Dad brought home that and the cassette tape. Good times.

Both the program and the liner notes of the cassette case have some pretty terrible misprinted lyrics, however. Including some lines completely not existing in their respective songs at all and the word "Don't" replaced with "Donatello" several times. Perhaps most egregiously, the line, "The word 'gourmet' just don't exist" being replaced in the notes with, "...just Donatello's exit", which... well, you see it. WTF?!

It's extremely likely that nobody proofread these things before they shipped, because otherwise it was a choice. The program's printed lyrics don't even match the ones in the liner notes half the time! Very bizarre.

[IndigoErth]

Originally Posted by Leo656

Yeah, "Tubin'" isn't bad.

"Cowabunga" is... something.

I still have my program from Pizza Hut. I still remember when my Dad brought home that and the cassette tape. Good times.

Both the program and the liner notes of the cassette case have some pretty terrible misprinted lyrics, however. Including some lines completely not existing in their respective songs at all and the word "Don't" replaced with "Donatello" several times. Perhaps most egregiously, the line, "The word 'gourmet' just don't exist" being replaced in the notes with, "...just Donatello's exit", which... well, you see it. WTF?!

It's extremely likely that nobody proofread these things before they shipped, because otherwise it was a choice. The program's printed lyrics don't even match the ones in the liner notes half the time! Very bizarre.

Wow, if anyone ever got an image of that to share I would not mind seeing that...

Sounds like they paid someone $10 to listen to the audio and write down what they heard, never mind if it made sense or not.

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

Originally Posted by Prowler

Neither did I. I don't think they ever toured outside of USA.

They toured Sweden in 1993

http://www.popkorn.nu/topplistor/topp-10_ttt.html

[Leo656]

Originally Posted by IndigoErth

Wow, if anyone ever got an image of that to share I would not mind seeing that...

Sounds like they paid someone $10 to listen to the audio and write down what they heard, never mind if it made sense or not.

I still have everything. I recently cleaned out my storage unit, so it's all here, I just don't know where it is. In a box in the screenhouse, almost certainly. Remind me when the weather's warmer and I'll dig around.

The program came with a spiffy fold-out poster in the middle. The artwork was pretty nice. The funniest thing is that this whole thing actually takes place in the 1990 film universe. The two-page cartoon story that explains the whole deal at the beginning of the program book loosely references the movie's events as their jumping-off point, and the artwork on the poster is more directly modeled on the characters as they appeared in the film, rather than the... "questionable" character models that actually appeared onstage.

When I find it, I'll take some pics. But yeah, the lyrics don't match the songs on EITHER the program or the liner notes, but those lyrics don't match each other, either. If you put the program and the liner notes side-by-side, you'll see words missing or misspelled, entire lines or verses either put in the wrong order or missing completely, or words on paper that don't appear in the songs at all, with specific errors unique to either source. I think "Cowabunga" had the worst lyrics misprinting, with a little bit of ALL of those errors in one song. Just a giant casserole of nonsense.

I'd love to know what happened, but I'm guessing it's really just an elaborate version of "Nobody really gave a sh*t."

[MsMarvelDuckie]

My guess is traslated by someone for whom English is a second- or maybe even third- language. It sounds suspiciously like translation errors or someone trying to read it in a foriegn language (and failing epically...).

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

Originally Posted by Leo656

The funniest thing is that this whole thing actually takes place in the 1990 film universe.

But still they refered to Baxter Stockman, Dimension X and Krang.

[MsMarvelDuckie]

I think it was more likely a combined universe, since it had elements of both.