gobo's definitive TOURtoiseshell collection project

[gobo]

I'm sure everyone remembers the Coming Out Of Their Shells Tour. That musical act is now a sore spot on the dignity of the franchise, sure. But, since this should be a fairly simple collection to compile and edit together, I'm going fror it. Besides, that first album was 12 shades of badassity. Hopefully, Bob Bejan or some other representative of TOURtoiseshell will hear of my efforts and make something similar (but higher quality) to sell to all us Turtle-obsessors. If they do, I urge them to follow my specifications to the letter or risk poor sales. What I'm putting together isn't exactly something that I'm legally able to share. But... I can still rub everyone's noses in it. ^_^

DVD:
LIVE!
The Making Of The Coming Out Of Their Shells Tour ~30 min. (released by Goodtimes Home Video in 1990)
The Coming Out Of Their Shells Tour ~90 min. (released by Goodtimes Home Video in 1990)
Gettin' Down In Your Town ~30 min. (released by Random House Home Video in 1992)

CD:
01. Coming Out of Our Shells (Acoustic) 2:28
02. Sing About It 2:43
03. Tubin' 3:27
04. Skipping Stones 5:20
05. Pizza Power 3:00
06. Walk Straight 4:02
07. No Treaties 3:22
08. Cowabunga 4:15
09. April Ballad 4:00
10. Count On Us 5:00
11. Count On Us (Special Extended Turtles Dance Mix) 5:44
12. Coming Out of Our Shells (Electric) 2:48
13. I Hate Music 2:47
14. Follow Your Heart 2:47
15. Gettin' Down In Your Town ?:??
16. Pizza USA ?:??
17. We Stick Together ?:??

NOTE: Tracks 1-10 are, of course, from the 'Coming Out Of Their Shells' audiocassette/album. Track 11 is from an official promo CD released in 1990. Tracks 12-14 are songs performed in concert that I don't see why they wouldn't exist as studio recordings (since France and other countries got studio versions of the backing track with their native language karaoked over it). Tracks 15-17 are the three original songs performed for the Gettin' Down In Your Town concert. When I unsealed that VHS for the first time, less than two years ago, I found a mail-in certificate for a four-track audiocassette. There were only four songs in the show, and I assume the tapes were studio recordings. Surely someone spent the time, money and effort to get one of these tapes. SO WHERE THE SHELL ARE THEY?!? I want one, dangit.



01. Les Tortues Sont La (Coming Out of Our Shells [Electric])
02. Pizza Power
03. Ricochets (Skipping Stones)
04. Sois Toi-Meme (Walk Straight)
05. Ça Baigne (Tubin')
06. Cowabunga 3:48
07. Rap De Shredder (Shredder's Rap)

[Roseangelo]

I would separate the Tour stuff from the live action direct to video stuff. The Tour stuff is muchmuch better.

The four Gettin' Down in Your Town songs are:
Gettin' Down in Your Town
Sing About It (same as from the first tour)
Pizza USA
We Stick Together

(I think I'm remembering those correctly.)

The two FHE videos are on DVD in the Netherlands.

Oh, and you mixed these two up:
The Making Of The Coming Out Of Their Shells Tour ~90 min. (released by Goodtimes Home Video in 1990)
The Coming Out Of Their Shells Tour ~30 min. (released by Goodtimes Home Video in 1990)

Run times should be swapped.

I cross my fingers that one of the GDIYT cassettes will be found, 'cause I really liked the three new songs.

[gobo]

Thanks for the reminder, Rose.

[Janus Prospero]

Originally Posted by gobo

I'm sure everyone remembers the Coming Out Of Their Shells Tour. That musical act is now a sore spot on the dignity of the franchise, sure.

Say what you want. You all know Pizza Power is pimp.

It's actually kinda funny you bring this up, because I was just talking about the COOTS Tour last night. (LoL...COOTS)

[Revan]

The COOTST was done for children and every one of my friends ate it up. Say what you want about the tour, but I LOVED IT and still get a kick out of it.

And gobo, if you ever change your mind about sharing, let us all know. You could illegally make some bucks.

[SassyGal]

Ram Bam bought COOTS (bwahaha! best short form EVER!!!) for me this year for my birthday...seriously the best 90 mins of my life. Don't care it was lame...I still enjoy it

[gobo]

The Coming Out Of Their Shells audiocassette was awesome. Everything else, not so much. But, it wasn't a kids-only thing at first. If it was, the music never would have been so inspired. They just realized that the crowd they were drawing was mostly toddlers, so the act was treated accordingly.

Actually, for the second time, an ATI video-capture card died on me. So, being a perfectionist, that DVD won't be put together anytime soon. BTW, anyone know a reliable method of tracking correction for things like this? O_o