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The original 1993 Best Selling "Tube Bar" CD release w/ Red, Tom, Judy and more! TUBE BAR is a series of prank phone calls made and recorded by Jim Davidson and John Elmo (The Bum Bar Bastards) a gravel-voiced bartender named Red. It pre-dates The Jerky Boys by several years and was the subject of a motion picture, "Red."Long before there were the Jerky Boys, or anyone else, we were making and recording prank phone calls. If you lived in Jersey City or the surrounding area and were brave enough to pick up a phone in any of the smelly and noisy gin mills that existed every twenty feet, we probably prank called you!Over the years, we have been immitated in one form or another, from The Simpsons, or blurbs on MTV, to movies like Red and Porky's ("Is Mike Hunt there?"), to mentions and samplings on numerous rock and heavy metal albums. Our calls have even been featured on "The Howard Stern show" on a regular basis.