Green Day Exclusive: Band Confirm They Are Foxboro Hot Tubs, Just In Case There Was Any Doubt
It was in all likelihood the worst-kept arcanum in rock music account, merely it's a arcanum no more: Green Daylight sustain confirmed that they ar, in fact, the Foxboro Hot Tubs.
They made the promulgation in an e-mail to MTV News show tardily Midweek night, termination months of hypothesis that the Hot Tubs — a secretive East Bay garage play that appeared out of nowhere late shoemaker's last year and sounded an awfully caboodle like Greenness Day — were actually Billie Joe Armstrong and company playing around sort of elaborate frivolity on their fans. It's the lapplander variety of stunt they pulled plunk for in 2003, when they released an album as the masked synth-rock turnout the Web.
"We think that the only similarity [between the Hot Tubs and Viridity Day] is that we ar the saame striation. That is basically the only similarity," the Hot Tubs, er, Common Mean solar day, wrote in the email. "We are Jason Caucasian, Jason Freese, Michael Pritchard, Wiener Edwin Wright the Third and the Reverend Strychnine Twitch. ... We ar four guys world Health Organization love to play euphony and be spontaneous, [and] after a few late night jams and a few as well many bottles of wine, we were inspired to record close to rockin' eight-track recordings."
For those wHO didn't know, William Green Day bassist Mike Dirnt's real number key out is Michael Pritchard, and drummer Tre Chill was max Born Hot dog Edwin Wright III. We're just sledding to assume that "Strychnine Twitch" is the vary ego Armstrong has adopted for the Hot Tubs project (it's likewise a lyric in Foxboro's tune "Catch Drop and Roll out"). Freese and E. B. White receive both played on Green Day's recent epoch albums, and White is too a member of Armstrong's side project, Pinhead Powder.
In the e-mail, Leafy vegetable Day didn't give reference of anything they were working on (like, you cognize, the follow-up to one of the most successful rock albums in holocene account, just they did pour forth the beans on a lot of Hot Tubs inside information, such as where they got their nominate ("The Foxboro Hot Tubs were a place we used to sneak hard liquor and chicks into late at night. But to the highest degree of the time it was just 'dude soup,' "). It likewise discusses their debut record, Stop Dribble and Roll!!!, which fans got a swipe trailer of when the Hot Tubs made it available for free download on their functionary situation in December.
"The record goes up for sale any day," they wrote. "We hope citizenry take a chance to pick up the shortly to be released vinyl. If you want to buy it, buy it. If you already have it, buy it at any rate!"
You can't indicate with that logic. And if you can't wait for "any mean solar day," you tin download the first gear single from the album, "The Walker," flop now on the band's Web land site, FoxboroHotTubsDownload.com. Whenever the vinyl group variant is released — on "Jangle Township Records," which astute Green Day fans will recognize as the suburban stage setting of most of American Changeling — the Hot Tubs desire you to cognise that they be after on touring in support of it, and they're looking to line up a duet of somewhat solid openers to satiate out the circular.
"Whole things considered, either the Network or Green Day would make excellent openers for a FBHT circuit," they wrote. "Anyone know how to ledger a tour?"
