The recently released track listing for Green Day‘s edition of Rock Band left out tracks from the legendary Lookout albums Klerpunk! and 1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours. A few fans expressed resentment at the absences, so drummer Tre’ Cool went on record with Gameinformer to explain.
“We wanted to get stuff from 39/Smooth and Kerplunk! on there, too, but the tapes are really old. I don’t know if you know about analog tapes, but to transfer them you need to play them. They are kind of stuck together right now. You have to “bake” them, and then you have one chance to run it over the machine to transfer it to make stems. Once it hits the head, it comes off the other side shredded. We’re making sure we have the right dudes to do it. We’re actually booking it; there’s one place in Burbank that still does it. We’re going to bite the bullet and shred our old tapes and put it to digital.”
You can check out the full interview here. Green Day: Rock Band hits stores on June 8th.
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