Every Friday the punk rock geniuses here at Dying Scene are going to unleash a little bit of punk scene trivia all over your asses. Today’s “fun factoid” is about the secret Green Day side project Foxboro Hot Tubs:
Have you ever heard of the band “Foxboro Hot Tubs” or their lead singer “Reverend Strychnine Twitch”? If not, don’t worry. Those two names shouldn’t be as familiar to you as, lets say, Green Day and Billie Joe Armstrong, but the truth is they are one and the same. Reverend Strychnine Twitch is Billie Joe Armstrong and Foxboro Hot Tubs is Green Day.
Formed in 1997 as a secret side project of Green Day, Foxboro Hot Tubs recorded their debut 12-song release Stop Drop and Roll at the same time as Green Day’s 21st Century Breakdown and released it April 22, 2008 on Jingle Town/Warner Records. Speculation ran rampant about the band’s true identity until Billie Joe confirmed the Green Day connection when he wrote, “The only similarity between Green Day and Foxboro Hot Tubs is that we are the same band.”
They did a couple of Bay area shows in 2008, playing in small venues. The band doesn’t sound any more “punk” than Green Day’s latest releases but if you’re curious you can check out their tunes on MySpace.
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