Foxboro Hot Tubs
During the first week of December 2007, a MySpace profile appeared featuring a band whose lead singer's voice "unmistakably" belonged to Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong. Later that week, an official website, with six downloadable mp3s, also came into fruition.
In early 2008 Green Day revealed that they are in fact, The Foxboro Hot Tubs. The band said in a e-mail to MTV-News: "We think that the only similarity is that we are the same band. That is basically the only similarity, We are Jason White, Jason Freese, Michael Pritchard, Frank Edwin Wright the Third and the Reverend Strychnine Twitch... We are five guys who love to play music and be spontaneous, after a few late night jams and a few too many bottles of wine, we were inspired to record some rockin' eight-track recordings."
Green Day drummer Tre Cool's real name is Frank Edwin Wright III, bassist Mike Dirnt is Michael Pritchard, and the Reverend Strychnine Twitch is another one of Billie Joe's numerous alter egos. Jason White and Jason Freese play in Green Day as well.
The record of the Foxboro Hot tubs is titled Stop Drop and Roll!!! and was released on May 13, 2008.
In May, 2008 the band made a small spring tour with eight dates. They supported Green Day in Manchester, England at the MEN Arena on Halloween 2009, and played at The Garage in Islington on the 2nd November 2009.
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Famous quotes containing the word hot:
“They come like sacrifices in their trim,
And to the fire-eyed maid of smoky war
All hot and bleeding will we offer them.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)