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The MTV rough cut is now streaming on GDTV and I’m a little more irked by the fact that it’s never seen a physical release. Not to sound like a crass consumerist but they could easily package it as a blu-ray/CD combo with a poster or something and people would snap it up. You can even have options on the disc for the uncut or MTV version. I just think it’s one of Green Day’s best shows and they should quit teasing us with digital clips and give us the whole thing for the physical collectors. I used to think that the band tried to bury the performance because Billie and Mike were clearly tweaking but they used a clip of it to promote Dookie 30 a few years ago and now it’s streaming at random on their YouTube station, so it’s clearly something they don’t mind co-signing for and there should be no more excuses as far as there being no physical releases of it.

For the record, I actually like the song a lot. Rockabilly and swing is fun and I’m also a Stones fan and you can tell the song is pressed right up against “Rip This Joint” in terms of style. I just feel like if it was a Foxboro song, the sub wouldn’t care to pick it apart as much without all of the usual expectations of the Green Day name/brand.

I think a lot of ideas that would’ve been FBHT stuff just get melded into Green Day now without them really considering most people treated Stop Drop and Roll as good for a one off or like a fun novelty,but not everyone who listens to Green Day would be into the garage sound, or even aware that the album even existed to begin with.

It would probably serve them better to put out another FBHT album and do more to keep those sounds separate from each other

It’s good for the end credits of a movie when you want to maintain the high energy of a road trip comedy and you want to leave people feeling good, but it’s also a Foxboro thing and in a lot of ways, they never really managed to separate themselves from that alter ego after they put it down and I think it’s what led to Father of All and some of the questionable stuff on ¡Dos!. We wouldn’t have been nearly as hard on it if not for the name on the album cover. Sometimes it’s really that simple 💁🏻

Yesterday, The Offspring announced a run of two shows called “Just The Punk Stuff” that is going to have a set based around their earlier records (which I imagine is the pre-Smash stuff) as well as the deeper cuts. I think it’s only fair for the Green Day fandom to exercise their imagination here , given that the two bands were contemporaries. If Green Day did do something like this, what would you want it to look like? Focus on the lookout years? Cuts from the pre-Rock Opera albums in general? And how realistic is it for the band to play a show or a run of shows like this in the future?