The worst-kept secret in rock
became less of a secret today, when Green Day dropped MTV a line confirming that, yes, they were the same band as the
Foxboro Hot Tubs, whose song "Mother Mary"
hit the Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart a few weeks back. "We think that the only similarity [between the Hot Tubs and Green Day] is that we are the same band. That is basically the only similarity," the band's e-mail said. Why did the Bay Area trio decide to make this announcement? I asked
Corporate Rock Still Sells columnist Al Shipley if he had any theories, and you may be unsurprised to learn that they mostly involve marketing.
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