Foxboro Hot Tubs make entrance in Austin
The Green Day garage pseudonym these days certainly is making quite a ripple in the rock n’ roll field and last night’s performance at the legendary Austin, Texas rock club, Emo’s certainly was no exception. Instead of opting for the backstage area like most other bands prefer before the show, Billy Joe Armstrong and company walked right through the front door to a packed 300 person screaming house.
Michael Hoinski at Rolling Stone witnessed the frenzied madness and elaborately detailed the Austin club’s evening madness:
A guitarless, bleached-blonde Billie Joe Armstrong took the stage looking like Kurt Cobain circa the Jackie Onassis white-sunglasses phase. “Come close to me,” he intoned. “Come close to me. Me llamo es the Reverend Strychnine Twist.” Then the six-piece (augmented by two guitarists and a sax/flute/keys player) suddenly locked into the title track from their just-released vintage garage rock album Stop Drop and Roll. It was followed by big-beat doo-wop number “Mother Mary” and “Alligator,” during which Billie Joe waved around a long stick with a plastic alligator head named One-Eyed Jack attached to the end. Meanwhile, bassist Mike Dirnt poured PBR tallboys on the crowd.
If Green Day’s newer material is up to par with its sidecar garage stomping grounds, then we will have the opportunity to truly see some awesome material not only since American Idiot, but from the bellows of 1994’s Dookie as well. For now, click on that Fender amp and bang out those power chords! It’s surf’s up until the cows come home.
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