Fans awaiting a new Green Day record got a surprise in 2008 when the Foxboro Hot Tubs dropped their debut album, Stop Drop and Roll!!! The Bay Area punks soon revealed that the 50s-style garage band was in fact the rock superstars working under a pseudonym. The group takes on a different aesthetic here though as the sound and the songs are more reminiscent of classic garage acts like the Animals and the Kinks.

"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," explained a Hot Tubs spokesman. "We are Jason White, Jason Freese, Michael Pritchard, Frank Edwin Wright the Third and the Reverend Strychnine Twitch. We are four guys who love to play music and be spontaneous, (and) 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 bassist Mike Dirnt's real name is Michael Pritchard, and drummer Tre Cool was born Frank Edwin Wright III. Strychnine Twitch is the alter ego Armstrong adopted for the project. Freese and White both played on Green Day's previous albums, and White is also a member of Armstrong's other side project, Pinhead Gunpowder.