Interview with Tre, The Hives opening for Green Day

Game Informer recently sat down with Tre to talk about the upcoming Green Day: Rock Band, which is due out June 8th. The interview ranges from bonus material, motion capture, venues, and the potential for future DLC.

Here is Tre explaining the process of how 1039/Smooth and Kerplunk could become DLC:

'Yeah, there are select songs from other records. We wanted to get stuff from 39/Smooth and Kerplunk! on there, too, but the tapes are really old. I don't know if you know about analog tapes, but to transfer them you need to play them. They are kind of stuck together right now. You have to "bake" them, and then you have one chance to run it over the machine to transfer it to make stems. Once it hits the head, it comes off the other side shredded. We're making sure we have the right dudes to do it. We're actually booking it; there's one place in Burbank that still does it. We're going to bite the bullet and shred our old tapes and put it to digital... So, we're going to have more stuff going through the pipeline later, like the old records once we get them on digital and get the stems. Hopefully, we'll come up with some new looks.' 

The full article can be read by clicking here.

In other news, it has been announced that Swedish band The Hives will be the second opening-act at Green Day's concert at Kylasaari on June 8th in Helsinki, Finland. Tickets can be purchased by clicking here. The first opening-act is Joan Jet.