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Older... Budweiser

album by Gang Green

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 20, 2025
Entity authorityQ7085551 ↗
Source-derived summary

Older... Budweiser is the third album by the American hardcore punk band Gang Green, released in 1989.

It was the last album of new material to emerge from the band until 1997's EP, Back & Gacked, but was followed by a live album, Can't LIVE Without It, in 1990. After the album was released, bass player Joe Gittleman left the band and replaced for the tour by D.R.I.'s Josh Pappe.

It was the first time the band had recorded outside of their Boston, Massachusetts, hometown. Rhode Island was the new setting, with Tom Soares replacing Daniel Rey at the mixing and production table.

Overview

Older... Budweiser marked a change in sound for the band.

Songwriting was no longer mostly a solo effort on the part of Doherty. Nearly every track was written in partnership with another member.

Editorial summary

“Older... Budweiser” enters the record as album by Gang Green. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Older, Budweiser and album can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1989, 1997, 1990—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1989. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Older, Budweiser and album.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Older... Budweiser” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Older, Budweiser and album provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 20, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7085551. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1989, 1997 and 1990.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Older... Budweiser” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.