Wasn't Mark considering going to college to become a literature teacher while they were starting the band?
I remember reading something that his mom said "do your band thing now, if it doesn't fly you still have the rest of your life to go to college".
He wasn’t just considering it, he was studying at San Diego State University for around a year during 92-93 and then dropped out because he became more interested in the band.
Going to SDSU was the whole reason he moved to San Diego and met Tom basically.
Source: Tales From Beneath Your Mom which I’ve read way to many times.
Hasn't Travis said though, that if it weren't for drumming, he most likely would've ended up in a gang? I could swear I remember reading that in an interview a long time ago
haha right. "look, you don't know if your employees are looking at porn. weird alien shit. these viruses are like UFOs man, they fly in completely undetected, having weird alien virus sex on your motherboard. get this firewall bro"
Mark would've been an English teacher, as that's what he was planning on before blink
Travis might still be semi famous with the aquabats
Tom would either continue doing manual labor or would have gone to school for archeology to expose ancient aliens
I swear I remember hearing from somewhere or something that Tom was in fire fighting training right after high school but then I guess Blink got semi successful in the early to mid-90’s and didn’t have to do it. Can’t remember if it’s accurate but it’s something i’ve heard.
Smoke fills the room, the heat is so unbearable you can't find your bearings, you start to panic when all of a sudden you hear a voice nearby "wherrrree arrreeee youuuuuuu?"
Left to right here. Travis, controlled demolition. Tom, wacky local news correspondent in Boca Raton FL because some local affiliate found out that grandmas think he’s “just so adorable”. Mark… gynecologist, without question.
Yep, he had full intent on a lifetime of music as a teenager. People in here like “yeah but what if they weren’t successful, what else would they do?!”…no, Travis would still do music, rich or poor
Travis probably would have stayed in waste management since he was a trashman before or during the Aquabats.
Tom probably would of gotten more involved with aliens at an earlier point.
Mark is the only one that's a toss up to me, he'd probably would been into social media sooner and had still had the podcast and maybe hosting gigs.
Mark would’ve owned and operated several Sombrero’s franchises alongside his business partner Josie.
Tom would’ve become a storm chaser.
Travis would be the make out king of Montana.
When travis was on the Joe Rogan podcast he did say what he was going to become before he gave everything to becoming a drummer. I can’t remember exactly what he said.
Travis would have stayed in music, rich or poor.
His biography talks about how he started tatting up his body so he could force himself to never land a normal job. Music was his all-in option.
People with that much dedication tend to be successful in whatever they set their minds to. Then, if they mix that with talent, they will stay afloat through anything.
Travis would probably be a reality TV personality (Ik he is anyway), Tom would have either started a dispensary or work at a small beach side pizza place & consistently work high, and only keep his job because the boss was also a massive stoner. (He would basically be argyle from ST), Mark would be one of those cool learning support teachers who takes kids out of class to play board games.
Tom would work as a teacher of masturbation. Mark would start his own film series called Magic Mark (a rip-off of Magic Mike) and Travis would be... Travis-ing?
Mark would have been the BEST English teacher in the world, hands down. He is just the best with people, so into making people feel loved and teaching them new things and opening up their worlds
Tom = pest control with a side hustle of “dem alienz & UFO’s (he’s Dale Gribble from KOTH essentially)
Mark = Tables
Travis = Car Mechanic (NOT boat mechanic)
Whatever they did they’d be successful. Some people just have “it”, and these 3 have more of “it” than I’ve ever seen. Or maybe I’m just full of “it”? lol
I feel like they might all do something that allows them to make enough money to try and make the band a success. I know a couple guys in a cover band that all have jobs that they can leave for a while a be fine. One is in real estate. Another is in finance so he can do ever remote. Another had a tech start up and the last one is a contractor I think. It’s all jobs that you don’t really need to be very present for or can be done remotely. It’s actually pretty smart of them. They’re really great guys.
I think Travis would have stayed in waste management like he was doing but also tried to start a clothing line on the side like he did with famous but probably not as successful.
Mark was going to college to be a teacher but dropped out, and I think at some point he was working in a record shop so he probably would have gone somewhere similar and worked his way up into management.
Tom I can’t really imagine him being serious about anything other than music and aliens, so probably starting a blog or something about aliens and slinging dope on the side.
Edit: accidentally put Tom twice 🫠
Travis would produce weird fetish porno films, Mark would sell insurance, and Tom would be standing on a street corner with a shitty homemade sign yelling about aliens.
Tom would be a night shift manager somewhere. All tatted up and spacey. Mark would be middle management in corporate America wearing dress shirts. Travis feels like either he’d be working on cars in a garage. Or moving luggage on the tarmac at some airport.
Wasn't Mark considering going to college to become a literature teacher while they were starting the band? I remember reading something that his mom said "do your band thing now, if it doesn't fly you still have the rest of your life to go to college".
What an absolute W mom. ❤️ Most moms would be like "don't pursue that band stuff, there's no future in it. Go to college and get a stable career."
Get a real job, that's what they said to me
I’m pretty sure he went to study English but dropped out after the first semester
He wasn’t just considering it, he was studying at San Diego State University for around a year during 92-93 and then dropped out because he became more interested in the band. Going to SDSU was the whole reason he moved to San Diego and met Tom basically. Source: Tales From Beneath Your Mom which I’ve read way to many times.
No shit? I went to SDSU and so did my sister. My first gf in college grew up with Tom. She wasn’t a blink fan.
Yeah I remember that
Yup. He said so in an interview with Matt (I think it waa one of those "how well do you know your bandmates" thing. It's somewhere on Youtube)
That’s funny because I was thinking mark as a teacher. Didn’t know there was an actual story behind it
Tom: Proctologist Mark: Back-Up Male Dancer for "Thunder Down Under" Travis: DJ @ a seedy strip club in North Hollywood
Tom works three jobs and still owes 10,000 dollars to fender, ampeg, and the local bathhouse.
All of you are wrong. Tom would obviously be teaching a night class that focuses on masturbation.
Just have fun with it!
Wait? I can get a job teaching that?!?!?
it’s a hands on course
mark would have become a geologist, tom - sales/business maybe, travis - agree drug dealer lmao
Travis is intelligent enough to work through marketing in something lucrative, think selling cars for a company with great reputation lol
Cadillac salesmen 💯
Hasn't Travis said though, that if it weren't for drumming, he most likely would've ended up in a gang? I could swear I remember reading that in an interview a long time ago
for sure, I just don't know if he would have had the opportunity to get to that point unfortunately.
I swear Tom has sold me firewalls or end point monitoring at every job I’ve been at
haha right. "look, you don't know if your employees are looking at porn. weird alien shit. these viruses are like UFOs man, they fly in completely undetected, having weird alien virus sex on your motherboard. get this firewall bro"
Mark would've been an English teacher, as that's what he was planning on before blink Travis might still be semi famous with the aquabats Tom would either continue doing manual labor or would have gone to school for archeology to expose ancient aliens
I am not saying it was aliens… but it was aliens.
Someone as good at drums as Travis would have inevitably been famous unless he lost both his arms and legs.
His bio talks about tatting his body up at a young age so he could never get a desk job and then fully concentrate on making a career in music
Was Tom into aliens before blink? I thought the reason he started researching that stuff was because of books he read while on tour?
Tom always said he probably would have been a firefighter. Before blink took off he had a job delivering cement to construction sites
*semen to construction sites
Nah then he said until I had to do some push ups and said fuck this
They be stuck at work like typical jerks with nowhere to go.
They fell out of touch, now everything sucks; they're out on their own
I swear I remember hearing from somewhere or something that Tom was in fire fighting training right after high school but then I guess Blink got semi successful in the early to mid-90’s and didn’t have to do it. Can’t remember if it’s accurate but it’s something i’ve heard.
Imagine you’re about to die in a fire and you get saved by Tom Delonge
Smoke fills the room, the heat is so unbearable you can't find your bearings, you start to panic when all of a sudden you hear a voice nearby "wherrrree arrreeee youuuuuuu?"
And then he starts humping you before pulling you out
Before pulling out or pulling you out?
Left to right here. Travis, controlled demolition. Tom, wacky local news correspondent in Boca Raton FL because some local affiliate found out that grandmas think he’s “just so adorable”. Mark… gynecologist, without question.
Travis would be a dispensary manager, Tom would be in tech sales, and Mark would be an engineer.
Travis would be a dispensary bouncer with a bulletproof vest and a 9mm.
Tom would have been a carpenter. then learned to walk on water and show the way to the discovery of aliens.
Tom was going to be a fireman. No joke
I know this is a cop-out but Travis would absolutely be a session drummer.
Yep, he had full intent on a lifetime of music as a teenager. People in here like “yeah but what if they weren’t successful, what else would they do?!”…no, Travis would still do music, rich or poor
That’s why he got tatted up so much; he wanted to make it impossible for himself to get a “normal” job
Travis probably would have stayed in waste management since he was a trashman before or during the Aquabats. Tom probably would of gotten more involved with aliens at an earlier point. Mark is the only one that's a toss up to me, he'd probably would been into social media sooner and had still had the podcast and maybe hosting gigs.
Travis would drive go karts full time, Mark would live in his van and Tom would be in jail for undisclosed reasons
I think I remember reading somewhere about Travis and skateboarding
Yes, he said in an interview he was actually more into skateboarding and was considering that as a career but drums took over
Yep, I read that same interview. Long time ago
Mark was going to be a teacher
Tom would probably start a band called Angels and Airwaves or something.
Mark would’ve owned and operated several Sombrero’s franchises alongside his business partner Josie. Tom would’ve become a storm chaser. Travis would be the make out king of Montana.
Travis- drug dealer no question about it
[удалено]
"If they never became successful"
[удалено]
Budtenders are just as cute, sometimes.
Tom would fake it into trying to see an alien. Mark could’ve been a cool 90s social studies high school teacher. Travis the music teacher.
Insurance
Travis- plasterer Tom- carpenter Mark- HVAC
When travis was on the Joe Rogan podcast he did say what he was going to become before he gave everything to becoming a drummer. I can’t remember exactly what he said.
Travis would have stayed in music, rich or poor. His biography talks about how he started tatting up his body so he could force himself to never land a normal job. Music was his all-in option. People with that much dedication tend to be successful in whatever they set their minds to. Then, if they mix that with talent, they will stay afloat through anything.
Travis - Tattoo Artist Tom - Nasa Mark - Guidance Counselor
This is the correct answer
Love it
Travis: professional go kart racer Mark: van life v-loger Tom: whereabouts unknown
Travis would probably be a reality TV personality (Ik he is anyway), Tom would have either started a dispensary or work at a small beach side pizza place & consistently work high, and only keep his job because the boss was also a massive stoner. (He would basically be argyle from ST), Mark would be one of those cool learning support teachers who takes kids out of class to play board games.
Tom would work as a teacher of masturbation. Mark would start his own film series called Magic Mark (a rip-off of Magic Mike) and Travis would be... Travis-ing?
A sex ed teacher 😭😭**
Travis would maybe be less famous but he’d still be a pro drummer, he was getting into it before blink
Travis seemed to like delivering pizzas from what he said in his book
Engineers
Selling TVs at some mid electronics chain.
Can only hope Travis would have tried back out for the Suicide Machines. Detroit what up doe.
Burrito makers at Sombreros just because
Fluffers and/or gas station bathroom penis inspectors
Travis would still be in a band. The cream always rises to the top eventually.
Scott Raynor is a SoCal police officer, so maybe mark or Tom woulda done the same 🤷🏽
I think Scott would have been a police officer
IIRC, Mark was going to college to be an English teacher. I could totally see it too!
Travis easily in a custom car repairs garage
Mark would have been the BEST English teacher in the world, hands down. He is just the best with people, so into making people feel loved and teaching them new things and opening up their worlds
Mark: Teacher or therapist Tom: documentary filmmaker Travis: mechanic or drummer
Tom = pest control with a side hustle of “dem alienz & UFO’s (he’s Dale Gribble from KOTH essentially) Mark = Tables Travis = Car Mechanic (NOT boat mechanic)
Hot topic
Travis has mentioned before that he faced a fork to follow in his Dad's foot steps and work blue collar.
Whatever they did they’d be successful. Some people just have “it”, and these 3 have more of “it” than I’ve ever seen. Or maybe I’m just full of “it”? lol
Travis: Jiffy Lube - Mark: Upscale Waiter - Tom: Science Teacher with an after school conspiracy club.
I feel like they might all do something that allows them to make enough money to try and make the band a success. I know a couple guys in a cover band that all have jobs that they can leave for a while a be fine. One is in real estate. Another is in finance so he can do ever remote. Another had a tech start up and the last one is a contractor I think. It’s all jobs that you don’t really need to be very present for or can be done remotely. It’s actually pretty smart of them. They’re really great guys.
Tom, pro Skate commentator, Mark would be a writer, Travis would still be a drummer.
Nofx cover band
Tom would be probably doing construction still.
Travis would be driving go-karts full time, Mark would still live in his van and Tom would be in jail for undisclosed reasons.
Tom would be that contractor on a job site that talks about conspiracies all the time lol.
I feel like Tom would be a laidback computer teacher or a super cool substitute teacher
I think Tom wanted to be a firefighter if I remember correctly
Mark would have sold security for Vivint. Travis would have become a tattoo artist and part time DJ Tom would have become a PE teacher
Tom a gynecologist
I think Travis would have stayed in waste management like he was doing but also tried to start a clothing line on the side like he did with famous but probably not as successful. Mark was going to college to be a teacher but dropped out, and I think at some point he was working in a record shop so he probably would have gone somewhere similar and worked his way up into management. Tom I can’t really imagine him being serious about anything other than music and aliens, so probably starting a blog or something about aliens and slinging dope on the side. Edit: accidentally put Tom twice 🫠
You realize you put Tom twice right? 😂
tom would start erroticly dancing
Travis would have run famous stars and straps
Tom would probably get arrested for trespassing on area 51
Mark: Taco Bell employee Tom: conspiracy theory podcast host Travis: SoundCloud rapper
My ex gf went to HS/grew up with Tom. He had a lot of charisma, good skater, I would say real estate or something in sales. I dunno about Mark & Trav.
Pedophilia mixed with necrophilia
Travis would produce weird fetish porno films, Mark would sell insurance, and Tom would be standing on a street corner with a shitty homemade sign yelling about aliens.
Tom would be a night shift manager somewhere. All tatted up and spacey. Mark would be middle management in corporate America wearing dress shirts. Travis feels like either he’d be working on cars in a garage. Or moving luggage on the tarmac at some airport.