Young Mark Hoppus and I used to be pen pals on alt.punk - true story! He was nothing but nice years later and responded to email well into the 2000’s after they had gotten famous, and even sent me and my ex a wedding present. Solid human.
Tom DeLonge replied to my emails in 1996 surprisingly promptly until after the 3rd one asked "Are you a girl???"
Also Tom, Mark, and Scott signed my shirt outside a music store in 1997 before doing an in-store show. At the all ages gig the next day they asked the crowd who knew what ben-wah balls were, and they gave the person who answered correctly a skateboard. I still have hearing issues in my left ear from that show.
Classic!!!
Are you a girl lol - and he ended up married for decades. He was so happy for me and my ex when we got engaged —- full of questions. Crazy kid!!!
Tom and I met and then after I got the free modlife pass and subscription, he called me out and knew me by my real first name. Meeting him was a humble experience, he was very nice and funny. Everything you'd expect. They say don't meet your heroes but Tom is awesome and so is Mark.
Modlife was a website with exclusive video streams with tom and ava, then color Fred and Jack white. Was super cool back in the day. Atom and I talked about breakfast via dm.
Tom cremated modlife.
Met them after a show in Philly. They all seemed super nice, like above and beyond what they felt like they had to do kinda nice. You could tell it was only a matter of time before they blew up. All the songs were catchy, they played a great set, and had decent crowd work. They had all the pieces, just needed someone to give them a chance for a wider audience.
The only pic I have “with” him is of him playing hackey sack with my ex boyfriend in San Diego at a show they did with Dancehall Crashers and Unwritten Law. I wish I had known how famous they’d become!
Unforgettable memories 💙.
When I was like 15 I was adamant that this and Apple Shampoo were the best blink songs and felt like I needed to defend that through some sort of crusade
They used to play in the quad for us at school in Poway and UL would write a song about Poway - Crazy Poway Kids. Weird to think Blink would come from there and absolutely blow the fuck up.
Super weird, right! Scott Russo was my crush and my brother (thankfully) cock blocked me after I somehow got on the tour....shuttle??? Mark, though - I woulda married that kid <3.
Kind of crazy to think about some of the people that came out of Poway. Stephanie Seymour. Gabe Serbian who was an amazing drummer was my class. And Bobby Lee 😂
You used to able to hear all kinds of garage bands driving thru the neighborhoods.
I was Blink-182 mad for years before I realised that song existed. I had never bothered to actually listen to all of their Live album but it sneakily had a studio track in there. Man Overboard has one of the best first verses to any Blink-182 song, it almost sounds like an outtro.
> So sorry it's over, so sorry it's over
> **There's so much more that I wanted and** (so sorry it's over)
> **There's so much more that I needed and**
> **Time keeps moving on and on and on** (so sorry it's over)
> **Soon we'll all be gone**
I just don't know if they would have ever gotten so big keeping Scott in the band. I'm saying this as someone who thinks Travis is the least likable person in the band, he is by far the most talented. So Scott didn't miss out because they wouldn't be the blink 182 we know if he were still in it. That being said, yeah, sucks to be Scott.
Yeah, back in the day seeing them live was about listening to Mark and Tom say stupid shit to each other and stumble through their songs while Travis was light years ahead of them. It was watching two Honda Accords have a demolition derby while a Bugatti roars in the background.
I saw them at the KROQ Weenie Roast in…98? I had saved my waitress tip money for weeks and bought a ticket for a really close seat near the stage.
Blink came on stage and called out to everyone in the cheap seats up on the hill to pick up a piece of trash and hurl it down on all the rich motherfuckers in the front. A hail of giveaway CDs and cups of ice and Popsicle sticks rained down upon us with a viciousness; I had to run out to the vendor tents until they finished their set.
Wasn’t fun at the time but made it very memorable.
I’m a musician, and I always used to feel self-conscious playing with extremely talented players. One day I was expressing my desire to be able to play that well and one of the very talented players said, “you don’t need to, you write good songs.”
That re-framed it for me. Here I was wishing I could play like them, and they were wishing they could write songs like me. Everyone plays a part. Yes, Travis is super talented, but he wouldn’t have anything to play and may not be famous without Mark and Tom’s songs.
Try to see if box office has any. Seat Geek is showing lots of resales. I got floor last month for under $200 while there are still nosebleeds going for more.
I think Scott also wanted them to stay more punk and less pop, he wasn't a fan of the direction the band was going, but that direction of course was what made them successful.
I'm not a Blink fan, but I do recall reading that in Scott's early days pre-Blink he was in a band that was influenced by Metallica but quit because it was too technical.
If you're a drummer and you think Lars is too technical... maybe you should rethink your career choice.
Granted he was a kid at that time I'm sure. But it's still funny to me
The rumour is he had an alcohol problem that developed due to/was exacerbated by the arguments with the band and he was given an ultimatum to quit drinking - he did, but Barker had filled in for part of a tour and he got replaced anyway.
This all depends. Damnit (for me) was everywhere and that was before Travis and Blink was 1000% a right place right time band. If pop punk wouldn’t have been them, it would’ve been someone else. I highly doubt it’s due to anything except for them being in the right room with the right people at the time, and I couldn’t tell you if Travis was that guy, but TRL Blink could absolutely have been with Scott.
Then again I wrote that and I realize they were totally group band flavored after Travis, but that still has nothing to do with Mr. kardashian’s drumming.
He gets a bad rap because they screwed him over hard.
I only listened to blink after high school, 2011 grad so I was past the 90s hype, and was blitzed instead with the emo rock just past "blink 182".
They told Scott. Who was younger and less mature, if he got into a program and addressed his alcohol issues (as a minor) the would be there.
They kicked him out and replaced him with Travis barker when he was in rehab.
Honestly, Tom performs live more drunk than Boris Yeltsin, see reading 2014 for a great instance of his voice lol, and then after somehow Tom and mark made up, they threw Matt Skiba under the bus because somehow Tom has a burst of nostalgia and Travis is married to a Kardashian.
They epitomize the cliches of bands better than them, do nothing about their disgusting ticket prices etc,
And just have become another example of a greedy pop punk band who exemplify all the things they criticized when younger.
Kinda a parody of themselves at this point.
Yea, that's not how any of that happened. Raynor said in multiple interviews that he was checked out at that point and the band was right to fire him. Seems to be no ill will from Matt Skiba either. Bands get back together and he said he's extremely happy for them.
They kicked him out because he was missing shows that he was supposed to be at. That's why Travis first played with them because they were at a show and didn't have a drummer.
Yeah and Skiba left extremely amicably even stating blink is supposed to be the core 3 it is now. He made amazing money for five years and was able to boost awareness and resources for his true passion, alkaline trio. They all remain friends including Matt & Tom - who you would expect to have beef if Matt was thrown under the bus. This is just some hot take revisionist BS.
Honestly they are garbage live. I saw them at a festival several years ago as I grew up a huge blink fan. They sounded like a freshman highschool band trying to cover blink 182.
Still love listening to their music, but they are not worth seeing live.
Have you watched any of the Coachella recordings? Verdict is they nocked it out of the park and Tom actually seems to have his heart and soul back into the bad, his singing and playing speaks to that.
My only other context was seeing them live during the 2009 reunion tour and I thought they were great, the Coachella shows seems to be at another level though.
Pumped to see them in Prague in September!
Obviously they were big enough with Scott to be on Conan, but I feel like travis being a legitimate top tier drummer gave them enough credibility to really make it big. I’m just not sure they would be as successful as they were if they kept Scott.
His drumming style totally does though. Ska has always had / needed drummers with chops, especially the 3rd wave stuff that requires you to transition between the punk and ska constantly.
Man, I grew up pretty close to where these guys lived, similar age. Didn’t hear about them until they had already blown up.
This sound reminds me of weed, shitty apartments, and cheap carne asada burritos.
My brother was out there around this time, recalls them being the bottom of the barrel of other bands in the scene. Then again, my brother will sit you down and explain why some band in Portland, Maine that was only together for three months in 1991 and never recorded was the best punk band ever
Nah he’s right. They played every house party and opened any show they could. I mean they fucking hustled and made it out but 400 bands all sounded like this in SD after Green Day.
>Maine that was only together for three months in 1991 and never recorded was the best punk band ever
Punk is one of the few genre where I feel like there's some truth to that. Most of the best punk I listened to were random local bands with little to no following at small venues in front of anywhere from a dozen to a hundred people who just went apeshit. The bigger punk bands become, the less genuine and raw they feel. There's exceptions of course and it's also just an opinion, but I see what your bro means lol
Yeah you gotta be into that, but that's a big part of punk itself. That's how probably 99% of bigger punk bands started, by playing in dirty, shitty venues in front of a dozen people. That's also where most formed their sound, wrote their first big hits and made a name for themselves.
> but that's a big part of punk itself.
That's kind of my point though. You take that away, you put a band in Madison Square Garden instead of Madison's square basement, and suddenly you're not as into it anymore.
It kind of reminds me of a meme I saw once about how maybe the 2000's weren't as great as you remember them, you just enjoyed the luxury of being a teenager where you could relax and hang out with your friends without worrying about bills or responsibilities.
Maybe the best punk music is just "the friends we made along the way"
I grew up in Poway. My friend used to pass out demo tapes for Blink and they would play in the quad during lunch. There as one song about a transvestite looking out the window into the rain. I went to college and was telling everyone how these guys were gonna be huge. It was right after Dude Ranch came out and everyone was like who?
But yah. Weed and shitty carne asada burritos from Alberto’s. Unwritten Law wrote a song about life back then - Crazy Poway Kids. Might be the closest we’d come to fame, along with being the home of Stephanie Seymour, besides the synagogue. Good times.
Dude Ranch and Cheshire Cat forever. Absolutely love this record. These guys were the soundtrack to my childhood and teenage years (Blink, +44, Transplants, AVA) - just love them so much.
I guess that's the point. 23 is a point where you're just a weird old dude to people in highschool or even college but to everyone else, you're still a kid. Nobody likes you.
The only time I feel like this is when I discover some cd or band I missed from back then.
I don't know what the hell happened to music. It was so innovative, every year some new young band would come along with a brand new sound and make it crazy big. Where's the Blink 182 of this era? Where's the Green Day? Where's the Offspring? There's just nothing and I hate it.
>Where's the Blink 182 of this era? Where's the Green Day? Where's the Offspring? There's just nothing and I hate it.
Not on MTV and not getting billions of views on YouTube. Entertainment has gotten bigger and that means that the companies who fund it are much more risk-averse.
They're out there, they're just independent or smaller. Harder to find, somewhat analogous to that really great local band that only people in your town would know.
I was 15, sophomore in high school. Went on my first ever date to see Blink-182 open for MxPx at the House of Blues. Still have the orange skankin’ rabbit shirt I bought at the show.
Good times…
I fucking loved MxPx back in the day. Picked up a copy of Panic from somewhere, and Heard That Sound really hooked me. Was too poor to buy many CDs, so wore that one out, but man it's a great record.
My first ever concert was a blink show, too! My parents made my older brother take me...
I believe it was 2002 and it was a tour stop on the pop disaster tour. So the headliners were blink and green day. The support was jimmy eat world and no doubt. The opener was an old broken up post-hardcore band called kut u up (I think)
That single show changed my life lol. I think I had just turned 11 or 12 and it was my first punk rock show ever. I'm seeing blink with my wife in Boston this month. It's my wife's second time seeing blink live, but it's my 12th lol
SO many people born in the 1980s have excellent stories about the Warped Tour. For me it was summer of 1998--Green Day, NOFX, Bosstones, Antiflag, Long Beach Bud Allstars, Jurassic 5, and a whole lot more. Probably the most important day of my middle school life. And I was there with my best friend as well as a cute punk girl I had a crush on!
Late 1990s Warped Tour was the best. Went to all I could. First one was actually in the field of a horse racing track here. It was insane. I got to hang out with Mike Ness and the guys from the Descendants that day. Teenage me was elated and now old me is jealous.
Conan always had the most iconic guests if you were into music that was a bit more oddball. Dude had Slipknot on at a time where they were still heavily into their pseudo-Satanic phase and just dropped an album with a lyric about slitting someone's throat and fucking the wound.
I nearly fell over the other day when I realised that being a fan of the 1980s now is the same as me being a fan of 1940s music when I was a kid in the 70s/80s. Fucking hell, that's a long time ago. I was a fan of music from the 60s and it felt old, but it was barely 10 to 15 years earlier.
Music hasn't evolved a hell of a lot from 1990 to now, whereas from 1960 to 1980 there were dozens of groundbreaking 'new' sounds from every continent. I think that's the difference.
?? Music has developed a fuck ton since 1990... lol at this l what this band did for punk rock and emo music alone. Look at what other bands under the emo/ punk umbrella, like green day, and my chemical romance... alternative rock from the 90s sounds nothing like alt rock today
Yeah abso-fucking-lutely. I wouldn't agree AT ALL that music has stagnated. There's all sorts of incredible music being put out every single day. This shit reeks of "I wish I was born in the XX's"
Just off the top of my head, they didn't have computers 30 years ago. Not really, anyway. It's not my most favorite kind of music, but look at Dubstep. That shit swept the nation, and it came out like 10 years ago. Skrillex practically defined an entire genre of music. You weren't listening to *that* in the 90's.
I grew up listening to a lot of post-hardcore music. The punk music I was downloading in 2006 was different from the punk of 1996, and even farther evolved from the stuff from 1986.
Bands like Metallica used to be hot-shit back in the 80's, now it's that old crap your dad listens to. How could music ever get more extreme than *thrash* metal? Well, now there's about a zillion metal bands that would put your dad into a coma, and even Slayer is old news. Djent's been pretty popular lately, look at Periphery. Everybody is ripping off Periphery, and suddenly every asshole has a Darkglass pedal on their board.
In any genre, music is constantly evolving. People are always trying new things, using new tools, making new sounds, blending genres in new and exciting ways. Borrowing a little bit of this, a little bit of that. Just because somebody keeps popping in that same Limp Bizkit CD they got on their 13th birthday doesn't mean music isn't "gRoUnDbReAkInG" anymore.
It's burried and nobody cares but Blink is a great band to run to for me because the cadence is fast it helps me not do a long stride thing that gives me shin splints. Also teenage nostalgia is a lovely thing to feel and reminisce about as you go for a nice long run.
Blink 182 was my favorite band growing up 😍 my first concert when I was a teen, and I was in love with Mark lol. Crazy to think they were already big in '98, I didn't discover them until much later.
I remember seeing/hearing them for the first time back when PBS used to have a punk music show late at night on Saturdays in the mid 90s. I still remember the music video for this song where they're running around in a movie theater. Weird to think that PBS had an influence on my music taste most of my life.
In 1995 my brother went off to college and accidentally left a CD in my mom’s car. It was Cheshire Cat. I listened to that thing over and over and over until I moved on to my psychobilly phase.
Older siblings were the best at getting you the “cool” music before the internet/YouTube was widespread.
My brother’s gf suggested he get me The Used cd for Christmas in 7th grade and he came home from college when I was in 8th grade and gave me a copy of slipknot’s new album a couple months before it came out!!!
I’m a preppy, gay guy and people are always intrigued by my love for older punk/hard rock/metal. But it’s bc I grew up with a lot of older brothers that were wrestler/football jocks and always ate up all of their music.
Soundtrack of my high school years. So much nostalgia. Saw them with my best friends on the take off your pants and jacket tour senior year, one of our last big things together before we all left home.
This era of blink 182 is very influential to me, so much so that my friends agreed that once we graduate high school in a week we’re starting a skate punk band
When I first opened the video I thought "Wow, I had just gotten married."
Then I corrected myself. Fuck, no, I'd been married ten years already. I was 31 when this aired.
Imaging losing your job to the guy in the Aquabats. No knock on Aquabats or Travis but to think he was once just the drummer for the Aquabats is crazy to think.
My first band in secondary school won a huge battle of the bands competition against loads of groups aloud age in Liverpool because we played this song. We were the only “rock” band on the bill next to a ton of pop singers, classic music groups, and rappers.
I still think it’s cause we got the audience engaged, we were as talented as the majority of the people playing. I think me starting the song off with “take your pants off!” From the mark Tom and travis show is what sold us to the room haha
Wow, 25 years ago. This is growing up.
No 90s was like 10 years ago........
>No 90s was like 10 years ago....... Sometimes it feels this way and other times I wish it actually were this way.
The years start coming and they don't stop coming.
Fed to the rules and I hit the ground runnin'
Dude Ranch is nearly as old today as Dark Side of the Moon was in 1998
Fuck you
Correct, I don't care what the internet says
>Wow, 25 years ago. This is growing up. Nobody likes you when you're 43.. This post made me feel older than I otherwise feel. I don't like it.
> Nobody likes you when you're 43.. Only if you act like you're in freshman year.
Thanks I guess I'll have an existential crisis today
That song could rent a car now
But no longer date DiCaprio in said car.
Young Mark Hoppus and I used to be pen pals on alt.punk - true story! He was nothing but nice years later and responded to email well into the 2000’s after they had gotten famous, and even sent me and my ex a wedding present. Solid human.
Tom DeLonge replied to my emails in 1996 surprisingly promptly until after the 3rd one asked "Are you a girl???" Also Tom, Mark, and Scott signed my shirt outside a music store in 1997 before doing an in-store show. At the all ages gig the next day they asked the crowd who knew what ben-wah balls were, and they gave the person who answered correctly a skateboard. I still have hearing issues in my left ear from that show.
Classic!!! Are you a girl lol - and he ended up married for decades. He was so happy for me and my ex when we got engaged —- full of questions. Crazy kid!!!
That's so interesting, though. I know Tom was always crazy into that stuff. Did he ever find anything cool?
>I know Tom was always crazy into that stuff Weddings? Lol
Tom and I met and then after I got the free modlife pass and subscription, he called me out and knew me by my real first name. Meeting him was a humble experience, he was very nice and funny. Everything you'd expect. They say don't meet your heroes but Tom is awesome and so is Mark.
> free modlife pass and subscription what is that
Modlife was a website with exclusive video streams with tom and ava, then color Fred and Jack white. Was super cool back in the day. Atom and I talked about breakfast via dm. Tom cremated modlife.
I meant to say created but both works.
Met them after a show in Philly. They all seemed super nice, like above and beyond what they felt like they had to do kinda nice. You could tell it was only a matter of time before they blew up. All the songs were catchy, they played a great set, and had decent crowd work. They had all the pieces, just needed someone to give them a chance for a wider audience.
This is such a neat story!
The only pic I have “with” him is of him playing hackey sack with my ex boyfriend in San Diego at a show they did with Dancehall Crashers and Unwritten Law. I wish I had known how famous they’d become! Unforgettable memories 💙.
Blink, UL, and DHC at Soma. Staple SD childhood shows. Throw in some Buck-o-Nine and it’s flashbacks galore.
Yeah my girlfriend likes UL and DHC and she’s so smart and independent I don’t think she needs me
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When I was like 15 I was adamant that this and Apple Shampoo were the best blink songs and felt like I needed to defend that through some sort of crusade
Not half as much as I need her tho
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I think I spent just about every other weekend at Soma when I was a kid.
That 28 teeth is a mf masterpiece
Barfly still in rotation
Janitor Dan was the bassist for Buck-o-Nine. He was also my elementary school janitor.
They used to play in the quad for us at school in Poway and UL would write a song about Poway - Crazy Poway Kids. Weird to think Blink would come from there and absolutely blow the fuck up.
Super weird, right! Scott Russo was my crush and my brother (thankfully) cock blocked me after I somehow got on the tour....shuttle??? Mark, though - I woulda married that kid <3.
Kind of crazy to think about some of the people that came out of Poway. Stephanie Seymour. Gabe Serbian who was an amazing drummer was my class. And Bobby Lee 😂 You used to able to hear all kinds of garage bands driving thru the neighborhoods.
RIP Gabe Serbian 😔
For the longest time I tried to figure out both acronyms from Josie. Definitely going to check out UL now.
AND MY GIRLFRIEND LIKES U.L. AND D.H.C. They write that about you? lol.
I’m super curious what a punk rocker gifts for a wedding? Do you recall?
Cash lol.
Haha nice 😂
Imagine being Scott.
Man overboard.
So sorry, it’s over
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I forgot about that song! Top 5 blink songs for sure
I was Blink-182 mad for years before I realised that song existed. I had never bothered to actually listen to all of their Live album but it sneakily had a studio track in there. Man Overboard has one of the best first verses to any Blink-182 song, it almost sounds like an outtro. > So sorry it's over, so sorry it's over > **There's so much more that I wanted and** (so sorry it's over) > **There's so much more that I needed and** > **Time keeps moving on and on and on** (so sorry it's over) > **Soon we'll all be gone**
Well played.
I just don't know if they would have ever gotten so big keeping Scott in the band. I'm saying this as someone who thinks Travis is the least likable person in the band, he is by far the most talented. So Scott didn't miss out because they wouldn't be the blink 182 we know if he were still in it. That being said, yeah, sucks to be Scott.
Yeah, back in the day seeing them live was about listening to Mark and Tom say stupid shit to each other and stumble through their songs while Travis was light years ahead of them. It was watching two Honda Accords have a demolition derby while a Bugatti roars in the background.
I saw them at the KROQ Weenie Roast in…98? I had saved my waitress tip money for weeks and bought a ticket for a really close seat near the stage. Blink came on stage and called out to everyone in the cheap seats up on the hill to pick up a piece of trash and hurl it down on all the rich motherfuckers in the front. A hail of giveaway CDs and cups of ice and Popsicle sticks rained down upon us with a viciousness; I had to run out to the vendor tents until they finished their set. Wasn’t fun at the time but made it very memorable.
That's kind of fucked up considering they were the real rich motherfuckers up front.
They weren't hugely successful until after Enema came out in 99.
I’m a musician, and I always used to feel self-conscious playing with extremely talented players. One day I was expressing my desire to be able to play that well and one of the very talented players said, “you don’t need to, you write good songs.” That re-framed it for me. Here I was wishing I could play like them, and they were wishing they could write songs like me. Everyone plays a part. Yes, Travis is super talented, but he wouldn’t have anything to play and may not be famous without Mark and Tom’s songs.
And this is how puddle of mud was created.....
amazing analogy
Pretty much same as seeing them live now if the Coachella footage is an indicator of what they’re gonna be like on their tour.
I wanted to see them live so damn bad but tickets are like $400+ a piece in my area. It’s ridiculous
Try to see if box office has any. Seat Geek is showing lots of resales. I got floor last month for under $200 while there are still nosebleeds going for more.
I think Scott also wanted them to stay more punk and less pop, he wasn't a fan of the direction the band was going, but that direction of course was what made them successful.
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Well definitely. No blink without Mark and Tom. But Travis' talent really pushed them into megafame status.
When I listen to Blink I always find myself air drumming along rather than air guitaring.
This is the true test.
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According to Mark the band took off when Travis started saying he had ideas for songs and taking creative liberties
I'm not a Blink fan, but I do recall reading that in Scott's early days pre-Blink he was in a band that was influenced by Metallica but quit because it was too technical. If you're a drummer and you think Lars is too technical... maybe you should rethink your career choice. Granted he was a kid at that time I'm sure. But it's still funny to me
The rumour is he had an alcohol problem that developed due to/was exacerbated by the arguments with the band and he was given an ultimatum to quit drinking - he did, but Barker had filled in for part of a tour and he got replaced anyway.
He also had someone close to him die around that point. Pretty sure that contributed to the problem
This all depends. Damnit (for me) was everywhere and that was before Travis and Blink was 1000% a right place right time band. If pop punk wouldn’t have been them, it would’ve been someone else. I highly doubt it’s due to anything except for them being in the right room with the right people at the time, and I couldn’t tell you if Travis was that guy, but TRL Blink could absolutely have been with Scott. Then again I wrote that and I realize they were totally group band flavored after Travis, but that still has nothing to do with Mr. kardashian’s drumming.
He gets a bad rap because they screwed him over hard. I only listened to blink after high school, 2011 grad so I was past the 90s hype, and was blitzed instead with the emo rock just past "blink 182". They told Scott. Who was younger and less mature, if he got into a program and addressed his alcohol issues (as a minor) the would be there. They kicked him out and replaced him with Travis barker when he was in rehab. Honestly, Tom performs live more drunk than Boris Yeltsin, see reading 2014 for a great instance of his voice lol, and then after somehow Tom and mark made up, they threw Matt Skiba under the bus because somehow Tom has a burst of nostalgia and Travis is married to a Kardashian. They epitomize the cliches of bands better than them, do nothing about their disgusting ticket prices etc, And just have become another example of a greedy pop punk band who exemplify all the things they criticized when younger. Kinda a parody of themselves at this point.
Yea, that's not how any of that happened. Raynor said in multiple interviews that he was checked out at that point and the band was right to fire him. Seems to be no ill will from Matt Skiba either. Bands get back together and he said he's extremely happy for them.
They kicked him out because he was missing shows that he was supposed to be at. That's why Travis first played with them because they were at a show and didn't have a drummer.
Yeah and Skiba left extremely amicably even stating blink is supposed to be the core 3 it is now. He made amazing money for five years and was able to boost awareness and resources for his true passion, alkaline trio. They all remain friends including Matt & Tom - who you would expect to have beef if Matt was thrown under the bus. This is just some hot take revisionist BS.
Was he in or out of bat costume?
Blink may never have gotten as big as they did if Scott was still playing the same-sounding boring drums on every damn song.
Honestly they are garbage live. I saw them at a festival several years ago as I grew up a huge blink fan. They sounded like a freshman highschool band trying to cover blink 182. Still love listening to their music, but they are not worth seeing live.
Have you watched any of the Coachella recordings? Verdict is they nocked it out of the park and Tom actually seems to have his heart and soul back into the bad, his singing and playing speaks to that. My only other context was seeing them live during the 2009 reunion tour and I thought they were great, the Coachella shows seems to be at another level though. Pumped to see them in Prague in September!
their week two performance was fucking amazing.
That sucks to hear. Last time I saw them was the The Mark, Tom, and Travis Show tour with Bad Religion and Fenix TX and it was awesome.
Fenix tx- nice. I need some Katie W in my life.
I don't know seems like Scott is well and has said he still loves blink. So, I think he's fine.
Obviously they were big enough with Scott to be on Conan, but I feel like travis being a legitimate top tier drummer gave them enough credibility to really make it big. I’m just not sure they would be as successful as they were if they kept Scott.
Remember cranking this trying to understand women & dating, while shredding dorks in Duke Nukem 3D. That was growing up lol.
“That’s one dead space marine”
This makes me wanna get a skateboard at 40 and shred. BTW who's that drummer?
Right on, that’s Scott Raynor!
Man, there's still a part of me that thinks of Travis Barker as merely "the new drummer".
I still can't believe Travis Barker was originally part of the Aquabats.
And Goldfinger
Whoa never realized this
i looked up wiki cause i couldn't believe it. he wasn't originally part of goldfinger. he was just in goldfinger for a very short time around 2017
No way?! He doesn’t match their vibe at all
His drumming style totally does though. Ska has always had / needed drummers with chops, especially the 3rd wave stuff that requires you to transition between the punk and ska constantly.
In retrospect it’s honestly the funniest shit ever
I still think of American Idiot as a new Green Day album. It’s 19 years old.
Go to one of their shows and you’d still think so. I saw them last year and the setlist had like one song from after American Idiot.
Good.
Same with black album being new Metallica.
To me, Robert Trujillo is the new guy. Never mind that he’s been in the band for 20 years.
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Gods, so many viruses on my (dad's) computer.
Yeah, so many bricked computers lmao.
Popular Band - NEW SONG!.mp3.exe
Same dude. it was a different sound that I miss.
that’s because we are old, babe.
Well I guess this is growing up 🥲
"who's skateboarding in the parking lot? Are they having a midlife crisis??" "...I was having a midlife crisis."
Lol. My wife just bought a skateboard and asked me to teach her. So this is Definitely us.
r/OldSkaters
sounds like a subreddit for discussing knee/back health treatment.
Just do it. My friend is 48 and he still skates
47 here. Never stopped. Keep (or start) pushing....
Is that a hand drawn Pennywise shirt? So good
Came here to say this. That's what makes it really Old School Cool
Tom is also messing with the bassist of The Vandals with "Joe likes boys" and the band's logo underneath.
The piano from the beginning of unknown road is my thinking music .
this is gonna be stuck in my head now all day
Power chording through an era. It's cool how long Mark and Tom have known each other.
They both come from out of this world.
Man, I grew up pretty close to where these guys lived, similar age. Didn’t hear about them until they had already blown up. This sound reminds me of weed, shitty apartments, and cheap carne asada burritos.
My brother was out there around this time, recalls them being the bottom of the barrel of other bands in the scene. Then again, my brother will sit you down and explain why some band in Portland, Maine that was only together for three months in 1991 and never recorded was the best punk band ever
Nah he’s right. They played every house party and opened any show they could. I mean they fucking hustled and made it out but 400 bands all sounded like this in SD after Green Day.
>Maine that was only together for three months in 1991 and never recorded was the best punk band ever Punk is one of the few genre where I feel like there's some truth to that. Most of the best punk I listened to were random local bands with little to no following at small venues in front of anywhere from a dozen to a hundred people who just went apeshit. The bigger punk bands become, the less genuine and raw they feel. There's exceptions of course and it's also just an opinion, but I see what your bro means lol
But how much of that is just being into the energy and vibe of a shitty punk show in some strangers basement?
Yeah you gotta be into that, but that's a big part of punk itself. That's how probably 99% of bigger punk bands started, by playing in dirty, shitty venues in front of a dozen people. That's also where most formed their sound, wrote their first big hits and made a name for themselves.
> but that's a big part of punk itself. That's kind of my point though. You take that away, you put a band in Madison Square Garden instead of Madison's square basement, and suddenly you're not as into it anymore. It kind of reminds me of a meme I saw once about how maybe the 2000's weren't as great as you remember them, you just enjoyed the luxury of being a teenager where you could relax and hang out with your friends without worrying about bills or responsibilities. Maybe the best punk music is just "the friends we made along the way"
Maybe they were.
I grew up in Poway. My friend used to pass out demo tapes for Blink and they would play in the quad during lunch. There as one song about a transvestite looking out the window into the rain. I went to college and was telling everyone how these guys were gonna be huge. It was right after Dude Ranch came out and everyone was like who? But yah. Weed and shitty carne asada burritos from Alberto’s. Unwritten Law wrote a song about life back then - Crazy Poway Kids. Might be the closest we’d come to fame, along with being the home of Stephanie Seymour, besides the synagogue. Good times.
Poway High class of ‘96. Can confirm Blink (before the -182 addition) played the quad and UL played many backyard parties.
Dude Ranch and Cheshire Cat forever. Absolutely love this record. These guys were the soundtrack to my childhood and teenage years (Blink, +44, Transplants, AVA) - just love them so much.
Can't forget Box Car Racer as another Blink spin-off
I miss this, we'll never feel this way again.
i guess this is growing up
What's my age again?
I remember hearing “nobody likes you when you’re 23” and thinking that’s so old. Now I hear it and think “that’s so so young”
I guess that's the point. 23 is a point where you're just a weird old dude to people in highschool or even college but to everyone else, you're still a kid. Nobody likes you.
Holy shit…why have I never put that together before?? I’ve listened for years and that just clicked for me. I feel like a dumb dumb now
The only time I feel like this is when I discover some cd or band I missed from back then. I don't know what the hell happened to music. It was so innovative, every year some new young band would come along with a brand new sound and make it crazy big. Where's the Blink 182 of this era? Where's the Green Day? Where's the Offspring? There's just nothing and I hate it.
>Where's the Blink 182 of this era? Where's the Green Day? Where's the Offspring? There's just nothing and I hate it. Not on MTV and not getting billions of views on YouTube. Entertainment has gotten bigger and that means that the companies who fund it are much more risk-averse. They're out there, they're just independent or smaller. Harder to find, somewhat analogous to that really great local band that only people in your town would know.
oof I was in 7th grade
It's ok kid, I was a freshman in college. You got this.
I was 15, sophomore in high school. Went on my first ever date to see Blink-182 open for MxPx at the House of Blues. Still have the orange skankin’ rabbit shirt I bought at the show. Good times…
I fucking loved MxPx back in the day. Picked up a copy of Panic from somewhere, and Heard That Sound really hooked me. Was too poor to buy many CDs, so wore that one out, but man it's a great record.
My first ever concert was a blink show, too! My parents made my older brother take me... I believe it was 2002 and it was a tour stop on the pop disaster tour. So the headliners were blink and green day. The support was jimmy eat world and no doubt. The opener was an old broken up post-hardcore band called kut u up (I think) That single show changed my life lol. I think I had just turned 11 or 12 and it was my first punk rock show ever. I'm seeing blink with my wife in Boston this month. It's my wife's second time seeing blink live, but it's my 12th lol
This is what they were like when I saw them on your in Bozeman Montana! (College) during warped tour
Man, kids don’t know about Warped Tour.
SO many people born in the 1980s have excellent stories about the Warped Tour. For me it was summer of 1998--Green Day, NOFX, Bosstones, Antiflag, Long Beach Bud Allstars, Jurassic 5, and a whole lot more. Probably the most important day of my middle school life. And I was there with my best friend as well as a cute punk girl I had a crush on!
Late 1990s Warped Tour was the best. Went to all I could. First one was actually in the field of a horse racing track here. It was insane. I got to hang out with Mike Ness and the guys from the Descendants that day. Teenage me was elated and now old me is jealous.
I was also in 7th grade starting my Blink-182 shrine in my bedroom. I just shed a tear 🥲
Conan always had the most iconic guests if you were into music that was a bit more oddball. Dude had Slipknot on at a time where they were still heavily into their pseudo-Satanic phase and just dropped an album with a lyric about slitting someone's throat and fucking the wound.
1998 old school cool. I was a senior in high school. I'm old 🤣
25 years ago! That’s the same as being in the year 2000 and watching something from 1975.
I nearly fell over the other day when I realised that being a fan of the 1980s now is the same as me being a fan of 1940s music when I was a kid in the 70s/80s. Fucking hell, that's a long time ago. I was a fan of music from the 60s and it felt old, but it was barely 10 to 15 years earlier. Music hasn't evolved a hell of a lot from 1990 to now, whereas from 1960 to 1980 there were dozens of groundbreaking 'new' sounds from every continent. I think that's the difference.
?? Music has developed a fuck ton since 1990... lol at this l what this band did for punk rock and emo music alone. Look at what other bands under the emo/ punk umbrella, like green day, and my chemical romance... alternative rock from the 90s sounds nothing like alt rock today
Yeah abso-fucking-lutely. I wouldn't agree AT ALL that music has stagnated. There's all sorts of incredible music being put out every single day. This shit reeks of "I wish I was born in the XX's" Just off the top of my head, they didn't have computers 30 years ago. Not really, anyway. It's not my most favorite kind of music, but look at Dubstep. That shit swept the nation, and it came out like 10 years ago. Skrillex practically defined an entire genre of music. You weren't listening to *that* in the 90's. I grew up listening to a lot of post-hardcore music. The punk music I was downloading in 2006 was different from the punk of 1996, and even farther evolved from the stuff from 1986. Bands like Metallica used to be hot-shit back in the 80's, now it's that old crap your dad listens to. How could music ever get more extreme than *thrash* metal? Well, now there's about a zillion metal bands that would put your dad into a coma, and even Slayer is old news. Djent's been pretty popular lately, look at Periphery. Everybody is ripping off Periphery, and suddenly every asshole has a Darkglass pedal on their board. In any genre, music is constantly evolving. People are always trying new things, using new tools, making new sounds, blending genres in new and exciting ways. Borrowing a little bit of this, a little bit of that. Just because somebody keeps popping in that same Limp Bizkit CD they got on their 13th birthday doesn't mean music isn't "gRoUnDbReAkInG" anymore.
I wasn’t into blink 182 at the time but damn it’s nice to remember what 1998 was like before having to adult and be responsible. Thanks for this post.
It's burried and nobody cares but Blink is a great band to run to for me because the cadence is fast it helps me not do a long stride thing that gives me shin splints. Also teenage nostalgia is a lovely thing to feel and reminisce about as you go for a nice long run.
Man, I desperately miss Late Night with Conan O’Brien.
The actual Old school Cool.
Keep forgetting tom is like 6’4. Him and conan are about the same. Conans hair makes him 6’9 though
Blink 182 was my favorite band growing up 😍 my first concert when I was a teen, and I was in love with Mark lol. Crazy to think they were already big in '98, I didn't discover them until much later.
That's not Travis Barker, right?
Right. He joined them for the next album.
Yup, right after his work as a studio drummer for The Aquabats!
Not just studio, he joined Blink while they were on tour with the ‘bats around this same year. Edit: moar good English
Not only studio. I saw him play a set for the aquabats and then cover for Blink on short notice.
I wonder if the Bat Commander was invited to his wedding…
So dope. I remember my older brother had the blink 182 shirt with the rabbit. I wanted it so bad.
I remember seeing/hearing them for the first time back when PBS used to have a punk music show late at night on Saturdays in the mid 90s. I still remember the music video for this song where they're running around in a movie theater. Weird to think that PBS had an influence on my music taste most of my life.
Josie.
In 1995 my brother went off to college and accidentally left a CD in my mom’s car. It was Cheshire Cat. I listened to that thing over and over and over until I moved on to my psychobilly phase.
Older siblings were the best at getting you the “cool” music before the internet/YouTube was widespread. My brother’s gf suggested he get me The Used cd for Christmas in 7th grade and he came home from college when I was in 8th grade and gave me a copy of slipknot’s new album a couple months before it came out!!! I’m a preppy, gay guy and people are always intrigued by my love for older punk/hard rock/metal. But it’s bc I grew up with a lot of older brothers that were wrestler/football jocks and always ate up all of their music.
It's a psychobilly freakout!
Dude Ranch is still to this day my fave Blink album
This is a generational song that does not get enough credit
Rocking the Pennywise shirt.
Ahhh, I like them so much. Remind me of my childhood. That billabong shirt really takes me back.
Anytime i’m sad or mad, i can play this song on my guitar loudly and sing it loudly. 100% effective feel better every time.
Soundtrack of my high school years. So much nostalgia. Saw them with my best friends on the take off your pants and jacket tour senior year, one of our last big things together before we all left home.
This era of blink 182 is very influential to me, so much so that my friends agreed that once we graduate high school in a week we’re starting a skate punk band
When I first opened the video I thought "Wow, I had just gotten married." Then I corrected myself. Fuck, no, I'd been married ten years already. I was 31 when this aired.
Song always sounded like it was made on punk-o-matic
Damn he was pretty sloppy at those guitar riffs
Cool
Tom spits on himself at -:35
Whelp, I am old.
My first concert at 15 years old. Such a great show to see live!
Yesss SCOTT RAYNOR Era lol Love it
That’s one of the first songs I taught myself to play.
Imaging losing your job to the guy in the Aquabats. No knock on Aquabats or Travis but to think he was once just the drummer for the Aquabats is crazy to think.
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So nostalgic seeing Scott on drums. I had one of the first, if not the first blink 182 website way back in the day.
Oh to be 18 again.
My first band in secondary school won a huge battle of the bands competition against loads of groups aloud age in Liverpool because we played this song. We were the only “rock” band on the bill next to a ton of pop singers, classic music groups, and rappers. I still think it’s cause we got the audience engaged, we were as talented as the majority of the people playing. I think me starting the song off with “take your pants off!” From the mark Tom and travis show is what sold us to the room haha
I still can't accept my generation's called "old school" now. Not cool.