Jan 26, 2015

This would of s----d so much more like a year ago when I was a much bigger fan still would of liked to hear new music since I really enjoyed the last album and that ep

 

Jan 26, 2015

d---, so much back and forth going on. I had a feeling this was what was keeping them from working on the album

 

Jan 26, 2015

d--- that's crazy. Hopefully Mark and Travis move forward together. +44 reunion album with Blink songs at their live shows.

Is Tom leaving to work with Angels And Airwaves or is he just leaving to do... nothing?

 

Jan 26, 2015

AVA just released a new album in December so I reckon he might tour with them a little but he's been writing a book or some s--- too.

Idk if anyone has Mark on Snapchat (mark.hoppus), he sent out a snap story from the studio, so it seems like we'll be getting some new music from blink-182/+44 this year, whatever moniker they decide to go under

 

Jan 27, 2015

Pretty crazy... disappointed, but not too surprised.

check out this tweet/article about it.

 

Jan 27, 2015

quickly deleted. s---'s going down.

 

Jan 27, 2015

Who knew he'd act so childish

 

Jan 27, 2015

@JayEmGe @TommyRJackson @Sign Language @Arch Dogg


From Tom

"Where to begin?
The truth is always a good place. Let’s go there.
I love Blink and am incredibly grateful for having it in my life. It has given me everything. EVERYTHING. I started this band, it was in my garage where I dreamed up the mischief.
So what have I been doing behind the scenes? Well, I’ve tried to make things work. I’ve tried to help move this band down 50 different paths using my people, or other people, and people we don’t even know. I tried to put forth ideas about how we can grow and challenge ourselves to become a better band. I’m not sitting around waiting for someone else to do the work. I’m not wired that way.
The big reset was when I tried to put together a band summit in Utah where we’d talk and work things out. It quickly was narrowed down to three hours in someone’s dressing room in a s-----y casino. What I hoped would be a positive get-together away from everything turned into an awkward meeting in a smelly convention hall dressing room. But it was there that I told Mark and Travis that as long as we talked, and things were good between us as real friends, that I would be engaged and work passionately. I'd mirror our personal relationship. Exact words.
Then, the EP was the test. Months later, we’re recording those songs. I was in the studio for two months and they came in for around 11 days. I didn’t mind leading the charge, but we had all agreed to give it 100%. And this time- no baggage.
Despite that, we still somehow managed to self-sabotage.
At one point, squabbling and politics forced me to pull the EP down at a time when 60,000 fans were trying to purchase it. And that blew my mind. I’d been trying so hard but that moment ultimately broke my spirit. I then realized that this band couldn't lose the years of ill will.
It was after that episode that I promised myself I would never be in that position again – to rely on the words we said to each other.
I remember asking one of them on the phone, “did you try your best? Like we all agreed to?” He was silent.
Are they at fault?
Am I? Of course. I'm nuts.
But there’s three of us – we’re all accountable. At the end of the day, we’ve always been dysfunctional, which is why we haven’t talked in months. But we never did. In the 8 years we have been together it has always been that way.
Over the past two and a half years, while a recording partner was being sought for a new Blink record, I launched a media company. I just put out a new Angels & Airwaves record and as some of you know, there’s a lot more coming – comics, books, a film, etc. The books will all come with music. This is a wheel that’s already in motion. So you can imagine my frustration when I was handed a 60-page Blink contract saying I couldn’t release an Angels album for 9 months and that the Blink album had to be recorded in 6 months, which was impossible for me. Doing so would force me to breach several artist contracts. Authors, Concept Artists, Animators... Many people.
They did eventually drop the Angels provision, but the part about having to finish a Blink album in 6 months remained. All of these other projects are being worked, exist in contract form– I can’t just slam the brakes and drop years of development, partnerships and commitments at the snap of a finger.
I told my manager that I will do Blink 182 as long as it was fun and worked with the other commitments in my life, including my family.
But Mark and Travis know all of this.
I wrote this same letter to them a year ago. But it created a massive argument, the biggest one yet actually. I just wanted us to do things we all agreed on. But that was their moment to dig in. From their view I was controlling everything. In reality, I was scared to put myself out there again. To repeat the EP experience.
I also wrote all of this to their managers this past December (who told me my bandmates weren’t angry and agreed with some of my ideas of how to grow the band).
So you can imagine my surprise when a press release went out yesterday—without my knowledge—about the band’s future. This is new to me. It’s not in my nature to fuel negativity about the legacy of the band on something as trashy as the Internet world.
But I guess that’s another example of how I differ from most. I follow the light... I follow passion and I make art. I hang with my son, my daughter and my wife.
At the end of the day, all of this makes me really sad.
Sad for us.
Sad for you- that you’re witnessing this immaturity.
I know them very well, and their current actions are defensive and divisive.
I suppose they’re doing this as a way to protect themselves from being hurt.
Like we all do.
And even as I watch them act so different to what I know of them to be, I still care deeply for them. Like brothers, and like old friends. But our relationship got poisoned yesterday.
Never planned on quitting, just find it hard as h--- to commit.
-
Tom"


AND another interview with Mark
http://www.altpress.com/features/en..._182._its_obvious.exclusive_interview_with_ma

 

Jan 27, 2015

Unless I have somewhere important to be, I usually just always pull out whatever shirt is at the front of my closet and wear it for the day. Today it was my blink-182 shirt from the Neighborhoods tour in 2011. I couldn't do it

 

Jan 27, 2015

I was literally about to post this, and awesome I didn't know mark did another interview.
Even if they do get back together, I don't see them releasing an album any time this year. I imagine itd be too awkward to have them all in a studio together after what they said

 

Jan 27, 2015

No way they're getting back together. Like Tom said, "our relationship got poisoned yesterday."

Tom is clearly the one at fault here, but Mark and Travis going about it by releasing that press release then talking to Rolling Stone bashing Tom was the nail in the Blink 182 coffin.

 

Jan 27, 2015

I don't know how anyone else feels about this idea, but it's something that popped in my head.

Mark Hoppus works with smaller pop punk bands all the time (producing songs, guest vocals, etc) and I think it'd be really cool if him and Travis released a project with guys from those bands appearing on there. It doesn't necessarily have to be under the blink-182 name, but it's something that I'd be interested in seeing

 

Mar 4, 2015

new interview if anyone is still interested-

" Blink-182’s Travis Barker Says Tom DeLonge Should ‘Man Up And Quit’ Band"

http://www.alternativenation.net/interview-blink-182-travis-barker-tom-delonge-quit/

 

Mar 4, 2015

Hate it when bands air their dirty laundry in public - especially when I actually like the bands.

Either way, I hope the rumours of a +44 reunion are true.

 

Apr 24, 2015

http://www.altpress.com/news/entry/...82_album_possibly_becoming_a_permanent_member

Matt Skiba might permanently replace Tom delonge and also record an album with blink.

Not really digging this

 

Apr 24, 2015

nothing will touch their Enema Of The State album, even though they did make good music in 2011 with Neighborhoods. but they should settle this behind closed doors and not air it out in public.

 

Apr 24, 2015

Enema was my favorite in high school but now its between Cheshire or dude ranch

 

Apr 24, 2015

different bands? i'm not familiar with them, do they make the same music?

EDIT: just found out it's their older album, might have to check them out

 

Apr 24, 2015

Lol you don't know about their older stuff??

Edit- how can you say enema is their best album when you haven't heard their previous two!

 

Apr 24, 2015

not that much, Enema Of The State was the album i really know them for. might have to go and check some of their older stuff.