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Weird indeed!

 

Interesting story from Sublime

So apparently back in the day (I am guessing 1998), the Blink 182 were on tour with Long Beach Dub Allstars and Aquabats

Bud Gaugh of the Dub Allstars and Sublime tells Travis that he is a way better drummer than Scott Raynor and that he should drum for Blink, that Mark and Tom were definitely gonna go places. And the rest of history

May not be a true story at all, but I bet there is at least a bit of some truth in it

 

Came across the dude on IG who dresses like Tom and does Blink covers. What a weird planet.

 

I first saw that dude on YouTube around the Love era AVA years i believe... dude is obsessed down to the tattoos... weird planet indeed

 

Genuinely hate that guy.

 

Living in San Diego I know so many dudes like that. They don’t have the exact tattoos Tom does, but they wear To The Stars shirts exclusively, play music with Tom’s signature guitar, have his hairstyle and try to emulate his humor. It’s deeply strange

 

Stone cold loser

 

On a better note, we all have to hate the Box Car Racer album for the next year. Because nobody likes you when you’re 23.

 

Same release date as SoCo is a thing I didn’t remember.

 

Ilans face is perfect

 

How did blink Italia missed this!

 

Even the Italians make mistakes

 

I live in SD for 10 years up until a couple years ago and noticed this while there. I consider myself a major blink fan and it always blew me away when I saw other people clearly emulating Tom in every day life. Grown adults.

 

I mean, I posted it right after midnight, so they have the rest of today haha

 

“On this day 23 years ago, Box Car Racer released their one and only album, a more mature venture from the genius mind of Tom Delonge. Recruiting Travis Barker to play drums, Box Car Racer explores darker themes than blink was typically known for. This album unfortunately was the beginning of a rift that would form between Tom and Mark that eventually lead to the first hiatus.”

There you go blinkitalia, you can just copy/paste that and save some time.

 

Creative pinnacle

 

Expanded what punk music could sound and feel like.

*wet fart noise*

 

I often compare BCR with +44 as pinnacles for Tom and Mark's best outputs

 

I know i’m in the minority, but that album did not hold up for me at all. I don’t think it’s bad or anything, but I just don’t gravitate towards any non-blink Tom output.

 

I put it solidly in the middle of my blink discog ranking

 

It's pretty wild going from TOYPAJ to BCR. Big change-ups and Tom's song writing was insane. It led to Untitled so it's pretty great in my book. I mean how do you not dig Letters to God (rhetorical)

 

Huge album for me too. I revisit it a lot. Drums sound incredible. Cat Like Thief is probably one of my most listened songs of all time.

 

Lol!