blink-182 Band • Page 858

2009, 3 times in 2011, 2013, 2017, 2023

 

2006- AvA
2007- +44
2008- AvA
2009- Blink
2010- AvA
2011- Blink
2016- Blink
2023- Blink, Blink

 

2001 - Blink
2008 - AVA
2010 - AVA
2011 - Blink
2016 - Blink
2019 - Blink
2021 - AVA
2023 - Blink (in a couple weeks)

 

I’ve been watching a different show each morning to celebrate 182 day coming up Saturday. Monday was Cleveland, yesterday was Sacramento. Today is Seattle. I’m loving the fact we can see all of these in full and good quality. Also love the different banter every night.

Tom: “go quit your job tomorrow! All of you! Drop out of school and join a punk band!”

Mark: “life advice….from someone who quit the band twice.”

Tom; “it was the wrong decision. We all have room to grow. Sometimes when your band members walk in on you jacking off…12 times…you have to take a break”

 

I don’t go to shows anymore but when I saw plus 44 in CT, I was lucky enough to catch the drumstick he threw into the crowd. Still have it.

 

Dove into the Wiki for blink today and two things stuck out to me:

• "[Travis] states DeLonge abruptly quit sometime in mid-2014, and rejoined the following day." - I don't remember hearing about this at all, ever.
• The timeline of albums from Cheshire to Untitled were all 2 years apart. What's wild about this is how VASTLY different each album is and how different the era of the band was. From rambunctious EOTS era to Emo TOYPAJ in 2 years? Just crazy to think about the leaps for each album era and it was only 2 years
• Cali > Nine was 3 years but seems like the same phase/era

Is this because technology was constantly changing and evolving around that Y2K era? Just interesting to me that we went from EOTS to Untitled thematically in the span of 4 years. Maybe it was due to them being more desperate to get product out back then. Pardon my ramblings.

 

Well, found a way to waste an hour at work this morning...

*Cracks knuckles*

6/21/97 - blink w/Scott (first concert ever)
8/8/98 - blink
9/19/98 - blink - radio festival
6/29/99 - blink - warped tour
11/2/99 - blink
12/13/99 - blink - radio xmas show
5/13/00 - blink
9/14/01 - blink
4/19/02 - blink
9/28/02 - Box Car Racer - radio festival
4/14/03 - Transplants
6/23/04 - blink
7/23/06 - AVA in San Diego
12/10/06 - +44 in Tucson
12/6/07 - AVA - radio xmas show (my show)
6/25/08 - AVA - Warped Tour (sponsored this show)
10/18/08 - AVA at state fair with Weezer
4/18/09 - Travis & DJ AM at Coachella
7/23/09 - blink - vegas - first show back you could buy tix to
9/19/09 - blink - Fall Frenzy in AZ (my show)
9/26/10 - blink - Epicenter in Fontana
5/25/10 - AVA
9/30/11 - blink - Fall Frenzy in AZ (my show)
9/28/12 - blink - vegas at Cosmo Pool
7/24/13 - Transplants
9/19/13 - blink - vegas at Cosmo Pool
11/7/13 - blink - Red Bull Sound Space - KROQ
11/7/13 - blink - LA Untitled 10th Anniversary Show
10/11/14 - blink - vegas - wine amplified (Tom's last show.. at the time)
7/23/16 - blink w/Skiba- Vegas
4/2/17 - blink w/Skiba- March Madness music fest - Phoenix
9/22/17 - blink w/Skiba- Life is Beautiful Vegas
5/27/18 - blink w/Skiba- Vegas
9/14/19 - blink w/Skiba- St Louis
12/16/19 - AVA - St. Louis
....
7/16/23 - blink in Nashville!!!

 

Guessing record label commitments played into the frequency + striking while the iron is hot

 

2001 - Blink x2
2002 - Box Car Racer
2003 - Blink x 2
2006 - AVA x2
2007 - AVA
2008 - AVA x2
2009 - Blink x3
2011 - Blink
2013 - Blink x2
2016 - Blink with Skiba x3
2017 - Goldfinger with Travis
2019 - Blink with Skiba, AVA
2021 - AVA
2023 - Blink

Jeez I didn't realize I've seen AVA 7 times! And Blink 15 times!

 

2 years between albums isn't that crazy, back then or now

 

That wasn't my point. My point was the drastic change in album feel and era/phase for the band in 2 years.

Would love to get back to a typical 2 year cycle for blink.

 

Allow me to introduce you to the Beatles

 

the 2 year jump from Dude Ranch to Enema of the State will always impress the fuck out of me. Sounds like 2 different bands. Obviously, adding Travis Barker, having a bigger budget, adding Jerry Finn, getting world class mixing/mastering engineers involved was all part of the stew there.

I think another key factor is Tom's growth.

Mark was pretty much always a fantastic lyricist. His lyrics on Dude Ranch are some of his very best. But pretty much all of Tom's songs up until mayyybe TOYPAJ were just goofy songs. TOYPAJ is when he started to get a little bit more serious, and then he went fully into the serious stuff with Box Car Racer, and then brought that newfound "maturity" to Blink's Untitled album, AVA, Neighborhoods, etc.

I think they were just running on all cylinders from 1997 to 2003. In that time, we got Dude Ranch, a new drummer, Jerry Finn, Enema of the State, TOYPAJ, Box Car Racer, The Transplants, and Untitled. All of that in just 6 years is insane.

 

100% The Beatles were only a BAND for TENNN years and they released 13 official albums?, and then an absolute shit ton of other stuff. That shit's B-A-N-A-N-A-N-A-N-A-N-A-S and on a whole other planet compared to every other band.

 

This era was a complete cluster fuck, everyone was saying different things.

 

as far as dude ranch goes, gotta give Tom credit for Enthused, Untitled, and I’m Sorry

 

jerry finn was so vital to making blink sound cohesive during that era.

i always wonder what the band would sound like nowadays if he was still around blink continued working with him.

 

Just incredible band that also profited from how different Paul’s and John’s voices were and how amazingly they sounded together.Also same tension lol.
Also Sgt.Pepper was practically their Untitled.

BEATLES=BLINK
RICK DEVOE=YOKO

 

This guy gets it

 

For sure. Every album has a couple serious Tom songs. But for the most part, he was mainly a silly billy until box car racer.

 

2010 - AVA
Two times in 2016 - blink w/Skiba
2019 - blink w/Skiba
2023 - blink-182

 

2002 - blink
2006 - AVA
2008 - AVA
2010 - AVA
2009 - blink
2011 - blink
2013 - blink
2021 - AVA
2023 - blink

 

TL;DR This Chrous user bought Travis a Caddy

 

Yep. Just looking at Enema:
-a song about wanting to train a girl
-aliens
-giving up on girls and wanting his dog
-a genuine love song
-wanting to remove the seat of his bike (haha)
-underage drinking and partying

 

you owe me Barker!

... Except nearly every show since '07 was free