Hoppus also pursued a career as a television host while Barker continued working in music as a producer and solo artist. Blink reunited in February and their sixth studio album, Neighborhoods , was released on September 27, After moving to San Diego in the summer of , Mark Hoppus was reunited with his sister Anne, to whom he expressed his desire to be in a band.
Anne attended Rancho Bernardo High School, where she became friends with new student Tom DeLonge who had been previously expelled from Poway High School for showing up drunk at a basketball game. DeLonge often expressed the desire to be in a band as well, so in August Anne introduced him to her brother Mark Hoppus. The two played for hours in DeLonge's garage, showing each other songs they had previously written, and writing new songs together — one of which would become the track "Carousel".
To impress DeLonge, Hoppus climbed to the top of a streetlight outside of DeLonge's home — however, he broke both ankles on the way down, resulting in being in crutches for the next few weeks. The two decided they needed to officially start a band, so DeLonge recruited friend Scott Raynor , whom he had met at a party. However, according to Raynor, he and DeLonge started the band together, which Hoppus later joined. The three began playing together and called themselves Duck Tape, until DeLonge thought of the name Blink.
The band practiced constantly, which angered Hoppus's girlfriend. She told him he had to choose between the band and her, so he left the band just as it was starting. DeLonge then informed Hoppus that he borrowed a 4-track from a friend and he and Raynor were using it to make a demo tape. Upon hearing this, Hoppus decided he would leave his girlfriend and return to the band.
The demo tape, titled Flyswatter , was recorded in May in Raynor's bedroom. The 4-track used to record the material resulted in poor sound quality. According to Hoppus only a small number of demos were released, primarily to their family and friends.
The same year, the band recorded another demo tape, this one untitled and known simply as Demo 2. It featured re-recordings of a few Flyswatter songs and also included new songs, some of which would go on to be re-recorded and re-released on the band's albums Buddha , Cheshire Cat , and Dude Ranch.
Buddha , their third and final demo, was recorded in over three rainy nights on a 24 track recording system at Double Time Studios in San Diego, California, according to the CD's liner notes.
It was released on cassette in with around 1, copies of the tape produced by Filter Records, an independent record company headed by Hoppus's boss. The album was one of the few Blink productions released with the band name as Blink.
A remastered version was released on Kung Fu Records in with three of the original tracks omitted and two new tracks added. Early days in the band included carrying and tuning their gear at every gig and living in a van. After eventually playing other small clubs in Southern California, Hoppus recalls "[we] worked our way up from there. The band gained notoriety for humorous stage shows and were eventually signed to a small record label named Cargo Music, where they released their first full-length album, Cheshire Cat , in February Recorded in three days and fueled by both new songs and re-recordings of songs from previous demos, Blink began to gain fame outside of California throughout and Although the album never made a commercial impact, it is cited by bands and fans as an iconic release.
Shortly after the release of the album, the band was threatened with legal action by an Irish pop band of the same name. To avoid a legal dispute, the band appended "" to the end of their name. Uranus was released the next year. The band moved to Encinitas, California in , where they would record their second album Dude Ranch with producer Mark Trombino.
Blink recorded the album under Cargo Records, but did well on U. The album was released in and was relatively commercially successful, selling 1. The single " Dammit " became one of Blink's biggest hits, and the band received a small degree of mainstream success. Thanks to the success of Dude Ranch , Blink embarked on multiple worldwide tours during and Midway through a U. Various conflicting reasons have circulated the Internet for years; a largely popular explanation is that Raynor had a serious drinking problem and was asked to leave.
When he agreed to abstain from alcohol, bassist Mark Hoppus and guitarist Tom DeLonge doubted his sincerity and he was fired from the band through a telephone call.
Hoppus was apparently stung by being left out of Box Car Racer, and the attached-at-the-hip relationship he and DeLonge had enjoyed up to that point, already strained by fame and fortune, took a serious hit.
Recording sessions for 's Blink or just Untitled had been tense. After all, Tom DeLonge wanted to veer away from the group's characteristic pop punk tone and comedic lyrics and pursue heavier, more experimental sounds. It's hard not to notice when you listen to the record. Critics loved the band's newfound maturity , and fans lapped up the hit single "I Miss You. Of course, it's since gone on to sell a still-impressive 7 million copies. As is the case with any new release, an extensive, grueling tour was scheduled.
DeLonge, already suffering from chronic back pain and wanting desperately to spend more time with his new family, asked the group for a half-year break. Understandably not wanting to risk the band's momentum with such a long pause, the group pushed back.
DeLonge later said he felt like they were forcing an ultimatum on him. Unwilling to choose the band over his family, he pulled away, and all future plans for the band were scrapped on the spot. To the devastation of long-time fans, Blink announced an " indefinite hiatus " in February Although the phrase "indefinite hiatus" seemed to be carefully selected to dismiss concerns of a full breakup, the band was, in effect, done for by spring That project's debut, When Your Heart Stops Beating, received mixed reviews and went nowhere commercially.
However, his bizarre statements such as calling the new project "the greatest rock and roll revolution for this generation" and claiming it would usher in an "entire new culture of the youth" were widely mocked. He later attributed both grandiose comments, and others, to a post-back surgery painkiller addiction. Regardless, both of that group's early albums, 's We Don't Need To Whisper and 's I-Empire, were certified gold but fell far short of the success Tom enjoyed in Blink During all this, Hoppus, creatively lost, decided to start a podcast and try his hand at music production, with his biggest project being old tour-mate Motion City Soundtrack's Commit This to Memory.
Barely a month later, Travis Barker was one of only two survivors of the deadly South Carolina Learjet 60 crash the other being friend and collaborator Adam Goldstein, also known as DJ AM, who died of an overdose a year later.
The other four people on board died. Barker, reeling from third-degree burns and PTSD, spent weeks recovering in the hospital. In a blog post via MTV News , Hoppus describes the back to back tragedies as "the hardest times" he could remember.
Hoppus: I have stuff on hard drives at my house. Travis has ideas at his studio. We were ready to go into the studio on January 5th. This is exactly the same sequence of events that happened when Blink broke up 10 years ago. But all three of us agreed to play this Musink show. We always covered up for him before. You have your manager do it. Why Blink even got back together in the first place is questionable.
Hoppus: His actions speak louder than whatever he feels compelled to write on an Instagram post. I think that the fans know. Look at each of our social media accounts and look who talks and promotes Blink or is excited about Blink Travis and I were ready to walk into a studio January 5th. Vocalist and guitarist Tom departed the group in , and was replaced by Alkaline Trio's Matt Skiba, and the band released seventh album 'California' in The album, which featured tracks such as 'Bored to Death' and 'She's Out of Her Mind', became their first Number 1 single since and even earned them a Grammy nomination.
The band spent most of the next two years touring, and also produced a deluxe version of 'California'. They played at various festivals and had a massive UK tour in , and even had a residency at Las Vegas in entitled Kings of the Weekend. In , Mark revealed that the band's eighth album was on the way, and was more 'aggressive' and 'darker' than their previous work.
Not only is Mark working on the eighth album with blink, but he has also formed a new group with Alex Gaskarth of All Time Low. The trio released brand new track 'Quarantine' on 7th August , all about - you guessed it - their time in the lockdown. Drummer Travis Barker described the track as "a blink favourite. It'll be like all our fan favourites. It's incredible. In February, blink drummer Travis Barker revealed the special guest performers on the pop-punk trio's ninth studio album.
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