Inside the Ups and Downs of Blink-182
Back in the days of Total Request Live, the three members of Blink-182 seemed to have barely distinguishable personalities. But anyone who has ever spent time with Mark Hoppus, Travis Barker and Tom Delonge knows that was never true. They are three drastically different men with very different ideas of what the band should sound like, and how they should evolve as a collective unit. Those problems came to a boiling point in 2005 and they took a four-year break. They reformed for a reunion tour in 2009, and spent the last two years recording their new album Neighborhoods.
We checked in on the band backstage at the Saratoga Springs Performing Arts Center a couple of weeks ago. Tom spent his afternoon working on future Angels and Airwaves projects, while Travis focused on his extensive fitness regime, and Mark met with fans and worked on his Fuse television show Hoppus on Music. We sat down with them separately to talk about how the band has learned to function as a unit after such a tumultuous break-up and Travis Barker's tragic plane crash. The conversations covered everything from Caddyshack to battling a severe Vicodin addiction to the challenge of touring the world when you refuse to board a plane.
Click here to read the full interview on RollingStone.com.
We checked in on the band backstage at the Saratoga Springs Performing Arts Center a couple of weeks ago. Tom spent his afternoon working on future Angels and Airwaves projects, while Travis focused on his extensive fitness regime, and Mark met with fans and worked on his Fuse television show Hoppus on Music. We sat down with them separately to talk about how the band has learned to function as a unit after such a tumultuous break-up and Travis Barker's tragic plane crash. The conversations covered everything from Caddyshack to battling a severe Vicodin addiction to the challenge of touring the world when you refuse to board a plane.
Click here to read the full interview on RollingStone.com.