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Poway High’s rival school is Rancho Bernardo High, where DeLonge spent time after being expelled from Poway for showing up drunk to a basketball game. Manly proudly shared stories of DeLonge’s classroom pranks. Two friends road-tripped to Santa Barbara during our senior year for the world premiere of Love, the forgettable 2011 sci-fi film produced and scored by DeLonge’s post-Blink band Angels and Airwaves, and I really couldn’t blame them. My chemistry teacher Mr. To a generation of Powegians, DeLonge, who attended Poway High, served as an odd sort of aspirational hometown hero: a cultural figure who made it out of our rural, conservative San Diego exurb and left a mark, however dumb, on the rest of the country.
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That’s not what kids in Poway grow up learning. They added the digits after Cheshire Cat caught the attention of an Irish band with the same name, who issued a cease-and-desist. In a 2010 interview with Amy Schumer (who briefly hosted a Fuse show with Hoppus!?), Hoppus says the group chose the number on the spot during a phone call with their record label. The band was first christened Duck Tape, then simply Blink. Ultimately, though, the book claims that the number is meaningless. Explanations of “182” include the number of times Al Pacino’s character Tony Montana says “fuck” in Scarface, the number of the ship on which Hoppus’s grandfather served in the Marines, and Hoppus’s ideal weight. This is extremely validating to me personally as someone who maintains belief in a particular theory about the meaning of the band’s name that has long lent a small but satisfying shred of cultural relevance to the lives of teenagers in DeLonge’s hometown of Poway, California, where I grew up.Īllow me to explain: DeLonge and Blink’s co-founder Mark Hoppus have for years responded to questions about the name’s origins with a variety of joke answers, collected self-satisfyingly in a sidebar in the band’s 2001 book Blink-182: Tales From Beneath Your Mom. Blink-182 support Hillsides, an organization that provides comprehensive community-based and residential treatment programs to more than 7,000 at-risk children and families throughout Los Angeles County.During a revelatory Twitter exchange yesterday, Tom DeLonge explained to late-night host James Corden that his former band Blink-182‘s name is pronounced “blink-eighteen-two,” rather than the common pronunciation “blink-one-eighty-two,” and definitely not “blink-one-eight-two,” which, according to Corden’s co-writer Iam Karmel, is how British people say it.The band participated in an installment of the GRAMMY Museum's A Conversation With series, an intimate discussion about their band's experiences in 2016.He learned the set list 45 minutes before his first show and was hired as the band's new drummer at the end of the tour. Travis Barker first joined the band as a last-minute stand-in drummer while his previous band, the Aquabats, shared a tour slot with Blink-182.
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The band received their first career GRAMMY nomination for Best Rock Album for 2016's California at the 59th GRAMMY Awards.6 track, "All The Small Things." The album has since been certified five-times platinum by the RIAA. The group's album Enema Of The State peaked at No.
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Members: Mark Hoppus, Travis Barker, Matt Skiba.Everyone has a song that got them through a bad breakup or they put on and it made them feel like they wanted to go out and kick the world’s ass with their friends on a weekend." - Mark Hoppus "There are just songs that define certain moments in your life.