Tom DeLonge Has Quit Blink 182

 

Rolling Stone - Tom DeLonge, longtime guitarist and co-vocalist of the punk trio Blink-182, has left the group, his bandmates announced in a statement Monday. Suspicions began when the band revealed that Alkaline Trio guitarist/singer Matt Skiba was recruited to join Blink-182 at the group’s upcoming headlining set at drummer Travis Barker’s eighth annual Musink Festival on March 22nd in Orange County, California, KROQ reports. Soon after, Blink-182’s Barker and bassist/singer Mark Hoppus issued a statement that DeLonge decided to “indefinitely” leave the band. “We were all set to play this festival and record a new album and Tom kept putting it off without reason,” Hoppus and Barker said. “A week before we were scheduled to go in to the studio, we got an email from his manager explaining that he didn’t want to participate in any Blink-182 projects indefinitely, but would rather work on his other non-musical endeavors.”

 
 

Well, I guess it was going to happen again sooner or later. Tom has quit Blink. My initial reaction is of course he did- He’s grown tirelessly self-centered and holier than thou since they broke up the first time. He thinks Angels and Airwaves, and more so himself and his song writing are god’s gifts to Earth. And when he sings now with his weird voice and his hand motions and all of that, it’s just become all about him and less about the band. It was abundantly clear his heart wasn’t with the band and just wanted to keep focusing on himself, which I suppose is fine, but he was such an ass about the entire thing.

I’m glad Mark is going to go on with Blink. And with Matt Skiba nonetheless. Should be interesting. It does suck though. I mean it’s fucking Blink 182. It’s Mark, Tom, and Travis. 20 years kinda just poof, gone now. I’ve written before that if my parents didn’t stupidly buy me Enema of the State and then The Mark, Tom, And Travis Show I would never have realized you can make poop and dick jokes. And Tom was the master of those. Those two CDs were life-altering for young Nate. But I guess this is growing up.