Blink-182 founder Tom Delonge is a strong believer in alien life
as evidenced by the song“Aliens Exist” which, as titles go, is pretty on-the-nose.
Upon hearing of the crash,
Hoppus immediately jumped on the next flight to the burn center and Delonge quickly reached out with a letter and a photograph.
Once, while trying to impress Tom Delonge, Mark Hoppus fell from a lamppost and cracked his ankles,
an injury that put him in crutches for three weeks.
Instead of hiring another drummer, Delonge used Travis Barker for the album which Mark
Hoppus viewed as a betrayal and led to even more divisiveness within the band.
Delonge left the band for good(maybe) in January 2015 to spend more time
on“non-musical activities,” which we imagine would put a serious kibosh on a game of musical chairs.
Delonge disappeared from public eye, making no appearances or interviews and generally
remaining silent until September 2005 when he announced his new project, Angels & Airwaves, promising"the greatest rock and roll revolution for this generation.".
In their early days, Delonge would call up local high schools
and try to convince them that Blink was a“motivational band with a strong antidrug message” in hopes of scoring a gig during an assembly or lunch.
Citing creative differences and family pressures, Tom Delonge left the band in 2005,
and was silent until later that year when he announced his new project, Angels & Airwaves, which he promised would be“the greatest rock and roll revolution for this generation.”.
Delonge constantly felt creatively stifled and during his time off from touring,
he channeled his chronic back pain and frustration into the album Box Car Racer, a concept album detailing the end of the world that explored his love of Fugazi and Refused.