Sejarahnya BLINK 182 nei

Sejarahnya BLINK 182 nei

Band aliran Punk paling terkenal di saentero dunia tahun 90-an Blink 182, sampai sekarang siapa sih yang ga pernah tau (atau minimal dengar) soal Blink 182.

Adalah Tom DeLonge, Mark Hoppus, ama Scott Raynor para personel yuang sebenernya pertamakali dikenal dengan nama "blink" saja. Album pertama mereka di 1993 berjudul "Fly Swatter"hehe lucunya album ini direkam di kamar Scott kontan ajah kuaitas suaranya jelek banget alias ancur!.trus disusul oleh album "buddha" di 1994 nama Blink 182 mulai digunakan karena ada band lain yang sebelumnya sudah mematenkan nama "blink" angka 182 yang jadi tambahan nama hanya nomor2 acak yang terlintas di kepala personelnya. kesuksesan band ini terangkat pas manggung bareng NOFX dan sebagian lagu2nya jadi lagu tema video skate/surf/snowboard.

Blink baru bener2 punya album beneran di 1994 "Chesire Cat", di tahun ini pulalah pergantian nama dari blink jadi blink 182 terjadi. Tertarik dengan musikalitas Blink, perusahaan rekaman gede, MCA mulai mengontrak mereka, dan meluncurkan albumnya:"Dude Ranch" dan lahirlah 2 lagu hit mereka "josie" serta "dammit" 2 lagu itu melambung di pqringkat teratas charts amrik selama beberapa waktu. Di 1998 timbul Scott yang sudah sangat bergantung dengan alkohol memutuskan untuk rehab dan meninggalkan band untuk rehab dan melanjutkan sekolah. Hilangnya satu anggota tentu butuh pengganti ,Travis Barker mantan drummer Aquabats bergabung.

1999 dengan dirilisnya album:"Enema of The State" sukses mengantarkan Blink ke puncak popularitas, banyak lagu2 dari album itu yang diputar di radio2 dan Mtv untuk waktu yang cukup lama lagu2 macam "Adam's Songs", "All The Small Things" de el el rupanya benar2 mampu dijual kepasaran dan bersaing ama band yang se-genre macam; NOFX,Green Day, dan The Offspring. Tapi nggak semua suka ama perubahan dari Blink 182 ini... fans asli yang mengikuti mereka sejak awal ngrasa kalau lagu2 blink di album itu sudah terlalu banyak terpengaruh oleh unsur pop dan keluar dari rock-punk.

Kesuksesan blink semakin menanjak 2001, mereka melontarkan "Take Off Your Pants And Jacket" kepasar. Mereka juga muncul disampul majalah Cosmogirl dan memenangi "Nicklelodeon Kid's Music Awards". Tom ama Travis juga mulai serius berkecimpung di side-jobnya: Box Car Racer, band dengan aliran musik alternatif.

2002, muncul invasi dari simple-pan, GC, New Found Glory, yang juga turut meramaikan pasar, nggak gentar Blink-182 juga terjun dengan "Blink-182 Untitled" muncul lagu2 paling dahsyat dari Blink:"I Miss You","Down","Feeling This","Always" bener2 nunjukin proses kedewasaan dari band ini ada yang bilang kalo Blink terpengaruh ama musikalitas dari U2 ama The Police.

2005, blink mulai bubar dengan alasan "pengin kumpul bareng keluarga" sebagai perpisahan, dirilis "greatest hits", kini Blink-182 terpecah jadi 2:"+44" yang digawangi Travis ama Hoppus sementara Tom DeLonge di "Angels And Airwaves".

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Mark
Full name: Markus Allen Hoppus
Wife: Skye Hoppus (a.k.a. Skye Everly)
Children: 1 boy Jack Hoppus
Pets: 3 dogs Atticus, Cheesburger, and Ahi
Current residence: Encinitas, California
Birthday: March 15th/1972
Bands that he is in (or was in): Blink 182, Plus 44
Fact about him: His role model is Homer Simpson


Tom
Full name: Thomas Matthew DeLonge
Wife: Jennifer DeLonge (a.k.a. Jen Jenkins)
Children: 1 girl Ava Elizabeth DeLonge (born on July 15th/2002
Pets: German Shepherd named Grey
Current residence: Encinitas, California
Birthday: December 13th/1975
Bands that he is in (or was in): Blink 182, Box Car Racer, Angels & Airwaves
Hometown: Poway, California
Fact about him: When he was 15 years old, he got suspended from school for getting drunk at a basketball game.


Travis
Full name: Travis Landon Barker
Fiancee: Shanna (former miss USA)
Children: 1 boy Landon Barker and 1 girl
Current residence: San Diego, California
Birthday: November 14th/1975
Bands that he is in (or was in): Blink 182, Box Car Racer, Plus 44
Fact about him: He broke his foot a couple of weeks before the Australian tour, which forced Blink 182 to cancel a few of their shows on the tour.


In the life of every band, there comes a time to take stock; to reflect on goals set and goals achieved; to offer a silent prayer of thanksgiving for the many blessings so richly bestowed upon us.

For Blink-182, this is not the time.

They're too busy touring the world, scarfing Sombrero’s burritos, farting and rocking the planet till the ozone layer disintegrates. In the recent past, Blink-182 won a Teen Choice Award, a Blockbuster Music Award, and appeared on the MTV Awards '00 where they performed "All The Small Things" and won Best Group Video. In Europe they received an MTV Europe Award for Best New Act. They performed on Saturday Night Live and the Tonight Show (twice), appeared in American Pie and opened the Billboard Music Awards. The band also graced the covers of Rolling Stone, Alternative Press (twice), Teen People, Teen and CosmoGirl, just to name a few.

It's safe to say the Blink-182 is now a worldwide phenomenon, with their records reaping platinum and their concert tours packing ‘em in all across Europe, Australia, Asia, and the Americas. And earlier this year, Blink-182 ventured back to the studio with producer Jerry Finn to record their fourth studio album, Take Off Your Pants and Jacket (you should say the title out loud to fully appreciate the subtle, sophisticated humour).

By every indication, Take Off Your Pants and Jacket is turning out to be an evolutionary hybrid for Blink-182, as hooky as 1999's multi-platinum Enema of the State, but with all the punk spirit of their MCA debut album Dude Ranch. "This is the hardest, fastest record that we've done," says Blink's Tom DeLonge of the upcoming album. "It's way more punk-rock than our previous records, and we're excited about it." Take Off Your Pants and Jacket (release date 6/12/01) follows Enema of the State and last year's smash live album The Mark, Tom and Travis Show (The Enema Strikes Back).

The band's popularity has only increased since their formation in '93. They began building momentum with a string of popular 7"s, and in 1994 they released their first full-length album, Cheshire Cat, on Grilled Cheese (a division of Cargo Music). In 1996, they signed a joint-venture record deal with Cargo Music and MCA Records, with their first MCA release Dude Ranch (1997) setting the stage for their current success. By the end of 1998, they had emerged as one of the most popular pop-punk bands of the year – the album went platinum in the U.S. and the year-end Billboard Airplay Monitor Report (BDS) stats indicated that "Dammit (Growing Up)" from Dude Ranch earned top spins at many key radio stations.

Blink-182 took a break from the road after Christmas '98 to begin pre-production for Enema Of The State, recorded in the band's hometown of San Diego at Signature Sound. Handling production duties was Jerry Finn, whose previous credits include Green Day and Rancid. Enema Of The State shattered the standard set by Dude Ranch. World-wide sales are now over seven million copies, not to mention the fact that the CD perched high atop the upper-reaches of Billboard's Top 200 for over a year. The album's three singles, "What's My Age Again," "All The Small Things" and "Adam's Song" dominated MTV, alternative, rock and Top-40 radio.

Their summer tour, where The Mark, Tom & Travis Show (The Enema Strikes Back) was recorded, sold a third of a million tickets. The aforementioned album was a 20-track collection of live versions of classic Blink-182 hits produced by Jerry Finn, and also contained never-before-released songs, a new studio track, and all the hilarious potty-mouthed one liners a fan could want. In its limited release, The Mark, Tom & Travis Show (The Enema Strikes Back) sold over 1.5 million copies worldwide. In other Blink-182 news, a massive U.S. summer 2001 tour is on the drawing boards, and a book about the band's early days, written by Hoppus' younger sister, Anne, now carries a title, Tales From Beneath Your Mom. It's scheduled to hit bookstores in mid-September.

Then there's the ever-expanding Blink-182 mercantile empire, which stretches from pole to pole, from sea to shining sea. First there's their own blink182.com website for fans and curious onlookers. Travis's "Famous Stars and Straps" is a successful retailer and website for clothes, belts and accessories. Mark and Tom's "Loserkids.com" is an equally vibrant website for clothes, skates, music, movies. But despite these ancillary success stories, Mark, Tom and Travis never lose sight of what's most important for Blink-182 and their worldwide legions of fans: music and tasteless comedy at every opportunity.

Who knows what's next for the band? There's an old expression "You can't turn chicken shit into chicken salad." But, in the case of Blink-182, you can really put chicken shit in someone's chicken salad.

source: lusi fadilla