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THE HISTORY OF BLINK182
The Blink-182 bear in the autumn of the 1991, when the 18enne Mark Hoppus (low, voice) you/he/she/it meet Tom Delonge (guitar, voice), to the epoch 14enne and possessed of Cares. To the duo, that to the beginning becomes call Blink easily, the drummer Scott Raynor is added. At first the band one limita to concerts in San Diego and environs, where makes friends with the Vandals, that they allow them of publicize the "debut-cassette" Buddha. And is thanks to "Cheshire Cat" but that the Blink widens the ray of action, obtaining for other ample consents in Australia. And, passed to the MCA, the band new-punk obtains in the '97 with "Dude Ranch" the disk of platinum in Australia and the disk of gold in Canada and in the USA. In the '98 Scott Raynor leaves "friendly" the band and comes predecessor from Travis Barker, drummer of the Vandals. But is "Enema of the State," that the Blink 182 will present in Milan, to do them know to the European attendance, irreclaimable seduced from the taste of the horrid of the band.
After the fast individual Lemmings (Grilled Cheese, 1996), and the EP Wasting Time (Grilled Cheese, 1996), that Wasting Time, Enthused and Wrecked Him, the Blink 182 has obtained better famousity with Dude hacienda (Cargo, 1997).
The intelligence of the group and` Tom Delonge, author of precious melodies and cantor of the bad luck of the adolescent middle Californian. The burdens and the nonsense of this disk (in distinctive Pathetic, Voyeur and Dick Lips) they rise well to the of above of the mediates of the hardcore (and of the his same preceding production). Travolto from the his same dialectical, Delonge abandons any melodism for the vortical office of Enthused. Not all the disk runs to that mad velocity. every so often Delonge is abandoned to adult contemplations, rewiend the vocal harmonies and the nauseates of the X in Waggy and implanting in New York Hope with a long existential detour.
If is not for any passage of too, cribbed in the sequence for achieve the quorum of necessary minutes to stamp a CD, it would have been one of the good disks punk of the
year.
The Blink-182 bear in the autumn of the 1991, when the 18enne Mark Hoppus (low, voice) you/he/she/it meet Tom Delonge (guitar, voice), to the epoch 14enne and possessed of Cares. To the duo, that to the beginning becomes call Blink easily, the drummer Scott Raynor is added. At first the band one limita to concerts in San Diego and environs, where makes friends with the Vandals, that they allow them of publicize the "debut-cassette" Buddha. And is thanks to "Cheshire Cat" but that the Blink widens the ray of action, obtaining for other ample consents in Australia. And, passed to the MCA, the band new-punk obtains in the '97 with "Dude Ranch" the disk of platinum in Australia and the disk of gold in Canada and in the USA. In the '98 Scott Raynor leaves "friendly" the band and comes predecessor from Travis Barker, drummer of the Vandals. But is "Enema of the State," that the Blink 182 will present in Milan, to do them know to the European attendance, irreclaimable seduced from the taste of the horrid of the band.
