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Imagine your life being saved by collaborating with the guy from All Time Low.

This song is really an All Time Low for Mark (sorry)

literally wtf is that thing on mark's head

could he use witchcraft to perform better with blink? or write better material?

true. Maybe, your band blossoming because of Songs you didn't come up with yourself isn't as fullfilling after all?

Tom Riffs are what I love. While I respect those who can shred, I dont really enjoy it. This is my uncultured swine take on music though.

Oh that's definitely true. Skiba wouldn't come up with something as catchy as the riffs from Ghost on the Dance Floor & Wishing Well and he wouldn't come up with cool shit like that PLG delay guitar either. Nor would he come up with those heavy Refused/BCR style riffs from Up All Night & Snake Charmer. Tom will always be the man for blink when it comes to guitar. No one will ever replace that really. But Skiba needs to take charge still in his own unique way. He needs to leave his prints all over blink as its him that's in the band. But we haven't had that yet because of the way Feldman wants them to work. They really need to make Matt do his thing cause he'd be the perfect fit if that was the case IMO.

neighborhoods more like neighbor-GOOD m i rite

The more I hear this song, the more I like it. I think the project has major potential and could be good for blink in the long run.

Just the fact that the two biggest guitar manufacturers wanted to do signature modells for him is proof of how influential he really was. Those guitars flew of the rack and so many kids started to play guitar because of him. Me included. He doesnt write the most techical stuff, but damn the guy is extraordinary with pop melody an catchy riffs. You cant learn that. He is just super talented in that department

I actually kind of loved it. I was glued to my phone for two or three days waiting for updates and thriving off all the drama. The articles about Tom, the interviews with Mark and Travis blasting Tom. I loved every little tidbit of new information, and that's why I started the 2015 blink timeline thread, which eventually led to boxelder's Comprehensive Timeline thread. It sucked when all this went down, but at the same time it was the most interesting thing that has happened to blink in forever.

I've never known a band to cancel shows quite as much as blink.

It's been said ever since he first got that haircut but he would look so much better if he gave it up and looked like this. I have no idea why he started doing that Jimmy Neutron shit in the first place, it makes him look like a goon.

Not only is he outstanding but he is FUCKING outstanding!

why is metallica all of a sudden the benchmark of good guitarwork? I totally agree with your initial argument but i really dont get what you're trying to pull of here? give it a rest

Can this be moved to side projects? It’s irritating me and messing with my ocd being in the Blink section.

I mean he wrote stuff like Wasting Time when he was what, 17? It's not Michael Angelo Batio but it's pretty technical. He didn't get worse at guitar, he realized playing as fast as you can and shredding doesn't make for a better song. The shit Tom writes is honestly impressive. It's just always fresh. I'm talking pre AVA love shit btw.

I'm so lame. I decided to just stick with my old macbook and garageband and am going to upgrade the harddrive/battery in this thing, after all that advice. I know someone said Pro Tools/Logic is the industry standard, but the more I fiddle with Garageband, the more I realize there's no reason why you can't get what you want for your sound out of this...you're better off improving what goes in no? Unless you're an EDM electronic producer, I don't see the point of upgrading. I was watching this doc on this guy, Steve Lacy, he produced an entire album on his iphone with an iRig and garageband mobile. He's produced a song for Kendrick Lamar, on his iphone, the kid is like 17 too.

Sorry Kay, not directing this at you. But Tom really is a wonderful guitarist. He inspired you didn't he? Same can be said for a lot of current bands, all will say Tom is a big influence of theirs and Dammit got them into guitar is one of the most common things I've heard. He created a style like you said, and it's memorable. Isn't that a lot harder to do than be a technical guitar player? Very much so. Edge nailed it on the head when he said people mistake Tom's simplicity as not being skilled. That is a skill. He's knows when to keep it simple and make the song better. I have no doubt in my mind Tom could be a heavy metal guitarist who shreds it up if he wanted to, but he is writing for Pop Punk, and that wouldn't make the song better, and he did it the best and better than anyone else in pop punk genre.

You're viewing simplicity as a lack of talent.

Not saying they have an edge. But blink, Offspring, AFI, Green Day and Sum 41 have slight more edge to them than All Time Low. Can't see ATL coming up with BCR style songs or songs like Hearts All Gone, Stockholm Syndrome, Obvious & Easy Target. Can't see Skiba coming up with them kinda songs either but Alkaline Trio also have more edge to them than ATL.

Not really fan fic when alk3 released an album last year with no other songwriters and Matt knocked it out of the park. Matt isn't the problem.

fun fact: although the flyer features a dude ranch promo shot with scott raynor, travis barker played that show (his first club show with the band in san diego).

Lol https://www.youredm.com/2019/01/27/blink-182-matt-skiba-fyre-witchcraft/

In my opinion, the lesser notes/difficulty you Need to deliver an Emotion/feel, the better of a guitarist you are. anyone can learn to be fast and learn to tap/sweep pick if he has the time.but having a distinct Sound/creativity on your instrument is the far superior art. travis f.ex is a quite average drummer technically. there are tons of drummers that could Play his stuff or come up with more difficult stuff. But if travis works his instrument on a song, you immediately recognize it. that's what sets him apart, and that's why people repsond so well to his drumming. he knows (or used to know) how to compliment the rest of the song with his drumming

I dont want the mixing engineer to be biased by the kind of plugins i'm using and the session i am working on. Thats why i rather have him import the stems into a new session and gives the song his own spin. I'll attach a rough mix so he has a vague idea where i want it to go. But if i'm recording something myself i make sure that i fully commit to each sound and the job of the mixing engineer is to glue it together, and not to waste time with stuff i could've done myself or messing around with sounds. Thats not his job Printing stems in pro tools is a nightmare though, i dont know if they added multitrack export lately, but when i was on protools you always had to print stems one by one in realtime. Aint nobody got time fo that Edit: @Regi. It has nothing to do with being secretive. But with restricting myself to only deliver the stems, i bring myself to make sure to fully commit to a sound with less"well my engineer will fix that in the mix". A lot of mixing starts in choosing the right sound and tweaking it. Imo thats my job, not the mixing engineer's... I like my roughmix to be 90% where i want the song to be. A fresh pair of experienced ears adds 10-20%... I used to send over entire sessions, but from my experience i definately favour the stems aproach and so does my go to mix guy. He gets a fresh start... Also most mixing engineers have their own mixing session template anyway

Change these to a major key or whatever and you basically have a Tom song circa 2001.

He could, who knows?

No chance IMO. Tom is great at making unique catchy riffs/songs and clearly has his own style that is immediately recognizable, but he is definitely not an expert on guitar by any means, or even competent enough to bust out into a halfway decent solo. Most of his live "solos" are just letting a few notes ring and pick slides, and he couldn't even come up with anything halfway decent for solos/bridges on NH/DED. Tom's a brilliant songwriter, and certainly has his stamp on everything he does, but he is nowhere near a master at his instrument IMHO. And that's fine, thousands and thousands of guitarists can play anything, anywhere, and know the scales like a science, but only Tom was writing Wasting Time/ATST/First Date/etc. It's part of why I always felt Tom/Blink were so cool, you don't have to be a master at your instrument, they even said it was crappy punk rock, but write a catchy riff and have fun.

Same, it's really catch, and also feels relevant...modern

Good choice!

Dunno, I prefer California to anything ATL have ever done. Don't even like the guys voice from ATL. Prefer hearing an under utilised Skiba than anything All Time Low have ever done. That's how terrible I think All Time Low are. If that guy was there instead of Skiba, it'd just mean less good songs IMO. California still has at least 5 great songs and 5 decent ones. Those great and decent tracks would just be replaced by more cheesy ATL styled tracks.

@daveyjones guilty ???‍♂️

that's my joke! ron. i should have winked. ?

That's actually the original bass player before Cliff Burton lol

As for Tom being a great guitarist, it depends how you look at it really. From a technical point of view he's probably kinda shit. Has great speed though and there's no one better than him at writing memorable & catchy riffs in the pop punk/punk rock scene IMO. He shows a bit more complex stuff when it comes to live performances. The way he improvises on songs like I Miss You, After Midnight, Down and more shows what he's capable of. No one can do what Tom does better than Tom. I'd say he's a damn good guitarist for what he does. Same goes for Mark on the bass.

My recommendation is Kevin Devine. Kevin Devine, is an almost 40 year old ginger Brooklyn born singer songwriter. Those who do know him around here probably do so due to his musical linkings with Jesse Lacey of Brand New as well as his side project “Bad Books” with the dudes from Manchester Orchestra. When I got into Brand New at around the age of 15, I heard Jesse had done a guest spot on a song called “Cotton Crush” which is one of Kevin's. That song changed my fucking life. It is a raw mess of a song that frankly makes little to no sense and I fell in love with it hard. I had no idea who this dude was but as soon as I heard Cotton Crush I wanted to hear more, so I quickly started devouring his records. Behind Cotton Crush was a slew of acoustic led music that was either mild and melancholic, or aggressive and raw. A weird mixture that I still to this day cannot say I’ve found in another artist. I have tried pawning Kevin off to many friends over the years and most don’t seem to hear what I hear. Kevin is a very slow burn dude… He’s had songs that I have just never gotten into. Heard them for years and just left me cold and then one day it’ll be on in the background and something will ‘click’ in my head and suddenly it’s all I can listen to for a full week. I really don't expect many people to be like "fuck yeah" but he is one of my biggest influences and greatest musical comforts. If you like acoustic led music but also love hearing raw passion and aggressive moments in music, as well as have a particular interest in individual lyrics (and you aren’t against political leanings in music) than I’d say give Kevin a whirl. His influences (according to wikipedia) are Neutral Milk Hotel, Nirvana, Bob Dylan, Pavement and Elliot Smith - but I’m not particularly a fan of any of those so take those as you will. My song suggestions, in this exact order, are in the spoiler. These aren't his best songs, or my favourites, but I think they represent his songwriting range quite well.

its clear matt was hired not as a songwriter, just to play guitar and sing. and mark can't write for shit. so feldy had a field day with all the control he wanted.

A bit of an exaggeration, I'd say a base hit, maybe double. He clearly was more comfortable and more genuine of an artist, guitar playing still is something he'll never be good at. Whether Mark or Feldy or Matt is disallowing him to write anything in Blink, he still isn't that great of a fit imo.

This sounds just like 21 pilots but with a bit of an edge. Would not sound out of place on a station that plays Imagine Dragons and 21 Pilots. Which is what mine plays

It could be the opposite. If it didn't have the blink name they could go full on pop.

also, thibaut, FYI that kjblink182collection person on twitter is a member of this site.

Thanks to @Kjblink182 ! found poster/flyer for this show : 6/24/1998: The band performs at Canes Bar & Grill in San Diego, California. Other bands include Limp, Wade and Sketch. found poster for this show : 8/19/1995: The band performs at Neckhoff in Orange, California. New date to add (with proof of poster) : 10/24/1996 The band performs at Soma in San Diego, California. Other bands include Unwritten Law, The Classified and Assorted Jellybeans. found other poster for this show : 1/27/1996: The band performs at SOMA in San Diego, California, completing the GoodTimes Tour.

Getting older will do that.

It's crazy to think it's been 4 years since Tom was last in the band. 2005-2009 seemed to last forever. When blink got back together in 2009, the start of the break up in 2005 seemed so long ago. 2015-2019 doesn't feel long at all.

Fuck what feldy thinks.

Still one of the most amazing bands.

Protools is the best for handling audio. With midi, logic is far superior if you're used with garage band id go for logic for sure. If you know what you're doing and the material is recorded great there isnt much magic to do in a mix anyway, so its definately possible with garage band.... But its not made for that kind of thing and it shows