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I'm sorry this happened to South America, but I fucking love this thread. If the Reddit crowd read these posts, they would implode and Mark's discord would scream, cry and throw up.

I've heard they have to keep you in a medically induced coma for up to 2 weeks after ring finger surgery.

I'm just glad that Tom rejoined the band and their first big fuck up doesn't appear to have been on him. First crisis averted

I feel so old on reddit when some lil new blink kid posts like Dancing With Myself or Dead Mans Curve and are like “omfg I just found this!” And the comments are a bunch of other lil new blink fans being like “omg good find never heard this” and us dinosaurs are here able to discuss the finer fucking details of their diets from 20 years ago.

I feel bad for anyone who logs in and sees several pages of new posts, thinking there has finally been news, only to click and find out it's all the usual nonsense.

Gonna send this to Travis. Should help him get fixed up in time for tour.

California and Nine proved Tom is blink. 🚮

People forget that beneath all the goth, The Cure are PUNK AF. Awesome to see a true man of the people who cares about his fans going after the fuckers at Ticketmaster. Too bad it didn't work, but at least he tried - unlike blink.

Eh, I don't think it would work without Celestino on bass

enhance enhance SKIBA CONFIRMED

https://www.thesun.ie/tvandshowbiz/6870089/travis-barker-shares-video-kourtney-kardashian-sucking-thumb/amp/

No dynamic priced tickets and now a little refund + lower fees on the general sale tomorrow. This is proof you can take concrete actions against Ticketmaster and win a concession in a few hours (literally) when you really care about your fans. In this house Robert Smith is a hero—end of story.

The lowest bot in the blink fandom. Even feldybots rank higher.

You know, they could have easily turned the UFC match PR blunder into an opportunity if they had gotten Kourtney to push Travis around in a wheelchair.

It's just kind of...tasteless.

I'll have to deduct one more point from the band on my whiteboard.

It's wild to see that Tom has taken upon himself the role of spokesperson of the band and sounds more sincere than Mark 😂

Tbf, Mark could’ve just been pissing about on the bass inbetween listening back to tracks during the sequencing process. Like, him holding a bass in the studio doesn’t mean he’s only now tracking bass parts. Thats me being wishful thinkingy, probably, but musicians noodle while chatting all the time lol

Yeah, I went to reddit and Aaron's instagram to check... Unless Aaron changed his post on instagram it says "Tuesday in the studio" nothing about being done mixing the blink album or how many songs there are. Meanwhile, the image being posted about on reddit is a screengrab from 'angelsandairwavesnews' saying it's being mixed and confusing DAW tracks with like a playlist or something. Which also means we don't know how many songs will be on this album either (so be safe I'll assume at least 10)) I'd love for the album to be finished because there's a chance we might get it sooner if it is... However, don't wanna get my hype up on false hopes. Learned that many times (even had it reinforced a few times).

Man you are old.

Full band should’ve made a statement. Its really the bare minimum

As the only active poster in this thread that has actually seen blink play without Travis since he joined the band I feel my opinion means more than everyone else’s so here we go. Cancelling the shows was the worst possible option. No doubt. When Travis bailed(understandably) on Aus I was rattled but with 3 non-refundable festival tickets, flights, hotels etc I was still super happy the band was still coming. I would have been way more upset if they cancelled rather than had a replacement fill in. Once the show kicks off and Mark and Tom start having a blast you end up forgetting that there is a replacement drummer up there. The songs still sound like they should and as long as you’re not some negative cunt looking for a reason to be pissed you’ll be having a great time. The SA fans deserved this. I get that they wanted this to be the big reunion etc with the original band but they still could have bought both Travis and the replacement. Have Travis rock out onstage chilling on a throne Dave Grohl style for 80% of the set and then add in a 5ish song acoustic set that he can actually play on. I know his finger is fucked but I doubt it’s so fucked he couldn’t play a light acoustic set where he isn’t banging as hard as he can. I would’ve fucking loved it if they did this when I saw them. Hell they did the acoustic set with Brooks and even though I had no clue who the fuck he was it was still fun. Ultimately they chose the lazy option which is pretty shitty. The promise to go back next year is nice doesn’t make up for it. Those fans deserved better. They definitely didn’t deserve Travis throwing it in their faces by going out to the ufc less than a week later. Read the room bro. Anyway. I don’t think anything deep is up with the band/Travis flying/the album. It was a shit, unlucky injury that meant the tour couldn’t happen as planned, it just sucks they were lazy and couldn’t opt for plan b or c and just cancelled.

As soon as he's done with his Bill Murray era

If you don’t think the SA fans would absolutely lose their shit and have a great time if Travis was there doing this while some other cunt played the drums then you’re a dumb cunt.

Bruh Bruh

I woke up a few minutes ago and thought that there were some big news... 4 pages of +44 reviews, cymbals complains, and general nonsense... still better than those pussies on Reddit making songs rankings every single fucking day. Love you guys Never liked the production in WYHSB, everything sounds too compressed. Mark must loved that sound so much, since he kept the same guitar tones on Neighborhoods and DED.

Same, I don’t really care what style they go with or even the general mood as long as it’s good and sounds like blink. I don’t want bad AVA songs that Mark and Travis have tried to salvage. Hopefully they’re past that if they are actually working together and getting along now. Will be interesting. I still have a feeling it’s going to be really good. I like that they aren’t talking much about it still. I have no idea what to expect and that makes it more exciting and less likely to disappoint.

I'd believe you if you told me that's Pauly Shore

We'll see how hard Travis and his crew actually is. SA fans deserve it

He can't play so there is nothing we can do about it, but he's also the same person who got into a fight on twitter with that Australian promoter 10 years ago because he wanted to get paid in full for those Australian shows he couldn't attend. He would have never settled for playing a tambourine and let another drummer replace him. And it sounds like Mark and Tom didn't want that either because Mark said this tour is about the three of them, so they would have never hired Brooks or another drummer. It's either Travis or no shows at all. What's absolutely shitty is that they didn't acknowledge the fact that the fans have to pay twice in order to see them next year. Minimum wage per month in Brazil: R$1200 Blink-182/Lollapalooza Brazil tickets: R$1300

All he had to do was chill for a week and it would be less insulting. I’m sure he could find something to entertain himself for during that time in his multi million dollar mansion.

I just love the idea that someone went “this doesn’t look bad enough, let’s wrap your bedsheet around your head, that’ll do”

Because she's 🤘🏻READY 2 MOSH🤘🏻 and she will be in charge of the pit at the blink shows for the next 12 months.

Travis right now

October 2022: The band has an advantage of 6 points on Tom; he's back but he has zero points because of his antics Tom blink-182 | | | | | | End of October 2022: Tom gets one point because he's not just on the hype train, he's driving it Tom blink-182 | | | | | | | Winter 2022/2023: the band is quietly working on the album, one more point to Tom for the effort of driving to LA and spending a big part of the week there to work (considering that going to LA for all blink related matters has been his personal nightmare since 2004) Tom blink-182 | | | | | | | | March 2023: the band loses two big points for how they handle the South America situation. Tom gets half a point for making a video and sounding sincere. Tom blink-182 | | ' | | | | To be continued...

The truth is, this could've been a great opportunity to actually highlight their relationship. If they'd brought Travis along to jokingly do a shaker on some songs then yeah it would've been funny and he would have been there... but imagine if they'd given him a mic? Had him talk with Mark and Tom? Have him sing one of the joke songs? (would've been hysterical). He could've been at the front of the stage, showing all 3 together, for their first time in SA. Just a thought. What a waste of an opportunity.

Maybe we should ask how he injured his finger 🤢

People worried Toms going to lose interest in blink again as the tour is too long etc yet here he is being the only one making a true effort to apologise to the fans for cancelled shows. is the era of the Tom being the blink hero abo it to begin?

Yeah Mark's video had all the passion of a guy who napped too long and had to cancel plans for dinner

Where the fuck is @Release Some Shit? Everyone is finally shitting on Travis and he’s having a nap.

Over aggressively turning the volume levels down on the guitar.

Do people honestly think they're gonna come out with a new sound? There's is zero chance they take any huge leaps with the direction of their music on this album. It's gonna sound like Lifeforms songs that are more straight up punky/rocky mixed in with Marks influence. We're not going to be surprised by anything.

Oh so now Tom is back in the band suddenly everyone is cool with another band writing blinks songs for them? What a joke.

Cheetah is uploading HQ old blink stuff! He’s got hundreds of hours of unseen stuff, he wants subs to see if people are interested and worth it to digitize and edit cause it’s a lot of work. Go show love

He meant to post about Blink too but he hurt another finger

Can someone photoshop a flaming HECK sign?

I’m going to take them at their word about how hurt Travis is and how unable to play he is. My issue is that their mindset is that they know what the fans want. I agree with the opinion that the fans down there would prefer Travis on cowbell vs waiting another year. As for “a replacement drummer isn’t what this tour is about” again, get a pulse on the fans. Maybe it wouldn’t be what the band had planned as a comeback, but things don’t always work out as planned. Just play shows for these damn people. Or at least fake like you give a shit for them when you cancel.

they will get through the tour just fine, as long as travis starts eating steak

Tom rejoined the band just to prove that he wasn’t the problem and is getting his vengeance to get Travis removed