Here's the Wayback Archive of one of the best blink fan sites from the late 90s/early 2000s I frequented a lot back in the day. This guy was a friend of the band. He let them crash at his place when they played in Texas back in 95 I think?

[blinkstillrules 250]

https://web.archive.org/web/20001110143000/http://www.windu.com/blink182/

I used to go on this site back in the late 90s/early 2000s all the time.

Our own Daveyjones is thanked on the lyrics page for submitting the lyrics to Zulu.

[Patient #48273 7059]

That's quite the thread title!

[blinkstillrules 250]

2 minutes ago, Patient #48273 said:

That's quite the thread title!

Yeah I should've shortened it. Oops.

[Champ182 4008]

I miss the old internet

[blinkstillrules 250]

4 minutes ago, Champ182 said:

I miss the old internet

Me too.

[Thibaut182 1046]

Those old school pictures are so cool!

[daveyjones 3704]

sure, nick riemondi.

he's still in texas i think. you can find him on linkedin.

[Speedo 10995]

Title's longer than the damn post.

[Ixidor 177]

Man, those oldschool pics. Back when it was all about the music, getting yourself out there and going for it.

Off... I am starting to lean slightly towards davey nowadays - how can you experience the energy, passion and dedication of the "old" times and then be satisfied with the uninspired, greatest hits era, when something was always delayed multiple times. It regressed into three dudes not getting over themselves to stay in a room and write a proper album for whatever years that went on.

[daveyjones 3704]

46 minutes ago, Ixidor said:

how can you experience the energy, passion and dedication of the "old" times and then be satisfied with the uninspired, greatest hits era, when something was always delayed multiple times.

i mean, if you saw the beatles at shea stadium in 1965, how did wings come off in the late 70s? that's fair way of comparing seeing blink on the enema-era tours and then having to stomach california and NINE.

[thongrider 2633]

3 hours ago, daveyjones said:

i mean, if you saw the beatles at shea stadium in 1965, how did wings come off in the late 70s? that's fair way of comparing seeing blink on the enema-era tours and then having to stomach california and NINE.

Well I guess this is growing up

[_Bagel 228]

Thanks for this mate , love the insight back in time -  that Thrasher interview was sick . Mark and Tom saying how Scott is the only one with ambitions outside of the band itself...

[blinkstillrules 250]

11 hours ago, daveyjones said:

sure, nick riemondi.

he's still in texas i think. you can find him on linkedin.

Very cool.

I frequented his site a ton back in the day.

[blinkstillrules 250]

FYI, the site owner Nick Riemondi, had a pop punk band back in the late 90s/early 2000s called Cereal Box Killers.

You can still get their two albums here:

https://archive.org/details/free_friend

https://archive.org/details/teenage_heartthrob_band

[daveyjones 3704]

@Ry-Bread if you want to try and get ahold of nick he'd probably be an amazing interview for your podcast:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickriemondi/

[blinkstillrules 250]

10 hours ago, daveyjones said:

@Ry-Bread if you want to try and get ahold of nick he'd probably be an amazing interview for your podcast:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickriemondi/

Second this.

Nick got to hang with them at the 1997 MTV Sports and Music Festival along with having them crash with him in 1995. I'm sure he has some cool stories.

[MSandt 1257]

Although Raynor intends to finish high school by pursuing "home studies," he hasn't written college out of his life.

"I'm definitely going to go to college, and eventually [I'll] grow up and get a real job," Raynor says. "Even if the band becomes really big, there's no saying how long it will last. I want to make good music, but I don't want to miss out on other opportunities. I'm already missing out on my senior year of high school. Besides, I don't want to be 30 and still in a punk-rock band. That seems kind of scary to me." -J.N.

[Mard_Smartiest_Blinkfan 195]

"

TOM DELONGE - guitar, vocals

MARK HOPPUS - bass, vocals

TRAVIS BARKER - drums"

 

ajhajaj couldnt have been clearer about that

[Iblinkfor182Always 43]

On 5/20/2020 at 5:41 AM, blinkstillrules said:

Me too.

Me three!! 😉

[asdf182 64]

On 5/23/2020 at 4:17 PM, MSandt said:

Although Raynor intends to finish high school by pursuing "home studies," he hasn't written college out of his life.

"I'm definitely going to go to college, and eventually [I'll] grow up and get a real job," Raynor says. "Even if the band becomes really big, there's no saying how long it will last. I want to make good music, but I don't want to miss out on other opportunities. I'm already missing out on my senior year of high school. Besides, I don't want to be 30 and still in a punk-rock band. That seems kind of scary to me." -J.N.

Conspiracy theory: Scott left blink because of this but they thought it would be lame to say this so they went for the more rockstar/punk story of him leaving because of alcohol abuse