Their manager’s reaction infuriated Hoppus and DeLonge. “After years of hard work, promotion, and nonstop touring, people knew who we were, and listened to what we were saying-it scared the shit out of us,” Hoppus writes in the liner notes. Well, no, it was still three dudes goofing around, but now people expected things from them. Blink-182 wasn’t three dudes goofing around anymore. Rock stars make hit albums, and hit albums need hit singles. But Blink-182 had spent the past year selling out arenas around the world-its members were rock stars.
Getting hassled by management or the label about a single was a music-industry cliché experienced only by big rock stars. That Blink-182 good-time, summer-anthem thing.’”īlink-182 had been a band for nearly a decade by that point, but fame and fortune were still new to guys who had spent most of their band lives playing small clubs, touring in a van, and sleeping on floors. “At the end we turned to him with an ‘am I right or what?’ expectation, to which he said, ‘I think it’s really cool, but I don’t hear that thing. “He listened quietly to the tracks one by one,” Hoppus says. The first person outside of Blink-182 to hear the songs was the group’s manager. You can read how the two songs were written and more on why below after the jump.īlink-182 To Begin Demoing This Year Hitting Studio In Early-2014īlink-182 Meeting With Producers, Record Labels For New Album
“The Rock Show” and “First Date" were the last songs written for blink-182‘s Take Off Your Pants And Jacket, and that was because their manager did not feel like the album had Enema-style hits on it.
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