blink 182 break up?

Question

does anyone know why blink 182 broke up???

Answer 1

Hello Yahoo! I know it has been a long time, and I haven’t spoken about the blink-182 in a year and a half. I have a lot to say, so I hope you like to read...

The whole thing started a few months before the last European tour. We had been talking about and planning a final North American tour on the self-titled album in the spring. Our manager had encouraged it, and pushed us to do it, saying it was a great idea, that it would support the fourth single (Always). We had all agreed. Everyone wanted to tour. The touring we were doing was the most fun I think I have ever had on the road. The shows were awesome, we loved the songs we were playing, the reaction was amazing. The plan was for blink to finish the European tour, have January and February off, then tour in March and April or something like that. We have a fairly large crew (sound guys, guitar techs, tour manager, production crew, lighting crew, etc) that were put on retainer and told they would be working on blink tours at LEAST until the late spring, and possibly beyond. Everyone agreed on it all, and the tour was put together.

Later on, Tom started saying he DIDN'T want to tour, that he was burned out and wanted to stay home. He wanted to cancel the tour. Immediately our manager changed his mind as well. I was at an airport in Singapore, on my way to Nepal, and he called to tell me that he now thought we shouldn't tour. This is a good indication of the relationship between our old manager and blink-182 at that time. By that point, he was basically managing tom. Tom changed his mind on touring, and then our manager changed his too. Strange, right? Angry, I got on the plane and flew to Nepal and Bhutan, later meeting Travis and tom in London to begin the tour.



At the first show, our old manager flew out and sat us all down in the dressing room before the show. He needed to have a meeting about the spring tour. He and tom sat on one side of the room and Travis and I sat at the other. Our old manager did all the talking. He announced that tom was done touring. He needed a break. He was "over playing music" and wanted to be with his family. The spring tour was going to be canceled. Travis and I were in shock. After the tour we were on, there were two months off. Wasn’t two months off enough time to go home and relax with your family? Who in the world gets two months off from their job to hang out at home? But it wasn't enough. He needed more time. Much more time. Travis and I said "okay, if you don't want to tour, how about let's stay home and start the next record?" We had a lot of ideas and were ready to start laying them down. And tom could be with his family. He didn't want to do that either. He was burned out and just wanted to stop. We asked him how long he needed, and he said he didn't know. The conversation got heated and lasted for two or three hours. It went around in circles, and the end result was the canceled tour, with no idea when we would be doing anything with blink-182 again. Travis and I told tom and our manager that we weren't willing to sit on our hands for six months, that we still wanted to write and play music. They understood and agreed. A couple of days later, tom told us that he needed six or more months off. Our entire touring crew was told that the six months of work they had been promised was canceled, effective as of the end of the European tour ten days later. That was a couple of weeks before Christmas. The mood on the rest of the tour was sour. Everyone was bummed. Everyone was fired. The whole thing had come to a grinding halt for one person. But the shows were ******* great!



Travis and I were super bummed and angry at the position we were being put in. We understood that tom wanted to be with his family. We all did. We all love our families and want to be with them. At the same time, this is our job. We are so lucky to get to do what we do the way we do. We love our work and want to be out there doing it, and it was being taken away from us. We had no say in it. blink-182 has been a democracy since day one, and toward the end there it wasn't. it was all about one person. it felt ugly. it really did. so we went home and started our six month break.



After Christmas the tsunami hit, and soon after that I called our old manager about the possibility of doing some kind of benefit show. I felt we needed to do something. I knew we were in Tom’s “time off” period, so I said I would do an acoustic set, or Travis and I could try and find a replacement guitarist for one show. I know there are allegations out there that I was booking blink-182 to shows without talking to anyone. This is absolutely not true. I called our old manager, and offered to do it without Tom, but Tom wanted to help the tsunami relief cause, so our old manager booked us to play on the benefit show at the Pond. It had been a long time since we had played, so we set up a few rehearsals the week before the benefit.



At one of the rehearsals, we started talking arguing about our forced break, the greatest hits record, and the possibility of recording the next album. Tom said on the next blink-182 album, he would ONLY record at his house in San Diego. He would not come to Los Angeles. He wouldn’t travel anywhere for the recording. He wanted me and Travis to record our parts up in Los Angeles as we wanted to, then send him the pro tools files down to San Diego for him to work on there. Mind you, on the last blink record, Travis drove down every day from Los Angeles to the studio in San Diego to record his parts. But Tom wasn’t leaving his house. This was the point our band was at.



Tom was deciding when we would tour, how we would tour, when we would have time off, when we would record, and how we could record. One person was dictating everything. We told Tom this. Things got hot. We told him if we were going to record the album separately, in different studios, our band was ceasing to be a BAND. The magic in the studio is created when the three of us are there TOGETHER, working on parts, discussing, sometimes arguing, all pushing the album forward. Trying to frankenstein a cd together by mailing each other pro tools files to work on in our own private studios was ridiculous. It would lessen the entire album. It would be a terrible cd. We asked Tom if he was ready for the consequences of what that meant? Would we really sacrifice the quality of our music for the convenience of his insistence that he record only at his house in San Diego? We said, "You are trying to control everything, and it's wrong." He said he couldn't be a part of anything he couldn't control, and he left the rehearsal space.



The next day our manager called and informed us that, "as of today, Tom DeLonge is no longer a member of blink-182." He said not to try and call Tom, that he had already changed his number and didn't want to talk to us. And that is how it ended. After 13 years of being in a band together, hundreds of thousand of miles toured, countless shows played, and seven albums released, Tom didn’t even call to quit the band. He had his manager do it for him.

Our old manager used to talk around the fact that Tom wanted to do a solo thing. At one point there were these emails going around that I was accidentally copied on, talking about Tom starting a solo career. It wasn’t terribly long after that when Tom quit blink-182 “to spend more time with his family,” and went into a studio to start his new record. When our old manager told me Tom was starting to record, I asked him what Tom was calling his new project. He told me “He is calling it Tom DeLonge.” It was later changed to Angels and Airwaves.

I have always liked Tom’s music. I wrote music with him for 13 years, and have always respected and admired his ability to craft some great songs. I like to think that we all pushed and inspired each other to create better and better songs, and I have been so proud of the music that blink-182 released, especially on the last record. However, his new album didn’t strike me at all. The verses in the first single were cool, but everything just fell apart after that. The rest of the songs on the album seemed long and repetitious. I kept thinking “wait, did I already hear this song?” On all the tracks, I was waiting for something to kick in, for the song to reach that point that pushes it over the top, and for me it never came. It seemed like there were some good ideas in there wanting to come out, but it never got to where it needed to go. For me, I have always loved the honest simplicity and beauty in Tom’s music and lyrics. This new album seemed forced and self-important. Like he was stomping his feet and insisting “I AM AN ARTIST NOW!!!” Like he is more interested in TALKING about making good music rather than just MAKING good music. Musically, I think Tom was stronger in the past. That’s my honest opinion of the album.
The crazy thing is, the actual question that was put to us went like this: “After all of Tom’s outrageous claims over the past year, that God wrote half of his album, that it is the best music written in 20 years, that his album was going to change the world, that it was going to sell millions upon millions of copies, what do you have to say now that his album is seen as a failure, and obviously hasn’t changed anything at all? Is this a new side of Tom that you have never seen, or are people finally seeing the real Tom?"

When Tom told us all that he was taking half a year off, Travis and I told both Tom and our old manager that we were not going to do nothing for that time. We loved writing music and we wanted to work. We wanted to be in the studio writing. They said of course, that they understood. We were up front about everything we were doing. Even after Tom quit the band, and we were still talking to management, ON THE DAY THAT TRAVIS AND I WERE GOING TO START WRITING SONGS, I called our old manager’s office and told them “okay, Travis and I are going into the studio today. I am just calling to let you know.”

Obviously, since Tom had changed his number and wasn’t talking to anyone, I couldn’t call him directly and tell him “Hey, you quit the band. Travis and I are starting something new.” But we did everything we could to be straight and honest about what we were doing and why. There was never anything secret about (+44). Tom quit in the middle of February of 2005, and we didn’t even begin demo’ing until well into March. Did he think Travis and I were going to stop playing music altogether after he quit?
As to whether or not Tom and I will ever be friends again, I can’t say.
The (+44) album is by far the most lyrically personal music I have ever written. The words are everything I have inside me put on a cd. This is the most personal album any of us have ever written. You want to know who we are, what we think, or how we feel? Listen to the (+44) cd.
Thank you fans. Thank you for everything. And see you soon!
P.S Our debut album "Little Death" is coming out on October 24th

Answer 2

On February 22, 2005, many fans were shocked when blink-182 announced they were going on an "indefinite hiatus". As the reason for the "indefinite hiatus", Delonge suggested the mounting tension between himself and Hoppus, ultimately caused by DeLonge's desire for a break with his family and Hoppus' feelings of betrayal from the formation of Boxcar Racer. His former bandmates, however, remain tight-lipped on the issue and have still yet to give any in-depth response on the situation. On the July 21st, 2006 MTV posted an article about Hoppus and Barker's (+44) outfit. Both didn't wish to comment on blink-182, with Barker making only a terse and equivocal statement regarding Tom DeLonge and his new band Angels and Airwaves: "You're definitely seeing what the real Tom DeLonge was like. That's all I'm going to say about him or his band."
After the break-up each of the bandmembers embarked on solo projects. DeLonge formed Angels and Airwaves, whose debut album We Don't Need to Whisper – leaked in April 2006 – was released on May 23rd, 2006 and is currently touring with his outfit. Transplants broke up after the Warped Tour, however Barker and Skinhead Rob emerged immediately with a new project, called Expensive Taste with rap superstar Paul Wall. Hoppus and Barker are finishing work on their (+44) debut album, Little Death. Earlier in 2006, Barker played a couple of shows with DJ AM and has trademarked the name The Phenomenons for a new band.

In the wake of the "hiatus", Geffen Records released a career long "Greatest Hits" compilation in October (Outside the United States) and November (United States) 2005. One previously unreleased track was included "Another Girl Another Planet" (a cover song originally by The Only Ones, recorded as the theme song to the reality TV show Meet the Barkers), Also included was the previously issued B-side (to the "I Miss You" single) and Untitled album bonus track (Outside the United States), "Not Now" (which was used as the first single). The album immediately reached No. 6 on The Billboard 200 in the United States. There are two versions of the Greatest Hits CD. One that has a bonus track: Aliens Exist (live) issued in Australia with a bonus DVD, and another version that includes two bonus tracks: "Go (live)" and "I Won't Be Home For Christmas" along with the DVD issued in the UK.

Answer 3

They just got back together this year. They are coming with a new album and tour.

Answer 4

Creative differences

Answer 5

they broke up cause of tom forming so many side bands ( Box Car Racer )

Answer 6

they broke up because the singer was taking some pills to change his gender and his voice was changing really weirdly, but it ended up not working, so now theyre in angels and airwaves

Answer 7

yep

Answer 8

They cant make anymore money & its bcoz of their alter ego.......

Answer 9

Because they suck, and they are fake punk, they are the *NSYNC of punk rock.

Answer 10

who cares

Answer 11

they didnt they are on hiatus