Mark Hoppus

Blink 182 (pronounced "blink one eighty two") is a punk band from San Diego, California, USA formed in 1992 by Mark Hoppus, Tom DeLonge and Scott Raynor in the northern suburbs of San Diego to Poway. Travis Barker replaced Raynor on drums in 1998, mid-term review of blink-182 of the U.S. tour. The group went on "indefinite hiatus" in 2005. In 2006, Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker conducted an interview with MTV and confirmed the group is officially broken.

The group was known for his catchy melodies, as well as for satirical, and sometimes blasphemous charge of toilet humor. Musically, the band played up-tempo songs with harmonies major agreement foreground, often digitally mixed, to provide a sound much cleaner than the typical punk rock records /, which generally exhibit distortion and analogue mixes to achieve the opposite effect. However, their last album showed a significant departure from their previous work and helped to showcase their musical prowess more mature, while showing some progress in the sophistication of their lyrical themes. The lyrical content of their songs, before their last album, was usually humorous and light heart. blink-182 fans were mostly teenagers, but they managed to establish a more mature following with their latest offering.

Although the group is labeled as Blink 182 on albums prior to Raynor's departure, the official publication of the group's name is blink-182. The numbers 182 were added to the group name to avoid conflict with the Irish pop band Blink mark. However, fans often refer to the band informally as 'Blink'.

History
Early career (1992-1995)
The beginnings of the band can be traced to the early 90s when DeLonge was reportedly expelled from Poway High School during junior year after being caught drunk at a basketball game at school. After he was transferred to another school, he met Anne Hoppus, sister of Mark Hoppus, Tom DeLonge has presented to his brother. The day the two other future members of the group met, they were skateboarding with friends in a parking place and to impress DeLonge, Hoppus climbed a lamp post and jumped from the top, cracking both heels . Both the current passes and finished with the name of the duck tape "for the new group name. Duck Tape soon transformed into Blink. Need a drummer, Tom DeLonge recruited 14-year-old Scott Raynor, he had seen him play at the battle "bands".

In May 1993, Blink has released a demo called Flyswatter, recorded in drummer Scott Raynor room. It was their first album and a 4-track was used to record the material, resulting in poor sound quality and according to Hoppus, only fifty copies were produced. Their first show took place in a real bar and since they were minors, they were only allowed to enter when it was time for their series. They bought 50 tickets for sale, but nobody came to see them. After only one song Blink was launched from the stage and bar. Before the end of the year, the band released another demo known as the Buddha. About 1,000 copies were produced by Filter Records (owned by Hoppus boss ").

In early 1994, the success of the demonstration initiative Buddha Blink signed with Cargo Records. Blink recorded his first full album, Cheshire Cat in three days. The album contains a number of updated versions of songs that had appeared on the Buddha demo.

Shortly after the release of Cheshire Cat, Blink was threatened with prosecution by an Irish techno group the same name. To avoid a long trial, Blink appended "-182" at the end of their name. There are several rumors as to why these numbers were ultimately chosen, such as correspondence with the number of times Al Pacino utters the word "fuck" in Scarface, the 1985 Timothy Hutton film, Turk 182!, The representation of ideal weight Hoppus's, or that they represent '.