Case study for Blink 182

      BLINK 182

Blink-182 is an American  POP/Rock band from San diego, California and was formed in 1992. The band formed as "Blink" with vocalist and bass player Mark hoppus, vocalist and guitarist Tom delonge and former drummer scott raynor. In 1998 during the UAS tour Scott Raynor was replaced by drummer Travis barker.
The band released several self-recorded demo tapes, promoting them with various shows around the San Diego area. There first album was called " Cheshire cat " which was released in 1994.




After Travis barker nearly died in a plane crash blink 182 reunited in Febuary 2009 and thier new album is in the making.

This photo was taken of Blink 182 back stage of one of thier gigs in 1997. On the left is thier former drummer scott Raynor, Middle is Tom delonge and on the right is Mark hoppus.

The band gained notoriety for humorous stage shows and eventually was signed to small record label Cargo Music, where they released their first full-length album, Cheshire Cat, in February 1994. Recorded in three days and fueled by both new songs and re-recordings of songs from previous demos, Blink began to gain fame outside of California throughout 1995 and 1996. "M+M's" and "Wasting Time" from Cheshire Cat were released as singles, but both failed to chart. Although the album never made a commercial impact, it is cited by bands and fans as an iconic release.

Shortly after the release of the album, the band was threatened with legal action by an Irish pop band of the same name. To avoid a legal dispute, the band appended "182" to the end of their name.

The leaving of the original drummer and the reasons why.


Thanks to the success of Dude ranch , Blink-182 embarked on multiple worldwide tours during 1997 and 1998. Midway through a U.S. tour in 1998, original drummer Scott Raynor was asked to leave the band. Various conflicting reasons have circulated the Internet for years, a largely popular explanation is that Raynor had a serious drinking problem and was asked to leave. When he agreed to abstaining from alcohol, bassist Mark Hoppus and guitarist Tom DeLonge doubted his sincerity and he was fired from the band through a telephone call. In a 2004 interview, Hoppus described the touring for Dude ranch  as "rough", with DeLonge adding "That was the worst tour ever. At that time, our drummer had a drinking problem. One show he dropped his sticks 10 times. It was so disturbing to see someone ruining himself."

This is why they had to hire a new drummer , this being Travis barker.(on the left)

Blink 182's musical style has been described by various sources as "pop punk", "punk rock","punk revival" and "skate punk". When playing live, the band typically plays their songs at a faster tempo and often replaces certain lyrics with toilet humor and various gags. Blink-182 are known for their simple melodies, teen angst and occasional lyrical toilet humor. They are often targeting subjects such as love and growing up, these being fused into multiple hit singles such as "Dammit" and "What's My Age Again?". Before the release of their experimental and different untitled fifth album, darker songs by the band include singles "Adam's Song" and "Stay Together for the Kids". Bill Lamb of About.com described their music as being "marked by a radio-friendly sheen, but it still maintains much of the speed and attitude of classic punk rock".

Bands such  Paramore, Relient K, Panic! at the Disco, Fall Out Boy, Motion City Soundtrack, New Found Glory, We the Kings, Good Charlotte, Hey Monday, The Cab, Forever the Sickest Kids, Cute is What We Aim For and Yellowcard all say that Blink 182 have been a major influence on thier own bands. There style and sound have started a tottally new style of music and will always be known for there style.


This is a Graph that i found on the internet that show the dats the band got together, when there ablums were released and the dates that the old drummer left and the new drummer started with Blink 182.

 Awards

In 2000 the band Blink 182 won the award of being the best new act and in the same year won the award for best Group video whic was "All the small things".Also in 2000 they won the award for Choice group award.

 The following year they won award for being the best Rock act of 2001. the same year they also won  Favorite band and also the best rock group again.

In 2002 they won the award Favorite band for thier video "First date".

In 2004 they won thier last award which was for the Choice love song award , they won this award with the hit single "I miss you".

Films

Blink 182 worked with the producers of the film American pie and also had thier songs played throughout the movie. This made Blink 182 even more famous than what they already was because America pie was also a very popular film.

The songs they had played in the film were "Every time i look for you"  and they made the American pie theme tune. Aswell as having there songs played during the film they also had played as the guest apearence in one the films. American pie is a very popular film now and every film has atleast one  Blink 182 song
 in it, i like to think that it was the American pie films that helped Blink 182 get as famous as they are today.