All The Small Things - OFFICAL Video and Lyrics

Lyrics:

All the, small things
True care, truth brings
I'll take, one lift
Your ride, best trip

Always, I know
You'll be at my show
Watching, waiting, commiserating

Say it ain't so, I will not go, turn the lights off, carry me home
Na, Na.......

Late night, come home
Work sucks, I know
She left me roses by the stairs
Surprises let me know she cares

Say it ain't so, I will not go, turn the lights off, carry me home
Na, Na......

Say it ain't so, I will not go, turn the lights off, carry me home
Keep your head still I'll be your thrill, the night will go on, my little
windmill
Say it ain't so, I will not go, turn the lights off, carry me home
Keep your head still, I'll be your thrill, the night will go on, the night will
go on, my little windmill.

Artistdirect.com Interviews Tom Delonge

This is an interview with Tom Delonge about the new music, the tour, and other things having to do with the bands new emergence. It's a not a small one so put on a cup of coffee before you sit down.

From artistdirect.com:

The world needs Blink-182. That's an undeniable fact.

The Southern California punk rockers are bringing "fun" back to rock music this summer with their highly anticipated reunion tour. Tom DeLonge, Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker are officially back. It's a momentous occasion for so many twenty-somethings who fondly asked "What's My Age Again?" while watching American Pie in 1999. There are a lot of them too! They'll be filling up venues to see Blink-182 rock all summer, and there's no doubt that San Diego's finest will deliver the goods.

In many ways, Blink-182 are the perfect American rock band. Their songs are infectious, fast, hilarious and party-ready. What's a better cure for all of the U.S.'s problems right now? Nothing, really.

Vocalist/guitarist Tom DeLonge spoke to ARTISTdirect.com in this exclusive interview about Blink's comeback, the summer tour, the future, swearing a lot and why their stage show will be the perfect cross between George Carlin and Iron Maiden.

Are you ready to hit the road?

I think…I'm not packed [Laughs].

How does it feel to be back with Blink-182?

It's awesome. It's kind of tripping me out a little bit. I'm completely blown away by the size and the enormity of this tour. We're doing 30,000 people in multiple cities; it's insane.

Blink-182 really captured a crucial period in a lot of fans' lives. You're going to have fans in their late '20s at the shows that were super into you in high school. Does that trip you out?

Yeah, it does. Maybe they're bringing younger brothers or something too—packing it down. It's not like the band has been on the radio and really present over the past few years [Laughs]. I think it's going to be amazing, and I hope the fans get what they're looking for. I will be there to see if we're good too [Laughs].

What do you plan on giving them?

I think it's going to be the most amount of rock production that you can do with the most amount of bad words mixed together in a beautiful soup.

So George Carlin meets Iron Maiden?

Yes! That's a really, really great way to look at it [Laughs]. I think so.

What sparked the urge for you guys to get back together and hit the road?

I think there's no real secret that after Travis' accident the band was able to very quickly brush aside all of the old bullshit that we had. Inevitably the conversation comes up like, "What are we going to do? Are we going to jam again?" No one had any objections to it. I'm in the middle of recording an Angels & Airwaves album and finishing up the motion picture we've been doing for three years, so I have a lot of other things going on as well. Those guys are producing. Travis is playing with DJ AM. I think we all said, "Well shit, maybe we could do a tour?" The next thing you know all of the agents and managers got fired up and, bam, we have the biggest tour of our career. As slow as we were going, everyone else was running, and here we are. It's catching us by surprise. I think it's really going to be an electric experience for the fans. This is going to be a brilliant tour.

When you guys first got back into the rehearsal room was the chemistry instantly there again?

We didn't start playing at first. We just started hanging and then we started bouncing ideas from studio to studio. In many ways, it was! There's a crude sense of humor that never went away. There were some big conversations in the beginning obviously about how we got to where we are now and who we are. Also we talked about where we were over the past few years. It was a little awkward at the beginning, but it wasn't that big of a deal considering what Travis went through. We were able to brush all of that shit aside really quickly.

You guys grew up together and you have a bond that you can't ever really break.

That's exactly what it is. Things that are great inevitably hurt bands. When you grow up, get married and have kids, then your priorities have to be directed towards your family, you know? It's not simply you and your buddies traveling in a van, doing whatever you want and leaving the city the next morning. Once you have families involved, it's really not about that. You have to make all these plans and put in all these controls that safeguard that element of your life. I think that's what starts to pull at bands and make things more difficult as you go on. With Blink, we spent so many years together that there was definitely so much history. This tour seems like we're reliving the good parts—which was a lot of it. It's going to come across really well.

Do you feel like your different as men and musicians now? What's the general consensus?

Yeah, we are different. Mark does a lot of producing, mostly in the scene which we came out of. Travis has been doing all of these hip hop things, producing and doing collaborations. I've been producing. God, with Angels & Airwaves, we've produced all of our own records, there's the feature film and we've done crazy epic documentaries. There's a lot of experience after Blink. So to come back into this, it's interesting. I remember thinking in one way we were going to pull a lot of these elements in and in the other way, it works just the way it is. It's funny because I think about when I went to see The Police play. I was imagining and asking, "What are they going to do?" Sting was taking all of these people on stage with him and he was doing all of these crazy New Age type songs and shit. Then all of a sudden, you see The Police play and they had an epic stage show but the songs and the way they played them were very stripped down and how they always were. I think that's what people want to hear. It's a long-winded answer, but I'm basically saying we have a lot of experience and we've changed a lot and we want to pull in some of those elements, but at the same time, Blink works in a very specific way. That's with me really drunk saying a lot of bad words.

Your setup with LiveNation for the $20 tickets is really encouraging for fans too.

Yeah, I think that, in many ways, Blink was the sum of modern suburban America. The tour is going to have this sense of nostalgia. It is what it is and you don't need to tamper with it too much. People are coming there for a very specific reason, and they're going to get it.

You guys were the summer of '99 for a lot of people, and there's going to be a real happy vibe all around.

We're a very summertime band. That's one of the great things about coming out of San Diego. We played really fast. I grew up skateboarding my entire life. I know to a degree, it was for Travis, we grew up worshipping the band The Descendents—another Southern California punk band singing about girls, friends and food. That pretty much sums up your early high school career for a lot of people. The cool thing was, we never took ourselves too seriously. We took we did very seriously and we tried to write the best songs that we could, but we never got so full of ourselves that if we fucked up we'd get pissed. If we ever fucked up on stage, it always made the show better. We'd play the show three more times, sometimes in the dark to prove we could play it. I think the spontanaeity of it is what really gave the people the feeling that they could do it too [Laughs]. They'd see us doing it, and they'd be like, "Oh my God, we could do that!" That's the beauty of punk rock music! That's what U2 said about The Ramones. They saw The Ramones play and said, "We could do that too!" I think that's what Blink is.

You guys gave kids a different kind of release. You came out at the end of grunge and existed throug Korn's era. Whereas Korn gave kids a raw catharsis, you provided a different catharsis. It was fun and more about the party.

I think that's a really good take. Obviously all of the Nirvanas of the world and the Korns and Limp Bizkits were going on at the time. However, Green Day and Offspring were very different from Blink even though we were all in the punk scene. I think we were the first band that was probably full of as much personality as we were of hooks—maybe even to our detriment [Laughs]. I think people related to us three. We were all so different. Mark is like the more relatable mainstream guy. Travis really is that hip hop, grew-up-in-a-bad-neighborhood kind of kid. I'm very much the snotty indie rocker art guy or something [Laughs]. To be honest, I don't really like indie rock that much though [Laughs]. I don't know how to describe it because I listen to Arcade Fire, Mark listens to Motion City Soundtrack and Travis listens to The Game [Laughs].

With Blink, kids could have their own favorite member. That was missing throughout the '90s because bands became more and more singular in terms of identity. You three were all so different.

Yeah, we really were. It was great. With Blink, everybody related to a very specific person. That's funny that you say that. I've truly come to sense that over the years. Actually, I saw it massively when the band broke up because there were waves of people spitting venom at each other depending on which band they liked [Laughs].

It's a testament to everything coming together and working the way it did. You were more like a classic rock band in the sense that each band member was extremely different, like Led Zeppelin. They even had their own symbols.

It's true, and I agree. There are so many conversations to this day about who was really responsible for the better part of Pink Floyd, which singer [Laughs]. I grew up hearing all of that stuff. People would ask, "Who was your favorite guy in The Beatles?" Blink always aspired to have that healthy challenge at least as far in the sense of songwriting. We loved the idea that Lennon and McCartney were always trying to push each other to be better. Mark and I always tried. I don't think anyone would put Blink and Beatles in the same sentence, but I will because, fuck, I can [Laughs].

Well you captured a time for a lot of fans, so that makes a lot of sense. You were their Beatles.

Maybe we were like the semi-retarded Beatles to them [Laughs]. I'm going to repeat one of the coolest quotes I've ever heard. Pete Townshend came to San Diego speaking and doing a solo thing in front of a large audience. I had the story relayed back to me that Pete was telling the audience that his kid asked him how to play a Blink song. Some of the older people in the audience were chuckling and he was like, "No, you don't understand. To my kid, Blink is The Who." That, to me, was such a validation obviously. That's beyond. I don't really believe anybody would want to repeat that except those kids, but it makes sense. The kids that grew up with our band weren't going to grow up listening to The Who, The Beatles or Led Zeppelin. They needed their own band to relate to. It's like that with every generation. We were a modern rock band—just like The Who was for their time. I think it's really important for critics not to give new bands shit because there might be an old band that did it better. That's not the point. Every generation needs their own band to do what it is they do for them.

You had a certain spirit that permeated everything. There was time where your fun vibe so important and necessary right around the turn of the century.

How bad do people want that now? The economy is in ruins. We've had a couple wars. It seems like it's not getting any better. So why don't we all get together and make at least a one-evening revolution. That's why I grew up listening to punk rock music. That's why slam-dancing was an important thing for kids. You've got to get your aggression out some way. You've got to go out and vent. I think it's great however people do it. Whether they join these weird dance clubs in East L.A. or they go and slam around in a circle to a punk rock band, they need to express themselves.

What's after this tour? Are you going to do an album or are you right back to Angels?

Well, that's the big debate—how do we fit it all in, how's the tour going to go and how are we going to get along. Right now, everything's amazing. None of us expect that anything is going to go past this. There's so much success already permeating around this tour. For me, the big issue is I'm dropping a motion picture and an album for free right after the first of the year with Angels. It's the biggest, most massive release of my entire career and probably the greatest work of my life to this date, so I'm going to be a little busy with that. But, we're getting offers for Blink to headline the biggest shows in the entire world. So it's like, "What are we going to do? Can we get out there?" It's not an easy thing to have two bands that are doing really well, so I don't know! I'm open to whatever. Blink's going to release a song, we started working on some great music. It comes so natural to Blink. The new song is so good. It sounds like us, but it's got an element of Rush in it. I think people are going to love it. It's like Rush, Floyd and Blink all in the same song. It'll make people excited for what comes next. We've just got to figure out the schedule, I guess.

photo from artistdirect.com

Tour 09 Blink 182 - The Guys Talk About "Up All Night" and Some Tour Specifics

Blink 182's tour for 2009 really sounds like it's going to be anything but small. I'm almost convinced that this particular tour for Blink 182 may go down in history as some sort of momentous event. Anyway, check out this Blink 182 interview with Billboard. Tom Delonge talks about the tour, their new song, and even mentions AVA in there somewhere.

From Billboard.com:

Blink-182 To Unveil 'Up All Night' On Tour

Having abandoned the idea of completing a full new album as "too ambitious" before its upcoming tour, blink-182 will instead have one new song ready before it hits the road on July 23 in Las Vegas.

Guitarist Tom DeLonge tells Billboard.com that the track, titled "Up All Night," has "got a little bit of (Pink) Floyd, a little bit of Rush, a little bit of blink in there. It's crazy, but it somehow sounds exactly like where we left off (in 2005). It's an amazing song."

DeLonge says the tune is nearly finished, waiting just for Travis Barker to complete his drum tracks. Release plans haven't been determined yet.

The guitarist explains that he, Barker and bassist Mark Hoppus fully intended to complete an album but the success of the tour derailed that idea. "I think nobody realized how massive this tour was going to be," DeLonge says. "The tickets outsold what the promoters expected, three to one. So everyone's trying to play catch-up right now and really nail this tour to be the best it can be and get everything ready, so there's no studio time right now. Everyone's so busy just trying to make this thing happen, I think."

DeLonge says blink-182 fans can expect to hear plenty of hits in a two-hour set that will feature "massive production and arcs in the show that involve lots of bad words...The talks this morning were hot to incorporate the word 'fuck' in such a way that it somehow is parallel if not better than when it was lit on fire 10 years ago."

That, of course, poses an interesting conundrum for DeLonge and his bandmates, who did not have children in the days of the flaming Fuck sign. "

I remember on the very first song of some of these larger tours we did, when the big Fuck sign lit on fire, parents would stand up and walk their kids out," says DeLonge, who's also working on a film and movie project called "Love" with his other band, Angels & Airwaves. "Now I feel like that's what I'm gonna be doing, but to my own (six-year-old) daughter. I'm gonna have to leave the stage to go walk her out. "

A DJ explained it really good to me once; 'I tell my kid it's not bad if it's art. If you're not doing art, you can't say words like that.' I thought that was a really good way to handle it."

Blink 182 Rabbit - Mark Hoppus Reveals Another Prototype

The Blink 182 rabbit is back with yet ANOTHER look. I liked the rabbit that was shown in an earlier post, but these Blink 182 rabbits are pretty boss. You can see two rabbits, one large and one small, without faces since they're just prototypes. I really hope these things go out on the market very soon because I'm dying to see one up close.

From himynameismark.com:

wow. super limited edition prototype 2.5ft blink-182 bunny toy. for perspective, the OG 3″ version is next to the new one. they still need faces, but you get the idea.

National Lampoon Soundtrack Featuring Blink 182

Here's a product description from Amazon. com from the National Lampoon: Endless Bummer Soundtrack that mentions Blink 182 as a contributor. It might seem like a small thing, but I think it's pretty awesome that Blink 182 continues to receive some movie recognition every so often.

By the way, this product description only mentions Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker. I'm not exactly sure why. Maybe 182 The Small Things will figure this out eventually. If anyone knows, be sure to comment in.

From Amazon.com:

Product Description
Soundtrack to the 2009 comedy featuring modern cover versions of ’80s classics. Includes cuts from Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, Mark Hoppus & Travis Barker (Blink 182), Pennywise, Fear, The Dollyrots and others. It’s 1984 and JD is fresh out of high school. The summer sun is hot, there’s the best music, beach babes everywhere, and a big south-swell throwing waves at his favorite surf spot: JD has the world by the tail until a routine wipe-out sends him to shore to retrieve his new board. But it’s gone! Disappeared, vanished, kaput! This is a truly mind boggling experience! The universe has come to a grinding halt! But the culprit is revealed: an interloper corrupting babes in their very midst. JD and his crew embark on the 45-mile trek to the dreaded smog shrouded valley to retrieve the board. A routine trip for most, this is one journey that JD and his friends thought they would never have to take.

Blink 182 2009 Tour Dates Updated Once Again

The Blink 182 2009 tour dates have been updated once again by Mark Hoppus of this "small" punk band. The new Blink 182 2009 tour dates were posted from Hoppus's blog and one of the things to note is seven shows are sold out now. Make sure that you get your tickets in time for Blink 182's 2009 tour!

From himynameismark.com:

Tour Dates and Info

As of Saturday, June 13th, 6:24PM Pacific…

NOTE: I have heard NOTHING on the rescheduling of the Portland, ME show. My personal guess is that the show is NOT going to be rescheduled. I may be wrong…

Here are the dates, venues, band lineups, and on-sale dates for the blink-182 north american tour this summer. the on-sale dates are the last dates on each show.

July 23..Las Vegas,NV…The Joint…Motion City Soundtrack, Valencia…SOLD OUT!!!

July 24…Las Vegas, NV…The Joint…Motion City Soundtrack…SOLD OUT!!!

July 28…Vancouver, BC…GM Place…All American Rejects, Chester French

July 30…Calgary, AB…Saddledome…Fall Out Boy, All American Rejects

July 31…Edmonton, AB…Rexall Place…Fall Out Boy, All American Rejects

August 1…Saskatoon, SK…Credit Union Centre…Fall Out Boy, All American Rejects

August 2…Winnipeg, MB…MTS Centre…Fall Out Boy, All American Rejects

August 4…Milwaukee, WI…Marcus Amphitheater…Fall Out Boy, Panic at the Disco, Chester French

August 6…Boston, MA…Comcast Center…Fall Out Boy, Panic at the Disco, Chester French

August 7…Montreal, QC…Bell Centre…Fall Out Boy, Planet Smashers…SOLD OUT!!!

August 8…Toronto, ON…Molson Ampitheater…Fall Out Boy, Chester French

August 9…Jones Beach, NY…Nikon Theater at Jones Beach…Fall Out Boy, Panic at the Disco, Chester French…NEW SHOW ADDED!!! TICKET DETAILS SOON

August 12…Hershey, PA…Hershey Park Pavilion/Stadium…Fall Out Boy, Panic at the Disco, Chester French

August 13…Cincinnati, OH…Riverbend…Fall Out Boy, Panic at the Disco, Chester French

August 14…Pittsburgh, PA…Post Gazette Pavilion…Fall Out Boy, Panic at the Disco, Chester French

August 15…Chicago, IL…First Midwest Bank Pavilion…Fall Out Boy, Panic at the Disco, Chester French

August 16…Omaha, NE…WestFair Ampitheater…Fall Out Boy, Panic at the Disco, Chester French

August 18…Minneapolis, MN…Xcel Center…Fall Out Boy, Panic at the Disco, Chester French

August 20…Indianapolis, IN…Verizon Wireless Amphitheater…Fall Out Boy, Panic at the Disco, Chester French

August 21…Buffalo, NY…Darien Lake PAC…Fall Out Boy, Panic at the Disco, Chester French

August 22…Detroit, MI…DTE Energy Music Center…Fall Out Boy, Panic at the Disco, Chester French

August 23…Toronto, ON…Molson Ampitheater…Weezer, Taking Back Sunday, Chester French…SOLD OUT!!!

August 25…Wantagh, NY…Nikon Theater at Jones Beach…Weezer, Taking Back Sunday, Chester French…SOLD OUT!!!

August 26…Holmdel, NJ…PNC Bank Arts Center…Weezer, Taking Back Sunday, Chester French

August 27…Camden, NJ…Susquehanna Bank Center…Weezer, Taking Back Sunday, Chester French

August 29…Hartford, CT…New England Dodge Music Center…Weezer, Taking Back Sunday, Chester French

August 30…Washington, DC…venue TBA…Weezer, Taking Back Sunday, Chester French

August 31…Saratoga, NY…SPAC…Weezer, Taking Back Sunday, Chester French

September 2…Cleveland, OH…Blossom…Weezer, Taking Back Sunday, Chester French

September 3…St Louis, MO…Verizon Wireless Amphitheater…Weezer, Taking Back Sunday, Chester French

September 4…Kansas City, KS…Sandstone Amphitheater…Weezer, Taking Back Sunday, Chester French..6/27

September 6…Denver, CO…Fiddler’s Green Amphitheater…Weezer, Taking Back Sunday, Chester French

September 7…Salt Lake City, UT…McKay Center…Taking Back Sunday, Chester French

September 10…Seattle, WA…White River Amphitheater…Weezer, Taking Back Sunday, Chester French

September 12…Sacramento, CA…Sleep Train Amphitheater…Weezer, Taking Back Sunday, Chester French

September 13…Mt View, CA…Shoreline Amphitheater…Weezer, Taking Back Sunday, Chester French

September 14…Bakersfield, CA…Rabobank Arena…Taking Back Sunday, Asher Roth

September 16…San Diego, CA…Cricket Amphitheater…Weezer, Taking Back Sunday, Asher Roth

September 17…Irvine, CA…Verizon Wireless Amphitheater…Weezer, Taking Back Sunday, Asher Roth…SOLD OUT!!!

September 19…Phoenix, AZ…Tempe Beach Park Amphitheater

September 21…Albuquerque, NM…Journal Pavilion…Fall Out Boy, All American Rejects, Asher Roth

September 23…Dallas, TX…Superpages.com Center…Fall Out Boy, All American Rejects, Asher Roth

September 24…Houston, TX…Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion…Fall Out Boy, All American Rejects, Asher Roth

September 26…West Palm Beach, FL…Cruzan Amphitheater…Fall Out Boy, All American Rejects, Asher Roth

September 27…Tampa, Fl…Ford Amphitheater…Fall Out Boy, All American Rejects, Asher Roth

September 29…Atlanta, GA…Lakewood Amphitheater…Fall Out Boy, All American Rejects, Asher Roth

October 1…Charlotte, NC…Verizon Wireless Amphitheater…Fall Out Boy, All American Rejects, Asher Roth

October 2…Virginia Beach, VA…Verizon Wireless Amphitheater…Fall Out Boy, All American Rejects, Asher Roth

October 3…Atlantic City, NJ…Borgata…Asher Roth… SOLD OUT!!!

Still subject to date, venue, and lineup change. This is the latest and greatest that i have right now.

Blink 182's Mark Hoppus Against Prop 8 Picture

The newest thing Mark Hoppus posted on his blog, himynameismark.com, is a small photo of himself with the anti proposition 8 symbol shown on his right cheek. This may be an attempt at controversy, among other things, but still a sign of pride. Even though this is a small gesture, I believe that no small thing goes unnoticed.

182 The Small Things Allows Commenting Again

Hey guys,

I took the commenting feature off of 182 The Small Things for awhile only because I didn't their were many readers coming to this page. The thing was, I just didn't want to have all those 0s showing under the number of comments.

So anyway, it's just a small thing, but the commenting feature is enabled again. Feel free to give your say on Blink 182 whether the posts are great or suck. It's really up to you. Enjoy!

Kyle

Pictures Blink - Photos of Blink 182 on Jimmy Kimmel Live

These pictures of Blink 182 are really quite dazzling. I love it when photographers use a wide-angle lens instead of a small one to get those "fish-eye" pictures. As you can tell from these pictures and the videos I posted yesterday, Blink 182's concert was no small thing. I was a little bummed that they didn't play "All The Small Things" at their shows. That would have made my day, but check out these sweet pictures of Blink 182.

L.A. Times Talks About Blink 182's Jimmy Kimmel Performance

This is just a blog post from the L.A. Times about how well Blink 182 appeared to work together. Really, they seem to be back together and loving everything. Check out this small article with quotes from the guys themselves in it.

From LA blog:

Blink-182: In love, and spitting bile



It might have been just another rote evening of late night TV talk show programming. But a funny thing happened at a taping of "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" in Hollywood on Tuesday. Blink-182 showed up to play a couple of songs -- an effort to drum up attention for the multi-platinum-selling pop-punk trio's North American stadium tour, which kicks off July 24 in Las Vegas.

And suddenly, a full-blown rock concert broke out.

In just their fourth public performance after a five-year "hiatus" as a group, guitarist-singer Tom DeLonge, bassist-singer Mark Hoppus and drummer Travis Barker performed energetic run-throughs of two of Blink's biggest Warped Tour hits, "What's My Age Again?" and "Dammit" for Kimmel's cameras. Then, glancing at each other from across the stage with barely contained class clown glee, they decided they were having too much fun to leave.

You'd never have guessed that only a year ago the band mates hadn't recaptured that lovin' feeling toward each other, and a detente -- let alone a Blink-182 reunion -- seemed hopelessly out of reach. (An upcoming story in The Times will shed more light on what brought them back together.)

"I love you. Travis," Hoppus drawled into the mike between songs, prompting DeLonge to elucidate for the crowd: "It's a physical thing."

"And I love you, Tom DeLonge," Hoppus continued, just before the trio launched into their single "Down."

With Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz and wife Ashlee Simpson looking on from backstage, and flanked by a gaggle of the group's preteen children sitting on an overstuffed sofa, Blink performed eight songs (not including an off-the-cuff improv cover of the Beastie Boys' "High Plains Drifter") over the course of an hour. Among them: "Feeling This," "Dumpweed," "Reckless Abandon" and "Josie (Everything's Gonna Be Fine)."

"We haven't performed some of these songs in seven years," DeLonge said. "Expect us to screw them up!"

It was in part a reward for fans who had been waiting five hours to see Blink; dozens were led up to a viewing area on the rooftop of a nearby building, where they screamed wildly. Hundreds of others hung out in alleys surrounding the concert area, taking in the jocular, snotty tunage even though they had been unable to secure tickets.

But moreover, with all of Hoppus and DeLonge's crude sexual double-entendres and frat boy repartee -- par for the course for a group that never met a fart joke it didn't love -- the mini-concert seemed more like a declaration of purpose than a tour warm-up. The implicit message was that Blink-182 is back and as solid as ever -- that its tour isn't going to be some kind of halfhearted, profit-driven road slog even if it is one of Blink's biggest paydays to date. (At least, that's what they said during our interview. But again, we get ahead of ourselves.)

When the performance was nearly finished, Hoppus exhorted the crowd that it had seen history in the making: "Just think, when you get home, you can say, 'I saw Blink-182 make complete asses out of themselves on national television!' "

DeLonge blew a raspberry and Barker spit a loogie. And with that, it was over.

-- Chris Lee

Photo: ABC / Michael Desmond

Video: The Rest of the Songs From Blink 182 on Jimmy Kimmel Live

Given, these are just videos that someone show with their portable camera out in the crowd, but they're still fun to watch. They're nothing small to talk about. You get to hear Blink 182 talk about all the potty things that make them so famous so watch with glee!

Video: Blink 182 on Jimmy Kimmel Live

Obviously, when Blink 182 decided to come back and play on Jimmy Kimmel live, this one no small thing. They took over the big outdoor stage and everyone went completely nuts. The thing I love about the show was how more relaxed the guys act together. Check out these couple videos of Blink 182 performing live on Jimmy Kimmel.

Blink 182 playing "Dammit"




Blink 182 playing "What's My Age Again"