In 2005, blink-182 announced an indefinite hiatus and DeLonge began dreaming of other things. Known for their juvenile hijinks, messageless songs and onstage swearing and nudity, the band became one of the most popular acts of the 1990s punk movement. The pop-punkers enjoyed their biggest success with 2000's quadruple-platinum album Enema of the State. In 1992, the teenage DeLonge became a founding member of blink-182. After awhile, he would slow it down until he relaxed and dropped into a slumber, often falling asleep with his guitar on his chest. "I couldn't put it down."ĭuring the interview, DeLonge went on to describe his teen days-how he would come home from school, grab his guitar, and play some fast punk rock riffs. "I picked up the guitar in seventh grade," DeLonge noted during a video interview posted on MTV's Buzzworthy blog. His favorite hobby was playing his guitar. Some of his early influences included the Cure, Screeching Weasel, and the Descendents. But now I'm being myself completely for the first time and I'm focused on making this the biggest band in the world."ĭeLonge grew up in Poway, California, and by high school had developed a fixation with punk rock. "To walk away from a band that was that huge, selling out arenas … was a gnarly decision and I didn't take it lightly. "My goal is to pick up where I left off and take it to a larger level," DeLonge told Lina Lecaro of the Los Angeles Times. ![]() When blink-182 went on hiatus, DeLonge launched Angels & Airwaves with the intention to create powerful, emotional, melodic epic records. Frontman Tom DeLonge served as the driving force behind the formation of Angels & Airwaves after enjoying a dozen years of success helming the snotty pop-punk trio blink-182, which peddled some 20 million albums around the globe. I’m so lucky and so fortunate to have been given all of these different opportunities, but life happens and things change and you just have to change with them.Since coming together in 2005, the San Diego-based, quasi-spiritual alt-rock group Angels & Airwaves has focused on one mission: becoming the biggest band in the world. So it’s all of those things that have motivated me to move on. We had the greatest time and all got along, but circumstances changed when Tom started back up with Blink again and the whole thing took a different turn. There have been a couple times when I thought, “This is it!” Like with Angels and Airwaves, I thought it was the best thing. So it’s really been a quest to find all of that. You can have the greatest time in the world with your friends, but if you can’t pay rent, you can’t go on tour. And after all that, I need to make a living. ![]() I want to be around people who I get along with and I enjoy and I’m like-minded with. So I want that and I want to be in a good environment with people. And by settle, I mean that I’ve always wanted the perfect situation where I’m creatively fulfilled and can do things I like to do and can speak my mind and be part of decision-making process for everything - t-shirt designs or songwriting or whatever. I’ve been asked that a few times and what it really comes down to is that I’ve never been willing to settle. Why is that? Do you get bored easily? Is it restlessness? You’ve played in a ton of different bands over the years. Check out that part of the interview below after the jump. Willard mentioned that the band took a turn from something he thought was nearly perfect after blink-182 reunited. Atom Willard of Against Me! recently did an interview and brought up his former band, Angels & Airwaves.
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