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The truth is revealed.

Everybody say ******** you Tom!

Well it's a LONG interview with Mark.

And Mark basically tells us this:

During the Europe tour, an American tour was in the works, actuaally booked and stuff, it just had to be announced. Suddenly in the dressing room, Tom and the manager confronted Mark and Travis and said "Tom is burned out, and he needs time off."

So Mark says "He's getting 2 months. How many other jobs do you know of where you get two months to just d**k around @ home?"

The manager replied "He needs more than that."

So Mark and Travis said that they were still gonna write and record music and stuff.

Then during this break, Tom said he would only record a new album @ his house, and wouldn't drive up to LA for Mark and Travis and stuff.

Then they got in this huge fight over where the band was going. The next day, the manager called Mark and said that Tom DeLonge was officially out of blink-182 and that he had changed all of his phone numbers.

Worse still: The demos of new material blink was working on were later used by Tom DeLonge as the basis for his "solo project" called Tom DeLonge.










It was later changed to Angels and Airwaves' We Don't Need to Whisper.

actually mark was only on one song in boxcar racer (elevator, travis plays drums in the entire project, which is now non existant).
travis had transplants at the time with the guy from rancid, which is now also apparently non existant.

plus 44 is tom and marks new project.

angels and airwaves have ryan sin, who was fomr the distilers,

the article was interesting as tom "said" in interviews i read that mark was the reason behind blink breaking up, and it was largelly due to boxcar racer causing a riff cos mark thought he was loosing blink.
and travis had no idea what was going on, they are fomr travis;s own words when he rung a radio station when the manager said blink was on haitus

and to quote the ava website "in early 2005, with blink-182 on a break, DeLonge came to a crossroads. "i didnt have a career, i didnt have a band, i didnt have music happening in my life and i was town appart. i knew i had to make one of two choices. the first choice was to lie around and be sad, thinking back to the times when i was in a big band on top of the world. the second was to continue to make new music and take it to a completelly different level. while i did want to satisfy my blink fans i also wanted to bring in a whole new generation of listeners. it had nothing to do with fame or money, i knew if i could create a year where i turned my life around, and envisioned myself doing wonderfull things that would challange other people to do the same".


acording to ava the album was written in toms home studio, not while blink was on tour, they shut the blinds, put picture sof cities burning and people being destroyed by war and they just wrote, which is believable following the theme of the album.

and ultimatelly to the original poster, when people get interview their words get twisted to make it into an interesting read,it's called the tabloids.

actually, (+44) is travis and marks band

Gah! yeah i ment mark...ergh proof reading at like midnight failed me XD.

eh true if you were a fan you wouldnt twist the words.
eh i wouldt say the media mkde up what tom said, it's said on the ava website, the way i was reading it i thought mark was saying ava's album was actually written by the blink boys.

but if tom did leave the band because he "wanted a break" and then went on to make ava it was pretty frigging slack of him to do it,
ultimatelly if he did then hes slack for it but maybe he was tired of blink? i eman being in the same band for ten years you would get tired wouldnt you? not making excuses but just pondering.

sorry if i ofended you, i read the article so that it seemed as though mark was saying that tom bassically stole the blink stuff for ava.

i guess well never really know the truth, it seems like the guys have fallen out and it's now a case of he said she said (except it's "he said he said" instead)

tragic really cos blink were frigging awesome, i grew up on blink


the whats up with the hair cut question was funny as hell, ^_^.

also i wouldn't say that ava is the best music toms ever made 0_0, ava have got a little way to go before that, although the album was awesome, took me on a great journey, really told the story of the album.

i think it wuz over a phone, around 50 mins of a phonecall

3nodding

Tom Rocks!!

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