ModCam Update From Tom on AvA and Blink

I really curious on the 6th bit of news, i’d really like to learn more about that

Yea…go on tour with AVA after Europe…that leaves lots of time to work on the Blink record. And then tour the US with them next year so there’s no time for a Blink tour! And please, continue splitting your time on LOVE Part 2 and the Blink record.(Although I have a feeling a majority of it is focused on Love 2) As much as this news depresses me because i would prefer it was mostly Blink related, at least Tom keeps everyone posted on whats going on with AVA. Instead of seemingly jerking us around…
Also, the only Blink info was stuff we already knew…

People need to chill. Just a bit.

I am really starting to feel like this was all about one last big paycheck for the band. It appears as if Mark is the only one who truely wants Blink to continue, while Travis and Tom, esspecially Tom, appear to have moved on.

I am personally disappointed to see the mass amount of time Tom will be directing towards his Angels and Airwaves endevors.

I honestly believe Mark would make this album his priority on top of everything else because he knows how long we all have waited to hear new material from our favorite band. As much as I think we all would like to jump ship and move onto a different band, there just isn’t a band out there that can compare. I firmly believe it’s not the fans who are getting jerked around, it’s Mark. Tom just can’t drop Angels and Airwaves long enough to give a worth while effort at making an album. He even has to work on Angels and Airwaves while he works on Blink. That’s a bunch of sh*t in my opinion.

I don’t mean to rant, on some random blink 182 fan website like a loser, but this band has always meant a lot to me, and this modlife update just disappoints the shit out of me.

I completely agree with Joey. It seems only Mark prioritize work over blink new album. Travis hang out with his bro. And Tom.. nuff said

Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck Angels & Airwaves. Fuck you Tom DeLonge. Give that fucking shite band a rest for 1 year. At least. That’s all we ask. What a gimp.

Tom needs to stop making the same 4 songs with angels and airwaves, as much as i love AvA, blink is fucking godly. Any angels crescendo doesnt compare to carousel one bit. Please stop destroying your voice Tom and let it rest, record with blink and make that album the fucking shit. Travis has always done whatever and i dont think he likes being in blink but realizes that they are the ones who buy all his fsas stuff and he needs their money. Mark is so dedicated to blink, and you could tell with all the plus 44 interviews that he never really moved on from blink, where tom and travis did. blink needs to be back 100% and not this 50-50 bs.

i love blink, and as much as i want a new cd, common its all about mark, travis just wants to play and tom i think is just in it for teh money and with being back in blink less fans will hate him meaning more fans for ava, which he is proving ava is his main band, i mean working on blink and love 2(cuz we really need a part 2) at the same time, its gonna suck!

blah!

^^^^
what he said! its so true.

Fuck Tom.
Seriously.

That Tom is a bastard, Blink 182, the left side when he was recording the album Love, and now they could devote to the album Blink 182 and leave a little part of the AVA (to be fair to both bands) he is doing fans of Blink suckers again and spending more to garbage called AVA.

Tom give up AvA… it’s overproduced garbage. It’s not even real music anymore.

Im stoked for the new blink album, Love 2, the AvA film, Travis’ solo record, and all that other cool shit. Everybody bitches too much.

AVA is like an evil cancer and as soon as you think its finally gone it relapses and comes back stronger than ever. This is a huge blow to the blink community. I knew that Tom was going to “coincidentally” release that stupid movie with the blink album but an entire album??? FUCK! This is just a money making scheme for him and that really really hurts. Old Tom would kick the shit of this guy.

Mark is just going along for the ride because he loves Blink 182 and his hands are basically tied. I will still be waiting in line for the blink album… if tom allows it to be released, but I won’t give AVA another dime.

Im just guessing that since modcam is based around angels and airwaves, he was answering more angels and airwaves questions from people on the chat thing, from angels and airwaves fans.

Mark, Tom and Travis are clearly awesome friends with each other.
Tom does mention angels alot, but he loves blink, he always mentions how he cant understand how big the band is, its the band that got him to where he is, i just think that he cant understand that a band that tells dick jokes can become one of the biggest in the world, and not such a serious one like ava.

I think they all defo want to do this, and people are always reading way to much into every word that comes out of toms mouth.

Once the blinkumentry comes out, it will be like a urethra chronicle’s 3 for a lot of older fans, and we will see mark and tom getting up to their studio and backstage antics and jokes like we did in the first two and it will make us all feel a lot better!

OMFG. i just wanna tlk to tom delonge. and try and get it through his head that BLINK 182 is what he needs. AVA is shit! its like i cant imagine what the fuck he is thinking.

AVA IN BRAZIL, FINALLY!

Some people just like to multitask and are best at the time their doing that. Maybe that’s just how Tom lets his creativity to flow, and in that case it ciould make a better blink album.

I would be a lot less bothered by the update if Tom had a bit more creative room left…but I think he’s burnt out. His last album with AVA (Love) is almost entirely repetitive and I don’t see him bringing anything new to the table when he’s gotta work on Love 2 which is supposed to be a DOUBLE ALBUM as well as the new Blink record. I mean, really – he’s planning on having what amounts to three different albums out by the end of this year? Sure, I believe he’s capable, but only because it’s all gonna fucking sound the same. I wish he would just take a year break from AVA…just a year, that’s all I and I’m sure others want. He needs to realize that Blink-182 is his main band, NOT AVA. Blink is where his fan base exists, and of course the money.

I agree with everyone here. If he can’t make a blink album and put AVA on the shelf for awhile, then he might as well cancel the blink record. All this reunion has done is given people high hopes for blink to return. Face it guys, they had a final tour, they’ll play a show every couple of years, and thats probably it. Blink’s dead.

do they not understand.. that we just want BLINK?

honestly, i dont really get why everyone is bitching and moaning about tom. as much as i love mark and travis none of this would have happened if they didnt tell tom he had to put the band over his family. either way you should just be happy new material is coming out weather it be blink or ava. any song tom makes is worth listening too and for the most part are all amazing in different ways. i do like blink-182′s songs better but angels and airwaves has some crazy good chorus’ and there is no denying that. nobody can sit there and tell me the chorus for letters to god part 2 isnt just insain all around. or the bridge for calling to arms, or even the last chorus from a littles enough. i cant wait for the blink album but i also would LOVE to here some stuff from ava. just be patient you’ll here your blink album before LOVE part 2

dude fuck this news. ANgels and airwaves needs to break up already. I wonder how mark feels about all of this. noone in the u.s. wants 2 see them again!!! we want the new blink album to be done and for blink to tour. NOT angels and airwaves fuck!!

Patrick, I for one can sit here and tell you angels and airwaves doesn’t make me orgasm like it does for you appearently. I did support angels and airwaves at first because of Tom. I bought the album and a bought a T-shirt. I did the same with Plus 44 because of Mark. I liked both albums for the most part, however I liked the plus 44 album a lot more because that was more in line with the type of music I like (hear Blink 182)

I respect what Tom is trying to do with Angels and Airwaves, but to me it’s boring, repetitive, there’s almost like a fakeness to it. It’s like Michael Jackson having white skin after being black his entire life. In my opinion, every angels album after “we don’t need to whisper” sucks.

Man, I love blink 182. Anyone spending time to leave a stupid, pointless comment on some random website obviously has an appreciation for the band. I listen to blink in the best of times, and in the darkest of times. I invest my money into their concerts, merch, I even have a blink tatoo, and in return Tom can’t invest his undivided attention, just long enough to make that album. After that he can continue his circle jerks and crying with his angels and airwaves groupies, (i’m sure you’d be there).

for the past year and 1/2 we have been strung along. “in the studio in january” 6 months later… “We’re only playing one show because we are spending all that time on the album” As Tom is going on two different tours with Angels and Airwaves.

I think all in all, Tom needs to commit, or quit. Show a little decency to the people who made him who he is, instead of trying to milk his fan’s to keep money in his pocket while his angels and airwaves projects fail. At this point i’d just perfer if Plus 44 continued on and Tom would just fuck off. He’s on the verge of becoming the king of all douche bags.

Someone needs to tell Tom that AVA sucks and its time to drop it. He has been talking about this movie coming out since the band started and we have never seen it. THIS MOVIE WILL NEVER HAPPENED! Tom focus on blink because people love blink and AVA is repetative and useless.

you ppl need to get lives

You guys need to realize this was from MODLIFE! Modlife, is Angels and Airwaves. You guys also need to realize Angels and Airwaves means so much to Tom, and if you actually open up and stop being conceited pricks about everything, you might find AVA enjoyable. Also, if you hate AVA so much, don’t pay attention to what it has to offer. A band about hope, inspiration, and motivating fans was just called “the devil”. Seriously people, Modlife is for Angels and Airwaves. He is not going to go and talk all about Blink-182 to Angels and Airwaves fans. Also realize he has probably been working on both for weeks now, and you didn’t even notice. On KROQ, he had the opportunity to plug AVA when talking about labels controlling the music, and he didn’t! Him working on AVA is not going to interfere the release of the Blink-182 record, so stop complaining. This AVA LOVE 2 album is not going to be 11 NEW songs plus the other 11. There are 3 other guys in the band who are working on the movie. Seriously, stop bitching about everything! Is there anyone on this site who actually likes both bands, or if they hate AVA, at least understand what is going on instead of bitching? I’ve loved Blink since I was 5 and AVA is still awesome, so I’m pumped about all this news, you guys need to hate everything and put yourselves down.

All I gotta say is that you people need to get it through your ignorant little heads that tom is not 25 years old anymore. Dont you understand that AvA is who tom is now? hes not the kid with the potty jokes anymore. Sure, thats still so very much apart of him but he has a family and he wants to create something powerful and amazing. blink-182 will never be the same. All of you can sit here and bitch and moan or you can embrace blinks past and be ready for whatever adventure lies ahead for these two bands and our good friend tom. The old blink is as good as dead, you can sit here and say AvA sucks, blah blah blah. But i met them 2 times on the last tour, and their shows are unlike anything I have ever seen. A new chapter has been opened in toms like for about 6 years now (since the genesis of Angels and Airwaves) fucking accept it or why be a fan of tom delonge at all? the poor guy cant grow up? stop living in the past, and embrace the future.

And now that this is my life, and now that this is the future, It cant just be different – it has the be better. And I dunno how to explain that…I just have to do it” – Tom DeLonge

“You have the ability to do anything you fucking want with your life and if anybody comes to you and tells you how to think, how to feel or what to do.. FUCK ‘EM. This is The War!” – Tom DeLonge

“If people are gonna give this record a chance, I ask that they find a hill that’s nearby, park their car, open the car doors, lay on the hood, blast the music at night and pretend that the city below is theirs.” – Tom DeLonge [Regarding i-Empire]

The world is yours for the taking, and all that exists, exists inside you. It can be something as trivial as a personal struggle, or as grand as the inescapable idea of world peace.” -Tom Delonge

“Because there’s gonna be many of you in the audience that never fell in love before. But there’s gonna be a few of you that have. A few of you that have been with a girl or a guy… or both… You know when you go on a date… And you’re kind of stressing about the end of the night. And you know that her house is right around the corner, and you’re like “Fuck! Fuck! I’m gonna Fuckin pull up to her house I’m gonna get out and walk over there.
Does she… Say good bye? Hug her?” you know? Then you decide to walk her up to the door, if you’re lucky, she kisses you first, then she puts her hands in your pants… I’m Just Sayin’!!! I’m Just Sayin’ It Happens!!! And then you might do it… I’m like OH! I’ve done it… Twice..
But love is an amazing thing I like to tell all the people at all the shows that when you really do fall in love it kinda tears your heart from your chest and it makes you feel really vulnerable, and it makes you feel like you can’t eat and you can’t sleep, and you wait by the fuckin phone all day long.
And it’s… Besides all that shit, it’s the best thing you’ve ever felt in your life. For six months to a year to two years, whatever that first little period is of your relationship, it dominates every other feeling in your body, and I think that’s truly living…”

DO YOU EVER HEAR BLINK SAY THINGS LIKE THIS? THIS JUST MEANS SO MUCH MORE. IT REAALLY DOES.

you know what, i didnt really think of it that way joey. you made a great point. tom really does need to show some appreciation to the fans that made him as big as he is, but at the same time im not going to sit around a bash on his music with another band. i highly doubt you can make music like he does with angels and airwaves. im not tryin to sound like a dick or anything but just because its repetative and you dont like it doesnt mean its bad music. ya know? i do agree that it may be a little rediculous that hes going to take time away from the blink album to do another ava one. but on another note ‘NICK’ feel free to jump in on this and tell me how angels and airwaves isnt real music? thats the type of comment that made me want to say someting in the first place. you must be one of those douche bags fans that only likes a few songs off there greatest hits album and has no appriciation for tom delonge and what hes done with music.

If AVAs songs are bad, and they are repetitive, that means all AVA is bad. Tom clearly doesn’t care about Blink enough to give the energy required. If he wants to continue with AVA, then he needs to drop blink and stop jerking us around. I gave AVA a shot after blink got back together, and even saw a show (it sucked), but I’m not going to support Love part 2 or 3 or 8.

“DO YOU EVER HEAR BLINK SAY THINGS LIKE THIS? THIS JUST MEANS SO MUCH MORE. IT REAALLY DOES.”

Brian, you are a fucking idiot.
AVA is no better than blink.
blink werent some shitty, pretentious assholes. they never spoke about the world, or god, or the meaning of love, or the meaning of life, but they didnt have to talk about that to change things. for many people, listening to blink is feeling like someone understands you completely, for the first. it catches you off-guard, cause you never expect it 3 adult men singing about poop to change who you are, but they do.

things are always put down to, you leave school, you get a job, you grow up, and that’s all there is for you. like it’s been set out in stone for you. but with blink it was like, if life isn’t as simple as best friends and doing what you love, fuck it, you can make it that simple.

i think that’s why they were such a great band. they weren’t like other bands that are douchebags to their fans and total womanizers. they had it all figured out. friends, fun and good music was what they were all about, and kids related to that. kids were empowered by that.

like what you want, listen to what you want, but don’t you fucking dare talk about blink like they’re less meaningful than ava, because they’re a band that changes peoples lives in a way that was just as powerful. fuck you & good day.

After listenning the new blink record guys, you want them do not slay the myth over what was blink-182 !

LEX

enuff said, good man!

or woman

please blink fans…..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0WyBF_xRkw

turn all your hatred from tom to louis walsh!

lex: amen to that!!

They both are good, and if you are a fan of both, this is all ridiculously good news!

I really wish Tom would give up AvA for a year… Or 10. I don’t think this new blink album will ever be like their other albums because Tom doesn’t seem like he’s all that into it, the same with Travis. I think they’re just doing it for the money, as most of you said. I feel like mark is the only one that gives a crap about blink now.

I think that if Tom had to pick which band he preferred, he would say AvA because ‘people take him more serioudly’ and ‘he feels that people realize he’s not joking around all the time’ but his humor and simple songs from blink (not these six minute songs with all these effects that make me think of glitter) are what we want most from him.

i didn’t care about the first “love”….in my opinion it sounded like every other stanky bootyhole CD ava has made. Now a part 2? WHO GIVES A SHIT..(oh yeah..the whole 5 fans ava has)

This is why I do not like this site. You guys all act like AVA is a horrible band and absolutely awful with no fans. But when someone says Blink is bad, you all jump on that person and freak out at them for saying that. AVA has saved peoples’ lives, changed people, and make people feel good about themselves. You all think it sounds the same, but every band sounds the same if you choose to be a prick and ignore what it has to offer. You all think “Tom needs to leave AVA now, it is shit”, but in reality they are a motivational and inspiring band that has a great fanbase for a new band with a different sound in this generation of mainstream music. You all should know by now AVA is where Tom’s heart is at, but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t care about Blink. If he didn’t want to be with Blink, he would of never joined back. He isn’t in it for money, he is in it to play music with his 2 best friends who he regretfully left 5 years ago. I really feel bad for you people who hate AVA because your hatred of it will lead you not to enjoy the next Blink album. AVA influences were in the Self-Titled album, but you all liked it. They will be there with this new Blink record, but all I know is I will come here all I will see are comments such as:
“Tom, DON’T BRING AVA INTO BLINK”
“WOW TOM, YOU RUINED BLINK WITH SHITTY AVA STYLE”
“SING IN YOUR BLINK VOICE, NOT AVA VOICE” (He is singing in this next album how he sings now, which you all seem to classify as his “AVA” voice”
“WOW THIS SUCKS, THEY SHOULD HAVE NEVER CAME BACK”
“THIS IS BLINK-182, NOT AVA”

You see, you all complain too much. Blink-182 comes back, and you rip apart Tom for everything he does. He is in 2 bands and has an online site called Mod Life for ANGELS AND AIRWAVES, and when he talks about ANGELS AND AIRWAVES on his ANGELS AND AIRWAVES site, you all flip and bash Tom for not caring about Blink. Wake up and realize AVA is not leaving and if you aren’t all aren’t arrogant and pricks and refusing to maybe open up and take in AVA’s message, you might be happy. Those who are AVA and Blink fans have it best, and those who hate AVA with a passion who haven’t even listened to a single song and took it in are the ones who will not enjoy the new Blink record and they all did it for themselves. Those people will be the ones complaining after the record. Too bad for you guys, I’ll enjoy it. Along with LOVE Part 2, and the AVA movie because in my eyes, AVA is an awesome and inspiring band that means so much to me. I like Blink better because I’ve listened my whole life, so don’t think I’m just an AVA fan.

you know…this is kinda rediculous. Its simple really. blink captured the essence of growing up and really meant a lot to a whole generation of people. blink was awesome and meaningful by remaining simple and pure. what blows my mind is how one of the masterminds behind this (aka tom) doesnt seem to understand this. he doesnt understand that he already had a huge world-changing band with blink. blink does everything that he tries to do with ava because we can relate to blink. ava seems fake and tries way to hard to be “out of this world” or “epic” or what have you and honestly its not working. and its because of this that i both love tom for what he did and hate him for what he has become

@tyler44: “I like blink better” okayyy
go back to the ava movement (LOL). please & thank you

@henrique

Yes I will go back to the AVA Movement because that is an awesome forum with people who aren’t dumbasses and ignorant pricks like how it is on every forum. I like talking with people who understand what is going on and do not just blurt out stupid points that will not happen and people who at least recognize what AVA has done to fans. But back to what I was saying, yes I like Blink better. What does that mean? AVA is my second favorite band while Blink-182 is my favorite. I’ve listened to Blink my whole life and always will. My whole point was talking to those who refuse to like AVA and call them horrible, because in a lot of peoples’ eyes, they are an incredible band. My whole point is that because you people hate AVA, I guarantee most of you will hate this new Blink album because of the AVA influences. Am I wrong? No. Just sit back and watch. Go to any forum after this album is released, go to Youtube, and you will find so much bitching about AVA. I hope you hate them, so you do not enjoy this next album because I hope you are one of those kids who decide they hate AVA because Tom made it after Blink and because it is different than Blink so you can’t listen. I would respect it if someone hear understood how much AVA means to fans and Tom and simply could say, “I just do not like the music. I know how important they are and how important their message is to the fans, but I just don’t like them. I respect Tom for at least coming back to Blink.” You all act like Blink-182 is still not back together and not releasing an album. It is coming, just sit back and wait. And if you are one to bitch about everything, you won’t like this album because it WILL have AVA influences in it.

Me saying I like Blink better is to show that a Blink fan can actually like AVA and can actually understand what is going on and to also show I’m not just an AVA fan defending them.

yeah im gunna have to agree with tyler. i feel bad for the kids who hate ava. you better believe its going to have a huge influence on the next blink record and im just glad i love both bands.

Wow. Tom really, really doesn’t get it. Mark should just reconvene +44 so we could all hear something kinda sorta close to blink.

You people saying AVA is just this totally different, serious thing compared to Blink being just childish and “un-serious” are idiots. Take a look at Blink’s last album. They grew up from TOYPAJ 100%. Blink doesn’t need dirty jokes and all that stuff to be successful.Both Tom and Mark have really grown up in their songwriting over the past 5 years and it’s obvious that their serious songwriting can be merged with Blink quite nicely, as is evident by their last album. AVA isn’t this totally serious thing, it’s just as serious as Blink became….except it’s all spacey and effects driven. “Blink isn’t what Tom is like anymore” (taken out of context) is just dumb. Tom can write serious stuff for both Blink and AVA, there’s no reason seriousness and Blink have to be separate. Tom just needs to realize that, while he does have lots of fans of AVA, most if not all of those fans are only his fans because of his roots in Blink 182. Pure and simple. If Tom was never in Blink 182 and started AVA as a small local band and came up from there with Blink never being a factor, then I seriously doubt he’d have become famous or have as many fans as he does now.

Sure he’s got AVA fans, but I can guarantee most if not every single one of them would much rather see Tom playing with Mark and Travis. That’s when their skills become epic and they can work magic.

I, myself, am an AVA fan – but I’ve come to the realization that it’s just me needing as much Blink as I can get – even if that means I have to settle for AVA. Because AVA is 1/3rd Blink…and hey, I’m alright with that. But you can bet your ass I’d much rather have Blink 182 in it’s entirety over AVA ANY DAY.

Tom tries so hard to “change people’s lives” with ava like tyler said, it just comes off as idiotic and stupid. Blink-182 changed thousands (probably more)of lives. without. even. trying. that’s what’s completely ridiculous about “Angels and Airwaves” Tom tries to act like this god that’s incredibly intelligent and knows everything and just comes off as being a pretentious asshole.

And tyler, you’re calling people ignorant pricks, when wow, take a look in the mirror.
and WTF is all this shit, did someone from the ava movement call people over here because ava is being talked bad about? Give me a break.

the thing is, it’s not that hard to work on 2 different albums if you’re a professional. especially if the 2 styles will be different. tom’s main passion is ava, and he can work on synths and all the different idea’s that he won’t bring to the blink sound, because it won’t fit in. and he can work on simple but effective blink riffs, and lyrics etc. he is used to multi tasking. i don’t think fans can criticise too much until we can hear the new blink 182. if it’s a masterpiece, and comes out when they say, then tom working on love 2 will make no difference, it could even enhance the new blink record, bringing new idea’s to the album.

i think it’s pretty clear to all, that blink is not the same as it was. it’s like a side project now. travis making his own album, tom having his own band, and mark producing a lot of bands, and now his tv show. it’s like mark has accepted that it can’t be 100% blink for every member, so he has decided to do other stuff too.

it’s true tom should show more appreciation to blink and it’s fans, but it’s not his main passion anymore. if you think about it, we’re just lucky they got back together, because if travis’ crash didn’t happen, doubtful blink ever would be. tom and mark have admitted it’s not the same as before where best friends hanging out and playing music, because they aren’t best friends anymore, it’s more of a working friendship, but still being friends. and all the guys in ava are good friends, that could contribute to why tom prioritizes ava over blink as well.

it’s still early though, maybe if the new blink record get’s received with a huge positive response tom might realise it’s better to be focused on blink more then ava because that music makes more of a difference and reaches more ears.

@ henrique

Sorry, I didn’t mean you personally, I just meant those who say things like “Tom’s a fucking asshole, AVA is garbage” and stuff like that haha. I just got mad at seeing that. I visit this site a lot, but not the forums. It’s a great site, just some people make me mad haha..sorry to come off as a prick by calling people pricks.

But on your first part, I do agree. Tom changed more lives with Blink-182 than AVA completely. But with AVA, he is doing it differently. Blink, he was able to connect with the fan base, and worked it from there. Me personally, both bands have affected me differently. Blink-182 made my childhood and made me who I am, and AVA just added onto that (trust me, Blink-182 is so important to me and everyday I check hear in the hopes of seeing NEW BLINK-182 SONG RELEASED).

I do agree that Tom has changed more lives with Blink and even WDNTW when he wasn’t trying than when he was. But still, that does not take away from I-Empire and LOVE as being solid albums in my opinion. But I just hope you see what my point is, and I’ll join with you in the wait for a new Blink-182 song, which will be fucking awesome!

Good day!

I think this all are great news
3 new albums in the next year
I think this is kind of cool cause I like both bands

Everyone on here crying about how great a band Angels and Airwaves is just doesn’t it.

I don’t care how many tours AVA goes on. I don’t care how many (subpar in my opinion) albums they put out. I honestly don’t. I gave Angels and Airwaves an honest effort and at the end of the day, it isn’t for me.

What I don’t like is the constant misleading information that is coming from Blink. Simple. As. That.

First they claimed they were working on the new album. Then they stopped. Then there was a song that was gonna be released before the tour, then after, then they decide not to. Then they tell us they will begin work on the Album in January, then that became late June. Then they say they’ve dedicated the rest of the year and then some to the new album, which we can assume is again not true because of this modlife update.

We heard time and time again that after Love was completed Tom would turn to Blink and they’d be off. So now that that time is here, uh oh, here comes Love 2, and even better, he wants it to be a double album, lol. it’s like a bad joke.

Like I’ve said previously, I enjoyed plus 44. I thought “When your heart stops beating” was an awesome album. THE ONLY complaint I had was that it was a little bit too depressing. Given the circumstances it was completely understood though. I was really excited for a second album. I remember when this site posted a pic of a contract or agreement of sorts to record the second album, It was nice. All that ended when Tom said he was open to the idea of Blink returning. (Now more and more everyday looking more like, ok i’m going broke with Angels and Airwaves flopping, I need Blink to produce a revenue.)

At the end of the day, I go to this site hoping to one night see something like “New Blink song”. Blink is a part of who I am. I will say Blink fan’s who complain about Tom’s “angels and airwaves voice” at Blink concerts are taking it a bit too far. That said though, you angels and airwaves fans who act like angels and airwaves has soooo much more meaning than blink because of Tom’s over produced and over thought lyrics are wrong. Blink was amazing because it was 100% who they were. It was not fake, or disingenuous, it was all about growing up and EVERYTHING that went with it.

I have nothing against Tom. Couldn’t be further from the truth. I would thank him, his music has meant a lot to me. It’s gotten me through some hard times, but when I hear him build up Angels and Airwaves at Blinks expense, it pisses me off.

This rant was way too long but whatever.

damn, people need to chill..

Lebron James is to Cleveland as Tom Delonge is to Blink 182 Fans.

to all those AVA fans who are whining about blink fans not understanding why tom talks about AVA on an AVA website…
you are a) stupid or b) even more stupid. You just jump in defence mode without even thinking about what people are complaining about.

these people do not complain about the amount of time he TALKS about AVA, they complain about his plans(actual actions) to continue working on AVA while he should work on blink related stuff as promised. HE nevertook time for blink when he recoreded the AVA album, toured and made the movie.
Now he should devote his time to blink182 but what does he do.. he decides to split his time between his 2 bands.

Now if he had done so when working on AVA, we would be fine with this (we’re not that demanding), however he took a year of from blink 182 and should now only focus them.

Joey says:

“here comes Love 2, and even better, he wants it to be a double album, lol. it’s like a bad joke.”

Thats exactly what this feels like, a bad joke. I really hope Tom can separate his ava bullshit from blink but I really don’t think he can. Blink 182 seems to just be this side project that he doesn’t really care about but he knows it will cash in for him, meanwhile he hopes to be able to cash in a little extra w/Love pt. 2 by plugging it along w/blink stuff that we actually care about.

I have spent 10 years of my life absolutely enthralled w/blink 182, they literally have changed so many aspects of my life they’re almost like parents in a strange way. All of this AVA stuff now feels like tom is saying “fuck you!” to all of us that have been there for a long time. Wearing that bullshit love shirt on stage that whole last tour was so tasteless. He was just trying to plug ava that whole time to sell some more albums. I would love to think blink is back but I just don’t see it that way anymore.

@Joey I completely agree with you. This is pretty much what I was thinking. I love AVA, and I’m sure their next CD will be great. Having said that, I think everyone had to be slightly disappointed? I mean regardless of the fact that Modlife is meant for “AVA”, when you combine this latest news with what we are constantly being told about Blink, it gets irritating. It was like 2 weeks ago that we were told Blink was only playing one show so they could spend the rest of the time working on the new album. Awesome. But then to hear that Tom is working on LOVE 2, and planning to tour kinda cancels that news out. Like I said, i don’t hate AVA at all, but I have yet to meet a single fan of theirs that hates Blink. If you were a Blink fan, you either became a fan of AVA or hated it.

I’m not saying he should give up AVA completely, (or that Travis should give up whatever he does? or Mark should quit producing) but it would be nice if all 3 of them could give Blink their full attention for a few months. Really work on the next album and give us some light at the end of the Blink tunnel…

hahahahaha magnious….seriously IDC about ava …dont worry guys blink will come thru, just ignore this AVA garbage

too much ava talk, but isnt that what tom wants? just by him coming back to blink his crappy band(who has yet to put out a good cd) gets more love, cuz he gets less hating fans, but good job tom, cuz it looks like you just lost more fans ha! idk what he thinks hes putting out with ava, cuz it dosnt sound all that great, its just blink with alot of effects ha, he just reuses his boxcarracer and blink riffs, its pretty sad.

it sad to say but i wish plus 44 will come back and blink will break up, why kill blink wiht a bad album that sounds like ava but with mark and better drumming?

All I gotta say is blink-182 is as good as dead. Stop bitching and accept the inevitable. Have a nice day.

I dnt bielive some of you guys. just giving up on blink like that. Wow.

ok.tom wouldnt be needing to fuckin get money from blink for AVA if he just put out a fuckin album…for FREE. i will admit i like both bands and have for a while but tom just wont be the same anymore AVA is what he wants and loves to do now and if tom was able to see his family 5 years ago when the arguing happened tings probably would be different. AVA has mind blowin shows and blink did too but i just dont see tom devoting his time to blink like he used to. its the way things are now. and i dont understand how AVA is “garbage” when they have been around for 5 years now and have had 3 albums. of course blink was bigger because they were around for so long and built up their fame. tom is always there for us no matter what band he is in he still creates music that people wanna hear and will always be successful with what he does.

@sir tom: How does being around for 5 years and having 3 albums mean AVA isn’t garbage? All it means is that it’s been around for awhile. Also, you might want to rethink your whole “Tom didn’t make any money on his last AVA album, so why would he need money from Blink” argument.

you all honestly need to relax. this is being blown way out of proportion.

fuck ava haters…. You are all fake blink fans… Maybe I dont like the music is travis doing, but he is a member of blink 182 and I respect him and his decision. I´m not insulting him everydays like “oh travis come back to blink, leave all your solo projects..I love blink!!!!” that´s pathetic…Tom delonge is free and I think I know how he loves his new music… maybe I´m a bit older than yours but you all need to grow up… It´s not possible that a “Blink fan” insults Tom for being in another band…and after all say “I love Blink 182″…How the fuck you love blink?? You all are insulting a member of blink everydays and you dont respect him… Sorry for my english, its not my native language

Conclusion:
A true blink fan would never say things like “fuck ava, ava must to break up, noone in the u.s. wants to see them again!!! I hate to say this but When I see “blink fans” insulting Tom it makes me think.. If I were Tom I would never come back to Blink just to fuck off you all idiots, bunch of losers

uh, how does not liking ava make you not a blink fan?

Henrique, that’s a damn good question lol. People are fucking delusional, that’s all.

People need to relax.

guys calm down, u realize bitching isnt going to do anything, its not lke blink fans r better than ava fans, or ava fans better than blink fans, im a fan of both, some days i want ava, well more than blink now bcb ava is my fav, but i also need blink and want more music, just give them a chance to work

The argument that what Tom and Travis are doing are the same is ludicrous. Travis isn’t doing anything to postpone production, while Tom is. Also, just because someone attacks Tom for his AVA connection does not mean they are a bad Blink fan because the 2 bands are not related. There are far too many Tom appologists here who need to realize this is a BLINK site, so when people hear Tom putting more effort and press into AVA, it is infact a slap in the face of Blink, and anyone who bothers to think rationally about it knows AVA is detrimental to Blink, while Blink is the only reason AVA even exists.

@skip182
my argument with the love album being free is that by putting out the album for free he knew what he was getting into and if he knew he wasgunna need money after doing he wouldnt of done it. and my argument with the albums is that if they were garbage then they wouldnt still be around they are still around because people do wanna hear their music if they didnt tom would of stoped AVA a while ago.

@sir tom: but you also have to understand, when Tom decided to release the album for free, he had already gone on the Blink tour and cashed in. He had created a ton of good will amongst blink fans and gotten a big paycheck from the tour, while also getting a ton of free publicity from wearing the LOVE shirt every show. as for the garbage argument, i understand that it’s purely subjective, but as for your argument: i don’t think it has anything to do with people wanting to hear it. i saw AVA in st. louis a few months ago, and i was able to buy a ticket at the door the day of the show with no problem. ava couldn’t even sell out a tiny venue like the Pageant. do some want to hear it? sure. but tom is doing this for tom. don’t get me wrong, it’s his life, he can do whatever makes him happy. the problem i have is that he is being phony about his feelings toward blink. if he doesn’t want to do blink because he doesn’t enjoy the music anymore, then he just needs to man up and tell mark and travis, and stop jerking blink fans around.

dude. if they didn’t want blink to continue then they wouldn’t be in the band. it’s that simple. they had already broken up once. why would they get back together if they didn’t truly want to?

BLINK 182 no BRASIL UHU *–* Ja tou laa