Video Blog Update From Tom on AVA and Blink-182

Tom has posted a new video blog over on modlife, you can see it here, it is available for both free and premium users.

Some interesting notes:

- Ava film finished in September, not August like previously said

- Music scoring for the film about half-way finished

-LOVE pt.2 is part of a double album and NOT 30 minutes of extra music like previously assumed, it will be available with the film or by itself

-Blink-182 record has been started, “although slowly”

Tom DID go on ModCam, however he did not play a new song just because his guitar was in the other room… And the new song would’ve been for Angels & Airwaves and NOT blink-182.

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  • justin

    okay i guess from this update the ava album will come out next year around october, and the new blink record around july, august i assume.

    so i think that proves tom’s main focus is with ava and with a double album a lot of idea’s going to that record, and probably less focus will be on the blink record. you can kinda tell he will work really hard on the double album for ava, and not so hard for the blink record. that’s a shame. it would have been good if he took time off ava to fully focus on blink. but it’s easy to tell he’s excited about ava and way more passionate for that band. blink 182 seems like a side project to him i guess, and i have a bad feeling that mark, who is the heart and soul of blink will get more and more annoyed about tom’s focus on angels & airwaves over blink 182 and that could eventually lead to blink 182′s demise once again.

    i know if i was a band member and get told that at the same time as making our album, our first one in over 5 years, i was going to work on a double album for my other band too, who had just released an album that year, i wouldn’t take that so well. i think that’s disrespectful to blink 182 what tom is doing. although i love ava and i have enjoyed all their music. i would prefer blink 182, but sadly i don’t see that happening anymore. tom’s gone too far to the other side to come back.

  • Joey182

    I agree on the hoppus comment. Obviously this is my own opinion, but one has to wonder if Tom’s main focus with this whole Blink 182 reunion is a ploy to get Blink fans to support his Angels and Airwaves project, which has been pretty unsuccessful besides for the first album, and that of course was probably due to anticipation, and the Adventure being really good didn’t hurt either.

    It’s really an odd situation to be in for the both of them. I think Mark will stay tight lipped until after this album comes out, and maybe even long after that. There doesn’t appear like there’s a lot of “hardcore” Blink fans left, who go on websites everyday hoping for good news. All the cusual Blink fans will randomly hear some Blink one day on MTV or the radio and say oh cool. They have no idea Tom is being a douche bag with all his angels and airwaves projects going on.

    I would support Mark 100% if he were to go up to Tom and say look, let’s either do it, or not do it. That way Mark can get back to work with Plus 44, and I can stop wasting my time coming to this site everyday and leaving comments.

  • vivalanewman

    Hey i was just thinking, remember tom said that there is more to come from the Love album that come out earlier this year, it faded out on its last song, so i think that there is already music for the double disc, as he said ea;rlier in the year that thay would be releasing the other load of music with the movie when it comes out, i think theres not much to worry about. i hope….

  • http://myspace.com/themixtapenj Deeds

    Seriously seriously seriously?!?!?!

    People, please, we need to have a little faith!

    Everyone gets so hurt when Tom hops on the Angels and Airwaves modlife and talks about… Angels and Airwaves!

    Everyone on this site is so quick to bash Tom.

    What about Mark and his new TV show?

    What about Travis and his Solo album and the 1,000 other projects he does?

    Everyone hates on Tom for talking about Angels and Airwaves but no one says anything about Mark or Travis projects.

    Seriously?!

    I think we all need to chill (I have said this many, many times on this website)

    I think everyone is still hurt about Blink breaking up and because not all Blink fans like AvA and because of the stories that went around 5 years ago everyone just hates on Tom.

    What we all need to remember is that BLINK 182 IS BACK!!!!!!

    Tom isn’t dropping a project that’s he’s put so much time, sweat, effort, tears and money into and everyone is outraged.

    I don’t think anyone bugged about Boxcar Racer when they first came out? Is that because Travis was in it? What if it was Atom from AvA?

    I don’t mean to go on a rant like this. But I come on this site and all I see is everyone ganging up on Tom for talking about Angels and Airwaves on the Angels and Airwaves website. I know everyone wants him to talk about Blink more but think about it!

    Mark barely says anything about Blink, he talks about his show and then goes “Blink 182 rehearsal!”

    Travis talking about driving to Blink 182 rehearsal and then goes on about his Solo record and his set at The Roxy with A-Track.

    What I guess I’m trying to say is:

    If you are going to rag on Tom for talking about Angels and Airwaves (While he’s on the Angels and Airwaves modlife site)

    Then you either have to:

    Rag on Mark and Travis for their other projects

    Or

    Rejoice that BLINK 182 IS WRITING A NEW RECORD

    Or

    Get off the fucking boat, because I would like your front row seats when Blink plays a North American tour again :)

    Much Love
    Deeds

  • http://182online.com henrique

    What a silly argument. Mark has said time and time again, that he’s fully committed to blink-182. And he’s doing a TV show, not WRITING A WHOLE OTHER ALBUM WITH ANOTHER BAND. And mark talks about blink all the time, unlike tom. Tom hardly even acknowledges blink exists half the time. “Oh, and i’m doing the blink thing” Travis does have a ton of other things he’s doing yeah, but he’s not one of the main songwriters of the band.
    also, “I don’t think anyone bugged about Boxcar Racer when they first came out? Is that because Travis was in it? What if it was Atom from AvA?”
    No, it’s because box car racer was brilliant, and ava well… isn’t.

  • http://myspace.com/themixtapenj Deeds

    But see that is just my point (About Boxcar Racer vs AvA)

    And need I remind that Mark IS WRITING A WHOLE OTHER ALBUM WITH ANOTHER BAND?

    And Travis is just as much of a song writer in Blink as Mark and Tom

    It’s AvA haters, plain and simple.

    My argument is not silly – it’s fact. No one hates on Mark or Travis it’s all on Tom.

  • eps

    oi people! harden the f up! dam man Tom has been killing himself working on so many things,i dont believe he isnt putting in as much effort into new blink as he is in AVA,hes a buisy guy give him a fucking break hes only human after all!

    all you bitches whining over nothing! wait untill the new blink album is out,wait untill the movie and LOVE pt2 comes out,then the only thing ull be freaking out to is how fucking amazing the music this guy has been creating is!!!! and ull all be eating ur words!

    i dont believe one of you fucks will ever be as great as Tom and the other guys from blink and Ava!

    so just chill and let the music speek for themselves!

    i beleieve Tom,Mark and Travis are fully commited to blink! and everything else in their lives,because you all have to face it, there is more to life out there than just blink,they all have lives of thir own…..well anyway thats my argument…pssht! ;p

  • Ken

    deeds you just don’t get the point now do you..
    we aren’t upset because he talks about AVA, we complain about the plans he has for the next year.
    WHile he should devote his attention towards blink182 (as promised), he goes and plan a lot of AVA related stuff during the time he is supposed to record a blink 182 record.

    that way there are 2 options..
    - blink 182 album will see the light of day in about 2 years and really rock
    - the blink 182 album will come out somewhere next year as they have said, but will be put together without any decent effort since tom devotes more attention to AVA.

    Both options suck imo.
    If Tom just did as promised and took a break from AVA for a year, the album would come out in time and rock..

  • matthew

    to be fair, tom has probably been working on love pt 2 the day the love album was released. and i think they did start on the new blink record when they first got back together, but so much time has passed since then that i think new material will be written.

    you can tell tom is a busy guy, and he likes to keep himself busy. we don’t know how his process for both albums work. for all we know they agreed to write new blink music when they are all together, which then means tom has free time at home where he can focus on new angels & airwaves idea’s, and waits to work on the blink record when he is with mark a couple of times a week. we just don’t know what their arrangement is. they live in different states. and i’m thinking they will want to write the album together like i think they did with the self titled album, not in two different rooms. i don’t think sending idea’s across in emails and phone calls would make a great album. so perhaps they prefer to bounce off idea’s off each other when they are in the same room.

    what’s tom meant to do when he at home, sit on his fingers and do nothing? that’s not him, he works on the album, does the macbeth and modlife thing, and works on new angels & airwaves idea’s. for all we know he could think of blink idea’s at home as well, and shows mark and travis the idea’s when they meet up to rehearse, we just don’t know.

    look at bands like red hot chili peppers, who don’t bring out albums for up to 4 years. at least since blink have been together again they plan on releasing an album after about 2 years, and we probably could expect a new album after that in less then 4 years time. and even when they were split up, we got to hear an album from mark, and 2 albums from tom, and 1 since blink reformed. angels & airwaves do have a lot of fans, i’ve been to a sell out show in australia, and yes it doesn’t have more fans then blink 182 but their music has affected some of their fans greatly and helped them through tough times, you read all the time on modlife fans saying how the music affects them and that’s a good thing.

    as a fan of blink 182, i’m just happy to hear any new music from the front men of blink because they’re talented dudes. i can set aside the feelings i felt when blink 182 broke up and just enjoy the music from these talented musicians from my favorite band. everything they have done is great because i appreciate their talent, all the angels & airwaves albums i gave a chance, and even if i didn’t love them straight away after i listened to them more and more i did enjoy them a lot and tom’s a really talented guy who chose to make music different to the blink 182 sound we’re used to hearing from him.

    +44 was great as well, and was more like blink 182 than angels & airwaves is and so i think the majority of blink 182 fans enjoyed that album more then they enjoyed angels & airwaves maybe because of that fact, or took mark’s side in the blink break up. in transit was a great song as well.

    so we have all their different projects, also travis’ solo album. plus we have future blink 182 albums to look forward to as well. that’s pretty darn good to have to look forward to from blink 182 fans, and mark, tom and travis fans.

  • Ed

    I am a hardcore blink fan, and I think there are still a lot of us out there. Selling out shows across the country proves that.

    Tom does try to do too much though. The AVA film was supposed to come out way back with the first album. Remember? It’s been moved back time and time again. His Modlife idea was done with the intention to change the music industry. Remember? He has grandiose plans, and that’s not necessarily a bad thing-If he were able to deliver on any of them.

    I actually do like AVA albums, though I admit that they are all very similar. So what has he produced in the past five years? Three albums that sound alike, and a lot of ideas that have not worked out as they were intended. Not so great.

    Whereas Mark has produced very strong albums for a number of bands over the past few years. He created one of the first popular Podcasts. He is working on a TV show that has to come out in September, because it’s for FUSE, and they have contracts. He’s also done a number of appearances and signings and interviews for all sorts of sites, magazines and companies. He has always been all about the fans, and we definitely appreciate that. He’s not on Modlife, but then again, most of his events, signings and appearances are free or done for charity. He has a huge presence on Twitter, where he keeps the hardcore fans up to date on his current projects.

    Probably most importantly, he’s one of the go-to guys in the Pop-punk genre. He’s been around for over a decade, and he has connections to a lot of the up and coming bands and to all the current acts. Whenever a magazine or TV show needs someone to speak on behalf of the scene, they go to him and he’s always willing to speak to the media. His openness is rare in celebrities, but welcome.

    Meanwhile Travis is super busy, but he ALWAYS has been and he can perform and write music all day, every day. All blink fans have read and seen interviews with people praising his one take recordings. His ability to learn a live set in hours. He’s played back to back sets. He’s like a drumming robot. But at the same time, he knows his strengths and passions. He loves to drum, and that’s what he does. He’ll drum for pop artists and hip hop artists, play live sets for music award shows, write albums and then play more just for fun. But he won’t make movies, create music distribution companies or other stuff. If he does need other things to be done for him, he has other people do it. He’s smart about his business. He and Mark own Stars and Straps, but at this stage in the company, do you really think they do anything? I seriously doubt it. The company is huge and run like a real company now.

    On the other hand, everything about Tom, from his interviews and videos to the history of his bands makes it seem like he loves having complete control. And it’s hard for one man to do that. That’s when projects get delayed and things come out on the crappy side of the scale. Tom’s results pretty much speak for themselves.

  • Poway_CA

    I think it is funny that some people put words in Mark’s/Travis’ mouth. They have never said: “stop with the AVA stuff”, or “Tom you have not put in enough effort with Blink”. IN FACT, Mark actually did a remix of one of AVA’s songs off the last album. Do you think that he would do that if he was really against it?

    I think they ALL understand that they have other projects in their lives and they are cool with it. The only people complaining about AVA is the hardcore Blink fans that want this record out NOW. I am one of those fans, but I also love AVA. Any new music/movie that comes out by ANY one of those three at the top of this page is cool with me; no particular order. Let Tom’s AVA/Mark’s Different Spin/Travis’ Give the Drummer Some BE!

  • Joey182

    @Deeds and @Eps… A response to your otiose arguments is unnecessary but alas…

    Mark provides probably 95% of all Blink 182 updates. Mark has been pushing Tom to pick up the process (see Hoppus wants album out in 2010 not 2011) Mark does a side project and is producing because Thomas is occupied with AVA. Mark should just sit on a couch for weeks at a time, hoping to get a random phone call, “Hey Mark, This is Tom, I have an hour open today, let’s work on the album.” Get real idiots.

    As stated by me, and other Blink fans on this site. The reason we bash on Tom is because we were pretty much promised that after LOVE, Blink 182 was going to be Tom’s main priority. Read that 100 times until it sinks in please.

    It’s always something with Tom. He tries to get the support of me and other Blink fans, which FAR out number you pathetic angels and airwaves fans, but basically lies to us in the process.

    Blink 182, 3 weeks ago said that the rest of the year and more, if needed, would be devoted to Blink. Nope. I can understand Tom working on the movie while working on Blink, I understand that 100%, they’ve worked hard on that movie and want it out. Cool. New fuckin’ music as well! That’s where my patients runs thin.

    As said by Mark and Travis during the hiatus, “Tom was very controlling.” Yeah, we can all see that now. From the looks of it, if I had to bet money on it, Tom decides when Blink works. Not Mark, Not Travis. I bet if Mark called Tom, and said hey man, gonna work on some other shit for a couple weeks, Tom would be like ok, well… i’m gonna record a triple angels and airwaves album and make another movie.

  • Nilton Semmler

    Tom is a son of a bitch, just do something new and fast for the AVA … Blink 182 with the wind it just! The guy does not value its origins, think only of themselves and not the fans.

  • Ali

    I completely agree with everything Deeds said. But I see the other side of it as well.

    It is frustrating that Tom hasn’t spent a ton of time on blink lately, and yes, new material from blink would most likely come out much sooner if Tom wasn’t working on AvA related things. But the deal is he’s not JUST in blink. You can’t expect him to just drop everything he’s doing for 1 of his bands. And he is working in both bands.

    Of course, everyone here would love to see Tom working more on blink. But here’s the thing, Tom has been working on the Love movie for years now and he also put tons of work into AvA. The fact that some of you don’t care for AvA doesn’t make a difference, Tom loves AvA and there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that. I love AvA, not nearly as much as blink but still. But even if I didn’t like AvA I’d understand that it was something Tom had put a lot of time and effort into and not freak out that he actually likes doing things with one of the bands he’s in.

    And the comment about Mark and Travis doing other things is absolutely true. Most of Travis’ tweets are about some new remix he did or other artists he just worked with, or his solo album. How is that any different from what Tom is doing? And Mark is doing a TV show, which is very time consuming. I don’t understand why people just love to hate on Tom. He is doing nothing wrong.

  • Ken

    ali please dude

  • pavel

    they only real thing here is that no one complains about mark… cause he haven´t just say im back with blink 182 he had demostrated that in actions…. no one have anything bad to say againt him cause he seens to be 100% dedicated to blink 182 the tv show is a tv show no another band so we can complain on it… the only music he is doing is blink other 2 members u can argue u can defend then it wont matter but the true if that they have give fans reason for make controversy or discussion like this… and just for make it objetvie i like ava not even, blink ´s my life , and i like the faq travis is doing an album cause ass many have say whateevr one of these three do is always good music…. but my comment is just to show some apreciation to mark the only one that have never ever let us down : D

  • david182

    now people are hating on mark and travis? i mean travis will always have alot of projects its easier for a drummer, speaking as a drummer its easier for us to take on more projects its easy, but as a guitar player and singer, you cant cuz you can only do so much and your voice gets played out, tom is only hurting blink with spending so much time with blink, as a true blink fan wouldnt u want no ava and just all of tom in blink instead of blink being a side project? ehh! im hoping for plus 44

  • tim

    it’s like everyone is afraid of change. just because tom’s band is a different style than what we’re used to, he’s shit now. and ppl complain his music with angels & airwaves is bad and boring. yet noone complains about +44 who had a pretty average album, but because it’s the closest to the blink sound, everyone can look past the average nature of it and learn to appreciate it. yet i’m sure a lot of fans refuse to like angels & airwaves because it’s not like blink at all. each of the 3 albums have at least 5 or more good songs on it, that are really catchy and tom’s voice has improved too. but blink fans won’t give it the same chance they had with +44 or just plain and simple refuse to like different styles of music, and only like pop/punk. and that’s so closed minded and boring. is coldplay shit too, and U2.

    so what if angels & airwaves is tom’s main focus. it’s been his main focus ever since blink 182 split up. did we all honestly think that he would give up the band he is has been working so hard on for over 5 years just because blink 182 is back. it was naive to think that. ava is his main focus and always will be now. the positive is we get to hear him on blink 182 again too. he will always side with ava over blink everytime now, and i understand that pisses blink fans off, but it’s hardly a surprise. and we still get to hear new blink and see them tour, so i would take that over no blink 182 at all.

    blink 182 are still together, and people are actually saying they are hoping for +44 again, and maybe blink 182 to end again before we even get to hear their new music, wtf

  • rick

    Hopefully the new blink record will have more Mark’s and Travis’s influence due to Tom’s absenteeism. We have already heard a lot from Tom the past few years. It’s time to get some fresh ideas from the other two members of blink-182. It would be like a +44 with guitar riffs from Delonge. Wouldn’t that be awesome? Think this way if you don’t wanna feel pissed about Tom’s latest news on AVA: Less Tom, more Mark and Travis = New blink-182

  • Pete

    I thinks it’s safe to say that none of us blink fans hate Tom. Speaking for myself, I do resent being misled by Tom. I have purchased every single piece of music ever released by blink-182. I’ve seen them in concert 6 times. Blink-182 is, and I’m pretty sure will always be, my favorite band. The break-up, or hiatus, stunned me. I purchased the +44 cd, and though it includes some pretty nasty lyrics aimed at Tom, those were justified in my opinion, because Mark was angry with Tom for breaking up the band. I purchased the first and second AVA albums, and listening to them is just about impossible for me. When Tom released the AVA Love album for free, I passed. When the blink-182 reunion was announced, I was one very happy human being. And after seeing them in concert last summer, I’ve waited, like all of us, for further info on the new blink-182 album. We hear mostly upbeat, positive things about blink from Mark, and I think that’s because he really, really wants blink-182 to be a true “band” once again. And Tom? One day he’ll do some press interview about blink, and then the very next thing we hear from him is that even though he “has to go away for a month to do the blink thing” there will be an AVA double album…and movie…and a tour. Woo-hoo! I think Tom either thinks we’re all gullible, or he’s back on drugs. Anyway, I’m going to wait and hope to see the day when new music is released by blink-182, because it’ll be awesome. Unlike anything by Angels and Airwaves.

  • Joey182

    Well said Pete, well said.

    I’d just like to add that implying that I dislike Angels and Airwaves because they are “different” is moronic and a bunch of shit.

    I like plus 44, because in my opinion, they were good. As i’ve said before, I think the only draw back of “When your heart stops beating” is that Mark was in a dark place and the album came out displaying as much. I had no doubt that when Mark came back refreshed he was gonna deliever something awesome.

    Ava… The day that album came out, the first thing I did was go straight to circuit city and buy it. I didn’t download any music before the release. I was excited about the album, hell, I even liked it for the most part.

    Leading up to I-Empire we were hearing things like “I-Empire has more Blink 182 influence than WDNTW, Blink fans are gonna like it. I was thinking, ok awesome, maybe more like boxcar racer, which I thought was good. Then everything’s magic came out and I was REALLY disappointed. I decided for the first time as to anything Blink related, that I was going to download the album first, then I would buy it. Well, I never bought it. There were a couple songs on I empire, Secret Crowds and Rite of Spring or whatever, other than that. I was disappointed.

    I even downloaded Love. I liked London and Epic Holiday, but again, other than that it was the same ass shit.

    I don’t appreciate Tom’s over computerized voice in angels and airwaves either. It’s almost as bad as an autotune. I gave Ava a chance, but they suck. Anyone who supports AVA more than Blink really should fuck off at the end of the day.

  • http://myspace.com/themixtapenj Deeds

    Wow. This has gotten crazy. Maybe my point was lost because, well, maybe I shouldn’t post on the internet at 5am! Hahaha.

    All I’m trying to say is this (and I’m sorry for whoever I may be pulling this from, you guys were able to say it better than me)

    Tom has: MacBeth, Angels and Airwaves and Blink-182

    Mark has: “A Different Spin”(His show), City(comma)State (His band with Pete Wentz), producing and Blink-182

    Travis has: 1985438965926.7 other projects and Blink-182

    They all have other things that are going on other than Blink, just because Mark talks about Blink more doesn’t mean anything.

    Let’s all remember that there was a time where we never thought that this was gonna happen again.

    Sorry if I angered anyone, I was just trying to shed some different light. (Next time I will drink some Coffee when I post)

    Oh and real quick – Mark is in another band, I saw a few times where people said he wasn’t in another band, he is.

    I’m excited for all the awesome music that about to come outta those guys (is that gay?)- both apart and together

    Much Love
    Deeds

  • matt

    stop bitching. i mean there can always be +44 and angels and airwaves. i would much rather have blink and AvA. AvA is Toms band, its funny how most of you all think since blink is back he should quit everything and concentrate solely on blink. He has been working on the LOVE movie and album for over 3 years, back when any sort of a blink reunion wouldve been an afterthought. Tom is perfectly capable of managing both bands. CHILL.

  • tim

    even so, what’s the point of criticizing angels & airwaves because you don’t like ava. so you don’t like them they must be shit?! angels & airwaves have thousands of fans, so they must be doing something for someone. it’s how you choose to look at it, and decide if you appreciate their music or not. if you can’t then so be it, doesn’t mean they are shit just because you say so. and you say ‘tom’s computerized voice’ you can’t appreciate. yet seeing them live in concert confirms he is capable of singing like that without the ‘computerized voice’ and just with his normal voice sounds like he does on the album. plus he sings different from the album versions when he is touring with blink 182, and has been doing that for years, but i see you can don’t criticize tom for that.

    no-one in their right mind would like angels & airwaves more then they do like blink 182, but people can like both if they want to, but that seems too hard for some fans to comprehend. what is so hard to comprehend, that tom can make good music with any band he chooses to be in, or that tom can have other passions other than blink 182.

    blink 182 are back, so fucken relax and wait to see what the new blink 182 record sounds like, you don’t have to listen to angels & airwaves if you don’t want to, and if people choose to like both bands then so fucken what.

  • http://182online.com henrique

    City comma state is not a band with Pete wentz… and that thing’s already over and done with.

  • memo28

    know What Happen To Tom my story…
    When Blink 182 broke up Tom was kidnapped by Aliens
    and The Aliens Made A clone Of Tom
    and now we see the New Tom Who call him self a Tomas and moved to AVA
    (AVA)(Alien Versus All Earth) lol
    but WE MUST Save The Real Tom the dude who can sing make awsome funny jokes .. and when making live jump around !!!
    so all there youtubers make posters @ your street like Missing Tom Delonge last seen with some aliens
    I`m cool right
    Thats the True Story Of Tom

  • Anthony

    Look, I love pretty much every project these guys have done-Box Car Racer, AVA, +44, and, obviously, Blink. And I love all three of the guys. However, I think it’s a little unfair to Blink that Tom is spending even more time with AVA, even though they JUST realeased a new album a few months ago. I can understand the movie, beacuse that’s been in production FOREVER, and it’s getting close to completion (hopefully), but who wants newer AVA music right after they got new AVA music? I’ll probably get Love Pt. 2, but right now, I think it’d be more fair and desirable for Blink 182 to be the main focus. For now. I’m not saying I want Tom to leave AVA. And I’m not saying that Tom is the only doing other projects. It’s just that Blink seems to low on his list of priorities, and Mark and Travis have been waiting and keeping themselves busy while Tom is doing AVA. Regardless, their reunion was more than I think any of us could’ve asked for. As long as the album comes out eventually (hopefully sooner than later), I’ll be happy. My only fear is if Tom wouldn’t want to do Blink. Honestly, I’d rather have no Blink record than a Blink record with Tom not wanting to do it.

  • Rick

    I really wish AVA would disappear already, and if Mark did get too busy with his TV show and whatnot and they were all on good terms about it, it would be amazing if Tom and Travis put out another Box Car album. Please Tom, no more ripping off your own guitar riffs on your 3rd album. The segues between songs and intros to some on LOVE were kinda cool, but they were just that. Intros and segues. Most of the songs themselves were ripoffs of older material with thinly veiled lyrics about God and some spacey noises, through and through.

    Granted, I’ve followed AVA since the start and will still watch the movie, but after that I really hope it just goes away. It never lived up to the hype from day one and it got slightly less original with each succeeding album.

    I would say I’ve been a “hardcore Blink fan” and at this point I’m glad they’re all talking and saying there’s more music to come, but at the same time I’m a little nervous it’s going to be a mashup of Mark trying to be creative and indie while Tom wants everything to sound like AVA. I’m wary it will be a steady downslope since the untitled album was fucking unreal. Sucks, but that’s my prediction. I wish them the best and will check out anything they put out, and mostly I’m rooting for Mark and Travis…Tom’s musical stylings are not as good as they used to be, plain and simple. Just my opinion.

  • sir tom

    well guys look…you really cant blame everything on tom because travis and mark have their own thing goin now too like mark has his show and travis has his album and blink wont be the same. i mean i LOVE AVA and blink dont get me wrong but i like wat tom does in AVA so im on that side of the arguement

  • Smiggy

    They also have a lot of legality when discussing details about blink ie label/management.

    You forget BLINK 182 is 21st century modern music commercialism and a BRAND besides a band. There music has to sell and if its leaking out before hand the label will be pissed. It will be a marketing nightmare.

    My point, they are doing what any normal band does, keeping their privacy. And keeping updates vague because they want you selfish little bastards to be surprised.

    You guys are all whining. Who gives a fuck what they do as long as the record comes out. You’re all so self indulgent, stuck up.

    Sit down and shut up!