At Moody Center, he was a stoic force of nature, drumming with a towel over his head, drumming in the dark, drumming on a platform lifted into the air. The most heartwarming part of Friday’s show was Hoppus and DeLonge’s mutual love for the near-silent Barker, whom DeLonge called “the special operations force.”īarker is a survivor, too - remember his near-death experience in a 2008 plane crash - and has become somewhat of a modern alt rock godfather in recent years, his hand guiding up-and-comers as his sticks pound on tracks for Willow Smith, KennyHoopla and Yungblud. The number ended with tongue-in-cheek newspaper clips, one bearing DeLonge’s photo with the headline, “My brush with aliens.” Self-aware and still unapologetically passionate? Gotta stan. Later, DeLonge addressed the interstellar elephant in the room: “Three years ago, a lot of people thought I was nuts.” Referencing his very-publicized search for extraterrestrial life, he dedicated the song “Aliens Exist” to two colleagues in his mission, who were in the audience. Later, Hoppus made a sincere, full-throated call for more women in the music industry, praising the technician who runs their pyro.ĭeLonge lent a hand to Hoppus’ shoulder while his bandmate discussed his health battle. He called the song a reminder about finding light in the darkness. Before “Adam’s Song,” a band standard concerning loneliness and suicidal ideation, Hoppus opened up about his 2021 bout with cancer. Try as they might, the trio couldn’t cloak growth, especially the kind wrought by their very real traumas. Lean into the dissonance of the evening, the time-stuck jokes seemed to say, and find some humor in the fact that you have a 401(k) and you’re screaming out lyrics like, “My friends say I should act my age” and “The state looks down on sodomy” in rapid succession.īack to the emotional significance of the night, because therein lies the alchemy that elevated an evening with Blink-182. But, at the risk of making excuses for three privileged men who are well-off rockstars - one’s married to a Kardashian! - it played like performance art.
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