Blink-182 started out as Tom DeLonge was expelled from Poway High School and began to attend Rancho Bernardo High School; he became friends with Anne Hoppus. He expressed to her how much he wanted to be in a band, so she introduced him to her brother Mark, who also wished to play in a band. The two of them would play for hours sharing the songs they had written and wrote new songs together including "Carousel". In 1992, they decided that it was time to officially put up a band, so DeLonge enlisted a friend Scott Raynor whom he met at a Battle of the Bands competition. They called themselves Duck Tape and they began playing together. Later on, DeLonge thought of the name 'Blink'.

Blink-182: The American Punk Band

"To put simply, we're back. We mean, really back. Picking up where we left off and then some. In the studio, writing and recording a new album."

Blink-182 started out as Tom DeLonge was expelled from Poway High School and began to attend Rancho Bernardo High School; he became friends with Anne Hoppus. He expressed to her how much he wanted to be in a band, so she introduced him to her brother Mark, who also wished to play in a band. The two of them would play for hours sharing the songs they had written and wrote new songs together including "Carousel". In 1992, they decided that it was time to officially put up a band, so DeLonge enlisted a friend Scott Raynor whom he met at a Battle of the Bands competition. They called themselves Duck Tape and they began playing together. Later on, DeLonge thought of the name 'Blink'.

The band recorded their first demo tape Flyswatter, in May 1993, in Raynor's bedroom. In the same year, they recorded another demo, which was simply titled as Demo #2. It had a few re-recorded songs from Flyswatter, as well as new songs that went on to be re-recorded and re-released on the albums Buddha, Cheshire Cat and Dude Ranch.

Blink-182-Getting on their Feet

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