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Features: Your Questions First: Blink-182

In the magazine this month we unleash our biggest ever Your Questions First as bands and fans put their questions to Blink-182...

In the magazine this month we unleash our biggest ever Your Questions First as bands and fans put their questions to Blink-182, want a taster of the feature? Read below...

How have you been able to stay relevant through the years with your music?
Brett Callaway, Close Your Eyes
Tom Delonge: “Exercise and heavy weights.”
Mark Hoppus: “In seriousness I think we write about what is important to us and people react to that rather than trying to guess what people want to hear.”

When and where did you write ‘Apple Shampoo’?
Sergio Otaegui, Thieves & Villains
Tom: “What a great song by the way, one of Mark’s best.”
Mark: “It was on a tour of Southern California over a period of two weeks. I was sitting in the van outside the Showcase Theatre in Corona and I think I wrote the verses to that song on acoustic guitar.”
What state was your van in at the time?
Mark: “Road-worn and stinky.”
Tom: “It was fecal, literally made out of faeces.”

What was it like touring without all the modern technology like GPS and smart phones?
Chris Pennings, Thieves & Villains
Mark: “A pain in the ass. I remember trying to find local maps and trying to talk to people to find the directions to the clubs we were playing.”
Tom: “We were playing places that weren’t real venues a lot of the time so we’d be in some weird desert town, we’d find a gas station and then we’d get pointed to some warehouse for a show with Skankin’ Pickle.”
Who was the ace map-reader?
Tom: “Mark is still the only member of the band who can read.”

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