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BLINK IS GOOD AGAIN

 

Lil Wayne was great. Blink played 1.5+ hours. Said ‘this is our last song’ 3 times. Amazing show. Great crowd. They setlist changes worked great. I’m exhausted from a show where I sat at the back of the seat section. Blink has it all figured out.

 

Nice! All the videos I’ve seen it looked like a great/fun show.

How was the crowd size compared to other shows you’ve seen them there?

 

Back to the beach was

 

In the one video I saw it wasn’t the full concert just the Enema part.

 

Drum solo. And down acoustic. Not sure if I’m posting right, in the car and my buddy is driving.

 

They’ve always been good, Jason

 

Down acoustic live > regular live version of Down

 

I WANT CYNICAL AT MY SHOW PLEASEEEEE.

 

that drum solo is just pure flames goddann

 

Probably a little less packed than previous shows there. I didn't venture out to the lawn at all but where I was in the seated section there was a few empty seats around. It was actually kind of nice, I was able to move a little more center and eventually move up 2 rows eventually because no one was in the seats right in front of me.



I showed up close to 7pm which was during Neck Deep but missed all of their set because I stood outside trying to sell my extra ticket for a bit.

Walked into the venue, checked out the merch, bought 2 koozies, and rocked a piss. Walked to my seat as Lil Wayne was just coming on.






Tunechi was SO good. He got the crowd super hyped. I'm not that familiar with his music but I really enjoyed his set. He had a full band for most of the songs and was just really fun. Hopefully later in the tour Travis will join him for a song.

blink took about 30mins to come on after Wayne finished. That will prob. improve as the tour continues as it seemed like they had some trouble getting the huge YM (young money) sign down after Wayne was done.

I did notice right away how close to the edge of the stage and centered Travis was this time. They are def. moving him up for the Enema set which is cool.

They had some recorded intro from a movie or something I didn't recognize and obviously opened with "Dumpweed" Mark did a lot of the MTTS banter after songs like "You will be fine you fucking asshole!" and "This one goes out to all the ladies in the heousse"

Mark dedicated "Aliens Exist" to Tom. I thoroughly enjoyed "Going Away to College" as it's one of the more rare songs to be played live these days.

They had these big staircases to huge risers on either side of the stage and Mark went up there for "The Party Song" and I think did "Wendy Clear" from the other one. I don't believe Matt went up there at all. Matt also didn't speak very much at all. Mark handed the mic to Travis at one point and we got a "What's good Hartford!?" from Travis and everyone went nuts, haha.



I wasn't a huge fan of the acoustic set. It's cool they played "Wasting Time" but I didn't think either song sounded that good acoustic like that. I'm prob. biased though because I couldn't see them at all and they didn't have them on the video screens or anything. That being said, the video of "Down" above is really cool, and I'm sure all the fans that got a good view were stoked during that part of the set.

Travis' drum solo is cool but not as cool as when he would fly out over the crowd in my opinion.

Mark was trying to get this young girl his pick and eventually brought her on stage to hand deliver it, he grabbed drumsticks from Travis and then handed her his bass. That was really nice and everyone went nuts for that too.

It seemed like they would have taken an encore after "Bored to Death" but were pressed for time and just stayed on stage. "BIOMY" sounded good live.

One of my only major complaints would be "Dammit" being the only song we got from Dude Ranch. Overall though a really great show and I'm glad I went. Super glad the thunderstorms held off, and my old ass was home before midnight so I was happy.

 

Damn, they sure jam packed that stage.

It’s still not quite the Marty McFly set up though. But I’ll give them props.

 

After all these glowing reviews, the doubting blink “fans” be like:

 

who could have possibly guessed that blink-182 fans would give a blink-182 show positive reviews? i, for one, am shocked

 

Lol @ dedicating Aliens Exist to Tom

 

So glad to hear this show is so good. I've already seen them twice but for some reason I'm really, really excited for this show. Stoked for Wayne too

Matt sounds so weird on that Aliens Exist video. Not in a bad way, he sings it perfectly, but it doesn't sound like him at all lol

 

Ahhhhhhh these videos/reviews sound SO GOOD. Happy that blink made it!

 

almost Monday in NZ

 

Let's see what our friends from the other side of the world have for us

 

Someone said on reddit that it's not out on ITunes yet in NZ

 

Maybe this time they will release it with some announcement.

 

yea i think Generational Divide was pretty immediately released by this time so it must be a global release tomorrow then (with album announcement )

 

So the entire second ser is acoustic?
Has anyone found out the VIP meet and greet details? Cant wait for my show next tuesday!