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Discussion in 'Music Forum' started by popdisaster00, Jun 26, 2017.

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  1. I'd categorize live blink shows as being fun as shit but obviously they have never been good live
     
  2. j0nnymarrzbar

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    I saw them in Australia back in 2013 and they were on top of their game. Tom sounded unbelievable; you could tell he was really making an effort
     
  3. tdlyon

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    I've really started to believe Tom's bad Blink performances were just an intense lack of effort on his part as opposed to lack of ability. He can sound really good live when he wants to, he sounded fantastic on this past AVA tour
     
  4. Mrk_Brdshw

    Dusted Groove

    I think labeling his recent performances as "fantastic" is grading him on a curve. He sounded fantastic for Tom maybe but still terrible by any other metric. haha.

    But still, I agree with your main point. He legitimately refuses to enunciate the words and his "singing" was just a mumbling mess during most blink shows. His songs aren't even difficult to sing or in a register he can't reach anymore.... He just goes out of his way to make it sound like that.

    Although for guitar, I have no explanation. In videos where he's just sitting down jamming, he is actually not half bad, but sometimes live it sounds like he's still learning how to play.
     
  5. manoverboard365

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    This is how I feel about Skiba's guitar playing.
     
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  6. clockwise

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    Would have been funny if they had a Tom sounding backing track for the California and beyond era songs too.
     
  7. tdlyon

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    Oh yeah, I meant fantastic for Tom lol
     
  8. ding ding
     
  9. tomtom94

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    Blink should absolutely 100% invest in a live guitarist like Green Day do.
     
  10. Daniel182

    Let's hold our breath until we disappear

     
  11. Samuel Calmon

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  12. .K.

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    Since then we’ve had California, Deluxe, Nine, 2 Simple Creatures EP, a sort of Christmas song, and talks about an EP.

    That list doesn’t include some of Travis other projects, their work with other artists, Matt still making another Alkaline Trio album, and them making time for some touring and press stuff.

    Sometimes things aren’t meant to work out, even if you really want them to. Tom sounds like he had stuff he wanted to do, or maybe stuff he didn’t want to do. Live, learn and move on in any of the situations that they’ve faced or put themselves in. I’d personally be a fan of a Blink feat Tom single at some point in a few years from now, but I don’t think anyone needs history repeating with this band in that dynamic.
     
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  13. RyanPm40

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    Hot take: +44 and Simple Creatures are better than anything blink has done since returning from their hiatus in 2009
     
  14. pbueddi

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    That might be a bit too hot lol. There has been plenty of great stuff since 2009.
     
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  15. BTDandFeelingThis

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  16. TEGCRocco

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    Don't know about +44, but I'd take Simple Creatures over 80% of what they've done since 2009
     
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  17. RyanPm40

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    Haha yeah I totally respect that most folks are going to disagree with me, but I just can't think of anything blink has done since then that I enjoy nearly as much. But I'm also someone who loves songs like Fighting The Gravity which sounds more like +44 than blink. I know that isn't a very popular song, either
     
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  18. .K.

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    I think parts of nine remind of +44, so there’s that.
     
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  20. Samuel Calmon

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    +44 is probably better than anything blink has done EVER. I love SC, but, to me NINE and Cali are very superior.
     
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  21. Samuel Calmon

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    skiba is on tonight's episode of toby morse's podcast
     
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  22. jesseisabigdeal

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    when i saw them live in 2014 tom was holding the mic and singing vibrato and it's pretty obvious he just fucks with people and doesn't care to make an effort. everyone in the crowd was looking at each other like.. what just happened?
     
  23. jesseisabigdeal

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    it's fucked up how they can go from this to where they are now. this was something special.
     
  24. Greg

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    Matt looks different
     
  25. 15 years ago.
     
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