Mark Hoppus Tracks Down Old ‘Dude Ranch’ Demos

I would love to get my hands on those! I will never quite understand, in this day and age, why artists don't find a way to release all of the stuff like this they have sitting in their archives (assuming they have the rights and/or are in communication with the folks who might technically own the recorded materials).

Just throw it up on Bandcamp with the caveat that they are very old demos, etc. And in Blink's case? Maybe you even do it for charity.

Anyway. I'd love to hear a slightly sped up version of "Emo" and "Dammit."

 

I feel like I remember having heard a whole batch of dude ranch demos years ago

 

I want to hear these so bad.

 

A handful are on YouTube. I love the Josie demo. Sounds so raw, much different than their awful, overly produced stuff now-a-days.

 

Fairly certain the songs on YouTube are different from the demos Mark is referring to here.

 

They're different from the ones floating around. The guy who has them has been a good samaritan and never released them, despite being begged by countless Blink fans – he and I spoke on Discord and then we connected him with management. Full disclosure: I have not heard them.

 

Maybe he should send them to me.

 

We need an old school AP.net leak where you just link a single punctuation mark in your post

 

Theres a 182 online podcast interview with blinks first webmaster who has the demo's. Listened to the interview just the other night and he mentions it and says he was confused to why mark initially denied there were any.

 

That's the guy I spoke with! I assume that it was posted before he got in contact with Jake etc.