BLINK 182

Blink 182 was formed by three men: Mark, Tom and Travis.

IN May 1993, Blink released a demo tape entitled Flyswater, recorded in the drummer Scott Raynor’s bedroom, who left the band two years later. It is their first album and a 4-track was used to record the material, resulting in poor sound quality and according to Mark, only around fifty copies were produced. Their first real show took place at a bar and as they were underage, they were only allowed to enter when it was time for their set. They bought fifty tickets to sell, but no one came to see them. After only one song, Blink was kicked off the stage and out of the bar. Before the end of the year, the band released another demo tape known as Bubddha. Around 1,000 copies were produced by a little recorder (owned by Mark’s boss).


Shortly after the release of one new CD, Blink was threatened with legal action by an Irish pop band of the same name.In order to avoid a lengthy law suit, Blink added “182” to the end of their name. There are several rumors as to why these numbers were ultimately chosen, such as their correspondence to the number of times Al Pacino repeats the word “fuck” in Scarface, the 1985 Timothy Hutton film – Turk 182!, their representation of Mark ideal weight, or that they represent the alphabet position of the letters ‘R’ and ‘B’, referring to the northern San Diego suburb of Rancho Bernardo. However, the band members have dismissed such claims and mantain that the numbers were picked at random. Not mentioning that Barker , in one interview, stated that the “182” was the U.S. radio code meaning ‘homicide’, apparently confusing “182”, the radio code for conspiracy, with “187”.

For now, Blink-182 is in indefinite “hiatus” as Mark and Travis made a new band called Plus 44 ( +44 is the “DDD” of London) and Tom made another one called “Angels and Airwaves” ( AvA is the name of his son).


Project from
João Vitor Villas Boas
Progress 1
Teacher Fernanda O.

Centro Britânico
Pompéia Branch