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By Tom
DeLonge :
Hello everybody, this is a first for
me, but I couldn't wait any longer. I have a new band called "Angels
and Airwaves" and it is the most amazing music I have ever made
by a long shot.
You all must know, I didn't want Blink to go
on hiatus, but it had to....you all will learn why...soon, but
I swear to god, I am two songs from finishing the best fucking
album anybody has heard in 20 years. In the next couple of weeks,
you will all hear about the new band as well as the movie that
is being made to tell the story of the album.
But no matter what is said, or talked about,
no matter what rumors are started, this is the best music made
in decades....It is so much more powerful, emotional and melodic
than Box Car and Blink put together, that I am currently shitting
my pants, and your pants as well....until you hear more, all I
can say is hold on, and prepare.
- Tom "I love my fans, and I promise I will
not let you down, the music that we all grew to charish that was
made, not only will continue, but it will be much, much better..."
What
does that mean?
When Tom DeLonge decided to leave Blink-182
last year, he was walking away from something huge. The band --
along with another California trio, Green Day -- spawned massive
hits, and a slew of pop-punk disciples. As Blink, singer/guitarist
DeLonge, bassist Mark Hoppus and drummer Travis Barker (who replaced
founder Scott Raynor), scored five Top Ten releases, including
2000's four-times-platinum Enema of the State and the 2001 chart-topper
Take Off Your Pants and Jacket.
But DeLonge says he felt increasingly
conflicted about both his creative freedom within the band and
the toll touring was taking on his family life. (Now thirty, he
has a three-year-old daughter.) After the band's announcement,
one year ago, that it would be taking "an indefinite hiatus,"
DeLonge arrived at the concept of Angels and Airwaves -- his personal
vision for a group that would produce music more epic, expansive
and open-ended than that aggressive, irreverent pop of Blink-182.
Alongside musicians David
Kennedy (Guitarist of Box Car Racer, Built To Last, Over My Dead
Body and Hazen Street), Atom Willard (Drummer of the Offspring,
The Special Goodness, Rocket From The Crypt, American Hi-Fi, and
Melissa Auf Der Maur) and Ryan Sinn (Bassist of The Distillers),
DeLonge spent the next several months in his home studio recording
what will become the band's 2006 debut. (Expect the first single,
"The Adventurer," to premiere this month.) And, appropriate
to their cinematic sound, Angels and Airwaves are preparing to
premiere their record with an ambitious concept movie, the trailer
for which can now be viewed at angelsandairwaves.com
- Source: rollingstone.com
What
about Mark and Travis?
Both started another project, Plus
44, along with Carol Heller.
Also
see:
 See
Plus 44 section on aliens-exist.net.
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