The first confetti explosion was triggered by “Family Reunion,” three songs in. There were flames shooting out of the floor on their opening song. They also hit on staples as essential to an understanding of their place in pop-punk history as “What’s My Age Again?,” “All The Small Things,” “Adam’s Song,” “Man Overboard,” “The Rock Show,” “First Date,” “Feeling This” and “I Miss You.” And they gave their inner Goo Goo Dolls the wheel on the smartphone-waving power ballad “Stay Together for the Kids.” The biggest Blink-182 songs from 'All the Small Things' to 'I Miss You' 1 on alternative radio while welcoming DeLonge back to the fold. And to their credit, that’s exactly what they gave us, interspersed with musical reminders that they’ve also carved out quite a legacy of pop-punk calling cards, from “Dammit” to their latest single, “Edging,” which spent more than 13 weeks at No. It’s what Blink-182 has taught us to expect. There were also masturbation jokes and imitations of the noises Elvis Presley and James Hetfield of Metallica might make toward the end of being caught in flagrante delicto.Ĭelebrate: Juneteenth and the other Elvis are the biggest things happening in Phoenix this weekendĭeLonge also treated fans to an origin story involving roller skates and sexual relations with his bandmates - also wearing roller skates. It’s right up there with running jokes about the disappointing nature of your bandmate’s genitalia. If they ever make a concept album a la 'Tommy,' you may safely assume that Tommy is “your mom,” and she is having sex with Blink-182. The thought of having sexual relations with “your mom” is a recurring theme in Blink-182 shows. That’s the one where they run through a string of profanities inspired by George Carlin’s seven dirty words routine and sign off with a frank admission that they’d been enjoying sexual relations with “your mom.”

After taking the stage to the piped-in strains of “Also sprach Zarathustra” (used to dramatic effect in Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” and Elvis Presley’s stage show), they followed a breathless rendition of “Anthem Part Two” with “The Rock Show” before laying any fear that we were dealing with an older, wiser Blink-182 to rest with a spirited “Family Reunion.”

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