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According to Buzznet, blink-182 will be touring with Weezer this summer on their first outing since reforming after a 4-year hiatus. Buzznet cites an anonymous source and few other details are available about such a tour. What we do know is that the tour will be prior to blink-182′s album due this fall and will contain songs from several of the band’s albums.
Most information currently available, with the exception of the Weezer announcement, is straight from bassist Mark Hoppus’ own lips, or perhaps fingers may be a more appropriate word. Hoppus has been constantly updating his Twitter.com account since it’s creation with ramblings of day to day activities. Entries on the musician’s micro-blogging page range from his erratic sleep schedule to working on remixes for bands like Fall Out Boy and his announcement of working with new albums as a producer for acts like Motion City Soundtrack, with which he worked on Commit This to Memory in 2005.
Tour Mockup
The man seems content to remain busy even through out the finalizing of blink-182′s album and in preparation for a tour. Other entries by Hoppus are conversations with Chris Holmes, who worked with Hoppus extensively on +44 during the blink hiatus, about the possibility of working with production while on the road with his own band. This would lead some to ask why not take along a lesser known band to give them exposure? To be honest no one knows if other acts will be involved on the summer tour, although you’d have to think the details would come out soon. Weezer may have been guitarist Tom DeLonge’s idea. DeLonge did a co-headlining tour with Weezer and his band Angels & Airwaves just last fall, when the rumors of a blink reunion were starting to formulate. Immediately after the announcement of a reunion and a tour rumors had already sprung about just who would be special enough to join along, including the mock tour poster that made it’s way on to AbsolutePunk.
Regardless of who’s on the tour, this summer is sure to turn every twenty and thirty-something out there back into a 15 yr. old kid laughing at fart jokes. And let’s be honest, we could use some of that.
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