The end of an exhaustive week and a few stories to finish.  A more profound history of a few musical genre geniuses, a winner in a drone photography contest, a personal story about a fire at a whiskey factory in the 1800s that killed 13 people, but it wasn't the fire that killed them; it was the free-flowing whiskey river that did.

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People Magazine writes a longer piece about the boys of [90s] summer.  It even goes into the origin story of each band member, including original drummer Scott Raynor and temporary guitarist Matt Skiba.  As a fan of Blink 182 and many off-shoots, Angels and Airwaves, +44, Boxcar Racer, and Simple Creatures, it's exciting to read a story that adds to your band knowledge.  For example, co-founder and bassist Mark Hoppus, a recent cancer survivor, is also the old man of the band.  The average age of all other members is 47, and Hoppus is 51.

Travis Barker joined the group in the late 90s and played on the first major label album Enema of the State.  Travis has played and currently plays in multiple bands; he was the drummer for Boxcar Racer, a side project with Tom DeLonge in the early 2000s, then played with +44 with Mark Hoppus after DeLonge left Blink in 2005, continued to play with Blink with Matt Skiba, and is back with the 1998 line up, or as some would call it The Mark, Tom and Travis Show, also the name of a live album from 2000.

The article in People Magazine claims that Tom DeLonge, the co-founder, and guitarist, was the primary songwriter of the first five albums.  In another interview with Tom DeLonge by the guitar string and accessory company Ernie Ball, Delonge says he was trying to write songs with the simplicity of a nursery rhyme with a few good hooks mashed together with a lot of power chords.  When Tom talks about influences and what he defines as punk rock, he says:

This a good quote, and it shows again that style and attitude are as important as the music; at the same time, I can turn kind up in my car when Blink's Dammit comes on the radio. 

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