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I love the fact that Mark is in contact with their fans on the Blink 182 discord server, talking and teasing them. At least their getting something. Tomorrow Billie is gonna go to sleep so another month without news.

Great to finally hear this re-recording get properly mixed!!!

"Out By Fallish" could be the song title and it will be out....at any moment.

Can't wait to listen to Christie Road!!

In Green Day terms “at any moment” easily could mean 2026

Yeah I don’t see them dropping Album 14 news until after Dookie 30. Plus Hans said that the new single will be out by “fall-ish”

The tour at the time was Hella Mega tour. They were most likely aware they were doing something similar to Pop Disaster again and were interested. Returning back to the age-old GD vs Blink debate we have all omitted one of the biggest facts. GD has a ton more number 1 hits on alternative radio. They are up there with Foo Fighters and RHCP for most all-time. Blink’s not in that discussion.

I dont recall the context being Hella Mega though. To my understanding, He just mentioned they approached Green Day to tour again and Green Day said no.

jackryansullivan @beckettrex and I played a show last night opening for Belinda Carlisle, and low and behold one of my musical heroes was there cheering us on. ‘Dookie’ by GreenDay was the very first album I ever bought with my own money as a kid. So awesome finally getting to meet you, @mikedirnt and you too, @batmansmom https://www.instagram.com/p/CwX3GCUrj55/

The 'goods' Will be Christie Road and J.A.R.

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But Blink is literally riding off of a cancer diagnosis, pent up demand for Tom and Kardashian shit. It’s not really based off their music or releases or any career spanning longevity. GD has sustained huge organic growth and Blink’s success has been a pattern of higher volatility. Green Day from 2016-present are still playing much bigger shows. Sure maybe Foamf was a “critical failure” but they get paid from tours, albums don’t sell anymore. Tours are driven by back catalogs and Green Day’s will sell for more than Blink’s any day. Green Day achieved success outside alt-rock stations in the 2000s and Blink didn’t. Not that Blink hasn’t been massively successful because they have been. They’re the band closest to Green Day’s success. But even Fat Mike has said it directly “who’s the one band who capitalized the most off punk rock? Without a doubt it’s Green Day”. There’s no comparison. After GD’s AI tour hit England in 2005 there has been no competition. Blink didnt really achieve the success in England that GD did. Even if atm GD is less popular than Blink (I still doubt it) in the USA, GD is much more popular worldwide. Mark reached out to GD to open up for them on Hella Mega. Blink knows it’s true as well.

Both engineered by Chris Dugan as well, didn't mention the trilogy because I didn't want to start that debate haha (I actually love the sound of those records other than some weird vocal editing). Trilogy was mixed by CLA as well. For FOAM I'm not sure how much Dugan was involved after pre-production, I know I heard in an interview with Butch Walker that the title track was using recordings from the band's rough demo done at Otis by Dugan but I'd imagine he was along for the recordings of other songs as well as he's credited as engineer. Maybe not though as I do think sonically the title track wins over everything else on that record. Obviously very different production overall on FOAM though as a result of Walker and that one was mixed by Tchad Blake which I don't personally think was a great fit for GD - but again, hard to tell considering the production style, would be curious to hear a more traditional Green Day sound mixed by him.

Who engineered the Trilogy and FOAM?

Listening to 21CB and I just keep thinking to myself regardless of the level of songwriting (which I'm actually still hopeful for after 1981 despite what some are saying) I am so excited for another record engineered by Chris Dugan at Ocean Way with CLA mixing - and of couse Rob Cavallo producing the thing. One of my favourite things about listening to Nimrod through to 21st Century, as a freelance producer/engineer, is being able to turn them up loud on a really nice monitoring system and aurally gawk at the pristine production. There was a Gearspace thread back in the day where Dugan answered a whole load of questions about mics, preamps etc etc on 21CB and to have a new record equally massive sounding to geek out about and give me new reference tracks for mixing would be such a great thing. I might've posted almost this exact thing in here before but alas that's how much I'm looking forward to this

For me personally I liked their older stuff a lot and Mark in general, but yeah Tom sounds really horrible live. Tbf they have a big fan base but they have more „casuals“ than Green Day. Their success depends on the region. Green Day are a bigger Name in EU. I can‘t see blink to fill a stadium or something like Hella Mega instead of Green Day. Sure both had their peak years ago but thats for rock genres in general. I‘ll give them 3-4 years until Tom‘s leaving again or Mark kicks him out of the band 😂