Blink And Bad Religion Share Stage Again As New Tour Starts
Yahoo! Music, May 11, 2000 3:00 pm PDT(5/11/00, 3 p.m. ET) - Blink 182 starts its arena-sized tour, dubbed "The Mark, Tom, & Travis Show," this evening (May 11) in their hometown of San Diego. The 31-date tour also features fellow punk-poppers Fenix TX and punk-rock war horses Bad Religion.
Bad Religion lead vocalist Greg Graffin told LAUNCH that his band's and Blink's paths have often intersected. Blink even opened for Bad Religion way back when. "We were on tour with the Warped Tour and they played with us on a few of those shows, and they also opened for us in some clubs in San Diego back in their earlier days," he said. "And of course, we've known them for a few years; they kinda grew up on Bad Religion. We're just really happy they asked us to play with them."
LAUNCH asked Bad Religion bassist Jay Bentley if the band had to do anything differently when playing huge venues. "Bigger movements, move your feet real big so the people way in the back can see you," he said. "That's some theatrical trick I was told. Maybe I'll get a giant guitar."
-- Neal Weiss, Los Angeles
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