A long conversation with tomdelonge about music, UFOs, and vindication
Photo: Jonathan Weiner Most interviews with 45-year-olds don’t involve dick jokes or the phrase “terminal velocity.” But Tom DeLonge — one of the most recognizable influences on today’s zoomer guitar pop rush , a self-starting expert on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena , and now, a pop-punkier Steven Spielberg in training — has never been one to behave like the rest. I wouldn’t expect him to bother doing so now.
When I actually walked out on that stage, because we haven’t played in a year and a half or whatever, I remember it ignited me very much in the way that Blink always felt. I have a very strong desire to just say a lot of stupid shit [laughs] and make people laugh and have a good time. I definitely brought back dick jokes in a way that I haven’t done in a long time. I think someone called it “Angels & Dick Jokes.” They all loved it.
Blink was very much who I am. I just bought a skateboard yesterday, and I send ridiculous photos and jokes to my friends all day long. I’m not all serious. I’m very much a guy that can sit and go very deep with a passion for consciousness and what life is all about, and the things that people tend to overlook when they get older. But I also smoke a lot of pot and make a lot of really stupid jokes and laugh for hours about the dumbest stuff ever.
As an artist still releasing music and very much active, does the nostalgia for and revival of the classic era of pop-punk ever get annoying? How do you navigate it? Sometimes it’s hard in punk because punk is a vehicle that’s not overly complicated. It’s meant to be simple because it’s meant to carry emotion, and if it’s not carrying emotion, then it’s just catchy and energetic and it can become hollow very quickly, like pop music. Pop-punk is always a tricky place to live in for me.
My position here is much more heavily focused on informing the public and creating the resources for us to do things in the private sector that governments used to be the only ones that did. It’s like SpaceX is doing a much better job at being NASA than NASA in some ways. [Laughs.]
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