{"id":159606,"date":"2025-05-20T06:12:23","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T10:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/05\/20\/mark-hoppus-reflects-on-blink-182-vs-green-day-rivalry-during-2002-tour-2\/"},"modified":"2025-05-20T06:12:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T10:12:23","slug":"mark-hoppus-reflects-on-blink-182-vs-green-day-rivalry-during-2002-tour-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/05\/20\/mark-hoppus-reflects-on-blink-182-vs-green-day-rivalry-during-2002-tour-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Hoppus Reflects on Blink-182 vs. Green Day Rivalry During 2002\u00a0Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tBlink-182\u2019s<\/a> Mark Hoppus opened up about the simmering tension between his band and Green Day during the iconic 2002 Pop Disaster Tour<\/em>, describing it as a \u201cmusical battle\u201d that helped sharpen Blink\u2019s edge at a pivotal time in their rise.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe tour, which paired pop-punk\u2019s elder statesmen with its ascendant newcomers, saw Blink-182 closing each night, despite Green Day being the band Hoppus idolized growing up. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI literally waited for the day that Dookie<\/em> came out,\u201d he recalled in a recent interview with NME<\/em>.<\/a> \u201cI was in line waiting to buy it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBy 2002, Blink-182 were riding high off the back of their No. 1 album Take Off Your Pants and Jacket<\/em>, while Green Day were in a quieter commercial moment between 2000\u2019s Warning<\/em> and their eventual resurgence with 2004\u2019s American Idiot<\/em>. That dynamic sparked what Hoppus described as an unspoken competition onstage.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe walked in thinking we were hot sh\u2013,\u201d Hoppus said. \u201cAnd Green Day walked in ready to fight \u2014 musically of course. They blew us off the stage the first few nights and we were like, \u2018Oh s\u2013t, we have to up our game.\u2019 It definitely made us a better band.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThough he emphasized there was no personal beef \u2014 \u201cBillie was super nice to us\u201d \u2014 the nightly battle for crowd dominance created a performance arms race. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt was this back-and-forth about who could put on the better show and who could win people over,\u201d Hoppus explained. \u201cI think I inspired them so much they were like, \u2018We have to kill Blink-182 with an awesome album called American Idiot<\/em>.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe story is one of many anecdotes included in Hoppus\u2019 newly released memoir Fahrenheit-182<\/em>, in which the bassist and vocalist reflects on his cancer diagnosis, pop culture moments, and his decades-long music career.<\/p>\n

\n\tBlink-182 are currently preparing to hit the road again with Alkaline Trio this fall, with their U.S. tour kicking off Aug. 28 in Hollywood, Fla.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Blink-182\u2019s Mark Hoppus opened up about the simmering tension between his band and Green Day during the iconic 2002 Pop Disaster Tour, describing it as a \u201cmusical battle\u201d that helped sharpen Blink\u2019s edge at a pivotal time in their rise. The tour, which paired pop-punk\u2019s elder statesmen with its ascendant newcomers, saw Blink-182 closing each […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musique","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}