Blink-182 founding member Tom DeLonge gets a lot of the blame for breaking up the beloved pop-punk band and maybe he deserves it. His off-the-wall behavior included a recent interview with Mic where he said he quit the band so he could focus his efforts on UFO research, “when you’re an individual like me… dealing with something that’s a national security issue, and you’re being gifted with the opportunity to communicate something you’ve been passionate about your whole life — something that has the opportunity to change the world over time — being a small part of that is enormously important for my life path.”
Regardless of what you think of DeLonge as a UFO investigator, there is no denying that the multi-hyphenate musician is a transcendent talent who has been making hit records since the mid-90s. First with Blink-182 and then again with Angels and Airwaves, DeLonge has proven over and over again that music can be both punk and pop, fun and stupid or irreverent and touching. In a new original documentary series on the AT&T Audience Network, Ernie Ball: The Pursuit of Tone, DeLonge shows that side of him, talking candidly about his life, career and process thats offers a true-life counterpoint to all the “internet talk.” In this exclusive clip on Crave, DeLonge discuss the “life changing moment” of writing the Angels & Airwaves hit single “The Adventure,” from their debut album We Don’t Need to Whisper.
The 90 minute episode is presented by Ernie Ball, the world’s leading manufacturer of premium guitar accessories, and premieres August 19th at 9pm on AT&T Audience Network (Direct TV CH. 239, AT&T U-Verse CH.114)
