Blink-182 Break Up Was Really Stupid

07/20/2011
. (Rock News Desk) Blink-182 frontman Tom DeLonge says the band had to split up because it had become a machine which was controlling its members � and they'd got to a point where they hated each other without any real reason.

He left the three-piece in 2005, forcing them into hiatus, and it wasn't until the 2008 plane crash which nearly killed drummer Travis Barker the bandmates got talking again. The result was a reunion tour following by work on new album Neighborhoods, due out in September.

"The reason the band broke up was really stupid in the first place. It's not like we had sex with each others' wives � though for how bad we hated each other that should have been what happened," DeLonge tells the BBC. "We got so big that the machine running the band took over. We were burned out. We needed a break. But the machine won't let you do that.

"We'd stopped communicating with each other because the machine was so big." more on this story

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