Minggu, 21 Februari 2010

TOM DELONGE

Tom DeLonge (Tom Mathew Delonge) was born on Saturday, December 13, 1975 in Poway California and is a famous guitarist.

General appearance:

- brown - dark eyes and brown - dark hair.

Being born on Dec 13, Tom is a Sagittarius and has an average body.

Tom DeLonge studied at Poway High School.

Tom DeLonge dated Jen Jenkins.

Physical Description: Tall and muscular with broad shoulders. Charming looks. Brilliant green/brown eyes...

Background: His father was a normal average man and his mother was a regular normal woman. He always had lots of friends and he always seemed to be a trouble maker from the start. He was the second child in a family of 3 kids and was a happy boy, when he went out and did father and son activites with his dad. He didn't mind seeing as how his only real friend was his father and it gave him a lot of time to explore his life and the people around him.
He found out early that his attitude enabled him to fly through school at harsh levels, making him lowest but most popular of his class. He enjoyed music, especially playing the drums. He never got introduced to the guitar ‘till he was 15. He was always popular for his looks, and he always found an interest in girls, but things changed when he fell in love with Jen.


Personal: He is very shy at first and tends to spend a lot of time to himself reading or just goofing around. Once befriended though he is a loyal and reliable guy. He enjoys reading and writing. He dislikes large crowds and people who are conceited. His biggest fear is that he should fail and dishonor his family name. He keeps himself motivated by his choice in music and his closest of friends. In his spare time ((If he has any)) Tom enjoys skate-boarding and snow-boarding, also just hanging around with his wife, Jen, and German Shephard 'Grey'. Tom's favorite colors are orage and black. Tom tends to often paint his finger nails on his left hand black. Tom is a member in two bands. Blink 182 and Box Car Racer. He is the vocalist and guitarist in both of them.

Birthday: December 13, 1975 on a Saturday((That makes him 28))
Birth Place: San Diego, California, USA
Birth Name: Thomas Matthew DeLonge
Nick Name On Stage: "Hot Pants"

Biography: Tom’s parents are Connie and Thomas Delonge SR. He has an older brother (Shon) and a younger sister (Kari). He attended Poway High School were he had a pretty good (not really) reputation as school trouble maker. An old friend gave him a guitar for his 15th birthday and he was basically clueless on what to really do with the darn thing. When he was away at camp one year, one of his cabin mates got Tom into liking punk rock, so that’s when Tom decided to learn how to play the guitar. Blink-182 started in 1992 and became huge in 1998, in between the years of of "Dude Ranch" and "Enema of the State". The song's and the way Tom, Mark and Travis perform their magic on stage is usualy most popular for ages of 20 and under.((Im a crazy 13 year old who loves Blink 182. Most of the time you will find me waisting my life at the computer looking up info on Tom, Mark, and Travis.))

Tom is the guitarist and vocalist of the band Blink 182. Tom met his wife, Jen, at a party at least a half of a decade ago. Ever since then Tom has been “Madly In Love” with his high school sweet heart and decided to ask “The Magical Question” of “Will you marry me?” Jen, being so exited and totally in love with this guy of course said the typical answer of “Yes”. Soon after getting happily married they had their first baby on July 15, 2002. They named their bouncy baby girl Ava Elizabeth DeLonge. Ava was born at 5:30 A.M. at California Scripps Hospital in LA and she weighed a healthy 7 pounds. The couples happy bundle of joy is now a 2 and a half year old beautiful girl. Tom is very protective of his daughter, he will soon be writing songs about how he will keep her safe, and what would happen if someone is to mess with her. Tom and Mark have made a site called loserkids.com there are great chats and things to buy. Sometimes if your lucky Tom or Mark might be on the chat page trying to convince kids its the real them! But they dont stay on for very long so hurry up and get an account on loserkids.com!

How did you propose to your wife?:

Tom: Driving on a bus across Massachusettes to Boston. It was around 3 or 4 in the afternoon, kind of winter, so all the trees are different colors kinda, and it was kinda getting darker, and we're sitting on the bus, and I asked her.

Impulse or planned?:

Tom: It was just impulse. But she was asleep. So I woke her up, and I go, 'Hey, honey, did you hear what I said?' and she said, "Yeah, yeah." I'm all, "Oh, okay, well, she said yeah," so I went back to bed. Then I set everything up, and then she felt bad and had to do it.


Hobbies?:

Tom: I paint and I read books. I paint pictures of little Tim Burton-type characters. They're not very good, but it's fun.

Hot Pictures:

Tom and Jen on their wedding day:


Tom Pictures

I dont know if that man could get any hotter..you cant look at all those pictures and say he is ugly

Some of his influences are the Descendents, Screeching Weasel, Dag Nasty, Bad Religion, NOFX, Pink Floyd, and The Cure.

Musical career


When DeLonge attended Rancho Bernardo High School, he was introduced to Mark Hoppus through Hoppus' sister, Anne Hoppus. Tom had previously met Scott Raynor at a school's battle of the bands and decided to form a band together that would become Blink-182, originally just Blink but the band had to change for legal reasons with supposed plagiarism from an Irish techno band. Raynor was replaced with Travis Barker in 1998 for reasons never formally released by Hoppus or Delonge. It was later anounced that he had been asked to attend rehab, due to a serious drinking problem. Travis was on tour with The Aquabats, another band touring along with Blink-182. After sitting in on two shows Barker formally joined Blink-182. With Travis on board Blink-182 released Enema of the State, which was met with a huge amount of mainstream success, spawning three hit singles. Follow-up Take Off Your Pants and Jacket went straight to No.1 on the Billboard 200. In 2003, Blink-182 released their eponymous album. DeLonge then decided to leave the band, allegedly due to mounting tensions and communication difficulties, creating a rift between him and the other members of the band. Blink-182 announced an 'indefinite hiatus' in February 2005.

Following Travis Barker's Learjet crash, DeLonge's former band mate, Mark Hoppus, posted on his blog (Himynameismark.com) on November 18, 2008, that all three band mates had communicated for the past couple of months after Barker's plane crash, which killed 4 people and left Barker and DJ AM in critical condition. This post fueled rumors among fans that a reunion was imminent[citation needed]. Adding to the speculation was an announcement made by MTV.com on February 5, 2009 that Blink-182 would reunite to present an award at the 51st Grammy Awards. This presentation marked the first time the trio had been together on stage since 2004.[3] Before presenting the award for Best Rock Album, the band announced that they were reuniting; this announcement was followed shortly by a message posted on the band's website [4]. Tom was quoted as saying "live life as if it was the last record played on the jukebox".

On February 9, 2009, Tom opened up to Extra about the Blink-182 reunion saying: "When you're in a band, you have this unspoken bond. You're kind of family with your boys. We took a break for a little bit. I think when Travis had the event happen to him it was something that pulled us back together... we always knew it was inevitable, we just needed something to break the ice." [5] Blink-182 toured across the United States along with Weezer, Panic! at the Disco, Chester French, Asher Roth, All American Rejects, Taking Back Sunday, and Fall Out Boy, they're planning to release their newest album around late 2010. It has also been confirmed by Mark Hoppus in an MTV interview that there will be a 2010 European tour.



Box Car Racer (2002-2003)

Box Car Racer was a side-project from two members of the band Blink-182, featuring guitarist Tom DeLonge and drummer Travis Barker. DeLonge formed Box Car Racer to experiment with and record ideas he felt were not "Blink-friendly", along with Travis Barker. David Kennedy from Hazen Street completed the group and an eponymous album was recorded. Although Tom handled bass duties, the band hired Kennedy's friend Anthony Celestino for the corresponding tour. Guests on the album included Mark Hoppus from Blink-182 on the song "Elevator", and Tim Armstrong from Rancid and Jordan Pundik from New Found Glory on "Cat Like Thief".

Angels & Airwaves (2005–Present)

Tom DeLonge is the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist for Angels and Airwaves. Other members in the band include high school friend and former Hazen Street guitarist and Box Car Racer guitarist David Kennedy, on drums former Rocket from the Crypt and The Offspring drummer Atom Willard, on bass former 30 Seconds to Mars bassist Matt Wachter. AVA is influenced by a number of bands including U2, Pink Floyd and The Cure. They released their debut album We Don't Need to Whisper on 20 May, 2006. On April 23, 2007 it was announced that Ryan Sinn would not be playing at the free Earth Day concert at the M.I.T. campus due to difficulties within the band. He was later replaced with former 30 Seconds to Mars bassist Matt Wachter. The band's second full-length album entitled I-Empire debuted on the Billboard 200 Chart at No. 9 and sold 66,000 in its first week.

On June 21, 2008, DeLonge launched Modlife, a social-networking site and online operating system for musicians, bloggers and businesses. DeLonge's purpose is to "fix" the music industry. The band then released a documentary involving their music, titled Start the Machine.

LOVE is the third studio album by Angels & Airwaves, which was officially released worldwide on February 14, 2010 after being delayed from Christmas 2009. A movie, based on the album, is being produced and will show in theaters in Spring 2010, it is also called LOVE.


Musical equipment

Fender Guitars worked with DeLonge to create the Tom DeLonge Stratocaster (signature guitar) which consisted of a solid alder body fitted with a single Seymour Duncan Invader Bridge pickup. It was controlled by a lone volume knob adding to its simple design. At first, the Stratocasters were fitted with an American 2-Point tremolo system and was later replaced by a hardtail bridge. Its neck was made of solid maple with a rosewood fretboard, although there have been some custom Stratocasters that were fitted with maple fretboards. The necks included a large 1970s "CBS" headstock.

In 2002, whilst touring with Box Car Racer, Tom began collaborating with Gibson to create a new Signature Model. He started off by using a standard Gibson ES-335, with all but the bridge volume knob removed, and the bridge pick-up replaced with a Seymour Duncan Invader bridge pick-up. This guitar was eventually covered with many different stickers including band stickers and clothing line stickers from Atticus Clothing, Macbeth Footwear and Famous Stars and Straps. This guitar can be seen in Boxcar Racer live photos and in the studio videos for the Untitled Album. In one of the videos, a prototype for his signature is seen that included an orange stripe instead of cream with a matching orange headstock and a metal volume knob. In 2003, Gibson released his signature model, the Tom DeLonge Signature ES-333, which has only been available since its release in Brown and Cream, with a Natural neck and headstock. Along with his Gibson signature, Tom also used a Fender Jaguar live, as seen in AOL live sessions with the song "Obvious". The Tom DeLonge Signature starts with Gibson's classic semi-hollow body design and then extends it into punk rock with an overwound 'Dirty Fingers' humbucking pickup. Its thick, distorted tone is the signature sound of DeLonge's band Blink-182.[6] On Angels & Airwaves albums, We Don't Need to Whisper and I-Empire Tom has used his signature Gibson ES-333 for all of his live shows. However, he has a number of touring guitars, which he has had made in a few different color combinations, including matte black with a black racing stripe, natural with a black racing stripe and white with a black racing stripe. Since the Blink-182 reunion, he has been seen using his original brown and cream guitar (which now has a Blink-182 'smiley logo' sprayed painted onto the body), his natural and black guitar (which has now been abused with burns, scrapes and stickers), and a new black and white guitar, which is a custom Baritone version of his standard signature guitar, made for playing the song Obvious, and other down-stepped songs. Epiphone has since come out with a lower cost version of the Tom DeLonge signature guitar, manufactured overseas, but fitted with the same Dirty Fingers humbucker.

From very early on in Blink's career, Tom had used a Mesa Boogie Triple Rectifier amp head and a Marshall JCM 900 amp head along with Mesa Boogie and Marshall cabs for live shows. As his career progressed, Tom began using a intricate rack system along with three matching 4x12 and three 2x12 Mesa Boogie cabs. The rack system still made use of the Mesa Boogie Triple Rectifier amp head but it also included a Mesa Boogie 2:90 power amp and Triaxis preamp, Marshall EL34 power amp and JMP-1 preamp and a Voodoo Labs GCX Audio Switcher, all controlled via a Custom Audio Electronics midi footswitch (The rack discontinued the use of the Marshall JCM 900 amp head). The rack system also included a Furman power conditioner and Shure wireless unit.

For Angels and Airwaves, Tom made use of the same rack system minus the Mesa Boogie Triple Rectifier but also included a TC Electronic G-Force effects unit as well as two Palmer PGA-04 amp simulators (one for the Triaxis preamp and one for the JMP-1 preamp).

Since the 2009 Blink 182 reunion, Tom has been using two Fender '65 Twin Reverb Amps for clean and two VOX AC30H2 Amps for distortion


Personal life

Tom lives with his wife Jennifer, daughter Ava Elizabeth (born July 15, 2002) and son Jonas Rocket (born on August 16, 2006), German Sheperd Grey, and Labrador Retriever Chloe in Rancho Santa Fe, California. He is the owner of Macbeth Footwear, which he founded with Mark Hoppus (who has now sold his share in the company). He has sold his share in Atticus Clothing, which he founded together with Mark Hoppus and another friend. He has also been politically active during the 2004 and the 2008 presidential races. In 2004, he supported the Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry, and in 2008 voiced his support for Barack Obama's campaign. He also created a vegan footwear line through his company Macbeth Footwear

Other accomplishments

Tom directed the music video for Taking Back Sunday's song, "This Photograph Is Proof (I Know You Know)" in 2004.[9] Tom made a cameo appearance as the Burger Jungle drive thru clerk in the movie Idle Hands. Blink-182 is featured in the music documentaries: Riding in Vans with Boys, The Urethra Chronicles, The Urethra Chronicles II: Harder Faster Faster Harder, and upcoming film The Blinkumentary. Tom also made a cameo appearance in the blockbuster film American Pie with his fellow band-mates in Blink-182, acting in a scene while one of their songs, "Mutt", played in the background. Tom made a cameo appearance in The Simpsons with fellow band-mates, while "All The Small Things" played in the background.

Tom has created his own website called Modlife; the site allows bands and their fans can meet up and interact with each other. The artists can also choose whether to have paid subscriptions for certain items.

Clothing companies

In 2001, DeLonge started Atticus Clothing and Macbeth Footwear with fellow Blink-182 band member Mark Hoppus. However, after Mark Hoppus sold his shares in both companies after the hiatus of Blink-182, Tom sold his shares in Atticus Clothing and is currently the sole owner of Macbeth Footwear. Tom has 3 Studio Project Shoes with Macbeth Footwear. The Models are The Brighton, The Matthew and The Bonham.


Quotes :

“Everyone else but me surfs. I grew up skateboarding, but I don't even do that anymore. I'll get hurt and die, ... But if I die, I'll sell more records. We're thinking of doing that. Actually dying.”

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“Since [Pink Floyd's] The Wall, this has never been done. A third of the movie is CGI, a third of the movie is a documentary and a third of it is a love story. And it basically tells the story of the breakup of one of the biggest bands in the world and the creation of the world's greatest rock band, ... It's a documentary about the past year of my life. But the whole thing is done with metaphors and analogies of World War II. Because World War II was good versus evil, the grand sense of purpose, and seeing as though I started this new part of my life specifically for my family, I felt that it would be an appropriate reference point rather than using modern images.”

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“Like millions of others, I have been plagued by the devastating effects of cancer hitting not one, but multiple members of my family. Keep A Breast creates events that are not only inspiring and beautiful, they provide a call to action for the millions of teens and young adults are searching for a cause to support.”

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“I think people buy our records because they finally see three guys that are funny and have personalities but play serious songs about things they can relate to ... Kids say they can relate to what our songs are about. They feel like we're their friends.”

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“We really take our music seriously and we take the band very seriously. But we have a lot of personality. So if we're going to write a song about kissing a girl, we're gonna write it. And people think we're a funny band, but we're just realistic, we put our personality into our lyrics.”

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“We were joking about enemas and I said, 'We should call it ”

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“We're immature guys playing pranks on people, having fun,”

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“'What's My Age Again?' -- that's really Mark, ... He's 27 and rolling around on the floor naked. We're always like, 'How old are you?'”

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“Playing music in the wake of the Blink thing was like finding love in the middle of a war zone.”

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