Best "Down" Live Version from Blink 182 Ever!

This song was played at the Teen Choice Awards and in my oppinion it is 1 of Blink's best live performances ever...

[@adiebaker]

DAMMIT TOM! Why couldn't you be sober more often when playing live?

[@adriyear]

When Teen Choice Awards had decent musicians presenting

[@punkgrl325]

More like a few gems among the vast load of crap. So basically the same as it is now.

[@wolfman6489]

Lauren M True

[@brianthealien1825]

Now it’s all terrible music. Why can’t it be like this now ;-;

[@fintendonerd8457]

its teens choice what do you expect? teens nowadays have terrible taste in music

[@nickgames7120]

@@fintendonerd8457 I’m a tween are you saying I have bad taste for listening to this?

[@TheSplash0]

Travis Fucking Barker

[@rattleandhumgirl]

Pick me up Blink, I need you so bad. I'm still gutted Tom has departed, I actually dreamt that I asked Tom if he'd consider taking a year off from AvA to finish the Blink album or do another EP and to do a farewell tour, then he can continue with AvA after. He told me he'd think about. I hope this dream does come true. :)

[@leighafields4733]

he said he wanted to work with blink but if he did he would have to sign a contract not to release anything for ava :((

[@NinjaCakeAssassin]

Situation fits the phrase "dream like scenario" perfectly xD

[@xBenty]

if they do it wont be this year, he wants to finish a new project with ava, much like the music video to "tunnels"

[@Soulfyres]

I would drag my dick through a mile of broken glass just to hear tom delonge fart through a walkie talkie

[@TriforceAlliance]

LeeSa Mark and travis were just impatient. They were like little children, the way they acted. They'll probably get back together, i mean Tom DID say it'd just take a few phone calls. I'm with him on that one.

[@NakedSnake85]

I love how Travis starts to drum Feeling This at 2:28, and crowd goes wild :3

[@lexbaldwin2085]

marks hair looks bombbb in this performance.

[@danielortega3556]

TRAVIS CAN TALK?!??! My Christ.

[@R3DxDEVIL16]

He's got 2 vocal parts on the new album lol

[@danielaliyev2150]

Matt Sirota the first was him screaming AHH in cynical and the other was him asking if that was it in built this pool

[@user-wo5tc9ux7u]

Meme Man hahah thanks

[@76Fordblue]

Lol

[@viniciouchoabezerra1801]

Best Mark's Hair ever.

[@giaco.pastorius]

Vinicio Uchoa Bezerra 🤘

[@jesussayavedra1823]

Agree

[@sedpoo3607]

Am I going to be the only person to say marks hair looks good?

[@hahahaiamwin7367]

failed sed poo

[@frozendogfood]

+sed poo it looks absolutely flawless.

[@ReplayX2X]

+thisis roman what?

[@MiyabiMay7]

He always look good 😍

[@kaisimpson8089]

I miss my childhood so much

[@stevej6215]

I concur!

[@provyprov]

mark looks like a modern day teen heartthrob in this

[@jimmyquinn4416]

provyprov For sure. Mark was one handsome fella around this time.

[@arranmc182]

Its the best because Travis talks :)

[@joshthian]

You said it best brother.

[@CallMeJackFrost]

I like what Travis does at the end, gets the intro to "Feeling This" and plays it without the drags on the bass drum. His creativity amazes me.

[@themoonkiller23]

I love how they incorporate 'Feeling This' towards the end (y)

[@cchs1212]

travis always has such a good time whenever he plays and i love it

[@jordanhaylett4655]

He's one of the best drummers In the world, has such an influencial style, the reason I first ever picked up a set of drumsticks!

[@philkasafir]

Tom is singing along to a backing track in the Chorus, that's the only reason it sounds better. This is why I wish I'd never studied music, makes you spot stuff like that and it becomes a curse!

[@birdtheword7836]

its only because its being filmed on tv. lenny kravitz or however you spelled his name was there. he had to perform the same song twice because of technical difficulties with the recording. but when blink performs on the tour they do not sing to a backing track its nothing but their raw talent. your dont have to study music to notice they're are singing along to something.

[@andrewbielec9353]

Same here man haha it sucks

[@philkasafir]

ryan I You're wrong, dude. No offense, but I am trained to hear these things. I'm not saying you suck for not noticing, not many people do, all I'm saying is don't study music production because it makes you gain disappointment in your favourite bands. More do it than you think, the latest one I noticed was Devin Townsend... But he can actually sing, that's the thing. He doesn't need to. Tom cannot sing, that doesn't mean I don't like Blink, but Tom definitely cannot sing. From Enema of the state up until now all his vocal recordings on the albums are auto-tuned. Auto tune is the anti-christ to me ;)

[@philkasafir]

You know the Album "The Tom, Mark & Travis show"? That entire album is fake. It was made in a studio and the audience were edited in. It's not hard to spot, there are several clues... But the main ones being that you can't hear anyone singing in the audience, just cheers and screams. These are faded in and out gradually, then there's the fact that Tom has NEVER sounded that good on stage in all his career. It's too perfect, no one can sing that perfectly while hammering a guitar. He doesn't even get out of breath.

[@JackAstralGames]

silverflish did you actually study music? because every thing you just said is completely wrong. the tom, mark and travis show was recorded at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium. it isn't fake at all. :I

[@daxandy9899]

WHO SITS DOWN AT A BLINK CONCERT?!!! Travis does...

[@buddystiles8454]

And Tom on a rare occasion when he is too far into it, he almost gets lost

[@SaffronThurkettle-sm8mo]

He does sometimes play drums standing up lol 😂

[@lhcunha1]

2:27 Feeling This :)

[@azulelala]

Luiz Henrique Cunha no

[@Leukoblast2396]

Sounds better because Tom's singing along a pre-recorded studio track.

[@Leukoblast2396]

***** I know bro, I was just explaining people why they "think" it sounds better haha

[@Filip_emo_music]

Better than most pop artists nowadays where they let the track do it all for them and just lip synch

[@MelancholyProducer]

I would have to disagree with ryan, the reason it does sound better is because the tempo is much slower than the rest of their live performances.

[@BeNeBgame]

Just realised that at 2:27 travis starts playing the intro to Feeling this :'D

[@Cursed1701]

+BeNeBgame definitely a missed oportunity

[@dejectedcomic9834]

hello 240p my old friend

[@4ourty5ive]

I think it's one of their best live performances due to their singing/playing along with a track underneath them. You can hear the way Tom's voice is doubled in the chorus and that reverse-piano affect in the 2nd verse (like it is on the cd)... So he gets to sing along with himself, which is a BIG help for him these days... Doesn't mean it don't like it though. Go blink!!

[@jonathansonnier3078]

Down in general is just a fire 🔥 song. Travis has down dialed. There is a video where the band is dokng sound check so they play down to warm up and Travis just took it to another level on just a warm up

[@justinTime077]

What band doesn’t do that? The real questions would be was Tom caring or not during any given performance, and how drunk was he?

[@justinTime077]

I think they killed it in Japan in ‘03 and Dublin UK in ‘04

[@ledzep9943]

@@justinTime077led Zeppelin never did 🤣

[@NFace23]

Even in the best live version, Mark still sounds bored as hell.

[@Carbon1911]

No, he's just felling this.

[@NFace23]

almost

[@DeathDealer655]

Nick Fassino always

[@NakedSnake85]

Mark sounds Mark.

[@aronmazza8742]

The song is supposed to be dark so he sings like that for a darker tone

[@EdwinRodriguez-ly8jw]

Hello I am from 2024..to all who wish that these band got together again..Sorry to spoil you all but....they did..💕

[@rozac155]

When they recorded this album Travis had to leave Tom and Mark alone on the set for about a month or so, cause he had something with The Transplants. Travis recorded some random drum rhythms and Tom and Mark had to chose one for every song. This is why some songs have similar drums. Also, if you go on and listen to every album you'll hear that every member had his own special way of playing in that album.

[@macko4042]

There voices compliment each other perfectly... I love this band

[@RIchPiramideLoL]

Trevis is a fuckin beast, lol such the best drummer ever :D Mark looks like bored as fuck ahahah then tom, is TOM :D

[@mattbinder7030]

When Tom actually gives a shit you get this.....

[@jimmya8657]

I was going to say, Tom sounds way to good for this to be all him. Then i realized there was a backing track 😂 No one can harmonize with themselves except zoidberg!

[@ProjectSRZband]

good one ryan

[@MrViciousway]

Best live version I've heard of this song. Not a joke lol, sweet!

[@sherazuki]

Its good because there's a vocal backing track and probably some other tracks like the reverse thing. Its not a bad thing but that's why its so good.

[@jebvoorhees125]

Looks like Blink replaced Tom with Zak Bagans.

[@matt_afact]

while at the show, we captured this disturbing evp...

[@jebvoorhees125]

... not now .... not now ....

[@rockboy360]

This was just a live overdub, playing to a backing track........I bet the stereo version sounded even bigger because of the doubled guitars and all, that's why, but at least it made them sing in key, but i think Tom could've just harmonized with mark on the bridge to not make it that obvious.

[@guillermonavarrete9756]

Shut up kid....

[@tylerrivas9922]

rockboy360 Well what was being used was a type of live auto tune, there are multiple guitar tracks in the back, but that's not uncommon for a band with only one guitarist. Tom isn't the greatest vocal wise, so they were trying something to make it sound a little more enjoyable.

[@shady8099]

rockboy360 i think every known artist overdubs dude

[@rockboy360]

not all, u can notice differences in the stereo image, and sometimes they improvise or extend the songs, sometimes the go a little faster some other times a little slower, whenever u hear that means that it's not overdubbed. It's pretty hard to find great sounding live bands nowadays.

[@shady8099]

Notice how it's only overdubbed on the chorus? It's because that requires the most effort, it's only there to help the singer sound like the original recording, it's not louder than the actual singer at all. It's basically backup vocals. Rihanna does it in every one of her concerts. Most singers do it. Bands don't usually do it as often.

[@veriusROCK]

this song gives me goosebumps everytime!

[@nathajyoti4286]

i miss this blink-182 era

[@luanamartinez6209]

Tom you're fucking hot.....well....you were xD

[@MrGingy81]

anyone notice that at the end travis was playing feeling this?

[@32arv]

"He doesn't even know how to sit... it's just a pose" haha, that's what Tom said. you know Travis is always moving

[@Jodystortion]

Tom's best live performance in fact

[@KILLJILL_Official]

the fuck. is travis's foot always broken?

[@Mitch-Cumstein]

There's actually backing track sorry to say

[@Motleydru]

There's tracks playing piano and back up vocals (probably a metronome for travis). Also its for TV and it makes the performance sound better anyway. i dont see the problem in that

[@VeronicaGorositoMusic]

Travis is absolutely amazing

[@banjoksaw930]

0:59 Emma Watson is that you?

[@ghoulbeans1997]

Hermoinie ?

[@Tigers9505]

Tom decides whether Blink sound good live or not

[@guillermo3947]

My favorite band

[@BillyHutabarat]

hoppus looks handsome here..

[@ariewahyu92]

no homo pls

[@Nsaf_UKR]

yeah all 30 pixels of him

[@MiyabiMay7]

Hoppus always looks handsome

[@Rockeman182]

He's always handsome lol. Blink 182 is band of good looking dudes. No homo, all bromo.

[@BillyHutabarat]

+Danny Adams but now hoppus looks so old... but still handsome... lol... all bromo

[@notsoperfectdrummer]

This is how I'll remember blink forever and ever

[@DouglasOliveiraCreators]

performance, tocaram com o coração neste dia Blink 182

[@MrSarov]

Love Marks hair here, this is blink at it's best!

[@kennypop182]

@yezerpunker > yeah but he sing the chorus in semi-playback so...... you can hear the difference with the verses... i think that the radio1 is the best live version of this song

[@ivanmont]

this isn't the best one, is too boring and and slow, sounds like a demo. The best version of this is the one from letterman, super fast, energetic and lots of feeling

[@KiWiCrappy]

@MTVrocks Well then Tom just sucks when he sings live. just listen to this video, then the music video on vevo's youtube and you can tell a huge difference in his voice

[@matthewmccarthy8580]

I like how they break into a Feeling This interlude almost.

[@666vpid]

Kids these days will never understand. I grew up listening to blink.

[@leo14238]

Typical show performance from that time with the "crazy" crowd in close up's. Don't be sure if the music is really100% live. May be...or not...but still a great song that remembers me about a lost and better time...

[@KiWiCrappy]

@kingoftheworld656564 either they auto tuned his voice in the album, or he thinks that he sounds "better" this way.

[@PerfectCell9]

Talk about a drummer who ( and don't get me wrong I love blink) only needed to be with more skilled musicians to be known as simply one of the best ever.. I know he is great with blink and his other projects but what if, ohh holy shit fuck what if he joined say... The foo fighters .. Or muse .. Or fuck so many, avenged sevenfold to replace the rev... Idk, just think of the possibilities

[@dendanny]

So, you're 13 years old and you listen to punkrock? Please share this amazing fact with the rest of the world

[@xXblink182XxforeverX]

It could be vocal effects, like a doubler, or a echo, or a vocal harmonization effect. The sound guy can do that while they are playing live. but its nothing they they arent actually playing. I hear it too, but it just sounds like a harmonization of the same thing they are singing.

[@Dantheman225500]

that ending

[@xXblink182XxforeverX]

Where is this backing track at? Cus if it were there, you would hear the parts mark didnt sing live. This is all live. They were just really good back in 03/04. They are good now, but they were their best in 03/04.

[@JD43232]

but he wasn't feeling well during that interview. after that he lost weight and had awesome hair :D

[@wegotfernando1995]

I thought vocals were on point here to be honest! Sick performance

[@markothwriter]

This actually got me through my deployment in Iraq. I'd listen to it every morning before we'd go on foot patrol. Not this version, but the album version. 2004.

[@thelittlepasty8360]

Wow this actually is a great live performance from them

[@antoinette689]

It feels so... Wrong watching this after I watched a video of plus 44 perform. I hate the feeling. Like I'm doing something wrong. Or forgetting someone.

[@thanksmisfortune]

i know i'll get flamed for this, but travis' fill right before the chorus is terrible, and i think he knows he screwed up. but still this is the best version of the song i've seen live

[@sk8brder40]

Yeah, it is the best live performance of Down... because it is edited and you can hear pre-recorded backing vocals behind their singing..

[@DevonEwyMusic]

I'm not close minded, nor did I start a fight, but we all know it, Jesus, if you watched tonight's VMA's , you see that music is a disaster now and it ISN'T fun. Yea it's supposed to be fun, but its not when people are shaking their behinds on public television, and vulgarity and rap, and the same things over and over!! VMA's would be alright if they had a pop performer, rock performer, anybody from different genres, all I saw was the same rap shit tonight.

[@mklschwrtz2]

Actually, if we're gonna talk real punk then we're talking about The Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Exploited, Toy Dolls and Misfits. To name a few. neither Rancid, Ramones, Blink or Sum counts as real punk. Even though Ramones are kind of the start of all punk music, they where actually a failed glamrock band who got to do their own thing when they couldn't play what they wanted to play from the start. All bands these are great though.

[@CugnoBrasso]

Indestructible is all but a punk album, come on, what's the next ultra punk band you're going to mention, sex pistols? I don't dislike rancid, but you're here to show off that you're a true punk guy, or something like this as far as I can see, in this case you could have at least mentioned agnostic front or the adicts... Well never mind, I wonder how old you are. Just listen to what you like and let everyone listen to what they like, I don't see that much of a problem.

[@nrm8821]

Yeah usually bands who use autotune use it very lightly because the singers actually know how to sing. Hip hop artists just overdo the autotune on purpose to give it that digital sound. Yeah Tom has definitely changed his vocal style. I respect it though. He said in an interview somewhere he finally figured out how to sing properly and he said it's made him a better singer. Most people just associate it with Angels & Airwaves because both happened at the same time.

[@nrm8821]

Yeah bands having been using autotune for years actually, it's just people never really picked up on it until rap/hip hop started using it. It sounds like they layered their vocal tracks. You can really hear it in the chorus where Mark sounds like he's harmonizing with himself. They're both good enough singers they don't really need autotune live. But I know at least Tom uses it recorded.

[@Jolteon7]

Green Day does the same. The Ramones did that same. go complain somewhere else. Tom, along with every other guitarist in a famous band, is obviously a very good guitarist, otherwise they wouldnt be famous. go look at songs like M+M's, The Rock Show, or Dammit. you wouldn't have come up with catchy shit like that if you tried. i know i'll have to work on writing catchy shit like that.

[@xXxtaexXx1]

@kingoftheworld656564 Tom sounds better on the ablums because when people record albums they get to sing parts of songs over and over till they get it to sound like they want to. People dont record a song all the way through, they do it in parts usually. Like they will record the guitar on a serperate track then they do the bass on serperate track and so on. then they do some eq and maybe put some effects like reverb and then they mix it and master it so it sounds perfect.

[@xXxtaexXx1]

dude u guys gotta relealize that when people record albums they do like a bunch of takes of songs to get it just right and they mix it and master it and do some eq and effects to the music to make it sound better. So like 95% of bands don't sound as good as they do on the album. in this performence they have an effect called chorus on toms voice when he sings the chorus so its sounds a little better. And no he isnt auoto- tuned because this was before auot- tune was availiable for live concerts.

[@guitarpsychobilly]

So glad they played this at their Sydney sidewave. I was so stoked!

[@ohwaititsbait]

mark has something he wants to say to all the children...... "HELLO KIDS, ITS SATAN, I THINK WE SHOULD ALL TAKE OUR PANTS OFF".

[@ShadysideRoad]

i hate when people fight about music genre, and when people talk shit about bands. In the end it's about the music and what the music means to you, who gives a shit if this is pop punk or punk. and for anyone who says blink isn't punk, go take a look at the Cheshire cat album. thats just as good as rancid or even pennywise. point is. who gives a fuck about negative ass opinions.

[@TheAwesomo40001]

Completely different genres. Sum 41 and Blink-182 maybe different bands, but they share the same elements in their music. How are you going to compare Justin Bieber to Blink-182? You can pull out whats different all day, the Blink-182 fans are going to like Blink-182 for the elements in their music and the Justin Bieber fans are still going to like him for his elements.

[@punkgrl325]

I was a teen when this happened. It's sad because teens were already moving towards emo music during this time and were moving towards edgier stuff. I think Generation X probably had the best time music wise. They got to experience the awesomeness of punk's hayday from the 80's all throughout to the pop-punk sensation of the mid 90s - early 2000s.

[@dendanny]

because nobody cares about your age, and there are too many comments of those

[@rogermozden6383]

Don't get me wrong (I like blink) but you can hear the backing track from the CD so it keeps them more in tune with actual CD track. It's something that is forced upon all bands now days unfortunately. There is a good video of Muse making fun of a TV station for making them do it.

[@pears009]

Yea! He was/is on point! What happened? Why is he so terrible now? I wonder if all the years of singing with a voice like his (unique) has strained his vocal chords, and he just can't do it anymore??? They are really bad live now if you've seen any of their latest performances... : (

[@RocketsFlyHigh182]

There really is no such thing as Punk, because Punk is like a tree, many branches flow from it, Techno punk, Pop Punk, Punk Rock and people don't understand that Blink-182 has their own Genre, they're Crappy Punk Rock, if you haven't noticed some Blink Fans you are, don't even know their own Genre

[@SilentWaFFLed]

@atticus0011 are you trying to tell me "stay together for the kids" had no message? what about "not now", "adams song"? sure blink is well known for being crazy and stupid, but alot of there later songs are full of beautiful symbolism. And gets alot of kids through tough times.

[@SilentWaFFLed]

o man....i wish REAL rock bands/punk bands had the same chance to be heard as they did back then....now its all black eyed peas and kesha. Almost completely about the image, and the special sound effects they throw into the beat. No message other than getting laid and dancin in the club.

[@angelaconway01]

I don't know how you can't call blink punk. obviously punk isnt going to stay the absolute same through-out the years.

[@babbiz29]

I really like blink-182 dude but this is not real punk. Listen to Ramones and Sex Pistols for real "old school" punk.

[@SiiR93]

No this is not why I think they rule.. I think they rule because they are fking awesome that's why. Yeah you are right about the backtrack but if you think the only reason I like them is because of this, well then you are just wrong.

[@TheMetallicafan7]

its annoying comments like that that make my day blink is punk :)ever listen to buddha chesire cat? or flyswatter like any other punk band they worked they way up from underground :) same with sum41 and all killer no filler wt do u know :)

[@efisher182]

Around 2002 -2003, he and mark started Macbeth and Atticus and I'm pretty sure that Mark sold himself out of Macbeth when the band went on hiatus and I don't think that either of them have anything to do with Atticus anymore.

[@arjunpad333]

oh thats a shame then :/, but atleast they dont sound inhumane, like some of our modern singers do, These guys can sing like you mentioned. Mark's remained pretty much the same, but Tom's voice has changed.

[@joerhode9449]

all of us were into punk and alternative back then... now all of the teens love Justin beiber or all of this rap that sounds like shit.... why cant teens like blink 182, green day, and all of those old bands anymore,,,,

[@atticus0011]

@SilentWaFFLed thats not what im saying at all, what i was trying to say (all be it, badly) is that as a band and a concept there is far FAR less of a message to their music other than to just say fuck it and have fun.

[@BobSteveLarry18]

@Markus1723 It sounds like they might be playing a recorded version in the background to make it sound a little better. If I'm not mistaken, that's what tomwentz 14 means when he says this version is "backing tracked to fuck".

[@mot19]

Woh man. If you ask me playing your songs to a bunch of 10 year old girls puts you in the same class as fucking beiber. Old blink (94-2001) and brand new blink (neighborhoods) ftw. This shit for the loss.

[@rodrigomiranda9698]

Al fin un titulo de video que es cierto!! Una de los mejores "live" de Blink

[@rogermozden6383]

You can hear a voice harmonizing with Tom during the chorus and Mark during his "Down" part. Doesn't mean they have the actual CD track or anything. It's possibly just a backing track for those parts.

[@jonidecarvalho4010]

?! Never heard of another way of playing a music? :X Travis is one of the most creative drummers I've ever heard, i dont think hes playing "feeling this" but well... its only a mater of prespective :)