Bass Teacher Hears BLINK-182’s “CAROUSEL” for the First Time!

FULL-ALBUM Reactions, Lessons & More 👉 / lowenduniversity
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➡️ Hearing Blink-182 instantly transports me back to high school the second I hear their sound, but I've never heard much beyond their well-known singles such as "Dammit", "I Miss You", or "All The Small Things". You guys have been requesting "Carousel", which I'm learning is one of the first songs the band ever wrote! Mark Hoppus kicks off the track with a beautiful chordal bass groove that establishes the song's melodic motif all the way until the very end. I discuss his smooth StingRay bass tone, why it's perfect for the song's bass line, why Blink-182's guitar parts are much cooler than you think, how they never lose momentum in their song arrangements, a music theory discussion on the song's chord progression (including a bizarre change near the end), and much more! 🤠🤘🏼
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14:35 Final Thoughts
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Mark Michell is an internationally-touring and recording bass player known for his work with Scale the Summit, Tony MacAlpine, Tetrafusion, Watermox, and more. Michell is a published educator and author for Hal Leonard, the world's largest music publisher, and has taught bass clinics around the globe for many years. He founded Low End University in 2015, and has since enrolled over 2,500 students through his lessons program. Alongside his educational endeavors, he played on many Billboard-charting album releases and is sponsored by Jackson Basses, EMG Pickups, and Dunlop.
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[@SumBlink-lw3pg]

"its really beautiful" damn how i wish i could hear this song for the first time again

[@LowEndUniversity]

🥹👏🏼

[@nicebrickbuilds4975]

True statement

[@g11dllc]

Every time I hear this song it's like it was the first time, that intro is SO amazing that IMHO nothing really touches it, it's so good.

[@LouieD85]

Me too. I’ll never forget that day. I love this whole album

[@jasongall7634]

When I started playing bass this was a song I was determined to learn how to play. To the point where my brothers friends would be over and shout at me "learn a new song!" Anyhow my band at the time covered it and I felt like I finally could play something that made me feel like I could keep up with my band that was much more talented than me.

[@506motoadv]

I saw a live clip on them doing this song in 2000ish and Mark lead into the song by saying “I wrote this song 7 years ago, I’ve been playing it every day since, and I still can’t get it right!” 😂

[@LowEndUniversity]

Sometimes, it be like that 😅

[@gabriellevesque-lessard5052]

Lol its not that hard....

[@joelbartor]

It’s called self amusement marks makes fun of himself as a joke he then proceeded to play it perfect

[@vefarinaj]

that might've been the Big Day Out festival ? I love that, and now i remember downloading it on LimeWire 😅

[@scclarke2229]

Blink was notorious for not being the best musicians Tom struggled with What's My Age Again alot too

[@hotstankygarbage788]

Mark is the reason I learned to play the bass. His alternate picking style and bass strumming is genius.

[@richmeier]

Not to mention him starting from that old school straight Down stroke play till your arm falls off background. Then Jerry Finn and him coming with ICONIC sound with all the compressors but mainly combining a lot of octave/chord progressions combined with the recorded root note basic notes (a lot on self titled)

[@dustinvanvliet9978]

Mark Hoppus was the reason I picked up a bass in the first place. Such an underrated player I think. Thanks for covering this!

[@nayfehn89]

Same, still got his original fender pbass Sig, the Seymour Duncan quarter pounders still sound solid

[@AtomizedSound]

Same bro. Got my ‘03 Hoppus signature still going

[@dustinvanvliet9978]

@@nayfehn89 one of my biggest regrets was selling mine. 😪 I have a standard P bass now but I threw SD QP's in to pay homage.

[@felixg.4908]

same! my favorite to play is Mutt :P

[@bolaobikes]

same here mate!!

[@felixg.4908]

my favorite bassline of BLink182 HAS to be Mutt. Really groovy, fun to play, and a classic as far as i'm concerned.

[@yeshuaislord3058]

I agree, my favorite as well

[@flo1308]

I can never really decide for the best blink bassline, but Mutt is definitely the most fun to play by far. Half the time I pick up my bass I end up playing the bouncy prechorus /chorus bit.

[@felixg.4908]

@@flo1308 she's open waiting for more, an I know he's only looking to score

[@lordsp]

That album has Mutt and Anthem. Great songs!!!

[@wretchedknave5740]

Yes its a great and unusually special bass line

[@matthewwinthrop3278]

“Mutt” is another really good bass song by Blink. I wanna say Mark has mentioned that’s his favorite one to play on the bass. Something along those lines.

[@DavidParke84]

Absolutely. Mutt is insanely underrated as a bass song, probably because the intro part is so simple. People forget.

[@TheBlackMambaa248]

Mutt is one of their best songs and arguably underrated. That bass line is extraordinarily catchy.

[@vincentjives]

I'd throw Man Overboard in there too, great Mark song

[@commandoch12i5]

Absolute banger. The bassline is so funky.

[@guillermo3947]

That song is AMAZING. My favorite song to play. Funny and dynamic

[@KillerF0x]

as a Kid I had to figure out how to play this song by ear and it took a long time. You immediately nailed it and got it perfect.

[@ja-son439]

Close....got it very close...better than most

[@zachmillerdrums]

i’m glad you picked up tom’s wrong notes in the bridge. written like a true teenager who just moved one little riff shape around the fretboard without thinking about it ❤

[@S2kTi]

Lmao right, you know damn well Tom wasn't thinking music theory at that point in time. A good mistake, however. It does add some nice tension.

[@jaredmarshall9439]

They aren't wrong note. He plays the same notes in both versions on Buddah and Cheshire. Its an intentional key change.

[@zachmillerdrums]

@@jaredmarshall9439 “wrong notes” was a poor choice of words because i’m aware this is how he always plays it.. but i am not going to pretend he knew was he was doing outside of playing 1 riff in 4 positions

[@stevenmorrison3014]

The notes are not wrong.

[@zachmillerdrums]

@@stevenmorrison3014 read the follow up comment! ❤️

[@disparity-bit]

Another pop punk Stingray player from this era is Mike Herrera, frontman of MxPx and current bassist of Goldfinger. They've got a lot of good bass-forward songs, with one of their more popular early ones being Chick Magnet. There's an official bass playthrough from Mike on KZbin.

[@LowEndUniversity]

Oh, nice!! Goldfinger are actually coming up very soon. 😇

[@dustinvanvliet9978]

@@LowEndUniversity I freaking love Goldfinger. 🤙

[@support8187]

Heck yes ​@@LowEndUniversity

[@bassimprovjams3772]

Is he the one that just got his signature sterling?

[@dustinvanvliet9978]

@@bassimprovjams3772 Mike Herrera did, yes.

[@jonathonherroon6580]

this was one of the first bass riffs I ever learned as a kid when I started playing. I felt so fucking cool for being able to play it.

[@daveeatworld]

@LowEndUniversity Hey Mark Cheshire was actually recorded with a 1985 Fender P bass with an EMG pickup. Mark Hoppus himself confirmed this on his Discord server. Mark started using Sting Rays after this record until around spring or summer 1997, switched to a Fender P Bass live, you can see it on Warped Tour 1997 videos, Dammit music video , and into fall 1997 then back to Sting Rays again in 1998 and back to Fender in 1999-Present. Tom (guitar) used an early 90s Squire Stratocaster, stock single coil pickups using position 4 blending the middle and neck pickups on this record and the demos before it. Love your channel. This song made me wanna pick up an instrument as a kid.

[@Snandra66]

Marks most prominent uses of the Stingray would be Adams Song and What's My Age Again I think?

[@daveeatworld]

@@Snandra66 WMAA was a P-bass. I can’t remember which was on Adam’s Song.

[@darengreenall503]

I'm here for this level of gear knowledge 🙌

[@jaydee659]

Tom did use a Les Paul on some recordings I believe, Dude Ranch and some Enema of the State? Then when he got the Fender deal they got him the Seymour Duncan Invader. And Mark got the Duncan quarter pound bass pickups. I installed a set on my ‘92 PBass back in 2004 and they are really good passive pickups, imo. Of course I didn’t wire in the tone knob with them a la Blink. Sounds great through an SVT head with an 8x10. And then when I wanted a thicker sound the Boss bass EQ pedal got turned on.

[@daveeatworld]

@@jaydee659 Tom used his Sticker Strat on Dude Ranch - 1994 American Standard Stratocaster DiMarzio X2N in the bridge, Seymour Duncan JB Jr in the middle and Seymour Duncan Hot Rails in the neck. He always played the bridge X2N pickup though. Tom probably / likely used one of his Les Paul’s on Enema Of The State but I have yet to see definitive proof. I do have studio pics from the Enema sessions with his amps though and him playing a Telecaster which was most likely for some cleans on that record. Tom used a lot of Jerry Finn’s gear for TOYPAJ and Untitled. The earliest I’ve seen Mark used Quarter Pounders is either 1999 or 2000, but there’s bigger Mark gear heads on his Discord that would know for sure.

[@vovaestivrogne]

Mark is one of the most underappreciated punk bassits ever

[@chairmanofthebored6860]

He's not underappreciated. He's just not all that great. This was literally the first song I learned many years ago.

[@lordsp]

​@@chairmanofthebored6860 not that great? Didnt hear him enough I guess.

[@willvolz1041]

@@chairmanofthebored6860 blink is one of the household names of the last 3-4 generations. Even my 70 y/o mom knows them. He does his job as a bassist in a 3 man band on top of being a lead vocalist. Who knows maybe he’d blow your socks off as a soloist but that’s not why he’s a bassist.

[@JonyBussolo]

@@chairmanofthebored6860 what’s makes him a genius is his tone and how it serves the band.. U can have all the skills a bass player can have and still sounding bad in a band 😉

[@xintlzer3354]

A Lot of bassits in the punk genre are really underappreciated and Mark is not the exception...

[@AVSGreenDay]

Mark does know how to play guitar but he mainly played bass throughout his career. He was the bassist in a band before blink where he mostly covered The Cure and Descendents. He has written a lot of blink-182s guitar riffs. He wrote the riffs for Dammit, Going Away to College, What’s My Age Again?, Adam’s Song, Man Overboard, The Rock Show and so on.

[@alexroberts6416]

I never knew this

[@user-lw2kl8zm3b]

Tom wrote riff for dammit

[@AVSGreenDay]

@@user-lw2kl8zm3b Tom wrote the chord progressions, Mark wrote the guitar riff. You can google it or watch “the pursuit of tone” Tom DeLonge where he talks about it.

[@Bls-of1ld]

He wrote them songs but idk how much he had to do with making the riffs...

[@ireactionl]

The last part of this is incorrect

[@CordellWoodworks]

This song and Time are the reasons I got into pop punk and the reasons I started playing bass. It brings back such good memories. When I saw them live before the break up, at like 33 years old or so, and Mark got on the ground to start playing this track I got as excited as a 12 year old. Their discography brings me back to a simpler time and I will never stop listening to them. My favorite version of this song is Live in Chicago 2001. Mark on his signature Jazz bass through a stack of Ampeg 8x10s, Travis on drums instead of Scott, the tempo is even faster, the explosions of fire, atticus shirts, macbeth shoes, it's just all so fucking good.

[@dcespinosa11]

Time is an amazing song

[@good13adnews]

Mark has said that this song was him trying to write something like the beginning of "Happy" by Ned's Atomic Dustbin, who had the unusual line up of two bass players, one playing chords/melodies up high, and another doing the more 'traditional' role. Would be really interesting to see you take a look at them and discuss the dynamics of the two different styles working together!

[@LowEndUniversity]

Wild to hear the connection there, I have NAD in the queue but had no idea it was remotely tied into this scene. Really looking forward now!

[@gorillaump5869]

Haha- just made pretty much the same comment.

[@shortymcsteve]

@LowEndUniversity I think I requested NAD previously, but if you check out their song Titch you can absolutely hear the comparison to Carousel. I believe it’s Marks favourite NAD song, he has mentioned a few times. Happy is also a great NAD song, but not as bass heavy. Those guys have two bass players! Also, Mark Hoppus took a lot of inspiration from Dinosaur Jr in the early days. You can definitely hear he has a similar style. If you ever do a Blink song again, I recommend Always. There’s multiple bass tracks in that song including one of those Roland Synth basses you hold like a real bass.

[@thomasseymour4190]

@@LowEndUniversityI’m the same age as the guys in the the band, similar childhood(suburbs in the late 80s, hung out with skaters/bmx/music kids mostly) the Ned’s connection makes total sense.

[@Laurennn]

When you show someone a song, you want them to react and appreciate it the way that you have here. The bass is hands down the reason why this is my favorite Blink song. It’s pure punk and poetry. Thank you for highlighting, appreciating, and discussing its complexity.

[@NexterZulu]

Yes! My favorite blink 182-song. I think I speak for a lot of people when I say that this intro is the first thing I will play when I pick up the bass.

[@erichirsch9268]

I've been a Blink fan my whole life and always loved loved loved the intro to this song. I grew up playing guitar and at 37 finally grabbed a bass which I've been learning. I literally found out today that the intro to Carousel is a bass line. Mind blown. Learning it now!

[@PATRICKGILL4]

Listened to these guys when they were just called Blink. This sound was so groundbreaking when it came out. Changed my life.

[@bryanb767]

So happy you did this! Was thinking of suggesting this.

[@Rustydrummer33]

Listen to the live version off of Mark, Tom, & Travis Show the speed it up even more.

[@Rustydrummer33]

*they

[@anthonycaggiano6077]

Great video, I love seeing people hear Blink songs for the first time! Carousel was the reason I bought a bass guitar and became a musician back in the day. One of the best bass songs of all time for me🤙

[@dustin17871]

Scott! Lets all take a second and remember Scott.

[@Slubadub01]

Absolutely.

[@ShawnGreyling]

yes, please

[@KyFiGz]

Scott was so drunk he don’t even remember being in the band

[@crimsonpunx]

He’s a police officer in San Diego now. Hella weird

[@Wantabe2188]

@@crimsonpunxthat’s awesome

[@stephenshort7]

Another brilliant breakdown of a great song. Please keep these videos going and well done again

[@Jettonx]

Watching you experience this song was brilliant! This is probably one of my favourite blink songs, between this and man overboard. I find it so fascinating watching you work out things so accurately on the fly

[@MrVisde]

YES!!!!! 16-year old me hearing this for the first time was instantly hooked.

[@travisdickens3695]

I’m gonna cry. This is like my favorite song by them!!

[@saint_double_k]

I LOVE this song. I still play it every time I pick up my bass. I even play the guitar part at the beginning on it. So much fun. It will never get old.

[@jessiecalderon]

Man, im so jealous you get to hear all this stuff for the first time! I discovered NOFX back when I was 12 in 1996. I’m so stoked (and jealous) to see a musician discovering this stuff nowadays. I’m glad I found your channel

[@1thess523]

I actually got to hang out with Mark when we saw them in Austin right before rhe Dude Ranch tour and he told me a lot if his bass influence came from the early 90's alternative band Neds Atomic Dustbin., they have 2 bass players in that band and one uses a Stingray and plays a lot of what you hear Mark playing in early Blink. If you haven't heard of Neds Atomic Dustbin check out Happy and you'll hear Blink style riffs in the Stingray player

[@LowEndUniversity]

Nice! NAD are on the list actually, soon-ish! Stay tuned.

[@1thess523]

Sweet! Keep up the good work 👌👊

[@lostmotel6156]

Thanks for doing that thing you do 😁 Big time nostalgia factor here and you did it justice in the best way

[@stephanehoude3436]

So much nostalgia for me. Its the beginning of my punk era! Awesome video!

[@garrettkeithr]

I credit this song for teaching me how to incorporate chords into my bass playing. Great tune!

[@JON.HOUSE24]

One of my favorite Blink songs! I never noticed the little mixolydian wrinkle towards the end of the song. Really cool. Great stuff!

[@Zombiefink13]

Richer than you by Frenzal Rhomb is another punk tune DEFINITELY worth checking! Criminally underrated band from Australia.

[@RJMelling]

the Rhomb are Australian heroes! They just supported NOFX on their final Aussie shows.

[@Zombiefink13]

@@RJMelling unfortunately not at the Melbourne shows though! 😂

[@paddyay9422]

@@Zombiefink13 Clowns killed it though

[@tonymagick]

Literally one of my favorite songs ever. I love that yall listen to some of the same niche bands that I do

[@JasonAnarchyGames]

This makes my day, great song choice!

[@jmkenny]

OMG!! I've been waiting for this one

[@LowEndUniversity]

😉🤙🏼

[@andrewclark1945]

I remember buying their back catalog after enema and learned those songs on bass, then I heard this and fell in love. Hadn't heard a bass played in chords before. Haven't touched my bass in 2 decades but I can still feel teen me playing it in my room annoying my parents. Thanks for the nostalgia boost!

[@ElliottDodson]

the way Mark hoppus inspired me as a guitar player at the time to change to bass, and I've never had so much more fun on an instrument and be able to jam with my friends. I'd appreciate more blink reactions I just found this channel and plan to stay.

[@C_Kawla]

Mark. You're my favourite bassist since Scale The Summit. I randomly click this link and realise that this is your channel. Glad to know that you love blink, the band is an epitome of our teenage years and high school life.

[@LowEndUniversity]

Love it! Thanks for the kind words friend, appreciate you! 🙏🏼

[@bassimprovjams3772]

What a classic! So many memories to this! I had one of their greatest hits albums and this was on it I wasn’t into blink or punk I was stuck on Prog island all them years lol but such great bands back then that I missed

[@Drouse1986]

Definitely nostalgic! I remember trying to read “drum tabs” for this one in preparation for a drummer tryout (me and another friend) for my first jr high band. 😂 again, thanks for providing this kind of content! I love that aspiring musicians have such a vast well to pull from. 🙌🏻

[@LowEndUniversity]

Love it! Appreciate the kind words friend!

[@Nahojishere]

Nice! this is my favorite Blink record

[@CrashRaph01]

One more comment lol: Tom is a Master of Melody, his guitar is some of the catchiest stuff you'll hear. Check out Enthused which is an earlier song, basically a guitar instrumental. The chord progression in Carousel is a Blink staple, they use it a lot and it always works. Also Carousel is literally the very First song Mark and Tom wrote together. For Bass check out Mutt

[@michaelfoust3181]

Enthused is one of my favorites too.

[@kirbybudrow5342]

Makes me so happy to hear someone else appreciate this amazing music

[@jakobgeneration510]

Love how you call out the number progression. Super helpful. Nashville number system is brilliant. 🧡

[@matthewgerken7487]

This takes me back. Being from San Diego, our local radio station 91X was playing Blink-182 years before they ever became a household name. I wore the shit out of this cd from ‘95 well into the early ‘2000s. Stoked to see this reaction.

[@zebrafood]

This is the first time I've ever seen your videos. Cheshire Cat is my favorite album of all time and I love how positively you reacted to the track. Made me happy to see!

[@LowEndUniversity]

Welcome aboard! Glad you enjoyed it, friend!!

[@ShootinMyWayOut]

This is such an in depth analysis, thank you so much. I understand why this is one of my favorites much better now. Instant sub!

[@LowEndUniversity]

Welcome aboard! That means a lot!

[@666evollove]

One of their best songs for sure. I still have a tape cover of this Cheshire Cat that only says blink. It was before they got sued and added the 182. Love this album and especially this song. Very nostalgic. Like a time machine, it takes me back to 90s and blasting this through my walkman. Lolol. Great video as usual.

[@CoolestGuyInTheRoom]

Thank you. Brings me back to seeing them live in 1994 - 1997.

[@gabrielsj]

Took me back to 95! 15 years old, warming up for another day of surf. Props to Scott Raynor.

[@noahpauley]

As someone who’s a guitarist and not much of a bassist, that arpeggio line Mark plays is always my go to riff when I sit down with my bass.

[@shawnking2255]

actually kinda crazy, i was thinking of you doing this song the other day!

[@LowEndUniversity]

😎🌀🔮

[@zacharymorgan9974]

Dude awesome video man , and excellent breakdown of the song. It's so amazing how this really unique tune was written at 1995 when not many people at all knew who they were.

[@LowEndUniversity]

Really appreciate you!! Thanks for the kind words!

[@bassage13]

Oh, man! I listened to this album a MILLION times when it came out. I was in high school and this brings back so many memories.

[@andyxmunoz]

Loved listening to my Chesire Cat CD and learning all the guitar parts in my bedroom when I was a kid in Jr High. Unintentionally, they made me a great guitar player by the time I arrived to high school. Always felt connected to them, even though I grew up in Utah - I was born in San Diego and lived there until I was 12. Stoked to see them live in July.

[@melissap5649]

Guitar player here for 20 yrs (dang getting old) and I swear I probably listened to my dad playing the bass in the womb bc every where I go the bass line just hits me. And yes this is one of my fave songs by Blink so much so that I play the bass line on the guitar just because I love it so much.

[@cactusrider7686]

The glassy tone and riffs reminds me of Ned Atomic Dustbin. They have an early video where Mark is in his room and behind him you see the Neds poster---so its an influence imo

[@peterw2880]

I think he’s admitted as much

[@JPindanga]

Holy Molly! bink-182 here? WE LOVE IT! blink-182 old stuff is insane! Funny tho cause I'm Brazilian and blink-182 just did their first tour ever in South America and they unfortunately they didn't play CAROUSEL to us! To me, this is the most iconic blink-182 song!

[@AtomizedSound]

Nice! Glad you finally got to this one after awhile. Mark is the reason I started my musical journey and decided to play bass as the first instrument I ever learned. Still have my Mark Hoppus signature bass from ‘03. I recommend “Feeling This” from them with more chordal bass techniques he does too.

[@LowEndUniversity]

Rad! Love to hear it. I remember being enamored by his surf green signature P in a music shop years ago, almost bought it.

[@AtomizedSound]

@@LowEndUniversity that’s the one I have! It’s a beautiful bass

[@markacres768]

You grabbed a pick! Super sweet!

[@alvivanco]

this is an amazing breakdown. You've earned a follower 💪

[@LowEndUniversity]

Welcome aboard! ☺️🙏🏼

[@TwoSockAaron]

Talk about nostalgia. Now I have to go listen to this whole album.

[@evanthompson343]

Hands down my favorite song of all time. The first time I heard this song, I had it on repeat all day, I dind't even make it to the rest of the songs on the cd.

[@vn2690]

Absolutely love it!

[@LowEndUniversity]

Thank you!!

[@jamescardy3530]

One of my favorite songs to jam on the drums 🤘

[@spfadden082711]

I heard dammit on a late night show called odd something on mtv way back and fell in love. I went to the record store the next day and bought Cheshire Cat and of course heard this first. At the time I was looking for dude ranch but bought the wrong album.. I told them to order me the blink 182 record and this is what they ordered. Even though it wasn’t dude ranch I was really happy with this album. I was able to order dude ranch from cd now a week later. My friends and I spent so much time trying to learn this song. I was able to get it on guitar but my friend struggled on the bass.

[@StevenPhillips]

This is literally a perfect song, from start to finish. Genius Blink, as usual

[@victorbrujo1734]

Bro I like your videos a lot, I'm amateur bassist from Mexico! Best regards!

[@julianthesmooshyhusky8976]

Blink and Green Day got me to play the bass after my dad fruitlessly tried for like three years. The late 90s and early 2000s wouldn’t have been as fun without them.

[@pavelmacku]

Thank you! The song that Mark and Tom wrote on a day they met!

[@Theogvineofthedead]

Im primarily a guitarist and drummer but this is one of my absolute favorite bass lines to play its so fun

[@themathhermetic]

Oh boy, old Blink is such a ride, Mark had some pretty fun and creative bass playing back in the day. Also, you mention Sum 41 at 7:30, you REALLY should revisit them, Cone is a beast.

[@ligairi]

This is a fascinating first album to look at for songwriting because it’s really just a hodgepodge of influences that created a somewhat distinctive sound. Tom has talked about when they were writing Cheshire Cat they would be so blatant as to say, “this is the NOFX part” or “this is the Bad Religion part” or even so far as “this is our Descendants song” entirely and “this is our Screeching Weasel song.” Sometimes it takes a first album like that to lead an artist to finding their own voice. I think this one is particularly effective.

[@decker8ers]

Saw them in Santa Barbara right after they released this album. They were still jusr Blink then and hadn't yet added the "182". Maybe 50 people in the crowd.

[@alextinu8841]

Well, all this songs remind me of the times where music had some sincere feeling and as music was not complicated at all, life was easier and simple. Great chioce, keep up the good work! ❤️🎸👀

[@LowEndUniversity]

Well said! Truly simpler times in 2003 😇

[@adamcoates2325]

This was maybe the first song I learned to play on bass, and is still my go to when just playing around.

[@Joey-cd4nv]

This is my favorite Blink song. Love the video!

[@LowEndUniversity]

Thanks so much!!!

[@alanfennell4833]

I always loved Scotts drums and feel like he was overshadowed by Travis. I like Travis a lot too, but there is something about their first albums drums that I really like.

[@ramblin1209]

Oh shit 😂. Love it when the tempo picks up. Such a great blink song.

[@BonsaiPop]

Their original drummer Scott who played on this album was just a young kid. I don’t think he was out of high school yet, but he was a metal drummer so he just took what he knew and sped it up by 11. Blink has always been anchored by there drummers, it’s a big reason why they can take brainless progressions and make them into platinum albums 😅

[@rajimus]

they are anything but brainless progressions their song lay out layering and complexity has just gone from level to level. Neighbourhoods is a masterpiee

[@HCadrenaline]

I learnt this solo when I was 14 when I got my first bass and as a huge blink-182 fan, i still play it now when messing around on both my guitar and bass, stuck with me for so long at 29 y/o

[@alexanderkantakusiniii8411]

Definitely a top ten blink song for me...very fun one

[@TheStumptube]

This is my favourite Blink 182 song by a wide margin. They struck gold with Carousel.

[@Wesker1982]

Yeah! Fast and beautiful! One of my favorite bass lines ever. The simple but fast tempo on drums is incredibly hard too. Simple beat but hard to execute well. Scott Raynor is a totally underrated drummer! Great video! Ben Wah Balls is another great bass line from Cheshire Cat. BEN WAH BALLS NEXT! PLEASE!!!!!

[@vwharman]

Man! I loved Cheshire, probably the one blink record I go to more often than anything else. I moved to other bands, but this record just has some treats on it.

[@ligairi]

12:39 Tom has talked about the reason that he and Mark first clicked musically when they met was that they both played downstrokes, largely due to their mutual influence from bands like The Descendants

[@arebestreams]

What you're speaking on around @11:00 is absolutely correct... Happened a lot in 90s split vocals bands, where you could distinctly tell which songs were written by which musician. Very nice catch to point out to viewers. Alkaline Trio is another late 90s pop-punk group that did very similar. Kinda something that got lost a little as pop-punk explored away from the punk-rock boundaries towards the end of the 00's with the exception, of course, with the continuation of bands from that era. I'm a percussionist first but appreciate hearing you explain the theory behind stuff as a blind reaction.

[@Joe-ie8vk]

This whole album was great. I remember seeing these guys in the late 90s my first punk show unwritten law assorted jellybeans forgot the other band it may have been rivers Phoenix. God I would put my album on every night and put the speakers all around me and lay on the floor listening to this album it was so good start to finish.

[@stompyrando]

First of all...HOW HAVE YOU NEVER HEARD THIS?! It's like their OG song. I wish they'd re-record, remaster, idk whatever, redo it now that they're back together. Here's a song request: "Olive Me" by NOFX. I don't play but I love the opening bass riff.

[@ewatfred]

Fun fact, that track is also released by them as “All Of Me” and is a cover. In fact it’s been covered nearly 900 times since the 1930s. They also did “Vincent” by Don McLean (1971) which to date has over 200 versions recorded by various artists.

[@AtomizedSound]

It’ll probably get remastered at some point and they’ll probably play it live again too if they haven’t already

[@nisharahan]

@@AtomizedSoundI’m not sure since the reunion but it’s been an encore song for a long time for them

[@TheRoboJoJo]

He definitely has heard it before. Most likely lies for more viewers for click bait. I find it extremely hard to believe he’s never heard this before. And that would be hype maybe a remaster album of the old classic blink songs too!

[@jornlayman3917]

This song turned me from guitar to bass. Totally blew my mind when I first heard this song.

[@gibsonthe9021]

I loved this song in High School

[@Joshua_Evans]

Love old blink, Dakota and I used to cover this album. Nice work

[@LowEndUniversity]

Oh hell yeah dude!! 🤙🏼

[@beanikel]

What a great song to react too! Would love to see some Thrice reactions!

[@LowEndUniversity]

Thrice are in the queue!!

[@sinakaedwards2009]

The Stingray is used a lot in 90s west coast punk. It became the P bass but it started with a Stingray.

[@schjonicus]

Great choice

[@baharavi]

I just found your channel, it's amazing how you pick up the riffs so fast by ear. You should do a video of Mercyful Fate. Timi Hansen (on the first two albums) was an amazing bass player, if you like the galloping style of Steve Harris I think you'd find him interesting.

[@fishncook23]

Had heard Blink 182 songs throughout my life, but first heard this song on the Big Bait Posse swimbait fishing video. I was hooked!!

[@vercogaming3997]

As a guitar player who ended up playing bass for the band, most of my lines had double stops or chords included. I learned from Mark and Tom at 15 and after spending time with other bands like Sum 41, Fenix TX, Green Day and other pop-punkers of my late 90’s and early 2000’s childhood.

[@robboardman2225]

I love your videos, such great insight. Something by The Ergs would be cool, a relative rarity in pop punk with a finger player. 'It'll be OK' would be a good choice.