Tom DeLonge Left Blink-182 To Focus on UFOs
As the release date for Blink-182's comeback LP, the band's first without founding guitarist Tom DeLonge, approaches, conversation surrounding the iconic pop-punk group has flourished. Today, it's Mic that decided to sit down with DeLonge, perhaps unintentionally revealing the real reason Tom is no longer part of the band he created.
The publication asks if focusing on aliens is the reason he left Blink, to which DeLonge replies:
"Well it's not so much about Blink. It's about what I'm doing with my life now. 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.
But I can't do everything. I can't tour nine months out of the year with enough time to do the enormity of what I'm setting out to do."
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