Blink-182 recently kicked off their residency in Las Vegas a few weeks ago, and residency has featured some interesting moments so far.
The band played “Adam’s Song” for the first time in many years, and they also played “The Party Song” from “Enema of the State” live for the first time ever.
It was cool for Blink fans, who got to witness the moment, but Mark Hoppus told Las Vegas Weekly that they won’t be playing the song again.
“No. [laughs] And I’ll tell you why. I’ll peel back the curtain a little bit. For us and for hardcore Blink fans, it was a cool song, [but it’s] a deep cut from an album that came out almost 20 years ago, so a lot of people just had no idea. And first of all, it’s a hard song to play. It’s super fast. It’s super fast. There’s nowhere to breathe. We had to work long and hard at rehearsal so that I sing the majority of the line and Matt sings the end of the line, just long enough for me to take a break and start the next line. It was a lot of work to do, and we played it and some people were like, “I can’t believe they’re playing this!” and some people were like, “What is this song?” These are good problems to have, that your catalog is so big some people don’t recognize the songs.”
