Blink tried their hand at playing their first handful of songs in public and got the reception they more or less expected. “The very first show we ever played was a bar called the Gorilla Pit,” says Hoppus. “It was a weeknight, and we drove in and it was me, Tom, Scott, and Cam, who was a friend of ours that we skated with. We loaded in and there was literally the bartender and one patron sitting at the bar. He said we could set up on the stage. We set up and started playing the first song. After the first song the bartender said, ‘Hey, please turn it down.’ So we turned it down. We played
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