“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 another song and he said, ‘Please turn it down some more.’ So we turned it down some more. We played a third song and the
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