Guitarist-singer Tom DeLonge is shown in happier days with blink-182. (Sean M. Haffey / Union-Tribune)
Tom DeLonge isn't kidding when he says he has ADD. The estranged blink-182 guitarist and singer announced Saturday that he is co-writing 15 books this year, each accompanied by an EP (or mini-album) of music.
That's on top of putting out four albums in 2015, starting with the previously announced April release of "To The Stars," his first solo album.
The time required for DeLonge to do all this now appears to be a key reason why blink-182's other two members – bassist-singer Mark Hoppus and drummer Travis Barker – announced in late January that DeLonge had left the band. DeLonge swiftly denied he had left the band, and a war of words ensued.
Blink performed a sold-out show in San Diego Friday with Alakaline Project's Matt Skiba subbing for DeLonge. That performance, like the reconstituted trio's show today, Sunday, at the MUSINK Fest in Orange County, was billed as "Blink-182, with Matt Skiba."
On Saturday, DeLonge posted a message on his Instagram page that he is now working on 15 novels with six different authors. This, he writes, is why he couldn't commit to blink full-time this year, although he maintains miscommunication is the main culprit.
"One of the reasons all this Blink stuff went haywire was because I am in 6 contracts with Best Selling Authors that are co-writing 15 Novels with me personally," DeLonge wrote on Instagram. (That Instagram message appeared to have later been modified to remove the reference to a specific number of authors and books. As of this writing Sunday afternoon, the same Instagram post appears to have vanished, at least for the time being.)
"Each one has an EP soundtrack that launches with it.I told my manager the contract that was sent to me for the Blink deal contained weird new language that I had to drop all that music for almost a year. I said I couldn't, but I could record the album in and around those things that were already in the works. He wrote them an email saying I'm out – (I didn't know – and he was only talking about the deal) next thing you know, a press release saying things I didn't say. Here we are..... Well.... Read a (expletive) book- at least one of mine, please. Christ."
DeLonge spoke at length with U-T San Diego in late November about "The Dream Walker," his new album with his other band, Angels & Airwaves. Originally a four-man band, Angels is now a two-man project that teams him with fellow San Diegan Ilan Rubin, who has previously worked with Nine Inch Nails and Paramore.
During that interview, DeLonge twice said: "I have ADD," smiling both times. But his detailed presentation of the many facets of "The Dream Walker" reaffirmed that he is easily bored and likes to have multiple projects unfolding concurrently. He described "The Dream Walker' as a collaboration with "animators, illustrators, scriptwriters, New York Times best-selling authors, concept artists from 'Star Wars,' and Ilan!"
"It’s a (multi-)media exercise," DeLonge told U-T San Diego at the time.
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