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Mark Hoppus is an American musician and record producer best known as the co-lead vocalist, co-founder, and bassist for the rock band Blink-182. He has had a successful career in the music industry, including producing records for other bands, co-owning companies, and hosting a podcast and a TV show.
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About the Mark Hoppus
Mark Allan Hoppusis an American musician and record producer. He is the co-lead vocalist, co-founder, and bassist for the rock band Blink-182 and the only member to appear on every album.
Hoppus became interested in skateboarding and punk rock in junior high, and received a bass guitar from his father at the age of 15. After he moved to San Diego in 1992 to attend California State University San Marcos, his sister introduced him to Tom DeLonge, and they formed the band Blink-182 with drummer Scott Raynor. The band produced several rock recordings and toured exhaustively before signing to major label MCA to co-distribute their sophomore effort, 1997’s Dude Ranch, which featured the Hoppus-penned hit “Dammit”.
After replacing Raynor with Travis Barker, Blink-182 recorded Enema of the Stateand the more experimental untitled fifth album (2003)–before the band split in 2005 following internal tension. Hoppus continued playing with Barker in +44 in the late 2000s. Blink-182 subsequently reunited in 2009 and continue to record and tour worldwide.
Aside from his musical career, Hoppus has had multiple successes behind the recording console, producing records for groups such as Idiot Pilot, New Found Glory, The Matches, Motion City Soundtrack, and PAWS. He has previously co-owned two companies, Atticus and Macbeth Footwear, and created a new clothing line in 2012 named Hi My Name is Mark. Hoppus hosted a weekly podcast in 2005 through 2006, which returned in 2015, and he hosted his own television talk show, Hoppus on Music, from 2010 to 2012 on Fuse. He also was part of the pop rock duo Simple Creatures from 2019 until 2020.
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Mark Hoppus is the co-lead vocalist, co-founder, and bassist for the rock band Blink-182. He is the only member to appear on every album by the band.
Mark Hoppus was born on March 15, 1972.
Aside from Blink-182, Mark Hoppus has also played with the band +44 and the pop rock duo Simple Creatures. He has also produced records for other groups such as Idiot Pilot, New Found Glory, and Motion City Soundtrack.
Mark Hoppus became interested in skateboarding and punk rock in junior high, and received a bass guitar from his father at the age of 15. After moving to San Diego in 1992, he formed the band Blink-182 with Tom DeLonge and Scott Raynor.
In addition to his music career, Mark Hoppus has co-owned two companies, Atticus and Macbeth Footwear, and created a new clothing line in 2012 named Hi My Name is Mark.
Mark Hoppus hosted a weekly podcast from 2005 to 2006, which returned in 2015, and he also hosted his own television talk show, Hoppus on Music, from 2010 to 2012 on Fuse.
After signing to the major label MCA, Blink-182 recorded the album Dude Ranch in 1997, which featured the Hoppus-penned hit ,Dammit,. The band then achieved multi-platinum success with their 1999 album Enema of the State.
15 Quotes by Mark Hoppus
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We just kind of did our own thing and got made fun of by the popular kids. It was kind of like a badge of honor to be an outcast.
Mark HoppusAmerican musician and record producer
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It totally ruins my voice. I quit smoking, drinking, and doing ecstasy.
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We’re really good friends and we hang out. It’s like I get to hang out with my friends and get paid for it.
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Parents don’t understand kids and kids don’t understand parents. My parents were divorced when I was really young and I went to live with my dad.
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The naked thing was short-lived. It was only around for about six months because we thought it was shocking. Once people expected us to do it we kind of never did it again.
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I lived in small town out in the desert and my friend used to steal his mom’s car in the middle of the night. He’d drive over to my house, I’d sneak out and we’d go out to the desert and just burn things down.
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I don’t think of them as teenage songs. The things that happen to you in high school are the same things that happen your entire life. You can fall in love at 60; you can get rejected at 80.
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My parents were pretty lenient with me. But, they gave me morality while I was growing up. They taught me the difference between right and wrong.
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Everything in high school seems like the most important thing that’s ever happened in your life. It’s not. You’ll get out of high school and you never see those people again. All the people who torment and press you won’t make a difference in your life in the long haul.
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Thank God I never got in a fight. All of the jock dudes hated me, but all of their girlfriends thought I was nice so they wouldn’t touch me. It was infuriating to them.
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I dated the same girl all through high school.
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I did mostly good things, except light things on fire.
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The thing you realize as you get older is that parents don’t know what the Hell they’re doing and neither will you when you get to be a parent.
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All the really pretty girls get pregnant.
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Screw them. Yeah. But not literally. I’m not advocating promiscuity.
Mark HoppusAmerican musician and record producer