“All the small things” matter, when blink-182 fans miss their idols on stage
Lollapalooza festival in Argentina didn’t get to see originally booked blink-182 this past Saturday, as the iconic punk-rockers had to postpone their tour leg in Mexico and Latin America due to drummer Travis Barker’s finger injury. But they got to see something no one saw coming.
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Twenty One Pilots decided to honor the missing blink-182 and challenged themselves to cover the band’s epic ‘All the Small Things’! During their performance on Saturday at Hipódromo de San Isidro, Twenty One Pilots surprised the crowd with their take on blink’s 1999 hit. In the live video footage, you can see the audience going wild and singing the first verse and chorus like a trained choir. Pilots’ frontman Tyler Joseph simply sticks out the mic for half of the song, starting to sing himself only by “na na na” part:
One can only imagine how humbled and honored this video made blink-182 members feel. That leads us to think, maybe Mark Hoppus, Tom DeLonge and Travis Barker should pick a track from Twenty One Pilots hit list and cover it on their next tour leg? What do you think?
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