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In March of 2015, Forum user boxelder created a topic suggesting the community work towards building the most comprehensive timeline of the band's massive history imaginable. Ten years later, nobody could have ever predicted how much information we would not only gather, but date.
1993
Mark begins working at the Wherehouse, a chain record store in San Diego, managed by Patrick Secor.
He and Secor bond over music.
Mark buys his second-ever bass guitar, a black 1985 Fender P-Bass, from a Guitar Center in Los Angeles.
He'll use this bass on all of the band’s early demos, as well as Cheshire Cat.
Mark is forced to choose between his girlfriend and the band, and leaves briefly.
Scott would later recall that "a couple of demos" were created on a four track recorder with Tom, Scott, and their friend, Cam Jones on bass (Jones later of the Iconoclasts, who produced a split EP with blink the following year titled Short Bus). Promptly, Mark breaks up with his girlfriend and returns to the group.
Cam Jones, Tom Delonge and Mark Hoppus performing The Family Next Door.
The band performs at the Spirit Club in San Diego, California.
This is the earliest known blink concert, and very very likely the first. According to Anne Hoppus, author of Tales from Beneath Your Mom, it was indeed the band’s first concert ever, and the Spirit Club was a 21+ venue.
The band performs at Alley Mrs. Meat Music Store and Cafe in San Diego, California.
Anne Hoppus confirmed this to be their second live performance as an "after-hours" in-store gig at this venue.
