After grunge blew up in the early 1990s, the walls between mainstream rock and the alternative universe crumbled completely…what other music had been hiding in the plain sight?...

There was goth and industrial and various forms of electronica…and there was all this punk rock…tons of it…all different flavours, too…pop punk, punk-funk, hardcore, garage punk, glam punk, queercore, riot grrrl, ska-punk…

Punk had always been there, waiting to be discovered by a whole new generation…and finally, the time was right…

There was green day, offspring, rancid…then there was sublime, no doubt and 311…NOFX, Pennywise and Bad Religion…some of these bands were brand new…others had been doing their thing for a while…

Alot of the big action seemed to be centred in California…orange county, the bay area…but down in the skatepark suburbs of San Diego, something began brewing that would end up being responsible for selling 35 million records…

These guys went from zero to worldwide superstars and then almost back to zero again before clawing back…

This is part one of the rise and fall and rise of blink 182… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices