From Rage Against the Machine’s first show back in 2007 to Refused and At the Drive-In in 2012 to Guns N’ Roses’ reunion with Slash and Duff McKagan in 2016, Coachella has been home to blockbuster reunion shows. That well seemed to dry up in the years before the pandemic, but Blink-182‘s last-minute inclusion to Day 1 featuring Tom DeLonge on guitar for the first time since 2014 brought the festival back to its roots.
Blink easily had the largest non-headliner crowd of the day, the mob spilled out from under the Sahara tent to nearly past the Ferris Wheel. Trust us when we say it was tough to get a close view of the stage.
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Since Tom DeLonge’s acrimonious departure at the beginning of 2015 to pursue his various other interests, the trio never felt quite at home without one another. DeLonge was active with Angels & Airwaves, along with his To the Stars company, while Mark Hoppus and…
