10 Musicians That Walked Away From HUGE Bands

There's no real right way to say that you're going to be leaving a band. As much as you might not be having fun amongst your fellow players, actually having to verbalize that you want out is just a portal that musicians have to go through and hope they're intact on the other side. Even in the long history of band fallouts though, Tom DeLonge seemed a little bit cold at the end of Blink 182.

It's not like the creative tension wasn't already there though, with Tom forming Box Car Racer in between stints with Blink and trying to take them away from their pop punk roots on their self titled album. Though the record itself may have turned out really well from a production standpoint, Tom really needed to stretch musically, and wanted to put the band on an indefinite hiatus for a little while.

All of it made sense so far, until the day that Travis Barker and Mark Hoppus got an email from Tom saying that he was no longer going to be associated with the band. And it wasn't even from Tom either, with his manager writing the email and doing the dirty work for him as he got the first iteration of Angels and Airwaves underway. Blink would eventually make up after Travis' horrific plane crash, but for the rest of the world, Blink's brand of poppy bliss was killed the moment that that man hit send.