Blink 182's Tom DeLonge Fender "Sticker" Stratocaster 

the sticker strat was always one of my favourite guitars and I still wanna recreate it for myself

Super interesting ! This is gold for us obsessed old school fans :D

Loved this may u plz do the all black and the white and black Gibson 333 during the 06-07 AvA era

Love the sticker Strat. One of the main reasons I gravitated towards Fender when I started playing punk in the late 90s. Also if Tom is actually blending pickups the Lil screamin demon in the middle would work way better than the JB jr. I have used the full sized and mini version of the screamin demon in multiple guitars and it’s less aggressive, cleaner, and more articulate than the a JB / JB Jr. It would work extremely well in conjunction with hot pickups such as the hot rails or invader. Maybe his tech/Tom wanted well rounded versatile guitar for a change?

I had black airwalks with the little carrot on the tongue haha throw back

I imagine the pickup was angled because he just had the existing pickguard cut for a humbucker and the pickup screw holes in the pickguard were already there at an angle. Figure back then there probably weren’t a ton of custom pickguard makers and he wasn’t a Fender artist yet.

Great fucking vid, lot of stuff I never knew despite being a huge Blink/Tom nerd. Good job fellas!

Heck yeah enjoyed this! 🤘🏻🐇🎸

One could reasonably assume that Tom may have put the black Invader in the bridge while he was “trying to do something cool” with it and then it wasn’t ever pulled out because of that incident that made him de-sticker it? Had the Fender logo exposed so would make a lot of sense if this was done during his Fender years. Another awesome episode!

Something about the dude in the middle confuses me, what does he mean by “we”? Does that mean him and Davey Jones and the 2 other guys he noted? I’d assume so.

32:28 are there any pics of that show? after tom took the stickers off I mean

Awesome podcast/show gentlemen. I remember hearing Blink for the first time with my buddy German in Louisiana, he put me into Dude Ranch and Dammit around d 97’ a few years before Enema came out. Enema of the State is the literal soundtrack to my teenage years, I’ll forever associate that album with my neighborhood friends, spending summers together and just doing what kids do and having fun. There’s something special about Blink’s music, as Rick Beats has pointed out, it’s always generally happy and upbeat with just a twinge of melancholy, and humor to top it all off. Funny I used to have a JCM900 dual reverb before I knew much about Tom’s live rig! Unfortunately I sold it years ago because it kept breaking down on me and I got tired of servicing it.

Hi Whats the brand of the pickups that Tom was using ? Thanks

Great video dudes. Dave with some super interesting history.

There was also a white back up strat sometime in 1997, I've seen it in one video.

Awesome info

It made one of its first appearances in the M+M's music video.

DOPE!

Hey can you do a video on padre

Airwalk is now in store Walmart brand in Canada. Hate it, cheapens one of the classic brands.