BLINK-182 - Stay Together For The Kids - Drum Cover (2020)

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"Stay Together For The Kids" is a song by American pop punk band ‪@blink182‬

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"Stay Together for the Kids" is written about divorce from the point of view of a helpless child. Its heavier sound was inspired by bands the group's members were listening to in the two weeks they wrote their fourth album, Take Off Your Pants and Jacket, such as Fugazi and Refused.

Primarily written by guitarist @TomDeLongeVEVO , the song is biographical in nature. He and bassist Mark Hoppus were growing up when their respective parents divorced. For Hoppus, he was eight years old when he was sent to live with his father. "The thing you realize as you get older is that parents don’t know what the hell they’re doing and neither will you when you get to be a parent.

You’ve just got to understand that people are human and they make mistakes," he said.

DeLonge remembered learning of his parents' divorce when he discovered scrape marks on the driveway of their home. "Right then, I knew my dad had dragged out his furniture single-handedly," he recalled. He spoke on the song's inspiration in 2001:

I lived, ate, and breathed skateboarding. All I did all day long was skateboard. It was all I cared about. So I didn't notice too much [else going on]. When I got home [one] day, my dad's furniture was gone, my mom was inside crying and everything just erupted at that point. I was 18, sitting in my driveway when it all went down. My whole family life was deteriorating, so, I just moved out. So I just took everything from that day and put it into a song

DeLonge later confirmed he had received emails from fans thanking him for the song's message. "With "Stay Together", we get emails—just kid after kid after kid—saying, 'I know exactly what you're talking about! That song is about my life!'"

In 2002, divorce statistics were four times higher than their average just over thirty years prior, with over 50 percent of marriages ending in divorce. "You look at statistics that 50 percent of parents get divorced, and you’re going to get a pretty large group of kids who are pissed off and who don’t agree with what their parents have done," said DeLonge. "Stay Together" was the final song completed during the recording sessions; it was created one day before the album was handed off to the mixing engineer.

Blink-182 Band Members (when the song was recorded):

Tom DeLonge
@Travis Barker
Mark Hoppus

Rocker Girl uses and abuses the following equipment:

Drums

Vintage Pearl MLX Series (1980's)
Maple Shells
Wine Red Colour
Nickel Hardware
True hoops on all toms and snare

(Length x Diameter)
1 x 24" Bass Drum
1 x 10'' Tom tom
1 x 13' Tom tom
1 x 14" Tom tom
1 x 16'' Tom tom
1 x 18' Floor tom

1 Tama - Woodworks Limited 8x14'' Snare Drum - Burgundy Walnut Art Grain Wrap

Hardware
Pearl
1 x DW5000 Double-Kick Pedal
1 x Pearl hi hat stand
1 x Gibralter throne

Cymbals
Sabian
2 x 14” Sabian HH
1 x 22” Sabian HH Ride Cymbal
1X 20' Sabian Paragon (Neal Peart)
1 x 18” Sabian XSR China Cymbal
1 x 18" Sabian XSR Monarch Crash
1 x 16" Sabian HH Crash
1 x 10' Sabian XSR Splash
2 x LP Cowbells

Sticks:
Los Cabos Drum Sticks.

Heads:
Remo
Bass drum - Evans EMAD2 Clear Bass Drum Head, 22 Inch
Snare drum - 14' Coated Tama
Snare skin - Big Fat Snare Drum

All toms (batter) - 10” 12” 13" 14" 16" Evans EC2

Mics:

Bass drum:
External - Shure Beta 52A
Internal - Shure Beta 91A

Snare:
Top - Shure SM57

Toms:
10” Pyle Tom Mics
13” Pyle Tom Mics
14” Pyle Tom Mics
16” Pyle Tom Mics
18" Pyle Tom Mics

Overhead:
Audio Technica - at2020

Interface:

M-Audio Projectmix I/O
Recorded on Logic Pro X

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