Blink-182 takes fans back to the old days

Destinee Lopez

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Mark Hoppus, lead singer of Blink-182, gives an electric performance at The Save Mart Center on Thursday Oct.6, 2016.

The Save Mart Center filled with eager fans filling the floor and different levels of the building seats on Oct. 6 to watch The All-American Rejects, A Day to Remember and blink-182.

Cheering filled the building as the stage lit up and the first band started the night of punk music for people of all ages.

Fans cheered as The All-American Rejects took the stage first with their upbeat song, “Dirty Little Secret.”

The crowd sang and danced along with the band. The All-American Rejects teased the crowd for the bands that would soon perform on the stage.

Tyson Ritter, the band’s vocalist, spoke freely with the crowd, readying them for a night filled with mosh pits and crowd surfing. The All-American Rejects ended their time on stage with “Gives You Hell” and “The Last Song.”  

A Day to Remember came on stage starting their slot with “The Downfall of Us All.” ADTR’s vocalist Jeremy McKinnon moved around the stage singing to both sides of the audience. The band played their set and released rolls of toilet paper into the crowd. The tissue was tossed around the crowd and thrown back onto the stage.

McKinnon asked the crowd to turn on their phone lights or hold up lighters and the crowd lit up the stage as they played “If It Means Alot to You.” The last song they played was “The Plot to Bomb the Panhandle.”

Blink-182 came on stage with a bang; the f- word burned behind the band as they played their opening songs “Feeling This” and “What’s My Age Again.” As the band sang their popular songs from the late 1990s and early 2000s, the crowd went crazy jumping and singing along with the band.

Blink-182 also played their new song, “Bored to Death,” from their seventh album “California.”  

The band hyped up the crowd with small fireworks and sparklers that rained from the stage behind them. Many fans crowd-surfed their way to the front of the stage. Blow-up dolls were released into the crowd as people rocked out to blink-182’s songs. The band gave a show to remember in Fresno. The band brought together the young and old with their pop punk rock music, ending their show with some of the most popular songs, “All the Small Things” and “Dammit.”