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In a 2014 interview with Kerrang!, the bassist also set the record straight in a fan Q&A, explaining: "It was a prank! Right before we went onstage, they were like, 'Right, blink, you're onstage in 10 minutes – go get made up.' So we go back there, and the make-up artists had this row of photos that she'd done, and some of them showed special effects. She put a black eye on me! The next morning, everyone was calling up, like, 'What happened to them? What the fuck actually happened to these guys?'"
Oops. Now, 19 years later, hopefully the message is finally getting out there to the masses that no-one beat blink-182 up – they were simply having us all on. Tsk tsk…