Editing The Rock Show (section)

==Background==
Prior to recording Blink-182's fourth studio album, ''[[Take Off Your Pants and Jacket]]'', the group recorded [[Demo (music)|demos]] at DML Studios, a small practice studio in [[Escondido, California]], where the band had written ''[[Dude Ranch (album)|Dude Ranch]]'' and ''[[Enema of the State]]''.<ref name="linernotes1"/> The group had written a dozen songs after three weeks and invited the band's manager, Rick DeVoe, to be the first person outside Blink-182 to hear the new material, which the band found "catchy [but with] a definitive edge".<ref name="linernotes1"/><ref name="mtv">{{cite web|author=Roger Coletti|url=http://www.mtv.com/bands/archive/b/blink01/|title=Blink-182: No Jacket Required|publisher=MTV News|year=2001|access-date=June 22, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121104230934/http://www.mtv.com/bands/archive/b/blink01/|archive-date=November 4, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="Kerrang05"/> DeVoe sat in the control room and quietly listened to the recordings, and pressed the band at the end on why there was no "Blink-182 good-time summer anthem [thing]". [[Tom DeLonge]] and [[Mark Hoppus]] were furious, remarking, "You want a fucking single? I'll write you the cheesiest, catchiest, throwaway fucking summertime single you've ever heard!"<ref name="linernotes1">{{cite AV media notes | title=Take Off Your Pants and Jacket (2013 Vinyl Reissue)| year=2013 | others=[[Blink-182]] | type=liner notes | publisher=Geffen / Universal Music Special Markets | location=United States | id=SRC025/SRC026/SRC027/SRC028|quote=This reference primarily cites the Mark Hoppus foreword.}}</ref><ref name="av13">{{cite news|url=https://www.avclub.com/blink-182-took-punk-to-no-1-for-the-first-time-with-a-1798241295|title=Blink-182 took punk to No. 1 for the first time with a masturbation pun|author= Kyle Ryan |date= October 8, 2013|newspaper=[[The A.V. Club]]|access-date=October 8, 2013}}</ref> Hoppus went home and wrote "The Rock Show" in ten minutes, and DeLonge similarly wrote "[[First Date (Blink-182 song)|First Date]]", which became the most successful singles from the record and future live staples.<ref name=Kerrang05>{{cite journal| author =Nichola Browne | date = November 20, 2005| title = Punk Rock! Nudity! Filthy Sex! Tom DeLonge Looks Back On Blink-182's Greatest Moments| journal = [[Kerrang!]]| issue = 1083| publisher = [[Bauer Media Group]]| location =[[London]] | issn =0262-6624 }}</ref>

Hoppus wrote the song based on his memories of the [[San Diego]] club [[Soma San Diego|Soma]]. In their early days, Blink-182 performed dozens of concerts at the venue, mainly at the 5305 Metro Street location.{{sfn|Hoppus|2001|p=70}} "It was covered with graffiti, it stunk, it was made of concrete and metal so the sound sucked and the toilets were always over-flowing. It was the best, we loved it," he recalled.<ref name="tourprogram">{{cite book|title=Blink-182: Take Off Your Pants and Jacket Tour 2001 Official Program|year=2001 |publisher=MCA Records |page=2 }}</ref> [[Travis Barker]] remembered that the song's arrangement was worked in the [[Famous Stars and Straps]] warehouse in San Diego.<ref name="canisay">{{cite book|last1      = Barker|first1     = Travis|last2 = Edwards|first2 = Gavin|title     = Can I Say: Living Large, Cheating Death, and Drums, Drums, Drums|year      = 2015|publisher = William Morrow|isbn      = 978-0-062-31942-5|page=158}}</ref> The band felt the song captured "the spirit of the [[Ramones]] and [[Screeching Weasel]]," and "[it was] definitely influenced by bands like the [[Descendents (band)|Descendents]]."<ref name="bbc">{{cite web|author=Danny O'Connor |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/alt/lamacq_features/blink_182_may2001.shtml |title=Blink 182 Interview |publisher=[[BBC Music]] |date=May 16, 2001 |access-date=January 31, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010608213828/http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/alt/lamacq_features/blink_182_may2001.shtml |archive-date=June 8, 2001 }}</ref> The band members expanded upon this in a 2001 interview with [[BBC Music]]:

{{cquote|I think it's actually as if we built a punk rock time capsule and went back to five years ago when we were writing songs. We wrote that song as a mid-tempo punk-pop song about a girl, and it ended up being one of the better ones on the record.<ref name="bbc"/>
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Although it only peaked at number 71 on the [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]] and number 33 on the [[Mainstream Top 40]] chart, it reached number two on ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]''{{'s}} [[Alternative Airplay|Modern Rock Tracks]] chart.<ref name=shooman87>Shooman, 2010. p. 87</ref>