Tom DeLonge

Thomas Matthew DeLonge, Jr. (b. December 13 1975), better known as Tom DeLonge is one of the founding members of, and the guitarist with, blink-182.

At fourteen DeLonge was suspended from his high school in Poway,

Thomas Matthew DeLonge, Jr. (b. December 13 1975), better known as Tom DeLonge is one of the founding members of, and the guitarist with, blink-182.

At fourteen DeLonge was suspended from his high school in Poway, California for drinking and being drunk during a school basketball game. A few years later he was elected homecoming king, to the anger of school officials. Before forming blink-182, DeLonge was in a band called Big Oily Men, but soon realized that it was going nowhere, and broke it up. While still at school, he met Mark Hoppus through Hoppus's sister Anne, and together with Scott Raynor the three formed blink-182 in late 1992. In 1998 blink-182's drummer, Raynor, left the band and was replaced by Travis Barker.