I honestly could listen to Tom talk for hours. He’s so fascination and I love how passionate he speaks about stuff that’s important to him. Plus look at him ageing like a fine French wine though.. fuck

@saffronthurkettle6795

2 жыл бұрын

So could I

@elleqquinn

2 жыл бұрын

@@saffronthurkettle6795 🥰

@saffronthurkettle6795

2 жыл бұрын

@@elleqquinn honestly I think I’m addicted to the sound of Tom’s voice whether he’s talking or singing

@elleqquinn

2 жыл бұрын

@@saffronthurkettle6795 yeah he has got a nice talking voice hasn’t he.

@peter9111

2 жыл бұрын

I miss his speaking voice being more high pitched. Listen to his speaking voice around 2018 and before that.

That's exactly what AvA albums are about. About connecting to the strength in us, so that we can create life and reality according to ourselves. It is not destruction, but the creation of one's own environment. We Don't Need To Whisper, I-Empire, LOVE are unbeatable albums. Thank you for this interview.

@AndrewHartley

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@elftower907

2 жыл бұрын

thanks man

@slimkickens

2 жыл бұрын

If you can see yourself differently, you can change yourself. And if you can change yourself, you can change the world around you. And if you can change the world around you, you can change the world itself - Tom Delonge

The fact Tom is constantly evolving, just like the elements is what makes him inspiring. We can fight the current or go with it. 💧 can flow, or it can crash... there's always obstacles like 🪨 in a river. Rapids vs streams

@justinTime077

2 жыл бұрын

He’s a tithead that doesn’t keep it real and is too damn serious now. It’s so stark that it seems to me he either was fake as can be with his celebrity, or he’s totally full of himself now, or both.

Great job A.J.! Thank you so much for doing this!!

Saving this to watch later. Thank you AJ!

Stumbled across this tonight and enjoyed listening! Good work Andrew.

This was great, keep doing your thing the both of you! Much thanks and appreciation

@AndrewHartley

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Will do!

This was so insightful. An hour well spent! Thank you for sharing this! Chasing Shadows, Fire Within, and Planet of Blood and Ice were truly a joy to read. I'm definitely going to order Burning Shakespeare!

@AndrewHartley

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I really appreciate the support.

Great interview!!!

this was a really thoughtful interview. awesome insight!

@AndrewHartley

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Thank you both so much for this conversation. The most beautiful and necessary conversations in this lifetime are between artists; talking about art, trading art, and trading insights about making art. The opposite of war isn’t love, it’s art my dudes! AJ, I deeply appreciate you taking the time to ask Tom these questions. I find he’s often spoken to in interviews as only a musician and not as a wholistic artist making art projects. More of this please! Here are some thoughts from one artist to two others: AJ, I’d love to know more about what you like about Japanese music? You wouldn’t have mentioned it if it wasn’t immensely special to you. Also I have to say that your approach to story telling, with the way you wrote the chapters in Sekret Machines, is narratively riveting! You told a story through a bunch of unique lenses, which no small thing, and it is so compelling! I read book 1, I have a lot more reading to do, but thank you for your work. It’s dope as hell. Tom, doing deep dives into the archives of classic rock masters is an awesome way to do music research! I invite you to ponder something. Your core skills now extend outside of music, and that includes story telling _and_ research! How do you do story research that isn't reading? You like movies right? You mention how you would take Dune and tell that story through the lens of a California skateboarder? These are the most interesting stories! Retelling stories through your cultural lens! I know this is weird and you don’t know me, but I’ve known your work as an artist intimately for the last 20 years, and there’s a few movies I think you should watch if you haven’t yet. They have roughly the same budget that Love had, one is made and produced in Montreal, Quebec, the french speaking part of Canada, and other is Irish. They’re both 1000% fucking awesome. (Trigger warning though there’s a lot of over the top comic book style gore in both.) Extra Ordinary is a hilarious paranormal comedy about ghosts, satanism, a rockstar, dick jokes and a wooden dick staff kzread.info/dash/bejne/qmWI2K5uiq-cg8Y.html - It’s completely hilarious and so awesome to see a paranormal story told in Irish comedy. Turbo Kid is a Canadian horror comedy and art project about a romance set in a post-apocolyptic 80s fever-dream. kzread.info/dash/bejne/c3qgvJiphtfUppM.html - This one will hit you right in the feels. Apple is my spirit animal! It’s also scored by a fawkin D O P E french Canadian producer called Le Matos open.spotify.com/album/4SU5mHR8JrNDWNKjPPhhic?si=LgnE49ajT1qNtaKesGE0OA, and there’s an indie video game coming out for it soon!! www.turbokidgame.com/en/home. There are secret crowds of artists like you hiding in the world, I can appreciate that it would be hard to find them in popular culture circles. However the internet is NEAT. There's a lot more where that came from. Please enjoy, thanks again to you both for all your work, and letting me listen to your dope convo!

@AndrewHartley

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for this thoughtful and detailed response. I really appreciate it.

I love the way Tom describes meditation and how he does it

Thoroughly enjoyed this, thank you AJ!

@AndrewHartley

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Thank you for this interview. I'm a spiritual person myself, learning from many places and often wonder how far down the rabbit hole Tom goes and how he applies it. It's fab to hear what he knows (2 years ago!) and what he does with that knowledge. I listen to a lot of Bashar so it's also great to hear what I've learnt there is corroborated. Also, how did I not know you are British, AJ!

@AndrewHartley

2 ай бұрын

Well, I've been out of the UK a long time now :) Thanks of the comment. There'll be another interview with Tom here soon.

great insides. thx for making this happen. greetings from berlin ✌🔥

@AndrewHartley

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Tom’s stream of consciousness around consciousness as the connective tissue between physics and metaphysics was beautiful.

Awesome! thanks AJ and Tom. SMIB! Cant wait for book 3!!!

Wow, that was great, AJ! Been an AVA fan since 2006 (didn't have a clue who Tom Delong was at the time, haha). AVA's music GRABBED me and shook me right the f**k up. It always has given me full body chills and massive adrenaline rushes. Doesn't matter if I've heard an AVA song hundreds of times, it still moves me. I'm definitley addicted. Tom's tunes and tones harmonize with my wavelength, I guess. I have a TON of respect for Tom and hope he continues his musical journey, because to me, the music is the fuel, the driving force. The "Sekret Machine" providing access to many, many souls. Of course, I've read all the books and love them. Great work, Mr. Hartley. They're entertaining AND informative AND fun AND thought provoking, so THANK YOU! One more thing... Japanese music, huh? I'll just put it this way, my dream concert is Angels and Airwaves playing Red Rocks Ampitheatre in my home state of Colorado, co-headlining with a little band named...Band-Maid. Let us maniphest THAT! Trust me, it'll be "Heaven"! Thanks again! 🕊

@AndrewHartley

2 жыл бұрын

Band-Maid are a ton of fun. Maybe one day they'll tour over here. And thanks for the comment. Glad Tom's words stirred something.

@TheJerm

2 жыл бұрын

@@AndrewHartley Thanls AJ. The Maids will be here this October and tickets are going FAST!

@AndrewHartley

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheJerm Excellent! Enjoy :)

Interesting video. It's always fascinating hearing how someone's mind works and how their creative juices flow. Tom is such a multi-dimensional character, perhaps in more ways than we think. I ordered your two Sekret Machine books a few days back and one arrived the day this video went live. Of course, A Fire Within arrived first (book 2) and I am still waiting on Chasing Shadows (book 1) to come. It was out of stock at Amazon and they have said it will be about two weeks. I am hoping that by reading between the lines of these two novels it will give me a little more insight into what Tom was talking about in the second half of this video. Keep the great work coming, professor.

@Aetriex

2 жыл бұрын

I finished those two books and am now on Gods. Not gonna lie, I am taking a break from it because it's some seriously heavy shit. At first it was all fun and exciting, but holy hell does it get real, FAST. Heavy heavy shit.

@AndrewHartley

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Len. And yes, read book 1 first. The 2nd is a true sequel.

All the best Tom, you are doing amazing work ;)

Thanks for this! Love Tom

Thanks to both of you. That was really super interesting. I am a fan of Blink 182 and i saw them on 2 shows in Germany back in the days and my brother and I have been fascinated by UFOS for decades. So this was a great video for me at all. Take good care of yourselves and I hope to see you both together again on another video. And btw. @ Andrew FOREVER THE ONE 😉❤️🤘🦊🤘

@AndrewHartley

2 жыл бұрын

Our pleasure! Thanks!

The later half of this was just … Whaaa! Coolness!

Creative people just think differently and it's fascinating to hear them express their thought process and feelings. Thank you.

@AndrewHartley

2 жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

@lincthomas7178

2 жыл бұрын

yes we do!!!

Eddie Vedder and Pearl Jam discussion at 20:10 is awesome!

God bless this man

Awesome interview! 🖖🏻

@AndrewHartley

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Starting now. I hope they bring up the release date of Sekret Machines 3. I read the first two books in 3 weeks. A.J.'s writing is fxxking poetry.

@HexNottingham

2 жыл бұрын

And they did!

Love this

To the stars sounds like a really awesome company

Great Interview A.H.

@AndrewHartley

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Tom has been inspiring me since 1997

backwards hat Tom!

Holy fuck I love this man.

Why does Tom look so young here? Dude aged so well!

@bedbug182

2 жыл бұрын

Its that hat. I’ve not seen him wear one of those for years

@kindkidbk

2 жыл бұрын

If you follow him on Instagram it’s pretty wild. He’s exactly what I thought 2003 Tom would be.

Awesome interview, I have always related to Tom and his sort of "Creative ADD" haha. What I really want to know though is WHEN WILL WE GET THAT NEW BOX CAR SONG?!!!

everything about Tom, I click.

When Tom says he’s want to be a good grandpa I was thinking”he’s young enough to be”lol his daughter is 20 this year lol

at 28 min and after until 31 his light gets super bright twice. Then at 31:20 when he talks abt the musical note and getting a voice in his head the ball starts swinging. so weird. could be a vent, power surge tho.

A bit off subject, but when will sekret machines 3 be released?

@AndrewHartley

Жыл бұрын

Not sure. It will happen, but has been delayed by various things outside our control.

AJ are you a big fan of Blink 182 or Angels and Airwaves? Just curious. Great interview!

@AndrewHartley

2 жыл бұрын

Both! In different ways, of course, and I like them for very different things than what I get from the other music I listen to. My tastes are pretty eclectic and I appreciate different bands for different things :)

When are we getting Sekret Machines Part 3?

@AndrewHartley

2 жыл бұрын

Not sure. It will happen, but it's dependent on other things outside our control.

@BigHatBrock

2 жыл бұрын

@@AndrewHartley Thank you so much for responding! I'm just happy to hear that it will happen at some point. Great video by the way.

It would be Wise to listen to Mr. DeLonge about what is happening on this planet because He is right. Antarctica.

Great watch. Thank you for this. Random, but do you know if Tom is a vegetarian or vegan?

@AndrewHartley

2 жыл бұрын

I don’t think he eats much meat but if he’s become vegetarian that’s recently

@_stecullen

2 жыл бұрын

@@AndrewHartley thank you. I’m just interested to know as when he had his Macbeth clothing range, it was all Vegan. Even the shoes.

@AndrewHartley

2 жыл бұрын

@@_stecullen Interesting. It’s been a while since we ate together. I may be misremembering

@_stecullen

2 жыл бұрын

@@AndrewHartley keep a close eye when he next orders that Taco with you 😂

Tom pronounces”covid”better than most British people and he’s American lol

Very interesting. 👍 👍 🎶🎶🦊👁️👁️🦊🎶🎶

Intelligent 🥰

My dude watched What the Bleep! do we Know it seems

I'm absolutely not a fan of his music, but he seems like an interesting dude, and he's done some interesting projects outside of the music business.

@quinlanmusic

2 жыл бұрын

Whaaa? U don't like the Boxcar song 'There Is'? or The Blink song 'Violence'? Or the sweet guitar riff from Wasting Time? A good song is a good song "I'm absolutely not a fan of his music" lmao 🤡

@MrFloppyHare

2 жыл бұрын

@@quinlanmusic To each their own. “Different tastes” and such.

Tom doesn’t want to live about his means about the only artists who genuinely believes when they say that

tom the george bush look a like guy lol

Ahh sr. Delonge is an ambiturner. I knew it.

When can we expect sekret machines: war ??

@AndrewHartley

2 жыл бұрын

Don't know. Sorry. That's Peter's thing.

@J.Akkadian

2 жыл бұрын

@@AndrewHartley lol got it .. thanks for clarifying 😊

Oh, you missed the chance to ask him what Babymetal is going to do. Every time I try remote viewing Babymetal I just get Only The Fox god Knows. I would love to hear his thoughts on how Babymetal has affected the world.

@AndrewHartley

2 жыл бұрын

That's funny :) Maybe one day I'll see if I can get him to don a BM reactions video :) I know he's familiar with them but I don't know how much. And he has pretty eclectic musical tastes.

The way Tom describes consciousness is exactly how it is lol

A flannel shirt, long hair... Do you like Nirvana & Grunge?

@AndrewHartley

2 жыл бұрын

Ha! Back in the day I did

Andrew why’d you kill Jennifer lol😄

Haha how Tom describes how life works he should get a phd in being crazy if only there was such a thing as scientific craziness

It is depressing knowing your future knowing your outcome your fate Knowing your situation without doubting what will happen next. I live my life in the wait of the next event to accur without a doubt. Ive seen whom was to be my wife I've seen my own death I've seen the ending of human civilization I've seen the rebirth of a new world I've seen what was not supposed to be revealed. I don't know if I should call it a blessing nor a cursing .yet I see and the waging of war for my soul is never ending. 😎

please SUBTITLES in spanish !!!

How Tom says he thinks it’s funny that people think he’s crazy

And now Tom’s talking about PHDs and the moon and other space shit

and those rotten things that live in our shadow we walk on the line of death and the gallows

@AndrewHartley

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly. Good reference.

@elftower907

2 жыл бұрын

@@AndrewHartley didn't actually watch it all yet but thanks :P seems a great interview so far.

tommy boy i dont think metallica actually lowered themselves at any point of their career like you said on 7:52

Tom is talking at 1000 words/min and super twitchy/constantly playing with his hat. Is he high?

@adamartcollier

2 жыл бұрын

adhd is a thing and people always think i am an cocaine

@user-jk3xv4qz7m

2 жыл бұрын

@@adamartcollier Sure I get that. But I’ve been watching Tom interviews since 2004 and I’ve never noticed it this much. Easiest comparable is Rogan

@vilsunnington1528

2 жыл бұрын

@@user-jk3xv4qz7m I think he was just really nervous on Rogan - who was oddly skeptical and confrontational for some reason that day, which really didn’t help the situation. Tom was much more comfortable and self aware here…and while you’d have to have a basic understanding of metaphysics and quantum theory to follow everything he was saying towards the end, this is quite possibly the most articulate he’s been in explaining his theories on consciousness.

@kindkidbk

2 жыл бұрын

Sativas are pretty strong these days…. Trust me…..

Click bait...I thought he was going to talk about music

@Aetriex

2 жыл бұрын

Talk about career making art...how is that clickbait? Art is about expression, that can be through music, paintings, books, digital media, anything can be art

Every time I look at Tom these days he’s talking endlessly about himself. :( Anyone that has to say they lost their ego and they got so humble is usually definitely not those things, and that’s the sense I get about you, my idol… please come back down to earth. “Nobody’s ever asked me that,” but yet he has told the same stories every fucking time he talks. It’s like he’s got a pre-written narrative for his story. Show it, don’t say it!

@chrislopez1391

2 жыл бұрын

such an ignorant comment.

TomDelonge what a 🧠and🫀🙏! i respect u! All that stuff you said so true..i believe you! 😲🤘🤍 thx for this to AJ and you too! wooh lesgoo to the future! my goosh

@AndrewHartley

2 жыл бұрын

You are so welcome!

@AniMaDeaE

2 жыл бұрын

@@AndrewHartley Thankyou! ✌