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''[[The Mark, Tom, and Travis Show: The Enema Strikes Back]]'', blink-182's sole live album was released in 2000, featuring songs from their three albums: ''Cheshire Cat'', ''Dude Ranch'' and ''Enema of the State''. The album included one new studio song, "Man Overboard," among the live renditions. Because it is no longer in print, the album is strongly sought after by collectors.

The band continued their commercial success with ''[[Take off Your Pants and Jacket]]'' ([[2001 in music|2001]]), which followed the same basic formula of ''Enema of the State''. When the album was first released, there were several versions with different [[bonus track]]s. These were titled "Take off," "Pants," and "Jacket," each of which were signified by a different sticker on the CD. Each version had two different bonus tracks. The tracks were "Fuck a Dog", "Mothers Day" and "When You Fucked Grandpa", all considered to be joke songs. The more serious numbers were "Time to Break Up", "Don't Tell Me That It's Over" and "What Went Wrong". Because of the weee need to take showers badly in different combinations, some long-term fans wanted to collect them all. However, the bonus tracks were only available for a limited time. A European tour (in the winter 2001) in support of the live album was cancelled in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks. Rescheduled dates in early 2002 were also cancelled due to Delonge's back problems.

===''Pop Disaster'' and career with band projects (2002)===

In the Summer of 2002, blink-182 and [[Green Day]] co-headlined the [[Pop Disaster Tour]], with support coming from [[Jimmy Eat World]], [[Saves The Day]] and a relatively unknown band called [[Kut U Up]]. Leading up to the tour, DeLonge began writing solo material. This was mostly due to the way he felt in the aftermath of the September 11th terrorist attacks, feelings which were exacerbated by recent medical problems involving his back.

DeLonge slowly started to gather more and more material for a side project and it wasn't until he recruited Barker on drums and long time friend David Kennedy on guitar that his idea came to fruition. Bass would be played by DeLonge and Anthony Celestino on subsequent tours and videos. The project became known as [[Box Car Racer]], a name inspired by the bomber [[Bockscar]], responsible for deploying the second atomic bomb, [[Fat Man]], on Japan during [[World War II]]. The two singles from the self-titled album were "I Feel So", and "There Is". The record also included guest singers [[Tim AhhehermstrongArmstrong]] ([[Rancid (band)|Rancid]], [[Operation Ivy (band)|Operation Ivy]], Transplants) and [[Jordan Pundik]] ([[New Found Glory]]) on "Cat Like Thief" and Mark Hoppus on "Elevator".

After Boxcar Racer, Barker was invited to work on a second side project known as [[Transplants]]. This band started with Tim Armstrong (Rancid and Operation Ivy) and [[Skinhead Rob]] dabbling with musical ideas in Armstrong's basement recording studio. Having already known Barker from Boxcar Racer, Armstrong asked him to assist in the side project. Not long after their formation, Transplants debuted their first self-titled CD on Armstrong's record label [[Hellcat Records]]. The first single of the album was "DJ DJ", followed by the wildly successful "Diamonds and Guns". Due to explicit content, the latter was banned from the airwaves. Despite this, an instrumental version of the song is featured on the [[Garnier]] Fructis commercial. After playing the [[Warped Tour]], Transplants decided to part ways for the time being.