San Diego rockers energize sold-out Hard Rock to begin first tour in 5 years

If 1991 was the year punk broke, according to the Dave Markey documentary, 1997 was the year it broke wind.

That was when “Dude Ranch,” the second full-length album from San Diego’s study in suspended adolescence, Blink-182, was released to platinum sales, kicking the band’s career into overdrive, priming the libidos of teen boys everywhere by taking the kind of ribald chatter heard in the average high school locker room and setting it to a rapid-fire beat.

Before too long, the band would be introducing songs about having sex with your grandpa to the top of the charts.

A little over a decade later, Blink is coming off a prolonged hiatus, kicking off their first tour in five years at The Joint at the Hard Rock, where, on Friday night, they hovered above the crowd like a storm front of hormones and adrenaline.