 Recording sessions for Commit This to Memory , which were booked by Hoppus , were scheduled over six weeks at Seedy Underbelly Studios in Valley Village , a district of Los Angeles , California , which was actually a rented house that had once belonged to Jeff Porcaro , the drummer for Toto . The band had , according to Hoppus , " a million ideas and a lot of energy and enthusiasm to make a great record " . Pierre strove for the record to have a sound that resembled the bands Braid , Superchunk , Jawbox and the Pixies . Living in a suburb , the neighbors had called police to the band and Hoppus several times for being too loud at night time , especially when Hoppus brought a Roland TR @-@ 808 drum machine outside to work on a song late at night . According to Pierre , Hoppus was not interested in putting his own stamp on the music , but rather bringing out the best in what he saw in the group . Hoppus generally modeled his production after Jerry Finn ( a longtime producer of Blink @-@ 182 ) , and therefore it involved much watching and listening . " Mark kept telling us , ' Your name is going to be a lot bigger on the front than mine is on the back ' , " recalled Justin Pierre , " So he would throw suggestions out there but always say , ' Feel free to turn these down . ' And we would ! " 
