Travis Barker
Travis Barker
Travis Landon Barkeris an American musician and producer, and the drummer for the American rock band Blink-182. Barker has also performed as a frequent collaborator with hip-hop artists, and with the alternative rock band +44, the rap rock group the Transplants, the alternative rock band Box Car Racer, and most recently with Antemasque. He was a frequent collaborator with the late DJ AM, and together they formed TRV$DJAM...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDrummer
Date of Birth14 November 1975
CityFontana, CA
CountryUnited States of America
And I was in another band called Flash In The Pan, which was soca, Latin music, down in Laguna Beach.
I play Orange County drums. I love those guys. I've got a four piece kit.
Playing my drums is therapy.
But really, anytime, I play on a practice pad as much as I can.
I practice every day, I warm up before I play.
I love tour, but I don't like traveling at night or driving long hours. But I love touring. If my kids could be out there full time, I'd probably never go home.
I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything completely flat, and then you'd tilt your snare drum away from you, so I do that too. So my snare tilts away from me.
But there's actually a lot of punk bands out there that go out of the norm, use odd time signatures, or a lot of different tempo changes in a song.
I like Steve Gadd, everything he did with Steely Dan. There's so many. I like everything.
Anything that has to do with rock seems to be on the decline. There's not a lot of rock stations or MTV anymore, you just go on Youtube.
With rock music, it usually revolves around the band. You go in as a band and probably take about a year to record an album. But for a hip-hop song, you can create a track and an idea with verses and choruses in a day, and get three different people on it. It seems like you're able to do more with hip-hop.
I listened a little to punk when I was younger, but it was straight edge punk. It was nothing like what is going on now, like poppy punk.
Express yourself, put stuff down on tape, and see what lives.
My mom passed away a day before high school started, and her dream was for me to be a full rock and roll guy, and play drums in a band.