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
In 1996, I was in was in an acoustic kind of rock band, we were called Feeble. We were just playing locally.
It seems like I have more in common - or hit it off better - with rappers than fools that are in rock music. It was always natural for me.
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 can play punk rock, and I love playing punk rock, but I was into every other style of music before I played punk rock.
A lot of people think that punk rock musicians don't know what they're doing.
We didn't hold ourselves to a standard that said we needed a certain type of song because that's the type we had on the last album.
I think last season was awesome, but this one is even crazier, ... You have no idea.
We've talked about working with Danger Mouse for the new Plus-44 record,
Volunteering is the last thing that this generation is going to do on their own, ... so if this is what it takes to get them to volunteer, then so be it.
My mom died when I was 16. I had a rough childhood, you know what I mean, but it made me strong.
We just wrote songs that seemed good to us. We wrote the album in like two weeks. We could have had more time, but we accomplished what we needed to in the two weeks.
We all liked the Descendants and stuff like that, so we started playing it. It's not that it was really hard, well, it does take skill to play fast and keep up your stamina. But it was something that just happened.
We were concerned with having good songs, not just songs that go two hundred miles per hour.
We all write the music, and then Mark and Tom write the lyrics.