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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.
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Travis Barker
Age: 48
Born: 1975
Born: November 14
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Travis Landon Barker
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