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If we play to first time Blink 182 listeners, it's good they are listening to us and not the Backstreet Boys. Old Fans or new fans, it's all the same to us.

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Travis Barker
Age: 48
Born: 1975
Born: November 14
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Travis Landon Barker
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I learned the songs and played the gigs, and then they called me about a month later. They told me they were like super stoked on me and asked me to join their band.
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But really, anytime, I play on a practice pad as much as I can.
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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.
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When I look at music, everything is blurred, and I like it that way. I grew up like that, hanging out with different types of people who listened to so many different types of music. I never wanted to be part of any one clique. I loved it all.
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All I wanted to do was ride skateboards - I wanted to be a professional skateboarder. But I had this problem. I kept breaking half of my body skateboarding.
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I tattooed my body so I couldn't fall back on anything. I purposely did that so I couldn't get a normal job and live a normal life. I did it so I had to play music.
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A lot of people think that punk rock musicians don't know what they're doing.
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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.
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My chops are still up, even though I`m not still in high school.
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I'm super serious about that stuff. I mean, it's rare that I sit down at a drum set when I'm not touring, because we tour so much.
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I want to keep pushing the limits for drummers and expressing myself.
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I think punk, pop-punk, and rock music is all meshed together and I think good music is good music.
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Thank you for life, and all the little ups and downs that make it worth living.
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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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Playing my drums is therapy.
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We never worry about the big things, just the small things.
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Take care of your colon and your colon will take care of you.
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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.
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Bill Stevenson of The Descendants is really good, too.
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I play Orange County drums. I love those guys. I've got a four piece kit.
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