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I want to keep pushing the limits for drummers and expressing myself.

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Travis Barker
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: November 14
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Travis Landon Barker
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I looked Death right in the face.
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And I was in another band called Flash In The Pan, which was soca, Latin music, down in Laguna Beach.
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In the hospital, I promised myself that I ever walked again, that I would eat well and swim every day.
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My mom listened to the Beatles and Elvis, a lot of different types of music.
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But really, anytime, I play on a practice pad as much as I can.
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And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school.
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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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I listen to everything from jazz to reggae to heavy metal and I kind of combine everything to make something different
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Enema of the State song is kind of like a tattoo, like a moment in time, but it aged well. It's not like one that you're looking at like, Aw, God, I gotta get that s**t removed. It's something we're proud of.
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I'm obsessed with my children.
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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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I play Orange County drums. I love those guys. I've got a four piece kit.
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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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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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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.
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Playing my drums is therapy.
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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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Usually, if I'm coming to Europe, I'm on a boat for seven days, so I spend the seven days doing a bunch of things. I'll do cardio for an hour or an hour-and-a-half and weights, just light weights.
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