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Travis Barker

Profession : Musician

Birth : November 14, 1975

My mom listened to the Beatles and Elvis, a lot of different types of music.

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My chops are still up, even though I'm not still in high school.

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In junior high, I sang in madrigals, men's' and women's' choir. I played piano too, but then I got out of it.

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In 1996, I was in was in an acoustic kind of rock band, we were called Feeble. We were just playing locally.

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I was told once if I kept breaking things on my legs, that I wasn't going to be able to walk soon, you know? I wanted to be a pro skateboarder, but it was too hard. I was trying, but it wasn't going to happen.

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I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit.

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I was in a band called Hooker for a while.

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I was a kid, and I wasn't even sure if I wanted to play the drums, you know? All I wanted to do was skateboard, but I was still learning and taking it in, so it was good.

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I used to have friends come on tour and work as my drum tech, but they get bummed out when I have to tell them what to do. This time I'm just going to fly them out and let them hang. It's all good.

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I practice every day, I warm up before I play.

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I play Orange County drums. I love those guys. I've got a four piece kit.

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I like Steve Gadd, everything he did with Steely Dan. There's so many. I like everything.

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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 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.

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But really, anytime, I play on a practice pad as much as I can.

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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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And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school.

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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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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 run every day now. I never ran before.

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