<data: post.body />Travis London Barker (born November 14, 1975, age 35 years) is a drummer from the United States. His name is famous after being a drummer for Pop-Punk Blink 182, but now he's playing for +44. Barker also plays for several music groups such as Box Car Racer, The
Transplants, Expensive Taste, The Suicide Machines, and The Aquabats.Throughout Travis's body was covered in tattoos. The first time Travis made a tattoo when he was 17 years old. The tattoo that read "BONES" is none other than his name as a child.After disbanding from his first band, Feeble, Barker began playing for The Aquabats in 1996 and is known as The Baron Von Tito. He
recorded an album with them, The Fury from Aquabats !, In 1997. Then he
withdrew from Aquabats and he joined pop punk band Blink-182 in 1998.
Barker became famous for his hair and his tendon barbaric mohawk at the
time maen drum, and revealed many tattoos. Barker
has since proven himself to be a very successful drummer, producing and
making "remix" drums from various musical genres such as hip-hop,
alternative rock, pop and country. He has gained significant acceptance in the hip-hop community in
particular and often works with musicians to compose "rock-remix"
colored their songs.Travis Barker was born to Randy and Gloria Barker in Fontana, California, located in San Bernardino County. Barker grew up in a high crime area, where his father worked as a mechanic and his mother as a babysister. Barker started playing drums at age 4 although he did not become
serious about it until about the age of 12. Barker studied with Allen
Carter, a percussionist and jazz player well-established and respected
director, writer / author and professor and famous for all kinds of
different music.His mother, who had been diagnosed with cancer three months earlier, died the day before he started high school. He told Travis to keep playing music and to follow his dream. Barker attended Fontana High School, where he played in the jazz ensemble and marching band. He gained a lot of experience performing in regional competitions and festivals. During her senior year, she follows the drum corps tryouts for a tour with a rock band. Barker gained a lot of experience doing with some rock bands initially. After Barker graduated from high school in 1993 he became a member of The Aquabats. He was nicknamed Baron Von Tito. Barker did not return to drum corps for his age. She came out in 1986, She auditioned with Blue Devils Drum and Bugle Corps, but finally did not go in
Travis's first instrument was a trumpet, not a drum. As a teenager he plays in marching bands and some swings, and jazz fans. He started playing drums in a local band called Riverside before 1998Blink-182 was formed in 1992 by Mark Hoppus and Tom DeLonge. After recruiting drummer Scott Raynor, the band recorded three initial demos and two studio albums: Cheshire Cat (1994) and Dude Ranch (1997). Hoppus and DeLonge fired Raynor during a US tour in 1998 because he was in trouble with liquor. Hoppus and DeLonge invited Travis Barker into Blink-182 to replace Raynor during the rest of the tour. Then they were attracted to Barker and invited him to join.
The band released their breakthrough album Enema State in June 1999 and was successful in commercial circles, spurred on by successful singles "What's My Age Again", "All The Small Things", and "Adam Song's" [3]. Then they released a live album, Mark, Tom and Travis Show (The Enema Strikes Back!) In November 2000, the band entered the studio and recorded their fourth studio album Take Off Your Pants and Jacket, released in June 2001. The album continued the band's commercial success and popularity.After he was with Box Car Racer in 2002, DeLonge and Barker rejoined the band to record the fifth album that was finally released in November 2003. The album continued their success from previous albums, as well as according to them: Blink-182 became more "mature" than the past, by trying out the elements of pop punk band sound they used to do, and being inspired by their lifestyle changes (since all the band members had become fathers before the album was released) and the project-side (Box Car Racer and Transplant).Tension emerged among the band members when DeLonge declared to cancel the tour in late 2004, and the band officially announced "disbanded" in February 2005. DeLonge formed Angels & Airwaves while Hoppus and Barker created a new band called +44. In August 2008, band producer Jerry Finn died of cerebral hemorrhage, and Barker survived a near-burning plane crash
Travis's first instrument was a trumpet, not a drum. As a teenager he plays in marching bands and some swings, and jazz fans. He started playing drums in a local band called Riverside before 1998Blink-182 was formed in 1992 by Mark Hoppus and Tom DeLonge. After recruiting drummer Scott Raynor, the band recorded three initial demos and two studio albums: Cheshire Cat (1994) and Dude Ranch (1997). Hoppus and DeLonge fired Raynor during a US tour in 1998 because he was in trouble with liquor. Hoppus and DeLonge invited Travis Barker into Blink-182 to replace Raynor during the rest of the tour. Then they were attracted to Barker and invited him to join.
The band released their breakthrough album Enema State in June 1999 and was successful in commercial circles, spurred on by successful singles "What's My Age Again", "All The Small Things", and "Adam Song's" [3]. Then they released a live album, Mark, Tom and Travis Show (The Enema Strikes Back!) In November 2000, the band entered the studio and recorded their fourth studio album Take Off Your Pants and Jacket, released in June 2001. The album continued the band's commercial success and popularity.After he was with Box Car Racer in 2002, DeLonge and Barker rejoined the band to record the fifth album that was finally released in November 2003. The album continued their success from previous albums, as well as according to them: Blink-182 became more "mature" than the past, by trying out the elements of pop punk band sound they used to do, and being inspired by their lifestyle changes (since all the band members had become fathers before the album was released) and the project-side (Box Car Racer and Transplant).Tension emerged among the band members when DeLonge declared to cancel the tour in late 2004, and the band officially announced "disbanded" in February 2005. DeLonge formed Angels & Airwaves while Hoppus and Barker created a new band called +44. In August 2008, band producer Jerry Finn died of cerebral hemorrhage, and Barker survived a near-burning plane crash
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