Travis Barker has performed as a frequent collaborator with hip hop artists, is a member of the rap rock group Transplants, cofounded the rock band +44, and joined Box Car Racer, Antemasque and Goldfinger.
72 Facts About Travis Barker
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Travis Barker began playing for The Aquabats in 1996, but left to join Blink-182 in 1998, which encountered mainstream success with Enema of the State.
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Travis Barker established himself as a versatile drummer, producing and making guest appearances in music projects of numerous music genres including hip hop, alternative rock, pop, and country.
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Travis Barker starred in an MTV reality series named Meet the Barkers.
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Travis Barker was involved in a plane crash in 2008, but he recovered and released his debut solo album, Give the Drummer Some, in 2011.
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Travis Barker has continued to work with rappers, releasing extended plays with Yelawolf, Asher Roth, and Nottz, as well as with Blink-182 and the Transplants.
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Travis Barker released a memoir, Can I Say: Living Large, Cheating Death, and Drums, Drums, Drums, in 2015.
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Travis Barker is a vegan and has invested in the Los Angeles vegan restaurant Crossroads.
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Travis Barker was born in Fontana, California on November 14,1975, When Travis Barker was four, his mother gave him his first drum kit, which was the only one he would have until he was 15.
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Travis Barker began taking drum lessons at age five with a drummer named Michael Mai, who would expose young Travis Barker to many different playing styles.
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In junior high, Travis Barker learned to play the piano and briefly tried singing, joining the madrigals men and women's choir.
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Travis Barker has described himself as a stoner during his tenure at Fontana High School.
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Travis Barker told him to keep playing music and to follow his dreams.
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Travis Barker gained a lot of experience performing at regional competitions and festivals.
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Travis Barker employed a variety of styles including military and jazz rhythms, but was attracted to the driving rhythms of hip-hop and punk rock.
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Travis Barker, who was "sleeping on [his] friend's couch" and still working as a trash man, only intended to fill in for a few days but ended up joining the band.
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Travis Barker, who did not have time to prepare or practice with the duo, learned the drum tracks for the 20-song setlist in only 45 minutes before the first show and performed them flawlessly thereafter.
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Travis Barker branched out into retail at this time, opening a store in Riverside called Famous Stars and Straps.
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Travis Barker began offering drum lessons and added Guitar Center drum clinics to his list of activities.
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The band began its first arena tour in the fall of 1999, but Barker missed much of the 2000 Mark, Tom and Travis Show tour after he broke his finger.
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In 2001, Travis Barker married Melissa Kennedy, but the two divorced in August 2002 after nine months of marriage.
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Travis Barker had this reputation of being a guy who could sit down with a click track and no music and have the arrangement in his head and he could lay down the drum tracks in five, ten minutes for a song and then the band could play on top to him as if he was a drum machine.
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The Kinison, who supported Blink-182 on their tour dates, impressed Travis Barker and were the first group signed to LaSalle Records, a record label Travis Barker officially set up in 2004.
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Travis Barker met once a week with designers at Famous Stars and Straps to oversee designs for shoes and in his spare time picked up boxing.
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Travis Barker injured his foot at a Melbourne, Australia show in 2004 but performed the next night using his left foot for the kick-drum; he was in so much pain afterward that the tour had to be canceled.
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Meanwhile, Hoppus and Travis Barker continued recording music together and began working on electronic demos, which they called +44.
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The +44 project came to a turning point when Hoppus and Travis Barker purchased their own studio in October 2005, named Opra Music.
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Travis Barker broke his arm during a video shoot for +44, but continued to tour performing with one arm.
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In early 2007, Travis Barker began to work on hip-hop remixes and production techniques for many artists, preparing some loops and beats for Juelz Santana and looking to open two new boutiques, one in Los Angeles named Fast Life and one in Venice Beach by the name of Rogue Status.
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Travis Barker kept busy drumming for Idiot Pilot and the Federation, as well as creating well-received remixes of Rihanna's "Umbrella" and "Crank That ".
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Travis Barker continued releasing hip-hop remixes in 2008; a well-received remix of Flo Rida's "Low" followed the "Crank That" rendition.
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The videos of Travis Barker playing the revamped tracks grew heavily in popularity on YouTube.
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Travis Barker hoped to collate his growing arsenal of remixes with a bunch of new tracks on which he was working.
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Guests who recorded with Travis Barker included Young Dro, E-40, Willie Nelson, and Damian Marley.
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Travis Barker began performing with DJ AM in June 2008 in a collaboration called TRV$DJAM.
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Essentially, DJ AM would mix a set of classic songs live with two turntables, then Travis Barker would "enhance AM's groove" with live drums.
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Travis Barker had invited his ex-wife Moakler, but she declined, saying she had a weird feeling about leaving their children.
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Travis Barker was always afraid to fly; in his teenage years, he was "sure" he would die in a plane crash.
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Travis Barker spent more than 11 weeks in hospitals and burn centers.
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Travis Barker stopped his vegetarian diet and began eating meat to increase his protein intake and possibly speed up healing of his burns.
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Travis Barker recovered from the incident, enabling him to return to the recording studio in November 2008.
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Travis Barker's accident led to a Blink-182 reunion, with the group announcing their return at the February 2009 Grammy Awards.
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The plane crash led Travis Barker to make some lifestyle changes; he began running and swimming each day, and went vegan since leaving the hospital, although he had already been vegetarian for 17 years.
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Travis Barker has overcome a painkiller addiction he had for years prior to the plane crash.
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Travis Barker continued his collaborations, working with Chester French, LL Cool J, Cypress Hill and producing an entire EP of collaboration, Psycho White, with rapper Yelawolf.
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Travis Barker was unable to attend Blink-182's Australian tour in 2013; Brooks Wackerman filled in.
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Travis Barker has joined Hoppus in citing DeLonge as the principal cause of the replacement.
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Travis Barker has written a memoir entitled Can I Say: Living Large, Cheating Death, and Drums, Drums, Drums, which was released on October 20,2015.
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Travis Barker appeared in the 2016 Grammy-nominated documentary film about American DJ and producer Steve Aoki, titled I'll Sleep When I'm Dead.
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In 2018, Travis Barker appeared on the trap-metal musician Ghostemane's track, "Dead".
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In 2018 Travis Barker joined The Aquabats for a 20th anniversary show celebrating their second album The Fury of the Aquabats at the Fonda Theater in Los Angeles, California.
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In 2019, Travis Barker teamed up with popular New Orleans alternative hip hop duo $uicideboy$ to announce Live Fast Die Whenever, a collaborative EP.
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In May 2020, Travis Barker signed American musician and TikTok personality Jxdn to his label DTA Records, making Jxdn the first artist on the label.
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In September 2020, Travis Barker was on a collaboration project with Machine Gun Kelly on Kelly's album Tickets to My Downfall.
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Travis Barker was heavily featured in the movie adaptation of this album, Downfalls High.
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Travis Barker played on the Willow Smith pop-punk track "Transparent Soul", released April 27,2021.
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In July 2021, Travis Barker signed an exclusive worldwide publishing administration deal with Warner Chappell Music.
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In November 2021, Travis Barker signed former BMG artist Avril Lavigne to DTA Records, with releases due to be handled by Warner Music Group's Elektra Records.
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In 2022, Travis Barker executive produced Machine Gun Kelly's eighth studio album.
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Travis Barker and Kelly announced the album name, Born with Horns, by getting matching tattoos of the album name on their arms.
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Travis Barker told CBS Local that his first ever hero was Animal from The Muppets, crediting the character as his inspiration to pursue drumming.
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Travis Barker cites John Bonham of Led Zeppelin, Alex Van Halen of Van Halen, Tommy Lee of Motley Crue, and Danny Carey of Tool as his favorite drummers.
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Travis Barker stated that Van Halen's "Jump" was the first song he learned on the drums.
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Travis Barker later married actress and Miss USA 1995 titleholder Shanna Moakler on October 30,2004.
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Travis Barker and Moakler have two children together, a son born in 2003, and a daughter born in 2005.
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Travis Barker remains close with his stepdaughter, Moakler's daughter with ex-fiance, boxer Oscar De La Hoya.
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In March 2007, Moakler told People magazine that she and Travis Barker were back together, but denied that she was pregnant.
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In late 2015, Travis Barker briefly dated singer and actress Rita Ora.
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Travis Barker was raised Catholic, believes in God, and prays regularly with his children.
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Travis Barker is in a brief scene with Blink-182 in the teen movie American Pie.
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Travis Barker performed alongside Skylar Grey and Kid Ink at WrestleMania 31.
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Travis Barker appears as a secret, playable character in Tony Hawk's Project 8, and in Guitar Hero World Tour.