American - Musician | November 14, 1975 -
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.
Travis Barker
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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 in a band called Hooker for a while.
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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 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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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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Bill Stevenson of The Descendants is really good, too.
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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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A lot of people think that punk rock musicians don't know what they're doing.
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I've been vegan since I got out of the hospital... It's another eye opener. It changed my life in a number of ways.
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