Travis Barker.The best punk rock drummer?
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weckl-x
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The new poster boy for bad technique?
Saw this piece of news over at the PDF. Not a TB fan myself, but I'd hate this to happen to any drummer, even if I think having your hats almost-elbow-high isn't worth the points scored in showmanship and whatnot.
Saw this piece of news over at the PDF. Not a TB fan myself, but I'd hate this to happen to any drummer, even if I think having your hats almost-elbow-high isn't worth the points scored in showmanship and whatnot.
Travis Barker Discusses Bad Break, Road To Recovery
10.06.2006 1:38 PM EDT
Injury could be multiple fractures or tumor; drummer says he'll play one-armed on band's tour.
Ever since he was 4 years old, Travis Barker has only known one way to play the drums: hard.
And now, after more than 25 years of pounding the kit with reckless abandon, that style of play might have finally caught up with him.
Last
month, while he was filming the video for "When Your Heart Stops Beating," the first single from his new band, Plus-44, he started feeling a dull, burning pain in his right forearm — a pain unlike anything he had ever felt before.
But with a full slate of promotional interviews for his band's debut album, When Your Heart Stops Beating, including one with MTV News just four days after he injured his arm, and an upcoming string of European shows with Plus, he decided to press on. Which was probably not the best idea.
"We were in London, doing rehearsals, and I really started feeling it. I had to go to an urgent-care doctor, because I could feel the pain in my bone, and feel my muscles and tendons tightening with pain," Barker said. "So I went to this doctor, and he couldn't read X-rays, and when he told me not to play for the next three weeks, I told him, 'You can't give me any proof.' So I played every night and iced it every night, but it just kept aching."
Upon returning home to Los Angeles earlier this week, Barker scheduled an appointment with a doctor to undergo an MRI. But rather than providing results, the scan of his forearm only raised more unsettling questions.
"After he did the MRI, we looked and the inside of one of my bones was all black, instead of white, like it should be. Which means that either I have a bunch of fractures in my bone — which, if I kept playing, would shatter — or I had a tumor inside my bone," Barker explained. "It is what it is, and I don't think there's anything I can do about it. I don't like hiding, so I figured I would come out and tell people what's up. Either it's broken, or I could have something growing inside my arm. And that sucks, but there's nothing I can do about it."
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/154...headlines=true
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ouch..i wonder if its near the joints or smth.
fallengrace182
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hmm he has broken his leg before and he used the left leg to play the bass drum.kind of cool.i gotta admit that he is one of the really best in punk rock.
fallengrace182
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grow up shert.same to you johnson.
fallengrace182 said:
He fell off the tour bus in australia, or just before the aussie tour and broke his ankle or something and it had to be postpone.
Travis is awsome to watch. I love watching his arms fly around and stuff when he plays. He's rather good to watch.. his style and all. so energetic.
fallengrace182
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yeah he was almost the one who made blink 182 happen.although he was the man behind the drums.i gotta say that he was the one supporting behind blink.
caijunlong
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while most songs has guitar solo in the interlude, blink182 songs has many drum solo in the interlude. he might not be the best punk rock drummer. but it's also hard to think of a punk rock drummer who plays better than him.
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somehow apart from travis..for punk rock la..i like tre cool from green day..he rocks me balls.
yea tre cool's a very good drummer for his genre, his drum lines maybe not be as fanciful as travis, but they are real solid and i feel that he really connects with the music... and i saw somewhere that tre cool is actually one of travis barkers favourite drummers, after all, green day is supposedly the "fathers" of this line of punk rock/pop (not the original punk which were the actual influences of green day themselves)...
haha gotta be careful with genre naming and all. these days, a lot of genre conscious ppl out there like to find every chance to correct a genre name lol
in fact, sorry if im about to offend travis-fans, i think if u were to minus of travis' rolls and "lightning fast" fills, tre cool would be the better drummer IMO, i think tre has more substance in his actual main beat. just an opinion
haha gotta be careful with genre naming and all. these days, a lot of genre conscious ppl out there like to find every chance to correct a genre name lol
in fact, sorry if im about to offend travis-fans, i think if u were to minus of travis' rolls and "lightning fast" fills, tre cool would be the better drummer IMO, i think tre has more substance in his actual main beat. just an opinion
fallengrace182
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tre cool is known for his stamina for being to play non stop for concerts and his joker faces which never fails to keep ppl entertained.but i gotta say that travis is better than him.in my opinion.
fallengrace182
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tom quarrelled with mark and travis with some lame stuff and tom quitted the band..i dun think they will get back together anytime soon..maybe forever. 
