2023
Travis Landon Barker (born 14 November 1975) is an American drummer, songwriter and record producer. He is mainly known as the drummer of the pop punk group blink-182, from 1998 to their breakup in 2005, and since the 2009 reunion.
In 1998, during a tour with Aquabats as a support for blink-182, he was asked by the band to replace their drummer Scott Raynor. Mark Hoppus and Tom DeLonge were very satisfied and after a few weeks they offered to join the group permanently. With blink-182 he was an immediate hit with the album Enema of the State, soon followed by Take Off Your Pants and Jacket and Blink-182. In 2005 the group broke up and reformed in 2009, releasing their fifth studio album Neighborhoods in 2011.
On 1 July 2016, Blink released their seventh studio album California with commercial and critical success. To complete the project, Blink and Barker members were forced to replace Blink co-founder Tom DeLonge with lead singer and guitarist Matt Skiba of Alkaline Trio. Barker cited DeLonge as the main cause of the substitution. Citing DeLonge’s alleged reluctance to commit to work on new Blink projects
