Travis Barker

Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin

Rick Rubin

Society & Culture, Arts, Philosophy

4.6 • 908 Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2024

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

Travis Barker is a renowned musician best known as the drummer for the rock band Blink-182. His contributions to music extend beyond Blink-182; he is a member of the rap rock group Transplants, co-founded the rock band +44, and has been involved with Box Car Racer, Antemasque, and Goldfinger. Apart from music, he started his own clothing brand called Famous Stars and Straps in 1999 and created two record labels, LaSalle Records in 2004 and DTA Records in 2019. Travis shared his life story in a book titled Can I Say: Living Large, Cheating Death, and Drums, Drums, Drums, providing insight into the multifaceted life of this influential artist and entrepreneur. ------ Thank you to the sponsors that fuel our podcast and our team: LMNT Electrolytes https://drinklmnt.com/tetra ------ House of Macadamias https://www.houseofmacadamias.com/tetra ------ Squarespace https://squarespace.com/tetra

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0:00.0	Tetrogrammitten
0:02.0	The way the story is told to me is I was like four years old, and I was banging on pots and pans constantly to the point where my mom said to my dad, I think he's a drummer.
0:34.8	And then they got me like this little animal drum kit you could get from whatever toy store.
0:39.3	Yeah.
0:40.3	And I played that like every day.
0:42.3	Did you play just by yourself making noise or did you play along with music?
0:46.3	Sometimes with music, like my mom loved the Beatles.
0:49.3	She loved like Elvis Presley.
0:51.3	So I would play along to those.
0:53.3	Was there always music playing in your house?
0:55.6	Yeah. No musicians in my house, but music constantly playing in my house.
1:01.2	Were both your parents into music?
1:03.0	Yeah, my dad was more into like Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson's still his favorite
1:08.8	artists of all time, Owens stuff like that
1:12.8	How did your mom and your dad meet? Do you know?
1:15.9	They met at Bob's Big Boy Diner
1:19.4	Yeah my dad grew up in Pennsylvania
1:22.8	Came out to L.A. My mom was working
1:25.9	at Bob's Big Boy and yeah the rest is history.
1:30.3	Do you have brothers and sisters? I do. I have two older sisters.
1:33.3	Mm-hmm. Yeah. What was it like being the oldest?
1:36.3	I was an accident. I wasn't supposed to happen.
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