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Devoe, Rick. //Blink 182//. 14 May 2009. //Wikimedia//. N.p., n.d. Web. 3 Mar. 2011.

Drinkwater, Paul. //Tarvis Barker Onstage//. 2 Mar. 2011. //AP Images//. N.p., n.d. Web. 3 Mar. 2011.

Flashnick, Brett. //AP Images//. N.p., n.d. Web. 1 Mar. 2011.

Lester, Danny. //Blink 182//. 25 Aug. 2003. //wikimedia.org//. Wikipedia, n.d. Web. 2 Mar. 2011.

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**__ Travis Barker __** Travis Barker has done many things through out his career as a drummer. Travis Barker is renowned as one of the best drummers to live. When people believed him to be done drumming after a terrible accident he is at the peak of his career.

**__Joining Blink-182__** Travis Barker got his chance of a lifetime when his band joined blink 182 on tour as their opening act. A little later through the tour the drummer Scot Raynor was kicked out of the band because his drinking problem became too persistent. Travis was required to learn over 20 songs in under 2 hours. After the show Mark Hoppus and Tom Delonge were so impressed by Travis’s drumming they invited him to join the band. This is what jump started Travis Barker’s great career.  Official Travis Barker Website. //Drum lessons and Drummer Biographies//. N.p., n.d.Web. 3 Mar. 2011. .  **__Enema of the State__**  Enema of the State is the first Blink-182 album that was released with Travis Barker. This album later sold 14 million copies. This took off Blink-182’s career as well as Travis Barker’s. The album achieved 5x platinum success. The band went on to make two more albums after Enema of the State, which came to be equally successful. Travis Barker continued to play with Blink-182. Later on along the lines Blink 182 went on an indefinite hiatus. There after Travis played in the band +44 with Mark Hoppus and recorded one studio album. Barker continued to do his own thing and began working with DJ AM or Adam Goldstein.

IMBD. “Travis Barker.” //IMBD Biography//. N.p., n.d. Web. 3 Mar. 2011.  **__ Plane Crash __**  On18th 2008 Travis Barker and DJ AM got into a plane crash on their way to a show. The two suffered second and third degree burns.The doctors gave travis over 20 medications to take for his healing process. Adam Goldstein and Travis were great friends they helped each other get through the pain. This plane crash as terrible as it was many good things came out of it. Blink 182 reunited in February 2009. They began touring over the summer. For a while after my accident, I was just recovering. No one really thought I would be able to play drums after all the surgeries and everything. That was always on my mind. Once I was in the studio, it was like, 'I can walk now, I can play the drums still. I have to finish this.' " –Travis barker to rolling stone. Just as things were going well for Travis he receives a call that his great friend DJ AM died of an overdose of pills. "It was hard for me to even get in the bus and be moving around. Me and AM would always speak. We were a support system for each other for a year after the crash." -Travis Barker again to rolling stone.

IMBD. “Travis Barker.” //IMBD Biography//. N.p., n.d. Web. 3 Mar. 2011.



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Travis Barker Quiz State whether the facts are true or false.  1. Travis Barker received his first drum set on November 14, 1979. _____   2. Travis got into the band Blink 182 because he wrote them a letter saying he was really great at the drums. _   3. The first album released by Blink 182 with Travis Barker was not a success. _____  <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 11.0pt .5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -.25in;"> 4. After Blink 182 Travis played for the band +44. _ <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 11.0pt .5in; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 11.0pt .5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -.25in;"> 5. DJ AM and Travis Barker got seriously injured in a plane crash. _____ <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 11.0pt .5in; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 11.0pt .5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -.25in;"> 6. Travis Barker does not believe Blink 182 will ever reunite. _ <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; margin-left: .25in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 11.0pt .5in; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 11.0pt .5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -.25in;"> 7. After the plane crash Travis barker retired from drumming. _____ <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 11.0pt .5in; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 11.0pt .5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -.25in;"> 8. Travis Barker's mother passed away the day before he began high school. <span style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 11.0pt .5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -.25in;"> 9. Travis Barker's Best friend DJ AM died of a pill overdose. _____  10. Travis grew up in a high crime area. ___