Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker has a long-running friendship with Cypress Hill, however in an interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe he recalled how smoking out with them one time led to a present he described as “torture.”
Whereas talking with Lowe, Barker was requested if he ever performed onstage whereas below the affect. Barker recalled it taking place solely a few occasions, however each had been reminiscences that stood out as issues he did not need to replicate.
“I care a lot about how I play and it’s normally excessive power,” shared Barker with Lowe, earlier than reflecting on a type of occasions with Cypress Hill.
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Barker shared cases of smoking marijuana previous to a efficiency, however he tends to chop himself off early sufficient to afford a number of hours to sober up earlier than hitting the stage.
That was not the case within the occasion with Cypress Hill.
Barker remembers, “There was one time that Tom [DeLonge] and I, it was Blink, No Doubt and Cypress Hill, and I’ve all the time been actual shut with B-Actual, Sen and everybody. They’re like, ‘Trav, it’s the final day of the tour. You all the time smoke after the present. You bought to smoke earlier than the present trigger we’re leaving.’ And I’m like, ‘Man, I actually don’t need to’…”
He then shared with Lowe, “Dude, let me let you know, it was the longest present. And just like the songs felt like they lasted ceaselessly. And I’m like, it was like my physique was working, however all the things up right here was silent and I used to be noticing stuff I don’t usually discover.”
“Tom got here to me midway by way of the present and he was like, ‘I need to go residence.’ And I used to be like, ‘Me too.’ It was so terrible. Mark [Hoppus] had no thought what was happening, however it was like, smoking earlier than reveals is just not my factor,” he added. “I acquired by way of it, however oh gosh dude, it was like torture.”
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Elsewhere within the chat, Barker shared the opposite occasion when +44 (a band he is in with Hoppus) had been set to tape an AOL Periods efficiency. On the time, he had damaged his arm and wasn’t planning to play. However rapper The Sport inspired him to offer it a strive with one arm and tried to speak him into it after going to the roof for a smoke.
Although Barker calls the efficiency “legendary,” he confessed that the logistics of pulling it off weren’t nice and that his fundamental objective was simply to not let The Sport down after he talked him into making an attempt it.
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Travis Barker in 2026
Although Blink-182 are at the moment between albums, Barker has remained busy.
At current, he is getting ready for the discharge of a protracted awaited documentary on his life. Travis Barker: Louder Than Concern is about to premiere on Hulu tomorrow (Aug. 13) and can be seen on Disney+.
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The documentary follows his restoration from a 2008 airplane crash and the way his life has modified within the years since whereas additionally offering background on his life, his upbringing and his musical legacy.
Beneath see 30 photographs detailing Travis Barker’s tattoo transition all through. the years.
30 Pictures Exhibiting Travis Barker’s Tattoo Development By The Years
Gallery Credit score: Rob Carroll
