In a recent interview with Music Radar, Travis Barker (Drummer of blink-182) says “I am 70 percent done with my new solo album. The next part, the most important piece, is for me to go play drums on it now,” Barker continued by saying “We’ve got the programming, I’ve made all of the beats, the second step was to get all of the artists and find out which artists sound great on which beats. The third step is me playing drums on it, mixing it and then putting it out.” He was also asked if there will be any special guests on this forthcoming new solo record and he told Music Radar, “I can mention some of the guests. I have Lil Wayne, Young Jeezy, Run The Jewels, Wiz Khalifa, Kendrick, Jay 305, YG, Anderson Paak, The Game, Problem…I have a lot of guests! I have a lot and I am still writing right now.”
This is not Barker’s first solo album, and when people hear that Barker has a solo album, A lot of people go, “Oh, Travis Barker has a solo album, I hope he’s doing drum solos everywhere.’ Well, unfortunately not every song requires a drum solo. Even with Blink it’s weird if I’m going crazy in every song. There comes a time with musicianship that you have to do what the song is asking for. It’s not always about, ‘Is Travis going crazy on this song?’ That is bad musicianship sometimes. So for my solo work, it is about finding that balance where I still find it fun and it is fun for fans who love the drums and love hip hop with live drums and a live musical element but so that it doesn’t hurt the song writing or make it sound out of place.”
Read the full interview, HERE.
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