It's been 1 year today. I know i am so lucky to be here. I am so blessed to still breathe, walk, talk, or even play my drums and be alive.

@trvsbrkr Amen, my friend. I'm glad you're here.

I am blessed with 3 amazing children that i adore and i couldn't imagine life without them and friends and family who have be so supportive.

Rest In Peace: LIl Chris Baker, Che, Adam Goldstein, Sarah Lemmon & James Bland. Gone never forgotten.

http://twitpic.com/icto5 & http://twitpic.com/ictwk & http://twitpic.com/icutk - Memories of better days are what I'm holding on to.

Travis Barker has been on our cover four times. In the past he usually appeared as one of the world's most admired drummers, seemingly always at the top of his game. But for our October 2009 cover story we talked to a different Barker. He's been through celebrity wars and life-threatening injuries from a plane crash. He's reuniting with band mates from whom he'd been alienated for a few years. He's a father, and he's older. And, tragedy continues to unfold for him. After this interview was done he lost current musical partner DJ AM to an apparent drug overdose.

Been listening to a new @trvsbrkr track, out on his album next year, pretty dope guests u may not expect. It's pretty fresh, TB came thru.

Drummer unveils his full gravity-defying routine in Vancouver.

On Tuesday night, during Blink-182's show at General Motors Place in Vancouver, British Columbia, Travis Barker finally unveiled the full version of his much-hyped, gravity-defying, head-spinning drum solo.

Needless to say, it was pretty epic. And worth the wait.

A week earlier, during a "friends only" warm-up gig at the Forum in Los Angeles, Barker had done the routine — which features his drum riser levitating, swinging from side-to-side and turning upside down — and shaky camera-phone footage of the stunt quickly began to make the rounds. Barker did a stripped-down version of the solo during Blink\'s first two shows in Las Vegas, as the venue was too small for the full routine.

So, finally, on Tuesday, with some 15,000 Blink fans cheering him on, in a spot big enough to support his rigging, Barker gave the public what they were clamoring for: a three-minute, 360-degree drum clinic. Footage of the solo, which seems reminiscent of Tommy Lee's aerial drums solos in Mötley Crüe's heyday, has already flooded YouTube.

When MTV News was out in Vegas for the kickoff of the Blink tour, we asked Barker about the stunt. Turns out, he just sort of winged it. After all, he's been doing it for years.

"[The idea] happened like a month ago. Someone brought it up, like, 'What are you doing for the drum solo, Trav?' And I was like, 'Uh-oh.' But I was up for the challenge," Barker laughed. "The first [time I did a solo on tour], I was on fire, and the kit was rotating. The second time, I went upside down — and upside down is kind of the gnarliest thing you can do. So then, this one was like, 'How can you make me even more uncomfortable, or sideways, or fly me in the air?' So, I kind of just let [the stage techs] do their thing, and I go up there and play my drums."

"It's like Travis set a precedent for himself that he has to up the ante every single time," Blink bassist Mark Hoppus added. "He did it to himself."

And while the drum solo is undoubtedly one of the highlights of Blink's set, it wasn't the only anti-gravity act the band was planning. "I'll be honest with you, the drum solo wasn't even the first idea," guitarist Tom DeLonge said. "Remember the vocal solos we were gonna do, on that same rig?"

"Yeah, we were gonna spin around, go upside down, and just do scales, vocally," Hoppus answered, before breaking into a vocal warm-up. "You know, just strap in and sing."

Of course, Barker had to one-up them. And in the end, it seems like they all made the right choice.

http://twitpic.com/8wip5 - Photo from the shoot the other day.

Welcome to the first “episode” of Wee Rocks, the latest in sporadic jackassworld original programming where Wee-Man interacts with various music types. Before letting Wee-Man take it away textually, special thanks are in order for Russell Bongard, a friend and former Big Brother contributor who set this particular meeting up with Travis Barker.

This day will definitely go down in history. On this day I did something that in my eyes I don’t think any average Joe Shmoe could do: I got to learn/play drums with one of my favorite drummers, Travis Barker. He knew I was coming, but he probably didn’t know I had a surprise for him. Actually, I bet he was worried I was gonna pull a prank on him. Anyway, the video illustrates better how the day went than I can put it in words. So watch the video. PURE FUN. —Wee-Man