Travis Barker Can't Go Five Minutes Without Drumming

Here it is, ladies and gentlemen. Travis Barker drumming on a boat in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Consider your lives complete now.

I have no idea what the point of this video is, but I would imagine it's either to remind people that he's still mourning the death of DJ AM (as expressed by his T Shirt), or, equally as important, to remind people that he's still a better drummer than you'll ever be.

More likely it's to gain momentum for his solo album, which is set to come out later this month. If this video is any indication, we can expect lots of drums and... well, not much else. Maybe some seagulls somewhere in the background?

Seriously, was this really the best way to get people to watch him play? Why not record this somewhere a little more convenient, like say, a studio? Was it necessary to take him as far away from land as possible just record fifty seconds of him soloing?

What was the context here? It's as if his manager just places him in front of a drum set in random places and says "Here you go Travis, you can play now". Then again, maybe that's how Mark Hoppus got him to drum for Blink 182.

Travis Barker has always seemed like a cool guy by my book (hell, I even watched that MTV reality show/atrocity based upon his marriage to horrible actress/passable Playmate, Shanna Moakler) but this video illuminates exactly what TMZ and all of Twitter thrive on-- just how much pointless nonsense we will listen to, as long as it has to do with famous people. What's that you say? Kim Kardashian is having a sandwich?? We must alert the public immediately! Raise the threat level to code red!

Alright, Travis Barker drumming on water. There's no point to it, but somehow it still exudes awesome. That's all there is to it, really.

And yeah,  I realize this post and the last one have little to do with vinyl, but it's a hell of a lot easier to write this shit than it is to tell you why you should listen to a band you either haven't heard before, or already listen to on a regular basis.


- Frankie D