lindsayannemusic
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Travis Barker is drummer
travis barker plays drums
travis barker plays drums
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It's fairly cliche to start thinking something or someone who is popular is "overrated." In fact, they may just be "too popular." I think it's easy to become too popular, but difficult to tell if something or someone is overrated. I think it takes historical hindsight to determine if something or someone is overrated.
Personally, I respect anyone who has achieved making a living from playing drums.
Personally, I respect anyone who has achieved making a living from playing drums.
If you compare him with Marco Minnemann, of course he is overrated. In any case, I can think of him as an entertaining drummer. Nothing more. Nothing less.
He's without question the king and savior of modern drumming. Before Travis, people had no alternative to the obviously painful sub-standard drumming of people like Ringo, Meg White, or worse, Peart who is nothing but a huge ego with bad sounding drums. Then Travis Barker hits the scene, bringing back real drumming with passion, dynamics and feel. I think the best part about his drumming is how innovative it is.
He's constantly pushing the boundaries of the very essence of what it means to be a drummer, and I think any rating is an under-rating, because it's hard to even define what it is he does that's so awesome. Basically, he's so far ahead of us that it will take some time to figure out what's really going on.
He's without question the king and savior of modern drumming. Before Travis, people had no alternative to the obviously painful sub-standard drumming of people like Ringo, Meg White, or worse, Peart who is nothing but a huge ego with bad sounding drums. Then Travis Barker hits the scene, bringing back real drumming with passion, dynamics and feel. I think the best part about his drumming is how innovative it is.
He's constantly pushing the boundaries of the very essence of what it means to be a drummer, and I think any rating is an under-rating, because it's hard to even define what it is he does that's so awesome. Basically, he's so far ahead of us that it will take some time to figure out what's really going on.
To me he now just a meme. He is mentioned in the comments of every youtube drum video because it's supposed to be funny. Is it funny though? Yes. Yes it is.