Blink 182 and Transplants drummer Travis Barker recently opened up more about the plane crash he survived in 2008 with his friend, the late DJ AM.
“Honestly, I never thought the album would be finished,” Barker said in Rolling Stone. “For a while after my accident, I was just recovering. No one really thought I would be able to play drums after all the surgeries and everything. That was always on my mind. Once I was in the studio, it was like, ‘I can walk now, I can play the drums still. I have to finish this.'”
After the crash, Barker went through 16 surgeries, nearly lost a foot, and couldn’t use his left hand. He was also on 20 different medications. DJ AM, who Barker called his support system, died of an overdose in New York in 2009, while Blink 182 was on tour.
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Barker’s solo album, Give the Drummer Some, comes out March 15. He’ll be keeping busy this year, as new releases are also due from both Blink 182 and Transplants.
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