my favourite instrument of the classic metal associated instruments - guitar, bass, drums - is definitely the drum set. maybe it is because for me, as a non-musician, the drums were always easier comprehensible than the string instruments. anyhow i don't play air-guitar, i always play air-drums. so when i asked myself who might be the coolest drummer around, i eventually came up with the only possible result - travis barker from blink-182.
in my mind it was a hard fight of barker with georges kollias from nile. almost completely different styles of music, i know, but both of them have the ability to make a song better just because of their drumming. not just simple background rhythm but perfect musicianship. considering i love travis barker's style so much, there was an embarrasing lack of blink vinyl in my collection.
shop radio cast (srcvinyl) released the band's back catalogue on colour vinyl over the years but they don't have distribution over here and so the shit gets expensive. therefore i was delighted to find a colour copy of "take off your pants and jacket" in the racks of my local media markt. it is a 2018 pressing on solid red vinyl by universal music. hopefully they will do more re-pressings for the european market. the album was originally released in 2001.
