10 Things Travis Barker Can't Live Without

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Hey, I'm Travis Barker, and these are my 10 Essentials.

We'll start with my wedding ring.

I just wanted something really simple.

I love silver, I love like white gold,

I like the just row of parve diamonds.

It just matches everything, it's awesome.

Couldn't think of a better ring.

My wife's ring is a little more flashy,

I don't really like something like too flashy,

I like something that I can wear every day.

She has like a beautiful band with a row of diamonds

and then she has a really, really

kind of like bigger diamond

that was like our engagement ring

that I proposed to her with.

These are my drumsticks, I don't go anywhere without these.

These are literally in my suitcase next to my shoes,

my underwear, my t-shirts, whatever I'm bringing.

Sometimes I have like a practice pad kit

that goes everywhere with me too,

but no matter what, when you can't get a practice in,

you can't get a rehearsal studio,

it's drumsticks and a pillow.

Pillow makes it really hard to play

and there's no bouncing, there's no rebound,

it's like the perfect situation.

When I was in drum line as a kid,

they would always tell us just practice on pillows

'cause like you would get,

your chops would be way better if you played on pillows.

These drumsticks are modeled after SD1 Generals,

like a Vic Firth stick that I grew up playing

in concert band.

I feel off if I don't have these with me and I feel off

if I haven't like rehearsed at all during the day.

I feel good if it's about an hour,

like nothing less than an hour,

like I'm getting ready for a show right now,

like I have a show tomorrow,

so I'll just set my timer for an hour

and I'll go through everything I wanna practice,

and I go through drumstick so fast,

like I love beat up sticks.

Ones that I practice with and I'll even bring 'em to shows

or rehearse and they break right away,

which is kind of a bum out.

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This is a necklace I love to wear all the time.

It's a JR necklace.

I have another one that's a little bit bigger

and some of the spikes were missing

'cause I'd wear it so much when I'm playing.

It's like, it was rusted

and some of the spikes would fall off.

So this is like a new one that I replaced it with,

but I still wear the one with several spikes missing.

I don't know, it's like the perfect necklace.

No one has it either.

I feel like I've never seen anyone else wear it.

It was given to me,

someone brought it to me and said, do you love this?

And I said, I actually love nothing more.

I bring it everywhere I go.

Tend to wear it with like

when I wear a suit or something nice,

so I still feel like myself.

It's just like the perfect accessory.

This incense is better than any other incense.

It's called Incense of the West,

and the the scent is pinon.

It literally smells like a wood burning fireplace.

I go everywhere with it,

it's burnt throughout my entire house.

I bring it on tour with me,

it's in my dressing rooms, it's in my hotel rooms.

Everyone that comes to my studio asks,

Can I please ask you what that smell is?

And it's always this.

They come in these little sticks.

People will come

and just leave with a few of these little sticks.

I have these little, they're kind of like candle holders,

they're just like, almost like a plate,

and I buy this black sand

and you place these incense sticks inside the sand.

Then when it's like done burning,

it almost looks like ashes.

The worst is when people come here

and they confuse it for an ashtray.

There's like backwoods of rolling paper everything in there.

But yeah, the best incense.

One of my favorite candles I bring everywhere,

it's called Concrete After Lightning.

It's such like a smaller candle,

I wish it came in a bigger size, but it lasts so long.

I've accidentally left it on for multiple days at a time

and there's still wax left,

so it doesn't like burn too quick.

Literally like makes the entire house smell like this scent.

It's one of my favorite scents.

Honestly, it's a little musky,

but I have a few candles I go back and forth with

and this is one of them, I buy in like bulk,

and I bring it everywhere with me.

This is the candle right here.

D.S. and Durga, it's one of my favorites.

This is a collaboration between a company I have called DTA,

and I can never pronounce his name, Thierry Lasry, Lasry.

I just call him Terry.

And we designed these about a year ago

and they drop in like the next month or two.

I had always loved his glasses

and I bought other frames from him.

So like the idea is like when you collaborate with him,

it's like you take an existing frame

and you make it yours, you freak it, you flip it somehow.

So the name of this frame is called Master Mindy,

but they never made 'em in a matte finish.

We made 'em in a black matte finish

and did a little branding and I love

really square, kind of, almost like

Locs glasses that I grew up wearing.

I don't go anywhere without 'em,

it's my favorite frame, my favorite sunglass.

Every day, it's these.

This is Barker Wellness two in one face cleanser and mask.

So for so long I literally would take a bar of soap

and wash my face.

I would take the same lotion I was putting on my body

and I would put it on my face.

Like, I don't know, it took years to figure out like

skincare or even like worrying about like

going out in the sun or wearing sunblock.

When I was going down that path,

I noticed a lot of products weren't vegan.

A lot of them you could find like,

you know, like toxic chemicals in it.

So it was really important when I went on the journey

to create Barker Wellness

to build a void of what was missing for me.

And that was like simple skincare

that was like cruelty-free, non-toxic, and vegan.

This is unisex, but for so many males I think,

we're lost and we kind of kind of like

figure it out ourselves.

And I think like we all care about it,

like we all care if like our skin's clean

or if we're using like good products.

And for me, just knowing that I'm using something

where no animals got hurt, I'm stoked.

I stayed away from Bluetooth headphones forever

'cause they said they might cause brain tumors or cancer.

And then I tried these and it was like undeniable,

I love them.

Like the minute you put them on your ears

and your phone's next to you, it connects.

Which is the biggest problem with anything Bluetooth

is you're going through your phone,

you're resetting whatever the speaker is or the headphones

and it doesn't connect right away.

These connect right away.

They're also noise canceling.

I fall asleep sometime listening to audio books.

On planes, I'll just put 'em on

just to cancel out any noise that's going around.

They're so good.

I practice with them for hours a day.

I'm at hotels like listening to mixes.

It's this, my car, and then just the speaker from my phone.

I've never had a more honest headphone.

I probably spend a few hours a day with these.

Last essential is my phone.

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There's like an app that's like a metronome,

so I practice to it all the time.

Like the Under Armour app, I know how far I run.

My favorite thing is just to run

and put on whatever new music's on,

and be surprised or just like learn about something new.

There's a piano app, I can literally be in the studio

and while we start writing things,

I can come up with other melodies

or I can listen and be like, oh, I want to add this.

Or find out what key it's in, I love that.

I love Shazam.

Wherever I'm at in the world, I'm like,

What the fuck is this?

Like I want to know what song this is.

I also just love taking photos on it.

Like my favorite photos,

some of my favorite photos that I ever post

is just from an iPhone.

There's this app, shout out HappyCow,

it's the best invention ever,

but it basically tells you wherever you're at in the world

what vegan options you have

within like however many miles you want to choose.

We've stumbled upon the most amazing vegan restaurants

through this app, which results in us being at dinner,

like taking photos of food.

11th Madison in New York, Gauthier in London,

it's a Michelin rated restaurant that just went vegan

that wasn't plant-based before.

Crossroads, there's so many things I use it for.

Thank you guys for watching.

These are my essentials.

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