Travis Barker on His Tattoos | Joe Rogan

Dude you're running out of space to tattoo. I'm gonna tell you right now. I'm actually getting tattoos on top of tattoos. That's outrageous. Yeah, I just got this LLJ for xxx. I'm gonna get it. I'm working on some new ones I've decided to go back in he kind of like remix in him at this point You know like getting tattoos on top of tattoos. Have you ever gotten lasered? Yeah once I had like a new wife and I divorced my ex-wife and she wasn't really stoked on the ex-wife's name on me Yeah, that sounds like a problem. Yeah, so I lasered it cuz it was right on my neck and she always had to see it But that's the only time I've ever done it there's nothing on me I really want to get rid of where I'm like, oh that it's all a story to me. It all tells a story It's like a moment in time and I got it for a reason But I was trying to be cool and you know, I mean trying to be respectful and make her happy at the time That makes sense. Yeah, I mean it was amazing. She hung in there all the way to being married with another chicks name on your neck Yeah, that's a good woman. True In that regard, yeah Yeah, but yeah, I love tattoos man. They're addicting. Yeah, I love them too Once I figured out they didn't hurt at the age of 15. It was on I didn't yeah It's like people tell you like oh, it's so painful. Yeah, and then you get when you're like, wait a minute It's not so bad. This is like it's kind of like a slight burn. Yeah, it's like Kind of therapeutic to know that bad. I fell asleep. I was getting tattooed same Same when I did my back piece I fell asleep and I had two artists working on me at the same time Oh, wow, just cuz I fucking hate wasting time. Yeah. Yeah, they did my back together. They did my head together, too Yeah, the heads impressive. Let me see the head. Yeah, let me see what that looks like When did you get that done? I did my head like I don't know six years ago. Wow. Yeah Yeah, I started I had like a piece on the side of my eye that mr Cartoon did back back in the day. I love that guy's work. Yeah cartoon is such as a man. He's got great shit He's a legend. Yeah, he's a legend and even outside of tattooing like low rider culture. Yeah He's he's one of the illest but um, yeah He he did that and then that kind of set it off I always had like praying hands on the side of my head and then I shaved my head and I've never grown my hair Out since because I'm like fuck it. I it's permanent haircut, right? You know What is up there? It's hard to see what I'm shine. I have like Virgin Mary right? Oh, wow I think I have like a rose you think You got a lot of tattoos. I got what's on my head. I have like a transplants gas mask on the back of my head I have one life one chance Yeah, and then like some writing Wow now when you got burned did it affect your tattoos? Did you have to tattoo over it? Yeah, so I lost I lost all the matte tattoos on my legs Wow Yes, I lost I lost my first tattoo ever which was a dagnasty tattoo this hardcore band Punk band that I loved forever and a bones tattoo, which was my nickname growing up But I lost everything on my legs. So then they do like they do what's called like grafting So they oh and I lost some tattoos from my back So they take it's like a cheese grater and they grade all of your skin off your back And my thighs and then they staple it to you with pig cadaver. Oh and they wait for For you to start healing So yeah, so I lost a lot of tattoos and then I I did I like on my thighs You can't really see I did I did memorials for For a little Chris Chae and DJ am who who all passed away in the accident? So I put them on my legs Over the graph so you can't really see it But yeah, I mean I got out pretty well man like I mean you can kind of see it on my hand my hand you can see it's discolored and stuff, but For having almost 70% of my body burnt like you can't really tell that's amazing Yeah, you can't really tell it all because you're so tattooed up that up the pain of healing burns is supposed to be excruciating It's the fucking worst thing ever well for me too. I mean I don't think you guys ever think about being burnt I know I didn't right. I would just be like I don't know. I just never think about fire Until you're on fire, and then you're like oh shit, and then and then The you know the treatments afterwards to like do everything you know like Like they would put me in this big pan That was literally about as big as this table with different people all around you and they would scrape all my burns with a metal brush to get rid of all the infection because I had I basically when I when I Jumped through the emergency exit when I opened the emergency exit before the plane blew up I was in such a hurry to get out of the plane and exit the plane. I jumped right into the jet Which is full of fuel? So my whole body lit up. You know so I had jet fuel just in My whole body like I burped jet fuel for almost like three months So they had like that was the main thing to get rid of an infection is they scrub you with a metal brush To get rid of all of it and all of the dead skin and then and then I did about 30 surgeries To to repair everything like skin graft surgeries. They saved my foot because at one point they were gonna amputate my right foot Yeah, it was wild. I have pictures from it burnt that they were gonna have to amputate it My right foot almost didn't make it was it because the way it was was it was necrosis or like what was going on? That they were gonna amputate it. I think cuz that was the thing that was most soaked Was was my shoes and socks when I jumped into the Jets, you know And I had done like I had exited the plane. I'd started running. I'd started like ripping off my clothes just That's what my instinct. Yeah, just get rid of everything But little did I know I would still be on fire because the jet fuel was you know, I was soaked in it So I'm actually running Towards a highway highways right on the side of me and I just hear some guy yell like stop drop and roll and it just like I heard it out of all this chaos of every sirens and everything and I stopped drop and rolled and the only thing that was still on fire was my feet and am came in Padded them out. So I think they were on fire the longest too So still like my I think my right foot is probably like over 50% of it's a graft. Yeah It's wild. But um, yeah, that was like I never like I said, I never even thought about it It's not something you think about until it happens to you. But being burnt is like a it's it's