Originally published 03-03

Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker knows his double entendres. The band's album titles include Enema of the State and the coy Take Off Your Coat and Jacket (say it out loud). The working title for the band's eponymous new CD was once Use Your Erection I and II. Blink's DVD is called The Urethra Chronicles, and its biography is titled Tales from Beneath Your Mom. Jokey titles aside, there's nothing funny about Travis's work ethic. When he's not touring with Blink, the inked and mohawked 27-year-old also drums for the Transplants and Box Car Racer. Those gigs help subsidize his collection of vintage Cadillacs (he owns a dozen) and the new L.A. home he bought for his Playmate girlfriend Shanna Moakler, with whom he recently fathered a child. With a woman like Shanna by his side, you have to think Travis's skills go way beyond the drum kit. He recently waxed erotic with Playboy.com about everything from "ass passes" to unorthodox three-ways.

1. What music do you listen to during sex?

Travis Barker: Man, that's hard. It depends on if it's a lovemaking night or if you've been drinking and it's a super-horny night. I like everything from Frank Sinatra and Prince to LTJ Bukem and Tosca to DJ Shadow and Nine Inch Nails. Me and Shanna always make love to Pink Floyd.

2. Have you had sex with a groupie or a fan?

TB: Let's put it this way: I've been touring since I was 17. I'm 27, and I was single up until three years ago, so of course I played around. Usually I'd have my drum tech or my tour manager go out and give "ass passes" to hot chicks to come backstage. That gets old, but it was definitely fun.

3. How old were you when you first had sex and what were the circumstances?

TB: I was in seventh grade, and it was with a hot cheerleader who was older than me. She made it happen in her parents' trailer home. Very white trash. It was weird. I thought it felt like hot jelly. Afterward, it was like Stand By Me; me and my boys were walking, holding our skateboards, and I thought, "Sex is no big deal. It's just like hot jelly. I don't care if I never have sex again." It wasn't even that cool, you know?

4. What's the most memorable sexual experience you've ever had?

TB: On New Year's Eve, me and my girlfriend Shanna went to this place in the Bahamas called The Ocean Club where they had a rad reggae band playing. We hung out with old couples. It was super cool. Then I got drunk and played drums all night with the band. After the fireworks at midnight, we had sex right where the fireworks happened on this open lawn in the middle of nowhere at three in the morning. It was awesome. We were so freaked out walking back from there. People were picking up fireworks and packing up equipment, and they all looked at us with our torn clothes and missing shoes. It was hot. And then for the next three nights we broke into villas there and made love.

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Photo: Shanna Moakler