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American musician from California (built-in 1978)

Scott Raynor
Raynor in 1995
Born	Scott William Raynor, Jr. (1978-05-23) May 23, 1978 (historic period 43) Poway, California
Occupation	Musician
Years active	1992–present
Musical career
Genres	Punk stone skate punk post-punk
Instruments	Drums guitar
Labels	Grilled Cheese Cargo Music Kung Fu Vagrant
Associated acts	Blink-182 I Runway Mind Grimbly Death on Wednesday Isinglass Trailer Park Queen Bastidas! The Wraith
Musical artist

Scott William Raynor, Jr. (born May 23, 1978) is an American musician, best known as the original drummer of the stone band Blink-182. Born in Poway, California, Raynor get-go approached the drums in his preteens equally a fan of Metallica. He joined Blink-182 at 14 years old and continued with the band; past the time he was 19, the grouping had accumulated a large fan base and a gilded record, Dude Ranch. His heavy employ of booze caused tension in the trio, leading to a fight that in turn led to his firing from the band midway through a 1998 tour and subsequent replacement by Travis Barker. Since his booting from the grouping, Raynor has performed with a wide variety of groups and contributed to the charity StandUp for Kids.

Life and career [edit]

Raynor began playing drums at a young age, forming a group with friend Ryan Kennedy at age 11 to perform at a school competition – "a kind of 'bear witness and tell' affair," Raynor later recalled. The duo were initially inspired by Metallica, but found their material far also technical; they instead played "Twist of Cain" by Danzig and "London Dungeon" by the Misfits.^[1] Raynor'southward first legitimate operation consisted of a cover of "Vlad the Impaler" by Gwar.^[ane]

Beginnings of music career [edit]

Raynor attended Rancho Bernardo High School (RBHS). RBHS often bundled Boxing of the Bands competitions, and Raynor participated: his band, The Necropheliacs, played a cover of Metallica's "Creeping Death".^[1] While at the competition, new transfer educatee Tom DeLonge, who had been kicked out of Poway Loftier Schoolhouse for attending a basketball game while drunk,^[ane] performed an original vocal titled "Who's Gonna Shave Your Back This evening?" to a packed auditorium.^[2] Raynor was introduced to DeLonge at a political party by Paul Scott, founding member of The Necropheliacs, shortly earlier he moved out of state.^[ane] The two establish they had plenty in common, and DeLonge was searching for a more permanent band to create music with. The 2 began writing songs at Raynor's parents' dwelling – "a strange mix of metal and Descendents-way punk" – and tried out a diversity of bass players, according to Raynor.^[3] DeLonge later on met Mark Hoppus in August 1992 through friend Kerry Key and his girlfriend, Anne Hoppus.^[1] "I idea they were hilarious when I met them. I hateful, I didn't have a commuter's license yet, and then I gained a lot of agency through hanging with them and their grouping of friends," said Raynor.^[4] The trio began to practise in Raynor'south room (amid complaints from neighbors), which was soundproofed with empty egg cartons.^{[3] [4]}

The trio spent time together constantly, attending punk shows and movies and playing practical jokes.^[iv] The trio get-go operated under a variety of names, including Duck Record and Figure viii, until DeLonge rechristened the band "Blink".^[five] Hoppus' girlfriend later led him to depart from the group for a time, but he returned when Raynor and DeLonge began recording a demo tape on a four track recorder with friend and collaborator Cam Jones.^{[six] [7]} The band soon became office of a circuit that also included the likes of Ten Pes Pole and Unwritten Law, and they found their way onto the nib as the opening band for local acts at SOMA, a local all-ages venue which they longed to headline.^[8] "It's difficult to describe, in words, the nauseous mix of fear and excitement that would hit me when I first started seeing lines of people wanting to hear united states play," said Raynor.^[8]

The three eventually were playing concerts at local venues such as SOMA, which alerted local independent record characterization Cargo Music.^[ix] Hoppus was the only fellow member to sign the contract, equally DeLonge was at work at the time and Raynor was all the same a minor.^[10] The Cheshire True cat sessions were to be the terminal performance with the band for Raynor, whose family had moved to Reno, Nevada. Raynor stayed with his sister for the summer of 1993 in order to rehearse for the recording of their debut album.^[11] Raynor moved to Reno following the recording and was briefly replaced by school friend Mike Krull. The band saved money and began flight Raynor out to shows, but eventually Raynor would motility dorsum to San Diego to live with Hoppus and his family.^[12] His parents allowed him to drib out of full-time schoolhouse to motility back and play with the band, but he would continue to cease his diploma past bringing homework on bout.^{[11] [13]} "I think Marker and his sister Anne and I stayed up watching old Television set shows until forenoon that whole summer," he recalled.^[11]

"The summer I lived with Mark and his family was probably the greatest summer of my life and then far," said Raynor in 2001. "I left home at 17, came to San Diego, we bought a van, finished our first video… I had all kinds of dreams in my caput and they were all coming truthful."^[12]

Mainstream success and dismissal from Blink-182 [edit]

By March 1996, the trio began to accumulate a genuine buzz among major labels, resulting in a bidding war between Interscope, MCA, and Epitaph.^[14] MCA's persistence and sincerity won the band over, likewise equally their promise of complete artistic freedom.^[15] The band began recording their sophomore effort Dude Ranch that winter. Raynor had broken both heels and was in a wheelchair due to a drunken stunt, simply was well plenty to record the drum tracks for the album while on crutches.^[xvi] The tape hit stores the following summertime and the band headed out on the Warped Bout, which Raynor described as "i of the well-nigh unequivocally positive experiences of my time with the ring."^[14] When lead unmarried "Dammit" began rotation at Los Angeles-based KROQ, other stations took detect and the single was added to stone radio playlists across the country.^[17] Desperate for a intermission due to extended touring, the overworked ring began to argue and tensions formed, centering largely around Raynor.^[18]

I always had aspirations for the ring that went beyond the independent paradigm. I didn't measure success in terms of oppositional credibility. I loved being on the radio and MTV. We were certified products of popular civilisation, built-in and bred in suburbia. I was happy for the band when nosotros got signed.

– Raynor on his human relationship with the band^[14]

Raynor had planned from the earliest days of the band to ane day attend college, as he said in a partially tongue-in-cheek remark in a 1994 interview: "I don't want to exist thirty and still in a punk-stone band. That seems kind of scary to me."^[19] Soon after the band released Dude Ranch, Raynor began to call back outside of the situation, viewing the major label experience as nothing like he had hoped.^[19] He had simply been half invested in the band since signing to MCA, as he felt it offered less creative freedom, especially in comparing to Epitaph, which had been pursuing the band and was Raynor'south first pick.^[20] "I mean, I was intellectually invested, I recognized it as a smart motility financially. Just it's like that song says, 'I Left My Centre in San Francisco'; I left my center in the office at Epitaph. Afterward that compromise I found it difficult to make further ones, and I felt like I was asked to make a lot. Eventually, there was not plenty of my centre in the band to justify my sticking around. I backed away, I was dead weight."^[20] The tension came to a head in February 1998 every bit the band embarked on SnoCore, described every bit "a winter version of the Warped Tour." Sharing the stage with Primus, the ring was enjoying more success than always before, but the drama betwixt the musicians had grown substantially.^[21] Relations reached a low signal when the band engaged in a fight on a Nebraska date after SnoCore's conclusion.^[22] Presently after the decision of SnoCore was a short mini-bout along the western coast, most notably Southern California, the band's favorite identify to play. The tour ended with the band headlining a sold-out testify at the Palladium in Hollywood, where the ring had dreamed of performing for years.^[23]

Raynor suffered a "tragic loss" during the Westward Coast mini-tour and flew domicile, forcing the ring to find a make full-in drummer: Travis Barker of the ska punk support ring The Aquabats.^[24] Barker learned the drum tracks for the band's set in but 45 minutes prior to his first show.^{[25] [26]} Raynor returned for the ring'south Hollywood Palladium performance, and the band became increasingly uneasy and arguments grew worse.^[26] To offset personal issues, Raynor began to beverage heavily and it began to affect the ring's performances.^[20] Following a largely successful Australian tour in the jump, Hoppus and DeLonge presented an ultimatum: quit drinking or go to an in-patient rehab. Raynor agreed to both and informed the ring of his conclusion after taking the weekend to mull options.^[20] According to Raynor, he was fired through a phone phone call despite his agreement to rehab.^[27] Despite this, he felt no malice toward his former bandmates and conceded they were "right" to burn him.^[20] The ring minimized the bear upon of the situation in hereafter interviews and remained vague regarding his departure.^[20] The ring later worked Raynor'south deviation into a song, "Human Overboard", which makes reference to his alcohol abuse.^[28]

Subsequently work [edit]

Following his exit from Blink-182, Raynor kept himself decorated with various musical projects, including a grouping called The Axidentals. Raynor played guitar for the group, which recorded an extended play and a total-length that was left unreleased when Vagrant Records showed interest in signing the band.^[28] Past the fourth dimension the deal went through, Raynor was having disputes with the group and quit; the band later released their debut anthology every bit Death on Wednesday through Vagrant in 2000.^[28] Raynor also began contributing to a clemency chosen StandUp for Kids, an outreach organization that helped street and homeless youth. He also taught music to teens in problem with the law under the Street of Dreams program.^[28]

Raynor later went on to perform with the group Grimby from 2000 to 2001, which recorded an extended play at Doubletime Studios. Recorded live over the form of a solar day, Raynor has described it as night comedy, "a Black Sabbath, Ramones, and "Weird Al" Yankovic milkshake."^[29] In January 2003, a rumor circulated on the Internet that Raynor had been shot expressionless; he addressed the hoax via a alphabetic character he e-mailed to the sites in question, that instead directed the attention to the StandUp for Kids organization.^[29] Raynor fulfilled a long-held ambition to work with Nirvana producer Jack Endino on an extended play recorded with The Spazms in 2004. "The language of the whole record really speaks for me. It'due south deskilled, nihilistic, and posits, by default not intention, a Franco-feminism," he said.^{[ citation needed ]}

As of 2017, Raynor was the drummer for Los Angeles post-punk band The Wraith. ^[30] Photographs via Facebook in June 2018 showed Raynor was no longer the band'southward drummer, but he rejoined in May 2019 and stayed with the ring for the residual of that year.

Raynor appears in the music video for the vocal "Wing of Dark," although he didn't have part in the writing process.

In January 2020, Raynor left The Wraith again and the band connected with a new drummer.

References [edit]

• Hoppus, Anne (October 1, 2001). Blink-182: Tales from Below Your Mom. MTV Books / Pocket Books. ISBN0-7434-2207-iv.
• Footman, Tim (September one, 2002). Glimmer-182: The Unauthorised Biography in Words and Pictures. Chrome Dreams. ISBN978-1-84240-168-two.
• Shooman, Joe (June 24, 2010). Glimmer-182: The Bands, The Breakdown & The Render. Contained Music Press. ISBN978-1-906191-ten-8.

Notes [edit]

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f} Shooman, 2010. p. 9-ten
2. ^ Mikel Toombs (March 30, 1995). "With a wink to a sound that's fast, fun, Glimmer set to run for the tundra". San Diego Union Tribune.
3. ^ ^{a b} Hoppus, 2001. p. 12
4. ^ ^{a b c} Shooman, 2010. p. 11
5. ^ Shooman, 2010. pp. thirteen–14
6. ^ Hoppus, 2001. p. thirteen-15
7. ^ Shooman, 2010. p. xiii
8. ^ ^{a b} Shooman, 2010. p. 18-xix
9. ^ Hoppus, 2001. p. 29
10. ^ Hoppus, 2001. p. xxx
11. ^ ^{a b c} Shooman, 2010. p. 24
12. ^ ^{a b} Hoppus, 2001. p. 28
13. ^ Walker, Morgan (November 6, 1996). "Blink-182". Thrasher. High Speed Productions. p. 88. Retrieved September 13, 2013.
14. ^ ^{a b c} Shooman, 2010. p. 37-38
15. ^ Hoppus, 2001. p. 64
16. ^ Hoppus, 2001. p. 72
17. ^ Hoppus, 2001. p. 74
18. ^ Hoppus, 2001. p. 81
19. ^ ^{a b} Shooman, 2010. p. l
20. ^ ^{a b c d east f} Shooman, 2010. p. 56
21. ^ Hoppus, 2001. p. 83
22. ^ Shooman, 2010. p. 47
23. ^ Hoppus, 2001. p. 84
24. ^ Shooman, 2010. p. 51
25. ^ Shooman, 2010. p. 52
26. ^ ^{a b} Hoppus, 2001. p. 85
27. ^ Tate, Jason (April 16, 2004). "Scott Raynor (ex-Blink182) – 04.sixteen.04". AbsolutePunk . Retrieved July 28, 2012.
28. ^ ^{a b c d} Shooman, 2010. p. eighty-81
29. ^ ^{a b} Shooman, 2010. p. 114-115
30. ^ Shooman, 2010. p. 133-134

External links [edit]

• Scott Raynor discography at Discogs
• Scott Raynor at IMDb

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Raynor

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