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Trained in jazz and marching bands during his teenage skater years in Fontana, Calif., he’s brought that skilled dynamism to bands across multiple genres: ska, country, and of course, the generational pop-punk heroes Blink-182 and the rap-rock outfit Transplants. (He even played a little soca before becoming famous.) A Barker fill is immediately recognizable, and over a three-decade career, he’s generally preferred speaking through the kit — loudly, quickly and with maximum physical force. “I think scars are cool,” Barker said recently in an interview on Popcast , The New York Times pop culture chat show. “I’ve never left a show where I’m a bloody mess, or my hands are a mess, and been like, I wish I didn’t play the way I did or I wish I would have went not as hard tonight .” But in middle age, Barker, 50, is finding other ways to share what he’s been through.