Travis Barker is spending tribute to his late pal DJ AM.
The Blink-182 drummer honored the DJ on Aug. 28 — the 14th anniversary of his demise — by sharing a series of throwback images on Instagram Tales.
DJ AM, whose genuine identify was Adam Goldstein, died in 2009 at the age of 36. A spokesperson for the New York health-related examiner later on verified to the Los Angeles Periods that the musician died of an accidental overdose.
Just the yr before, Goldstein and Barker — who executed with each other as TRV$DJAM — experienced been the sole survivors of a airplane crash that killed 4 people today.
“I caught fireplace,” Barker recalled all through a 2015 “Larry King Now” job interview. “I get pretty, extremely worried. I operate. I get Adam. He’s handed out. I open up the crisis exit. I bounce into the jet gas, so my whole body is engulfed in flames at this point. Adam sees me soar into the genuine jets and grow to be, like, absolutely on fire, and he jumps close to and follows me. And he’s virtually on his cellphone calling our manager going, ‘Our airplane crashed. Travis is on fireplace.'”
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DJ AM, 1973-2009
Barker advised Larry King that 65 percent of his human body was coated in third-diploma burns and that he underwent 27 surgeries, introducing that Goldstein burned the back again of his head and his arm after seeking to pat down Barker’s ft and put out the flames.
Following the 2008 crash, Barker and Goldstein ongoing to lean on each other.
“We ended up every other’s therapists,” the 47-yr-outdated reported in a 2021 job interview with Men’s Wellbeing, likely on to describe how they struggled to uncover help networks for survivors of aircraft crashes. “So, it was just him and me. When he left, I was like, ‘Oh, f–k. I am the only a person in my club. It truly is just me.’ And I uncover my means to deal with it.”
For several years soon after the crash, Barker — who’s compensated tribute to DJ AM quite a few periods over the decades — wouldn’t fly on a plane. Having said that, he took a flight in 2021 with wife Kourtney Kardashian — with whom he is anticipating a toddler boy — and has credited her really like and guidance with helping him choose this action.
“Just flew for the 30th time since my aircraft crash,” Barker posted on Threads in July. “Would not be capable to tour or get pleasure from existence once again the way I do with out the therapeutic like of my remarkable spouse. I love you @kourtneykardash.”
