Scott Raynor

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Scott William Raynor, Jr. (Now Retired) is an American musician best known as the original drummer of the rock band Blink-182.

Raynor, a boy from Poway, California, first tried the drums in his youth as a fan of Metallica.

He joined Blink-182 at 14 years old and continued with the band; by the time he was 19, the band had a large fan base and a gold record, Dude Ranch.

Travis Barker would then replace him after his heavy use of alcohol heightened tensions in the trio, which culminated in a fight that would result in his expulsion from the band midway through a 1998 tour. Raynor has worked with a variety of organizations and volunteered for the charity Stand Up for Kids since being kicked out of the organization.

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Life and career

Raynor began playing drums at a young age, forming a team with friend Ryan Kennedy at the age 11 to represent at a school competition. The pair were initially inspired by Metallica, but later found their content much too experimental; the Misfits' "Twist of Cain" was played instead. Raynor's first legitimate performance was based on a Gwar cover story "Vlad the Impaler."

Raynor attended Rancho Bernardo High School (RBHS). Raynor was a member of the Necropheliacs, who performed a cover of Metallica's "Cleeping Death" at the Royal Bank of the Bands. While being inebriated, Poway High School freshman Tom DeLonge performed an original song titled "Who's Gonna Shave Your Back Tonight?" A packed auditorium welcomed a packed auditorium. Raynor was first introduced to DeLonge by Paul Scott, a founding member of The Necropheliacs, shortly before he departed out of state. The two discovered they had a lot in common, and DeLonge was looking for a more permanent band to play with. According to Raynor, the two began writing songs at Raynor's parents' house, "a strange blend of metal and Descendents-style punk" and tried out a variety of bass players. DeLonge met Mark Hoppus in August 1992 through a friend, Kerry Key, and his girlfriend, Anne Hoppus. "When I first met them, I thought they were funny." "I didn't have a driver's license yet, so I gained a lot of money by hanging with them and their circle of friends," Raynor said. The trio began exercising in Raynor's room (amid complaints from neighbors), and the trio was soundproofed with empty egg cartons.

The trio spent time together, watching punk shows and movies, and making practical jokes. The trio first performed under a variety of names, including Duck Tape and Figure 8, before DeLonge rechristened the band "Blink." Hoppus' girlfriend led him to leave the group for a brief period of time, but he returned when Raynor and DeLonge started recording a demo tape on a four track recorder with friend and collaborator Cam Jones. The band soon discovered themselves as the opening band for local shows at SOMA, a local all-ages venue for which they longed to headline. "It's impossible to express in words the nauseous mixture of anxiety and excitement that would have struck me when I first started seeing lines of people wanting to hear us play," Raynor said.

The three musicians were eventually playing shows at local venues such as SOMA, which prompted the local independent record label Cargo Music. Hoppus was the only one to sign the agreement at the time, although DeLonge was still a student at the time, and Raynor was still a youth. The Cheshire Cat sessions were supposed to be Raynor's last performance with the band, whose family had moved to Reno, Nevada. Raynor and his sister stayed in the summer of 1993 in order to rehearse for the recording of their debut album. Following the recording, Raynor went to Reno and was briefly replaced by school buddy Mike Krull for a short time. Raynor and the band gathered funds and began flying Raynor out to shows, but Raynor and his family would eventually return to San Diego to live with Hoppus and his family. His parents encouraged him to drop out of full-time school to return and perform with the band, but he will continue his education by bringing homework on tour. "I think Mark and his sister Anne and I stayed up watching old TV shows until the morning, the entire summer," he said.

"The summer I spent with Mark and his family was probably the best summer of my life so far," Raynor wrote in 2001. "I left home at 17, went to San Diego, purchased a van, and shot our first film...I had all sorts of hopes in my head, and it was all coming true."

The trio began to gather a real buzz among major brands by March 1996, resulting in a bidding war between Interscope, MCA, and Epiphany. The band's tenacity and sincerity, as well as their promise of complete artistic freedom, won the band's respect. During the winter, the band's sophomore effort, Dude Ranch, was released. Raynor had broken both feet and was in a wheelchair as a result of a booze-induced outpouring of alcohol, but he was still good enough to capture the album's drum tracks while on crutches. The record debuted in supermarkets the following summer and the band departed on the Warped Tour, which Raynor described as "one of the most unequivocally positive experiences of my time with the band." When lead single "Dammit" first appeared on radio radio stations around the country, other stations alerted and the song was added to rock radio playlists around the world. The overworked band began to debate and tensions erupted, with the majority of the band concentrated around Raynor, who was desperate for a break due to extended touring.

Raynor had planned from the beginnings of the band to a single day of college as he said in a partially tongue-in-cheek remark in a 1994 interview: "I don't want to be 30 and still in a punk-rock band." That seems to be a little scary to me." Raynor began to think outside of the situation, seeing the big label experience as nothing like he had expected. Since joining MCA, he felt there was less creative freedom, particularly in comparison to Epitaph, which had been following the band and was Raynor's first choice. "I mean, I was financially invested, but I knew it was a smart move financially." But it's like the song, 'I Left My Heart in San Francisco,'; at Epitaph, I left my heart in the office. After that compromise, I found it impossible to make new ones, and I felt as though I was expected to make a lot. Eventually, there wasn't enough of my heart in the band to justify my continuing to play. I backed away because I was overweight." The tense struggle came to a halt in February 1998, when the band embarked on SnoCore, which was described as "a winter version of the Warped Tour." The band was gaining more success than ever before, but the band's drama had escalated dramatically. After SnoCore's conclusion, family ties hit a low point when the band got involved in a fight on a Nebraska date. A short mini-tour along the west coast, most notably Southern California, the band's favorite spot to play shortly after the conclusion of SnoCore. The band ended the tour with a sold-out performance at the Palladium in Hollywood, where the band had hoped to perform for years.

Raynor was "tragic loss" during the West Coast mini-tour and flew home, causing the band to look for a replacement drummer, Travis Barker of the ska punk support band The Aquabats. Barker learned the drum tracks for the band's set just 45 minutes before his first appearance. Raynor returned to the band's Hollywood Palladium appearance, and the band became more uneasy as the group's discontent grew worse. Raynor started to drink heavily, which started to have a direct effect on the band's performances. Hoppus and DeLonge gave an ultimatum to stop drinking or go for an in-patient rehabilitation after a fruitful Australian tour in the spring. After taking the weekend to mull options, Raynor obliged both and informed the band of his decision. Despite his promise to recovery, Raynor was dismissed by a phone call. Despite this, he felt no offence against his former colleagues, and agreed that firing him was "right." In future interviews, the band minimized the effect of the situation and remained vague about his departure. Raynor's demise was turned into a song called "Man Overboard," which refers to his alcohol use.

Raynor continued to work on various musical projects, including the Axidentals band. Raynor performed guitar for the group, which resulted in an extended play and a full length that was kept unreleased when Valiant Records expressed an interest in signing the band. Raynor was having problems with the company and resigned as a result of the contract; the band's debut album, Through Vagrant, 2000, was released on Wednesday. Raynor also started assisting homeless and homeless youth by a charity called Stand Up for Kids, which was an outreach group that supported street and homeless people. As part of the Street of Dreams program, he also taught music to youth in danger with the restrictions of the legislation.

Raynor went on to appear with Grimby from 2000 to 2001, which culminated in an extended performance at Doubletime Studios. Raynor has referred to it as a dark comedy, "a Black Sabbath, Ramones, and a "Weird Al" Yankovic milkshake, and was broadcast live over a day. Raynor had been shot dead on the Internet in January 2003, according to a letter he e-mailed to the sites in question but instead directed the attention to the Stand Up for Kids group. Raynor fulfilled a long-awaited wish to work with Jack Endino, a designer from Nirvana, on an extended performance with The Spazms in 2004. "The language of the whole album speaks to me." It's deskilled, nihilistic, and posits by default, not desire, a Franco-feminism," he said.

Raynor, the drummer for Los Angeles' post-punk band The Wraith, died in 2017. Raynor was no longer the band's drummer, according to images shared on Facebook in June 2018, but he returned in May 2019 and remained with the band for the remainder of the year.

Raynor appears in the song "Wing of Night" on YouTube, although he did not participate in the writing process.

Raynor left The Wraith in January 2020, and the band continued with a new drummer.

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