( RollingStone.com ) -- Travis Barker has a full agenda for 2011 , beginning with his debut solo album ( out on March 15 ) and a tour with Lil Wayne , plus plans to finish the long-delayed Blink-182 reunion album for release later this year . But it has n't come easy for the drummer , who was barely two songs into the making of his new `` Give the Drummer Some '' album when he was seriously injured in a 2008 small plane crash . Barker and his friend DJ AM were the only survivors . `` Honestly , I never thought the album would be finished , '' Barker tells Rolling Stone . `` For a while after my accident , I was just recovering . No one really thought I would be able to play drums after all the surgeries and everything . That was always on my mind . Once I was in the studio , it was like , ' I can walk now , I can play the drums still . I have to finish this . ' '' Random Notes : Hottest Rock Pics . His recovery from the crash took longer and was more painful than was publicly known at the time . Barker went through 16 surgeries and nearly had a foot amputated . For a time , his left hand was completely numb . `` It was sketchy , so I came a long way . And mentally I was a basket case , '' he says . `` It was a big amount of time to get off of 20 medications that they had me on , and then physically getting in shape . It was heavy . '' Barker was on tour in 2009 with the reunited Blink-182 when the call came that DJ AM had overdosed in New York . `` It was hard for me to even get in the bus and be moving around . Me and AM would always speak . We were a support system for each other for a year after the crash . '' Hottest Live Photos of the Week . After the Blink-182 tour , Barker spent much of the last year completing tracks for `` Give the Drummer Some , '' with cameos by the likes of Ludacris , Lil Wayne , Snoop Dogg , Slash and Kid Cudi . The sound is n't punk . Instead , it 's brooding hip-hop propelled by real drumbeats . Slash unfurls a fiery Santana impression on the Latin-flavored `` Saturday Night , '' while Tom Morello rages on guitar through a storm of scratching and thundering beats on `` Carry It , '' with vocals from RZA and Raekwon . `` When I look at music everything is blurred , and I like it that way , '' Barker says of his genre mixing . `` I grew up like that , hanging out with different types of people who listened to so many different types of music . I never wanted to be part of any one clique . I loved it all . '' Blink-182 began work on a new album in late 2009 , but for most of the last year the band had other things to do . `` It seems like forever , '' Barker says with a laugh . The band is now scheduled to deliver the album in June . `` This year has been the most active Blink year . We 're locking ourselves in a studio . I was in there last night . '' Barker will be on the road in March and April with Wayne and Rick Ross for the `` I Am Still Music Tour . '' ( Mixmaster Mike of the Beastie Boys and a rotating lineup of guest vocalists will join them . ) He 'll then produce three songs with an unsigned artist for the `` Guitar Center Presents Your Next Album With Travis Barker '' competition . And the drummer expects to record again as the Transplants with Rancid 's Tim Armstrong . Keeping busy is important , he explains . `` Playing my drums is therapy . '' Copyright © 2011 Rolling Stone .
Barker 's recovery from the crash took longer and was more painful than was publicly known . Comment: '' Barker will be on the road in March and April with Wayne and Rick Ross .