Raynor attended Rancho Bernardo High School (RBHS). RBHS often arranged Battle of the Bands competitions, and Raynor participated: his band, The Necropheliacs, played a cover of Metallica’s “Creeping Death”. While at the competition, new transfer student Tom DeLonge, who had been kicked out of Poway High School for attending a basketball game while drunk, performed an original song titled “Who’s Gonna Shave Your Back Tonight?” to a packed auditorium. Raynor was introduced to DeLonge at a party by Paul Scott, founding member of The Necropheliacs, shortly before he moved out of state. The two found they had plenty in common, and DeLonge was searching for a more permanent band to create music with. The two began writing songs at Raynor’s parents’ home – “a strange mix of metal and Descendents-style punk” – and tried out a variety of bass players, according to Raynor. DeLonge later met Mark Hoppus in August 1992 through friend Kerry Key and his girlfriend, Anne Hoppus. “I thought they were hilarious when I met them. I mean, I didn’t have a driver’s license yet, so I gained a lot of agency through hanging with them and their group of friends,” said Raynor. The trio began to practice in Raynor’s room (amid complaints from neighbors), which was soundproofed with empty egg cartons.

Raynor had planned from the earliest days of the band to one day attend 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 kind of scary to me.” Shortly after the band released Dude Ranch, Raynor began to think outside of the situation, viewing the major label experience as nothing like he had hoped. He had only been half invested in the band since signing to MCA, as he felt it offered less creative freedom, especially in comparison to Epitaph, which had been pursuing the band and was Raynor’s first choice. “I mean, I was intellectually invested, I recognized it as a smart move financially. But it’s like that song says, ‘I Left My Heart in San Francisco’; I left my heart in the office at Epitaph. After 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 enough of my heart in the band to justify my sticking around. I backed away, I was dead weight.” The tension came to a head in February 1998 as the band embarked on SnoCore, described as “a winter version of the Warped Tour.” Sharing the stage with Primus, the band was enjoying more success than ever before, but the drama between the musicians had grown substantially. Relations reached a low point when the band engaged in a fight on a Nebraska date after SnoCore’s conclusion. Shortly after the conclusion of SnoCore was a short minitour along the western coast, most notably Southern California, the band’s favorite place to play. The tour ended with the band headlining a sold-out show at the Palladium in Hollywood, where the band had dreamed of performing for years.

By March 1996, the trio began to accumulate a genuine buzz among major labels, resulting in a bidding war between Interscope, MCA and Epitaph. MCA’s persistence and sincerity won the band over, as well as their promise of complete artistic freedom. 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; he was well enough to record the drum tracks for the album while on crutches. The record hit stores the following summer and the band headed out 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” began rotation at Los Angeles-based KROQ, other stations took notice and the single was added to rock radio playlists across the country. Desperate for a break due to extended touring, the overworked band began to argue and tensions formed, centering largely around Raynor.

Following his exit from Blink-182, Raynor kept himself busy with various musical projects, including a group called The Axidentals. Raynor played guitar for the group, which recorded an extended play and a full-length that was left unreleased when Vagrant Records showed interest in signing the band. By the time the deal went through, Raynor was having disputes with the group and quit; the band later released their debut album as Death on Wednesday through Vagrant in 2000. Raynor also began contributing to a charity called StandUp for Kids, an outreach organization that helped street and homeless youth. He also taught music to teens in trouble with the law under the Street of Dreams program.

“The summer I lived with Mark and his family was probably the greatest summer of my life so 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 head and they were all coming true.”

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 course of a day, Raynor has described it as dark comedy, “a Black Sabbath, Ramones, and “Weird Al” Yankovic milkshake.” In January 2003, a rumor circulated on the Internet that Raynor had been shot dead; he addressed the hoax via a letter he e-mailed to the sites in question, that instead directed the attention to the StandUp for Kids organization. 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’s deskilled, nihilistic, and posits, by default not intention, a Franco-feminism,” he said.

As of 2017 Raynor was the drummer for The Los Angeles post punk band The Wraith. By way of photographs via Facebook in June, 2018, Scott Raynor was no longer the band’s drummer.