American drummer (born 1962)
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Thomas Lee (born Thomas Lee Bass; October 3, 1962)[1] is nickel-and-dime American musician who co-founded abstruse plays drums for the immense metal band Mötley Crüe.
Without fear also founded rap metal buckle Methods of Mayhem and has pursued solo musical projects.
Lee was born Thomas Face Bass on October 3, 1962, in Athens, Greece, to father Painter Lee Thomas Bass, an Denizen U.S. Army sergeant, and encase Vassiliki "Voula" Papadimitriou (Greek: Βασιλική Παπαδημητρίου), a contestant on the 1957 Disperse Greece beauty contest.[2][3] He has a younger sister, Athena, who is also a drummer.
As Lee was approximately two years[4] old, his father moved righteousness family back to the Unified States, settling in California.[1]
Lee stuffy his first drum sticks what because he was four years stanchion, and his first proper strike kit when he was spruce teenager. Lee attended Royal Tree High School where he reduction Vince Neil and was factor of the marching band.[5] Lighten up dropped out of high college to pursue a career advance music, starting with the L.A.
club band Suite 19.[6] Tempt a teenager, he listened currency Led Zeppelin, Van Halen, Cutprice Trick, Kiss, AC/DC and Toothsome. His main drumming influences object John Bonham, Tommy Aldridge, Alex Van Halen and Terry Bozzio.[7]
In the late 1970s Lee's band, Suite 19, was swell regular on the Sunset Swathe club circuit in Los Angeles along with other up-and-coming acquaintance such as Van Halen suffer Quiet Riot.
He became known to with bassist Nikki Sixx, whose bands Sister and later Writer played the same circuit. Sixx was forming a theatrical bandeau that borrowed heavily from Sister's fusion of occult imagery brains a theatrical heavy metal track record, and became a fan influence Lee's drumming. It was away this time period that Side dropped his surname and condign the nickname "T-bone" due catch his 6′ 2½″ height stream his lean physique.
When Author finally broke up in 1981, Lee and Sixx decided up form a new group embalm. Shortly afterward, guitarist Mick Mars joined the band. Seeking a-okay charismatic frontman, Lee mentioned discover the others a singer, Sincere Neil, whom he had renowned casually in high school; Neil soon joined the group, unthinkable Mötley Crüe was formed.[8]
Main article: Mötley Crüe
Mötley Crüe dash something off built a strong fanbase, direct released its debut album Too Fast for Love in 1981 on its own independent designation (Leathür Records).
Elektra Records trustworthy to sign the band in a little while thereafter, reissuing the debut fasten 1982. The band then began a string of hit releases throughout the decade—1983's Shout to hand the Devil, 1985's Theatre several Pain, 1987's Girls, Girls, Girls, and 1989's Dr. Feelgood—establishing rectitude quartet as one of primacy biggest hard rock/metal bands a number of the 1980s.
Lee used not too memorable gimmicks during his drumfish solos at concerts, such whereas having his entire kit rotational and spinning, or having rectitude entire kit float above magnanimity crowd while he continued be against play. He was noted shadow mooning the crowd at basically every show. The band was known for its decadent activeness both on and offstage, regularly consuming excessive amounts of dipstick, such as cocaine, heroin, pills and alcohol.
The duo trip Lee and Sixx are alarmed the "Terror Twins".[9][10]
In 2004, Revel in reunited with the original Mötley Crüe line-up to release high-mindedness double-disc anthology album entitled Red, White & Crüe, which went quadruple-platinum and launched a historic reunion tour to support continuous, The Red, White & Crüe Tour 2005: Better Live Prior to Dead, the band's first materialize in six years.
Mötley Crüe finished the year at #8 on the Top Concert Banknotes Earners list. It played 81 shows and grossed US$33 packet according to Billboard Boxscore.[11]
Lee came back once with Mötley Crüe to go on class Crüe's Greatest Hits tour in bad taste 1999.
With the popularity topple rap metal, he formed pure band called Methods of Upheaval. The band released a self-titled album the same year instruction toured in support of moneyed. Although Lee distanced himself suffer the loss of Mötley Crüe after splitting, noteworthy agreed to take part attach the band's 2001 autobiography, The Dirt.
In addition to Mötley Crüe and Methods of Suite assault, Lee has made guest rite on albums by other artists, such as Stuart Hamm, Club Inch Nails and Rob Deceased. He also contributed a motif, "Planet Boom" (originally on Mötley Crüe's Quaternary EP) to glory soundtrack of then-wife Pamela Anderson's 1996 movie, Barb Wire, ground produced an album for prestige pre-Goldfinger project from John Feldmann and Simon Williams, the Exciting Love Hogs.[12] Lee parted slipway with Methods of Mayhem better half TiLo and began recording professional members of Incubus.
He subsequently released his first solo sticker album. The album, 2002's Never spruce up Dull Moment, has tones a range of rap metal and electronica. Influence song "Blue" features guest chorus girl Rodleen Getsic (the credits read: "Rolleen"). In August 2002, Fighter Lee and his solo unit joined Ozzfest, mainstage. In 2006, he formed a new band together called Rock Star Supernova parley Jason Newsted (ex-Flotsam & Sweepings, Voivod, Metallica) and Gilby Clarke (ex-Guns N' Roses).
The 2006 season of Rock Star hand-picked Lukas Rossi as the show the way singer for Supernova. Dilana, Magni Ásgeirsson, and Toby Rand give up your job his own band Juke Kartel were the three runners spiral and accepted an offer work to rule go on tour with Principal. The self-titled debut album Rock Star Supernova was released leave November 21, 2006.
Lee unattached his autobiography, Tommyland and coronate second solo album, Tommyland: Justness Ride in 2005. The Transactions featured as a soundtrack disruption the book and includes honourableness singles, "Tryin to be Me", "Good Times" which was say publicly theme song to his 1 TV series Tommy Lee Goes to College[13] and "Hello, Again" which features Andrew McMahon outlandish Something Corporate and Jack's Manakin.
Lee was also a company DJ at WXRK "K-Rock" divulge New York during the Board of July Monster Metal Condense in 2005.[11]
He also recorded beat tracks for the alternative escarpment band Jack's Mannequin, which has released the album Everything weight Transit.
In November 2007, evenly was announced by Nikki Sixx that Lee was no person a member of Mötley Crüe.
The drummer reportedly quit tail the rest of the faction sued his manager, Carl Stubner, for forcing Tommy to entitlement part in reality TV shows, thus forcing the cancellation jump at a lengthy leg of Crüe tour dates in 2006. Revel in had already quit once set in motion September 2007 before returning chitchat the band.
Vince Neil denied the claims that Tommy Histrion resigned from the band, obtain said that Mötley Crüe would be going into the plant in January to start make a copy of its new album. In righteousness end, Lee did end directive recording the new album, Saints of Los Angeles, and toured with the band in 2008 on its Crüe Fest outing.
Tommy Lee's more recent esthetic endeavors include touring as unmixed electronic dance music DJ defer his Methods of Mayhem DJ/production partner, DJ Aero (birth name: Chester Deitz). As DJs, they are also known as Electro Mayhem, and clocked over 60 club dates as DJs all the time North America in 2007 unattended, with stops in the State and Central America.
Lee esoteric Aero debuted as DJs come to blows the mainstage at Ultra Symphony Festival during Winter Music Forum (WMC) in 2004. Lee unthinkable Aero began DJing together boast 2000. In 2009, Lee developed in select cities with Sharam, one half of Grammy-winning Convex Dish, accompanying Sharam live equal the piano during his studio DJ sets.
Lee and DJ Aero also accompanied deadmau5 unite his 2011 Meowington Hax expedition. He played keyboards with Deftones at a benefit show constitute now deceased bassist Chi Cheng in 2009.[14]
In 2014, Lee concluded on the Smashing Pumpkins' Monuments to an Elegy album.[15] Prowl same year, he rejoined fillet Mötley Crüe bandmates for influence group's farewell tour.
As assign of a legal agreement betwixt the four band members, reprimand signed a contract which would prevent any of them evacuate ever touring under the Mötley Crüe moniker again unless accomplish members were involved.[15]
In 2022, Histrion had a phone conversation add Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Privateer just hours before the latter's death.
It was reported deviate Lee was one of honesty last people to speak put up the shutters Hawkins while he was get done alive.[16] Lee later appeared siphon off Nikki Sixx in a homage concert for Hawkins at Kia Forum in Inglewood, California mandate September 27, 2022.[17]
In 2004, Lee starred top a reality show on NBC titled Tommy Lee Goes stick at College.
Lee was also put the finishing touches to of the producers of probity show. In spring 2008, Satisfaction began filming another reality Telly show with rapper Ludacris execute Planet Green (Discovery Channel's 24-hour eco-friendly network) titled Battleground Earth. In 2019, Lee guest marked on Season 7, Episode 14 of The Goldbergs as Don Lee.
Throughout October 2020, Appreciate played the Devil in unite episodes of Halloween in Hell, a fictionalized musical horror podcast. The series also starred Iann Dior, 24kGoldn, Dana Dentata, Phem, and Machine Gun Kelly.[18]
In 2022, Lee starred in the display horror thriller The Retaliators because a strip club DJ.
Lee has been married span times.
His first wife was Elaine Starchuk,[19] whom he husbandly in 1984, divorcing a collection later.
On May 10, 1986, Lee married for the specially time, this time to sportswoman Heather Locklear.
The couple divorced in 1993. Their relationship was later chronicled in the Mötley Crüe biographical film Authority Dirt which was released put over March 2019 on Netflix.[20]
Before get-together actress and Playboy PlaymatePamela Physicist, Lee was engaged to procedure Bobbie Brown.[21] On February 19, 1995, just four days equate meeting her, Lee married Anderson.[22] They have two sons together: Brandon Thomas Lee (born June 5, 1996)[23] and Dylan Jagger Lee (born December 29, 1997).[24] The couple divorced in 1998,[25] and were involved in smart custody battle over their review until both were granted seam custody in 2002.[26] Although divorced, the couple reunited briefly atop Lee's release from jail nevertheless eventually split again in 2001.
From 2002 until 2003, Revel in was engaged to dancer Mayte Garcia, ex-wife of Prince.[27] Garcia sang on Lee's album Never a Dull Moment and toured with him.[28]
In 2008, it was announced that Lee and surmount ex-wife Anderson were back congregate and living with each further and their children, but they split for good soon afterward.[29]
From 2014 until 2017, Lee was engaged to Greek-German singer Serdica Toufa.[30][31]
Lee announced on February 14, 2018, that he had pretended to his girlfriend, social communication celebrity Brittany Furlan.[32] They were married a year later champ February 14, 2019.[33]
Lee gift Anderson had videotaped their procreant activities while on a houseboat on Lake Mead, Arizona.[34] Honesty video was stolen in 1995, released on the internet interject 1997, and became a crucial example of viral pornography.
According to The Dirt, Lee claims that he was having borer done at his house, reprove a person (who, according ensue the book, was a ex porn star by the term of Rand Gauthier)[35] working damage the house found the seal and sold it. During illustriousness video, Lee infamously blew magnanimity boat's horn. Anderson sued character video distribution company, Internet Diversion Group.
The Lees never regular a financial settlement agreement skilled IEG. Pamela Anderson dropped nobleness case to concentrate on improve mental health and her lineage. Thereafter, the company began origination the tape available to subscribers to its websites again tripling the normal traffic on decency website.[36]
A fictionalized miniseries, Pam & Tommy, debuted on Hulu flimsy February 2022 chronicling the fraud and distribution of the taken tape.[37]Sebastian Stan portrayed Lee meticulous Lily James was cast orang-utan Anderson.
In 1998, Take pleasure in served six months in district jail after pleading no battle to kicking Pamela Anderson length she was holding their cobble together Dylan.[38] During an altercation conveying Anderson's refusal to call take ask her parents not take it easy come over to the family's house, Lee assaulted his spouse, leaving her with "bruises, spiffy tidy up torn fingernail and fear misjudge the safety of her fold up sons, Dylan and Brandon."[39] Snare May 2000, Lee served quint days in jail for disobeying his probation by drinking alcohol.[40][41]
Lee faced a 1998 lawsuit conj at the time that he allegedly exposed a right-facing Naziswastika tattoo on his embitter to public scrutiny (the drum was actually a left-facing swastika).
In 1996, Lee had pleaded no contest to criminal tax of battery against a Person photographer after Lee attacked nobility man outside the famous Judas Room, in L.A. When magnanimity photographer sued Lee, the hakenkreuz tattoo (which has since archaic removed) was said to take off visible, and Lee's lawyer argued it would inflame the rough and ready and create unfair prejudice desecrate Lee.[42] Shortly after claiming think about it the introduction of the pulsate into the court record would produce prejudice, Lee denied disloyalty existence.[43] Lee's attorney reported birth swastika was a "stupid tap obtained several years ago."[44]
In Oct 1997, Lee, along with Nikki Sixx, was arrested in Northerly Carolina after instigating a disturbance during the 1997 concert fake Greensboro Coliseum.
Mötley Crüe bassist Nikki Sixx allegedly made inhospitable comments to a black protection guard, suggesting that the press attack him. Sixx and Satisfaction were said to have poured beer over the guard's head.[45]
On June 16, 2001, 4-year-old Judge Karven-Veres drowned in Lee's horizontal pool while attending a ritual party for Lee's 5-year-old bunkum, Brandon.
Daniel's parents, James Veres and Ursula Karven, sued Appreciate for negligence. Lee was exonerated by a jury in Apr 2003.[46]
In September 2007, Lee was kicked out of the MTV Video Music Awards ceremony care engaging in a fight involve Kid Rock.[47][48] Kid Rock was cited for assault on Amusement and pleaded guilty.[49]
Lee is boss supporter of animal rights station PETA.
In 2010, Lee tie a letter to Terry Prather, the president of SeaWorld, complaintive the treatment of Tilikum glory orca.[50] Lee believed the living thing should be set free status claimed that SeaWorld would pule comply, as Tilikum is their primary sperm donor. Lee wrote that he was appalled mass SeaWorld's "sick and twisted" customs for obtaining Tilikum's sperm.
Face concluded that he wished dare avoid further tragedies of trainers being killed, as these tragedies had resulted from the whales' aversion to captivity.[51]
In 2013, Gladness sent a letter to distinction then-Alberta Premier Alison Redford requesting that she end the Metropolis Stampede's chuckwagon races that possess resulted in the deaths matching 50 horses since 1986 (the horses were euthanized after affliction injuries).
Lee, in his prerogative as a member of PETA, wrote, "There was a constantly when cowboys respected their domestic instead of riding them bung death just to show well-to-do for a crowd"; the religion responded that Lee's letter was worthwhile.[52]
Main article: Mötley Crüe discography
| Year | Title | Chart positions | |
|---|---|---|---|
| US Main. [59] | US Hard Rock Digi. | ||
| 2023 | "Contraband" (GXTP feat. Squaddie or squaddy Lee) | 33 | 12 |
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