Someday I will have that drum kit!
Drummer: Tommy Lee
Style: Hard Rock, Heavy Metal
Main Bands: Motley Crue
Brief Summary:
Other Facts: Tommy "T-Bone" Lee, born Thomas Lee Bass, Drummer for rock legend's Motley Crue. Tommy has 4 Gold and 7 Multi Platinum albums with them:
- Too Fast for Love (1981) Platinum US US #40
- Shout at the Devil (1983) 4x Platinum US US #10
- Theatre of Pain (1985) 4x Platinum US US #6
- Girls, Girls, Girls (1987) 4x Platinum US US #2
- Dr. Feelgood (1989) 6x Platinum US US #1
- Decade of Decadence compilation (1991) 2x Platinum US US #2
- Mötley Crüe (1994) Gold US US #7
- Generation Swine (1997) Gold US US #4
- Greatest Hits (1998) compilation Gold US US #20
- Red, White & Crüe compilation (2005) Platinum US US #6
Solo
Methods of Mayhem (1999) Gold US US #71
Another FUN FACT:
Tommy's two favourite tattoos are his kids names. He had them write their names on his wrists with markers and then had an artist trace them!
Last edited by Northern Redneck; 09-03-2011 at 04:10 AM.
Someday I will have that drum kit!
This video literally defined a generation of rock.
Hey Redneck, cool post, I took some pics of one of Tommys sticks from early Crue. Theatre of Pain tour. Either Tommy or tech notched the handle with a knife for grip I suppose. Mean lookin stick. Fibes nylon tip.
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Do you realize your summary is talking about Van Halen? Not sure if that was intended?
~Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must first set yourself on fire.- Reggie Leach~
ummmm....summary is for another drummer. Maybe a cut-paste error.
Tommy Lee - first drummer to use DW drums.
Tommy Lee - first drummer to get caught on tape in very private moments with his GF
No comments on this guy.Won't touch it with a ten foot pole.
I'm with Pearl MCX Man on this one.
Did Pearl make a custom clear acrylic kit for Tommy Lee? In last years Pearl catalog there's a picture of him playing a clear acrylic kit. It looks pretty cool, I guess he can pretty much get anything he wants.
RDM/Damage Poets
UFiP TAMAHA Zildjian
REGAL TiP
AQUARIAN
Could be cause he was a Pearl man then he went to something else and now back to Pearls. His current kit is a Pearl E-Pro live. Most big named drummers move around from one brand to another or whoever pays them the most to endorse their brand.
Tommy Lee definitely carved a name for himself in the rock/hard rock genre and his name is pretty well known but his skills are average, nothing special.
TAMA- '2018 Star Walnut, ‘99 Starclassic Performer, '89 Granstar, ‘93 Rockstar
Gretsch- 1963 Round Badge
Zildjian
Remo
Vic Firth
Speed Cobra Double Pedal Blackout Edition
Speed Cobra Hi Hat
Hardware- TAMA Roadpro
Snare Drums- various TAMA, Gretsch, Ludwig, Leedy
Mic's- Sennheiser, Shure, AKG
Say what you will about Tommy Lee, but his talent level is leaps and bounds above that of his bandmates. Motley Crue never would have gone anywhere without him.
Mmm... Saturns.
I know alot of guys don't like him....growing up, I wanted to be just like him.
He WAS "Rock and Roll".
Were his beats technical or did he "wow" anyone with his precision....no, but he put on one hell of a show and was just flat out cool.
E-pro live are an E-kit. They are wood shells made out of poplar I gather with electonic mesh heads that with real brass cymbals ( or rubber) of your choice. The great thing about this kit is you can exchange the heads to regular ones and it will become an accoustic kit. Pearl had to find someone to endorse their E-kit to promote them and Tommy was picked don't ask me why but they did.
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