Tommy Lee
Tommy Lee | |
|---|---|
 Lee in March 2012 | |
| Background information | |
| Birth name | Thomas Lee Bass |
| Born | October 3, 1962 Athens, Greece |
| Artists | The Smashing Pumpkins |
| Role | Drums |
| Associated acts | Mötley Crüe, Fuel, Rob Zombie |
| Website | tommylee |
| Wikipedia | Tommy Lee |
Thomas Lee Bass (born October 3, 1962)[1] is a musician most famous as the founding member and drummer of Mötley Crüe. In 2014, he joined The Smashing Pumpkins to perform drums for their Monuments to an Elegy album.[2] The idea to enlist Lee came from Jeff Schroeder. During the May 2014 studio sessions, Corgan told Schroeder "we really need to get someone like Tommy to play on this song" (which song is unclear), and Schroeder simply replied “well, why don’t we reach out to him?”[3]
| “ | I've known Tommy since 1992. Didn't know him real well, but enough to call him up. He was like, 'The Pumpkins drumming style is a lot busier than I play.' But he heard it in demo form and said, 'I wanna play on all of them.' You can hear on tracks like 'Run2Me', where he did a lot of drum programming – he took real investment in the material. | ” |
| — Billy Corgan, Q&A, Uncut, January 2015 | ||
Relevant discography
- Monuments to an Elegy – The Smashing Pumpkins (drums on all tracks) (2014)[4]
References
- ↑ Prato, Greg. "Tommy Lee Biography". Retrieved January 28, 2014.
- ↑ Grow, Kory. "Motley Crue's Tommy Lee to Drum on Smashing Pumpkins Record". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 7 March 2016.
- ↑ Billy Corgan, "Mirrors Within Mirrors, While Tom-Tomming With Hammers", Smashing Pumpkins Nexus, May 8, 2019
- ↑ Pattison, Louis: "Q&A", Uncut, January 2015, p67