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]
Tommy Lee | |
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 Lee in March 2012 | |
| Background information | |
| Birth name | Thomas Lee Bass |
| Born | October 3, 1962 Athens, Greece |
| Instruments | Drums, vocals |
| Associated acts | The Smashing Pumpkins, Fuel, Rob Zombie, many others |
| Website | tommylee |
| “ | 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)[3]
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.
- ↑ Pattison, Louis: "Q&A", Uncut, January 2015, p67