Thomas Lee Bass was born on October 3,1962 and is an American musician who co-founded and plays drums for the heavy metal band Motley Crue.
37 Facts About Tommy Lee
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Tommy Lee has a younger sister, Athena, who is a drummer.
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When Tommy Lee was approximately two years old, his father moved the family back to the United States, settling in California.
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Tommy Lee received his first drum sticks when he was four years old, and his first proper drum kit when he was a teenager.
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Tommy Lee's main drumming influences are John Bonham, Tommy Aldridge, Alex Van Halen and Terry Bozzio.
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Tommy Lee became acquainted with bassist Nikki Sixx, whose bands Sister and later London played the same circuit.
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Tommy Lee used several memorable gimmicks during his drum solos at concerts, such as having his entire kit revolving and spinning, or having the entire kit float above the crowd while he continued to play.
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Tommy Lee was noted for mooning the crowd at nearly every show.
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Tommy Lee came back once with Motley Crue to go on the Crue's Greatest Hits tour in 1999.
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Tommy Lee contributed a song, "Planet Boom" to the soundtrack of then-wife Pamela Anderson's 1996 movie, Barb Wire, and produced an album for the pre-Goldfinger project from John Feldmann and Simon Williams, the Electric Love Hogs.
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Tommy Lee was a guest DJ at WXRK "K-Rock" in New York during the Fourth of July Monster Metal Meltdown in 2005.
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Tommy Lee recorded drum tracks for the alternative rock band Jack's Mannequin, which has released the album Everything in Transit.
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In November 2007, it was announced by Nikki Sixx that Tommy Lee was no longer a member of Motley Crue.
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The drummer reportedly quit after the rest of the band sued his manager, Carl Stubner, for forcing Tommy Lee to take part in reality TV shows, thus forcing the cancellation of a lengthy leg of Crue tour dates in 2006.
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Tommy Lee had already quit once in September 2007 before returning to the band.
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In 2009, Tommy Lee appeared in select cities with Sharam, one half of Grammy-winning Deep Dish, accompanying Sharam live on the piano during his house DJ sets.
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Tommy Lee played keyboards with Deftones at a benefit show for now deceased bassist Chi Cheng in 2009.
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In 2014, Tommy Lee performed on the Smashing Pumpkins' Monuments to an Elegy album.
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In 2004, Lee starred in a reality show on NBC titled Tommy Lee Goes to College.
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In spring 2008, Tommy Lee began filming another reality TV show with rapper Ludacris for Planet Green titled Battleground Earth.
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In 2019, Tommy Lee guest starred on Season 7, Episode 14 of The Goldbergs as Professor Tommy Lee.
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On May 10,1986, Tommy Lee married for the second time, this time to actress Heather Locklear.
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From 2002 until 2003, Tommy Lee was engaged to dancer Mayte Garcia, ex-wife of Prince.
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From 2014 until 2017, Tommy Lee was engaged to Greek-German singer Sofia Toufa.
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Tommy Lee announced on February 14,2018, that he had proposed to his girlfriend, social media celebrity Brittany Furlan.
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In 1998, Tommy Lee served six months in county jail after pleading no contest to kicking Pamela Anderson while she was holding their son Dylan.
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Tommy Lee faced a 1998 lawsuit when he allegedly exposed a right-facing Nazi swastika tattoo on his arm to public scrutiny.
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Shortly after claiming that the introduction of the tattoo into the court record would produce prejudice, Tommy Lee denied its existence.
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Sixx and Tommy Lee were said to have poured beer over the guard's head.
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In September 2007, Tommy Lee was kicked out of the MTV Video Music Awards ceremony after engaging in a fight with Kid Rock.
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Kid Rock was cited for assault on Tommy Lee and pleaded guilty.
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In 2010, Tommy Lee sent a letter to Terry Prather, the president of SeaWorld, protesting the treatment of Tilikum the orca.
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Tommy Lee believed the animal should be set free and claimed that SeaWorld would not comply, as Tilikum is their primary sperm donor.
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Tommy Lee wrote that he was appalled by SeaWorld's "sick and twisted" methods for obtaining Tilikum's sperm.
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Tommy Lee concluded that he wished to avoid further tragedies of trainers being killed, as these tragedies had resulted from the whales' aversion to captivity.
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In 2013, Tommy Lee sent a letter to the then-Alberta Premier Alison Redford requesting that she end the Calgary Stampede's chuckwagon races that have resulted in the deaths of 50 horses since 1986.
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Tommy Lee, in his capacity as a member of PETA, wrote, "There was a time when cowboys respected their horses instead of riding them to death just to show off for a crowd"; the ministry responded that Tommy Lee's letter was worthwhile.