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November 24th, 2009
Original Article from Rolling Stone
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- Usher’s Raymond v. Raymond has been delayed. The singer’s post-divorce album is moving from December 21st to an undetermined date, Billboard reports.
- Bryan Ferry sent a note to fans announcing that he’s begun work on a new solo album that’s due in summer 2010 and features Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood, Flea and Nile Rodgers. Ferry posted some video from the studio on his official Website.
- The Black Keys will spend every morning this week from 10-11:00 a.m. on Sirius XMU host Jake Fogelnest’s radio show chatting about and debuting music from their new Blakroc project. Dan Auerbach will also perform songs from his solo LP Keep It Hid.
- Tommy Lee has assembled a project called Bezerk that features Chili Peppers’ Chad Smith, Velvet Revolver’s Matt Sorum, Incubus’ Jose Pasillas, Godsmack’s Sully Erna and more artists and will debut at Guitar Center’s Drum-Off ‘09 Grand Finals at Los Angeles’ Wiltern on January 8th. The show will also have Jason Bonham paying tribute to dad John, and Tool’s Danny Carey teaming with Mastodon’s Brann Dailor.
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November 11th, 2009
Original Article from Rumors In Music
This has got to be one of the weirdest musical collaborations that I’ve ever heard of. Apparently, Dane Cook wants to release another album and has asked Tommy Lee to be a part of it.
Cook said, “I used to love Motley Crue growing up and he’s a big fan of mine. I called him the other day and I said, ‘Would you collaborate on this thing that I put together?’ It’s actually very different than anything he’s done before. He’s a sensational drummer. I would say this is a little bit in the Jack Johnson vein, a little bit funky, a little jazzy.”
I can’t wait to hear it. It’s the singer that usually makes the song, so this ought to be interesting. What do you think?
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November 11th, 2009
Original Article from The Hollywood Gossip
Pamela Anderson says she will never rekindle her romance with ex-husband Tommy Lee after spending over a decade healing her broken heart after their 1998 divorce.
Of course, this being Pamela Anderson, the fact that she’s even asked about this tells you a lot. Her love life decisions? About as good as her financial decisions. Bad.
The couple married in 1995 and split three years later after a fight between them put Lee behind bars. The crazy pair tried to make things work countless times since.
She even moved in to Motley Crue star’s home as recently as last year, following her divorce from her other ex-husband, Kim Rock, but she says it’s over dammit!
She’s happy with Jamie Padgett now and says Tommy is history.
Don’t expect a fourth or fifth Pamela Anderson sex tape anytime soon.
“You can’t get heartbroken any more over all the disappointments or how he is as a father or anything like that,” Pam said. “He doesn’t think he does anything wrong.”
“I tell him the truth, but it’s been 10 years of suffering so I’m over it.”
“Whatever it is, it is – as long as my kids are happy and we’re happy and we’re safe, let him run around the world. I support him. But I have no interest at all.”
Lee and Anderson are parents of Brandon, 13, and Dylan, 11.
They should be back together again by early 2010, we’d say.
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August 3rd, 2009
Original Article from The Hollywood Gossip
Tommy Lee and Pamela Anderson, who totally used to be married and had a couple of cute kids together, partied at the Hard Rock in Las Vegas over the weekend.
Man, Kid Rock is gonna hate this more than he hates Twitter …
Tommy Lee. Pamela Anderson. Gross. Again. [Photo: TMZ]
Pamela Anderson, who has had more husbands than Paris Hilton has STDs, was the sex tape queen long before anyone had ever heard of that ho-tel heiress.
It’s little surprise that she’s apparently not giving up her title quietly. We put the over-under on her getting engaged to Tommy Lee about a week and a half.
Like Samantha Ronson and Lindsay Lohan, you know a reconciliation is never far away. Same with a public meltdown and “leaked” topless photo or sex tape.
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May 18th, 2009
Hard rock ruled the heartland this weekend as Mötley Crüe, Slipknot and Alice in Chains headlined Rock on the Range. For its third year, the Columbus festival drew 38 bands and sold a two-day total of 56,000 tickets, according to L.A.-based promoter Del Williams. A mixed crowd — college kids in baseball caps to bikers — partied under dreary skies on Saturday, and were energized and ready to toss the devil horns on sunny Sunday.
(Go behind the scenes at Rock on the Range with exclusive interviews — watch backstage chats with Mötley Crüe, Korn, Slipknot, Alice in Chains and Duff McKagan by clicking the video above.)
On day one, before he joined Alice in Chains for a haunting rendition of “Rooster,” Velvet Revolver’s Duff McKagan played a side stage, fronting his band Loaded. “The thing about Rock on the Range, I didn’t understand it until Velvet Revolver played here a couple years ago,” explained Duff backstage between appearances. “It’s in Columbus, a little college town — how big a festival can you have here? But people come here from Cleveland, Detroit, Toledo, Cincinnati, Indiana, West Virginia, from Kentucky, Tennessee. They all converge, and this is the big thing of the summer.”
(Check out photos of all the blistering hard-rock action from Rock on the Range.)
Saturday afternoon, Korn warmed up the main stage with a set of favorites and singles, playing as a sextet (with an additional touring guitarist and a programmer). In a black-and-white kilt, frontman Jonathan Davis led the band like Mel Gibson in Braveheart, beatboxing and emoting through the breakthrough hit “Freak on a Leash,” the nü-metal disco of “Got the Life,” the call-and-response “Y’all Want a Single” and more.
Alice in Chains returned in full force with new co-vocalist William DuVall (formerly of Comes With the Fall), opening the set with the murky anguish of “Rain When I Die.” Singer-guitarist Jerry Cantrell led the reconstituted Seattle quartet, who bulldozed through choice cuts like “Dam That River,” “Again” and “Man in the Box.” By the mesmerizing set-closer “Would?” the crowd was roaring approval. DuVall isn’t a clone of deceased singer Layne Staley, and though he didn’t hit the notes in quite the same way, he hit them all the right way.
The set was one of just two American summer shows before the band unveils a new album. Slated for September release, the as-yet-untitled disc has a strong buzz. After his set, McKagan called it “the best rock record he’s heard in the last 15 years.” Cantrell — who had nearly twice as many writing credits as the late, great Staley on previous albums — said the record represents the entire AIC spectrum from electric dynamics to unplugged angst. Though the group’s set didn’t feature any new material, DuVall hinted at a subtle new lyrical direction.
“I think there’s always been a little bit of death trip element [and a] survivor element,” said DuVall. “I think maybe the percentage has been a bit inverted [on the new album]. Where some of the records might have been more Scarface, this one is more Shawshank Redemption.”
Slipknot sent the crowd home with bruises. Fronting the nine-man metal squad, Corey “#8″ Taylor took the stage in a dead-skin mask and black blazer, like a charismatic corpse with an office job. Guitarists Mick “#7″ Thomson and Jim “#4″ Root shredded though maggot anthems like “Surfacing, ” “Wait and Bleed,” and “People=Shit,” and brought dark riffage with the new “Dead Memories” from All Hope Is Gone.
Sunday afternoon, the gray clouds were gone. Buckcherry singer Josh Todd took the main stage, torso covered in tattoos, bouncing on his toes and jabbing like and ex-con who’s slugged his way to a title fight. Todd rasped his way through songs about cocaine, redemption, volatile relationships and more cocaine. Fists pumping, the crowd shouted along to every word of the career-reviving “Crazy Bitch.”
At night, it was Crüe Time. When the legends launched their 2004 comeback tour, conventional wisdom said arena rock was dead; as it’s turned out, it was just resting. Teenagers and gray-haired bikers were ready to shout at the devil again. “I think the main reason why Mötley Crüe works is the crowd,” said singer Vince Neil backstage before the set. “The crowd is multiple generations of fans.”
With Crüe’s greatest-hits set, the Fourth of July arrived in May (the band hits the road in July for their Crü Fest 2, on which they will play Dr. Feelgood in its entirety). Neil opened the show whirling his microphone stand like he winding up the band. Tight as ever, the group skipped around its 27-years-and-counting catalog, playing under a shower of fireworks, clouds of smoke, bursts of fire. Representing Crüe’s 1981 debut, “Live Wire” rocked harder than ever. Last year’s single “Saints of Los Angeles” sounds way better live than on the radio. Following strip-club anthem “Girls Girls Girls” and bass showcase “Dr. Feelgood,” breakthrough ballad “Home Sweet Home” closed the night.
But before the Crüe said farewell, drummer Tommy Lee joined Mick Mars’ bluesy guitar solo as it took a quick stomp through Hendrix’s “Voodoo Child (Slight Return).” Midway through the set, the half-naked drummer left the drum kit, gave the crowd a bottle of Jägermeister as a victory toast, and christened Columbus Crew stadium “Mötley Crüe Fuckin’ Stadium.” Soccer or rock, the building’s two-story banner was still applicable: “Champions play here.”
January 9th, 2009
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In some ways, we’ll never tire of watching Poison frontman Bret Michaels pick through dozens of “smoking hot hotties” in search of his one true love on Rock of Love (tune in for our recaps every Monday!). But while we may not totally agree with reader “Board of Brett!!!”‘ s copyediting, we can appreciate their sentiment: “Rock of Love 1, funny I was into it. Rock of Love 2, I thought, okay a little weird, it got boring watching Brett’s queer hair and bandana not moving with natural motion. Now I am totally boarded with anything Brett Michaels. PLEASE VH-1, No more Brett. How about TOMMY LEE !!!!!”
Interesting suggestion: the prospect of a new Rock of Love bachelor has been floated before (Richie Sambora was the subject of a show rumor that was swiftly shot down by his publicist). Ratings would be off the charts if VH1 could somehow convince a Jonas Brother to put his purity ring on the line, but let’s be realistic: the reason the show is anchored by an Eighties superstar is because Eighties superstars are willing to sacrifice a little dignity to get themselves in front of a massive audience. But since season three was shot while Michaels was on the road, technically any touring musician could jump in on the fun. Suggestions?
October 12th, 2008
Battleground Earth — the eco-challenge reality show that pits Tommy Lee against Ludacris as they fight to see who can live more environmentally responsible — sadly comes to its end this Sunday. The good news? The episode features a ridiculous jam session with Slash, Tommy Lee and Billy Gibbons, and you can get an early look at it right here.
• Tommy Lee and Ludacris Team Up to Save the Earth
August 8th, 2008
Battleground Earth isn’t a terrible movie about Scientology but a new series starring Tommy Lee of Mötley Crüe and Atlanta rapper Ludacris. Premiering tonight on TLC, the ten episode show pits the two stars against each other to see which one can have the the greener tour. In the exclusive clip above, check out Tommy Lee meeting Dr. John in New Orleans and Ludacris trying to help save the Earth at a concert with the Roots.