80s music star lives up to rock ‘n’ roll past playing drums with lamb bones-Joel Harley-Entertainment – Metro

Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee shows no sign of mellowing (Picture: SplashNews.com)

1980s rock legend Tommy Lee has rocked out in the most bizarre way – playing a drum kit made out of pots and pans, and drumsticks from a leg of lamb.

The musician rose to fame as a founding member of the iconic American rock band Mötley Crüe.

As the band’s drummer, he was behind its 1981 debut album Too Fast For Love and a string of hits which included Theatre of Pain, Girls, Girls, Girls and Dr. Feelgood.

He became known for his often eccentric staging, showcasing a series of inventive and bizarre gimmicks during his drum solos.

Now aged 61, Tommy Lee shows no sign of mellowing out in his old age, performing at day 1 of the 2024 Bottlerock Music Festival in Napa.

In doing so, the star unveiled one of his strangest set lists yet, playing a drum kit made out of pots and pans. Even odder was his choice of drum sticks – using the bones from a leg of lamb to play.

Tommy Lee appeared on stage with a bizarre choice of musical instruments (Picture: SplashNews)

Tommy rocked out with his lamb out at the music festival in Napa (Picture: SplashNews.com)

Tommy’s appearance follows news that his recent sexual assault lawsuit has been provisionally dismissed – with the judge in the case giving a woman 20 days to file an amended complaint over Tommy Lee and a helicopter.

The woman, identified as Jane Doe, claimed that he lured her into his helicopter under false pretenses in 2003, where she says he assaulted her.

In the filing, she alleges that she went on a 40-minute trip from San Diego to Van Nuys with his personal helicopter pilot David Martz – before the musician joined them when they landed.

However, the judge is set to dismiss the case, due to doubts being raised over the validity of the subsequent ‘coverup’ Jane Doe alleges.

Tommy Lee has been subject to a recent sexual assault lawsuit (Picture: Shutterstock)

Even by Tommy’s standards his recent festival appearance was a weird one – with past gimmicks including his entire kit rotating and spinning on the stage, or having the drums float above the crowd while he continued to play.

A constant showman, the rocker is also known for mooning the crowd during nearly every show.

Such behaviour earned Tommy Lee the reputation of one of the wildest men in rock – one half of the ‘terror twins’ with bassist Nikki Sixx.

Tommy Lee was renowned for his behaviour on and off-stage in the 80s and 90s (Picture: Shutterstock)

Tommy Lee is a founding member of the band Motley Crue (Picture: Shutterstock)

But for all his deranged behaviour on the drum kit, he is perhaps best known for the infamous sex tape he starred in alongside then-wife Pamela Anderson.

When the tape of their sexual activities was stolen by a workman, it became the first example of worldwide viral pornography – and the subject of the TV miniseries Pam & Tommy, where he was played by Marvel star Sebastian Stan.

After meeting on New Year’s Eve in 1994, the pair married on a beach in 1995, befitting of Pam’s starring Baywatch role.

The drummer was in a tumultuous marriage to model and actress Pamela Anderson (Picture: Shutterstock)

They share two children together: Brandon Thomas Lee and Dylan Jagger Lee, born in 1996 and 1997 respectively.

In a long and tumultuous relationship, Pam and Tommy split and re-united many times, initially divorcing in 1998 before breaking up for good in 2008.

After their relationship ended, Tommy met and fell in love with American comedian Brittany Furlan in 2017.

Tommy Lee and Pamela have since gone their separate ways (Picture: Shutterstock)

The pair began dating after matching on the dating app Raya, before tying the knot in 2019.

‘I’ve been following her for years on Vine. I was like: ‘She is so funny and stupid and cute and beautiful!’ Tommy said in the Netflix documentary The American Dream, which profiled his new wife.

He has continued to stay mad and bad as he aged, even joining OnlyFans after deciding to share a series of explicit full-frontal pics of himself online in 2022.

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