The HoneyDew with Ryan Sickler - Tommy Lee - Motley Dew

Episode Date: July 13, 2020

My HoneyDew this week is the one and only Tommy Lee! Tommy has some new singles out and a new album coming soon. He shares stories about his early days drumming, being the underdog, crazy injuries on tour - including second and third degree burns from being blasted by pyrotechnics - and being married a third time. It’s a fun Dew from the man who keeps beat for the Crüe! Subscribe to my YouTube channel & watch The Dew there every toozdee! https://www.youtube.com/user/rsickler/videos Subscribe to my new Patreon show, The HoneyDew with Y’all, where I highlight the lowlights with y’all! What’s your story?? https://www.patreon.com/TheHoneyDew Sponsors Go to http://omaxhealth.com and enter code HONEYDEW to get 20% off CryoFreeze and sitewide! Hurry to upstart.com/HoneyDew to see how low your Upstart rate can be Get 15% off Raycon wireless earbuds at buyraycon.com/HoneyDew Get 20% off and free shipping with the code HoneyDew at manscaped.com

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I'm so excited, dude. Thanks, Ryan. Good to see you, man. It's great to see you. Thank you for being here. Yeah. And also, thank you for putting up with me. I came to do Brittany's podcast like a week ago, and I wanted to –

look, I'm a respectful dude. I wanted to properly meet you as Brittany's husband because I've known Britt forever. I know. And I was like, it's a pleasure to finally meet her husband. And then I was like, get out of the way, Brittany. 16-year-old Ryan. I hugged you,

and you accepted it, and I appreciate it. I appreciate the shit out of it. That's awesome. So thank you for being here, and we're going to have some fun. But before we do, please, right now, promote everything. You got the new album out. Plug all of it. Yeah.

New record. It's called Andro. There's two singles that are out now um one is called tops um featuring uh push push south african rapper who spits serious fire um and And another track called Knock Me Down featuring Killvain, which is a super, super heavy, almost screamo rock rap joint that's just, you want to break shit when you hear it. It's one of those. But anyway, the singles are out. The album drops October 15th. I think I can get that date

right. And the reason the record is called Andro is because one side is all male energy of the record. I'm talking old school like vinyl, although it is coming out on vinyl also. Other side

is all one side's female, one side's male. And I, I remember just, you know, trying to sequence the record, you know, you got all this body of work done on them. Okay. This track into this track. Okay. That's cool. Nah, man, that key doesn't work going into this track. And I just, I spent forever trying to get it to just play down really dope, right? And at some point I just went, you know what, hold on a second. I just split the female energy and the male energy and kind of let them kind of dance on their own sides. And they, it just, I was like, now it all makes sense.

I was like, now it all makes sense. And so that's kind of where that organically came about because that wasn't my intention. Has that ever been done before? I don't. Not that I know of. Somebody said Jack White may have done it, but I don't know that. I've never heard of anyone doing it. That's great.

So it's cool. So whatever vibe you're in, there's something for everyone on the record it's really cool that's great man good for you i love that you're still doing how old are you now i am 57 57 do you look great thanks man 50 fucking seven and i know that drumming and being on tour is hard work so you got to stay in shape so i have so look i have a million questions but the first thing i want to say is this. You're my favorite drummer. I mean, look, I love Rest in Peace. Neil Peart just passed recently.

Bonham was fantastic. I'm a big Mitch Mitchell fan because I just love Jimi Hendrix. There's so many good drummers out there. So many, man. Buddy Miles. I was a big Buddy Miles fan. But you, I came up with Motley Crue. I grew up on your music i remember

coming home every fucking day in the summer with home sweet home being number one so long i bet here come the girls titties there's tommy hitting the drum like you knew like they retired it i think they retired it because you were so undefeated they were like we gotta give somebody else a chance it's been nine years yeah mtv for like ever we're like ever whoa yeah yeah give somebody else a chance right give somebody else a chance you guys have been doing this for two years uh it was on for like i felt like my whole high school but the like you were always this the this larger-life figure in this rock band, but then you did that show, Tommy Lee Goes to College. And, man, I was telling your manager,

I loved it because you became like a person to me there. I was like, oh, because the thing was you didn't, and that's where this picture's from, University of Nebraska, where you went. Shout out to University of Nebraska. Yeah, go Big Red. That's so rad. That's when segura

and i were there it's i kick field goals on your stadium i could i could have helped you guys win this year yeah um but i remember thinking also thinking like oh this will be a cakewalk for him he's a fucking drummer he's gonna go drum in a marching band what's the big deal and then watching you struggle with that struggle with the college life. But you took it seriously, and you were frustrated, and you were disappointed and embarrassed. You weren't like, whatever, I get to go back to L.A. and play in fucking Motley Crue.

You didn't treat it like that. And I was like, this dude's awesome. Are you from Nebraska? No, I'm from Maryland. Okay, cool. I got you. I thought there was some other association there. Yeah, you know, I typically wouldn't do a show like that,

just something I don't do. And then when I was approached about doing it, when I was approached about doing Tommy Lee Goes to College, I was kind of sold on the idea that, like, look, we're taking this rock star out of his element, and we're going to throw him in, like, middle America. First of all, I never went to college i didn't graduate high school like you didn't i quit my senior year i got a recording contract and i was like how far into your senior year diploma go rock the world let me think about that fuck that i'm out

so i just officially graduated everybody i remember my parents going, my God, you only have three months to go. Just finished school. What if this music thing doesn't work out? I'm like, oh, it's going to work out. So this is like, I'm like, so they're like, we're going to stick you in the middle of middle America. People are going to bug the fuck out that, A, you're going to stick you in the middle of middle America. People are going to bug the fuck out that a, you're going to college.

And I'm thinking, fuck, I never did get a chance to go to college. And I heard about rowdy college parties and shit. I mean, that's a college town. And I'm thinking, you know what?

This could be really fucked up in a fun, weird way. I'd get to check out a semester of college, see what it's like and, and freak some people out. So why not? And so ended up doing the show. And yes,

um, I was put to, uh, put to the, did the party and did the partyying. Did the partying. Got that in. You had to. You had to.

Those people would have never let you not do that. Weird. And I partied like a maniac. And I didn't really know about keg stands. And college partying shit. Tommy Lee's doing ke cake stands at our house. All right, all right. Pretty fun.

But it was frustrating, man. It was crazy because, you know, I did like... What did I do? Horticulture was one of them, which I love. I think I was a plant in a past life. I just naturally know. Like, I can walk outside now, and I can tell you what the botanical name of that tree is. Really?

Where I got that information from, I don't know. That's why I must have been a plant. I took, what did I take? Oh, fuck, chemistry. I'm like, oh, chemistry is going to be dope. Oh, so you did get to pick your classes yeah yeah yeah yeah oh shit okay i thought they just assigned them to you they let you be a real student then yeah okay yeah all right oh chemistry dude i'm just picturing

beakers explosions fucking crazy shit right okay so and of course music So let's go rock the drum core. What else? Oh, physics or some shit. I was like, oh, okay, let's do this. Way out of my league, way out of my league. But anyway, the music portion, I was like, oh, this is going to be dope. Because I did corps, marching band in high school and junior high school. So I'm thinking this is going to be a piece of cake, but just on a college level.

This is big. And it was everything I just did not expect. I was completely overwhelmed with, you know, I had learned in school how to read music playing piano, but never really drum. Saw you on that Home Sweet Home video playing piano. Yeah, yeah. I mean, I took piano lessons and shit like that.

Drumming, I taught myself. Okay. So I never really did the technical sheet music drum stuff. So now I got this shit whipped out in front of me, and I got a drum captain, my buddy Ben, and he's just looking at me. I'm looking at this shit like it's Greek, and I'm Greek, and I don't understand it

and i'm like dude i am i'm lost i have no idea what's happening here and he's he's just looking at me just shaking his head like you're fucking tommy lee you don't know right yeah no you don't understand i play by feel but you know it's inside me it comes out i don't read it off paper and then play it you know so this is a totally different animal and man the frustration insane insane and you got all these drummers and they're all bad asses like they got they got chops they're not rock chops they're not drum set chops but they're rudimental like these drubble double triple stroke rolls flamadiddles just all this crazy shit so that was a really frustrating uh the thing for me as a drummer just to be pretty much knocked back down to like hey here's this is a whole other side of drumming that you

you don't know what the fuck you're doing yeah that's i loved it man it's cool how are your grades um not so good not so good but i got so i tried i tried i tried like i tried like a motherfucker i did well in horticulture i was gonna say i'll bet you did do good in that um in uh in and i had a uh a tutor who was cute that was a good part of it so i i did enjoy i did enjoy the sort of after hours studying yeah yeah yeah um but i wonder why your grades suffered. Yeah. So, yeah, I mean, it was cool. It was really a cool experience.

I look back on it now, and I'm like, I'm glad I did that. And I got a chance to see also the real side, like you said, the personal side of somebody who's frustrated. And wanting to be professional and taking it seriously and not just hot-dogging it for a fucking TV show. So many people just go and wanting to be professional and taking it seriously and not just hot dogging it for a fucking tv show so many people just go on tv to be on tv like you were like if i'm gonna do this i'm really gonna do this yeah and it came across and i was like fuck yeah this is a good show that's cool yeah i loved it so let's go back to the beginning you're a greek boy so you were born in greece born in athens greece yeah and then you moved here when how are you uh almost two

okay see i i grew up with greek guys in baltimore um and i was saying i said this on an episode before everything was malacca oh malacca everything yeah everything everything everything i was like jesus christ you guys say it and then you know we talked about it's like jerk off and everything else. Everything was Malacca, but their dad owned this. It was in West Baltimore, too. It was in a rough neighborhood. They were Greek immigrants.

They would do the whole lamb in the backyard and everything for Easter and all that shit. Like in their yard. Beautiful. So Greek style, dude. But he had like a pizza sub shop. And we would go on deliveries and deliver them all around the city and then he would just give us food but his shit was the best oh man man yeah they'll marinate that lamb for like almost two days yeah it's great yeah that there's no joke so both your mom and dad are greek then no no my mom full full full-blown greek father american okay um they're both gone god bless them um uh but uh yeah my my father met my mom uh in the when he was uh

stationed out there um in the army and uh, they got married, had me, and then we moved to Los Angeles and I've pretty much grown up here. Okay. My whole life. So, so then who was the person or what was the thing that got you into specifically drumming? Um,

was it hearing it in some music or was your dad into it? Mom into it. My, my dad actually played played some drums in in school in the marching band um although he didn't really he didn't he didn't really like teach me drums it was weird um from what my parents said as soon as i was tall enough probably like you know when you're between the ages of one and two, you're able to start walking around and opening and closing cabinets.

They said as soon as I was able to kind of get into shit, so I'm assuming around two years old, I was pulling out pots, pans, boxes, anything, and just wailing. They just said, you just started playing on everything that made noise. My poor parents. I must have driven them fucking crazy. But it worked. It worked.

If it didn't, it would have sucked. Beat up all my dupperware, God damn it. I know. Why couldn't you fucking pick the fucking flute or something why the drums they're so supportive though man i really had super dope supportive parents my dad who's a mechanic um uh in services and also for the la county road department serious mechanic gave up for a man who's a mechanic to give up his his man cave which was the garage with all of his tools and shit he gave it up

he gave me three quarters of it and at least left enough room for his tools and all of his shit and he built me a soundproof room inside the garage. It was a room inside of a room. A, he didn't want to hear it. Yeah. You know? But he did want you to play. But he wanted me to play.

And also, keeping you home on the drums is keeping you off the streets. True. You know? Even though you still find the streets. Just keep you off the streets a lot less. Yeah. But he was so supportive, dude. This is how crazy supportive. you know even though you still find the streets just keep you off the streets a lot less yeah but he was so supportive dude this is how how crazy supportive fun you know what's your dad's name uh david david all right yeah and he being mechanic mechanical engineer guy um

but i but you know we put together our first little band, and we're playing high school dances and shit like that. And we're like, we need a lighting system, and we need pyrotechnics. Dude, I love that you needed pyrotechnics. We need fire, God damn it. It's like fire. Wait, what was that band's name?

Do you remember? It was called US 101. The freeway. Man, what are we going to call ourselves? How did we get here tonight? We're the 101. We're the US 101. Dude, my dad gets these blocks.

He's like two by four blocks, drills holes through them, puts these metal prongs through them. They're wired to a switcher box. And you got these prongs coming up with a little kind of guitar string wire. Yeah. Right? And as soon as you... And then the steel pipe,

he'd cut like a mortar. For high school shows. So the shit would launch, right? And you set it over the prongs fill them up with a couple of caps of gunpowder yeah yeah and he's got the switcher box and we're in my okay we're in my backyard okay and this is like where where do you live in california covina i know i know i know covina well okay so we So we got neighbors. There's neighbors. Yeah, a lot of neighbors. We're all right.

You know, middle class, family, urban, you know, I mean, really like small neighborhood. And there's explosions happening in the backyard. My dad's testing the shit. He's like, clear. And in my backyard, it's like, boom. I mean, he, he was so into it. It was like a little,

he's like a little kid. Yeah. So he's making pyro. Then he, he built, he built like a lighting system, took a chopper down in the service with this fire. Totally dude.

All his army shit was coming out. Get the dynamite and the grenade launcher. The kid's got a show tonight. He couldn't wait on that. dude all his army shit was coming out get the dynamite and the grenade launcher the kids got a show tonight he couldn't wait on that oh he had the best time man that's what i would do too wouldn't you figure out a way if you didn't play an instrument you'd be like i want to be involved in this yes let me get my good help my kid like and do and do whatever i could to make it super badass for him i would and that's awesome you're so lucky to have a dad like that dude blessed so you would you would do backyard shows back in the day

yeah oh yeah oh yeah all the time backyard parties so let me ask you this parties because you said david lee and then made david lee roth pop into my fucking head real fast but i've a friend of mine told me her brother's older than we are and said that they used to play because they came up out here obviously as well but they he used to go see them at backyard parties back in the day sort of as they were forming van halen do you you guys would play back i mean so there are people out there that saw tommy lee play a backyard high school party in covina california oh yeah all over the place wow that's awesome man all over the place and Vince uh my singer Motley of course he was in a he was in a cover band called Rock Candy doing the same thing backyard kegger parties so people had seen us doing that kind of stuff and one day putting

together Motley I'm like man I went to school we're looking for a singer um we're looking for a singer and i'm like i know this dude man all the chicks love this dude like he's he he goes to my school he's fucking dope looking has a killer voice sings awesome cheap trick covers and like just like and you know he's just he's just killer i think I think we should grab him. And so we stole him out of his band, and he came and auditioned for Motley, and the rest is kind of history. But we were doing the same thing, same age, doing the same. The four of you?

Yeah. At that age? So people saw the original Motley crew at backyard parties? Was everyone in at that time? Everyone was, everyone was in a band doing something at that time. Yeah. And then you all came together and boom.

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loosely yeah that's such a great fucking song it is that. It's a great melody, man. I love that one. Your shit is so fucking good. And it's got that, what am I thinking of? Who was that? Pretty woman. Roy Orbison. Roy Orbison. That beat. For some reason, that's just like that beat works on just about anything, man.

I don't know what it is about it. It just drives. It's one of those beats. So on with the show. I want the dogs. It's so good. And then obviously on and on and on. But the thing that always I liked about you two, you had the Mighty Mouse fucking shit.

Yeah. And we were talking about Underdog and the Underdogs. thing that always i liked about you too you had the mighty mouse fucking shit yeah and and we were talking about underdog and the underdogs and you're a big fan obviously of the underdogs this show is really all about the underdogs so one of the things i love that you said is that you put a lot of people that are unknown on the new album yes record you keep saying record i keep saying album yeah is there a difference hell Same thing. Um, except for the fact that we're dating ourself by saying record and album. Yeah. That's the only thing I guess.

Um, but not so much, man. Vinyl's making a massive comeback. You're right. So a lot of comics. So we're cool. Yeah,

we are cool. Putting albums out. I can say out. Tom Lee said, I can say out. Yeah. Um, what,

so who, some of the artists that you have on that you really like and how do you find them you know because we talk about comics they all you know there's a good community of comedians that pull each other up which is really fantastic and that's what you're talking about doing with musicians that and but you also are finding people from all genres of music i love that about you that's cool that comedians do that and i'm i'm a big underdog fan and do the same thing i'll just i'll just i'll find for some reason i'm a shit magnet for some reason shit fucking just finds me or whatever but i'm all i'm but i'm also like you know i've done another kind of

magnet where i'd for some reason i'll it'll find me or I'll gravitate towards something that's, that, that, that draws me beat wise or style wise or sonically. And I'll be like, Whoa, that's dope. No one fucking knows about it.

Just, um, and I'll have a collaboration list of people that I want to collaborate with. And I'll find people. I'll find them on the internet. Somebody will turn me on to something that finds something else. Like, you know, you go down a rabbit hole of stuff. Anyway, so as I'm making Andros, I'm making the record, you know, I'll have a track and

I'm like, oh my God god this person would absolutely murder this track and so let's take uh uh knock me down that's out now for instance is that literally the one i saw the video britney knock pulling you out of the fucking chair does that knock me down yes it is right yeah that's the other thing i said no it's the first time i've ever seen this mega rock star look like every other married husband out there she pulled you out of the chair it looked like it hurt like a motherfucker and you were just like and you just shut yourself like out there just got yourself back up and went right to the table and she's banging back to you like crazy. That's how we are.

She's fucking crazy town. And violent. Yeah. I don't like to make your wife laugh. She's one of those punchers. Dude. We talk about it. I know.

I'm like, that hurt. Yeah, it hurt. She's like, silent laugh. And then it's like, bah, right across your fucking jaw. All the time. Or it just hits you hard. Yes. Yeah. Sorry. Thanks, honey. Thanks, Britt. right across your fucking jaw all the time or just or or it just hits you hard yes yeah sorry thanks honey thanks brit well at least she does not only to me she does it to everybody good good

um um what was the oh uh the underdog uh yes and that is the track. I just hit him up. Hit him up on Instagram. Wow, you just straight reached out like that? Yeah, well, and the funny story is he told me later, he's got a message from me, a DM from me, and he's like, I wouldn't believe it. He goes, this is some fake Tommy Lee account bullshit. Is Tommy Lee Jones? Yeah, right?

And then he looked it up and he's like oh fuck that's fucking that's him and he hit me back he's like dude yes fuck what's going on i said let me send you this track this track as your name you had never met this guy never met him but i love that about i heard his shit i'm like just and now with instagram and social media you're one step away instead of having to get your your rep or your manager to find this person to go take three months to get a guy on the fucking phone yeah i know yeah if if not longer right fucking ridiculous so i hit him up he's like god damn so i sent him the track i'm like dude i just i this track has your name all over it.

He's like, he heard it. He goes, done. A day, two days later, he lives up north. He's at my house, and we bang the track out. Same with the other track, Tops with Push Push. I've been following her for a couple of years, just watching her listening to her, I dig her style

everything, same thing I got this super sexy dance kind of electro sounding track I reached out to her sent it to her, she's like oh man this is fucking badass let me at it

same thing. Over to the studio. Done. And that's been kind of the theme here with, you know, people I've wanted to collaborate with or, you know, just found randomly. Pretty much everybody. I'm trying to think. The only person that's on the record that anyone might know, his name's Lucas Rossi.

And he was the singer for a show I did on NBC called, I don't know if you remember, it was called Rockstar Supernova. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We were looking. It was me, Gilby from Guns N' Roses. Gilby Clark, right? Yeah, Gilby Clark, Jason Newsted from Metallica, and myself. We were looking for a singer.

That was the premise of the show. And we picked Lucas out of everybody. We did a record with him and stuff. Anyway, Lucas makes an appearance on the record so that's one of the names people might recognize we did a prince cover that's fucking insane insane can you say what song the song is called when you were mine oh yeah which is typically kind of a hat you wear all of my clothes yeah yes and which is typically kind of happy like when you yeah it's a

definitely poppy and upbeat well we slowed we slowed this shit down and it is a fuck song man I'm telling you Prince will be proud

it is so dude he would he would be like why didn't I think of that it's just it's just it's down tempo it's super sexy

and of course lucas sings the shit out of it um and it uh so that might be one that you'd recognize everybody else on oh another guy pavin he's from a group uh called the foreign beggars big big, big, uh, uh, you rap guys out of the, out of the UK. Um, but other than Mickey Avalon, Mickey Avalon is another one. People would know Brooke candy, Brooke candy. Yep. There's a, there's a, there's some people that won't, you'll know. And there's some underdogs that you won't know. But, so I asked you earlier before we were recording, had you ever auditioned for a band and been cut or anything you were like i got pretty fucking lucky so

what are like i did audition once on fucking frying on mushrooms and i thought i thought i thought for sure i wasn't gonna make that but. But they dug me. I got hired. Everyone's like, let's do some mushrooms. I'm like, all right. And I don't think I had ever done any, so I'm thinking, what the fuck? All right, sure.

And so we're doing, I don't know, probably about 20 minutes goes by. We're hanging out talking. We're like, alright, well, let's go play. And I'm pretty cool as we start, but now the fucking shrooms are kicking in, and

dude, everything starts to fucking get super glitchy on me. Everything's like da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. And I'm like, what the fuck is happening? I'm just bugging out, and I'm like, the fuck is that like i i'm just bugging out and i'm like dudes i can't i can't do this like i'm fucking fucking high as fuck and and everybody was high and they're like and it ended up getting the gig i don't know how because i could barely somehow i was playing

but in my in my mind and my eyes did not look like what what was happening they might have been on acid and thought it sounded amazing well they everyone was kind of great everyone was high and maybe i don't know maybe it was like the you know it sounded like some grateful dead shit and they were like oh this is dope is dope. He's cool. He's he can stay. I want to tell you, I'll tell you, I can't believe I get to tell you this story because this is burned in my

brain. So I went to see you guys probably early two thousands at the forum. You came back on tour. I was hoping you would do the whole rig and you did and everything, but I grew up in Maryland. So, you know, heavy metal parking lot. I'm sure you know that the whole rig and you did and everything. But I grew up in Maryland, so you know Heavy Metal Parking Lot. I'm sure you know that video. Okay. Those kids are a little older than me, but same people.

Those kids had kids. You know what I'm saying? Oh, yeah. Those kids had kids. Oh, yeah. I'm that generation. I got you. And Cap Center is where we would go to the dead shows and stuff.

If you wanted drugs, that's where you would go get it. The dead come to town. We go to the parking lots. Everybody's getting their opium, their weed, their acid, their whatever. Selling peanut butter and jellies, whatever. Drug salads. Right, totally. So I grew up with the heads and the dirts and all the headbangers and the hair metal guys.

And I loved all that music too. And I go to see you guys at the forum. And I get to the parking lot and it's like 1980 all over again i'm like oh my god it was like all those people came from wherever the fuck they live in southern california and collected in this one parking lot it was camaros and everything else dude it was the best so i was like this is a fucking straight up flashback so there's there's this drunk chick this white big fat girl and she's trying to fist fight people and she is just rowdy as shit she's

fired she's one of those people you're like oh man you ain't even gonna make it through the show it's like one o'clock in the afternoon right she's just she's out there trying to fight guys and stuff and she's just a mess right but she's wearing yeah half naked fat as shit and wearing these she's so big she's wearing snow boots you know like the cheap vinyl ones you could get at kmart that are navy blue with like snowflakes on them and they have that like that material that's what she's wearing right oh so we uh we go in whatever show started and uh if if you've ever sat in the forum the old forum when you sit on the end row the stairs come down like you can rest your elbow on the steps right here it's so old you know what i mean it's not elevated you can you can sit like this yeah

and i'm high as shit and of course you know when you of course i'm gonna do you guys right you know when your eye just turns into a camera and i get that close-up look and i just hear something coming down this because you go down i hear something coming down the stairs and i hear this boom and i look over and there's the fucking boot and it her. And she's coming down our road like, get the fuck out of here. She sits right over there next to us the whole time. The worst shit. But I'll tell you, when you got up in that fucking rig, man, it's crazy. Here's what I want to know.

Was that the one where I was flying from drum kit to drum kit? Yeah. The big tent? Carnival of Sins tour? I think it was. I think it was Carnival. Like early 2000s. Something like, yeah.

Three, four, somewhere in there. Yeah. Yep. That's probably the one. Dude, have you ever messed up on stage to a point where it's so noticeable you're just like, fuck. Not messed up as in like fucked up a part but messed up as in and got gotten fucking

really really hurt several times from doing that yeah you have yeah what happened uh um uh hold on hartford connecticut. Dr. Feelgood tour. The drums are 60 feet. Yeah, they're way up there. 70 feet high, going all the way out over the audience's head to the person in the fucking back of the arena. So you're right here to that person? Oh, that's a Stevie Wonder section.

You're so far back in the back of the arena the band's like this big right before they had the big screen well back then they yeah yeah they were just that was just starting to happen but like there's shitty seats so my objective for that whole drum thing was i'm gonna make the person in the fucking shittiest seat in this place have a front row ticket so i'm doing this the drums go all the way out to the back they're rotating and then coming back once the thing's over i step off i i step off the drum kit and i put my foot in a in a strap it's like a bungee cord and i just i let go or I just jump on it and go,

and kind of repel. And there's a guy down below with a handbrake, and he hits the brake as soon as I just get right to the ground. It just, shoom. Okay, yeah. Well, I'm doing this, and this is in Hartford. I'll never forget it. I'm doing this, and this is in Hartford.

I'll never forget it. I'm doing it, and I don't feel the handbrake kick in, and I'm like, oh, fuck, something's wrong. So I just decide I pull my foot out of the strap, and I figure I better get my foot out of the strap and just sort of like if I can just kind of eject here, maybe I can get and try to land like a cat or something. Because this is going to get fucked really quick. Your legs are going to go up your asshole.

Yeah, if I'm stuck with my foot in a rope, I'm going to like reverse hang myself. I don't know what's, I don't know. All I know is I got to get out because this isn't cool. And so I went to get out because this isn't cool. And so I went to get out and just the heel part of my foot was still in the rope. And I slammed my head on the concrete of the arena floor. Out, concussion, out. Damn!

Shows over. I wake up in the ambulance. What's the last thing you remember? That? The fall? Was jumping off and looking down and seeing everybody, seeing the crowd. And nothing else. And nothing else.

So did you make it back to the stage? They came and got me. I woke up in the ambulance and I was like, what happened? They're like, oh, dude, take it easy. You just had a crazy, crazy fall. I'm like, oh, fuck, I got to get back there. We got to fucking show to finish, right? And they're like, no, no, no, dude.

No, that's a negative. So, yeah, I had a concussion and spent the next two days in Hartford recuperating. You know when you have a concussion, you're not supposed to go back to sleep. So somebody just keeping me awake. Yeah. I just kind of stayed awake for a day and a half or so and back at it. But that and the tour you saw when I was flying from drum kit to drum kit at the very end at the last time of this last kit on cue in my ears we have a an audible saying three two and on

one i fucking i i get yanked from a harness off of it the lights lights go black, and it looks like I get blown off the thing, and I'm just gone. It's in the dark. It's like your dad's out there with his pyrotechnic. Here comes the grenade launcher. Yeah. There's this like, you know, it's like a stunt thing. You know, those harnesses that pull you look like you get blown off. Well, the lights go black, so you don't want people to like you get blown off well the lights go black so

you don't want people to see you getting blown off and just want to just be blow up but when they're black like that can you see anything i can't see shit yeah so three two one is a blackout for the lighter lighting director lights go black i get yanked in the dark and the shit blows to pieces right well I get the audible cue and it the lights go black I don't get

yanked and I just take a fucking several huge pyro shots to the face what for real your dad would have been proud. No eyelashes. No eyebrows. Are you fucking serious?

You can see that just coming up at you. You can't move. You can't do shit. There's nothing. Oh, my God. I can't jump. Yeah, you're done. I'm connected to the thing that didn't work.

And so I'm like, I just fucking just took the hit. So second, third degree burns down my hands. It was just a bad. So not embarrassing as in like, oh, man, you fucked that part up. Just embarrassing moments of like really fucking yourself up. Yeah, that's scary. That could be death. Yeah.

Damn, dude. I'm a bit of a thrill seeker i kind of i mean i like it otherwise i wouldn't fucking keep doing it all right do you have you you skydive you bungee you do all that stuff yeah what's the would you bungee jump again oh yeah in a second i'm trying to get my wife to go and she's like there is no way i'm going listen we're going to australia to play this year. I'm sorry, next year, next summer, the tour. And I'm taking you. New Zealand's got one of the highest spots you can jump from.

I think it's, I want to say 400 or 500. Fuck that. And she's like, oh, hell no. I'm like, no, we're going. You are going. We're going to get over this fear, and we're going. So, yeah, i love all that shit six flags magic oh i love them i love amusement park like i'm a fucking junkie i

anything to get scared and just you know have a little poopoo in your pants like i'm down with that i got a whole bit about tatsu that fucking roller coaster at at six flags i almost shit myself on that fucking thing we had a six flags i almost shit myself on that fucking thing we had a weed brownie before we went on and it was all bad oh dude jesus christ that's a gnarly one though it is that's that's not the advancement in roller coast is why i say all the time like it from from this i remember we used to go to king's dominion in uh richmond like outside of Richmond, Virginia. That was the closest one to us.

And it was a big park. Eventually, Paramount bought it. There's like a King's Island, I think, in Ohio. And then the King's Dominion. Yeah, I think that's their sister, like Busch Gardens and shit like that. Gotcha. Yeah. And it was called the Rebel Yell.

And it was an old wooden coaster coaster just like the one that was out here forever uh colossus colossus rickety and shit rickety as fuck your neck and then and then it would go backwards that was like the big thing and then we had the one called the king cobra that you just start at the top and then you did one loop and that was it you went back and it was done now they're trying to rip your asshole out of you on these things. And you know they're loving it. They're like, let's see how close we can get before these guys shit themselves.

Just blow chunks. It's nuts, man. If they didn't blow chunks, the rollercoaster architects are like, we failed. We failed miserably. Shit and we're not doing our job. Shit themselves and puking. Three people shit themselves today. That's um i know what i want to ask you because you're a big guy how tall are you six what

six two were you did you ever get in fights were you a fighter a lot or were you the guy that could because you're also funny could you talk your way out of it that's a lot of comedians i mean i got in a lot of fights though yeah i i love to scrap me too especially especially but you know i don't know as soon as you start drinking jack daniels or tequila someone will just look at me and i'll be what the fuck you looking at like and they didn't even say right yeah no it's like actually checking out the menu behind you. I'm a fucking shit stirrer. Just add alcohol and here we go. I love, that's fun.

It's just fun just to fucking scrap out, especially when you're with a couple of buddies because then you feel like a little bit more of a... Yeah, for sure. Me and my brosos are gonna kick your ass right but yeah that's a good fight it's fun so all right can we talk about marriage sure all right you've been married three times yep what what made you keep going back did you ever let me ask you this did you ever think you'd be married a third time? After number two, did you think you'd be married a third time?

No. No, I didn't. I was like, you know, maybe I just don't. Maybe I'm just not meant to be married. I just fuck. Why am I not getting it right? You know, not the right partnership. What the fuck?

What? You know, marriage doesn't come with a manual. It's not like, you know, it's just's just yeah and it's a lot of work you know they just don't magically just work right so yes to to answer your question no i was just kind of like you know fuck me i'm just gonna be single forever you know maybe that's maybe that's what i'm supposed to do i'm not i'm the kind of guy who's never home anyway i'm always on tour yeah what's the point but you know um it's like owning a house i'm like why do i even have a house i'm never fucking at it um but uh that all changed when um i met britney another quick break to tell you about our next sponsor omax cryo freeze

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Just fucking the craziest thing, and it's almost embarrassing to say, but I fucking met her. I've followed her for fucking years on vine and just like listen britney is vine yeah no yeah yeah yeah exactly britney is fucking vine like i didn't even know about vine i was like you mean britney they're like yeah but she is fine i was like yeah she's fine yeah fucking fine yeah because i bust their balls all the time. I'm like, Heather Locklear, Pam Anderson, Brittany Furla. I love it, bro. I love it.

I feel bad she hears that dumb shit. She hears that shit all the time. Yeah, she knows what comes with it. So wait, you followed her on Vine. You were on Vine? Yeah, for years. Dude, you're into all of it. You got your finger dialed in on shit, dude. Yeah, and I followed her on vine you were on vines yeah for years for years and all of it you got your

finger dialed in on shit dude yeah and i and i followed her it was like she's super fucking funny she's hot as fuck and and anyway i'm just my kids that are 24 and almost 23 are like you know i'm single just still like kind of dating here and there blah blah blah just doing the thing and having fun and all but i'm just nothing nothing serious they're like dad you need to get on this app this is my fucking kids telling me this you need to get on this app it's called raya and i was like the fuck is raya they're like it's all like people like you dad like it's just it's only like you know actors or athletes or

they're only like professionals on there musicians like da da da da da Stevie Nicks is on there people like you and you gotta get vetted and you gotta get approved like it's like just there's just not everybody's on there fucking whatever right so i'm like all right wow you were willing to do it i was all right good for you man boys advice yeah why not

see what they're talking about so i get on the thing it's like i don't know two weeks goes by and i get the you've been uh whatever the fuck it is certified approved whatever and i was like oh cool so i'm flipping around on here and i'm like no way that motherfucker is on here what and i'm just i'm bum bugging out like and all these people are sorry mix a lot fucking single and shit right and i'm like and looking and looking and looking right and i'm fucking all of a sudden it's like get the fuck out britney i see britney and i'm like no fucking way and i'm like hey it's you know it's tommy um uh and you know that's legit because you're on a service that's been vetted. So if they hit you up, it's that person.

Yeah, this is the real deal. You're not being catfished. Yeah, I think I invited her to, I was playing an L.A. Pride thing with Brooke Candy. I was playing drums, and my buddy from Danny danny loner from nine-ish nails playing guitar for her we did this thing uh at the la pride and i said it was like that probably might be a cool place to meet and i'm gonna you know because i'm not really cool with a little like one-on-one weird thing like hey so nice to meet you so i'm like thinking it's a good spot. She fucking shows up with, first of all, I'm looking everywhere for her. I don't fucking see her.

I know what she looks like. I'm looking for this fucking pretty brunette girl, right? Nothing. I'm thinking, fuck, she blew me off. What the fuck? And I get a tap on the shoulder. I turn around, and I'm like, is's just fucking she's wearing a fucking clown wig this this big you know like multi you know like the rainbow colors yeah for pride right

and and she's like hi it's britney and i was your first meeting that's the first meeting so i'm like okay i see where this is gonna go well you got the you got the real person right yeah yeah and i'm like and we so it's been it's been all all love ever since maddening she makes really she makes me like you're yeah she makes me laugh and you know what dude's laughter is priceless it keeps you young too bro it keeps you young it makes me your face hurt a lot. I mean, I see it makes your back hurt a lot, too, when she's ripping you out of your fucking chair in your studio. I know.

I know. Every fucking day it's something with her. You know her. Yeah, but you know her way different than I do. You guys were telling some story. What's the i do you guys were telling some story what's the red worms you were telling some story before we started she's got this she's got this thing she's i think she's like a closet exhibitionist um she doesn't do it to everybody although she she fucking for some reason wants to share her i call them red worms when she has

you know that that time of the month um uh she she'll she'll fucking take pictures of of this i mean or she'll just fucking she she'll just come out and just bring the panties in and be like, oh my god, look! And I have such a weak stomach, dude. Immediately I'm like, I'll throw up. And I have.

I'm getting teary-eyed right now. Oh yeah, disgusting. And I don't know what it is with her. She likes to share that with me. Maybe because she wants to see me throw up. Maybe. Maybe that's the thing. But then she'll send me pictures of her poop, too.

And I'm like, why? I don't understand. Why are you sending me a picture of your poop? And dude, I wish I, it's a poop. Like it's coming out of the water. Like, like by this much, I'm like, that came out. That came out once a month as I'm gagging. I'm like, is is that what is that that's disgustingly impressive could not come out of this little tiny thing

jesus put it this way we we share everything clearly literally but you said something that blew me away you said you had never seen that. No girl. No. So. I mean, I've, you know. Of course. I was telling you, like, the first time. As a man, you get an education on women going through life. And hopefully you do meet one that can tell you, like, look, man, this is what it's really fucking like.

And I remember having sex with a girl on her period. And when we were done, I looked down and there's a a fucking i didn't know what it was i thought it was like it looked like a purple bloody leech and my my knees buckled i was like what the fuck is that are you okay and she's like oh it's just a clot and wiped it off like it was dust no i mean like it was nothing i was like and then i went up and showered and i just remember looking down and seeing blood and i was like oh my god this is similar i mean we've all had that kind of a thing but these are extra big i don't know what the fuck is crazy i mean i've had that kind of experience where like you're eating a girl's pussy and in the hotel room and uh you've

ordered fucking more fucking rose or whatever and just fucking room service guys at the door and i've answered the door just look like a fucking axe murderer from eating pussy and just like you don't you don't know it but there's fucking there's blood all over your face and the room service guys like this thinking somebody's died in here just killed somebody yeah right here you go sign the thing thanks we've all had those experiences but but her that i don't know um it's a it's is it endometriosis endometriosis it just it's it's it's wild yeah i just had a girl named uh jess danner who was on the honey do with y'all talking to us and i was telling you she had these crazy health problems and it wrapped around her insides and she had to have all these

special surgery i mean we're lucky we are every, I'm so glad I'm a guy. I'd be the worst woman anyway. I'd be a pig. I wouldn't take care of myself. I'll cut those toenails. Yeah, no. Man. Bless all of them.

Here's to dudes. And here's to women. Bless all of you. Yeah, bless them, too. Thank you. But here's to dudes. Damn, they got a lot of shit to deal with. They do.

Fuck. And these days, the way they got it i couldn't afford i couldn't afford my hair if i was a woman couldn't afford it oh my god oh my god dude this has been seriously thank you so much it's been so much fun thank you for coming on please again promote everything the album everything you want tour whatever geez i hate doing that stuff but do it okay um andro new tommy lee record uh october 15th is the release of the entire record the singles are out now uh tops and uh hold or knock me down are out on pretty much all formats spotify apple music blah blah blah pretty much everywhere you get music and uh the videos are out um and i can't wait for everyone to hear the whole record and and and the reason for that being is like i'm i hate fucking filler tracks i fucking they will not be they're not on my on my projects i just i despise those like ah whatever there's there's three good ones that's

enough um so uh that's why i'm excited for people to to hear the whole record because the whole record really is a banger. And that's the reason I released two singles at once. People don't typically do that. I wanted people to hear, get a vibe for what the record's like. Here's the male and a female energy track. So I think that gives basically a good representation of what to expect on the record so go out and get it because yeah go it is man i'm i'm fucking stoked pre-order i love that you're still doing it dude and then the tour is now moved because everything to 2021 is that 2021 yeah we just released the i'm coming to see you when you're in la no you're definitely coming

you're coming as my guest i'm bringing that chick with the boots, too, bro. No, dude, we got you. We'll find her. Dude, thank you again, man. Thank you, my man. This is awesome. As always, RyanSickler.com, Ryan Sickler on all social media. We'll talk to you you next time.