Tommy Lee
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Who is Tommy Lee and how does the episode introduction set the stage?
Welcome, welcome, welcome to Armchair Expert, Experts on Expert. I'm Dax Shepard. I'm joined by Monica Padman.
Hi.
Hi.
What are you drinking? I'm drinking a coffee.
Okay.
But I don't want any more of it. Okay. But I...
It's like a blankie at this point. It's a safety blanket. That makes sense.
And you know who needs a safety blanket?
Tommy Lee. Tommy Lee. Tommy Lee is a musician. He is the co-founder and drummer of Motley Crue. I mean, I think he was the most famous man in the 90s. I know. His albums include Never a Dull Moment, Andro, Tommy Land the Ride, Shout at the Devil, Dr. Feel Good. His new album is out now, Tommy Land Rides Again. I mean, this guy did it all, Monica.
He really, he has lived a life.
Yeah. Please enjoy Tommy Lee.
Dax, you were at the fight that we were at. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Saturday. We were going to say hi, but we didn't want to be like that.
I saw you. Well, this has happened to me twice in like 24 hours, which is I saw you there. I was like, I don't want to say hi because I'm interviewing him in a minute. And then I saw a dude at a party on Sunday who we're interviewing on Wednesday. I was like, oh, this is so awkward. Normally I would sit and talk to this dude, but I don't want to like...
to find out a bunch of interesting shit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He wants to talk about today, because there's like a viral clip going around of him from that fight of people. He rubbed his nose when the camera was on him. Oh, exciting. You ever think he's a boogie shoogie? Yeah.
So will my ass. Because he's sober now, and everyone's like, he's fucking geeked out. Oh, my God. The internet's insane.
they cut to David Spade and he also does a little, he's fucking scratching his nose.
But it looks like the two of you were just in the bathroom banging the devil's dander.
Good thing they didn't cut to you also. And I said that to my wife.
I go, I'm surprised they didn't show Dax. Yeah. Rub his nose and just look.
All the sober people. I'm just tapping my veins. All the sober dudes.
I'm roping off.
Yeah, exactly.
The little piece of glass that the flowers came in at the gas station to get my pipe ready at the fight. Do you ever get that dark? Do you ever get the little flowers with the little glass pipe? What's the little flowers?
No.
There's all these hacks when you smoke crack, and all the downtown gas stations had all these inexplicable items for sale. Like, who's buying fucking these little roses? Yeah, but it's really just to get this little glass rod that you could use as a pipe.
Wow.
And then these little bits of, like, SOS pad or Brillo pad that you just want to pack in there. Like, all this random shit would be at the counter at Mobile Gas Station downtown Detroit.
Oh, my God. Wow.
I get so excited that I'm like, oh, my God, dude. Fuck, I've been sober for a year. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I celebrate. Yes, yes. That's the fucking problem. I can never go past a year because I'm so pumped that I actually pulled that off.
The impossible. Yeah. How long does the celebration last? Looks like you're debating whether or not to be honest.
I don't know. Maybe six months.
Okay, sure. A little six month celebration. And then. Then you're demoralized and you hate everything.
Yeah.
Yeah. You want to kill yourself. Yeah. Okay, I'm done. And you're like, well, we're here again. Here we are again. Have you done ever longer than a year?
Yes. I think three years was the longest I've done. Oh, really? Yeah. I don't know why I didn't celebrate between those years. I must have been on some other plane.
Yeah, what do you think was going on? You were probably very interested in something or distracted by something.
You know, I was probably really busy. If you're always on tour, you're just going and going and going. All of a sudden, a couple of years goes by like that. Two and a half years in one tour. All of a sudden, you're like, dude, I did it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And then you go, I've earned some reward for this. Yeah. I know. Come on. I deserve rewards when I go. Where's my lollipop?
I've been good boy.
I know. This is the pathetic thing about all this in recovery is, yeah, you behave like all human beings behave and you think you deserve a ticker tape parade.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
Who is Tommy Lee and how does the episode introduction set the stage?
0:00–14:31
2
How did Tommy Lee's early life in Greece and California influence his path to music?
14:31–38:54
3
How did Motley Crüe form and what led Tommy Lee to quit high school for the band?
38:54–52:10
4
What really happened in the Kid Rock airport scuffle with Tommy Lee?
52:10–53:04
5
How did Tommy remix Tommyland Rides Again into a Dolby Atmos re-release?
53:04–55:11
6
How does Tommy Lee stay fit and manage injuries while drumming on tour at 63?
55:11–59:20
7
What was the group’s guided psilocybin experience and how did it change their perspective?
59:20–1:49:26