TOMMY LEE: 'I've Always Loved Electronic Music'

January 22, 2008

About.com recently conducted an interview with MÖTLEY CRÜE drummer Tommy Lee and his Electro Mayhem Tour collaborator DJ Aero. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow:

About.com: Tommy, how do you go from heavy metal to heavy dance?

Tommy Lee: I've always loved electronic music, whether it's incorporating that within a song or a drum solo or whatever. I haven't really gone from anything to anything — it's always been in my blood.

About.com: So when you two perform, do you tag team on two sets of CD decks?

DJ Aero: Basically what happens is I handle the audio portion of the mix and Tommy affects that audio with his computer, and then he also spins on DV-Js with DVDs for the visuals.

About.com: Where do you find your visuals?

Tommy Lee: You know what, it just depends. I try to find whatever fits the audio we're playing. We've got everything from disgusting filthiness to the most beautiful images you've ever seen in your life to underwater stuff to whatever goes with the music. I'm there to compliment and accentuate what's going on audio-wise.

About.com: Tommy, how is touring as a DJ different from touring with the Crue?

About.com: Dance music gets a bad rap from the rock world saying it's not real music, it's all synthesized. As a rock guy, what's your take on that?

Tommy Lee: I think that's such bulls*t. I'm going to call BULLS**T on that one. You know why? Actually, let me retract that just slightly because there's a lot of bulls**t dance music out there, There's also stuff out there and it's something we're working on, that I believe is just really passionate and really heartfelt and it gives you a feeling of 'I want to dance, I want to go crazy, I want to break something.' I just don't believe you sit there at a computer and do that, it's got to come from your heart.

DJ Aero: Right, you've don't just type back slash, forward slash, and then all of a sudden a dance music hit comes out and people love to dance to it. It's usually the people who say they don't like it and are generalizing, are just rock fans. If you have dance fans, they hate rock music. It's whatever you're into and for the sake of the argument, there has to be controversy or everything would stop.

Read the entire interview at About.com.

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