MTLEY CRE's TOMMY LEE: 'People Don't Ingest Full Records Anymore'

June 29, 2011

Sean Daly and Steve Spears of the St. Petersburg Times recently conducted an interview with MTLEY CRE drummer Tommy Lee. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below.

St. Petersburg Times: Tell us about the 360 drum roller coaster you developed for this tour. Sounds insane.

Tommy: It's one of those things you absolutely have to see. You can watch YouTube videos all day long, but unless you come and see it live. . . . The idea starts with me, and we just kind of take it from there. It was time to take it to the next level. (Laughs) I'm gonna shoot myself out of an elephant's a-- next time. You know me, dude: full-on thrill seeker. Someone's gotta do it!

St. Petersburg Times: What do your groupies look like? Is it an all-ages affair?

Tommy: The ages are all over the place. We've been doing it 30 years, so you have people our age. And not to put them in the same sentence as a cheesy word like "groupies," but I see kids 10 years old. (Editor's note: He's not talking about groupies. He's talking about fans in general.) Some parents are bringing their kids. It's pretty cool to see such a wide variety of people coming to the show: all ages, all colors and sizes. It's dope.

St. Petersburg Times: You've repeatedly said you don't want to make albums anymore. Why is that?

Tommy: No one really buys records anymore. You can look at sales and do that math real quick. Unfortunately, it's fast food in the music industry. People don't ingest full records anymore. They buy song to song, something that blows their skirt up. For you to sit there and rip your hair out and put six, eight months into making a full record for someone to buy one song from, that is stupid.

St. Petersburg Times: That's kind of sad. Look at all the great albums you guys made. Look at "Dr. Feelgood".

Tommy: I don't know, dude. I don't think it's sad. I think it's actually cool. What it will do is force people to make better songs at a time, instead of making an album with nine shitty filler tracks and two good songs. I think it's nice. I think it's going to be wonderful, to tell you the truth.

Read the entire interview from St. Petersburg Times.

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