Sunday
Dec162012
Tommy Lee Posts Snippet of New Song
Sunday, December 16, 2012 at 12:01AM
As you know, Tommy Lee is big in to electronic music, among other genres. A few hours ago, he posted a snippet of a new song he's working on called "Where Am We" and he listed it as funk. I have no idea if this is for an upcoming solo album of if Tommy was just bored and wanted to record something new, but here you go:
Reader Comments (17)
Wax poetic my friend. Not huge fan of whatever genre that was, but much love to your passion.
(P.S. reading the Sunday paper never made me cry till today. I truly am grief stricken. There is more than one finger to point among all the issues we face in our time. Sorry for the rant, but I needed to vent)
Peace
By the way, I too cried about what happened last night when I saw the CNN footage of a woman lighting a votive candle and holding it up to the school sign and then, with tears streaming down her face, placing it in front of the makeshift shrine of flowers, pictures and messages at her feet.
How many more candles have to be lit before national sentiment regarding our gun laws overwhelm the tide of lies and money can no longer wash over Congress and they are forced to act?
As soon as we are over the fiscal cliff (one way or the other), a bill needs to be sent to the House of Representatives in order to force the issue of our gun laws and the corrupt pandering to the NRA brass and gun manufacturers into the spotlight.
I am listening to Rick Derringer's version of Warren Zevon's "Lawyers, Guns and Money" now.
(p.s. Tommy Lee's solo stuff is laughable and virtually unlistenable. Still, as you so adroitly point out, there is something to be said for artistic "integrity" and making records for oneself. And by that I mean he'll probably wind up being pretty much the only person listening to it.)
There have been masterpieces created using solely samples. DJ Shadow's 1996 magnum opus, "Endtroducing", is such an album. In fact, New Music Express, the much vaunted UK music mag, is quoted as calling him "the Jimmy Page of sampling" in their glowing review of that album.
However, you are dead on about Tommy Lee's forray into whatever genre you call what he's doing. It's half as*ed, at best, even though we don't have much to go on here. Still, he is talented. After all, it was he who wrote the signature piano intro for "Home Sweet Home", perhaps THE greatest powerballad of all time!
And, in light of the Newtown Tragedy, mark my words, you will see the ban on ALL Assault Rifles and Extended Magazine Clips go into effect when the bill is signed into law.
It will either happen fairly quickly or as soon as the crooked Republican Representatives who have been paid off by Wayne La Pierre of The NRA are systematically cycled out of the House, something that was already set into motion before this latest tragedy even occurred.
It's going to stick this time.
I still try and make time to get up to that spot whenever I am in New York even when I'm on business. One time I saw Mick Jones of Foreigner sitting alone just staring at it. He's lived in the Dakota for years which is just across the street.
As much as I wanted to talk to him, I left him in peace, as that is what is so beautiful about hanging out there -- a spiritual sense of serene solitude and peacefulness.
I heard way too much of this during his solo at the KISS/Crue show this summer. I have no idea who would listen to this kind of music, besides him.
p.s. I am so sorry for all the families who are devasted by a sick person's thoughtless and unexplainable final actions. May their little angels rest in peace.
Yet, for that tour, even during the Drumcoaster ride, he kept it all Rock'n'Roll.
Flashback 3 or so years before that and there he was doing the whole dissonant Techno/Disco/Funk/Hippity-Hop/Electronica thing from 30 ft. spinning around in what could only be called a giant "Revolving Drummer Cage".
As I recall, this was the "Carnival of Sins" Tour, which seems appropriate, considering the multitude of sins Lee committed on the drums with his Techno-Funk Quasi-Drumming/Sampling Trip (see, i can't even find a way to describe it) on that tour.
Sorry to hear he was back at it on "The Tour" (as it was called) this past Summer.
This is so not rock. I don't think he should subject the fans to that kind of thing,as I'm guessing (as you also said) that he is alone in his appreciation of it.