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Slash Preferred Reading and Knitting Sweaters

By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON
Published: August 17, 2005

Slash Preferred Reading

And Knitting Sweaters

We are speaking of TOMMY LEE.

Mr. Lee, the drummer for Motley Crue, is in town to promote his show, "Tommy Lee Goes to College," among other things.

On Monday night, for example, he appeared at the club Home to unveil a poster in which he is shown naked, except for his tattoos, from the pelvic bone up.

The poster is a public service message for PETA, which has long been associated with the hard rock/metal community.

OZZY OSBOURNE, for example, obligingly bit off the heads of the cruel, hardhearted bats that were terrorizing defenseless insects. (Also, these bats were practically covered in fur! And because they can fly, throwing red paint on them is very difficult.)

But it was last Friday night, actually, that we had time to chat with Mr. Lee at length. He had just finished signing copies of his latest CD at a Best Buy downtown, and we watched as he slid down the escalator handrail to the lounge in the basement. Since it was Friday, Mr. Lee was dressed casually: black T-shirt, jeans cut off at the knees and sneakers.

We noticed NICK CARTER, a Backstreet Boy, is on Mr. Lee's new album. For a performer on a Tommy Lee album, Mr. Carter seems a little - what's the word - CLAY AIKEN.

"He's really nothing like anybody thinks he is," Mr. Lee said in a way that suggested he has to address this issue frequently. "As a matter of fact, that guy partied more in the recording studio than guys like SLASH. I'm serious. Right now. I'm telling you the truth."

We began talking about the show, in which Mr. Lee attends classes and lives the collegiate life at the University of Nebraska.

Were there were any scenes that didn't make the cut?

"There was this one scenario I really wanted to film because I've never been into a woman's sorority house," Mr. Lee said.

"We get up there and I look around, and I look in the room and I go, 'What the hell is that?' I look in and there's like 100 bunks. Had to be 100, just went on and on and on. This room right here is full of 100 girls! Every night, right?

"So what I wanted to do, I wanted to dress up in drag, so I can be a female. So I can just get in and deliver a pizza or something and we ran out of time and we didn't get to do it. I probably would have done a really good job dressing up in drag. They probably wouldn't of known for a while. I probably would have had to shave down my Adam's apple or something."

What about next season?

"I don't think it's going to be college," he said. "Maybe 'Tommy Goes to Gynecology School.' "

Mr. Lee said that chemistry was his least favorite subject, and told us what one could do with chemistry in very specific terms.

Band he enjoyed, of course, but he particularly liked horticulture. We made a joke about drugs that he didn't find very funny.

It was time to move on to other projects.

Mr. Lee starred in a movie a few years ago with PAMELA ANDERSON, where they played themselves having sex. COLIN FARRELL, currently starring in a similar movie, is suing to keep it from getting out. PARIS HILTON practically built her, um, career on such a movie.

Does Mr. Lee have any advice for aspiring amateur sex tape auteurs?

"Call me kooky, but everyone I know likes to film themselves," Mr. Lee said. "My advice to anyone would be erase the freaking thing right when you're done. It's kind of a little fad now. Now everybody wants to do their own sex tape. I started something. I'm a true pioneer."

He pumped his hands in the air.

"A true pioneer!"

With Joe Brescia

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