Tommy Lee has done a lot of things. He's played drums with one of the best know hair bands, Motley Crue. He's had hollywood's hot babes including Pamela Anderson and Heather Locklear. He's had a reality tv show, an adult movie, a book, and much more (we'll forget about Rockstar Supernova?). In addition to all this stuff he's had many different drum equipment setups over the years. We'll profile one of his more recent drum kit setups.

Let's look at what drum gear and equipment has been seen in Tommy Lee's Drum Kit.

Tommy Lee slamming the drums

Click the gear images for more info and specs at Musician's Friend

First let's look at a diagram of Tommy's setup. This was from an awesome forum over at Drummer's World , administered by Tommy's Drum Tech. 

Tommy's nice drum setup

Tommy Lee plays DW drum kits. You can see above a listing of DW drum gear Tommy was using. The DW website shows a listing of drums Tommy plays and they are somewhat different than the pic above:

DW Drums:
- DW Collector's Series Maple Drums in Ruby Glass FinishPly with Chrome Hardware
- 5x14 Satin Oil Edge Snare Drum
- 11x14 Tom-Tom
- 13x16 Tom-Tom
- 14x18 Tom-Tom
- 16x26 Bass Drum
- 18x32 Bass Drum

For Drum Hardware Tommy Lee is using DW drum gear:
- 9002 Double Pedal

- 9500 Hi-Hat Stand

- 9300 Snare Drum Stand (x2)

- 9900 Double Tom Stand

- 9700 Cymbal Stand (x5)

- Floor Tom Legs
- 9100 Drum Throne

Tommy Lee uses all Zildjian Cymbals:

- 14" Z Custom Splash

- 15" A Rock HiHats

- 15" A New Beat HiHats

- 18" Z Custom Projection Crash

- 19" Z Custom Medium Crash

- 19" Z Custom Thrash Ride

- 20" A Custom Medium Crash

- 20" Z Custom Ride

- 9.5" Large Zil Bell
- 22" Oriental China Trash


There's a cool program on ZIldjian that let's you virtually play his cymbals

Fun fact: Tommy Lee goes through between 3-5 sets of drumsticks a show.

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David  - after tommy   |2009-04-12 18:56:09 A setup like that after tommy and his roadies are done with it? about $600.00 Reply 3   0

Taj Dahl  - Velvet Dog   |2009-04-09 16:41:11 Start w/ about 10 grand and you can get a decent bearing on this kit. Once you start getting into tommy's sampling and electronics you'll be pushing close to the 20,000$ mark. now, of course, thats from the store and new. hunt around. you can build insanely awesome kits for a lot less. i dig tommy though. and he's definitly been a large influence. this kit in particular i got to find out a lot about behind the scenes... Reply 2   2

Terry Hoare  - How Much?   |2009-01-09 22:51:43 How Much Does It Take To Set Up A Kit Like This? Reply 2   0

Daniel Watt  - Question for ya   |2008-06-14 21:25:25 Hi this is Daniel Watt from Alberta Canada and iam a pretty big fan of tommy lee and dw drums. I have an opportunity to buy this same kit from a guy in toronto canada. He says its the same set up as tommy's kit that he bought at some auction. The kit is from 1999 and is black. How much do u think this kit is really valued at. Reply 1   2

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