Rock stars are no strangers to living life on the edge. For them, late nights, guitar smashing, crowd surfing and copious amounts of drugs are just another day in the life.
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Tommy Lee, co-founder and drummer of the iconic 1980s rock band Mötley Crüe, revealed a bizarre party trick that borders on insanity. Even for rock star standards.
Speaking on the Zach Sang Show podcast, Lee recalled a wild story when he and bassist Nikki Sixx injected Jack Daniel's directly into their veins.
"Yeah. Just for a very short time. That's right before I got sober. Yeah, that's when it's too much. We were shooting drugs. Heroin and cocaine. Just doing it. And we ran out. This is my bass player at the time, Nikki. We ran out of drugs, and it's, I don't know, probably 2 or 3 in the morning.
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"And we're like 'F***.' And we're in a hotel room. In Houston, Texas, or something. And there's no way we're gonna get anything. So we just unscrewed the cap on this fifth of Jack, and then filled up the cap with Jack, and then started pulling it up through a syringe, and we're shooting Jack."
Since Lee and his band were living such a fast-paced, thrill-seeking lifestyle, he initially didn't realize just how unruly the idea was.
"It didn't really dawn on me what we were doing. The stupidity of it was like, we could've just drank this. But no, we had to shoot it. Why? It's like, you guys are f****** out of your minds. This is ridiculous. Just to get high. When you could just drink it out of the bottle, or pour it in the glass and do a shot."
Lee also revealed that he drank two gallons of vodka a day at one point before seeking sobriety. The legendary drummer enrolled in rehab in 2019 and has been sober since 2022.
