Tommy Lee seems to have lost touch with music as a whole, if he has ever had the touch that is. "Everyone kind of sounds the same and looks the same. I mean, where are the Mick Jaggers, the David Bowies?", he says regarding the unoriginality among today's rock stars. Apparently he has been lost in the haze of drugs for too long because the metal scene has grown immensely since his glory days with Mötley Crüe, extending in every possible direction. Plenty of original and unique bands have risen in many countries. What strikes me as rather laughable is the fact that his solo outing itself sounds far from original. It is mostly about pretty basic chord driven songs where Tommy's gritty voice hardly makes them worth the effort of listening to. There are luckily two exceptions - the slightly heavier "Trying To Be Me" where Chad Kroeger also steps in to aid and "Makin' Me Crazy" where Dirty Harry's female vocals lift the bar above par for a few minutes.

While not sinking completely into the river of Lethe, I see only two alternatives for the future of Tommy Lee - either he can continue writing radio friendly pop music but then, for god's sake, enlist a skilled singer and try adding something else other than a few simple chords to the songs, or he can go back to making hard rock music again. I sincerely hope that he has grown up to a sane human being by now and wish him the best of luck for the future but this album should have remained unreleased because it does absolutely nothing to help him in his career, that is on a strictly artistic basis.

written by Vincent Eldefors

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