Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee recently opened up about the band’s continued absence from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He shared his thoughts in an interview on the Zach Sang Show.
During the interview, he was asked directly about the ongoing snub. “I know you talked about this a couple years ago, but nothing’s changed. Mötley Crüe still is not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame” — Lee opened up about how his perspective on the matter has evolved over time.
“I know. Isn’t that the weird?” Lee said. “At one point Nikki and I were like, you know what? We don’t even care because it’s just it’s absurd. I’m not going to say any names, but there are some people in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame that where you’re like, ‘Huh?’ And we’re not.”
Lee then expressed his disbelief and suggested that Mötley Crüe’s exclusion makes no sense given the band’s cultural impact on rock music.
“There’s like a handful of artists that hands down should be in there and they’re not,” he continued. “Are they mad at us? Did we, you know, did we jump on somebody’s daughter when we were through town? I mean, like it’s impossible. Now it’s gotten to the point of just now it’s just comical. Because it’s like synonymous, Mötley Crüe and rock and roll. I don’t know what they’re doing over there, bro.”
Lee’s comments reflect a growing frustration — and now amusement — over the Hall’s repeated oversight of one of rock’s most iconic bands.
The numbers and the history make the snub difficult to ignore. Mötley Crüe has sold over 100 million albums since forming in Los Angeles in 1981. That commercial footprint rivals virtually any act in hard rock history.
