
Lee was born Thomas Lee Bass on October 3rd, 1962 in Athens, Greece, to father David Lee Thomas Bass, an American U.S. Army sergeant and mother Vassiliki "Voula" Papadimitriou (Greek: Basilike Papademetriou), who was a contestant in the 1957 Miss Greece beauty contest. Athena, his younger sister is also a drummer. Lee was only two years old when his father moved the family to California. He also got his first drumsticks at the age of four, and the first drum set at the age of 16. He left high school in order to pursue an interest in music, starting with the L.A. club band Suite 19. When he was a teenager was listening to Led Zeppelin, Van Halen, Cheap Trick, Kiss, AC/DC and Sweet. John Bonham and Tommy Aldridge were his main drumming influences.
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