From Yahoo news:
Tommy Lee a "Lousy Deejay"?
By Joal Ryan
Apparently what happens in Vegas doesn't always stay in Vegas.
Oft-arrested rocker Tommy Lee (news) has been called out by a posh Sin City nightclub, accused of ruining a Father's Day bash there with seriously weak deejay tunes.
Lee denies the diss.
Sean Christie of the Bellagio hot spot Light blabbed to Tuesday's Las Vegas Sun that the infamous bad boy was escorted from the club's premises Sunday night, in part, because he "was playing lousy music," including his own.
Apparently, the onetime Mötley Crüe drummer is now available for holidays, if not weddings. Just don't expect to catch him again at Light anytime soon.
"We bent over backwards to accommodate Tommy, but he was just being crazy," Christie told the Sun.
Per the club official, Lee, hired to deejay a party there, was bringing down the room with his collection of "totally unrecognizable" music.
"The bottom line is, the crowd didn't dig it," Christie said in the paper.
Christie said Lee was asked to wrap up his set early and offered the chance to "make a graceful exit."
Instead, Lee kept right on making like Sir Mix-a-Lemon, per Christie, forcing management to pull the plug.
The club official said Lee responded by firing off cuss words at partygoers and shoving one of his own reps. Security was subsequently called in, Christie said.
Lee is singing a different tune.
Manager Carl Stubner, in a statement released to the Associated Press, said Lee and his team walked out of Light on their own when it became "clear that the 'club' management wanted him to play Top 40 hip-hop tunes for their lounge."
Prior to Lee taking a stand for artistic freedom, "people were dancing and enjoying the appearance," Stubner said.
Lee's camp also denied a charge by Light that the rocker ran out on a tab for $800 bottles of Cristal champagne.
Despite their differences, Christie said the club would welcome back Lee "if he cleans up his act."
Stubner, meanwhile, vowed Lee will work the turntable again.
"Tommy will continue to successfully deejay for dance clubs, which is what he did, and did well [at Light]," Stubner said.
Last year, Lee, 41, finally got in the good graces of authorities in Los Angeles after a string of arrests, incarcerations and probation violations stemming from a 1998 spousal-abuse case involving then-wife Pamela Anderson (news).
By comparison, being accused of being a bad deejay seems like progress.
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