

2008: IMV Behind the Player (instructional DVD) - Tommy makes an appearance on John 5's guitar instructional DVD for IMV.2006: " Ozzfest: 10th Anniversary" - Rob Zombie.1999: Rock n' Roll Greats - In Concert - Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels.2021: Tommy's RockTrip: Beat Up By Rock 'N' Roll.Equipment Ĭlufetos endorses Drum Workshop drums, Meinl Percussion cymbals, Vic Firth Drumsticks & Remo Drumheads. Clufetos also relieved Lee on the tour's second stop at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida. Lee announced Clufetos as his replacement for the remainder of the show. After the band finished their fifth song, drummer Tommy Lee announced to the crowd that he was playing with broken ribs and was not able to finish the set. On JMötley Crüe began a summer tour at Truist Park in Atlanta, Georgia. Their debut track, "I've Been Everywhere", is from the soundtrack to the Liam Neeson film The Ice Road. In May 2021, it was announced that Clufetos joined with previous bandmates Rob Zombie and John 5 as well as Nikki Sixx to form a supergroup called L.A. He is thus featured on Sabbath's DVD The End. In late 2015, Clufetos began rehearsals with Sabbath for their farewell tour simply titled "The End", starting on January 20, 2016, in Omaha, Nebraska through to a final show on February 4, 2017, at Birmingham England's Genting arena. In 2015 Clufetos played with Ozzy Osbourne including Ozzfest Japan and others. Clufetos continued with Sabbath in 2014 with the first show at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York City, and the final show at Hyde Park, London.


Clufetos returned to Sabbath in April 2013 for their North American tour, starting in Houston on July 25, 2013. However, he did not perform on their album 13, as Brad Wilk ended up behind the kit during the sessions. In May 2012, Clufetos played with Black Sabbath, filling in for original drummer Bill Ward. If he'd come to me and said he wanted to leave, I'd have said that was fine and wished him all the best. "I have no problem with, nor with Tommy joining his band," said Zombie. In March 2010 Clufetos quit Rob Zombie to join Ozzy Osbourne. He went on to join Rob Zombie from 2005 to 2010, and played on Zombie's 2006 album Educated Horses, on Zombie's first live release, 2007's Zombie Live, and on 2010s Hellbilly Deluxe 2. He also performed on Alice Cooper's 2004 release Dirty Diamonds. After Ted Nugent, Tommy went on to join Alice Cooper's Band for his 2004 tour. Career Ĭlufetos started playing drums at age seven and went on to join Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels (1999) before joining forces with Ted Nugent (2001-2003). He began playing drums around the age of six. He attended Rochester Adams High School in Rochester. For the next 30 years the band would continue to record and tour with an ever-changing lineup, with original guitarist Tony Iommi the only consistent member, and occasional reunions with Dio and Osbourne, who’d gone on to a successful solo career. In 2013 the original line up (with Brad Wilk from Rage Against the Machine on drums) released a new album, “13.Clufetos was born in Detroit, Michigan. His replacement was former Rainbow vocalist Ronnie James Dio, who quit Sabbath in 1982 after three albums. The two albums proved hugely influential, with many bands soon emulating their dark, dense sound.īlack Sabbath toured incessantly and released six more albums before Osbourne's drug use led to his departure in 1978. Their intense live shows got the attention of record labels, and their first album, “Black Sabbath” (recorded in a single day), and second album, “Paranoid,” were both released in 1970. They changed their name to Black Sabbath and became one the earliest rock bands whose music was described as “Heavy Metal.” It also became more dissonant, making use of the tritone, or so-called “devil’s chord,” a discordant combination of notes producing an unsettling feeling in the listener. But the band quickly found their own sound: their lyrics took on darker themes, often focusing on occultism and drugs, and the music became thicker, louder and more riff-based. At first the quartet, called Earth at the time, played straightforward Blues Rock in the vein of popular bands like Cream. The pioneering Heavy Metal band Black Sabbath was formed in the industrial city of Birmingham, England, in 1968, by four teenage friends: bassist Geezer Butler, guitarist Tony Iommi, singer Ozzy Osbourne, and drummer Bill Ward.
