Providence, Rhode Island-based drummer Tommy DeQuattro played with Joe Bottieri's Man Cave Band, Leroy(Hog) Cooper, Tombstone, Young Adults, Pleasure Kings, Duke Robillard, and Jimmie Vaughan among others.



Early Journal rock critic Tony Lioce in 1983 called Tommy DeQuattro "one of those rare drummers who can be creative, even witty, without distracting."



Tommy DeQuattro died Thursday morning, November 1, 2012 of complications of kidney cancer. He was 65.