Providence, Rhode Island-based drummer Tommy DeQuattro has passed away. He died Thursday morning, November 1, 2012 of kidney cancer. Tommy was 65.
Tommy DeQuattro drummed with Joe Bottieri's Man Cave Band, Leroy(Hog) Cooper, Tombstone, Bo Diddley, The 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."