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Tom Ardolino was born and raised in Springfield, Massachusetts. A fan of the band, he began corresponding and trading tapes with keyboardist and co-founder Terry Adams. This led to him meeting and befriending the band. At one live show, when original NRBQ drummer Tom Staley did not return for an encore, Adams invited Ardolino to fill in.
Tom Ardolino was a teenage amateur drummer when tapped by NRBQ. He spent the next few decades providing nimble, propulsive backbeats for the category-defying band. ... “Tommy deserves an entire ...
Jan 13, 2012 · Tom Ardolino, a self-taught drummer who for 30 years provided the impassioned but steady pulse for NRBQ, one of the longest-lasting and most beloved rock groups never to have a Top 40 single, died ...
Jan 6, 2014 · January 6, 2014 David Barsalou. NRBQ (New Rhythm and Blues Quartet) drummer Tom Ardolino passed away on January 6, 2012 of complications from diabetes at the age of 56. It has been two years, yet his unmistakably distinctive style will live on forever. Tommy helped define NRBQ’s sound with impeccable taste and timing for well over thirty years.
- David Barsalou
Jan 10, 2012 · One of my favourite drummers of all time passed away this past Friday. His name was Tommy Ardolino, 57, and he played with NRBQ, whom Elvis Costello has called “the greatest American band ...
Jan 17, 2012 · January 17, 2012 at 6:31 p.m. EST. Tom Ardolino, whose ebullient drumming gave a rhythmic pulse to the nearly uncategorizable band NRBQ for nearly three decades, died Jan. 6 at a hospital in ...
Jan 8, 2012 · Ardolino, a Springfield resident, would have turned 57 on Jan. 12. "He was a great drummer and a great guy," Al Anderson, who played with Ardolino in NRBQ from 1974-1993, told the Hartford Courant .
