Getting set up for our baby’s 3rd birthday party… (Taken with instagram)

actualdonuts:

#RIP // TOM ARDOLINO (1955-2012)

(Tom Ardolino pictured above at the old Mystery Train Records in Amherst, MA)

At some point yesterday, musician and Springfield, MA resident Tom Ardolino passed away. Ardolino was best known as drummer for and Western Massachusetts’ connection to the…

boston:

Tom Ardolino, 56; drummer kept mighty beat for NRBQ

- Tom Ardolino, who recorded and toured with NRBQ relentlessly for 30 years, becoming a favorite of many A-list artists, died Friday in Springfield.

(ASSOCIATED FRED J. FIELD/AP/FILE)

The moral position of the protagonist in King Crimson’s “Easy Money” is indefensible but the musicianship is impeccable.

Tommy Ardolino has died. The greatest rock and roll drummer that there will ever be in this world. Goodbye.

On my way to SlyFi Chapel in Trenton, ON to record with Percy Adler… Excited!

the view westward from the 47th floor (Taken with instagram)

the calm before the calm, a Friday night cocktail gig on the 47th floor. (Taken with instagram)

Slay Bells’ setup, including a knock-off Eames chair in orange. (Taken with Instagram at Eastminster United Church)

Concert with string duo at my daughter’s school. (Taken with instagram)