One rockin' owner

Tucson, Arizona | Published: 07.17.2008 Tommy Dubielak has been in the music business since he began playing drums in kindergarten. "My first band was in the first grade," he said. "It was called the Miniature Monkees. In 1964, it was pretty cool. The Monkees, they were more popular than the Beatles," said the 49-year-old sound engineer from the Bronx, who goes by the name Tommy Rat. Rat also owns Rockin' Pizza, a tiny restaurant in a bustling shopping center at 4558 E. Broadway. The pizzeria, which serves giant slices of pizza and homemade sauce and pastas, celebrates its fifth birthday Wednesday. Autographed photos, broken guitars and three platinum records from The Offspring are just some of the music memorabilia adorning the walls and ceiling. "New Found Glory has been in the store, Good Charlotte, Dierks Bentley," Rat... [read full story]