The Palm Beach Post

09-10-2004

Drummer beats the storm

Thank heaven, Lendl is retired - we don't need any Ivans in the area. Tico Torres wasted no time. Unhappy with the beat that Frances was tapping out, the drummer for Bon Jovi decided Florida was not the best place to be and packed his wife, Alejandra, toddler son Tico, mother-in-law, manager, three cats and a dog into a chartered jet and flew - where else - to the Jersey shore.

"He's my Noah," his manager said. "He called and told me he was flying me out, and when I said I couldn't leave my two cats, he said to bring them along. When we got on the plane, the animals were running everywhere, and little Tico was playing drums - just like his daddy - on anything he could find."

He'll be back . . . when the golf courses are ready.