Tommy Skeoch was one of the guitarists of hard rock

Hard rock

Hard rock is a loosely defined genre of rock music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage rock, blues rock and psychedelic rock...

/heavy metal

Heavy metal music

Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...

 band Tesla

Tesla (band)

Tesla is an American hard rock band formed in Sacramento, California in 1984. They have sold 14 million albums in the United States.-Formation and Mechanical Resonance :...

, which achieved popularity in the mid- to late-1980s. He left the band indefinitely in 2006

2006 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 2006.-January:*January 10 – Eric Burdon releases his album Soul of a Man and begins touring with a new band....

to spend time with his family. Although Tesla's press release stated he left to spend time with his family, Tommy admitted on "The Classic Metal Show," that he was kicked out for other reasons; particularly his problems with substance abuse.