Charlie Quintana, drummer for the Plugz and Social Distortion, dies at 56
Charlie "Chalo" Quintana, a fixture on the Southern California punk and roots music scene for decades, has died after fighting emphysema and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease for years, his sister Elizabeth Montoya confirmed to The Los Angeles Times. He was 56.
Quintana, who died last Monday at his home in Cancun, Mexico, is probably best known as the drummer for a decade with long-running Orange County punk band Social Distortion, but he first came to fame as the teenage drummer for the Plugz, the groundbreaking L.A. punk group that was among the first to be started by local Latino musicians.
He moved to Cancun about seven years ago to be near his other sister,
