The Facebook page for influential psychedelic punkers Meat Puppets lists the band's hometown as both Austin and Phoenix, which is emblematic of the fact that lead singer Curt Kirkwood resides in the Texas state capital while his brother Cris, the band's bassist, still hangs here in Arizona. To paraphrase the late Kurt Cobain, teenage angst has paid off well. According to the website for the Modern Phoenix Home Tour, the vocalist/guitarist and his wife, Amy, live in a stunning, single-story rambler-style ranch house from the 1950s that's filled with Midcentury Modern panache and loads of vintage style and fixtures. The man behind the microphone for local emo legends Jimmy Eat World not only has a residence in Phoenix, but a snazzy one at that. Instead, he grabs his guitar and heads out to bars for solo gigs in front of his legion of local fans. And for lead vocalist and guitarist Jason DeVore, that doesn't mean plenty of vegging out in front of Netflix. When Mesa's Authority Zero are racking up the miles during another nationwide tour, they're usually back here in their stomping grounds of Arizona. Glory years of the late '70s, which included opening for Eric Clapton, Heart, and Boz Scaggs, as well as seeing their aforementioned signature hit dethrone the Bee Gees from the top of the Billboard charts in January 1978.
The former drummer/percussionist for Player made local headlines back in 2014 when burglars broke into his north Phoenix home and made off with four gold records that he had earned for the band's 1977 single, "Baby Come Back." John Friesen spent six years on the kit for the soft-rock act during their We've searched high and low for the many rockers who have Phoenix, Tucson, or other Arizona cities as their return address and compiled a list of those we could confirm that actually live here. Arizona boasts many recognizable rock stars as residents, whether they're of the homegrown variety or, just like a majority of our population, wound up moving here for one reason or another.
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