That must be the "aging metal rock star" part of the Valley -- sounds like he (and, by extension, you, though you're not old ;))lived (lives) a few houses down from Alice Cooper. Yeah, if he's trying to escape the craziness, that's a good place to do it.

Where does Dave Mustaine live?

I think Rikki Rocket lives in Arizona too.

Ok, I think that qualifies as a threadcrap! ;)

Ah, but you see, I'm already out of my depth in a metal thread. I know that Mustaine is in Megadeth, and that he lives in the Valley, but that's the extent of my knowledge.

Cooper's easier, if only because he helped produce fundraising talent shows at his kids' schools. No, the shows did not involve ingestion of any live animals. ;)

I've only met Alice Cooper in the airport. Another neighbor in that area was "Mr. Macintosh - the guy who invented stereo" as my dad would refer to him. He's dead now, but I got to go up to his house and hear his amazing stereo and we got him to sign my dad's Macintosh stereo owners manual.