Tony Noyes
Wicked Season Opens the Door
Tony's real entry into the Arizona scene came around 1990, when the network of local clubs, rehearsal rooms, musicians and bands was already deep enough that one project could quickly connect a player to several others. Wicked Season became an important early chapter, giving Tony a place inside that network and leaving behind original material that still helps define the period.
Songs such as Ravaged Waste, Wicked Season, Redeemers of Fate and Marquis De Sade are part of the surviving trail. The archive is preserving those titles because original songs often tell us more about a local band than a simple list of venues ever could. They show that these musicians were trying to create their own identity, not merely reproduce what was already on the radio.
The Story Gets Heavier
By roughly 1992–1993, Tony was part of Outrage, another original project tied directly into the Arizona underground. The band recorded an eight-song session at Living Head Studio with Dave Nichols, preserving a set of songs that included Self Persecution, Deadly Blessing, Immortal, Side By Side, Lesson In Democracy, True Love Always and Funeral In My Soul.
The importance of that material is not simply that a recording exists. It is that the songs connect one phase of Tony's history to the next. Names such as Mark Oloughlin, John Griffor, Clarence “Bug” Long and drummer Chuck Moore are part of the larger network surrounding this period, and that network continues to expand as the archive follows the musicians into later projects.
A Longer Chapter in the 1990s
Deadwood became one of the longer chapters in Tony's 1990s history, running roughly from 1993 to 1997. The project produced recordings that included the three-song Against The Grain demo and later Out On A Limb, while songs and titles such as Sutter's Gold became part of the surviving record of the band.
This is where the family-tree nature of Arizona music becomes especially clear. The bands changed, the sounds evolved and the lineups shifted, but the same scene kept pulling people back into one another's orbit. Tony's history makes more sense when viewed as one continuous path rather than a series of unrelated band names.
Sin Wicked, KraiseD and Beyond
The end of the 1990s did not end Tony's Arizona story. Sin Wicked followed around 1999, and KraiseD carried the timeline into the 2000s. In 2005, KraiseD won Alice Cooper's Proof Is in the Pudding competition, placing another marker on a musical path that had already been developing for well over a decade.
Later, Noyes Factory brought a family connection into that history through Tony's son, Zach “ZaX.” Tony also worked in tribute projects including Psyko Circus, Motley Two, Civil War and Reckless…, but those later chapters are best understood as part of the larger picture rather than replacements for the original bands that built his Arizona identity.
- Wicked Season — early Arizona chapter around 1990
- Outrage — approximately 1992–1993
- Deadwood — approximately 1993–1997
- Sin Wicked — around 1999
- KraiseD — approximately 2000–2010
- Noyes Factory — later project with Zach “ZaX”
The Scene Was Built by Crossed Paths
Tony's quote gets to the heart of what this archive is trying to preserve. Local music history is not only about which band became the biggest or which musician came closest to a national break. It is also about the people who kept showing up, writing songs, recording demos, changing bands, sharing stages and becoming part of one another's lives.
That is why Tony Noyes belongs in the Arizona story. Wicked Season, Outrage, Deadwood, Sin Wicked, KraiseD and the projects that followed are not isolated entries. Together they show the movement of one musician through a scene that was constantly changing while still remaining connected.
This Is Only Part of the Story
The complete Tony Noyes feature goes deeper into the Wicked Season material, the Outrage recordings, Deadwood, the people connected to those bands, Sin Wicked, KraiseD, Noyes Factory, the later tribute projects and the firsthand stories that tie all of those chapters together. That full history is being preserved for The Death of Local Music — Volume II: Arizona Legacy Bands.