Tommy Anderson has been running a music memorabilia shop out of the bottom floor of one of the buildings perched on the side of Jerome for a little over a year.
While his name is Tommy Anderson, it would seem that a lot of people just know him as Tommy Rocks.
“I’ve been a musician forever,” said Anderson who lives in Cottonwood but likes working in Jerome.
“It’s a nice drive,” Anderson said.
Anderson, with his long hair and casual style, seems perfectly at home in his music shop, filled with instruments, vinyl records and even old newspapers in plastic announcing important events in the life of John Lennon and Yoko Ono. There are even a few boxed action figures of Captain Kirk and Mister Spock on a shelf for some reason.
Anderson is a former high school English teacher and an Army veteran.
Originally from Minnesota, Anderson said the government sent him to Fort Richardson near Anchorage, Alaska.
“Minnesota is actually colder,” Anderson said.
He might have ended up going to Iran since he was serving during the hostage crisis, but that was resolved before it came to that.
To read the full story, see the Wednesday, Aug. 5, edition of The Camp Verde Journal.
