Robert Joyce of Mesa, Arizona, died on Thursday, October 14, in Phoenix, with his daughters by his side. He was 70 years old. The cause was metastatic colon cancer.
For more than 25 years Bob ran a successful small business called Backline Bob, providing musical equipment to touring artists including B.B. King, the great R&B and gospel singer Mavis Staples, and country stars Shania Twain and Pam Tillis, who said Bob's Martin acoustic was better than her own guitar.
Bob was also a talented guitar player, singer, and songwriter in his own right. In 1978, his band Faux Pas was included on the second edition of Arizona Sounds, presented by KDKB, Phoenix's progressive rock radio station. In recent years, recordings by the band Bob fronted as a teenager were purchased for possible use in film and TV projects.
Bob was born in Mesa and grew up in Tempe. He was a lifelong Arizona resident and always enjoyed a good road trip. Bob is survived by his daughters, Jaime Joyce, of Brooklyn, New York, and Jasper Joyce, of Phoenix, Arizona; his brother and sister-in-law, Craig and Molly Joyce:, of Houston; and his nephews Will Joyce, of Boston, and Matt Joyce, of Houston.
A graveside service will be held at 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 27, at St. Francis Catholic Cemetery, in Phoenix, where he will be laid to rest alongside his parents, William and Mary Ann Joyce.
For more than 25 years Bob ran a successful small business called Backline Bob, providing musical equipment to touring artists including B.B. King, the great R&B and gospel singer Mavis Staples, and country stars Shania Twain and Pam Tillis, who said Bob's Martin acoustic was better than her own guitar.
Bob was also a talented guitar player, singer, and songwriter in his own right. In 1978, his band Faux Pas was included on the second edition of Arizona Sounds, presented by KDKB, Phoenix's progressive rock radio station. In recent years, recordings by the band Bob fronted as a teenager were purchased for possible use in film and TV projects.
Bob was born in Mesa and grew up in Tempe. He was a lifelong Arizona resident and always enjoyed a good road trip. Bob is survived by his daughters, Jaime Joyce, of Brooklyn, New York, and Jasper Joyce, of Phoenix, Arizona; his brother and sister-in-law, Craig and Molly Joyce:, of Houston; and his nephews Will Joyce, of Boston, and Matt Joyce, of Houston.
A graveside service will be held at 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 27, at St. Francis Catholic Cemetery, in Phoenix, where he will be laid to rest alongside his parents, William and Mary Ann Joyce.
Robert Joyce of Mesa, Arizona, died on Thursday, October 14, in Phoenix, with his daughters by his side. He was 70 years old. The cause was metastatic colon cancer.
For more than 25 years Bob ran a successful small business called Backline Bob, providing musical equipment to touring artists including B.B. King, the great R&B and gospel singer Mavis Staples, and country stars Shania Twain and Pam Tillis, who said Bob's Martin acoustic was better than her own guitar.
Bob was also a talented guitar player, singer, and songwriter in his own right. In 1978, his band Faux Pas was included on the second edition of Arizona Sounds, presented by KDKB, Phoenix's progressive rock radio station. In recent years, recordings by the band Bob fronted as a teenager were purchased for possible use in film and TV projects.
Bob was born in Mesa and grew up in Tempe. He was a lifelong Arizona resident and always enjoyed a good road trip. Bob is survived by his daughters, Jaime Joyce, of Brooklyn, New York, and Jasper Joyce, of Phoenix, Arizona; his brother and sister-in-law, Craig and Molly Joyce:, of Houston; and his nephews Will Joyce, of Boston, and Matt Joyce, of Houston.
A graveside service will be held at 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 27, at St. Francis Catholic Cemetery, in Phoenix, where he will be laid to rest alongside his parents, William and Mary Ann Joyce.
For more than 25 years Bob ran a successful small business called Backline Bob, providing musical equipment to touring artists including B.B. King, the great R&B and gospel singer Mavis Staples, and country stars Shania Twain and Pam Tillis, who said Bob's Martin acoustic was better than her own guitar.
Bob was also a talented guitar player, singer, and songwriter in his own right. In 1978, his band Faux Pas was included on the second edition of Arizona Sounds, presented by KDKB, Phoenix's progressive rock radio station. In recent years, recordings by the band Bob fronted as a teenager were purchased for possible use in film and TV projects.
Bob was born in Mesa and grew up in Tempe. He was a lifelong Arizona resident and always enjoyed a good road trip. Bob is survived by his daughters, Jaime Joyce, of Brooklyn, New York, and Jasper Joyce, of Phoenix, Arizona; his brother and sister-in-law, Craig and Molly Joyce:, of Houston; and his nephews Will Joyce, of Boston, and Matt Joyce, of Houston.
A graveside service will be held at 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 27, at St. Francis Catholic Cemetery, in Phoenix, where he will be laid to rest alongside his parents, William and Mary Ann Joyce.
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