Joe Perry is another member of our list who's more famous because of the band he's in than he is under his own name, but in the case of Perry, it's one of the greatest rock bands of all time. Perry was born in Massachusetts in 1950, and started to play the guitar when he was only ten. He loved music more than he loved his studies at school, and dropped out during his senior year. It was a good move. He moved to Boston, met Steven Tyler, and formed Aerosmith.
Although he's been all over the world - and owns property everywhere - he still spends much of his time in the state he was born in. He needs all of that property to house his enormous guitar collection - at last count, he owned more than six hundred! He had to sell his favorite - a 1959 Gibson Les Paul - during a divorce in 1982. Years later, it was bought by fellow guitar legend Slash, who gifted it back to him for his 50th birthday.