Haha, well I live in Arizona. We have desert parties all the time here...Some big and some small but loads of desert jams in General. Only about a 4th of them are actualyl legal, but if you do it far out enough from civilization, then we usually dont have any troubles.
As for Tucson, well to be perfectly honest it's only the 2nd largest city in AZ, but they have much more culture down there then in the capital city of Phoenix. Granted more larger scale events (meaning between 400-2000 people) seem to happen up in the captial more. I guess it goes in waves, even here in the desert.
Since the fall of Swell Pro Audio, Phoenix just hasn't been the same...but some things are back on the rise.
Sorry amigo, my server is down at the moment...but you can grab it from the Hardsignal server also. Here is the link
http://www.hardsignal.net/sets/Hards...DIO_LIVEPA.mp3