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Location: Michigan | Since we all know that Detroit is the best City for Rock & Roll which one is second???? GWB |
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Location: south east Michigan | Mt. Clemens
(sorry... inside joke for GWB)
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Ask the bands that play Detroit.
Our past has a reputation of hard working blue collars who like to let loose. Our future?? Who knows.
City #2.... Cleveland? |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Toss-up: San Francisco or Boston...
Or at least that's how it was... |
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Location: Michigan | Hey Brad we just got back from a nice drive from Harrison Twp to Marine City. Most likely went right by you.
It is a beautiful day for a drive
(Down By The River ). Pun intended.GWB |
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Location: south east Michigan | If ya passed by the Colony Tower, ya passed by me. |
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Location: Michigan | Yes we did Brad
I will relate to the Colony Tower as Brads Pad.GWB |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | I've found each place has it's own distinctive flavor:Brooklyn, NY, most challenging; West coast of florida, from sarsota to tampa, the most relaxed; singapore, the dopiest, all imported from the Philippines, but the go-go dancers were entertaining. |
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Location: Omaha, NE | Seems like it shifts...Minneapolis had its run, so did Seattle. Los Angeles will always have its stuff. In the last few years, Omaha (thanks to Connor Oberst and the whole Saddle Creek records indie thing) has made something of a mark.
I think the message is that good stuff comes up everywhere. These days, all the cities look the same anyway. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Originally posted by guitarwannabee:
Since we all know that Detroit is the best City for Rock & Roll which one is second???? This is a joke, right?
Oh, I don't know ... Liverpool ??? |
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Location: south east Michigan | Liverpool is a one hit wonder.
But I will conceed that their one hit is a big one. |
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Location: Cherry Hill, NJ | What about Gerry and the Pacemakers, another Liverpool band. |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | CLEVELAND ROCKS!!!
After all, it is home to the R&R Hall of Fame. |
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Location: Oregon | Cleveland definatly. I dislike Detroit with a passion. Stupid KISS moneymongers. |
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Location: Orlando, FL | Whatever it is, it definitely ain't in Florida. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | I've heard that the great norwest, focusing on seatle is a rock and roll cruicable. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | From what I'm hearing these days, it's Halifax! |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | AUSTIN |
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Location: Cherry Hill, NJ | Cleavland has the R&R hall of fame, because of Alan Freed, and charity. I don't think I've ever heard of such a thing in music, as "the cleavland sound". Not many cities have the amount of venues for playing live music as Austin Tx. They also host the SXSW gathering each year. Austin gets my vote. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | SXSW has become a national/worldwide event.
Tommy, you are a wise man ;) |
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Location: NJ | too many Texans . . . . |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Hey....Tommy M is from NJ. You have only yourselves to blame. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Los Angeles and San Francisco. |
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Location: NJ | Dubai. |
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Location: Cherry Hill, NJ | Dubai? Oil, not rock & roll. I think I could be objective on this, as Austin actually has more live music venues than cities 3 times its size. Los Angeles is a big recording center, and competes. San Francisco? I think we're talking about the present tense here. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | I realize the questions was restricted to ROCK N ROLL. But if you open it up to ALL MUSIC, then there is no competition to NEW YORK CITY. Dave |
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Location: Michigan | Those are some great SECOND PLACE CHOICES .
# 1 DETROIT ROCKS. GWB |
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Location: south east Michigan | Originally posted by Tupperware:
... then there is no competition to NEW YORK CITY. Dave Oh... of course.. "Cats", "Phantom", "Guys & Dolls", "Joseph & the Technicolor Dreamcoat"...
How could I have missed that.
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Perhaps you're thinking of New York as the birthplace of punk? New York Dolls, Blondie, Sex Pistols? |
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Location: Canton (Detroit), MI | Yep, Dee-troit is numero uno.....My vote for second place goes to Memphis.
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Location: south east Michigan | dit. dit. da. dit dit...
Breaking news.
Bob Seger has booked two nights at Cobo Hall in Detroit. That is where "Live Bullet" was recorded many years ago.
Well... it seems a though Seger is going to re-create that concert and record the shows for a possible release.
"Detroit...the home of Rock & Roll!! yeah"
Like em or not... Kiss recorded their live album at Cobo.
As well as J. Geils.
It was because of that Detroit crowd. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Originally posted by Slipkid:
Like em or not... Kiss recorded their live album at Cobo.
As well as J. Geils.
It was because of that Detroit crowd. Rumour has it that both the guitar work and the crowd noise was overdubbed to make it more listenable. ;) |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Originally posted by Slipkid:
Originally posted by Tupperware:
... then there is no competition to NEW YORK CITY. Dave Oh... of course.. "Cats", "Phantom", "Guys & Dolls", "Joseph & the Technicolor Dreamcoat"...
How could I have missed that.
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Location: Tennessee | Originally posted by Slipkid:
dit. dit. da. dit dit...
Breaking news.
Bob Seger has booked two nights at Cobo Hall in Detroit. That is where "Live Bullet" was recorded many years ago.
Well... it seems a though Seger is going to re-create that concert and record the shows for a possible release.
"Detroit...the home of Rock & Roll!! yeah"
I truly, truly hope not. Live Bullet can not be re-created. The only Bullet from that time that is still with it is Alto Reed. It would be like Paul and Ringo getting together to remake Sgt. Pepper's.
I saw Seger and "the Silver Bullet Band" a couple of weeks back as a favor to lady stonebobbo. Decent show, but steeped in all the old stuff. Not my bag. Just an arena full of old, fat people wanting to hear "Old Time Rock and Roll", a song whose message I never connected with. When he launched into it, the place went nuts and everyone stood up dancing (in the way only old, fat white people can). I about threw up.
The week before that, lady stonebobbo humored me and joined me for a Smithereens show in SF. 500 people smashed into a small club. Everybody sweating and gyrating mere inches apart. No light shows, no stage decorations ... just two electric guitars, a bass and drums kicking it for close to three hours. That's what rock and roll is all about.
I've always been partial to the bands that come out of Jersey and Boston. They seem to relate to the people the best. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Bobbo... ever consider writing reviews for a music rag?
I whole-heartedly agree about "Jersey Bands" there are so many great ones. |
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Location: Midland, MI | Originally posted by stonebobbo:
...Just an arena full of old, fat people wanting to hear "Old Time Rock and Roll", a song whose message I never connected with. When he launched into it, the place went nuts and everyone stood up dancing (in the way only old, fat white people can). I about threw up. I have never understood the appeal of that song, either. Just not my flavor of ice cream, I guess.
The week before that, lady stonebobbo humored me and joined me for a Smithereens show in SF. 500 people smashed into a small club. Everybody sweating and gyrating mere inches apart. No light shows, no stage decorations ... just two electric guitars, a bass and drums kicking it for close to three hours. That's what rock and roll is all about. Those are the shows I prefer. I've done the arena rock shows (Tull, Floyd, Clapton, etc.) and the outdoor potfests (Grateful Dead, Weir/Wasserman, Buffet, etc.). The shows were enjoyable (for certain values thereof), but I wouldn't call them 'moving.' Virtually unknown bands in small, smokey dives with crappy acoustics (the venue, not the instruments) but lots of energy (from the crowd as well as the band)...now that is entertainment. And the chix are usually a lot more, uh, friendly. :p
JMO. YMMV. HAND. |
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Location: St Louis | Grew up in southern Michigan. Saw many shows at Cobo. Seger, Nugent, Ryder...
Detroit was at one time a great R&R city. Then came SF, NY, Boston, Seattle...
Don't forget Austin, Memphis, Macon, Muscle Shoals... |
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Location: south east Michigan | Detroit was at one time a great R&R city. How true.
Many citys have had their time at the top.
For a time Detroit was on top...for a time. |
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| London is the #1 rock city in the universe. |
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Location: south east Michigan | #1 rock city in the universe.
I've asked you over a million times... don't exagerate.
If you run into Pete or Roger down at the pub, tell 'em I said hey. |
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Location: Omaha, NE | Has anyone mentioned Nashville?
These days, Branson is huge, too. |
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Location: big island | then there's bakersfield, california. (nashville west)at least they made a run at it for awhile. |
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Location: St Louis | Originally posted by Omaha:
Has anyone mentioned Nashville?
These days, Branson is huge, too. Maybe for country...but not R&R, IMHO |
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Location: St Louis | Then again...I really don't like to pigeonhole music.
How about "Which is the 2nd Best City for R&R/Blues/Delta Blues/Jump Blues/Jazz/Alt Jazz/Alt Country/Grundge/Garage/Punk?" |
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Location: Canton (Detroit), MI | Detroit's time has come again for a moment.....Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band is playing at Cobo tonight and Saturday night....he is recording, also...."Live Bullet II", anyone???? :D
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Originally posted by Omaha:
Branson is huge, too. Yeah. all the hot new sounds are there! :rolleyes: |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | So where was Bill Haley from (1)
Where was E A Presley from (2)
Vic :cool: |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | I've heard that the Seattle area is happening, any opinions from you Seattlians? Seattlers? Seattlings? Seattlards? Seattlites?
What the heck do you call people from seattle? |
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Location: Michigan | RAIN-OUTS ??? GWB |
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| For sure it's Milwaukee! Oh no... no it isn't. :( |
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Which is the 2nd Best City for Rock & Roll ?