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Reply #1 - May 27th, 2008 at 12:26pm
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I live in Toronto, it seems to be a favorite of The Stones, so of course my vote goes there.
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Reply #2 - May 27th, 2008 at 12:37pm
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Wow, that is a good question. Man, I don't know if I could narrow it down to just one.... Roll Eyes Have to think about it!
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Reply #4 - May 27th, 2008 at 2:02pm
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I voted London as in all truthfullness, don't know the music from the orther mentioned City's QUITE so well.

New York or LA are big possibilities of course and if it had been included, Manchester.
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Reply #5 - May 27th, 2008 at 2:11pm
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Joey wrote on May 27th, 2008 at 1:44pm:
Hot'Lanta !!!!!!!!

that is some rock solid Joey!
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Reply #7 - May 27th, 2008 at 2:15pm
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voted for 3.
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and where it all began...  CLEVELAND
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Reply #8 - May 27th, 2008 at 2:20pm
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Easy answer.

Memphis.

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Yeah, Atlanta hip hop not rock- I saw your boy Luda the other day.
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Reply #10 - May 27th, 2008 at 3:27pm
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Reply #11 - May 27th, 2008 at 6:04pm
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A town so nice they hadda name it twice: New Yawk, New Yawk.
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Reply #12 - May 27th, 2008 at 6:49pm
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Ok, for the U.S., I agree with Gazza. Memphis. Lots of recording in L.A. too. {even the early Stones}. And, as a write in, maybe Muscle Shoals, Alabama....

In Britain, it would have to be London...
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Reply #13 - May 27th, 2008 at 8:12pm
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Detroit 'Rock' City.  Nevermind the shize Kiss song.   Isn't it rumored that the Rolling Stones two 1972 shows in Detroit were the best of the tour?  Thus making them amongst the best concerts in rock history!  Point being it seemed like every great band in the day put on a special show when they hit Detroit.  My 3 cents.
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Reply #14 - May 27th, 2008 at 8:22pm
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Detroit 'Rock' City.  Nevermind the shize Kiss song.   Isn't it rumored that the Rolling Stones two 1972 shows in Detroit were the best of the tour?  Thus making them amongst the best concerts in rock history!  Point being it seemed like every great band in the day put on a special show when they hit Detroit.  My 3 cents.



kinda agree, but i put "Cleveland Rocks". both cities are close geographically and attitude wise, the fans make it special.
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Reply #15 - May 27th, 2008 at 8:59pm
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Gazza wrote on May 27th, 2008 at 2:20pm:
Easy answer.

Memphis.

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If you're talking abour ROCK AND ROLL

But if you're talking about ROCK I agree in the top cities now London, New York and San Francisco
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Reply #16 - May 27th, 2008 at 10:21pm
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Pride and joy and greed and sex
That's what makes our town the best
Pride and joy and dirty dreams and still surviving on the street
And look at me, I'm in tatters, yeah
I've been battered, what does it matter
Does it matter, uh-huh
Does it matter, uh-huh, I'm a shattered

Don't you know the crime rate is going up, up, up, up, up
To live in this town you must be tough, tough, tough, tough, tough!
You got rats on the west side
Bed bugs uptown
What a mess this town's in tatters I've been shattered
My brain's been battered, splattered all over Manhattan

Uh-huh, this town's full of money grabbers
Go ahead, bite the Big Apple, don't mind the maggots, huh
Shadoobie, my brain's been battered
My friends they come around they
Flatter, flatter, flatter, flatter, flatter, flatter, flatter
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Go ahead, bite the Big Apple.  New York City is the tops in rock and roll.  Wink
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Reply #17 - May 27th, 2008 at 11:18pm
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I been told Austin is the live music capitaol of this world!
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Reply #18 - May 28th, 2008 at 4:25am
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Only those who've never been will answer besides Memphis.
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Reply #19 - May 28th, 2008 at 6:17am
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I been told Austin is the live music capitaol of this world!



And that could very well be the truth! Austin, for sure, gets an honorable mention... Smiley
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Reply #20 - May 28th, 2008 at 9:07am
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lotsajizz wrote on May 28th, 2008 at 4:25am:
Only those who've never been will answer besides Memphis.



I've been to Memphis.  And Sam Phillips was no slouch.

But the man who gave the Rolling Stones their name came from Mississippi and went up to Chicago to record:

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Reply #21 - May 28th, 2008 at 12:32pm
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Chicago, by way of the Delta, for the blues....for sure.
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London was rockin' when NYC was suckin' on Murray the K.  And I was *born* in Manhattan.
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London was rockin' when NYC was suckin' on Murray the K.  And I was *born* in Manhattan.


MOONDOG CORONATION BALL
MARCH 21, 1952
CLEVELAND, OHIO

Alan Freed wanted to reward his loyal listeners, his Moondoggers. He wanted a concert to celebrate the new teen music. A BIG event.

And he got just that. An event so big that many consider it the birthday for Rock and Roll.
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Neither Lew Platt (the actual promoter) nor Alan Freed nor Rendezvous Records, his radio show sponsor, had any idea how many people would come. It wasn't like they could call Ticketmaster back then.

Lacking money for sophisticated promotion, they used what they had - the ultimate salesman - Freed. And Freed set out to make the Coronation Ball regal enough to crown a king of Moondoggers - himself.

So at first they printed 7,000 tickets. $1.50 and $1.75. Then owner of the Rendezvous, Leo Mintz, left on holiday leaving his brother-in-law, Milton Kulkin in charge. Uncle Miltie, as Freed called him, printed another 2,000 tickets which sold in a day. And as it tuned out, he wasn't the only one printing tickets so nobody had a clue as to how many had even been made. But the Arena was a big municpal facility so they weren't worried. In fact they were thrilled that they might sell out the Arena!


While Freed and his wife ate steak dinners, Uncle Miltie was checking out the Arena. And what he saw astonished him. People were lined up around the block to get in.

Historical accuracy requires that it be noted that the faces lined up along Euclid Avenue were mostly Black. The revolution had not yet hit surburbia and Rock and Roll was not born that night as some suggest.

What was different was the sound. More vital and far less sorrowful than blues, this sound, this beat was alive. And it made people want to dance with the joy of being alive and young. This was a teen phenomena.

What was novel was the idea of people going to a big municpal hall to dance. The Globetrotters played there, not musicians you'd heard on the radio. Today the idea of a Rock concert being held in a huge facility is commonplace.

But this is where the dream and the reality collided. Even after the hall was full to capacity, those crowds were pushing and shoving. Doors crashed open, glass exploded. Paul "Hucklebuck" Williams was on stage when the first fight broke out. And still they poured into the Arena, just to be a part of it. Dancing, moving wildly, the crowd became more and more unruly.

Even the big glittery sign proudly announcing "Moondoggers" came tumbling down.

That's when the Fire Marshals came and shut it all down. Nobody else got to play, not the Dominoes, Tiny Grimes, or the Rockin' Highlanders. Not Danny Cobb or Varietta Dillard. This hugely famous concert and only one song was played.

Freed of course went on from there. Two years later he moved to New York to WINS and it is there that he introduced white teens to this new music, the new sound.

But to this day, they are still talking about Moondog's Coronation Ball. Whatever else it may have been - it was an original.


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"Even the big glittery sign proudly announcing "Moondoggers" came tumbling down."

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