While I respect Alan Freed and revere that Moondog race-mixin' era, that was over by the time the Beatles and Stones had an English following, and NYC was swooning for Fabian.  No knock on early 1960s Cleveland implied.  I admit that without the groundwork of Freed, Sam Phillips, and others who broke the color line in music, the US wouldn't have been prepped for the Brit Invasion - and young Brit rockers may have seen fewer black records (they didn't all come over in the kit bags of Liverpool sailors).

Pdog wrote on May 27^th, 2008 at 11:18pm:


Actually Austin is a great live music city.  I enjoyed it.  But to be honest, New Orleans was as good if not better.