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Rock N Roll
Posted on 12/28/25 at 10:51 pm
Posted on 12/28/25 at 10:51 pm
Can anyone explain why Cleveland gets to have the Rock n Roll hall of fame and not New Orleans?
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Posted on 12/29/25 at 3:21 am to TurdAndChavis
Ohio and Cleveland provided way more in financial incentives. The public reason announced was that the so-called first rock n' roll disc jokey (and promoter), Allen Freed, hailed from Cleveland. If La and the city had met or exceeded what Ohio/Cleveland offered, it would have been in NO.
Posted on 12/29/25 at 6:44 am to TurdAndChavis
New Orleans would be capitol to a different type of music than rock
Posted on 12/29/25 at 8:51 am to pmacneworleans
Cosimo Matassa and Dave Bartholomew are as responsible for rock and roll as anyone in the country,
and it would make sense for the HOF
to be located in New Orleans…
and it would make sense for the HOF
to be located in New Orleans…
Posted on 12/29/25 at 10:12 am to TurdAndChavis
Because nobody assiciates the birth of rock and roll with New Orleans. However I don't associate Cleveland with it either.
Posted on 12/29/25 at 11:26 am to VOR
Undoubtedly, and I would add Fats Domino to that list. It should have been in NO, but the "esteemed" minds of the tourism bureaus in the city and state did not think it would significantly add to tourism (and, they were dead wrong). There is hope that a La. Music Hall of Fame will get built, but it was part of that development on Convention Center Blvd that has fizzled out, so its now homeless.
Posted on 12/29/25 at 12:41 pm to TurdAndChavis
quote:
Can anyone explain why Cleveland gets to have the Rock n Roll hall of fame and not New Orleans?
Because some local DJ coined the term in Cleveland and they were able to gather million of dollars to kick it off.
Who thinks of New Orleans and rock-n-roll? It would have to overcome the Birthplace of Jazz.
Posted on 12/29/25 at 4:22 pm to TurdAndChavis
quote:
Can anyone explain why Cleveland gets to have the Rock n Roll hall of fame and not New Orleans?
I mean, New York, L.A. and even Memphis have greater claim to this site. Jazz? Sure. No one else is close to New Orleans. Blues? Probably could win a fight with Chicago, but it would be a closer fight than Jazz.
Rock? Nah, bruh.
(ETA: And FTR the Rock HOF is about the biggest joke in all of music.)
This post was edited on 12/29/25 at 4:23 pm
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