I've decided that I will vote for Donald Trump if he

[raccoon]

Will move the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum to a Southern state.

Consider the pioneers of rock-n-roll…many of them came from the South.

Elvis Presley MS
Jerry Lee Lewis LA
Little Richard GA
Chuck Berry MO (well, MO is kinda sorta a Southern state.)
Carl Perkins TN
Buddy Holly TX
Everly Brothers KY

I have nothing against Cleveland per se, but let’s face it: it’s cold and who’d want to go there in the dead of winter? Not only that, it’s a long way off from me. Now, if that museum were in Columbia, SC…Montgomery, AL,… Chattanooga, TN…. Jackson, MS…

[Aristus]

1. "And now ladies and gentlemen, please follow me into our latest exhibit:

Potential Rock And Roll Stars Who Were Not Allowed To Reach Their Full Musical Potential Because They Were Lynched By White Supramacists".

[madinmaryland]

2. Oh great! Another Cleveland bashing thread.

Haters are gonna hate.

[mockmonkey]

3. You forgot one...

Pat Boone FL. I kid! I kid!

[KamaAina]

4. We kind of assumed it would be in SF

Jefferson Airplane. Creedence. Dead. Many others. But Cleveland, in search of a tourist attraction, put on a full-court press worthy of LeBron himself and snatched it away from us. The rather tenuous connection is that Cleveland DJ Alan Freed was the first to use the term "rock 'n roll".

[The Second Stone]

6. Cleveland needs it because it has only that, Drew Carey

and LeBron James going for it.

[KamaAina]

5. "well, MO is kinda sorta a Southern state."

Chuck Berry's style came from being right on the border. His dad did a lot of construction work out in St. Louis County, which was then pretty much all-white and midwestern. So he heard a lot of country music and mixed it in with the blues.

[Grantuspeace]

7. Cleveland essentially "broke" Rock 'Roll.

They had a D.J. that had the gall to play it and promote it. I believe he coined the term, "Rock and Roll." Wasn't it Alan Freed?

[First Speaker]

8. I'd rather be in Cleveland in the winter, than Alabama in the summer...

[raccoon]

9. Well, you got a point there. Pre-air-conditioning, it was really miserable.nt

[HereSince1628]

10. Are not solid body electric guitars the foundation of Rock? Put it in Wisconsin

birthplace of Les Paul who made it all happen.

[femmocrat]

11. Cleveland's rock and roll history:

https://rockhall.com/story-of-rock/features/all-featured/3326_hello-cleveland/

The term “rock and roll” was mainstreamed by Record Rendezvous owner Leo Mintz and WJW-AM deejay Alan Freed. It became a brushfire when deejay Bill Randle squired Elvis Presley into some of his first shows north of the Mason Dixon Line—in Cleveland. It established what would become the baby-boomer soundtrack in the Sixties over legendary Cleveland AM stations WIXY, WHK, WERE and WJW. It became big business in the Seventies and Eighties, when Cleveland brothers Jules and Mike Belkin mounted extravaganzas like the World Series of Rock at the Municipal Stadium. - See more at: https://rockhall.com/story-of-rock/features/all-featured/3326_hello-cleveland/#sthash.hDxu2ddV.dpuf

[pinboy3niner]

12. Cleveland Rocks

I've been there only once--to see Springsteen, Fogerty, R.E.M., and Bright Eyes on the '04 Vote for Change Tour.

[femmocrat]

13. Love that video! LOL

That sounds like a once-in-a-lifetime concert!