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#169324 by t-Roy and The Smoking Section
Mon Apr 02, 2012 2:54 pm
Just a personal observation from someone who travels a lot. If I get a day off, I do a search for "music venues" and check out what the city offers.

From my experience, these are the one who "seem" to be most rocking cities (not in any particular order) by virtue of having more live music venues with lots of National and LOCAL rock bands performing regularly. I confess that I'm probably missing a few but go ahead and chime in


Almost any large city in Texas, New York, California, Tennessee & Ohio
Louisville KY
Wilmington NC
Seattle-Tacoma WA
Toronto Ontario (they wouldn't like being called American LOL)
Philadelphia PA


I admit a bias in choosing guitar based rock bands as my standard for "ROCK"



Never been to Detroit but I have my suspicions that they should be at the top of this list.

Again, I haven't checked out every city but these ones stick out to me. Comments? If you have a city you want to add, please do.

#169354 by GuitarMikeB
Mon Apr 02, 2012 7:42 pm
For a while Boston suffered with the 'DJ syndrome', but there's a ton of venues now and Boston cranks out lots of national artists on a regular basis.

#169359 by t-Roy and The Smoking Section
Mon Apr 02, 2012 8:49 pm
I should thought about that...love the scene down at Finuel Hall with all the outdoor street artists.

#169404 by Lynard Dylan
Tue Apr 03, 2012 12:05 pm
Tulsa, OK, rocks.

#170853 by fisherman bob
Sun Apr 22, 2012 11:13 pm
NOT Kansas City...

#170881 by Lynard Dylan
Mon Apr 23, 2012 11:07 am
Bob you should learn the story of what happened
to original KC rocking music in 1979. I'm not going
to, but his initials are RW, and he was bringing us
and the whole KC music scene to the top, when it
happened. We were all guilty, but the star falls the
farthest.

#171070 by fisherman bob
Tue Apr 24, 2012 9:15 pm
Lynard Dylan wrote:Bob you should learn the story of what happened
to original KC rocking music in 1979. I'm not going
to, but his initials are RW, and he was bringing us
and the whole KC music scene to the top, when it
happened. We were all guilty, but the star falls the
farthest.
Does R W's name rhyme with Dick Best by chance?

#171094 by gbheil
Wed Apr 25, 2012 2:02 am
Kilgore Texas May 12th
Texarkana Texas June 3rd
Lindale Texas June 8th & 10th


8)

#171109 by Lynard Dylan
Wed Apr 25, 2012 11:23 am
Kinda Bob, rhymes more with Dick's brother's
name Don.

It was unbelievalbe what was being attached to the
music industry back then.

#171692 by 1collaborator
Mon Apr 30, 2012 6:40 am
Columbia SC, Charlotte NC, and Charelston SC Have come a long way in the past few months...

#172180 by JazzAnarchy
Fri May 04, 2012 8:09 pm
Danville!!

#172239 by t-Roy and The Smoking Section
Sat May 05, 2012 8:51 pm
1collaborator wrote:Columbia SC, Charlotte NC, and Charelston SC Have come a long way in the past few months...



I saw a lot of live venues listed as I drove past Raleigh-Durham-Cary but wasn't able to check it. Will be in Charlotte tonight...where do you recommend I find great live music (can't be later than midnight) ?

DANVILLE???? VA?

Really, or you just voting for the hometown? :lol:


I wanted to add Virginia Beach to the list. They had live musicians on Atlantic Boulevard EVERY day of the week even though the beach was dead in late April. Mostly locals were filling up the clubs around 21st street. Saw a cool reggae band on Sunday, and a mostly-originals 4 piece rock band on Tuesday.

They tell me that Richmond has a great live scene but I didn't have a chance to check it out either.




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#172583 by t-Roy and The Smoking Section
Wed May 09, 2012 3:21 pm
ASHEVILLE North Carolina rocks!


The Tuesday night funk jam at OnePlace is one of the best jams I've ever seen. Great musicians, great crowd, street musicians on the corners downtown, and lots of talented songwriters.

#172714 by JazzAnarchy
Thu May 10, 2012 10:26 pm
yod wrote:




DANVILLE???? VA?

Really, or you just voting for the hometown? :lol:

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Not really, no...
#177201 by dougorlando
Mon Jul 02, 2012 1:25 am
I Say Phoenix & Chicago and yes Detroit is up there!

yod wrote:Just a personal observation from someone who travels a lot. If I get a day off, I do a search for "music venues" and check out what the city offers.

From my experience, these are the one who "seem" to be most rocking cities (not in any particular order) by virtue of having more live music venues with lots of National and LOCAL rock bands performing regularly. I confess that I'm probably missing a few but go ahead and chime in


Almost any large city in Texas, New York, California, Tennessee & Ohio
Louisville KY
Wilmington NC
Seattle-Tacoma WA
Toronto Ontario (they wouldn't like being called American LOL)
Philadelphia PA


I admit a bias in choosing guitar based rock bands as my standard for "ROCK"



Never been to Detroit but I have my suspicions that they should be at the top of this list.

Again, I haven't checked out every city but these ones stick out to me. Comments? If you have a city you want to add, please do.

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