Everyone, but EVERYONE knew if you wanted to make it in Rock n Roll you had to go through Cleveland. That may not be true now, with the advent of the internet, satellite radio and video on demand to name a few. HOWEVER, Cleveland embraced many (now) big names and kept them afloat before all the current technical opportunities. Bruce Springsteen (other than New Jersey), RUSH, Mellencamp the Beatles even … The phrase Rock n Roll was coined in Cleveland! The first Rock Concert, The Moondog Coronation Ball held in Cleveland on March 21, 1952! Few cities embrace not only Rock, but alternative, jazz, blues and all music as Cleveland does…. It is fitting and appropriate the Rock Hall remains in Cleveland. The annex should not even exist.

DEBORAH HARRY IS AWESOME

From the First Blondie album right up until her newest solo song “Fit right In” on Itunes, she is a Fashion Icon, a Rock Pioneer and wow is she beautiful.

Long over due credit is due Blondie’s and Deborah Harry’s way, long over due.

Why don’t they move the awards ceremony to Cleveland where the museum already exists? There’s already too much going on in New York as it is. I live here and I’d love an excuse to make a road trip. To anywhere!

Debbie Harry is still da BOMB!!!!

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum has a collection of rock music artifacts in its original museum in Cleveland, Ohio.

Now the nonprofit museum has opened an Annex in New York City because Cleveland lacks the drawing power to anchor it. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremonies are already held in NYC not Cleveland, Ohio.

Critics say the Annex opening is just a preliminary move BEFORE the whole Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum is re-located to NYC sometime in the near future.

The International Center for Environmental Arts (ICEA) is slated as one candidate to take over the empty facilities in Cleveland once the museum leaves. www.theicea.org

i wonder if bands like Husker Du, the Replacements, The Misfits, Fugazi, and countless of others that influenced so many bands will ever get reconition by the Rock n’ Roll hall of fame douchbag chairpersons. Probably not! which is probably for the best.

i wonder if bands like Husker Du, the Replacements, The Misfits, Fugazi, and countless of others that influenced so many bands will ever get reconition by the Rock n’ Roll hall of fame douchbag chairpersons. Probably not! which is probably for the best.

Seriously! Guys come on. This is a chance for people who can’t make it to Cleveland to see some of Rock’s History. I’ve been to the Hall in Cleveland and it was amazing! But, being from New York, I’d love the chance to see more. I love how everyone has to mention 9/11 and NYC into these conversations. I think everyone in New york would be the first to say we wished it hadn’t happened here or anywhere for that matter. Grow up! Poor Cleveland, poor Akron and poor every other city aside from New York and LA. Jeez wanna talk about wankathon.

hi…anyone know the promo code to buy cheap tickets to the annex on-line? thanks

And what did Cleveland do to qualify as “the heart of RnR”?

If any city deserves the title of “heart of RnR” is Memphis - home of the blues and RnR.

And the endless “Hey, looka heah, dis is NOO YAWK, heah and we are da center of da universe” wankathon continues.

Cleveland did more for rock and roll in an hour and a half than New York ever could. there’s about 25 to 30 bands playing, live in greater Cleveland, on any given night and they’re not 200.00 a seat snobfests. They are also roundly ignored by critics, if not local patrons. I got an idea. Why not have the induction ceremonies where the hall is located?

I’m sorry Greg… But the Heart of Rock and Roll will forever be in Huey Lewis…

So the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Annex opened in New York last night. Great…another place that Rock’s most overlooked bands will not be featured at!

It is the Rock and Roll Hall of SHAME!!! Get it together guys and stop being elitist!!

Blondie really never have gotten full props for everything they did. Deborah Harry had and continues to have a HUGE influence and still is a dynamite live performer.

Cleveland…please figure out a way to build on to the Rock Hall and have a place for small venue concerts.

I can’t stand people who think that important things only happen in New York or LA. Why does the music industry throw mud in the eye of a city (cleveland) that will do anything for the industry. That’s, in case you don’t, know why the hall of fame is in Cleveland, a city with a 1/15 of the population of NY, becasue it out bid NY and the rest of the county. New York could care less, and is driving artist out.

I love how all of New Yorkers believe that everything begins and starts in the “big apple” a derogatory term made famous by a derogatory city! While all cities were censoring music… Cleveland still rocked on… it does not even mean anything to NYC except as a money ($) maker and another claim to fame.. have you noticed that everything that happens in the US always is claimed by NYC… 9/11 only talks about NYC, all food was invented in NYC… Its about time NYC gets off its high-horse and lets some other cities have something… O-H-I-O… that represents the founders of presidents, electricity, rock n roll, football, and so much more!

I am so sick of New Yorkers laying claim to every thing. Why don’t we just move the basketball hall of fame from Springfield, MA, as well as the Pro Football hall of fame from Canton, to New York City? It is so disrepectful that the induction ceremony is held in NY rather than in Cleveland. What other HOF induction ceremony is held in a city other than where the HOF is located? To my knowledge, none.

It’s actually not a rock and roll hall of fame anyway. The whole thing has turned into a pop culture hall of fame. Madonna? Run DMC? Come on. The whole idea was lame in the first place. Rock and Roll is not glitz and glamour, but heart and soul. Heart and soul can never be museumized. POP, on the other hand, is all about the cash, which is what the hall of fame shamefully represents.

the heart of rock n roll is and will always be in cleveland. the face maybe New York, but the heart beats in Cleveland, OH.

Cleveland is where the rock and roll is at.

I’d still run away with Debbie Harry (been sayting that since 1981)Love that smokey version of Call Me

The rock hall has no relevance when it can’t even induct worthy artists, rather pandering to the unworthy. Burn it down.

Funny how all the historic rock clubs in nyc are closing,but a museum opens for high brow Manhattanite suits like Mike Bloomberg to walk through.