Quote Originally Posted by ziggyselbin View Post
Great music has come from many cities girlinthed. Aside from motown[[which was unique), Detroit has no more claim than Philadelphia, Cincinnati, LA and even less than Nyc, Chicago, New Orleans, and Nashville to a museum. But then if rock and roll is the music of youth and rebellion why a museum? And I forgot Kansas city.
Ziggy, Detroit is clearly one of the six or seven in the first-tier of great music cities in the U.S.

It has MUCH more claim to greatness than Philly, Cincinnati, and Cleveland... and it has had as much clout as L.A. Longevity of importance as well as overall impact on popular music should be considered.

Other great music cities [[first-tier), IMO, are New York, Chicago, New Orleans, Memphis, and L.A. Nashville might get a mention there because of country music, only.

Philadelphia, San Francisco, St. Louis, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Minneapolis, Kansas City, Austin, Seattle are second-tier music cities. Pittsburgh might just make that list as well.

Third-tier music cities would be Houston, D.C., Baltimore, Boston, Milwaukee, San Diego, Portland, Atlanta.