June 10, 2009
So much cool stuff in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame!! Seven floors of stuff in fact. Unfortunately, no cameras allowed except at the entrance...lame... Ann and I spent about 4 hours there and that didn't even feel like enough time! We started by having lunch (because we were starving after our drive from Indiana) and we knew it was going to be a good day as we ate and listened to Freebird playing over the museum speakers! Then we headed out to explore.
They had tons of old outfits from the Beatles, Temptations, Michael Jackson, etc. It was interesting to see the quality of the clothes 'stars' used to wear back in the day; most of it looked like it was hand sewn by their mom! Quite a contrast to the designer label wear of today.I really liked the two walls covered by old Rolling Stone magazines, which included letters to the magazine by artists an others featured in the magazine. A really interesting one was a letter from Charles Manson regarding a story that was written about him; he offered to do a short interview in exchange for a free subscription to the magazine. The 'Video Killed the Radio Star' exhibit was also a favorite 'cause it was basically a bunch of different size TVs with clips from classic music videos. It was the only part that was like a flashback to my childhood! Other cool stuff included: Jim Morrison's death certificate and boy scout uniform, drawings by Bob Marley when he was a kid, the Evolution of Audiotechonology, 500 Songs that Shaped Rock & Roll (interactive kiosks...could have played with that all day!), and all the Beatles stuff. The one thing that I'm really sad wasn't there was Janis Joplin's car. It was on loan to the Henry Ford Museum in Michigan....I couldn't convince Ann to go up there though...
The museum
The only pictures I could take inside the museum
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