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| - I've saved this review for my 250th, as the R&R HOF is clearly one of my favorite places on planet earth. Sure the architecture is over-the-top contrived, certainly you can point to a dozen or more artists who belong here (and several rappers who don't), it's bloody expensive, the food options stink, and if you lack the soul to connect with some very special old clothes and mementos, that's all that they are. Personally, my connection to these hallowed halls is spiritual and-- on every level-- aligned with the signage which describes the HOF as presenting "the soundtrack of my life."
I'm not the type to get teary-eyed, but my wife had to literally drag me away from the display of Janis' feather boas, glasses and handwritten lyrics-- deeply moving and powerful stuff. I could easily spend two full days here, and remember my visit as if it was yesterday. I love this place, and have had a special bond with Cleveland since my days as an undergraduate at Case Western Reserve Univ.
Like Cleveland, you either "get" the R&R HOF or you don't. It certainly isn't perfect, but neither are/were the brilliantly twisted cultural deities memorialized within its walls. It all makes perfect sense to me.
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