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I’ve been to my fair share of concerts and have probably listened to at least one album from just about every rock band known to man. That’s how I was able to come up with my first law of rock and roll, which is that any band named for a geographical region sucks, and the extent to which they suck is directly proportional to the population of that region.

Today I was trying to get my friends hyped about the impending delivery of Guitar Hero 2 for the Xbox 360 to my house (that game is harder to get than a Nintendo Wii) and was IMing them stuff like “are you ready to rock Cleveland?” when the second law of rock and roll occurred to me.

Maroon’s Second Law of Rock and Roll

 

A bands recent success is inversely proportional to the number of times they say the name of the city they are in during a concert.

 

I saw Green Day a couple weeks after they won 872 (well-deserved) Grammys for American Idiot and I think they mentioned Cleveland once. Long before that I also saw a Poison, Whitesnake, and Enuff Z’nuff concert (it was free and there was a girl involved, but yes, I am appropriately ashamed) and each of those bands said “Cleveland” at least once after every song. I felt so bad that I didn’t even have the heart to tell them that they were in Cuyahoga Falls.

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