2007 Census: How does Jacksonville rank?

[reednavy]

I agree about the local music scene.  I'd be willing to argue that there are more native Jax bands that hit the big time than almost any other city, certainly the south.

Yeah, about the only big ones out there are Lynard Skynard and Yellowcard, well technically, Yellowcard is from Jacksonville Beach.

[Jason]

I'll get you a list of local bands that made the Billboard Charts...  It will suprise you.

[Jason]

Here is what I could come up with off of the top of my head...


From back in the day...

Pat Boone (born 1934) pop singer
Nick Todd (born 1935) pop singer
Jo Ann Campbell (born 1938) country/pop singer & actress
Scott McKenzie (born 1939) Rock and roll singer
Johnny Tillotson (born 1939) pop singer, songwriter, actor
Gary U.S. Bonds (born 1939) R&B singer
Jackie Moore (born 1946) R&B singer
Rita Coolidge
Slim Whitman
Marcus Roberts
Frederic Delius



Groups from back in the day to the 90's

Classics IV (1965) Pop Rock
Lynyrd Skynyrd (1970) Southern Rock
Blackfoot (1972) Rock/Southern Rock
Molly Hatchet (1975) Southern Rock
.38 Special (1975) Rock



From the 90's to now

95 South (1992) Hip Hop
69 Boyz (1993) Hip Hop
Mase (born 1977) hip hop star
Limp Bizkit (1994) Metal Rock
Inspection 12 (1994) Pop Punk
Quad City DJ's (1995) Hip Hop
Yellowcard (1997) Pop Punk
Evergreen Terrace (2001) Hardcore
Allele (2002) Rock
Shinedown (2001) Rock
The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus (2003) Rock
BurnSeason
Cold



I know there are more that I'm missing...

[Ocklawaha]

Ray Charles
Oliver Hardy*
*Yes he WAS a singer too, and a damn good one!

Ocklawaha

[gatorback]

The Rosington Collins Band?

[Jason]

Is Ray from Jacksonville or did he have a home here after becomming famous?

[thelakelander]

He first started playing at Genover's Hall on Ashley Street.  He stayed around the corner from it in LaVilla before moving to Seattle.

[Ocklawaha]

Oliver Hardy started here too and was from Georgia.

Ocklawaha

[downtownparks]

Ray was from Central Florida, and went to school in St Augustine. He used to visit his Aunt here in Jax, and that was when he started playing the scene in La Villa.

[reednavy]

Not to be Debby Downer or anything, but it seems we lost rack that this is about the population of COJ, not music.

[Jason]

I don't think we're off topic.  These folks are all part of the population of Jacksonville...at one time or another...   


Besides, you called me out and I couldn't resist! 

[gatorback]

insane.  how is austin so much cooler?  we have a freaking beach!  there is a 78% chance of getting the death penalty is texas!

Austin is run by old hippies which immediately equals way cool.  We have a beach--a nude beach as well.  Hippie Hollow...google it.  Our beach is on a lake.  Lake Travis.  The lake is 100 feet deep in places.   Our lake generates electricity because of the Mansfield Damn.  We are hill country.  We are Austin.  Not a huge Longhorn fan but heck, we are on solid ground, not that sandy shifty crap.  Perhaps the magnetic field  is different because of the granite. 

[Ocklawaha]

Austin? Oh my Gatorback, how quickly our people are deluded by these Texas Hippies... FYI, The only hippie to ever come out of Texas was Janis Joplin, and Texas damn near killed her before she escaped to the Left Coast! Oil? Just ask Conoco, Phillips, Kerr-Mcgee, Sinclair, Magnolia etc... Go to Dallas and drive NORTH! Cool? Ever hear of Bricktown? How about Deep Duce? Longhorns? Isn't that a steakhouse in Jacksonville's Southside?

Didn't you hear that right after consolidation, Jacksonville, considered annexing Texas and making it a City Park? Longhorns? Really? Smelly Long Horn Cattle? Say Texan, Geographically Speaking... OKLAHOMA IS ALWAYS ON TOP OF TEXAS!  

GO POKES! OSU!   OSU!   OSU! AGGIES FOREVER! OKLAHOMA STATE! YEEE HAWW!

We just gotta love JACKSONVILLE!

Ocklawaha

[gatorback]

Ocklawaha, you have to reread my blog.  Austin is run by a bunch of old hippies.  It's inhabited by a bunch of hippies.  They produce hippies...Hippie! haha  My hippie friend, Austin is Hippie Haven why would hippies leave?  What was Janis thinking?  I'll get to Oklahoma City in a minute but first Austin.

Austin has the second largest vegetarian population in the nation....along with some great scenery here in the hill country. People should check it out. Almost every night we get 2 or 3 bucks from each roommate, head up to Central Market and get tons of fresh fruit, vegetables, etc. - and have a giant veggie-kabob for dinner. It feeds everyone and also provides for a great way to get together at night in the backyard and just hang out.  If you like hanging out with friends you like Austin.

Barton Creek Park is another great hangout - it's a linear park that follows Barton Creek - along the cliff walls there are several caves for exploring... just a totally surreal environment. Everyone in Austin just seems so mellow and content.  This attitude doesn't come from the bottom-up, it comes from the top down.  Our elected officials have this same positive mental attitude.  If you like working together solving problems you like Austin.

The student population is enormous. UT is the largest university site in the world, and there are a host of other schools here like St. Edwards, Concordia, ACC, Huston-Tillotson, the list goes on and on. Austin has one of the highest student to population ratios known to man.  If you like intellectuals, you like Austin.

Like food or rather good food?  In the spring of 2005 Whole Foods Market, the world's leading natural and organic food supermarket, opened a landmark store in Austin, Texas, their world headquarters. The new store is at the corner of Sixth Street and Lamar Boulevard, near downtown, and is the company's largest, at 80,000 square feet. This location is a few blocks from where the first Whole Foods was located 25 years ago. But this store is quite different from the original.  If you like good food you like Austin.

Like live music?  Um, enough said.  If you like music you like Austin.

Like tax credits for owning electric powered bikes, cars, boats, n e thing?  If you like tax credits for owning alternative powered go-mobiles you like Austin.

Do you like exotic wild birds?   Somebody released Monk (Quaker) Parakeets in Austin and the birds appearently liked it so much they stayed.  If you like monks you like Austin ...hahah

Ask anyone from out of town what they like so much about Austin, and the answer is almost invariably, "6th street!". Great, so the main attraction to the city is a couple of blocks (big blocks, after all this is Texas and everything is bigger in Texas)  of bars and low quality restaurants designed to serve the student community where drunk young 20 year olds can get on with their public intoxication and,  date raping--which brings me next point.  Ocklahoma.

Ocklahoma? Ocklahoma City.  I mean really.  I'm getting raped in OKC.  See my Rover in the picture below, the one bent over toward the fence.  Yep.    Once I get the money to get her back from OKC I promise never to leave Austin again. 

Which brings me to my last point.  Me.  If you like me you like Austin. 

Welp, that's it, my last edit...my battery is running low and after reading my blog about Austin I've decided to find something new for next time.  Aggie? 

[Ocklawaha]

Hey Gatorback...

Gee that was fun. I did get you to go into some depth on what makes Austin such a cool place didn't I? I know the hill country quite well, my wife and I are sometime cavers. Daughters Trilby and Tyra claim they have been under more of Texas, Missouri, Arkansas and New Mexico, then they have over it. My daddy worked throughout the oil patch "back in the day". Strawn Texas is named for my uncles family! The Wichita Falls and Southern Railroad was built by my Mom's family! When they were little, they lived on the Oklahoma-Kansas border (in Kansas) and were not allowed to cross over and play with the Okie kids because they were "dirty and dangerous." That was around Pittsburgh KS. People generally think I'm blowing the old smoke pipe when I say my family rode with Quantrail (former Ohio School Professor). No S**T, they really did! So Belle Starr, Sam Starr (From Younger's Bend, OK), Cole and Jim Younger, The Dalton's (from Kingfisher OK), Jessie and Frank James (Missouri Boy's) and Blood Bill Anderson, were all household names. See I fit right in in Oklahoma AND Jacksonville! My sister has a place in Bandera.

I love the hill country of Texas and Oklahoma. Most Okie's will tell you that the Eastern Mountain ranges (OK) or the Ar buckle's are full of wicked, mean, bad and nasty people. I always found it to be the opposite. The folks in OKC have done a great job on the City, but don't try and invade their space with conversation. Don't try and be one of them, in fact, don't go there! My wife and I attended OSU (which is in Stillwater), it's another TINY Austin (for you Florida boys and girls about the size of Fernandina Beach). It might as well be on MARS. It probably has a higher % of students and professors then Austin, since the whole industry of Stillwater is OSU. There is a nice campus in OKC as well, and the school is light years ahead of anything I have ever experienced in Florida, in ease of getting things done. One stop counseling, scheduling, funding and registration. Everyone helps, everyone is part of the team, including the students and faculty.

So you see my friend, I'm with you on this one. As for Janis? She grew up South of Houston, in the 1960's the Bible belt and small coastal towns were not a place for a counter-culture hippie chick. Those kids were downright cruel to her... Today they all live in in clusters around OKC! Trust me, my Anglo-Hispanic daughters found out the hard way!

Keep the comments coming, at least we'll "Leave Them Laughing!"  

Ocklawaha