Disastrous Songs

The Loudini Rock and Roll Circus

GO HERE: http://LouLombardiRocks.com if you love great guitar driven rock from the 70s, 80s, 90s and even today. This is the place to hang out with the coolest fans and musicians ever collected, in one place online! In honor of this year's presidential election, the Loudini Rock & Roll Circus counts down Ten songs about natural and unnatural disasters. Topics Discussed: This day in Music: https://www.thisdayinmusic.com/ Riding the Storm Out... Richrath's love of booze, on a songwriting an boozing trip to the rockies Rock you Like A Hurricane... sexual metaphor... also an actual hurricane theme song if you live on the gulf coast, rip off of "no one like you" Gimme Shelter... caused Merry Clayton to have a miscarriage. Brian Jones was present butt didn't play. metaphor for his drug addiction some of the "stormy " events that inpsired the song from that era: These are the previous years events in 1968 that led to this song. The assassination of Senator Robert Kennedy The Black Power salute by African American athletes at the Olympics Student protests start the Polish political crisis The Prague Spring. Election of a communist leader Vietnam. The My Lai massacre and the start there of the Tet Offensive Demonstration against the Vietnam war in London Grosvenor Square 91 injured Student protest at Howard university Washington DC French students occupy the admin building of Nanterre University almost bringing another French Revolution Paris student riots Black Panthers shootout with police in Oakland Martin Luther king shot dead German students blockade the Springer Press HQ Columbia University students shut down the university Andy Warhol shot by a feminist African American militants engage in a shootout in Ohio Biggest military invasion since WW2 into Czechoslovakia due to the Warsaw Pact Anti war protesters clash with police in Chicago Power to a military junta in Greece Student demos in Mexico City end in a huge bloodbath Military coup d’etat In Panama Human rights demo in Derry Ireland Highjack of Pam Am flight from JFK to Cuba Israeli forces attack Beirut Airport It's the end of the world as we know it... actually about debating Riders on the Storm... influenced by the Ida Lupino film Hitch-hiker When the Levee Breaks... Nobody's Fault... Aerosmith... earth quake Aenima... Tool.. about natural disaster Bad Moon Rising... CCR Never Go Back... Evanessence