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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 Hu...
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... Evanescence
