Like what we do? Show us how much we mean to you by supporting our Patreon Page. Just $5/month would be a HUGE help, plus you get some cool perks! Check it out here: https://www.patreon.com/loulombardiThis week on the Loudini Hard Rock & Metal Circus we go to the opera and count down the greatest rock and metal opera's of all time! Featured Loudini Artists: Mr. Battle Lou Lombardi Reign of Z Darkness On The Radio Topics include:-what is a rock opera?-the origins-the greatest rock and metal operas Too old to rock and roll... jefro tull mechanical animals... marylin manson maggots the record... Plasmatics the graveyard... King Diamond From The Inside... Alice Cooper ...W.A.S.P The Wall.... Pink Floyd Ziggy Stardust..... David Bowie Operation Mind Crime.... Queensryche Jesus Christ Super Star.... Andrew Loyd Weber Tommy ... The Who-Lily's week-Lou's week.... Supervana show review

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The Best Rock and Metal Operas of All Time

Do your part to keep guitar driven rock ALIVE... join Loudini LIVE! Go to http://LouLombardiMusic.com/InnerCircle to find out how you can be a part of our LIVE online audience and get access to exclusive music and video! Have you heard the one about Led Zeppelin and the mud shark? What about Rod Stewart having semen pumped from his stomach? These are rock's Urban Legends. This week we will sift through the rumors and let you know which legends are true and which are B.S. Featured Loudini Artists: Royal Honey Lou Lombardi Transcendence (Pittsburgh) Bad MarriageTopics include:-urban legends about songs-crazy stories/legends about bands and artists-truth is stranger than fiction... what's true?  

Rock's Urban Legends... Separating Fact from Fiction

Do your part to keep guitar driven rock ALIVE... join Loudini LIVE! Go to http://LouLombardiMusic.com/InnerCircle to find out how you can be a part of our LIVE online audience and get access to exclusive music and video! Rock and Roll has always been a bit of a bad boys and bad girls club but these artists have taken there bad boy and girl images literally! Featured Loudini Artists: Royal Honey Lou Lombardi Bourbon House EulogyTopics include: -the small time criminals... more that you might imagine -the REALLY bad boys and girls -when does an artist cross the line to the point where fans turn their backs?  

The Top Rocker Criminals

Do your part to keep guitar driven rock ALIVE... join Loudini LIVE! Go to http://LouLombardiMusic.com/InnerCircle to find out how you can be a part of our LIVE online audience and get access to exclusive music and video! What's in a name? Where do bands come up with some of these names? What are some of the best and worst band names of all time? Featured Loudini Artists: State of Mind Silk9 Lou Lombardi 13 Saints

The BEST & the WORST band names of all time

Do your part to keep guitar driven rock ALIVE... join Loudini LIVE! Go to http://LouLombardiMusic.com/InnerCircle to find out how you can be a part of our LIVE online audience and get access to exclusive music and video!A native San Diegan and Navy brat, Jenny was raised in a householdwith no music. She didn’t start listening to the radio until her late teens, anddidn’t start singing and writing until her twenties. She is a natural-bornstoryteller, so she started writing country songs and had her own band.Recently, however, Jenny teamed up with Southern California punk iconJose Cruz of Male Order Brides and Doom Kounty Electric Chair fame.Dead Queen is an EP of Cruz’ songs, produced by Cruz along with Jenny’shusband, Chas Ferry, who has worked with David Bowie, Iggy Pop, andQuincy Jones. In addition to writing and recording music, Jenny is a collegeprofessor teaching English literature.Links: https://www.facebook.com/JennyJamesMusic Jenny James YouTube Video

Jenny James & Ho Dagger

Do your part to keep guitar driven rock ALIVE... join Loudini LIVE! Go to http://LouLombardiMusic.com/InnerCircle to find out how you can be a part of our LIVE online audience and get access to exclusive music and video!We talk a lot about guitarists and singers on the show but this week we focus on the guys and gals who drive the bands we love and keep them tight, focused and in time. Today we are counting down the 10 most UNDERRATED drummers in rock and metal Featured Loudini Artists: American Bombshell Transcendence (Pittsburgh) Lou Lombardi Bad Marriage

The 10 Most UNDERRATED drummers in rock and metal

Do your part to keep guitar driven rock ALIVE... join Loudini LIVE! Go to http://LouLombardiMusic.com/InnerCircle to find out how you can be a part of our LIVE online audience and get access to exclusive music and video! The late seventies was a magical time for music and no, we aren't talking about disco! We're talking about the new wave of British heavy metal bands that erupted during that time period. This week Lily and Lou count down the greatest bands of that era and discuss several highlights of that scene. Featured Loudini Artists: Black Whiskey Mississippi Bones Lou Lombardi Maiden Cane  

The Top 10 bands of the new wave of British Metal

Blog Post/YouTube Description: Do your part to keep guitar driven rock ALIVE... join Loudini LIVE! Go to http://LouLombardiMusic.com/InnerCircle to find out how you can be a part of our LIVE online audience and get access to exclusive music and video!On today's "You Need to Hear this Band", we take a trip to Italy to meet the band stoner metal band Black Elephant. If you like your rock hard and heavy and drenched in cannabis then you will want to check these guys out. Website:https://www.facebook.com/blackelephantitaly/ Walking Dead Video Special thanks: Adam Thomas  

Black Elephant: You Need to hear this band! (YNTHTB #2)

Do your part to keep guitar driven rock ALIVE... join Loudini LIVE! Go to http://LouLombardiMusic.com/InnerCircle to find out how you can be a part of our LIVE online audience and get access to exclusive music and video! Featured Loudini Artists: American Bombshell Eulogy Lou Lombardi AlbumThis week Lily and Loudini take a track by track look at Iron Maiden's Number of the BeastTopics include:-The tracks-the making of-reception-influence 

Remembering, Reliving, Reviewing Iron Maiden's Classic Album; Number of The Beast

Do your part to keep guitar driven rock ALIVE... join Loudini LIVE! Go to http://LouLombardiMusic.com/InnerCircle to find out how you can be a part of our LIVE online audience and get access to exclusive music and video!The maiden voyage of "You Need To Hear This Band"... this series is dedicated to bands that you probably do not know about but NEED to hear. We start the voyage with the band American Bombshell Website:https://www.americanbombshell.net Album Trailer:https://youtu.be/Tq_R9cS5Kfk Nuvo article:https://www.nuvo.net/music/american-bombshell-shreds-onward/article_3efec5fa-49af-11e9-9cf4-5780393bd4bd.html  

American Bombshell: You Need to hear this band! (YNTHTB #1)

Do your part to keep guitar driven rock ALIVE... join Loudini LIVE! Go to http://LouLombardiMusic.com/InnerCircle to find out how you can be a part of our LIVE online audience and get access to exclusive music and video!Featured Loudini Artists: Aftershok Chip & the Charge Ups Lou Lombardi Darkness On The RadioThis week Lily and Loudini finally answer the question... Sam or Dave?Topics include:-The Sammy Story-The Dave Story-compare and contrast-critics & fans choices-Van Halen in your mind vs Van Halen in reality  

Who do Van Halen fans REALLY Prefer? Sam or Dave?

Do your part to keep guitar driven rock ALIVE... join Loudini LIVE! Go to http://LouLombardiMusic.com/InnerCircle to find out how you can be a part of our LIVE online audience and get access to exclusive music and video! Featured Loudini Artists: Gideon's Mob Divine Tragedy Maxxout Silk9This week the power trio counts down the greatest progressive rock and metal bands of all time.Topics include:-the birth of prog-what makes a band progressive-the dirty "p" word

Top 10 Prog Rock & Prog Metal Bands of All Time

Do your part to keep guitar driven rock ALIVE... join Loudini LIVE! Go to http://LouLombardiMusic.com/InnerCircle to find out how you can be a part of our LIVE online audience and get access to exclusive music and video!In Episode #3 We discuss the basic structure of Rush's breakout song, Working ManTopics covered:-basic riffs, key and root ideas-the solo and Alex's influence-reception and brief confusion-lyrics-"vault edition" Check out video here  

Dissecting Rush's Working Man(Guitar-cast #3)

Do your part to keep guitar driven rock ALIVE... join Loudini LIVE! Go to http://LouLombardiMusic.com/InnerCircle to find out how you can be a part of our LIVE online audience and get access to exclusive music and video!Ozzy recently cancelled his 2019 tour but has rescheduled for 2020 do to health issues. Mick Jagger is recovering from heart surgery. KISS's final performances are going down less than stellar with Paul's voice in pretty bad shape. Both Ozzy and KISS had called it quits 20 years ago but got lored back out on the road. Why? They surely do not need the money and they have nothing to prove to their fans. So what keeps these bands touring after all these years?Topics Covered:-once you've been working all your life....-addiction to the adoration-ego and identity

The REAL reason so many classic rockers are very reluctant to hang it up... (Rockin' Rant #38)

Do your part to keep guitar driven rock ALIVE... join Loudini LIVE! Go to http://LouLombardiMusic.com/InnerCircle to find out how you can be a part of our LIVE online audience and get access to exclusive music and video! On this edition of the Loudini Hard Rock & Metal Circus we discuss the Motley Crue biopic "The Dirt". Resident Crue expert Lily V. Sixx will give us the low down on the best and worst of The Dirt. Be warned that THERE WILL BE SPOILERS! Featured Loudini Artists: 13 Saints Big Ugly Storm Dragon Lou Lombardi Topics Covered:-book vs movie-actor choices and perfomances-most controversial scenes-is the movie sexist or demeaning to women?

Everything wrong with and everything right about The Dirt

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