Jim Rutledge, the original lead singer, re-recorded the song, "D.O.A.", which is his version you are hearing here. He made this video, years after Bloodrock had broken up, and stars in it. That's Jim driving the car and lying on the stretcher. This is NOT the original recording by Bloodrock. Hope that clears things up.
Wow..... First of all, the original drummer for Bloodrock was Jim Rutledge. He played drums and sang the lead vocals on the first Bloodrock album. The band's producer, Terry Knight (who also produced Grand Funk Railroad), decided that the handsome Jim Rutledge needed to be out front and Rick Cobb was hired as the new drummer. Jim Rutledge was NOT in a car crash and left "armless". Total BS. After leaving Bloodrock he recorded a solo album for Capitol Records, "Hooray For Good Times".
I saw this band as the opening act for Jimi Hendrix in Norman Oklahoma on May 8, 1970.. This drummer beat the hell out of his drums. He's the only drummer I ever saw break a bass drum head live.. These guys were much better than this song.. They had incredible vocals.. Saw them another time with Grand Funk Railroad and Chicago.. These guys were very very good all the way around!!
little different from what i remember it sounding off the album.. never knew the drummer lost both his arms tho.. sounds like the def lepperds drummer. i would like to see how this guy did it without both his arms tho being it was not no easy trick for the def lepperd drummer to do it.. strange video for sure. but the dude spilt his bottle of jack bummer!! been worse if it was jack daniels single barrel select ...
Well shut my mouth, it WAS about a plane crash. My apologizes.
The motivation for writing this song was explained in 2005 by guitarist Lee Pickens. “When I was 17, I wanted to be an airline pilot,” Pickens said. “I had just gotten out of this airplane with a friend of mine, at this little airport, and I watched him take off. He went about 200 feet in the air, rolled and crashed.” The band decided to write a song around the incident and include it on their second album.
The original song was not about a plane accident either, they were "flying along" means they were going very fast, "hit something in the air" means they went airborne during the accident, most likely a tree or telephone poll.
i have this cd but I remember the last time I heard this song on the radio. Was just in a accident looking down a cliff below at the Tennessee River. Talk about timing, huh
P.S. That IS Jim Rutledge in the video driving the car. It is not Bloodrock's version of the song in the video. Jim re-recorded it years later and made the video for the song.
Boy, where are you getting your info?? Jim Rutledge was the drummer on the first album. After that, their manager moved Jim upfront to be the lead singer/focal point of the group. Rick Cobb replaced Jim on drums. Jim Rutledge is alive and well and never had any dismembering car accident. I think YOU smoked massive amounts of weed. Rhythm guitarist Nick Taylor recently passed away and keyboardist, Stevie Hill, is not in good health.
@strategery22 Thank you, I thought I was loosing it when I read that crazy shit, because i sure never heard any of that crap. Didn't the drummer for def leppard have some kind of freaky accident and lose an arm or two?
I remember when the 8 track came out and bought it the first day it was put on the shelf. Seems it was about 69 or 70. The vid had to have been done years later.
@dbbubba I've been a long time fan of their music,..and had never of Rutledge missing his arms,...I was already starting to research & see if it was true. Sounds interesting, I suppose, lol.
Someone suggested this video was made in 1970. No way!! They have a computer screen in the ambulance for Christ's sakes!! It looks so completely 80s. Not 1970!!! LMAO.
@GyntherMeyer Yep. There weren't even videos in the 70's, much less computers. This video came about a decade later. I remember this song used to scare the crap out of me and my friends when it came on the radio.... we were about 11.
This looks like it might have been done for the syndicated Deja View shows that were done in the mid 80's. They took classic songs from the pre-MTV era (mostly stuff from the 60's and 70's) and made new, usually very mediocre, videos for them. They had at least two or three of these shows, as I recall. John Sebastian was the host.
I have all the original vinyl and the cd's.....and was fortunate enough to see these guys in Chicago at the auditorium theater and then again at the chicago amphitheater (the one they taped for the double lp) back around 1971...excellent shows....am glad to see their music has survived the years.....
@rotosoundz Very cool I grew up in Chicago but never saw them in concert. I still have their albums I bought back in the day. I used to work at the Chicago Amphitheater when I was a senior in high school for the Chicago Cougars hockey team, great memories and this song is still creepy.
I was about 20 when this song was aired. I went to buy the album the next day and was told that it had been pulled from the shelves and wouldnt be played anymore. Listening to it now I cant believe it was banned. The shit thats been aired for the last decade should have been banned. What a joke. I would like to punch the person in the fuckin head who made that decision.
It's amazing how so much later Goth-Rock would have this same tone and general atmosphere. These guys were way, way ahead of their time! But I find that is true with a lot of the early 70's Hard Rock/Stoner Rock.
Who put this youtube thing together with such bull shit? Jim Rutledge wasn't the drummer. He was the original singer. (replaced by Warren Ham I think in the early 70's) He wasn't hurt in a car crash. He still has both arms and is back with Bloodrock.
Oh maybe this dufus thinks he's talking about the drummer from Def Leopard. WTF?
Inside himself Tommy felt sublimated, sort of suspended in space. He had an euphoric feeling of wonderful well-being. Then he looked in a mirror and something horrible happened.
First it seemed that half of his face was rotting away. Then he began to see himself as a grotesque misshapen monster. He looked around the room and all the people were becoming monsters. Everybody knew what was happening to Tommy because he began screaming and describing what he was seeing.
THANKS!!!! I have it on a cassette but couldn't remember where it came from. I was listening to it and transcribing what I heard when I posted.. =) Thanks, man.
The air began to be filled with rainbows. The very atmosphere seemed to be a moving current of multicolour particles which came streaming down around him. When he listened to the stereo he saw coloured particles floating out from the speakers. When he looked at the walls they seemed to be melting. The pictures on the walls became liquified with colours running down like waterfall. It was sensational.
Tommy was going to be an engineer. He was 22, good-looking, personable, athletic. He had a high IQ. The dean said he had the best potential of any man in his class. But Tommy is dead. His problem was acid. Lysergic acid formula 25 called LSD. A close friend told him LSD was psychedelic,mindxpanding. Said it would give him fantastic new sensations and thrills. So Tommy tried it and his friend was right. At first the LSD made him sick at his stomach. But then Tommy began to hallucinate.
The 70's were a blurrrrr thank-god for albums BloodRock song was real! Panama Red ,wine, & a fast Harley Davidsons, and flying low. My God there arn't as many of us now today
i first heard this at our youth center in the 70's. then one day some men came in and took it out of the juke box. censorship in the usa in the 70's!! it wasn't till about 1979 that i finally tracked down the album!! been a fan ever since.. thanx!!!
i just heard htis on KKFI 90.1 Kansas City radio on halloween night at 9 oclock and this is such a doap song, not forgotten by me, i just discovered it
I'm a huge Bloodrock fan! I just posted my 1st youtube vid playing Jessica on bass along with my stereo. (1st song, Bloodrock 3)I've played DOA too - have a vid I'll post later.
Jim Rutledge, the original lead singer, re-recorded the song, "D.O.A.", which is his version you are hearing here. He made this video, years after Bloodrock had broken up, and stars in it. That's Jim driving the car and lying on the stretcher. This is NOT the original recording by Bloodrock. Hope that clears things up.
scottblackhoyt 1 week ago
Wow..... First of all, the original drummer for Bloodrock was Jim Rutledge. He played drums and sang the lead vocals on the first Bloodrock album. The band's producer, Terry Knight (who also produced Grand Funk Railroad), decided that the handsome Jim Rutledge needed to be out front and Rick Cobb was hired as the new drummer. Jim Rutledge was NOT in a car crash and left "armless". Total BS. After leaving Bloodrock he recorded a solo album for Capitol Records, "Hooray For Good Times".
scottblackhoyt 1 week ago
Bought the 8 track in '71.
I'm 61 now, still have the 8 track and this song STILL FREAKS ME OUT!
wacoflyer 3 weeks ago
I so remember listening to this over & over in my parents basement in 1971, I think...drugs!
winemanboy 1 month ago
I saw this band as the opening act for Jimi Hendrix in Norman Oklahoma on May 8, 1970.. This drummer beat the hell out of his drums. He's the only drummer I ever saw break a bass drum head live.. These guys were much better than this song.. They had incredible vocals.. Saw them another time with Grand Funk Railroad and Chicago.. These guys were very very good all the way around!!
benzaseeadoneitall 2 months ago
...but it was all a dream...
Missing my favorite lyric ("no chance for me"), but AW YEAH!!!!!!!!! Love the lightning strike! :D
NickJones55 3 months ago
Back in the 70's we were speeding so fast we called it flying low,......what do I know I was there. 67 Dodge Coronet R/T 440 Magnum....130 MPH
leerider52 6 months ago 2
little different from what i remember it sounding off the album.. never knew the drummer lost both his arms tho.. sounds like the def lepperds drummer. i would like to see how this guy did it without both his arms tho being it was not no easy trick for the def lepperd drummer to do it.. strange video for sure. but the dude spilt his bottle of jack bummer!! been worse if it was jack daniels single barrel select ...
dannydutchboy2011 7 months ago
Not even ..A car accident....
blrobbins3 7 months ago
Well shut my mouth, it WAS about a plane crash. My apologizes.
The motivation for writing this song was explained in 2005 by guitarist Lee Pickens. “When I was 17, I wanted to be an airline pilot,” Pickens said. “I had just gotten out of this airplane with a friend of mine, at this little airport, and I watched him take off. He went about 200 feet in the air, rolled and crashed.” The band decided to write a song around the incident and include it on their second album.
KevinR1138 9 months ago
The original song was not about a plane accident either, they were "flying along" means they were going very fast, "hit something in the air" means they went airborne during the accident, most likely a tree or telephone poll.
some folks take lyrics too literally.
KevinR1138 9 months ago
it isnt about a plane crash like some say , its a car wreck. the cop says there isnt another car or an animal.
jettt111 9 months ago
@jettt111 The cop isn't on the original song - I have the vinyl from back in the day.
NickJones55 3 months ago
i have this cd but I remember the last time I heard this song on the radio. Was just in a accident looking down a cliff below at the Tennessee River. Talk about timing, huh
johnbullock42 10 months ago
P.S. That IS Jim Rutledge in the video driving the car. It is not Bloodrock's version of the song in the video. Jim re-recorded it years later and made the video for the song.
strategery22 1 year ago
Boy, where are you getting your info?? Jim Rutledge was the drummer on the first album. After that, their manager moved Jim upfront to be the lead singer/focal point of the group. Rick Cobb replaced Jim on drums. Jim Rutledge is alive and well and never had any dismembering car accident. I think YOU smoked massive amounts of weed. Rhythm guitarist Nick Taylor recently passed away and keyboardist, Stevie Hill, is not in good health.
strategery22 1 year ago
@strategery22 Thank you, I thought I was loosing it when I read that crazy shit, because i sure never heard any of that crap. Didn't the drummer for def leppard have some kind of freaky accident and lose an arm or two?
Bluessontlavie 1 year ago
I remember buying this, in 8 track form, the first day it came out, sometime around 69 or 70.
raildog53 1 year ago
I remember when the 8 track came out and bought it the first day it was put on the shelf. Seems it was about 69 or 70. The vid had to have been done years later.
raildog53 1 year ago
I saw Jim Rutledge today getting gas for this Escalade at WalMart.
He still had his arms.
I have known Jim since the mid '80s and he wasn't the drummer for Bloodrock.
This version along with the video were done in '85.
The drummer is an old friend of mine.
dbbubba 1 year ago
@dbbubba I've been a long time fan of their music,..and had never of Rutledge missing his arms,...I was already starting to research & see if it was true. Sounds interesting, I suppose, lol.
Napco205 1 year ago
Someone suggested this video was made in 1970. No way!! They have a computer screen in the ambulance for Christ's sakes!! It looks so completely 80s. Not 1970!!! LMAO.
GyntherMeyer 1 year ago
@GyntherMeyer Yep. There weren't even videos in the 70's, much less computers. This video came about a decade later. I remember this song used to scare the crap out of me and my friends when it came on the radio.... we were about 11.
recyclecongress 1 year ago 2
This looks like it might have been done for the syndicated Deja View shows that were done in the mid 80's. They took classic songs from the pre-MTV era (mostly stuff from the 60's and 70's) and made new, usually very mediocre, videos for them. They had at least two or three of these shows, as I recall. John Sebastian was the host.
Kohntarkosz 1 year ago
SEE::: ALCOHOL and DRIVING DON"T MIX..
SLC, UTAH
m/56
johnjddavid 1 year ago
I have all the original vinyl and the cd's.....and was fortunate enough to see these guys in Chicago at the auditorium theater and then again at the chicago amphitheater (the one they taped for the double lp) back around 1971...excellent shows....am glad to see their music has survived the years.....
rotosoundz 1 year ago
@rotosoundz Very cool I grew up in Chicago but never saw them in concert. I still have their albums I bought back in the day. I used to work at the Chicago Amphitheater when I was a senior in high school for the Chicago Cougars hockey team, great memories and this song is still creepy.
1955Cal 1 year ago
I think that was actually Jim Rutledge playing the part of the man.....am guessing this video was done sometime around 1970 or so
rotosoundz 1 year ago
I was about 20 when this song was aired. I went to buy the album the next day and was told that it had been pulled from the shelves and wouldnt be played anymore. Listening to it now I cant believe it was banned. The shit thats been aired for the last decade should have been banned. What a joke. I would like to punch the person in the fuckin head who made that decision.
Callimotz 1 year ago
It's amazing how so much later Goth-Rock would have this same tone and general atmosphere. These guys were way, way ahead of their time! But I find that is true with a lot of the early 70's Hard Rock/Stoner Rock.
VernianProcess 2 years ago
first and last time i smoked angel dust all i heard was this song for five hours...shit!
samson19541 2 years ago
Just a note to those less informed...
Rutledge was the vocalist AND the drummer on the first album.
He switched to vocals only on the second album (the one DOA is on). Rick Cobb III was hired on as drummer, stayed that way until the Passage album
Rutledge was replaced by Warren Ham, Lee Pickens wasn't replaced, and they went a completely different direction.
btw: Rutledge is alive and well, two-handed, living in Texas.
There's your history lesson for today.
PFrankToob 2 years ago 2
For more information look on Wikipedia.
TEMPmichaelhansen 2 years ago
Who put this youtube thing together with such bull shit? Jim Rutledge wasn't the drummer. He was the original singer. (replaced by Warren Ham I think in the early 70's) He wasn't hurt in a car crash. He still has both arms and is back with Bloodrock.
Oh maybe this dufus thinks he's talking about the drummer from Def Leopard. WTF?
misterjaz 2 years ago
Inside himself Tommy felt sublimated, sort of suspended in space. He had an euphoric feeling of wonderful well-being. Then he looked in a mirror and something horrible happened.
First it seemed that half of his face was rotting away. Then he began to see himself as a grotesque misshapen monster. He looked around the room and all the people were becoming monsters. Everybody knew what was happening to Tommy because he began screaming and describing what he was seeing.
FirstLandingOnMedusa 2 years ago
Thank you.... FirstlandingOn Medusa...Your comment was a great interpretation of this song..
especially considering when this song was made..Drugs were quite open and used..
grumpa 2 years ago
@FirstLandingOnMedusa That's from Grave 45's remix of this song with and anti drug recording and Can.
infinite1funk 1 year ago
@infinite1funk
THANKS!!!! I have it on a cassette but couldn't remember where it came from. I was listening to it and transcribing what I heard when I posted.. =) Thanks, man.
FirstLandingOnMedusa 1 year ago
@FirstLandingOnMedusa I remember hearing this tune, exactly 40 years ago, March 1971. WOW! Time streaks by soooo fast. I was only a lad of ten.
Helivz 11 months ago
The air began to be filled with rainbows. The very atmosphere seemed to be a moving current of multicolour particles which came streaming down around him. When he listened to the stereo he saw coloured particles floating out from the speakers. When he looked at the walls they seemed to be melting. The pictures on the walls became liquified with colours running down like waterfall. It was sensational.
FirstLandingOnMedusa 2 years ago
Tommy was going to be an engineer. He was 22, good-looking, personable, athletic. He had a high IQ. The dean said he had the best potential of any man in his class. But Tommy is dead. His problem was acid. Lysergic acid formula 25 called LSD. A close friend told him LSD was psychedelic,mindxpanding. Said it would give him fantastic new sensations and thrills. So Tommy tried it and his friend was right. At first the LSD made him sick at his stomach. But then Tommy began to hallucinate.
FirstLandingOnMedusa 2 years ago
The 70's were a blurrrrr thank-god for albums BloodRock song was real! Panama Red ,wine, & a fast Harley Davidsons, and flying low. My God there arn't as many of us now today
leerider52 2 years ago
i first heard this at our youth center in the 70's. then one day some men came in and took it out of the juke box. censorship in the usa in the 70's!! it wasn't till about 1979 that i finally tracked down the album!! been a fan ever since.. thanx!!!
kingscott58 2 years ago
Jim? *sighs* nothing like a small world. I know him..or rather my friend does, I had no idea he was connected to her favorite band lol..just wow.
Creepy Song but love it
XFallenbatX 2 years ago
Where did this version of DOA come from? I've never heard it before. Is it from that live reunion show?
JonM11100 2 years ago
Well, guess what?
That is Jim in the video as the victim.
He wasn't the drummer for Bloodrock, but he was the vocalist.
He isn't dead and he has both ams.
How do I know this?
I spoke to him today shopping at WalMart!
BTW, this is re-make version of D.O.A. which was cut at C&W singer Charlie Pride's studio in 1985.
dbbubba 3 years ago
Hmmm thats funny,in 2005 they did a reunion concert for Stevie Hill who has lukemia,when did Jim rutledge kose his arms in an accident?
He had arm's in 2005!
thunderfingerbird 3 years ago
Apparently the drummer for that show was someone named Chris Taylor
jm3004 3 years ago
Yes,you are right. He is Nick Taylors son.He sat in for Rick Cobb because he lives in Washington state,and could not make the reunion show!
wretchedflower 3 years ago
this song gives me the chills...
ZanamationINC 3 years ago
This has unfortunately become a lost classic.
bumblesinterviews 3 years ago
i just heard htis on KKFI 90.1 Kansas City radio on halloween night at 9 oclock and this is such a doap song, not forgotten by me, i just discovered it
mynumberonehat 3 years ago
I'm a huge Bloodrock fan! I just posted my 1st youtube vid playing Jessica on bass along with my stereo. (1st song, Bloodrock 3)I've played DOA too - have a vid I'll post later.
bassandguitarguy 3 years ago
I too am a huge Bloodrock fan,and proud to be one.
I checked out some of your vid's. Good job bro!
wretchedflower 3 years ago
You are a huge moonbat, BRO.
topcat42 3 years ago