Someone told me that this song was banned from radio, due to the sirens in it? Cars were pulling over randomly and causing problems. Can anyone confirm that?
I felt like thisz when poor John Denver lost hiys life. I tried to write a song abouyt iyt buyt tthe melodies in my head were too intense. Close to home!--I was supposed to be on the plane that sent Ken Hubbsz to his fiery death.
"DOA" was probably the band's most well known and well remembered single. 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.
It looks like someone else purchased that fucking horrible collection of photos Life (should be called Death) magazine gathered together and called "photos that changed the world"...which were mainly the most gruesome, morbid and fucking disgusting images in history...sickening....
Respond to this video... ran a trail of water over the back of her neck. She jumped up with a squeal, it startled her so much! Actually, it creeped her out! I laughed at her reaction, and she thought it was funny too! Both of us heard it before, but it was just the reaction of the words: "Pain is flowing out with my blood..", along w/the trickle of water on the nape of her neck! We were always clowning around w/each other like that! LOL! I hadn't heard this song for almost 40 years!
@geetersdad Hi- I'm 55 also; and I remember this song very well! It was one of the creepiest I'd ever heard at that time! I remember a funny incident though, listening to the song. One of my friends and I were in cooking class in junior high. Our teacher let us listen to popular music on the radio/record player while we worked. This song came one one day, and I was washing the dishes. My friend was sitting down, writing something. This song was playing. I sneaked up behind her, and
@geetersdad -your advice about weed is weird and not based on reality. weed does not wreak brain damage,
booze does and everything else does if overdone, but weed is the freindliest, most inspirational, musical, artistic and nature loving enhancements to your life! music and weed together rules, your advice leads to an acoustic life,
not an electric one, wise up and enjoy life, abandon the road of less joy while there is still time. feed your head, be all you can be. smarten up, fly high.
I was 9 when this came out; shortly after this, I flew out to California to visit my dad, and all I could think about was this song. They might not have been "the American Black Sabbath", but this freaking song is timeless and a legend of the 70's
@thejokerha That's Ron Kovic at the 1976 Democratic Convention. He was paralyzed in Vietnam, and he became a peace activist after the war. He had actually gone to the 1972 Republican Convention and was arrested for making Nixon look pathetic.
@jbeng1953 Bloodrock actually debuted exactly the same year as Black Sabbath did - 1970. Sabbath had a few 45s in Britain in '69. The press dubbed Bloodrock "the American answer to Black Sabbath" but soon dropped that description of them, when Blue Oyster Cult's self-titled debut hit the shelves in 1972. Then BOC got labeled that way, and the press forgot about Bloodrock, who released the misunderstood, sleeper album "USA" that year.
the song, despite it's many mis-representations, is ACTUALLY about a car wreck. "Flying low" refers to going a high rate of speed in a CAR, not an airplane. People never did understand this.
What a classic! Sick...without question, of course. But I find it to be humorous at the same time. I am an avid skydiver, and every time I crawl on board a plane this morbid song runs through my head. Freakin hilarious!!! People over-react to this crap! Don't take it for more than what it is. LOL!!!
This song came out about the time the Marshall Universitys football team was wiped out in a plane crash, November 14th 1970, Many Radio stations in the area would not play the song.
I was 8 and it has been stuck in my head. i diddnt even know who it was untill now. it is alittle messed up but i think cool in some ways but im not right any
i loved this song. its what music was like back then. this is quintessential for the times. its how we knew it was time to go home. its nothing compared to the horror films most of you go to regularly. this is just reality, like it or not. there is nothing to argue with here. i also like how they are always telling us who the enemy is. Great distraction, and EVERYBODY falls for me, cept me of course. Thank my gods for that.
i loved this song. its what music was like back then. this is quintessential for the times. its how we knew it was time to go home. its nothing compared to the horror films most of you go to regularly. this is just reality, like it or not. there is nothing to argue with here.
Liked and bought the 45 back in '71 and just graduated high school. This song was no different than others at the time by Alice Cooper or Black Sabbath. It wasn't meant to be evil, just for folks that got a kick out of Halloween and ghosts. I'm Conservative and believe in the freedom to create and play music like this. People today are too up tight and politically correct. Restrictions, rules and regs suck, freedom keeps American great. Market will decide if its not wanted. I was in WTC on 911.
. According to lead guitarist, Lee Pickens, "DOA" was based on the ill fated Wichita State University football team airplane crash of Oct. 2, 1970. "DOA" was very controversial in a number of markets due to its content, and while it was not banned outright in any markets, the controversy did help the sales and chart position of both the single and the album on which it appeared, Bloodrock 2.
I have never heard this song before. It is definitely dark and morose and explaining the bleak side of excistence. WOW and when I first got into rock I thought that
Black Sabbath was the only band exploring the negative reality of the world. Great job In my opinion of intersecting The video Images of Horror and Death and Terror and Destruction and Evil Terrible Figures from the Past to accomplish
Thanks for Up-Loading this. I maintain that if this had been ORIGINALLY
recorded by one of the more Mainstream Bands of the Era, say like, Zepplin,
Deep Purple, Maybe Grand Funk, or, for dam sure Alice Cooper. It WOULD be Heralded as one of the absolute CLASSICS on par with, or at least, rock throwing distance of Zepps Stairway to Heaven. This Band just DID'NT have
sirlovemehard: The song itself is tasteless and disgusting. The pictures fit the mood of the song. Stop overreacting. Why don't the other fucking disturbing pictures in the gallery of images disturb you? They're meant to fuck with your mind.
@mikedeviant btw none of the photos belong to you dude! No, u have no permission 2 use any photos in any way. Now, Theme wise u are way off (as most people who try to make something with o.p.'s art work etc.) PLANE CRASH not war, not politics, not shock pictures, now go play in traffic and i don't need some amature mind masturbation.
@mikedeviant The pics you posted with the song are inappropriate--mostly a lot of pro-Zionist propaganda shit flavor. You could've a least redeemed yourself a little by having one state Israel as the enemy. But keep watching that idiot box son.
@rogdowling You're close, it's not a plane crash, it's a car crash. There's another video of them in car crash. "Flying low" was a term for speeding back then(damn, I'm old). There were a lot of dark songs in those days including "Electric Funeral" by Black Sabbath.
@OuchMyGlands666 airplane crash,someone whos dying but survived the whole crash who Dies On Arrival to the hospital. thats what the songs about. its a story just like the bible and its a pretty good one none the less
@mikedeviant Its a song about an airplane crash, many years ago, i played this song back in 1973, i know the damn story, it scares the hell out of young kids if they drive crazy, take it as you hear it fuck the graphics, its all gay and not to the point im 54 i know, go home and live your silly lives and never listen to this again! I can handle it but most people cant. so be it! Merry Christmas!
@axeslinger56 Yeah, I just said the photos were of things that kind of freak me out. It's very random. I would have put John Wayne Gacy in there, but that would have been really gay.
I realize that the artists had a different meaning, and I respect that. It's just my bad dream stuff that's on display here, my personal phobias. Do not expect that I'm saying they should be yours or anyone elses.
this is the album version. This was inspired by an accual event...According to lead guitarist, Lee Pickens, "D.O.A." is based on the ill fated Wichita State University football team airplane crash of Oct. 2, 1970. In March, 1971, many US radio stations and high schools banned "D.O.A.". Despite a lack of air-play, the single still reached #36 on the Billboard chart.
It says on my lp Bloodrock is from Fort Worth TX. BTW to first time listeners the first three Bloodrock albums/cds rock and this song is one of the weakest in my humble opinion.
@marilync6 i remember too i was 10 and it creeped me out,but i still would listen every time they played it.listening to it on wtry troy ny,and wptr sched,ny.at night i would travel the dial and rem the boston station,mentioned above,and wkbw,where i rem wolfman jack.
@marilync6 i remember too i was 10 and it creeped me out,but i still would listen every time they played it.listening to it on wtry troy ny,and wptr sched,ny.at night i would travel the dial and rem the boston station,mentioned above,and wkbw,where i rem wolfman jack.
@marilync6 i remember too i was 10 and it creeped me out,but i still would listen every time they played it.listening to it on wtry troy ny,and wptr sched,ny.at night i would travel the dial and rem the boston station,mentioned above,and wkbw,where i rem wolfman jack.
I may be wrong (and I am a lot) but this song was soo before Sadam etc., I thought (when I was younger) that it was about death and dieing (sp?) and life and living.... I dunno, I'm babbling... but I remember this song from so many years ago
I have been looking for this song for years. I used to get stoned and listen to it on the stereo. Just lay there for hours listening to it. I never even knew what the half the words were till I heard them again. God bless us everyone, that we survived the late '60's and early 70's. But didn't we have fun!!!
BTW...many of the pix of the band were from some years later when Rutledge had long gone, the band's sound had changed radically/ Warren Ham was singer and he hated this song. The band performed it as an instrumental, and even then Ham refused to contribute. Pretty dumb hiring a singer who won't sing your only hit, but they made a series of unfortunate choices, starting with the departure of Jim Rutledge and Lee Pickens, who were the biggest assets they had.
Flying low meant going way too fast in a car. Cippy is correct that the song was banned on many am stations. I first heard it on kxok in St Louis, which was am.
Great tune. Its a miracle I lived through some of the low flying we did.
Solidworksinventor ,,,Amen I'm 57 as of May 16th I have no idea how I got here....oh ya Marine training....I heard the song one time... I had to have the album
solidworks is correct. These guys were huge in my time, and Jim Rutledge made it clear that the "flying" was on uppers, not airplanes. The accident was in car, not a plane.
I have no issues with the guy who did this, but having lived through that time, and having been a very politically aware and active kinda guy ( still am ), this all seems disjointed and arbitrary. I see/hear no connection between the music and some of the images.
Still, It's nice that someone is friggin' thinking....
The lyrics cut and dry this song. It's a song about a plane crash. Boy Howdy & Back In The Day! This song freaked me out ! I knew a kid that owned the 45...It was like, dude! Listen to This!" And what a buzz-kill at parties.
this is a very interesting video. it shows how people truly suffer under the rulership of men. look around and you will clearly see that things are getting worse..........
ok kiddies a little schoolin for you..this is about a plane crash..this song was banned on am radio..fm was starting its popularity and this song was played there to wide acceptance..fm played a lot of am banned songs like they are comming to take me away..helter skelter and doa..i was a ny dj on wor fm 98.7 back than
Some ppl don't appreciate knowledge,even though i'm dealing with a misspelling on You, I appreciate the information. I didn't know ttnat and your tutelage has made me wiser.
I was 10 when I first heard this. It was winter and I was lying next to the heater with a blanket over me. It was red! Needless to say I was appropriately freaked out. I love this song and still get a shiver when I hear it. Heard on the radio today as a matter of fact
What station did you hear this song on? I have discovered this song on SIRIUS 16 The VAULT (now DEEP TRACKS) a couple years back and this song totally blew my mind away
It was the long one and usually they only play it at night, if at all. Alice Cooper played it on his show about 3 months ago. But the other day KLPX had a long lost song weekend or so they called it.
I would've guess them playing the single version, I like how the stations would throw in a long lost song weekend, it's a great feeling getting to hear the forgotten classic rock gems
i hear ya! My parents were big born-again christians and i remember they had a bunch of 45's and an old record player in a closet. I came across this being about 10 or 11 and i was like WOW. They took it away from me because i started to get obsessed with it. Freaky, but amazing..
I attended my first concert in San Antonio and didn't know blood rock existed, they were the opening act for Grand Funk At the Hemisfair Arena I was 14 years old, cool !!
I was 12 when this was a hit in 1971. Mom heard it on the radio (probably WRKO in Boston) and wanted to know "what is that horrible song?" Well, that was it for me - I *had* to have the single then! Bought the 45 and played the hell out of it for a month or two. Never heard the long version until now (thanks for posting mike, BTW). However, I think the pictures detract from the song as the lyrics, delivery, and sound effects paint a nice macabre picture all by themselves.
I really love this song and I'm happy and surprised this song made the Top 40, I'll never forget the first time I've heard this song (single edit) on the a SIRIUS radio station called The VAULT (now XM's Deep Tracks) and I immediately fell in love with this song, it didn't really creep me though but it does bring me back alot of great memories listening to the VAULT.
I remember . . . I was 10 years old when this track hit the radio. Very effective use of the "devil's interval" (an old music composition trick) to create a spooky, floating mood. But it's Rutledge's melodramatic vocal that really puts it over the top.
Luv, LUV the montage! I used to play DOA over and over and over until I was relaxed and sleepy, then flip it over and play Children's Heritage before drifting off to sleep. No wonder my mother thought I was "dark" during my teen years. :)
I remember all my friends way back in 1971, asking if I had heard the new song DOA by a group called Bloodrock. I didn't hear it for a long time. I remember, like it was yesterday, when I first heard it. I was in my 1957 Chevy driving from Dover, OK to my home in Hennessey, OK around midnight by myself. The song really freaked me out. I did a composition in English IV. Broke it down word for word, sound for sound. Only A+ I ever got in that English class. Thanks for the memories.
First heard it at 11 or 12..which was 1971-72 It freaked me out then and gave me a weird feeling even as a kid. A friend of mine had it on a 45rpm. What the heck was it about those bands of the early 70's? I havent heard it for close to 40 years and it still creeps me out. AM radio rock was downright weird.
Haven't heard D.O.A. in over 30 years, but I have been thinking about it & yes, it's on you tube. I saw Bloodrock open for Grand Funk in N.O. back in 1971. May have been the first of a zillion shows I saw live. Later in 1973 saw the Lee Pickins group play in the park for free, they had released 1 album-Try finding it today!!
I was 6 when I first heard it on the radio. Creeped me out completely, but I had to hear it again. Kind of like ELO's Fire on High. The beginning of that song has a creepy feel to it. Like the music in the Exorcist.
My mom used to get pissed when I listened to this. "I try to move my arm and there's no feeling....and when I look, I see there's nothing there". That line used to give me the creeps.
The first time I heard these guys was their live DOA!!!! The band was awwsome to listen to!!!!! And to tell you the truth I still enjoy listening to them.
I am suprised to hear this song. My older brother got the elbum back in the early 70's, It haunted me. But now its like an old friend. I think that it was before it's time.
I was five when this song came out. My father was in NY rock bands and my parents had the coolest records. This song scared the living crap out of me!! I used to envision a video to go with the song. Great memories!! Or are they? haha
this was a song that was either revered or absolutely despised...LOL I am so happy to find this on you tube...the song has a bit of notoriety.. and for good reason...the music of the 70's was so groundbreaking.. nothing today compares
Did someone tabbed my cup of joe? I am felling a flashback of windopane. For all you young ones thtas the acid talkin That was the way to party ; a $5.00 hit would get your head trippin for most of the day! just for today!!
I usually don't like the photo videos, but what a great mix of pics. First, pictures of the turbulent times of the late 60s, then pics of the equally turbulent times today. Then the anti facisim pics. Great!
Coop's radio show is amazing. They cut it off in Kansas City, after Entercom bought up the last locally owned rock station in town - KYYS - founded in 1974. Entercom stopped carrying Dr. Dimento as well.
i was 10 or 11 years old and had just really started listening to music and they played this every day before i went to school.i thought it was cool but scary too every time i heard it.there isnt another song like it.
Someone told me that this song was banned from radio, due to the sirens in it? Cars were pulling over randomly and causing problems. Can anyone confirm that?
zigzaggirl 2 weeks ago
I felt like thisz when poor John Denver lost hiys life. I tried to write a song abouyt iyt buyt tthe melodies in my head were too intense. Close to home!--I was supposed to be on the plane that sent Ken Hubbsz to his fiery death.
raydog699 3 weeks ago
"DOA" was probably the band's most well known and well remembered single. 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.
ZappasUtopia 2 months ago
Creepy but Cool song
natmingmcf1 4 months ago
Why did all the bin laden and twin towers stuff have to be there? EVERYTHING has to be political these days... It makes me ill...
CthulhuDarkLord 4 months ago
@CthulhuDarkLord It's not about politics, it's about any disaster or evil - assassination, Satanism (LaVey), war propanganda images, and so on.
NickJones55 3 months ago
This is the perfect song for the Halloween season, especially since it's about the final thoughts of an airline pilot whose plane's crashed!
pookerville 4 months ago
great montage. If you don't understand it, then I guess you had to be there.
derhandtrommler 5 months ago
First song I've ever heard from this band and I have to say they kick ass.
13bwagner 5 months ago
cheerful little ditty
preluki 6 months ago
It looks like someone else purchased that fucking horrible collection of photos Life (should be called Death) magazine gathered together and called "photos that changed the world"...which were mainly the most gruesome, morbid and fucking disgusting images in history...sickening....
cathoderoy 6 months ago
I forgot all about this band! I has the record back when I was a kid! I even remembered most of the words!
Chaosinarizona 6 months ago
Respond to this video... ran a trail of water over the back of her neck. She jumped up with a squeal, it startled her so much! Actually, it creeped her out! I laughed at her reaction, and she thought it was funny too! Both of us heard it before, but it was just the reaction of the words: "Pain is flowing out with my blood..", along w/the trickle of water on the nape of her neck! We were always clowning around w/each other like that! LOL! I hadn't heard this song for almost 40 years!
loveoldsongs 6 months ago
@geetersdad Hi- I'm 55 also; and I remember this song very well! It was one of the creepiest I'd ever heard at that time! I remember a funny incident though, listening to the song. One of my friends and I were in cooking class in junior high. Our teacher let us listen to popular music on the radio/record player while we worked. This song came one one day, and I was washing the dishes. My friend was sitting down, writing something. This song was playing. I sneaked up behind her, and
loveoldsongs 6 months ago
I'm a sucker for these types of songs.
bagnumberthree 6 months ago
"God in Heaven teach me how to die"
bfmfd 9 months ago
@geetersdad -your advice about weed is weird and not based on reality. weed does not wreak brain damage,
booze does and everything else does if overdone, but weed is the freindliest, most inspirational, musical, artistic and nature loving enhancements to your life! music and weed together rules, your advice leads to an acoustic life,
not an electric one, wise up and enjoy life, abandon the road of less joy while there is still time. feed your head, be all you can be. smarten up, fly high.
ddarkshark 10 months ago
i remember a song dead on arrival d.o.a . would like to find it
Dmj25600 11 months ago
I was 9 when this came out; shortly after this, I flew out to California to visit my dad, and all I could think about was this song. They might not have been "the American Black Sabbath", but this freaking song is timeless and a legend of the 70's
shawnp62 1 year ago
did anybody from this group play with grand funk railroad thanks mel.
melfriend7 1 year ago
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So who are the men in the photo at the 1:07 mark? One man holding the other while his hand is raised, and a third looking on.
thejokerha 1 year ago
So who are the men in the photo at the 1:07 mark? One man holding the other while his hand is raised, and a third looking on.
thejokerha 1 year ago
@thejokerha That's Ron Kovic at the 1976 Democratic Convention. He was paralyzed in Vietnam, and he became a peace activist after the war. He had actually gone to the 1972 Republican Convention and was arrested for making Nixon look pathetic.
mikedeviant 1 year ago
@mikedeviant The movie Born On the 4th Of July with Tom Cruise was based on Kovic...
mesonsdad 5 months ago
Respond to this video... BTW - this song SCARED the shit outta me when i was just a little more'n sperm - sceery!!!
mesonsdad 5 months ago
i had this cassette in 71. i didnt think it existed anymore.
MackeyForce10 1 year ago
gore rock is born!!! oh yeah then came black sabbath!!! love to all!! war pigs anyone??? these guys got me!!! the rest is armagedon!!!
jbeng1953 1 year ago 3
@jbeng1953 Bloodrock actually debuted exactly the same year as Black Sabbath did - 1970. Sabbath had a few 45s in Britain in '69. The press dubbed Bloodrock "the American answer to Black Sabbath" but soon dropped that description of them, when Blue Oyster Cult's self-titled debut hit the shelves in 1972. Then BOC got labeled that way, and the press forgot about Bloodrock, who released the misunderstood, sleeper album "USA" that year.
mikedeviant 1 year ago 3
@mikedeviant The artistic ability of BLOODROCK far outways that of Sabbath. Though I am a fan of Sabbath BLOODROCK is the real deal as it happened.
mamasboy815 11 months ago
@mikedeviant technicaly, 1969...thatis the release date of the first album. they were also together under the name "crowd+1" or someting like that.
whitemanik1 4 months ago
gore rock is born!!! oh yeah then came black sabbath!!! love to all!! war pigs anyone???
jbeng1953 1 year ago
gore rock is born!!! oh yeah then came black sabbath!!! love to all!!
jbeng1953 1 year ago
gore rock is born!!!
jbeng1953 1 year ago
the song, despite it's many mis-representations, is ACTUALLY about a car wreck. "Flying low" refers to going a high rate of speed in a CAR, not an airplane. People never did understand this.
barkersteve 1 year ago
What a classic! Sick...without question, of course. But I find it to be humorous at the same time. I am an avid skydiver, and every time I crawl on board a plane this morbid song runs through my head. Freakin hilarious!!! People over-react to this crap! Don't take it for more than what it is. LOL!!!
taylorstjohn85 1 year ago
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This song came out about the time the Marshall Universitys football team was wiped out in a plane crash, November 14th 1970, Many Radio stations in the area would not play the song.
gutsbiker 1 year ago
I was 8 and it has been stuck in my head. i diddnt even know who it was untill now. it is alittle messed up but i think cool in some ways but im not right any
way
stevenashley47 1 year ago
This song scared the heck outta me in 1971. Great eerie track.
Caasi02 1 year ago
i loved this song. its what music was like back then. this is quintessential for the times. its how we knew it was time to go home. its nothing compared to the horror films most of you go to regularly. this is just reality, like it or not. there is nothing to argue with here. i also like how they are always telling us who the enemy is. Great distraction, and EVERYBODY falls for me, cept me of course. Thank my gods for that.
zazus 1 year ago
i loved this song. its what music was like back then. this is quintessential for the times. its how we knew it was time to go home. its nothing compared to the horror films most of you go to regularly. this is just reality, like it or not. there is nothing to argue with here.
zazus 1 year ago
I was 13 when this creep song came out. I hated it.
jsicolts 1 year ago
I disagree the song and pictures show the inhumanity man has delt upon its self
terrdrea 1 year ago
That was crazy! But so is this life!!!
skyehoyt1971 1 year ago
Liked and bought the 45 back in '71 and just graduated high school. This song was no different than others at the time by Alice Cooper or Black Sabbath. It wasn't meant to be evil, just for folks that got a kick out of Halloween and ghosts. I'm Conservative and believe in the freedom to create and play music like this. People today are too up tight and politically correct. Restrictions, rules and regs suck, freedom keeps American great. Market will decide if its not wanted. I was in WTC on 911.
henrynevins 1 year ago
beginning image reminds of Zombies at my neighbors on Genesis and SNES! love that game
MarianHossa18rw 1 year ago
How can you blame Mike, we were flying low
ezramead 1 year ago
dont like what u c dont watch,its history a sad commentary on how we treat each other or reality.
MrVinny53 1 year ago
From Wiki
. According to lead guitarist, Lee Pickens, "DOA" was based on the ill fated Wichita State University football team airplane crash of Oct. 2, 1970. "DOA" was very controversial in a number of markets due to its content, and while it was not banned outright in any markets, the controversy did help the sales and chart position of both the single and the album on which it appeared, Bloodrock 2.
RichGalbraith 1 year ago
This song scared me big time the first time i heard it.....
bwild61 1 year ago
great great pic effects.more more more
sssshark45 1 year ago
wow this takes me back !
granger18trains 1 year ago
I remember this song when it first came out and i scared my best friend every time lol i loved this song
TheObsession4 1 year ago
sirlovemehard has personal issues...
mjreconsidered 1 year ago
I have never heard this song before. It is definitely dark and morose and explaining the bleak side of excistence. WOW and when I first got into rock I thought that
Black Sabbath was the only band exploring the negative reality of the world. Great job In my opinion of intersecting The video Images of Horror and Death and Terror and Destruction and Evil Terrible Figures from the Past to accomplish
the overall essence of this Macabre song.
MrSmokeydog 1 year ago
Thanks for Up-Loading this. I maintain that if this had been ORIGINALLY
recorded by one of the more Mainstream Bands of the Era, say like, Zepplin,
Deep Purple, Maybe Grand Funk, or, for dam sure Alice Cooper. It WOULD be Heralded as one of the absolute CLASSICS on par with, or at least, rock throwing distance of Zepps Stairway to Heaven. This Band just DID'NT have
the Promotion that others had.
ancientastronomer 1 year ago
I remember this shit played on Dave Rabbit in Vietnam.
Truthpolice9698 2 years ago 3
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The World Trade Center photos to this song is tasteless and disgusting. Should not of posted them...
sirlovemehard 2 years ago
sirlovemehard: The song itself is tasteless and disgusting. The pictures fit the mood of the song. Stop overreacting. Why don't the other fucking disturbing pictures in the gallery of images disturb you? They're meant to fuck with your mind.
mikedeviant 2 years ago
@mikedeviant well...you have A point
DarkestofTimes 1 year ago
@mikedeviant btw none of the photos belong to you dude! No, u have no permission 2 use any photos in any way. Now, Theme wise u are way off (as most people who try to make something with o.p.'s art work etc.) PLANE CRASH not war, not politics, not shock pictures, now go play in traffic and i don't need some amature mind masturbation.
rogdowling 1 year ago
@rogdowling You don't have a bitch against the other vids on here that do the same thing. There are millions of them.
mikedeviant 1 year ago
@mikedeviant The pics you posted with the song are inappropriate--mostly a lot of pro-Zionist propaganda shit flavor. You could've a least redeemed yourself a little by having one state Israel as the enemy. But keep watching that idiot box son.
I thank you for uploading the song however.
UnseenCaller 1 year ago
@rogdowling You're close, it's not a plane crash, it's a car crash. There's another video of them in car crash. "Flying low" was a term for speeding back then(damn, I'm old). There were a lot of dark songs in those days including "Electric Funeral" by Black Sabbath.
i002492 1 year ago
@i002492 Then what does "and hit something in the air" refer to?
OuchMyGlands666 1 year ago
@OuchMyGlands666 airplane crash,someone whos dying but survived the whole crash who Dies On Arrival to the hospital. thats what the songs about. its a story just like the bible and its a pretty good one none the less
BadMotorFinger92 1 year ago
@OuchMyGlands666 I dunno, maybe a tower, water tank, another aircraft, you name it. It always sounded like "we were flying alone" to me.
UnseenCaller 1 year ago
@mikedeviant Its a song about an airplane crash, many years ago, i played this song back in 1973, i know the damn story, it scares the hell out of young kids if they drive crazy, take it as you hear it fuck the graphics, its all gay and not to the point im 54 i know, go home and live your silly lives and never listen to this again! I can handle it but most people cant. so be it! Merry Christmas!
axeslinger56 1 year ago
@axeslinger56 Yeah, I just said the photos were of things that kind of freak me out. It's very random. I would have put John Wayne Gacy in there, but that would have been really gay.
I realize that the artists had a different meaning, and I respect that. It's just my bad dream stuff that's on display here, my personal phobias. Do not expect that I'm saying they should be yours or anyone elses.
mikedeviant 1 year ago
@sirlovemehard You'll get over it. The whole idea of it is to be offensive and by posting the comment you ate it up.
surf4food 1 year ago
@sirlovemehard that's why ur a giant retarded fagot.
imaprettycoolguy 1 year ago
@sirlovemehard No the lies being perpetrated about what really happened on 911 are whats disgusting.
bosshallucy 1 year ago
@sirlovemehard I didn't know there was a tasteful way to show pictures of a national disaster.
mplindberg 1 year ago
also from BLOODROCK first album : The song "Gotta Find a Way" contains one of the earliest instances of backmasking.
ALso read the 1991 book "The Worst Rock and Roll Records Of All Time" by Jimmy Guterman and Owen O'Donnell; if you really wanna laugh!!!
TEMPmichaelhansen 2 years ago
one wonders how many people who heard this had nightmares?
Also check out "Mr. Turnkey" by Zager & Evans. This was the follow up to there hit "In the Year 2525"
I have both the lp & edited 45 rpm of "D.O.A."
TEMPmichaelhansen 2 years ago
this is the album version. This was inspired by an accual event...According to lead guitarist, Lee Pickens, "D.O.A." is based on the ill fated Wichita State University football team airplane crash of Oct. 2, 1970. In March, 1971, many US radio stations and high schools banned "D.O.A.". Despite a lack of air-play, the single still reached #36 on the Billboard chart.
TEMPmichaelhansen 2 years ago
Was Bloodrock really from Arlington, Texas?
MsRockin4ever 2 years ago
It says on my lp Bloodrock is from Fort Worth TX. BTW to first time listeners the first three Bloodrock albums/cds rock and this song is one of the weakest in my humble opinion.
stomp919 2 years ago
OUT of Body,OUT of time,WE all got to go some day.We all know some one who went D.O.A. That is, if your as old as this song.
bloodrock333 2 years ago
Love this song ... my first boyfriend died this way, right after this song came out ... in just the same way. No kidding.
Babalon 2 years ago
This song scared the hell out of me when I was a kid. Must have been on acid to write this stuff.
marilync6 2 years ago 11
@marilync6 or get in a plane crash lol
DarkestofTimes 1 year ago
@marilync6 i remember too i was 10 and it creeped me out,but i still would listen every time they played it.listening to it on wtry troy ny,and wptr sched,ny.at night i would travel the dial and rem the boston station,mentioned above,and wkbw,where i rem wolfman jack.
enserfud 1 year ago
@marilync6 i remember too i was 10 and it creeped me out,but i still would listen every time they played it.listening to it on wtry troy ny,and wptr sched,ny.at night i would travel the dial and rem the boston station,mentioned above,and wkbw,where i rem wolfman jack.
enserfud 1 year ago
@marilync6 i remember too i was 10 and it creeped me out,but i still would listen every time they played it.listening to it on wtry troy ny,and wptr sched,ny.at night i would travel the dial and rem the boston station,mentioned above,and wkbw,where i rem wolfman jack.
enserfud 1 year ago
@marilync6 i agreee!
fkutwo 6 months ago
From 2 albums this was the only good one. I remember this one cruising in my 72 Z28
TootsBarn 2 years ago
I may be wrong (and I am a lot) but this song was soo before Sadam etc., I thought (when I was younger) that it was about death and dieing (sp?) and life and living.... I dunno, I'm babbling... but I remember this song from so many years ago
FeistyMalinois 2 years ago
I have been looking for this song for years. I used to get stoned and listen to it on the stereo. Just lay there for hours listening to it. I never even knew what the half the words were till I heard them again. God bless us everyone, that we survived the late '60's and early 70's. But didn't we have fun!!!
bobbi39183 2 years ago 2
gawd, this brings back memories
louswire 2 years ago
BTW...many of the pix of the band were from some years later when Rutledge had long gone, the band's sound had changed radically/ Warren Ham was singer and he hated this song. The band performed it as an instrumental, and even then Ham refused to contribute. Pretty dumb hiring a singer who won't sing your only hit, but they made a series of unfortunate choices, starting with the departure of Jim Rutledge and Lee Pickens, who were the biggest assets they had.
dertrommler54 2 years ago
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yeahsee33 2 years ago
Flying low meant going way too fast in a car. Cippy is correct that the song was banned on many am stations. I first heard it on kxok in St Louis, which was am.
Great tune. Its a miracle I lived through some of the low flying we did.
solidworksinventor 2 years ago
Solidworksinventor ,,,Amen I'm 57 as of May 16th I have no idea how I got here....oh ya Marine training....I heard the song one time... I had to have the album
leerider52 2 years ago
solidworks is correct. These guys were huge in my time, and Jim Rutledge made it clear that the "flying" was on uppers, not airplanes. The accident was in car, not a plane.
I have no issues with the guy who did this, but having lived through that time, and having been a very politically aware and active kinda guy ( still am ), this all seems disjointed and arbitrary. I see/hear no connection between the music and some of the images.
Still, It's nice that someone is friggin' thinking....
dertrommler54 2 years ago
Yeah, when this one hit the turntable it was a sign we were all way stoned and time to either go home or pass out in a chair and spend the night.
SuperSlohan 2 years ago
... choked on my beer when I read this...
louswire 2 years ago
The lyrics cut and dry this song. It's a song about a plane crash. Boy Howdy & Back In The Day! This song freaked me out ! I knew a kid that owned the 45...It was like, dude! Listen to This!" And what a buzz-kill at parties.
KVigaard 2 years ago
Actually, in those days, flying low meant going very fast in a car. As kids we used to fly low.
Great tune.
solidworksinventor 2 years ago
so true... 6 kids in a convertible Firebird... it flipped... luckily in this case only one kid got hurt and he (the driver) recovered.
(rolled at 120 MPH BTW)
louswire 2 years ago
this is a very interesting video. it shows how people truly suffer under the rulership of men. look around and you will clearly see that things are getting worse..........
dianetwee 2 years ago
this was the creepiest song I ever heard on AM radio
powerkor 2 years ago
This version is a bunch of crap..
pigsare4blondes 2 years ago
ok kiddies a little schoolin for you..this is about a plane crash..this song was banned on am radio..fm was starting its popularity and this song was played there to wide acceptance..fm played a lot of am banned songs like they are comming to take me away..helter skelter and doa..i was a ny dj on wor fm 98.7 back than
cippy2k 3 years ago 2
Some ppl don't appreciate knowledge,even though i'm dealing with a misspelling on You, I appreciate the information. I didn't know ttnat and your tutelage has made me wiser.
NecroticNeurotic 2 years ago
Yes, why do many of you think this is about war?
Its about stoned freaks having a car wreck, the guy is watching his own death.
Just listen to the lyrics....its named DOA for a reason. He's dying as he reaches the hospital.
"We were fllying low (high as a kite) and hit something in the air" Not a huey, a car.
Then he's concious only of being in the hospital next.
Its a developed taste.
Long version is better...
Brad
candali1 3 years ago
It stated on Wikipedia and other sites that Bloodrock stated themselves it was based off a plane crash. In which many high school students died.
AngelofMusic916 3 years ago 2
I didn't even know that there was a long version lol.. You can tell i'm an 80's baby.. actually 70's
NecroticNeurotic 2 years ago
why do people think this song is about war?
xXxKIDEVILxXx 3 years ago
im going to smoke 2grams of weed and go longboarding
patgerzan 3 years ago
5 star song...1 star presentation. F*ck the anti-war pussys...besides, the audio sucks...
Mhfreiberg 3 years ago
I was a teenager at that time, but think it gives a great response to the Vietnam and all other wars. Wars should stop now and for ever!
stamatis53 3 years ago
I was about 13 when I last heard this song. I'm 50 now. Great memory
nagged1958 3 years ago 2
I'm with you nag. December of '58 was when I got here.
solidworksinventor 3 years ago
i was 12 when this song came out. everyone talked about it. kind of morbid but i love it
cremsoncream 3 years ago 2
I was 10 when I first heard this. It was winter and I was lying next to the heater with a blanket over me. It was red! Needless to say I was appropriately freaked out. I love this song and still get a shiver when I hear it. Heard on the radio today as a matter of fact
sissyhana 3 years ago
On the radio today ?
thumpersteacher 3 years ago
What station did you hear this song on? I have discovered this song on SIRIUS 16 The VAULT (now DEEP TRACKS) a couple years back and this song totally blew my mind away
Doobie1975 3 years ago
KLPX in Tucson AZ
sissyhana 3 years ago
You gotta be kidding me? Was it the long version or the single version? I wish our local classic rock station would play this killer tune.
Doobie1975 3 years ago
It was the long one and usually they only play it at night, if at all. Alice Cooper played it on his show about 3 months ago. But the other day KLPX had a long lost song weekend or so they called it.
sissyhana 3 years ago
I would've guess them playing the single version, I like how the stations would throw in a long lost song weekend, it's a great feeling getting to hear the forgotten classic rock gems
Doobie1975 3 years ago
i hear ya! My parents were big born-again christians and i remember they had a bunch of 45's and an old record player in a closet. I came across this being about 10 or 11 and i was like WOW. They took it away from me because i started to get obsessed with it. Freaky, but amazing..
jwalts37 3 years ago
MLK's expression seems to say, "Why's this guy's hand on my ass?"
ysbaddaden2003 3 years ago
I attended my first concert in San Antonio and didn't know blood rock existed, they were the opening act for Grand Funk At the Hemisfair Arena I was 14 years old, cool !!
raulvago3309 3 years ago
gosh, you guys are old. and like really awful music. cool!
SEANDI777 3 years ago
I was 12 when this was a hit in 1971. Mom heard it on the radio (probably WRKO in Boston) and wanted to know "what is that horrible song?" Well, that was it for me - I *had* to have the single then! Bought the 45 and played the hell out of it for a month or two. Never heard the long version until now (thanks for posting mike, BTW). However, I think the pictures detract from the song as the lyrics, delivery, and sound effects paint a nice macabre picture all by themselves.
b1zook 3 years ago 3
b1zook: OK. Then why don't you just post the whole song with no pictures? No one's stopping you.
mikedeviant 3 years ago 3
@mikedeviant -your name says it all.
valhutton 1 year ago
I really love this song and I'm happy and surprised this song made the Top 40, I'll never forget the first time I've heard this song (single edit) on the a SIRIUS radio station called The VAULT (now XM's Deep Tracks) and I immediately fell in love with this song, it didn't really creep me though but it does bring me back alot of great memories listening to the VAULT.
Doobie1975 3 years ago
I remember . . . I was 10 years old when this track hit the radio. Very effective use of the "devil's interval" (an old music composition trick) to create a spooky, floating mood. But it's Rutledge's melodramatic vocal that really puts it over the top.
johnvr99 3 years ago
Luv, LUV the montage! I used to play DOA over and over and over until I was relaxed and sleepy, then flip it over and play Children's Heritage before drifting off to sleep. No wonder my mother thought I was "dark" during my teen years. :)
PJBoo1 3 years ago
I remember all my friends way back in 1971, asking if I had heard the new song DOA by a group called Bloodrock. I didn't hear it for a long time. I remember, like it was yesterday, when I first heard it. I was in my 1957 Chevy driving from Dover, OK to my home in Hennessey, OK around midnight by myself. The song really freaked me out. I did a composition in English IV. Broke it down word for word, sound for sound. Only A+ I ever got in that English class. Thanks for the memories.
BudinOK 3 years ago 2
First heard it at 11 or 12..which was 1971-72 It freaked me out then and gave me a weird feeling even as a kid. A friend of mine had it on a 45rpm. What the heck was it about those bands of the early 70's? I havent heard it for close to 40 years and it still creeps me out. AM radio rock was downright weird.
GeorgeBruno 3 years ago 2
hey remember the song from the same period on am radio called "timothy"?! these dude were trapped in a cave and they ate there buddy timothy.!
saltwaterebel 3 years ago
Thanks to this site, I finally heard this song for the first time. It seems more sad than scary, but I'm glad I waited.
MadameLil 3 years ago
I seen the band in concert when I was about 16 with Cactus. $6.
kt88ee 3 years ago 7
i heard it on the radio for the first time today and its a sweet song
LorDHyPNoS900 3 years ago 2
I remember this when I was 16 or 17 yrs. old-we all luved it!!!!!!!!!! Of course, those were the Woodstock days, far out!!!!!!!!!!!
dreamweaver1954 3 years ago 2
i'm 61 yrs old. i first heard this song when i was 24 also!
and i was hooked on it, this is the first time i've heard it
in 37 yrs and it's just like i remember it, kinda cozy and creepy at the same time!
ddarkshark 3 years ago 2
Haven't heard D.O.A. in over 30 years, but I have been thinking about it & yes, it's on you tube. I saw Bloodrock open for Grand Funk in N.O. back in 1971. May have been the first of a zillion shows I saw live. Later in 1973 saw the Lee Pickins group play in the park for free, they had released 1 album-Try finding it today!!
Carlito1988 3 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
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shucktuck 3 years ago
I was 6 when I first heard it on the radio. Creeped me out completely, but I had to hear it again. Kind of like ELO's Fire on High. The beginning of that song has a creepy feel to it. Like the music in the Exorcist.
kmmangel444 3 years ago 2
My mom used to get pissed when I listened to this. "I try to move my arm and there's no feeling....and when I look, I see there's nothing there". That line used to give me the creeps.
rhodeisland95 3 years ago 2
The first time I heard these guys was their live DOA!!!! The band was awwsome to listen to!!!!! And to tell you the truth I still enjoy listening to them.
tuffy925 3 years ago
I am suprised to hear this song. My older brother got the elbum back in the early 70's, It haunted me. But now its like an old friend. I think that it was before it's time.
kellwng 3 years ago 2
I was five when this song came out. My father was in NY rock bands and my parents had the coolest records. This song scared the living crap out of me!! I used to envision a video to go with the song. Great memories!! Or are they? haha
seancrusher 3 years ago 3
this was a song that was either revered or absolutely despised...LOL I am so happy to find this on you tube...the song has a bit of notoriety.. and for good reason...the music of the 70's was so groundbreaking.. nothing today compares
nelsonv2001 3 years ago 3
Damn, haven't heard that song in FOREVER. I thought I dreamt it. The montage is pretty intense.
BlueTopaz1222 3 years ago 3
This song was written from a plane accident--they all died--i know the story take your last breath---and bleed -- can you handle it???
deckape1956 3 years ago
Like it or hate it--i played thiz song in 1973--people turned white---its a GOOD SONG FOR ALL THE YOUNG KIDS!
deckape1956 3 years ago
That montage is perfect, for this song. And I do agree, not political at all. Highly effective use of pic from different era's. Nice job.
kyokogodai 3 years ago 2
i remember back when i was a kid in south texas this song got serious airplay.
tl52 3 years ago 2
...But Why Such A Crap Quality Sound On This????
pilyto21 3 years ago
Windows Movie software strips all the quality out of the sound, unless you save it as a huge file.
mikedeviant 3 years ago
Did someone tabbed my cup of joe? I am felling a flashback of windopane. For all you young ones thtas the acid talkin That was the way to party ; a $5.00 hit would get your head trippin for most of the day! just for today!!
frankhattre 4 years ago
I usually don't like the photo videos, but what a great mix of pics. First, pictures of the turbulent times of the late 60s, then pics of the equally turbulent times today. Then the anti facisim pics. Great!
BobCronley 4 years ago
this song reminds me of The Magicians Birthday from Uriah Heep.
JackassHighSchool123 4 years ago 3
I would definitely have to agree with you on that, both this and Uriah Heep's "The Magician's Birthday are some of my all time favorite songs.
Doobie1975 4 years ago
Uriah Heep is also a Excellent band that needs way more regonition (spelling?) then what they have already! so many good albums and so do Bloodrock.
JackassHighSchool123 4 years ago
OeditpusRex
The Boogy Woogy Bugle Boy of Company B.
ysbaddaden2003 4 years ago
oh yeah!
bioflame 4 years ago
I heard this song on the Alice Cooper at Night radio show about 2 weeks ago and I had to find it again.. It reaches the nihilist in me.. Rock on!
NecroticNeurotic 4 years ago 2
Coop's radio show is amazing. They cut it off in Kansas City, after Entercom bought up the last locally owned rock station in town - KYYS - founded in 1974. Entercom stopped carrying Dr. Dimento as well.
mikedeviant 3 years ago
What a great song!
tegrimm 4 years ago 2
Man, this sounds as crappy as it did coming out of my 8-track player in 1973. ;)
Ah, Bloodrock — still the only rock band to mention the Andrews Sisters in a lyric.
OeditpusRex 4 years ago
i was 10 or 11 years old and had just really started listening to music and they played this every day before i went to school.i thought it was cool but scary too every time i heard it.there isnt another song like it.
jettt111 4 years ago
I remember too.
Rockdrigo0 4 years ago
I was shocked this song was a Top 40 hit even though it got banned on alot of the AM Stations.
Doobie1975 4 years ago
I remember
Mark5610 4 years ago 2