Bloodrock - 'Gotta Find A Way' circa 1970

[daHipsta]

I saw them open for Hendrix in Norman, OK and Grand Funk Railroad in Tulsa, OK.. They were really awesome. I'll never forget the singer jumping off the top of the stacks!! It was sooo cool. They almost out showed Jimi Hendrix in my opinion!

[dbrew2u]

Great Lp and Band . Saw them once and have some cool pics . They were extremely heavy Live . Thanks for sharing their Music .

[DireDiscoManeuver]

Dave Rabbit brought me here man!!!

[HumbertoGillanLennon]

Heavy organ/guitar-driven Psychedelic Rock...

[tinatulips]

i huffed gas to Bloodrock and still alive

[dtheb123]

I hitched from Kansas to Norman, OK. winter of 1968-69 and saw them open for Hendrix. I bought the Bloodrock album pictured in this post. Still have it. Oh yeah - married the girl I went to the concert with. Still have her, too.

[vendooza]

Oh yeah!!! I hit post before I said that the Live album (except for You Gotta Roll and Cheater) were recorded at that Amphitheater show in 1971. You Gotta Roll and Cheater were altered studio recordings with the Amphitheater crowd noise dubbed in. Rutledge blew his voice out for those two songs. Go figure. I don't think they used monitors.

[vendooza]

Geeez uzzz!!! I haven't heard this song in like 38 years. I was a huge Bloodrock fanatic. I saw them at the Amphitheater in Chicago in 1971 opening for Grand Funk. I was 18 and it was the loudest concert ever!!! I got locked in a trunk on acid once and my friends put DOA on the 8 track. It totally freaked me out. I still have my Bloodrock Live double LP. Maybe I'll run it off to Pro-Tools so I can listen to it again.

[michaels2boys]

@vendooza / My Dad was at that show! He said they played DOA and every one thought it was a drug bust!

[theeasybeats]

Sounds kind of like Rhinoceros who like Bloodrock had a good first album

[theeasybeats]

haven't heard this in about 38 years

[rocknumber11]

SEE LEE PICKENS BAND........GOOD POSTING

[flooflox]

The organ arrangement reminds me of Argent.

[notfragile33]

To me, this is the best kind of rock music: heavy guitar AND heavy organ-driven progressive rock, that began with the Vanilla Fudge, and lthen adopted by the likes of Deep Purple, Lucifer's Friend, Uriah Heep, Kansas, and of course--Bloodrock!

[Mr427cammer]

I had this album on 8 track. Man, youtube has a lot of great old tunes. This one sure brings back the good old days. I wanna go back to the days of Bloodrock, Deep Purple, Iron Butterfly, Grand Funk and all the others from this great time of music that played this incredible style.

[wilfish4774]

I remember we use to like to listen to this band when visiting peach tree street in the 70s. Wall to wall hippies on both sides of the street.. You would have to be there to have believed it..

[paws4caws]

Never heard of these guys until today. I must say I am blown away. Why oh why were they not superstars?

[jeffthrow6892]

Great song from a GREAT band.........

[mrrk0384]

CHECK OUT ALL THEIR MUSIC CD,S AND ALBUMS SUPER GREAT GROUP FROM TEXAS!!!! WAY AHEAD OF THEIR TIME AND ROCKIN ....GREAT ARTIST AND DO THEIR JOB GREAT FOR THE SEVENTYS(PLEASE CAN YOU DUDES TURN THE TIME CLOCK BACK) FOR YOU WERE THE ONES I NAMED ALL MY CHILDREN AFTER .ROCK ON !!! JUST ANOTHER BLOODROCK FAN!!!! OUR PRAYERS GO OUT TO EACH AND EVRYONE OF YOU DUDES THANKS AGAIN FOR MANY YEARS OF ROCK AND AND ROLL ....OLD SAN TONE ROCKER REMEMBER THE ALAMO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!73.S

[73SD455TA]

I 1st heard the tapes in the summer of 1988. My friend was in the Airforce and he got copies while he was stationed in Korea. I never got copies myself. He had the whole collection the has been floating around.

[73SD455TA]

This was on the playlist of the original pirate radio station Vietnam, along with Double Cross and of course DOA.

[NickB1967]

@73SD455TA: Radio First Termer

[tyger2011gotsupsend]

1:12 "anyone who is stupid enough to play this record backwards deverves what he is about to hear" hahaha

[xvirg]

I think this was the first album I ever went in and bought. yeah, $1.67 at the bx. played it lot of times. I searched earlier for bloodrock but showed no hits. Now all them are here. Its been over 40 years since then, golly, time keeps flowing like a river.

[mhantholz]

Rock solid cut---reminds of, but does *better* than Deep Purple and Iron Butterfly, who worked the same patch musically speaking.

Stripped to its essentials, this cut still packs its original punch---how many old jams can that be said about ?

[TEMPmichaelhansen]

The song "Gotta Find a Way" contains one of the earliest instances of backmasking. Near the beginning of the song, the following message is played backwards, "Anyone who is stupid enough to play this record backwards deserves what he is about to hear," followed by an excerpt from the poem Jabberwocky.

[BassMan111462]

This group was wicked-good!!!

[TEMPmichaelhansen]

has backwards message

[rushpython100]

yawadnifattog???

oh yo u mean

nesnahleahcimpmet?

or egassemsdrawkcabsah

[jamesappleridge]

this is some heavy duty rock n roll ha i love it.

jimmy

[isuckedthemoonspoket]

very,very goos song

[isuckedthemoonspoket]

great song i didn`t listen since 85

[tyger2011gotsupsend]

@isuckedthemoonspoket 1:12 "anyone who is stupid enough to play this record backwards deverves what he is about to hear" hahaha