bloodrock 2, D.O.A.

[BloodPump]

Too bad the rest of the album was 'meh'.

[stevegee58]

Wow, I remember hearing this in middle school. They wouldn't play it on the radio but a friend had the record.

[dannys199420]

saw them in 71.they backed up black sabbath.great show.

[amyath]

The lead singer sounds like Creed's singer to me. Rock on !

[daveperk]

not nearly as musical as I remembered. Talentless, basically. Shocking song, unforgettable, but the band isn't as good as I used to think.

[bassandguitarguy]

Happy Birthday to Lee Pickens today12-8-09! Great group great 1st 4 LP's!!!

[mytube4view]

I remember this song and band very well, and thought that it and the band were great! Heard it when it first came out while I was in High School in Texas, not far from Fort Worth. Hee, hee, my younger sister thought that is was gory and didn't want to hear it! May be so, but the music and singing was ahead of it's time!

[cqmars]

Hell ya, DOA was grate then and is still grate today!

[billlyh]

Hey I know a lady selling KZEW stickers! I think they are reproductions, but they are exact.

[TnTJumper]

OMG, KZEW! I had a KZEW sticker on my beetle! Taking me back, gang! Thanks!

[z9y8x7w]

Long Live the Zew!

[frankiacono2007]

God in heaven teach me how to live

[drhoneydoo]

The first time I heard this song it creeped me out bigtime, but now I hear it and it's just a really cool rock song.

[DandDskeeto]

The zoo was great

[deiseldummy]

the audio quality sucks...but this is a good tune

and a good version

[mikemoair]

so what did these guys go sailing away with christopher cross to myshronaville?

[bassandguitarguy]

great tune, great band, excellent musicians!

I'm going to post a ton of bloodrock songs with me playing bass - put Jessica on youtube last nite - any requests?

[vivianearanha]

Banda Montanha - 70's Hard rock brazilian band - Search in my Favorite Videos!

[jrwel14]

Played this in high school, even though the teachers didn't like it.

[Chococat61]

I was 10 also when this came out.  I heard it at a slumber party and wanted to go home! It's still scary!

[novelwriter56]

This is absolutely outstanding!

What an exceptional video compilation!

Very well done!

[nelsonv2001]

wow, brings back great memories... getting stoned and listening to music.. the 70's were the best

[ripvanine]

RIPVAN1 It was said that some teenagers went from Pascagoula, Ms. to Mobile, Al. to a Bloodrock concert & had a car wreck in which three were killed on returning. When help arrived D.O.A.was playing full volume on the eight track player in the car. I was really into bloodrock then & never did find out if Bloodrock was on the player when help arrived,but they did wreck & die on the way home from the Bloodrock concert.

[xevcosmo]

The best holloween ever in 1971.

[kyokogodai]

I first heard this song in the early 90's on Z-Rock out of Dallas (satellite feed). Creeped me out! Went on a plane trip to Dallas a few years later. Since I don't like to fly I was a bit tense. So what does my buddy do? He starts humming this song. Man, thank the doc for all the Xanax!

[ssur55]

This song really creeped me out in 1971 when it was released. It seems like everyone at my high school in Pennsylvania had Bloodrock 2 (and Led Zeppelin 2)

[1musiclvr]

I saw Bloodrock on concert with Grand Funk at Winterland in San Francisco in 1971. When they played this song during those parts where the siren is going off the lights were turned down and and red and blue spotlights flashed over the audience which got quite a reaction. Very good concert.

[tearitupnstartover]

Lucky you to catch such an obscure moment in rock history. I wonder if GFRR got paid for that concert.

[cassieltaylor]

This is awesome. My dad is Nick Taylor and this was a few years before my time but it is so awesome to read all of the comments and your stories that go along with this song. Thanks for posting raymaxmojo!

[wittumy]

This song came out when I was in high school in Dallas. We all had just gotten our drivers licences and were flying low. This song always, always brought my parents to my room and never failed to completely freak them out. Great road song "I REMEMBER!!!!!we would wail. Priceless!

[yarbur]

That song brings back memories , Scary!!

[NEPatriots2007]

I was there also in Boston lol I was 14

[captaces]

I saw them at Boston Garden in 1970. Opened for Grand Funk Railroad. I was fucked upand almost fell off the upper deck

[haupper]

That's the 1970s in a nutshell.

[frankhattre]

I was 10 in 1970. My freinds sister Janice O'Hara saw Grand Funk Railroad also in BOSTON. I am sure they saw Blood rock.

[MrItsme013]

@captaces wish i could have seen them,,not many people nowadays hve even heard of them ,,its a shame

[Fruitypuddinpops]

@MrItsme013 i bought the record just based off the album art work

[Mr427cammer]

@captaces It's always nice sharing memories isn't it?

This is one old post...

[shasta3683]

Terry Knight, R.I.P.

[Carlito1988]

I don't think Grand Funk would have any kind words for Terry Knight- robbed them blind..

[experiencedspirit]

Man I remember......I remember....back in the day....erie moody heavy....I have this on 8 track,cassette and lp!

Great classic thx for posting it up!!

[FlavioGirl]

i remember the first time i heard this song. I was studying for midterms in high school.

[nitrohuffer1320]

yep.....first time i heard this in '71, there was this little thing called "window pane" and...... well......y'know?

[Markieo]

This song scared the bejesus out of me when I was 11! I only heard it once on the radio and that was it! Now if you lived in the twin cities (Minneapolis-St. Paul), this went to #1 for 2 weeks! Really scary...

[Patriot1862]

I saw em in April of '71 in Tulsa - they opened for Grand Funk. Quite a few people at that concert seemed to think that Bloodrock was better than the Railroad. Of course they did DOA and when the sirens went off red spotlights were flashed all over the auditorium - talk about a trip, the effect was awsome! It was one of the best concerts I ever went to. Good hard drivin Southern rock, and the songs actually had a tune you could follow, unlike more modern stuff.

[shasta3683]

They opened for GFR, because Terry Knight was the producer/manager, for both rock groups...

[rhyner54]

To those of us who grew up IN Fort Worth,do you remember listening to this on KFJZ 1270 on your A.M. dial with D.J. Mark E. Baby ?

[thegoldwoof]

I remember. I was a young 20 something, married with kids, working a part-time job that required driving, listening to this song. What I remember is that the song was "banned" from the airwaves. It was creepy and eerie. I've been looking for it for all these years. Glad I found it. As a sidenote, my 35 yr old son, took a death and dying class in college and this is one of the songs they discussed.

[mackb909]

Yes, I remember. I grew up in Dallas, 30 miles away (Hillcrest High '73). I was a sophomore in H.S. when this came out, 15 1/2 years old, and had just recently had my first experiences with "herb of the not-legal-variety". I especially remember the slow-motion sound of the sirens as Lee Pickens' guitar solo ends, signaling the narrator's death. SPOOKY!

[TxCowDog]

Oh man, yes I do. KFJZ was a real big deal. Then came FM and KZEW. Everything changed! Doesn't seem long ago at all.

Re: your screen name, rhyner54. Any relation to the P1 of same name?

[BigSailorRobT]

I sure miss the Zoo... (KZEW) :(

[MikeG62]

"The Zoo" was the soundtrack of my teen years brother! Long live KZEW 97.9 FM!

It's been a fucking hip-hop rap/hip hop station since the late 80's, and fuck that shit!

[wretchedflower]

are you mikeg that liveed in f.b.?

[VaginalSlime]

Didn't one of the former KZEW dj's ( either Labella or Rody )meet an untimely death in Dallas when a 18 wheeler transport truck lost it's cargo ( a fork lift ) and it fell on his car and crushed him ?

[HandsomeJimK]

Holy crap, I remember being 7yrs old and lip synching this song with only a flashlight on my face in the complete dark for my little sister and 2 cousins. I "knew" the words but had NO IDEA what Rutledge was singing about. This is without a doubt the SCARIEST F'ING song ever. Who even writes songs nowadays that have this sort of effect on you. Might be considered old and outdated but this song is a classic. Damn...I still get chills from the keyboard and sirens at the end

[TheHillbillaryShow]

They play this song on the radio here in Arkansas every Halloween. They call it the "Creepy Song". I been trying to find it for ten years.

[FlavioGirl]

yeah, they would play this song every halloween in the Miami/Ft.Lauderdale area as well.

[dropyourdrawers]

I'm 25 of 25 of old songs that I havent heard in ages, youtube is kickin

[dropyourdrawers]

I was ten years old when I first heard this and it scared me not to listen to music ever again, but I got over it, lol

[burningbridgex]

Original version,yesssss.use to have this.Thank you

[reelea07]

Imagine you have just FLOWN to FL for your grandfathers funeral and you hear this song, knowing you have to FLY HOME>....

[joegitar]

I remember, driving over the franklin bridge in florida back in the seventies with friends and a bowl. Memories not all bad!

[DAVWAVE]

imagine it is late at night and you are driving your 1961 Ford Fairland and you are driving in a white out blizzard in Waterloo, Iowa, not a street light or city light anywhere, but out in the country trying to come home at age 16 and you cannot see the road at 1 mile per hour, listening to this on an nice 8 track stereo tape. Then it clears for a minute and you pick up speed and hit a patch of black ice and do two 360's.

[DAVWAVE]

You talk about harsing your buzz. That will do it.

[62gretsch]

It's a wonder the record didn't jump right off the turntable and slit you right across the throat...that song is gone...totally gone. Blew me right to pieces the first time I heard it.

[ginaenos]

Damn, when this came out, it scared the living shit out of me.

[custardpie40]

thank god there was acid and mescaline back in the day!!!!heh heh...awesome!!...

[comicb00kguy]

holy shit! i can't believe i FOUND this! I first heard this back in the early 80s and used to freak out friends with it. I haven't heard this in a long time. Thanks for sharing this rare classic.

[ClassicRockMan1]

Wish i had seen these guys back in the day.Realy creepy but awesom!!!

[captaineasychord1]

Bloodrock was managed by Terry Knight, who also handled Grand Funk Railroad early in their career. D.O.A. was their only hit (#36 on Billboard). Very scary and unsettling song, even some 37 years later!

[GabrielsKitty]

I remember hearing this for the first time in the late 80's when I found a stack of my mom's 33s from college...lol. I thought I was the only person alive who knew who they were! Thanks for posting this and allowing me a way to share this AWESOME song with others! They were SO far ahead of their time, if you ask me.

[GabrielsKitty]

I remember hearing this for the first time in the late 80's when I found a stack of my mom's 33s from college...lol. I thought I was the only person alive who knew who they were! Thanks for posting this and allowing me a way to share this AWESOME song with others! They were SO far ahead of their time, if you ask me.

[Jhensy2001]

Gawd. I remember an older friend of ours playing this in his dark basement one day, circa 1975, when we were 14-15, brand new to the drinking/stoner scene. It REALLY scared the crap out of us.. I thought my friend John was gonna cry, seriously. What a nightmare that song was.

[mistie40]

best song ever,first time i heard this a friend & i were getting totally wasted,don't do that stuff anymore,but i still like the song,i am glad it's still around, & i have a brother that is a pilot.

[x101st]

Whoa!!! I mean, cool beat and all, but the song is about a plane crash! How Freakin Morbid! The first time I heard it was in '77, and I was living in Dallas, and then I find out these guys are from Ft Worth?1? Really Creepy S**t, Guys! My mother is a Flight Attendant for American Airlines! Thanks!

[boxa888]

man they should put this song up as a drunk driver deterent. i bet it would do something!

[txmuziknut]

Not only a great band but a great bunch of guys out of Ft.Worth. Lee Pickens who was the singer saved a couples lifes about 2 years ago. He was fishing and these people were drowning and he helped pull them into the boat. I have all of blookrocks albums

[TaylorJL93]

Creepiest song of my entire childhood!!!!!!!

[Palaverer]

My God! I haven't heard this since 1971!!

[mydogowen]

...i concur with liquidsunday. Used to lose sleep over this when I first heard it - around 1970...

[FlavioGirl]

I thought this was way out of print.

[txmuziknut]

You can still get bloodrock cd's. I am a collecter and I have a lot of contacts.

[byrdsmaniac]

Thanks for posting this! I really didn't expect to find it here.

[daltonwalters]

They don't make music like they use to for sure.There is no comparison to music then and now.

[VValkyrie]

Yes indeed. I was in 7th grade & went to a funeral, 18 yo son of my parents friends. On approaching the coffin, D.O.A. is ringing in my ears. I lost all my albums including Bloodrock 2, when our home flooded from Katrina. We lost approximately 500 albums & the turntable!

[talldadwa]

I saw them in Seattle and Hawaii in the 70's 

Very kewl

[Doobie1975]

This is a great song, why it has to be so obscure is beyond me.

[radiojim1023]

This song was banned in the Washington, D.C. area when I was a kid. later in life when I got on the air at the station I started my radio career in, I played it and the station manager called me - told me get it off the air immediately!!! great memories-love the song!!!

[GaaraandSusakevsDX]

you wish it was cool and by the way everytime you post a comment on your video. your name comes up in yellow so we all know it's you....

[raymaxmojo]

i know

[raymaxmojo]

cool

[raymaxmojo]

awesome