DOA - Bloodrock

This Video is a tribute
to that singer and drummer
for Bloodrock Jim Rutledge.

Bloodrock was a Fort Worth,
Texas based (hard) rock and
roll band in the 70's
They smoked masive amounts of
weed. This is their biggest hit.
which was a happy little song about a Plane crash.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Bloodrock
• car
• crashes
• blood
• pain

[FirstLandingOnMedusa]

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.

[grumpa]

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..

[wacoflyer]

Bought the 8 track in '71.

I'm 61 now, still have the 8 track and this song STILL FREAKS ME OUT!

[winemanboy]

I so remember listening to this over & over in my parents basement in 1971, I think...drugs!

[benzaseeadoneitall]

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!!

[NickJones55]

@jettt111 The cop isn't on the original song - I have the vinyl from back in the day.

[NickJones55]

...but it was all a dream...

Missing my favorite lyric ("no chance for me"), but AW YEAH!!!!!!!!! Love the lightning strike! :D

[leerider52]

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

[dannydutchboy2011]

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 ...

[blrobbins3]

Not even ..A car accident....

[KevinR1138]

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]

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.

[jettt111]

it isnt about a plane crash like some say , its a car wreck. the cop says there isnt another car or an animal.

[johnbullock42]

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

[Helivz]

@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.

[FirstLandingOnMedusa]

@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.

[infinite1funk]

@FirstLandingOnMedusa That's from Grave 45's remix of this song with and anti drug recording and Can.

[Bluessontlavie]

@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?

[strategery22]

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]

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.

[1955Cal]

@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.

[Napco205]

@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.

[raildog53]

I remember buying this, in 8 track form, the first day it came out, sometime around 69 or 70.

[raildog53]

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 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.

[recyclecongress]

@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.

[GyntherMeyer]

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.