bloodrock - DOA (1971 doom/stoner rock classic - AM hit)

Correction: The website is www.bloodrock.net NOT www.bloodrock.com

The pictures are only a fantasy or nightmare montage. They have no political meaning at all, so don't flame me with political stuff please. Thank you.

Can you believe that a version of this song was actually a Top 40 hit in 1971? Something about the psychosis of the Vietnam War, I suppose.

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• psychedelic
• doom
• stoner
• bloodrock
• texas
• blues
• doa
• horror
• terror
• vietnam
• war

[thejokerha]

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.

[mikedeviant]

@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]

gore rock is born!!! oh yeah then came black sabbath!!! love to all!! war pigs anyone??? these guys got me!!! the rest is armagedon!!!

[mikedeviant]

@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.

[zigzaggirl]

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?

[raydog699]

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.

[ZappasUtopia]

"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.

[NickJones55]

@CthulhuDarkLord It's not about politics, it's about any disaster or evil - assassination, Satanism (LaVey), war propanganda images, and so on.

[whitemanik1]

@mikedeviant technicaly, 1969...thatis the release date of the first album. they were also together under the name "crowd+1" or someting like that.

[natmingmcf1]

Creepy but Cool song

[CthulhuDarkLord]

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...

[pookerville]

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!

[mesonsdad]

Respond to this video... BTW - this song SCARED the shit outta me when i was just a little more'n sperm - sceery!!!

[mesonsdad]

@mikedeviant The movie Born On the 4th Of July with Tom Cruise was based on Kovic...