Bloodrock - Bloodrock 2

1995 reissue on One Way of their second album, originally released on Capitol in 1970. Contains all eight original tracks by these hard rockin' Texans, including 'D.O.A.'! Album Description

Bloodrock was Hot...Grandfunk Not

I thought this album was Great!!! I never thought Grand Funk was that great. DOA was a good song but the others were even better. It is a shame they did not get the recognition they very much deserved. Check out some of their stuff on the first album also "Timepiece and Melvin laid an egg" are both very good. January 1, 2009

I remember..We were flying low, and hit something in the air....

Bloodrock were one of the beginning bands into the goth-death rock genre that sprouted ten years after their demise. They were just ahead of their time.

I used to own this album on vinyl. I liked every song on it. Yet the song that drove me to purchase this album so long ago was the classic D.O.A! It is gory, brutally honest and graphic in it's depiction of two victims of an airplane crash dying on their way to the hospital! This song even had ambulance sirens blaring off after every gory stanza. And at the end the siren loses it's pitch and fades out as if the drivers know their passengers are dead and the siren is no longer needed!

I look forward to Amazon.com offering that song in mp3 format, as I will purchase it! October 22, 2008

excellent rock band

Isaw bloodrock 1970 and they were second billing to Grand Funk,they were better than GRAND FUNK,and alround their songs were a tight jam,and ereiness(DOA) THEIR GUITAR PLAYER AND ORGANIST IMPRESSED ME,BUT UNFORTUNATLEY THEY BROKE UP.AGAIN I THOUGHT THEY WERE DAMN GOOD.IT'S DEFINITLY WORTH A LISTEN! July 1, 2008

"D.O.A." Freaky song to hear

I remember when "D.O.A." came out. I had just graduated from High School and was working at a Fabric mill in Saint Stephen, S.C. I had a 1967 Mustang that my Cousin and I had "Hopped Up". the 289 engine roared and loped along chewing up the the dark tree lined country roads from Saint Stephen to my home in Macedonia area. My Dad passed away in 1969 and I was working to pay all the bills for my Mom and me. I had an AM radio in the car and an 8 track player that I installed myself. My 8 track tapes were mostly Elvis Presley, Hank Williams Jr. and rock bands of that era. As I was driving home one night around 1:00 am, I had the window down and was picking up the AM station out of Charleston, S.C. Usually I couldn't receive a signal out where I lived. "D.O.A." came across the eight speakers I had installed and had spliced to the 8 Track and my radio. I turned the radio up and as I listened to the song about the Airplane hitting something and crashing, then heard about the (What I interpreted to being) an Ambulance Attendant pulling the sheet over the singer who was dying, I got such a creepy feeling. I was 18 years old and there were no lights, just trees and the moonlight. The roar of that 289 engine, the darkness, the long lonesome highway and visualizing this scene from the song really spooked me.

I remember hearing that people kept calling into the radio station complaining about the song so it was taken off the air about a month after it started getting air time. For some reason, after watching "Grindhouse, Planet Terror and Death-Proof" this song came to mind. I'm retired from Law Enforcement now and have seen many horrible things. I have investigated and seen things that make horror movies like "Saw", look like children's movies. Still thinking of those nights driving through the darkness with "D.O.A." ripping in my head, brings a little shiver. Thanks, LT. RTJ March 10, 2008

Now that's 70's music

I remember sneaking this album out of my older brothers room and listening to it 35 years ago . . . I finally have my own . . . September 4, 2007

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