G oog le BadWeB | Login/out | Topics | Search | Custodians | Register | Edit Profile


Buell Motorcycle Forum » Quick Board Archives » Archive through May 30, 2005 » Blast from the Past « Previous Next »

Author Message
Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message

Whodom
Posted on Friday, May 27, 2005 - 10:49 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I was just wondering if anyone else here is old enough (and hard-rockin' enough) to remember the early 70's group "Bloodrock"? They had a hit record in about 1970 with VERY weird/morbid song called "D.O.A." about a survivor of a horrific plane crash. They were (kind of unfortunately) almost totally associated with this song, but they had some good music (not to say D.O.A. wasn't a cool song- man it STILL gives me chills to listen to it ~35 years after I first heard it).

As if that weren't "blast from the past" enough, something reminded me of this group last week and I was going through some stuff my wife had cleared out of one our closets, which included a bunch of my old 8-track tapes. Well, turns out I still had two intact Bloodrock tapes, and I still had a semi-functional 8-track component deck. Well, turns out the drive belt in it had vaporized some time in the last ~30 years. Of course, with the internet, it's possible to find ANYTHING, so earlier this week I ordered an assortment of 8-track player replacement belts which came in today.

Just for giggles, I did a search for "Bloodrock" on the net and it turns out they had a reunion concert back in March to raise money for the keyboardist, who has leukemia. Cool to see that these guys are still around. See http://www.bloodrock.net

So, here I sit tonight listening to ~30 year old 8-track tapes of a long-lost band from my youth. There are worse ways to spend a Friday night...
Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message

Road_thing
Posted on Saturday, May 28, 2005 - 07:02 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Oh, yeah, I'm plenty old enough to remember that one! I'm even old enough to remember when 8-track was the hot new technolgy!

rt
Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message

Loki
Posted on Saturday, May 28, 2005 - 09:08 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Let me see.....Returns from the other room with an LP titled Bloodrock 2. Yup, D.O.A. is still there. Along with Children's Heritage. Have long since ripped it to MP3 and now store the LP.
Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message

Loki
Posted on Saturday, May 28, 2005 - 09:09 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

As long as the nostolgic trip has begun.....

Anyone for some Mason Proffit?
Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message

Whodom
Posted on Saturday, May 28, 2005 - 11:05 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Loki- cool! Found "Bloodrock Live" on CD locally last week, pretty good stuff. I actually saw them in concert about 1974, but by then they had "moved on" musically and were refusing to play the heavier stuff.

Road_thing- nice to hear you remembered them too. Hadn't realized they were Texas boys- they were out of Fort Worth.
Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message

Whodom
Posted on Saturday, May 28, 2005 - 11:07 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Loki- don't remember them. Please elaborate...
Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message

Loki
Posted on Saturday, May 28, 2005 - 04:15 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Mason Proffit - circa 1969 with the tunes Two Hangmen and Buffalo as their most notable.

What would be described as roots rock or close to alternative country these days

ping me offline at s1loki(at)comcast(dot)net for a taste there of.

BloodRock is heavy? more like getting slapped upside the head with a lead brick.

and to think I be but a 1966 model year.....
Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message

Doughnut
Posted on Saturday, May 28, 2005 - 04:17 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I want to hear!
Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message

Loki
Posted on Saturday, May 28, 2005 - 04:21 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

speaking of 8 tracks, I hated the way Grand Funks I'm You're Captian/Closer To Home was split across program 3 and 4. The shop / pool hall / hangout on the farm was equipped with a mighty 8 track sound system
Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message

Loki
Posted on Saturday, May 28, 2005 - 04:36 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

*nut

ping me at the above
Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message

Doughnut
Posted on Saturday, May 28, 2005 - 05:05 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

THANKS LOKI! Almost ashamed that I like Harry Chapin and Simon & Garfunkel.
Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message

Metalstorm
Posted on Saturday, May 28, 2005 - 05:23 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I wasn't born till 1970 but even I am a Simon & Garfunkel fan!

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Buell!!!!
Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message

Whodom
Posted on Saturday, May 28, 2005 - 05:50 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Thanks for the offer Loki- will do.

Doughnut and Metalstorm- a good 2 or 3 hours of Bloodrock at high volume will purge all vestiges of that stuff from your brains!

This reminds me of an album review I read in Creem many years ago. I don't know who the artist was, but the reviewer said the music was SOOOO mellow and laid back, it made James Taylor sound like gut wrenching, bone crushing heavy metal rock and roll....
Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message

Loki
Posted on Saturday, May 28, 2005 - 06:35 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Good music is timeless and cares not how young the listener may be.


Might be time to zapp the hood with some Motorhead.

Also there is nothing wrong with Chapin, Croce, etc.

Might need to intersperce that Motorhead with some Steppenwolf. To drive them really nuts.....some Beach Boys.
Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message

Whodom
Posted on Saturday, May 28, 2005 - 07:09 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Well-said Loki. Hell, I play bass in a wedding band. THAT'll make you learn to like all kinds of music....
Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message

Loki
Posted on Saturday, May 28, 2005 - 07:28 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Why thank you sir. I do have an occassional moments of clarity.

So you must know how to play the chicken song

The amp is warm. The Cerwin Vegas are primed. The hood is in trouble.
Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message

Josh_
Posted on Saturday, May 28, 2005 - 08:36 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I'll bring my Mason Proffit CD to Homecoming.

Anyone familiar with Gordon Lightfoot's The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald?

I think I have some 8-tracks somewhere. Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Blue Oyster Cult...

How about Lake Shore Drive by Aliotta, Haynes and Jeremiah.

I've driven it from Hollywood down before, guess what I was singing ; )
Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message

Metalstorm
Posted on Saturday, May 28, 2005 - 09:10 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Yes good music is indeed timeless.
I listen to pretty much everything except rap. It's not that I don't like it, I just don't relate to it. I don't understand ebonics. Where I'm from, instead of ebonics, we have bovonics. No joke. We have a bakery called the Bovine & a town clock that moos.
This Post is making me wish I still had my Motorhead cassettes. But I still have my Stones & Beatles. And My Metalica & Pantera. On the days I need to get somewhere fast I have AC/DC.
When I'm relaxed & putting it's usually country.
Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message

Josh_
Posted on Saturday, May 28, 2005 - 09:22 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

My MP3 player has AC/DC, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Audioslave, 50Cent, Nelly, Duran Duran, The Rippingtons (light Jazz), Skank (Brazillian Ska in Portuguese) and Juanes (Columbian rocker)...

I can't stand country or western or "free jazz" and don't much care for bubblegum pop. Currently listening to XM Radio ch 47 - The White Stripes "The Hardest Button to Button"
Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message

Phillyblast
Posted on Saturday, May 28, 2005 - 09:25 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Josh if you're driving to Homecoming Edmund Fitzgerald conceivably could be the only song you get to listen to if you don't hit traffic.
Check out a band called Perfect - Tommy Stinson, former Replacement, current G&R
Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message

Court
Posted on Sunday, May 29, 2005 - 07:18 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I'm trying to load an iPod that mysteriously appeared yesterday, between bike prep ops.

When I figure it out, it'll all be Clapton, Traffic, Delaney Bramlett and such.....peppered with a ton of Tommy Castro and various guitar-ru's.

I'm not so sure, taking the S. S. Badger accross the lake they'd dig playing the Edmund Fitzgerald aloud.

Yeah...I confess I tossed on Aqua Lung and the Chambers Brothers.
Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message

Whodom
Posted on Sunday, May 29, 2005 - 07:56 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I forgot to pass along this link for those of you who remember the glory days of 8-tracks:

http://www.8trackheaven.com

This really is a cool site, anything and everything you can ever imagine wanting to know about 8-track tapes. They have links to sources for repair parts (which is how I found the drive belt I needed) as well as hints for repairing old tapes (the little foam pads don't hold up too well after ~30 years).

Cool bit of trivia- evidently some relatively current punk bands have put out their music exclusively on 8-tracks. Who'd have thunk it....
« Previous Next »

Add Your Message Here
Post:
Bold text Italics Underline Create a hyperlink Insert a clipart image

Username: Posting Information:
This is a private posting area. Only registered users and custodians may post messages here.
Password:
Options: Post as "Anonymous" (Valid reason required. Abusers will be exposed. If unsure, ask.)
Enable HTML code in message
Automatically activate URLs in message
Action:

Topics | Last Day | Tree View | Search | User List | Help/Instructions | Rules | Program Credits Administration