Bloodrock - Bloodrock Live [1]

Title: Bloodrock - Bloodrock Live
Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1972, Hard Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Fort Worth, Texas 10/26
Matrix #: SVBB-11038 (Capitol, US, lime green label, 2LP gatefold); runout not legible in photo
Condition: EX (LM) | Members: Jim R (N/A), Lee P (N/A), Nick T (46' - 10'), Stevie H (N/A - 13'), Ed G (N/A), Rick C (N/A)
Cultural Facts: [1]

1. Named by Grand Funk's Manager: The Fort Worth band spent most of the 1960s as The Naturals and then Crowd + 1, cutting singles that went nowhere and getting dropped by Capitol once already. In 1969 Terry Knight, the manager and producer behind Grand Funk Railroad, heard them, came up with the name Bloodrock, and had them signed back to Capitol within about two weeks. Their original guitarist Dean Parks had already left to become musical director for The Sonny and Cher Show.
2. A Crash He Watched at 17: D.O.A., the band's only charting single, describes a dying plane crash victim in the back of an ambulance. Guitarist Lee Pickens said he wrote from life: at 17 he wanted to be an airline pilot, and he watched a friend take off from a small airport, climb about 200 feet, roll, and crash. Some stations refused to play it, partly because of the gore and partly because the siren sounds might confuse drivers listening in their cars.
3. Not All of It Is Live: This double album was sold as a Chicago concert recording, but three of its songs, You Gotta Roll, Cheater, and Kool-Aid Kids, were actually studio takes with crowd applause dubbed on top. It was also the last record by the classic lineup: Jim Rutledge and Lee Pickens both quit in May 1972, the same month it came out.