My dad was a true audio file and had a killer. Kemwood stereo in 1977. And he used to bring home the coolest records and this was one of them. I still play It to this day. I'm 60 years old, love you, dad.
@@anthonydavella8350 My condolences 💐. Absolutely R.I.P dad. Sounds like he was a good man. I love that thing he said “smash that fkyn radio with a hammer”. 🌹🤘🏼🌹. 🌷🤘🏼🌷 He sounds like he was a very cool awesome and beautiful human. 📻🤘🏼💀🤘🏼📻. 📻🤘🏼💀🤘🏼📻
Man, I´m from Brazil and a huge fan of Molly Hatchet, Lynyrd Skynyrd, ZZtop and much more. I've never heard Point Blank until now. WTF I never heard this before. Amazing, trully, beauty spirit hard rock 70´s. I'm just falling in love hearing this masterpiece.
@@hervefroidure5206 Hello from Quebec, I know Laura Cox very well, very good at solo guitar @ André Martel Groupe Apocalypse I have a video on You tube André Martel LA GAFF Production
My high school best friend had this on 8-track and we cranked it up knockin' down some brews in his garage back in the early 80's. I can still hear the track fading a bit and "clicking" to the next track because the song wasn't over. Great memories and an absolutely great 8-track!! Awesome music..... never gets old!!!🙂
Great story - garage party with killer tuneage! I got an image of shitloads of 8-tracks taking up the floors of my Datsun pick up truck back in the 80's - damn 8-tracks were huge compared to cassettes! Peace.
And this album with a shotgun barrel is the first album that's just the tip of the iceberg really , they were hell when they were well and they were never sick !!!!!
Worldwide Texas tour Atlanta stadium 1976 , point blank open up then Elvin Bishop then Marshall Tucker then ZZ top , that's when the Tejas album came out !!!!
Johnnie O'Daniel just passed away in Nov, 2018. He joins Kim, Rusty, Phillip, Bill and Mike. All died from Cancer. Most underrated band of all time in my opinion!!! RIP Guys and THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!
What a drag, now I'm really sad. Felt I had to share this story with you. Point Blank had their concert simulcast over the radio from Seattle, Washington in 1979. Well, I recorded it on a cassette tape and played over and over, it was a great telecast. The last song they did was Deep Purple's Lazy which completely blew my head to pieces! High energy smokin fantastic version. Well, long story short. Last day on a job because the company closed it's doors. I had caught a ride home from a co-worker and left the tape in his car never to see him again. I will never get over that mistake I made over forty years ago! I talk serious!!!! Doh!!!!!!!!! Thanks for letting me vent! Peace brother..
POINT BLANK are the underrated KINGS of Southern Rock . . . I saw POINT BLANK play LIVE at the Victory Theatre in downtown Dayton, Ohio, on May 17th, 1980 - when I was just 16-years-old. The concert was very, very loud; and it was broadcast LIVE on the local Classic Rock Radio Station, "WTUE" - The whole evening was, indeed, a rare and unforgettable night of PURE-HARD-ROCK-EXTRAVAGANZA.
Rusty Burns - guitar, slide guitar, vocals Kim Davis - guitar, vocals Peter Buzzy Gruen- drums, percussion John O'Daniel - vocals Phillip Petty - bass guitar Way better than everybody could think about their cover . . .
I was working at a record store from '70 to '79.......when this LP came in hot off the press I bought it just by looking at the cover because I knew it was going to kick some serious ass . They didn't disappoint at all !
Saw "Boston, Point Blank, Yesterday & Today" at Winterland in '76. It was one of the best shows to date. Boston was on top of the world with their first album and Y&T just kicked it down good and hard.
To this one too, Saw these guys while I was in College, live in Phoenix AZ "77 or 78" in the Round, at the Celebrity Theater they were good and I thought the head liner band got their ass kicked by them. Head liners were The Outlaws and Point Blank mopped the stage with them.
@@lenordcurry3170 Hello Lenord Curry, They did the same thing when they opened for Judas Priest. Felt I had to share this story with you. Point Blank had their concert simulcast over the radio from Seattle, Washington in 1979. Well, I recorded it on a cassette tape and played over and over, it was a great telecast. The last song they did was Deep Purple's Lazy which completely blew my head to pieces! High energy smokin fantastic version. Well, long story short. Last day on a job because the company closed it's doors. I had caught a ride home from a co-worker and left the tape in his car never to see him again. I will never get over that mistake I made over forty years ago! I talk serious!!!! Doh!!!!!!!!! Thanks for letting me vent! Peace brother..
WOW, I can't even believe how GOOD this band is. There sound is off the chart. The guitars are amazing. WOW, finding them when I am 50 and I was around when they were putting this stuff out. How the hell did I miss this gem. The internet is connecting us all, but man i'd love to revive the band, who sadly is all gone, but just shout out that WE GET IT, man we are just finding them now, but they deserve to be in a hall of fame for the most underrated band ever. Man I listen to them now, as If I would back then. I'm addicted. RIP to this band. I hope family or friends of theirs gets this cherished list of 532 reviews.
Totally agree. Point Blank rocks my ass. I don’t know how I haven’t heard about them til now. That’s some real crazy shit. Radio could have given them more love and 💣🧨🧨💣🧨💣🧨💣🧨💣 Respect so I particularly throw some blame their way. I never heard anyone talkin about these guys and I’m finding out, they were around in the 70’s. That’s just 2 fkyn insane. Anyway love 💗 this band. 🤘🏼💀🤘🏼. 🤘🏼💀🤘🏼
@@shan-2233 You aren't kidding friend. Its like bombs how good this band is, and sadly, so many more seem that same way. BUT, they get us to revive them. We just keep rockin to them, and keeping them alive. !!!!!♥
Will they had one major hit and it was called mean to your Queenie , and believe me they were just as good live !! , some of my most favorite guitar work dual lead !
This is some of the best southern rock ever. Seriously. Right up there with the big names. It's a damn shame they didn't get HUUUUGE. They deserved it with this sound.
long hot summer night in '76 in the back of a '69 Z28 with a long legged country girl and some Point Blank, don't get any better than that. Good times.
Saw them open for Mahogany Rush and Journey in 1976. What a great show. Waukegan Ice Arena. Rusty Burns split his pants open halfway through the show and just kept playing. I won 6 tickets on WVVX radio and took my friends. Saw Blackmore's Rainbow the night before at the Aragon Brawlroom in Chicago. I miss these days.
Just found this great great band can not believe I never heard of them but now I have something to look forward to...this is a excellent album,but I listen with a sadness,having learned that at least three of the originals have past away...the two guitar players,Kim,burns and the bass player..are time here is short soak in as much as you can of the things you really love and enjoy.. it's almost always right there in front of us..they were great musicians who will have left an impression on all of us who have heard them.I'm so glad I found them RIP
susan i knew point blank since 1978 in houston texas. and im sad to report the past away on April 5 2023 of my good friend and drummer for point blank. Mr. Peter "Buzzy" Gruen. thank you Buzzy and the boys, now they are all together again in the arms of our saviour Jesus Christ i love you"ll guys
Hi everybody, from France where we are biggest fan of Point Blank !!!! So underrated band, The band is still playing since they put it back together a few years ago, but unfortunatly, Kim Davis the original second guitar player passed away 3 years ago, the bass players ( they got two, Tom petty, the little guy, and Bill Randolph who was playing end of 70's and begining of 80's) are also gone to the musician heaven. So Now , Rusty Burns (upside down awesome lefthanded guitar player), and John O' Daniel the Singer are still in the band. Check their video's, those of the actual band but also the 80 and 81 concerts, this band was so powerfull, too bad that Bill Ham, their producer at that time, had another "one of a kind" band to promote....., the 'little band from Texas' with the long bearded guys............. ENJOY and Hi to Rusty
i saw point blank open for zz top at memorial coluseum in lexington ky in the early seventies. i think this album must have been their set list! they opened with free man and went from there. they ended with deep purples highway star! awesome!
@@jonathanbobohunt6507 I never saw them but.. Felt I had to share this story with you. Point Blank had their concert simulcast over the radio from Seattle, Washington in 1979. Well, I recorded it on a cassette tape and played over and over, it was a great telecast. The last song they did was Deep Purple's Lazy which completely blew my head to pieces! High energy smokin fantastic version. Well, long story short. Last day on a job because the company closed it's doors. I had caught a ride home from a co-worker and left the tape in his car never to see him again. I will never get over that mistake I made over forty years ago! I talk serious!!!! Doh!!!!!!!!! Thanks for letting me vent! Peace brother..
Saw them on tour for this album in 1976 at a weekday show at the youngstown agora - it was a show during the week and it was like $2.00 - a hot loud sweaty show for maybe a couple hundred people - they blew me away - just killer
They toured relentlessly, saw them several times as opening act. They were at the Louisville Jam with REO and Bob Seger in 80. Opened for ZZ TOP, and were regularly on any southern rock bill.
Pete strikes again! That dude is costing me a ton of money with all the obscure, killer music he's hipped me to! Especially 70's stuff. This album has some serious guitar fireworks on it - diggin' it! Found it at Book Off for dirt cheap (used CD). Take care.
We lost John O'Daniel one of the greatest blues rockers the great state of Texas ever produced. RIP! Listening to this and recalling a great Jam happening right now with him and the Burn man.
I saw this band in Thibodaux, La in 1976. They were the front liner for Dr. Hook at the Civic Center. I was 16. Ever since that night I have loved this rock and roll. The singer was a big ole imposing powerful voice guy, the bass player was this little bearded guy, the lead guitar player played an upside down fender I think, and the second guitar guy's hair was so long you didn't know what he looked like. I don't remember what the drummer looked like. I love this band, wish their music was more accessible these days. I don't think I've ever been to a better southern rock concert…. I think they were really great live...
That's awesome! It was my first rock concert! Wasn't it great?!! They don't have rock concerts like that any more it seems like. Raw, Talent, Original, Southern, Loud, Great.
I seen Zebra on the Houma AirBase, about the same time, they were playing mostly Zepplin covers. I also seen Molly Hatchet in Thibodeaux around the late 70s early 80's
It's all coming back to me now, LOL! Battle of the bands 24K, Lillian Ax, ValenPort, Dream Junkies, Source, etc, You just rattled my brain! Thanks for pulling them memories out the corner of my fried brain! LOL! Also used to go to the Lights Fantastic, saw a Black Sabbath cover band there called Black Sunday!
Makk9 I lived just outside of Houston when the band got going. The bass player's name was Phillip Petty , if I remember right . True story: My sister-in-law at the time came by one night and had her date with her. She asked if they could hang out for a while . She called him in and he was a very short little guy. She introduced him and we all talked for a while then as they were leaving he said he was in a band and we should come watch them play. I'd never heard of Point Blank at the time but we went anyway. I just knew they would make it as big as that other Texas band.h
As did I, except it was Maryland where I witnessed the same line up. Didn't care for Golden Earring much. Ted Nugent was excellent but Point Blank spanked every ones ass! So much talent that they were always my favorite Southern Rock progenitors.
As an Australian, living in regional New South Wales, that would have been awesome. In saying that, I saw AC/DC in a hall in my home town of Wagga in 1975 before they were on any radar at all.
Point Blank; one of the overlooked bands whenever I see people rattling off their list of great Southern Fried Rock bands. Loved You Been Mean to Your Queenie. I have to play it for my friends that lived through those times, 'cause when I bring it up, they don't remember it until I do. Then, it's like, "Oh, wow! I forgot all about that. That song kicked ass!" Picked on several other Point Blank songs and the comment sections are turned off. Comments are on for some more recent live performances, but not songs from the albums. What's up with this?
👿🔱😈.. One of the coolest record Covers ever..and i know its why people bought this record..its the reason i would have got it 😂...anyone else used to buy albums because of a cool cover ? I found some crap but i found some cool ones 2 ..i miss record stores and just hanging out there as a teen becauss you nothing better to do... Singer kind of sounds like Johnny winter to me
I saw these guys play probably 25 to 30 times over the years, and even though someone decided their stuff wasn't radio friendly, which I take acception to, but there is no arguement that it was stage friendly. They actually toured, opening for ZZ Top, Uriah Heap, and others for almost two years before they even had an album out. One note that most people forget, is that they were set to start a huge tour with Lynyrd Skynyrd, and Rusty was going to meet them in Shreveport the day of the plane crash that killed members of Skynyrd. They suddenly had to scramble to tour and promote their new album. That tour could well have really put them on the map, but wasn't meant to be. Great music, that to many never got to hear.
Those were THE days in the Bay Area! I saw this band open for Kiss and Bob Seger at the Oakland Arena in '76. The only concert I've ever attended where Mothers were there with their pre teen kids like den mothers to see Kiss.But Point Blank and Seger stole the show.As for Yesterday and Today,what a great band.Saw them open a new years concert at Winterland for Ronnie Montrose but I can't remember what year it was.Also saw them at the Keystone Berkely in '76.
I've never seen them live but as a kid I got my hands on this album and I used to drop several hits of acid and listen to it on a set of Koss Quad headphones for HOURS. But that's when you knew what was in your acid. I wouldn't recommend it today!
I took acid in the 70's...."Boy"....was that a mistake..... I hid in the woods for days till it wore off... Parents put out a missing persons report.... obviously I never did that stuff again. I don't like getting so high it becomes uncomfortable...
I saw these guys back in the 70's at a little bar in Chicago, and got a,l their albums. Great southern rock band. Unfortunately, they didn't get airtime and were not recognized as they deserve.
First saw Point Blank in "76 backing Foghat. We'd never heard of them before but man they were awesome. They gave Foghat a run for their money that night at the Civic Center in Albuquerque. I've always listened to them after that and miss Rusty, Kim and Phil. RIP and thanks for all the great musiic.
Saw these guys at some outdoor concert with a bunch of bands in Florida.. I saw this little guy and this big guy come on stage and was blown away dam solid driving band..
John O'Daniels tried to pick up my wife at a gig I was playing in Dallas after he left Point Blank. He often plays with a band called The Stratobasters in the Dallas area and they're great. Been married to my wife now 37 years, no harm no foul!! He still sounds good but I'm better looking.....
I remember seeing these guys open a show with Elvin Bishop, Lynyrd Skynyrd and ZZ Top. It was in 75 or 76 outdoor concert at Grove Stadium in Winston Salem NC. Kick Ass Show!!!
My dad remembers it being 76 as part of the Worldwide Texas Tour for the release of Fandango. He said that this concert was one of the most memorable for him because of all the stage props ZZ Top had. Definitely nothing like that going on around Winston now.
Saw these boys at the Agora Ballroom, Atlanta. Early 80's in support of the Hard Way album. Sold out show and it was also a live radio broadcast, something that's rarely done anymore. Great rockin' show!
+R C Interesting you should say that. I saw POINT BLANK as a headline act at the Victory Theatre (now called the "Victoria" Theatre) in downtown Dayton, Ohio, on May 17th, 1980. A local act called "The Bearcreek Band" opened the show, which was simulcast on the local rock station, WTUE. The ticket price was $4.00. We were pretty young and it was getting late and had to leave before the end of the show. It was bizarre on the ride home to listen to a concert on the radio that I was just at (and was still happening!) It was a good, hard-rocking show. The people LOVED it.
PB fans worldwide im very sad and happy for our friend and original drummer past away on april 5 2023 rip Peter "Buzzy" Gruen, you will be missed tremendously by those that were privileged to have know this beautiful human being say hello to gang, now you´ll are together again, regroup in heaven and turn it up. see you when my Saviour Jesus Christ call me up. Buzzy if you see my mother make sure to say hello to her, cause sha always remembered you. i love you bro
I saw Blackhorse from Weatherford tx open for Point Blank in 1981 and both bands were way too cool. Point Blank, like Pantera, is from the DFW area and Point Blank and Blackhorse have always been very underrated.
the bass player is great bass was bigger than he was. listen he is about half of all the music remember him bangin on it and having good time --all of us
i was barely into 2 years of playing guitar when i heard this album. so great to recall it and take a listen down memory lane! some of the straightest music other than ZZ Top, and Pat Travers that i had heard at the time. good stuff, thx much!!
Saw Point Blank in 1976 at Groves Stadium in Winston Salem NC. They opened up for Elvin Bishop, Skynyrd and ZZ Top! The Hells Angels even showed up as well!
These guys were so tight. I can't believe they never make it that big. They did get some airplay here in Northeast. I picked this album up around 1977. It didn't leave my turntable for weeks.....
Saw them in Little Rock. They opened up for Lynrd or was it ZZ. 1976, I was 16, what a show. I saw all 3, same place, Barton Coliseum, not same show. lots of memories, I think. ha!
Probably ZZ Top. I saw them, Savoy Brown and ZZ Top in 1976 in Columbia, MO. And they might have opened for Molly Hatchet a couple years later. They opened for tons of the big names back then.
Love this stuff!! Good quality no nonsense hard rocking fun. I actually saw them live back in the early 80's as an opening act, but for the life of me now I can't remember who they supported, but I do remember they were very good.
A crab seller caught me pissing on a cabbage. Yes, he saw me spraying bladder champagne on a green leafed vegetable. He smirked but at least my fingers don't smell like they've been pleasuring an ostrich.
A favorite album of mine and favorite group that motivated me to see them at San Antonio's Hemisphere Arena opening for Robin Trower back in 1976. Thank you for posting this lp that brings back such good, fun memories.
They're right up there with all the great southern bands like 38.Special, ZZ Top, Skinard etc. but somehow limited success. Love em to death. listening right fucking now. AWESOME!!!!!!!
well giving my age away but i was stationed at dyess air force base abilene tx. in 1976 saw them do this live they said for the third time and it kicked all our asses it was at taylor county collasuim one of the best i'd been to then. can't say enough good about texas rock and roll
One of my favorite bands of the 70's. I heard Moving on WSHE in Ft Lauderdale and immediately went and bought the album. Wore that sucker out. This band was terribly underrated. Shame they never hit it as big as they should have. They were Bad Ass!
@@timbushong4387 We have not...but I am a good friend of Dave Johnson (White Throne), whom I'm sure you know because of the Elefante brothers connection. I also know Keven Crothers (Heavens Metal Radio). I was a big fan of the first Lovewar album and thought you guys disappeared for good. Was very happy to see you return after all this time, and even better, with similar spirit and style (unlike other reformed bands like Fear Not, Sacred Warrior, etc.). I'm still absorbing the new material, it's quite "dense" (I mean that in a good way of course 🤗). Would love to see some decent quality *live material* from Lovewar...A few years ago I went searching and all I found was part of a concert from 1994 but the sound quality was so terrible. Does anyrhing exist? I can understand your wanting to hold the better stuff for official release, but just wanted to know if any good footage existed...? Otherwise thanks so much for answering, this made my day a whole lot better 😁
I don't know why they didn't become a huge band? They opened for KISS in two different tours. And they opened for Journey during their 1981 Escape tour also.
My dad was a true audio file and had a killer. Kemwood stereo in 1977. And he used to bring home the coolest records and this was one of them. I still play It to this day. I'm 60 years old, love you, dad.
This album was on my dad's "I'LL SMASH THAT FKN RADIO WITH A HAMMER!!" list. That means it kicked ass LOL
That is so cool. Your dad is awesome 😎
@@anthonydavella8350
Hilarious. Love it. This is for sure one bad ass album. Cool dad !!!!
@@shan-2233 yea, may he RIP
@@anthonydavella8350
My condolences 💐. Absolutely R.I.P dad. Sounds like he was a good man. I love that thing he said “smash that fkyn radio with a hammer”. 🌹🤘🏼🌹. 🌷🤘🏼🌷
He sounds like he was a very cool awesome and beautiful human. 📻🤘🏼💀🤘🏼📻. 📻🤘🏼💀🤘🏼📻
Man, I´m from Brazil and a huge fan of Molly Hatchet, Lynyrd Skynyrd, ZZtop and much more. I've never heard Point Blank until now. WTF I never heard this before. Amazing, trully, beauty spirit hard rock 70´s. I'm just falling in love hearing this masterpiece.
Hello from France , please listen to " hard blues shot " by Laura Cox band , play it loud
@@hervefroidure5206 Hello from Quebec, I know Laura Cox very well, very good at solo guitar @ André Martel Groupe Apocalypse I have a video on You tube André Martel LA GAFF Production
Brasil! 11\07\21
I met them in Houston Texas West belt Firestone worked on the crew's van still have the cassette tape great guys I was 24
Another great 70s rock band you need to listen to: truk
My high school best friend had this on 8-track and we cranked it up knockin' down some brews in his garage back in the early 80's. I can still hear the track fading a bit and "clicking" to the next track because the song wasn't over. Great memories and an absolutely great 8-track!! Awesome music..... never gets old!!!🙂
Great story - garage party with killer tuneage! I got an image of shitloads of 8-tracks taking up the floors of my Datsun pick up truck back in the 80's - damn 8-tracks were huge compared to cassettes! Peace.
And this album with a shotgun barrel is the first album that's just the tip of the iceberg really , they were hell when they were well and they were never sick !!!!!
Worldwide Texas tour Atlanta stadium 1976 , point blank open up then Elvin Bishop then Marshall Tucker then ZZ top , that's when the Tejas album came out !!!!
Maybe the most underated music in history, along with White Witch
you know it ! 👊🏻🎶
Johnnie O'Daniel just passed away in Nov, 2018. He joins Kim, Rusty, Phillip, Bill and Mike. All died from Cancer. Most underrated band of all time in my opinion!!! RIP Guys and THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!
fuck cancer, scuze the lingo
What a drag, now I'm really sad. Felt I had to share this story with you. Point Blank had their concert simulcast over the radio from Seattle, Washington in 1979. Well, I recorded it on a cassette tape and played over and over, it was a great telecast. The last song they did was Deep Purple's Lazy which completely blew my head to pieces! High energy smokin fantastic version. Well, long story short. Last day on a job because the company closed it's doors. I had caught a ride home from a co-worker and left the tape in his car never to see him again. I will never get over that mistake I made over forty years ago! I talk serious!!!! Doh!!!!!!!!! Thanks for letting me vent! Peace brother..
POINT BLANK are the underrated KINGS of Southern Rock . . . I saw POINT BLANK play LIVE at the Victory Theatre in downtown Dayton, Ohio, on May 17th, 1980 - when I was just 16-years-old. The concert was very, very loud; and it was broadcast LIVE on the local Classic Rock Radio Station, "WTUE" - The whole evening was, indeed, a rare and unforgettable night of PURE-HARD-ROCK-EXTRAVAGANZA.
1980 Louisville Summer Jam with REO and Bob Seger
Rusty Burns - guitar, slide guitar, vocals
Kim Davis - guitar, vocals
Peter Buzzy Gruen- drums, percussion
John O'Daniel - vocals
Phillip Petty - bass guitar
Way better than everybody could think about their cover . . .
I'm so glad folks are finding some of these tragically overlooked bands thanks to channels like this one and You Tube.
I was working at a record store from '70 to '79.......when this LP came in hot off the press I bought it just by looking at the cover because I knew it was going to kick some serious ass . They didn't disappoint at all !
Damn Dude. Were you still in record store sales when the Eagles released “Hotel California”? 👍🏻👨🏻🦳🇺🇸
I saw them open for ZZ Topp twice, and both times Point blank were the better band!
Saw "Boston, Point Blank, Yesterday & Today" at Winterland in '76. It was one of the best shows to date. Boston was on top of the world with their first album and Y&T just kicked it down good and hard.
I was there to photopicker!!
Y&T. Hell yeah. That must have been a helluva show.
One of the best albums I have ever heard.
+zilbra1 Listen Zona B. Pedja from Belgrade-Serbia
I can't agree more, man.
BLUES FOREVER !!!
HI FROM BELGRADE, SERBIA !
Hi from Brazil, man! And yeah, blues forever! \o/
loved this band back in the 70,s,still kick ass to this old rocker.
To this one too, Saw these guys while I was in College, live in Phoenix AZ "77 or 78" in the Round, at the Celebrity Theater they were good and I thought the head liner band got their ass kicked by them. Head liners were The Outlaws and Point Blank mopped the stage with them.
@@lenordcurry3170 Hello Lenord Curry, They did the same thing when they opened for Judas Priest. Felt I had to share this story with you. Point Blank had their concert simulcast over the radio from Seattle, Washington in 1979. Well, I recorded it on a cassette tape and played over and over, it was a great telecast. The last song they did was Deep Purple's Lazy which completely blew my head to pieces! High energy smokin fantastic version. Well, long story short. Last day on a job because the company closed it's doors. I had caught a ride home from a co-worker and left the tape in his car never to see him again. I will never get over that mistake I made over forty years ago! I talk serious!!!! Doh!!!!!!!!! Thanks for letting me vent! Peace brother..
Sounds like zztop with the singer of Molly hatchet
oh hell 🎼
WOW, I can't even believe how GOOD this band is. There sound is off the chart. The guitars are amazing. WOW, finding them when I am 50 and I was around when they were putting this stuff out. How the hell did I miss this gem. The internet is connecting us all, but man i'd love to revive the band, who sadly is all gone, but just shout out that WE GET IT, man we are just finding them now, but they deserve to be in a hall of fame for the most underrated band ever. Man I listen to them now, as If I would back then. I'm addicted. RIP to this band. I hope family or friends of theirs gets this cherished list of 532 reviews.
Totally agree. Point Blank rocks my ass. I don’t know how I haven’t heard about them til now. That’s some real crazy shit. Radio could have given them more love and 💣🧨🧨💣🧨💣🧨💣🧨💣
Respect so I particularly throw some blame their way. I never heard anyone talkin about these guys and I’m finding out, they were around in the 70’s. That’s just 2 fkyn insane. Anyway love 💗 this band.
🤘🏼💀🤘🏼. 🤘🏼💀🤘🏼
@@shan-2233 You aren't kidding friend. Its like bombs how good this band is, and sadly, so many more seem that same way. BUT, they get us to revive them. We just keep rockin to them, and keeping them alive. !!!!!♥
Will they had one major hit and it was called mean to your Queenie , and believe me they were just as good live !! , some of my most favorite guitar work dual lead !
This is some of the best southern rock ever. Seriously. Right up there with the big names. It's a damn shame they didn't get HUUUUGE. They deserved it with this sound.
I agree, for some reason there were three years between this album and the next, that probably killed any momentum they had
@@Veaseify Second Season came out a year after this.
@@swampwampus5328 oops, you are right - another theory blown out of the water...
Sadly, they were being used as a write off for ZZ Top.
I'm glad they kept it real,
long hot summer night in '76 in the back of a '69 Z28 with a long legged country girl and some Point Blank, don't get any better than that. Good times.
"Free Man" - 0:00
"Moving" - 5:09
"Wandering" - 8:05
"Bad Bees" - 13:26
"That's the Law" - 16:00
"Lone Star Fool" - 19:41
"Distance" - 24:01
"In This World" - 29:13
Saw them open for Mahogany Rush and Journey in 1976. What a great show. Waukegan Ice Arena. Rusty Burns split his pants open halfway through the show and just kept playing. I won 6 tickets on WVVX radio and took my friends. Saw Blackmore's Rainbow the night before at the Aragon Brawlroom in Chicago. I miss these days.
Bought this album in the 70's when it came out & still love it today just as much. As I do many other great bands from that era. Peace to all
This was one of my first LP i bought. I was 16 years old and the year was 1977....very few know about this band....sad but i appreciate your video ❤❤
"Free Man"
"Moving"
"Wandering"
"Bad Bees"
"That's the Law"
"Lone Star Fool"
"Distance"
"In This World"
Just found this great great band can not believe I never heard of them but now I have something to look forward to...this is a excellent album,but I listen with a sadness,having learned that at least three of the originals have past away...the two guitar players,Kim,burns and the bass player..are time here is short soak in as much as you can of the things you really love and enjoy.. it's almost always right there in front of us..they were great musicians who will have left an impression on all of us who have heard them.I'm so glad I found them RIP
susan i knew point blank since 1978 in houston texas. and im sad to report the past away on April 5 2023 of my good friend and drummer for point blank. Mr. Peter "Buzzy" Gruen. thank you Buzzy and the boys, now they are all together again in the arms of our saviour Jesus Christ i love you"ll guys
In the 70s I saw Ted Nugent ,Heart, ZZ top and Point Blank opened for them 90% of the time. I bought some of there music and they rock.....
Hi everybody, from France where we are biggest fan of Point Blank !!!! So underrated band, The band is still playing since they put it back together a few years ago, but unfortunatly, Kim Davis the original second guitar player passed away 3 years ago, the bass players ( they got two, Tom petty, the little guy, and Bill Randolph who was playing end of 70's and begining of 80's) are also gone to the musician heaven. So Now , Rusty Burns (upside down awesome lefthanded guitar player), and John O' Daniel the Singer are still in the band. Check their video's, those of the actual band but also the 80 and 81 concerts, this band was so powerfull, too bad that Bill Ham, their producer at that time, had another "one of a kind" band to promote....., the 'little band from Texas' with the long bearded guys............. ENJOY and Hi to Rusty
+CALIBRE 12 Greetings from Belgrade-Serbia!!!
i saw point blank open for zz top at memorial coluseum in lexington ky in the early seventies. i think this album must have been their set list! they opened with free man and went from there. they ended with deep purples highway star! awesome!
cool thanx for the info.... i seen these guys at the paramount theater 1975 seattle washington they opened for Kiss they were really loud and good
Philip Petty, not Tom.
@@jonathanbobohunt6507 I never saw them but.. Felt I had to share this story with you. Point Blank had their concert simulcast over the radio from Seattle, Washington in 1979. Well, I recorded it on a cassette tape and played over and over, it was a great telecast. The last song they did was Deep Purple's Lazy which completely blew my head to pieces! High energy smokin fantastic version. Well, long story short. Last day on a job because the company closed it's doors. I had caught a ride home from a co-worker and left the tape in his car never to see him again. I will never get over that mistake I made over forty years ago! I talk serious!!!! Doh!!!!!!!!! Thanks for letting me vent! Peace brother..
Saw them on tour for this album in 1976 at a weekday show at the youngstown agora - it was a show during the week and it was like $2.00 - a hot loud sweaty show for maybe a couple hundred people - they blew me away - just killer
I love finding all these obscure bands from the 70s. This is for sure a hidden gem. I'm really digging this.
Budgie
They toured relentlessly, saw them several times as opening act. They were at the Louisville Jam with REO and Bob Seger in 80. Opened for ZZ TOP, and were regularly on any southern rock bill.
The Amber channel is bringing several obscure 70's bands and albums to wider attention. STARZ, Moxy, Armageddon, and more...
Pete Pardo of Sea Of Tranquilty sent me here!
First time listen. Fantastic stuff!
Pete strikes again! That dude is costing me a ton of money with all the obscure, killer music he's hipped me to! Especially 70's stuff. This album has some serious guitar fireworks on it - diggin' it! Found it at Book Off for dirt cheap (used CD). Take care.
We lost John O'Daniel one of the greatest blues rockers the great state of Texas ever produced. RIP! Listening to this and recalling a great Jam happening right now with him and the Burn man.
Last x I heard this I was smokin. Gold Columbian...long..long x AGO. 1976. Good stoned. Yr,...BEST CARS. 70s
j'adore , une musique jouée avec des bons musiciens 🔉
"Free Man" - 5:08
"Moving" - 2:57
"Wandering" - 5:19
"Bad Bees" - 2:31
"That's the Law" - 3:41
"Lone Star Fool" - 4:19
"Distance" - 5:12
"In This World" - 3:09
Jeff tidwell Thanks Man
Jeff tidwell are you serious? the time tags are not to know how long the song lasts.... -.-
Jeff tidwell HAhah at least you tried
Jeff tidwell
Jeff tidwell
Saw these guys plenty and they were a hard rocking ,full on driving wheel jamming band. The 70's blew by fast...
I saw this band in Thibodaux, La in 1976. They were the front liner for Dr. Hook at the Civic Center. I was 16. Ever since that night I have loved this rock and roll. The singer was a big ole imposing powerful voice guy, the bass player was this little bearded guy, the lead guitar player played an upside down fender I think, and the second guitar guy's hair was so long you didn't know what he looked like. I don't remember what the drummer looked like. I love this band, wish their music was more accessible these days. I don't think I've ever been to a better southern rock concert…. I think they were really great live...
Makk9 Dude, I was there!!! I just had a flash back, I am from Montegut, wow!!
That's awesome! It was my first rock concert! Wasn't it great?!! They don't have rock concerts like that any more it seems like. Raw, Talent, Original, Southern, Loud, Great.
I seen Zebra on the Houma AirBase, about the same time, they were playing mostly Zepplin covers. I also seen Molly Hatchet in Thibodeaux around the late 70s early 80's
It's all coming back to me now, LOL! Battle of the bands 24K, Lillian Ax, ValenPort, Dream Junkies, Source, etc, You just rattled my brain! Thanks for pulling them memories out the corner of my fried brain! LOL! Also used to go to the Lights Fantastic, saw a Black Sabbath cover band there called Black Sunday!
Makk9 I lived just outside of Houston when the band got going. The bass player's name was Phillip Petty , if I remember right . True story: My sister-in-law at the time came by one night and had her date with her. She asked if they could hang out for a while . She called him in and he was a very short little guy. She introduced him and we all talked for a while then as they were leaving he said he was in a band and we should come watch them play. I'd never heard of Point Blank at the time but we went anyway. I just knew they would make it as big as that other Texas band.h
John O'Daniel was a friend to me Growing up in Waxahachie Tx....his Hometown
yall n dirty dick murdoch !
Impeccable guitar work. Loved this album since I bought it back in "76 or so.
I saw Point Blank open for Golden Earring and Ted Nugent in Jackson, Mississippi way back in February of 1977. Bad ass show! These guys still rock!
WOW !!!! That must have been UNREAL !!!! ROCK ON my friend
As did I, except it was Maryland where I witnessed the same line up. Didn't care for Golden Earring much. Ted Nugent was excellent but Point Blank spanked every ones ass! So much talent that they were always my favorite
Southern Rock progenitors.
As an Australian, living in regional New South Wales, that would have been awesome. In saying that, I saw AC/DC in a hall in my home town of Wagga in 1975 before they were on any radar at all.
I had forgotten about this band until I found this today, wow, they really rocked, great album.
When I lived in Tennessee in 1974 to 76 I discovered these guys saw them live and they were amazing Sound just as good in concert No Shit
awesome gritty rock and roll, lots of soul, tight group
great players
Point Blank; one of the overlooked bands whenever I see people rattling off their list of great Southern Fried Rock bands. Loved You Been Mean to Your Queenie. I have to play it for my friends that lived through those times, 'cause when I bring it up, they don't remember it until I do. Then, it's like, "Oh, wow! I forgot all about that. That song kicked ass!" Picked on several other Point Blank songs and the comment sections are turned off. Comments are on for some more recent live performances, but not songs from the albums. What's up with this?
👿🔱😈.. One of the coolest record Covers ever..and i know its why people bought this record..its the reason i would have got it 😂...anyone else used to buy albums because of a cool cover ? I found some crap but i found some cool ones 2 ..i miss record stores and just hanging out there as a teen becauss you nothing better to do... Singer kind of sounds like Johnny winter to me
I bought this album when it first came out. Almost wore out the grooves playing it. Love that wailing slide guitar. Great vocals.
Thanks for posting this! Found this record today at my local shop and I have you to thank for introducing me to this great band.
Totally awesome band & showmanship saw them with 38 Special late 70’s San Jose Ca.. Still a great listen today.
I never heard of this band before; I saw a video in which Blues Saraceno recommends them and he's so right, they are a fantastic band!
I saw these guys play probably 25 to 30 times over the years, and even though someone decided their stuff wasn't radio friendly, which I take acception to, but there is no arguement that it was stage friendly. They actually toured, opening for ZZ Top, Uriah Heap, and others for almost two years before they even had an album out. One note that most people forget, is that they were set to start a huge tour with Lynyrd Skynyrd, and Rusty was going to meet them in Shreveport the day of the plane crash that killed members of Skynyrd. They suddenly had to scramble to tour and promote their new album. That tour could well have really put them on the map, but wasn't meant to be. Great music, that to many never got to hear.
Those were THE days in the Bay Area! I saw this band open for Kiss and Bob Seger at the Oakland Arena in '76. The only concert I've ever attended where Mothers were there with their pre teen kids like den mothers to see Kiss.But Point Blank and Seger stole the show.As for Yesterday and Today,what a great band.Saw them open a new years concert at Winterland for Ronnie Montrose but I can't remember what year it was.Also saw them at the Keystone Berkely in '76.
I've never seen them live but as a kid I got my hands on this album and I used to drop several hits of acid and listen to it on a set of Koss Quad headphones for HOURS. But that's when you knew what was in your acid. I wouldn't recommend it today!
I took acid in the 70's...."Boy"....was that a mistake..... I hid in the woods for days till it wore off... Parents put out a missing persons report.... obviously I never did that stuff again. I don't like getting so high it becomes uncomfortable...
What could you know then, what can you know today, acid is your whole life.
Have not heard this album in 40 years......lots of memories..
I have the album, but have not been able to track it for 20 years. Still sounds GREAT!!
LITTLETON
Mary miller
Somehow I managed to learn about them in 76 and bought this album. I was just 15 and wanting to learn lead guitar. I really liked the guitar work.
El track del minuto 24:16!!Soy el único que lo cree,o esa canción tiene partes que suenan igual que Iron Maiden?Es fantástico!!
This album is incredible! Love it!!!
I saw these guys back in the 70's at a little bar in Chicago, and got a,l their albums. Great southern rock band. Unfortunately, they didn't get airtime and were not recognized as they deserve.
First saw Point Blank in "76 backing Foghat. We'd never heard of them before but man they were awesome. They gave Foghat a run for their money that night at the Civic Center in Albuquerque. I've always listened to them after that and miss Rusty, Kim and Phil. RIP and thanks for all the great musiic.
Saw these guys at some outdoor concert with a bunch of bands in Florida..
I saw this little guy and this big guy come on stage and was blown away dam solid driving band..
Rusty Burns - guitar, slide guitar, vocals
Kim Davis - guitar, vocals
Peter Gruin - drums, percussion
John O'Daniel - vocals
Phillip Petty - bass guitar
John O'Daniels tried to pick up my wife at a gig I was playing in Dallas after he left Point Blank. He often plays with a band called The Stratobasters in the Dallas area and they're great. Been married to my wife now 37 years, no harm no foul!! He still sounds good but I'm better looking.....
@@michaelbullman3353 OPP is a big no no and can be bad for ones health
Super album! Bought it about 40 yrs ago and stille listen it often! Can't get enough of it!!!
I remember seeing these guys open a show with Elvin Bishop, Lynyrd Skynyrd and ZZ Top. It was in 75 or 76 outdoor concert at Grove Stadium in Winston Salem NC. Kick Ass Show!!!
My dad remembers it being 76 as part of the Worldwide Texas Tour for the release of Fandango. He said that this concert was one of the most memorable for him because of all the stage props ZZ Top had. Definitely nothing like that going on around Winston now.
Wow. I live pretty close to Winston-Salem, if only would have been around in the 70's,that would have been a hell of a show.
you can;t even find a show in winston anymore,,,remember when people used to play at Carowinds Paladium,,,
sounds like it,...
Certainly the best southern rock album I've heard, absolutely brilliant!
I was 17 when this album came out.And i'll finish this fifth by days end.
Saw point blank. Opened 4 Rick Darenger,Blue oyster cult. 1976. Aragon Ballroom. Kick Ass
YES me too! I was playing rhythm guitar to back up one of my long time & Very best friends Rickey D. WOW those were the days!!
Never heard of these guys till now...wow. I like this!!
Saw these boys at the Agora Ballroom, Atlanta. Early 80's in support of the Hard Way album. Sold out show and it was also a live radio broadcast, something that's rarely done anymore. Great rockin' show!
+R C Interesting you should say that. I saw POINT BLANK as a headline act at the Victory Theatre (now called the "Victoria" Theatre) in downtown Dayton, Ohio, on May 17th, 1980. A local act called "The Bearcreek Band" opened the show, which was simulcast on the local rock station, WTUE. The ticket price was $4.00. We were pretty young and it was getting late and had to leave before the end of the show. It was bizarre on the ride home to listen to a concert on the radio that I was just at (and was still happening!) It was a good, hard-rocking show. The people LOVED it.
Awesome band, tons of melodic heavy soulful rock n' roll with balls.
Super groupe de rock sudiste
Saw them open for Trower and Hydra...great show
@Earnest Ryan., Wow!! 🤜💥🤛
Ive never heard of these guys. Good post. love discovering "new" music from the 70s
First big concert I went to as a kid was ZZ Top with Point Blank opening for them.
Where have the 40 years gone man, whew!!
Yeah, we had a buddy nicknamed "snagglepuss" back then. LOL! Point Blank's songs "Moving" and "Wandering"still shakes my boots into action!
I lost a few years myself, methinks I can CRANK myself into equilibrium? CRANK IT UP!
Yes, Point Blank also had a good edge, that kind of tingle runs up the sides of your head :D Rock-on!
Hahaha! Yes!! God has a sense of humor, no? :D Happy New year!
Smokin. Gold Columbian
Last x I heard this...1976
PB fans worldwide im very sad and happy for our friend and original drummer past away on april 5 2023 rip Peter "Buzzy" Gruen, you will be missed tremendously by those that were privileged to have know this beautiful human being
say hello to gang, now you´ll are together again, regroup in heaven and turn it up.
see you when my Saviour Jesus Christ call me up. Buzzy if you see my mother make sure to say hello to her, cause sha always remembered you. i love you bro
I saw Blackhorse from Weatherford tx open for Point Blank in 1981 and both bands were way too cool. Point Blank, like Pantera, is from the DFW area and Point Blank and Blackhorse have always been very underrated.
Nicole was the only song I knew by these dudes until I checked this out. Great upload! I am now a big Point Blank fan.
the bass player is great bass was bigger than he was. listen he is about half of all the music remember him bangin on it and having good time --all of us
i was barely into 2 years of playing guitar when i heard this album. so great to recall it and take a listen down memory lane! some of the straightest music other than ZZ Top, and Pat Travers that i had heard at the time. good stuff, thx much!!
I saw them in 76'. They opened the show for Robin Trower and Jethro Tull.
Jag är själv gammal musiker. Har spelat en del Point blank genom åren. Jag bara älskar deras samansättningar av låtar! Helt genialiskt!
Underskattad sångare riktig taggtråds röst såg dom båda gångerna på SRF
Love Point Blank. Awesome band. It doesn't get any better.
Saw Point Blank in 1976 at Groves Stadium in Winston Salem NC. They opened up for Elvin Bishop, Skynyrd and ZZ Top! The Hells Angels even showed up as well!
These guys were so tight. I can't believe they never make it that big. They did get some airplay here in Northeast. I picked this album up around 1977. It didn't leave my turntable for weeks.....
Saw them in Little Rock. They opened up for Lynrd or was it ZZ. 1976, I was 16, what a show. I saw all 3, same place, Barton Coliseum, not same show. lots of memories, I think. ha!
I bet it was opening for ZZ Top.
I saw them in Lake Charles opening for ZZ Top for their Tejas tour and again opening for ZZ on their Degüello tour.
I saw them once in Pine Bluff open for Dr. Hook, and in Little Rock with Molly Hatchet.
Probably ZZ Top. I saw them, Savoy Brown and ZZ Top in 1976 in Columbia, MO. And they might have opened for Molly Hatchet a couple years later. They opened for tons of the big names back then.
Love this stuff!! Good quality no nonsense hard rocking fun. I actually saw them live back in the early 80's as an opening act, but for the life of me now I can't remember who they supported, but I do remember they were very good.
ABSOLUTELY SOLID & EPIC SOUTHERN ROCK AT THE PEAK!!!
Total Bad Asses! This Album still holds up in 2016 as a work of art!!!
A crab seller caught me pissing on a cabbage. Yes, he saw me spraying bladder champagne on a green leafed vegetable. He smirked but at least my fingers don't smell like they've been pleasuring an ostrich.
why did Jesus wear Sandals? Radio...
Have you got a bucket with a lid?
@@anus26 SMF
A favorite album of mine and favorite group that motivated me to see them at San Antonio's Hemisphere Arena opening for Robin Trower back in 1976. Thank you for posting this lp that brings back such good, fun memories.
Saw these guys only once live - 1974 in Austin at the Colliseum just before this album came out. Thanks for the flashback!
Southern Rock it's the heart and soul of hardrock. Southern natives... Greetings bottle of vine. Vasya.
Pete Pardo strikes again! Wonderfuel.
met the guitar player , used to follow them in th 70s and 80s. Cool band.
They're right up there with all the great southern bands like 38.Special, ZZ Top, Skinard etc. but somehow limited success. Love em to death. listening right fucking now. AWESOME!!!!!!!
Good on ya David happy trails friend.
well giving my age away but i was stationed at dyess air force base abilene tx. in 1976 saw them do this live they said for the third time and it kicked all our asses it was at taylor county collasuim one of the best i'd been to then. can't say enough good about texas rock and roll
Forgot how great this band was and this freshman album 🙌 👏 just brings it hard AF.
One of my favorite bands of the 70's. I heard Moving on WSHE in Ft Lauderdale and immediately went and bought the album. Wore that sucker out. This band was terribly underrated. Shame they never hit it as big as they should have. They were Bad Ass!
Great album!!
Saw these guys open up for Molly Hatchet in 1979 at the Scope in Richmond Virginia. GREAT SHOW!!!!!
I saw them in '76. They were opening for Styx at Memorial Hall in Kansas City, KS. They did not disappoint!
Was there. Memorial Hall was great place for concerts. Many good times there.
Wow I forgot about this band too, I had this album too. Damn good music.
I can hear some OUTLAWS in here... my brother had this Lp but I never really listened to it til now --- great stuff!
Saw this band in Lakeland Fla...Opened for ZZ Top..All I remember is the guitar player played a left handed Les Paul...They were great live...
They were my very first real concert--probably the same tour. 1977, Fort Wayne.
@@HanYhak
Are you Tim Bushong from Lovewar? The new album is incredible. 😊
@@mr.d.572 - Yes - that's me, and thank you VERY much! Have we ever met?
@@timbushong4387
We have not...but I am a good friend of Dave Johnson (White Throne), whom I'm sure you know because of the Elefante brothers connection. I also know Keven Crothers (Heavens Metal Radio).
I was a big fan of the first Lovewar album and thought you guys disappeared for good. Was very happy to see you return after all this time, and even better, with similar spirit and style (unlike other reformed bands like Fear Not, Sacred Warrior, etc.).
I'm still absorbing the new material, it's quite "dense" (I mean that in a good way of course 🤗).
Would love to see some decent quality *live material* from Lovewar...A few years ago I went searching and all I found was part of a concert from 1994 but the sound quality was so terrible. Does anyrhing exist? I can understand your wanting to hold the better stuff for official release, but just wanted to know if any good footage existed...?
Otherwise thanks so much for answering, this made my day a whole lot better 😁
Saw these guys live at the El Mocambo in Toronto around 79-80. What a knock out show. I was already a fan as I had this album. 🎉
Saw them warm up KISS In 1975 St Paul Mn. !!!! 2 shows!! SWEET!!!!!
I don't know why they didn't become a huge band? They opened for KISS in two different tours. And they opened for Journey during their 1981 Escape tour also.