NEIL YOUNG - THE NEEDLE AND THE DAMAGE DONE (First time listening to this song) | REACTION
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"The Needle and the Damage Done" is a 1972 song by Canadian-American singer-songwriter Neil Young. The lyrics describe the effects of heroin addiction on musicians Young knew, including his friend and Crazy Horse bandmate Danny Whitten, who would die of an overdose the same year the song was released.
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Neil Young wrote this about Danny Whitten, one of the original members of his band Crazy Horse.
Whitten died of an overdose only a few months after the song was released.
@@jamesdignanmusic2765, AFTER? I did not know that.
@@elysehfm8797 He was clearly on his way out when the song was written - the song was a bit prophetic but not surprisingly so.
@@jamesdignanmusic2765, I guess that would make sense. Thanks!
It’s not about Danny specifically, but about heroin addiction in general.
Over time there are very few people who can do an entire concert ,sitting on a stool with his guitar. Neil is ONE.
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This song hits home, I had a great friend and great Soul die from a heroin overdose. I was also a 20 year addict.
'Every junkie's like a setting sun...' Neil. Our drug laws are short sighted, driving people who require health care and support underground into ever more stressful situations like poverty and violence and shame - thus amping up the need for ever more relief from their pain. Love Neil Young. Thank you for this. I love your thoughtful reactions.
I lived with a heroin addict in the 70’s who could play this on his guitar. Every word of this song is truth.. never start, it’s too hard to stop.
This is the stand out song on Harvest - an album of stand out songs - IMHO.
True.
True story
Live at Massey hall is gold
Not just your honest opinion... its fact!!!
Fighting addiction myself this song means a lot to me. Years of injuries in sports and work led to a severe pain killer addiction. I am proud to say I am 10 years clean and sober. At my darkest days I would listen to this and Like A Hurricane by Neil Young. I didn't want to end up like some of my heroes, I would play this over and over and say to myself you can do it with my wife and a great doctor I have, but it's a daily fight, it's always there. It's not an easy road but it's beatable. A great song about the struggle of addiction and the end result if you don't stop.
I am proud of you
@@looneygardener thank you
God bless you ✌☮💕💜
@@zq9m3xh8 thank you that really means a lot to me
KEEP THE FAITH!!!
I've been listening to Neil Young for over 50 years now. His music is timeless. This song cuts me to the quick. We lost Jessie in 2012. She was 30 years old. The needle and the damage done. Rest in peace, girl.
I once commented in your reaction to "Sound of Silence" by Simon & Garfunkle that there can be majesty in 2-part harmony and 1 acoustic guitar. And sometimes you don't even need the 2-part harmony. Young Neil may not have the most technically gifted singing voice, like the great Frank Sinatra for example, but he has an emotional honesty that surpasses craft to achieve that same majesty. A gifted artist does that.
Beautiful reaction. Thank you 💗
Neil Young is a great talent and a Canadian Treasure. Just listen to his acoustic songs, done so beautifully by just one man, his guitar and some pockets full of harmonicas!
A very dark, beautiful song about the evils of heroin addiction. It’s a very simple masterpiece
The man is his Dealer. You love him to keep your supply coming. In my younger days I meet several people who had come back from Viet Nan addicted to heroin and got to hear their sad stories. The things we do to hide our pain.
In this instance the man referenced was Neil's guitarist Danny Whitten who Neil fired due to his substance use and erratic behaviour. Shortly thereafter Danny overdosed and died.
I've seen it first hand, I was 20 year heroin addict, and lost more than 25 friends to the drug, I've been sober living for 15 years now and I counsel people that have heroin problems. This song has always hit home to me.
@Kurt Congratulations, grace courage and peace on the journey.
I am from that era, you are 100% accurate.
This song gives me goosebumps.
Take a moment to feel the brilliance of that ending.
The song is about the loss of a brother musician to addiction and the hole he left behind, and the song ends ambiguously while failing to complete the final measure, dribbling into silence.
Genius!!
One of the most underrated guitarists in music. People get confused separating style from skill, but just listen to the picking on this and other acoustic songs by Neil. Smooth, effortless, beautiful .
And he can also roar on a Gibson Les Paul or a Gretsch White Falcon with different but equal beauty, like a multi-faceted gem.
I know, his chording, bass runs, and high register guitar licks are incredible... I've used some of them in other songs... especially the run from C to B, A# and down A..D. Love the come-around using E. So good.
Keep going with Neil, there so, so much more great music, one of a kind singer, song writer.
What a treat...back to back Neil! I know how much you like guitar solos
so this one is curated just for you K.S.O. “Cortez the Killer” is the song.
He plays electric on it with his band Crazy Horse. 🎸
The late Danny Whitten. R.I.P.
That's some heart-felt down-to-earth stuff right there...
One of my favourite Neil young song is birds very beautiful song you should try it out it’s from the album after the gold rush the whole album is a masterpiece 🇨🇦✌🏻🇨🇦
'I sing the song because I love the man ..." and it conceivably means two different men: Danny Whitten who was the first guitarist for Crazy Horse, and Bruce Berry, one of Neil's roadies who is also mentioned in the song 'Tonight's the Night'.
an amazing singer/songwriter is Nick Drake, you should try 'Northern Sky' or 'Cello Song'
Yes, please
I second that! Yes, please! Cello Song is my fave....lend a hand and lift me to your place in the cloud....
Cello Song is wonderful. River Man would be another possibility.
Simplicity is beautiful. Neil made a short and simple song that made a deep and complex mark on the world. May God help the people struggling with addiction.
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Thanks so much because I need that strength. I feel so lonely.
It’s ever there even if it may feel elusive... draw on whatever support you can too. Blessings 🙏
@@marieweiss1634 thank you ever so much for your comment. You've just made me feel less sad. Take care my lovely.
Hang in there, Louise! You are stronger than you think. I know it's not easy but redefine your "problems" as "challenges" and kick their ass! You have it in you!
@@mikemiller3069 thanks sweetie ❤️
The man is an amazing talent.
FOR THOSE WHO ARE FIGHTING ADDICTION NOW OR IN THE PAST MAY GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY!!!
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
courage to change the things I can,
and wisdom to know the difference
I know all about the damage the needle does. My legs are covered in what looks like cigarette burns. They're misses from shooting heroin. I've had leg ulcers that used to smell so bad that once (apparently) they sprayed air freshener after I left my pharmacy. Not proud of how bad things were but not ashamed either. Lots of love from Lou xxxx
Oh darling. All the best peace from Australia. :)
OMG, I am 64 and have seen so very much of this 😢👍🏼😢😢
another song pointing out the darkness of the drug world and well worth a listen is Steppenwolf's "Snow Blind Friend"
Also Skid Row Wasted Time.
I also like "The Pusher" by Steppenwolf
Excellent song from Harvest. Love Neil! ♥️🎼🎶🎵🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
I listen to this almost every night before bed,not a addict thank goodness but the song is great
Neil introduced this song at a gig with these words: "Ever since I left Canada about five years ago or so and moved down south, I found out a lot of things that I didn't know when I left. Some of 'em are good, and some of 'em are bad. Got to see a lot of great musicians before they happened, before they became famous, y'know, when they were just gigging, five and six sets a night... things like that. And I got to see a lot of great musicians who nobody ever got to see for one reason or another. But, strangely enough, the real good ones that you never got to see was... 'cause of heroin. And that started happening over and over. Then it happened to someone that everyone knew about. So I just wrote a little song."
I could pass the day just listening to Neil Young all day long ,,,
A lot of us know someone that has struggled with an opiat/Heroin addiction. It's horrible to watch a friend or family member eventually die from an overdose, go to prison for steeling to support his habit, or in rare cases, succeed and get clean and take back control of their lives. Drugs are flat out evil. I know, I was an addict for over 35 yrs.
Only God
could save me, and He did.
I love Neil Young
Pitfalls of heroin. Neil told a short to the point description. So good this man is. A man and his guitar.
beautiful song... superb reaction thank you my gal
This song is about Danny Whitten a guitarist and vocalist in Neil’s band. Neil also has an entire album ( Tonight’s The Night) dedicated to Danny Whitten and Bruce Barry Who both lost there lives to drugs.
I just subscribed to your channel and this was totally due to your way of anylising the lyrics/video of my favourite song
THE VERVE.....bitter sweet symphony
I missed the connection of the different people he bumped into
was the different aspects of life
he had escaped conforming to !!!
and made me love it even more
Thank you 🙏👍
thank you Hunni
This song helped me save myself.
Such a great acoustic guitar player is Neal Young. Such a sad and heavy song about losing a friend to heroin. Real.
I’m clean from the needle since February 9, 2017.
PROUD OF YOU HUNNI
Great art stimulates emotions. This is great art. Neil Young is able to say a lot without saying having to say much.
Song is very serious... hard to hear those in the audience acting so cavalier about it... maybe it tells their story... Who knows.... the needle has put so many people in the grave, destroyed so many people and families, it's hard to fathom cheering about that. Neil Young's song hits home after being in the recovery culture.... the needle and the damage done... Indeed. Every junkie is like the setting sun.... gosh....
30 years clean today!
Sad song true story he sung about a dead friend
Almost 2million views in four hours. He is beloved ❤️.
Our deeply memorable last moments with people often bring a smile along with a tear. This is what the profound lyric "...but every junkie's like the setting sun" says to me. Think of someone you have lost to this monster. You might get a good moment, close to their end. There will be flashes of the person you used to know, before their main identity was that of their sickness; their addiction. You'll see something that, if only for a minute, makes it feel like they're okay again. It's the orange tint on the sights to see, sights shone upon by the setting sun. You get these last moments of light, more beautiful even than midday, but doomed to fade into darkness. At a certain point, there's no escaping that. For the addict who gets that last high, and the people closest to them watching the sun go down, I think that's the needle and the damage done.
I lost my daughters father to heroin. I had my own addiction problems back then but have now been sober for many years. While Neil may have had Danny Whitten in mind, the lyric "I caught you knocking at my cellar door, I love you baby can I have some more..." is a clear metaphor to scoring the next hit. About a month before my birthday when my ex was still alive we had been at a store where I admired a small piece of jewelry, he later told me he really wanted to get it for me as a birthday gift, but he just really loved/needed heroin and had to spend the $$ on that. Everyone he was friends with back then are either dead or in jail.
Neil had his own struggles with drugs but never let it get out of hand. He is a brilliant artist. He has stuck to his beliefs through the years despite what anyone else thinks.
That song always reminds me of my cousin in Tx. Never od'd but barely made it to 42. Shoulda been 60 by now. Gone gone, the damage done.
"Every junkies like the setting sun" huge line isn't it. We junkies/ users will go down, like the setting sun..eventually. Only way out is up 💯🇦🇺
For me personally, 'Harvest; is my favourite album
This song will remain eternally close to my heart. Not all dye to heroin but still as a consequence of some kind of drug I'd been to 15 funerals for friends by the time I was 14.
i guess ive been a fan of this for almost 50 years...... eek.!
"every junkie's like a settin' sun"..............they all go down (overdose and die)
Try Down By The River by him. 😊👍🌹
Hi K. One line in this song that many don't really hear but is so important to the song. After "I know some of you don't understand" comes
"Milk Blood to keep from running out" Back in the day and maybe even today Junkies would sell blood for a fix. R.I.P. Danny.
Milk blood to keep from running out... a junkie who was not going to get another fix in time would pull some blood out of them selves while there was still dope left in it and save it for later when the sickness would set in and re-inject it back into themselves.
Gone, gone, the damage done...
Eeee great song...Mr Heroin .. bad drug
Sugar Mountain
☮️💙
great song and reaction, you need to do next by Neil is Rockin' in the Free World.
Yep. That's why I'm going to hospital tomorrow. I'm addicted to alcohol
Seether-Written in Stone
Even though many have said this before me, it's about Danny Whitten, a member of Young's "Crazy Horse" band. Later, on his album "Tonight's the Night" Neil wrote another song about a junkie who was one of the roadies on his crew, Bruce Barry, and the song's title is "Tonight's the Night." I'd give that song a listen if you can.
There's a longer song from an older Neil from 2006 called "Ramada Inn" that is great 8n its own way and, I believe, about his then wife. I th8nk you'll like it too.
John Prine’s “Sam Stone” and Steppenwolf’s “The Pusher” are must listen to songs regarding heroin.
Empowering n a prophecy, if you know what I mean, junkies!!
It's Only Castles Burning After the Gold Rush Heart of Gold Cortez the Killer
I'd guess there aren't too many folks around today who don't know of a friend, acquaintance, family member who had a monkey on their back, hopefully past tense. Few who pluck truth from 6 strings & voice like Neil Young.
I just want to let everyone know that addiction is a disease, but there is hope. ☮️
You become deathly ill if you don't get that shot of Heroin. Shaking, hot and cold flashes, throwing up and sometimes you die from Heroin withdrawal. You get very sick.
Going through withdrawal is hell on earth. I've been clean for three years now, and whenever the craving comes back, I make it a point to remember going through it, and how so much more time was spent going through it than high. That gives me the strength to say in my soul "never again".
I watched one of my best friends/band member get hooked on heroin. Never want to see it again. No matter what we did to try to reach him,it just wasn't enough. When they're caught in that trap they often believe they have it under control. But sadly, that is never the case. It's sometimes hard for me to play it without thinking of him.
This song is short and sweet. You should listen Neil's song "Don't Let It Bring You Down". :)
Young lost some band members/roadies to addiction in the early 1970's-Danny Whitten & Bruce Berry & had his own drug problems along with seeing others falling into spirals, it led to what was called the Ditch Trilogy of albums which were pretty downbeat in content. The Cellar Door-maybe a reference to the venue of the same name in Washington where he played concerts in the early 1970's around the time he started writing the Harvest album this is from?
When Neal was in CSNY they had a brilliant drummer named Dallas Taylor who was fired for his addiction at the height of their touring days. Luckily, Dallas got sober but ended up dying from cirrhosis. The there was David Crosby....Neil has been up close and personal for all of it.
Try out
Rockin in the free World
If you want to know what heroin addiction is like...imagine when you wake up you know your going to be extremely sick if you don't find that drug and get it inside of you fast. Now extremely sick means the worst flu you ever had along with cold/sweats headaches crawling skin and an inability to think straight no sleep no relief except that drug. That is the desperation of an addict. They don't want to steal from their family it's the drive of that sickness. I find most people can't imagine that. By the way love your colorful necklace and I can tell your a colorful lady.
If you ever review whole albums, Harvest is one to do, for sure
you wanna really blow your hair back check out the one from massey hall 1971 - the loss to him is fresh and it gives a different perspective of the loss through emotion - the later versions are in a way better sure because you can see its still a loss and a cause for him - its just different - both are great - all are great really - but check it out - i beat it with the help of it
The ultimate anti-drug songs are "Freddie's Dead" and "Pusherman" from the Superfly soundtrack by Curtis Mayfield. ANY by Curtis Mayfield would be Worth your time. I especially love his performance of "We Got to Have Peace!" at the BBC. (Danny Whitten died mixing pain killers and alcohol.)
I also like "the Pusher" by Steppenwolf,
The Man is the guy who sells him the drugs.
The singer Jewel does a pretty good rendition / cover to this song too. You might check it out sometime.
Since you understand the Man Neil Young go on and look at the song Ohio
"Southern Man".
React to a great song about addiction, Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire by Joni Mitchell.
Danny Whitten turned up at Neil Young's house to prepare for a tour i think. He turned up late, and strung out, in no shape to play. Young gave him a couple of hundred bucks to buy a plane ticket home. Effectively fired, Whitten went out and spent the money on smack.
I sing the song because I love the man..but some of you don’t understand.
It seems like I never really can kick it. Pray for me.
REACT TO PICTURES OF YOU BY THE CURE!!!!!
Have a listen to Bryan Adams summer of 69 Live
Can you do Babyface- Whip Appeal?
song for what its worth
star child read daughters birth
jim lamothes walked earth
Do Neil's "Southern Man" apropos to our time (sadly, still).
are you happy now
jody welch kozlowskis sow
lisas sister wow
Notice how the chords don't resolve.
The problem, too often, resolves in a bad way. The setting sun is beautiful. Just like the person.
Anyone else think the whooping audience is a bit of an off key for a song like this ?
Neil Young could move more people with just his voice and a guitar than anybody else.