To me it would be amazing if it weren't still relevant. Anything so addictive and pleasurable will always be as it always has been. Just because something has been around for a while doesn't mean that it's lost its appeal. Exactly the opposite is usually true.
Lost my daughter to the needle..........I need her now but of course I always needed her. This song used to be too hard to listen to but somehow it helps me now. Thank you Neil for your honest and caring songs and especially your lyrics that touch the heart.
I'm here because I lost my brother in law at 9 last night. Needle still in hand. "I've seen the needle and the damage done." He leaves behind my pregnant sister. No more pain! May all who have fallen to this madness be resting in peace!
Why does everything Neil Young make sound so cozy and comforting, even songs like this, about a man losing himself to heroine? I just love him, he really has a passion.
+Sydney O'Bier moody songs like this are always comforting to me..maybe to those who've known hardship find no comfort anywhere else. Like a junkie finding respite amid the cold..also check out the Kossoy Sisters version of Banks of The Ohio, different tone but pleasantly illusive and very harmonic.
+Logic Enforcer to be fair many a junkie look forward to the warm cozy caccoon that the cold prick of a needle brings. i'm sure Neil knew how to set the tone, which was very befitting in a blues tone.
You don't understand I have no one I'm a good guy but that doesn't seem to matter I don't want to go down that road again I been clean for 4 years I lost someone and it's calling me back.Im sorry but I'm trying to be strong.
@@jimjenkins3502 I know it’s difficult but you need to try to love yourself, improve yourself, and fill your cup. When your cup is full you can truly care for others and attract quality people.
I find it so moving - that last line "Every Junkie's like a setting sun" ... almost like you know they are going and all you can do is watch. It also has a kind of unfinished end to it - like so many lives that finish prematurely due to drugs.
The great eraser. It takes your friends, family, pets, even mom and dad. Its not done. Next it takes stuff, rings and watches, things that shine and sing. Then it takes your job. When you run out of money, and have lost a lot of weight, it takes your home. After that, its not a big jump to your dignity, self respect and verility. All that matters is getting high. And when you sleep in vomit and piss yourself, and the law gives up cuz you're a lost cause, it takes your health. The last think it takes, is the first thing it wanted, and you gave it willingly. Your Life. Addiction is the greatest eraser, it takes it all.
A poet, a prophet, and a priest. How many today can come close to the touch, the artistry, the mastery that is Neil Young? The insight, the beauty and touch of poetic insight that few can put to paper never mind to song. Thinking of the crass, crude, rude, simple, and pathetic that passes today for music, I praise Young for keeping the music alive in my heart. God bless Neil Young.
my brother stopped drinking for 9 years then started up again, parents paid 20.000 thousand for rehab, he dround when a kayak flipped, alcoholism efects lots of familys
Addiction is crippeling. I've been an alcoholic pretty much my whole life and heroin addict. I'd give anything to have it over. I hope people learn to not make the mistakes of others.
MY BEST FRIEND OF ALMOST 20 YRS IS IN HOSPICE RIGHT NOW FOR ABOUT THE LAST 10 DAYS HER LIVER SHUT DOWN 100% B/C OF ALCOHOL ITS BREAKING MY HEART HER ONLY SON ONLY CHILD JUST SERVED 3 TOURS IN IRAQ AND JUST GOT MARRIED 3 WKS AGO HAS BOUGHT A HOME IN ALASKA AND HAD TO COME HERE ABOUT ALMOST 48 HRS NOW TO BE W/ HER TIL THE END SO I UNDERSTAND BEC MCGETTIGAN IT WILL TAKE ME AT LEAST A YR TO GRIEVE OVER HER IM CRIED OUT RIGHT NOW IVE BEEN CRYING FOR 10 DAYS SHE STOPPED EVERYTHING ALL TREATMENT AND SIGNED DNR 3 DAYS AGO I DONT DRINK BUT I WAS A BARTENDER FOR 19 YRS IN HUGH NIGHTCLUBS AND NEIGHBORHOOD BARS PRIVATE CLUBS AND COLF CLUBS ETC NEVER BOTHERED ME I CUT PPL OFF BEEN CUSSED OUT THEN APPOLOGIZED TO THE NEXT SHIFT, MY FATHER WAS KILLED BY A DRUNK DRIVER WHO ALSO DIED IM IN CINCINNATI OHIO HE WAS IN FLA W/ MY 5 HALF BROTHERS AND SISTERS AND IT WAS HIS 3RD WIFES SISTER WHO WAS DRIVING I PAID FOR A FUNERAL DOWN THERE FOR MY SIBLINGS AND HIS FRIENDS THEN FLEW HIM HERE AND ONLY HAD A GRAVESIDE SERVICE B/C I DIDNT KNOW WHO TO CALL NOW MY BEST FRIEND SHE SAID SHES TIRED AND SHES READY BUT IM NOT I DONT WANT TO LET HER GO YET.PPL ALCOHOL WILL KILL YOU SLOWLY THERES A HEROIN EPIDEMIC GOING ON RIGHT NOW IN CINCINNATI ALONE IN THE PAST I THINK 4 DAYS HAVE BEEN OVER 100 ODS ONLY 3 DEATHS BUT I MISSED THE NEWS TONIGHT ITS JUST A SHAME THEY ADVERTISE ALCOHOL ON EVERY COMMERCAL BREAK AND MAKE LOOK LIKE SO MUCH FUN BUT THEY DONT GIVE YOU THE STATISTICS OF HOW MANY PPL DIE DUE TO DRUNK DRIVING EVERY YR OR FROM CIRROSIS AND IT LEAVES THE FAMILIES AND FRIENDS IN THE WAKE OF THIS TRAGEDY BUT THEY DONT ADVERTISE CIGARETTES ANYMORE I DONT EVEN THINK WE HAVE THEM ON BILLBOARDS B/C IT CAUSES ANOTHER DEVESTATING DISEASE CANCER AND COPD EMPHZEMA AND A HOST OF OTHER THINGS BUT HEY ALCOHOL THE GOVERNMENT HAS NO PROBLEM WITH THAT UNTIL ITS SOMEONE IN THIER FAMILY WHO IS AFFECTED I HEAR TRUMP IN MY BEDROOM TV TALKING ABOUT IMMIGRANTS AND WHO KNOWS WHAT SO I HAVENT BEEN LISTENING TO HIM OR HILARY BUT IM GONNA CK IT OUT SINCE WERE SO CLOSE TO THE ELECTION. GOD BLESS AMERICA.
Destiny's world..in the name of Jesus Christ I pray to God your father gets over his addictions and back to the father he should be and to bring your family back together..Amen
I pray for all addicts at every meeting. This old post here - I hope your dad did get clean - has reminded me to join a meditation group. The power of the mind - over matter when connected with others is quite incredible.
@@ronnietoots6797 QUIT WITH THAT PRESSURE IM SICK OF IT everyone trying to get clean gets told to TELL THEIR STORY. I had that happened to me and ruined recovery for me - I was not ready to talk I was shy and traumatised you fecking yanks need to learn to quit with that. Not everyone wants to be on fecking OPERA
My favorite artist, one of my favorite songs. Going on 17years sober, don't miss it a bit. I survived. Changed my life completely for the better. Grateful everyday. Neil still my favorite. Been listening since he was in Buffalo Springfield. Both my boys have gone to see Neil several times, with me and without me. When they were little i would sing After the Gold Rush to them to help go to sleep. When my oldest was about 18yrs. old he heard Neil on the radio singing After the Gold Rush. He said he'd heard this song somewhere before. I told him where he'd heard it. That was 17 years ago. We've been closer ever since. He's coming up on 8 years sober. Closer to my youngest boy too. Life is good.
This song hits close to home, I have been addicted to meth, heroin, and coke for about 7 years now with a couple breaks in between, started out smoking then moved to slammin, I now have 8 months clean and that's the longest I've ever gone. Not only have I lived the damage done but, I have also seen it too. If there is anyone reading this trying to get clean stick with it, keep your head up, surround yourself with good people, listen to great music like this, and most importantly...
So awesome! It gets better and better. Got clean when I was 23, over 8 years ago. Took a lot of time to learn to live, and we are so lucky to have another chance!
Neal remind me of my sweet son who is fighting addiction to meth and heroin. My son is an old soul like Neal. GOD bless you Neal, You got clean, so can my son.
i think that's the highlight of this all-around brilliant song. with such a beautiful chord progression and haunting melody, i think most artists would stretch something like that out into more than 2 minutes. hell, if i ever wrote the first 10 seconds of that song, it'd wind up being like "In A Gadda Da Vida" or "Sister Ray" - i'd basically milk it for all its worth. it says a lot about Neil Young's attitude towards his art, and how it trumps other factors like money and prestige (although he hasn't done too bad i those areas, either....) that he leaves the chord progression unfinished - it leaves the listener kind of suspended in the air, waiting for something to resolve itself that'll never happen. the song LITERALLY ends before its time.
Between the age of 10 to 16 I lived in Oxnard, Ca. I lost 8 lifelong friends to heroin overdose are related crap. but Neil was there with Me and here I am 58 years later and so is Neil. Thank You for so many wonderful songs !
I caught you knockin' at my cellar door...I love you baby can I have some more...o o the damage done.... I hit the city and I lost my band I watched the needle take another man gone gone the damage done...I sing my song because I love the man I know that some of you won't understand milk blood to keep from running out. I've seen the needle and the damage done a little part of it in everyone but every junkie's like a setting sun..........
One man, one guitar and a wonderful emotional experience in music history. This is Neil Young at his best. That cough in the audience will be immortalized .
Heroin and crack addict here , this song puts a lot of perspective in my life in many ways . I'm 22 and iv been on it for 8 years . I remember walking into the watershed rehab double doors and I remember how bad I was especially day before. I never want to go back I'm in halfway right now with 3 months sober , not much but for me that's the longest clean time in my life . Most addicts can agree but for me I was afraid of living sober not dying . Thought I just share that , great song though
On jan1, this coming year we get the war on opioids. I've never done heroin, but I can relate, at least a little. I've taken stuff for Chronic severe pain for years, been cut back for it several times to prepare for that day, less than a week away, when no on can get more that 39 milligrams. I missed my doses for over 24 hours to see how bad it would be, and help prepare myself and and found w out about withdrawal that seemed to be a new kind of hell. I congratulate you and the others who made it thru. How do you get thru the 1st day, the 1st week, the 1st month?
Kate's Free Johnny had been down that road and eventually turned to Jesus to get clean. From what I've seen, and trust me I've seen and experienced quite a lot, it usually takes supernatural help from the Lord to get off the junk.
If you've never used, this song is so real, so poignant, that you feel - feel as if you had. And it reminds us that no one is better. We're all junkies, like the setting sun. Beautiful.
I lost my brother, Scott, to heroin & cocaine a few months before he turned 21. He was at a party and a girl turned him onto this new high for the first time. He passed out and never woke up from the "speedball". My nephew, Scott who was named after my brother, was in and out of jail and rehab with a heroin addiction... The night before his 21st birthday, he was getting ready to go to dinner with his Mom, my sister, and Dad to celebrate his big day. Though he had been clean for a month or so, a couple that he knew gave him some heroin for his 21st birthday. He decided to do it before dinner, gave himself the shot, fell on the floor with the needle in his arm and never woke up... Senseless... Please educate your children and grandchildren. ♡♡♡
Im very sorry to hear about your nephew.. Hopefully people make the right choices about staying away from heroin. That drug wants to kill everyone as i know quite a few that died from it
yeah I agree. ppl want to get high, so we should legalize the safer ones like psychedelics, and weed, and educate ppl how to use them safely so they know all the risks if the want to get high.
We love you man, and whenever or however you get through it, there's love overflowing. I lost two friends to it, but gained so much perspective.. stay strong, brother
This song always reduces me to tears. I lost so many people through addiction through the 70's and the 80's and almost followed them through the gate before I cleaned up in 1999 after 18 months of treatment. I went back to college and became an addiction treatment/mental health specialist in San Francisco in 2003. I have seen so much pain since that it has changed me, and not necessarily for the good. Neil Young hit it on the head, but many of us did not Hear his message. I pray that all of you who still "play" with these chemicals wake up and get help while you can. The world turns it's back on us when we are in our addictions. Nobody cares except those who have felt our pain. Be Born again my friends!! Get Clean!! Thank you Neil Young!
This song is so true. Before I was a slave to smack for 3 years in Germany in the early 80's, I never really understood. Got clean in 86 & don't ever want to be a slave again. The thoughts always there, but the end result is death. This song is so very true.
My best friend died from opiate addiction 4 years ago. She used to play me songs like this and tel me how she identified with them. I never took her seriously. I lover her. I miss her. I wish I understood more about addiction and helped her more in life.
@rhcpf12 I think that’s the point-,we are left wanting more song the way we want people we lose. And the fact that the song ends so abruptly during the chord progression is definitely meant to mirror early, tragic, abrupt death.
What a performance - there's such serenity in him even whilst playing what is a complicated guitar part. Been learning to learn it myself, give me another ten years and I might get somewhere close to Neil. As for his singing, I'll never get there. Absolute legend, and still somehow relatively under-appreciated by the masses. Long may he run ✊️
Listen to neil young and it really makes you think back over the years and how much better things were back in the 70s things were alot better and everyone got along better
Sounds exactly like the recorded version on my 1972 cassette of Harvest. I feel your pain, Neil. Never did drugs, but lost many friends who did. God Bless you, Neil.
@For Whom The Bell Tolls. Funny I started listening to Harvest on vinyl ,then 8 track. Then cassette. Still listening. I’m 63 ,always loved Neil Young and this song. Still sounds the same.
I caught you knockin' at my cellar door I love you, baby, can I have some more? Ooh, ooh, the damage done I hit the city and I lost my band I watched the needle take another man Gone, gone, the damage done I sing the song because I love the man I know that some of you don't understand Milk blood to keep from running out I've seen the needle and the damage done A little part of it in everyone But every junkie's like a settin' sun
You have to have something to legitimately sell it this man has soul and he kept it the rest of us going into next year need these archetypes. Happy Holidays.
A great piece of art created by an artist who views other artists downfalls into darkness. Neil young is not an artist for writing this, but a virtuoso!
This song is so close to his I feel,my daughter and mother both struggled with addiction I just pray for the life of my beautiful daughter that she doesn't surcom to her addiction.praying for you my baby girl
Once again, only Neil Young can do this, one man, his guitar and a delivery second to none. I am old now, and immersing myself in his music is like reliving all the sad and glad times.as if they were happening now and yesterday at the same time. As tomorrow looms, Neils' music will be there to guide me as it has been since I first heard Heart of Gold in 72. The rest is is history, beautiful history, thanks Neil.
Had two college friends who left to go to Vietnam. Both came back with drug problems, one got off them and the other couldn't. This song hit home for me then and now.
stay with Neil Young, he understands, and he'll be there for you. it's hard enough living this life without addiction, there are people with compassion for what stuggles others are going through. take it one day at a time, sometimes one minute at a time is all any of us can do, and that's the truth!
I too have loved and lost from this. 2 of the greatest songs are this one and Skynyrd's Needle and The Spoon and That Smell which are both anti-drug songs. Regardless to a lot of baseless rumours, Ronnie VanZant loved Neil Young wore his t-shirts both on the road and at home.. Neil had sent VanZant several songs he wanted the band to cut one was "powderkeg" but fate had it's way when the plane crashed in 1977. The picture on front of the Street Survivors original album was VanZant wearing Neil's t-shirt under a black leather jacket with black widow spiders on the sleeves..13 days after it was released and there are also 13 letters in Lynyrd Skynyrd.. For those who don't know, " the smell of death surrounds you.." Don't mess around people it ain't no good..RebTL 2016
Who would have thought that the name of this YT channel would become a prominent phrase worldwide in 2020. At first I thought that it was a new channel looking to entertain us as we self-isolate practicing social distancing.
sober now 24 years. this song means more to me than most people know.
me too!!!
have a shot
Nice fucking work, 24 years, christ. Good luck...
Good work, mate. Kicking an addiction can't be easy.
im glad courts put me in rehab instead of jail
I love the way this song is cut short, suddenly and unexpectedly. Perfect metaphor.
yeah I'm kicking suboxone RIGHTNOW! it's probably the only reason why I'm up at this most ungodly hour...
Actually, I have always thought he should have written some more lyrics to this. Isn’t rather short. The quick ending is fine though.
Amazing that the song is 44 years and still 100% relevant
Neil Young is a gift.
Unfortunately, it will stay relevant as long as heroin is relevant.
To me it would be amazing if it weren't still relevant. Anything so addictive and pleasurable will always be as it always has been. Just because something has been around for a while doesn't mean that it's lost its appeal. Exactly the opposite is usually true.
No what would be amazing is the day it’s NOT relevant 😞
Timeless!!
Lost my daughter to the needle..........I need her now but of course I always needed her. This song used to be too hard to listen to but somehow it helps me now. Thank you Neil for your honest and caring songs and especially your lyrics that touch the heart.
sorry to hear that
I empathize with you very much. Also have children. And respect that you can listen to this beautiful song 🕯️🙏🏻
Can not imagine the damage.
I'm so sorry. There are not enough tears in the world.
@@vpcproduction7070❤❤😮 2:22
“Every junkie’s like a setting sun…”: always gives me chills.
one of the most beautiful lines along with 'a little part of it in everyone'
Me too, Brother...😢
Always touches me deeply inside
And the guitar at the end how it just suddenly stops with no warning. Genius!
@@cynthiasage8508 I think musicians call that "ending on an unresolved chord."
I'm here because I lost my brother in law at 9 last night. Needle still in hand. "I've seen the needle and the damage done." He leaves behind my pregnant sister. No more pain! May all who have fallen to this madness be resting in peace!
+Amanda Presswood so sorry for your loss.
Georgianne Gale thank you so much
+Amanda Presswood so sorry to hear this , sorry for your loss your families loss. wish all could recover and not have this fate.
+7windwhisper much appreciated. thank you
+BurningBushes2008 as do I. thank you so much. she just sent me pictures of her sonogram. beautiful baby Ava! her daddy would've been so proud.
I got goosebumps when he said, "A lot of great artists get affected by that. A lot of great art goes down the drain..."
Why does everything Neil Young make sound so cozy and comforting, even songs like this, about a man losing himself to heroine? I just love him, he really has a passion.
***** Laurel Canyon ... Inside the LC
+Sydney O'Bier moody songs like this are always comforting to me..maybe to those who've known hardship find no comfort anywhere else. Like a junkie finding respite amid the cold..also check out the Kossoy Sisters version of Banks of The Ohio, different tone but pleasantly illusive and very harmonic.
+Logic Enforcer to be fair many a junkie look forward to the warm cozy caccoon that the cold prick of a needle brings. i'm sure Neil knew how to set the tone, which was very befitting in a blues tone.
I don't think it's cozy or comforting....haunting,I think.
I find his voice quite haunting, but I like it
"Every junkie's like a setting sun."
Could a painful reality be said more beautifully?
Somebody help me
@@jimjenkins3502 Jim. You have value and something to give to this world. Don’t let addiction take that from you and you from us.
You don't understand I have no one I'm a good guy but that doesn't seem to matter I don't want to go down that road again I been clean for 4 years I lost someone and it's calling me back.Im sorry but I'm trying to be strong.
@@Sweetskis it's not the addiction.Its the fact that I don't want to be alone
@@jimjenkins3502 I know it’s difficult but you need to try to love yourself, improve yourself, and fill your cup. When your cup is full you can truly care for others and attract quality people.
One of the best anti-drug songs ever. Outstanding lyrics. Neil is among the elite songwriters, in my opinion.
I find it so moving - that last line "Every Junkie's like a setting sun" ... almost like you know they are going and all you can do is watch. It also has a kind of unfinished end to it - like so many lives that finish prematurely due to drugs.
brit1958ian agreed.
One of the great closing lines ever. Beautiful lyrics.
Beautiful interpretation.
Ive seen the needle and the damage done , a little part of it in everyone, i really like that line to , like everyone is a junkie of something.....
I came to comment the same. It’s like the song was supposed to go on but was suddenly extinguished.
One of the best songs ever written.
The great eraser. It takes your friends, family, pets, even mom and dad. Its not done. Next it takes stuff, rings and watches, things that shine and sing. Then it takes your job. When you run out of money, and have lost a lot of weight, it takes your home. After that, its not a big jump to your dignity, self respect and verility. All that matters is getting high. And when you sleep in vomit and piss yourself, and the law gives up cuz you're a lost cause, it takes your health. The last think it takes, is the first thing it wanted, and you gave it willingly. Your Life. Addiction is the greatest eraser, it takes it all.
WOW ...Well said
pussies and weak junkies make that excuse....
and back
Welcome back my friend! Good to have you here, much work to do!
its good the courts give you a 2nd chance instead of jail
A poet, a prophet, and a priest. How many today can come close to the touch, the artistry, the mastery that is Neil Young? The insight, the beauty and touch of poetic insight that few can put to paper never mind to song. Thinking of the crass, crude, rude, simple, and pathetic that passes today for music, I praise Young for keeping the music alive in my heart. God bless Neil Young.
Thank you 🙏🏼
Especially when he sought to marginalize those who refused to be vaccinated. The Anti - Establishment hero is a fraud.
A guitarist anyway
I have so much love for Neil young
im here because i lost my partner to alcoholism. addiction is addiction.
just out of rehab again
my brother stopped drinking for 9 years then started up again, parents paid 20.000 thousand for rehab, he dround when a kayak flipped, alcoholism efects lots of familys
what cost rehab? what cost brain?
Addiction is crippeling. I've been an alcoholic pretty much my whole life and heroin addict. I'd give anything to have it over. I hope people learn to not make the mistakes of others.
MY BEST FRIEND OF ALMOST 20 YRS IS IN HOSPICE RIGHT NOW FOR ABOUT THE LAST 10 DAYS HER LIVER SHUT DOWN 100% B/C OF ALCOHOL ITS BREAKING MY HEART HER ONLY SON ONLY CHILD JUST SERVED 3 TOURS IN IRAQ AND JUST GOT MARRIED 3 WKS AGO HAS BOUGHT A HOME IN ALASKA AND HAD TO COME HERE ABOUT ALMOST 48 HRS NOW TO BE W/ HER TIL THE END SO I UNDERSTAND BEC MCGETTIGAN IT WILL TAKE ME AT LEAST A YR TO GRIEVE OVER HER IM CRIED OUT RIGHT NOW IVE BEEN CRYING FOR 10 DAYS SHE STOPPED EVERYTHING ALL TREATMENT AND SIGNED DNR 3 DAYS AGO I DONT DRINK BUT I WAS A BARTENDER FOR 19 YRS IN HUGH NIGHTCLUBS AND NEIGHBORHOOD BARS PRIVATE CLUBS AND COLF CLUBS ETC NEVER BOTHERED ME I CUT PPL OFF BEEN CUSSED OUT THEN APPOLOGIZED TO THE NEXT SHIFT, MY FATHER WAS KILLED BY A DRUNK DRIVER WHO ALSO DIED IM IN CINCINNATI OHIO HE WAS IN FLA W/ MY 5 HALF BROTHERS AND SISTERS AND IT WAS HIS 3RD WIFES SISTER WHO WAS DRIVING I PAID FOR A FUNERAL DOWN THERE FOR MY SIBLINGS AND HIS FRIENDS THEN FLEW HIM HERE AND ONLY HAD A GRAVESIDE SERVICE B/C I DIDNT KNOW WHO TO CALL NOW MY BEST FRIEND SHE SAID SHES TIRED AND SHES READY BUT IM NOT I DONT WANT TO LET HER GO YET.PPL ALCOHOL WILL KILL YOU SLOWLY THERES A HEROIN EPIDEMIC GOING ON RIGHT NOW IN CINCINNATI ALONE IN THE PAST I THINK 4 DAYS HAVE BEEN OVER 100 ODS ONLY 3 DEATHS BUT I MISSED THE NEWS TONIGHT ITS JUST A SHAME THEY ADVERTISE ALCOHOL ON EVERY COMMERCAL BREAK AND MAKE LOOK LIKE SO MUCH FUN BUT THEY DONT GIVE YOU THE STATISTICS OF HOW MANY PPL DIE DUE TO DRUNK DRIVING EVERY YR OR FROM CIRROSIS AND IT LEAVES THE FAMILIES AND FRIENDS IN THE WAKE OF THIS TRAGEDY BUT THEY DONT ADVERTISE CIGARETTES ANYMORE I DONT EVEN THINK WE HAVE THEM ON BILLBOARDS B/C IT CAUSES ANOTHER DEVESTATING DISEASE CANCER AND COPD EMPHZEMA AND A HOST OF OTHER THINGS BUT HEY ALCOHOL THE GOVERNMENT HAS NO PROBLEM WITH THAT UNTIL ITS SOMEONE IN THIER FAMILY WHO IS AFFECTED I HEAR TRUMP IN MY BEDROOM TV TALKING ABOUT IMMIGRANTS AND WHO KNOWS WHAT SO I HAVENT BEEN LISTENING TO HIM OR HILARY BUT IM GONNA CK IT OUT SINCE WERE SO CLOSE TO THE ELECTION. GOD BLESS AMERICA.
Please pray that my dad gets of heroin he hasn't seen me or my brothers in a long time I miss my dad please pray he gets clean
Destiny's world..in the name of Jesus Christ I pray to God your father gets over his addictions and back to the father he should be and to bring your family back together..Amen
Well how is he doing after all this long time
I pray for all addicts at every meeting. This old post here - I hope your dad did get clean - has reminded me to join a meditation group. The power of the mind - over matter when connected with others is quite incredible.
3 years clean, and this song describes that bondage well.
tell your story CZ, every one needs to hear reality.
@@ronnietoots6797 QUIT WITH THAT PRESSURE IM SICK OF IT everyone trying to get clean gets told to TELL THEIR STORY. I had that happened to me and ruined recovery for me - I was not ready to talk I was shy and traumatised you fecking yanks need to learn to quit with that. Not everyone wants to be on fecking OPERA
18 years clean ..... amazing amount of good that comes back to your life once you get away and come back to reality again
glad to hear your story, tell everyone, we need it.
Im still fighting it
@@eddiedean9886 lifes a horrible thing but its worse when you re a slave to addiction. You see the demons. You know what it is. Dont kid yourself.
There arent any appropriate words to describe this event, its like trying to describe the beauty of a rainbow. One of my favourite songs of all time.
My favorite artist, one of my favorite songs. Going on 17years sober, don't miss it a bit. I survived. Changed my life completely for the better. Grateful everyday. Neil still my favorite. Been listening since he was in Buffalo Springfield. Both my boys have gone to see Neil several times, with me and without me. When they were little i would sing After the Gold Rush to them to help go to sleep. When my oldest was about 18yrs. old he heard Neil on the radio singing After the Gold Rush. He said he'd heard this song somewhere before. I told him where he'd heard it. That was 17 years ago. We've been closer ever since. He's coming up on 8 years sober. Closer to my youngest boy too. Life is good.
this is the only version of this song that EVER needs to be played
Most emotion ever put down on a 2 minute song. A true classic
MR YOUNG YOU ARE A TRULY HERO AND AWESOME ARTIST ., THANK YOU FOR YOUR SONGS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT A GIFT PRICELESS
LDGM1974 I love you ALWAYS CHIEF I'M SO SORRY
This song hits close to home, I have been addicted to meth, heroin, and coke for about 7 years now with a couple breaks in between, started out smoking then moved to slammin, I now have 8 months clean and that's the longest I've ever gone. Not only have I lived the damage done but, I have also seen it too. If there is anyone reading this trying to get clean stick with it, keep your head up, surround yourself with good people, listen to great music like this, and most importantly...
Congratulations hope you made it out!
sober off of heroin for 1 year and 3 months
cobainizee congrats life should be used to progress humanity
gr8t to hear..lifes short enough...and cruel......but...be all you can be..
same hear i been sober for 14 months
So awesome! It gets better and better. Got clean when I was 23, over 8 years ago. Took a lot of time to learn to live, and we are so lucky to have another chance!
I'm so happy for you..... keep up the good work
Neal remind me of my sweet son who is fighting addiction to meth and heroin. My son is an old soul like Neal. GOD bless you Neal, You got clean, so can my son.
Every time I hear this song I take the sudden ending as a nod to the sudden end to the people the needle took.
i think that's the highlight of this all-around brilliant song. with such a beautiful chord progression and haunting melody, i think most artists would stretch something like that out into more than 2 minutes. hell, if i ever wrote the first 10 seconds of that song, it'd wind up being like "In A Gadda Da Vida" or "Sister Ray" - i'd basically milk it for all its worth.
it says a lot about Neil Young's attitude towards his art, and how it trumps other factors like money and prestige (although he hasn't done too bad i those areas, either....) that he leaves the chord progression unfinished - it leaves the listener kind of suspended in the air, waiting for something to resolve itself that'll never happen.
the song LITERALLY ends before its time.
sordidsentinel Well said!
Between the age of 10 to 16 I lived in Oxnard, Ca. I lost 8 lifelong friends to heroin overdose are related crap. but Neil was there with Me and here I am 58 years later and so is Neil. Thank You for so many wonderful songs !
This song makes me cry for my generation...for my baby brother. God. The choices we make that change us forever...
I caught you knockin' at my cellar door...I love you baby can I have some more...o o the damage done.... I hit the city and I lost my band I watched the needle take another man gone gone the damage done...I sing my song because I love the man I know that some of you won't understand milk blood to keep from running out. I've seen the needle and the damage done a little part of it in everyone but every junkie's like a setting sun..........
I'M GLAD I MADE IT BACK FROM MY DISEASE AND THAT F'N NEEDLE NO MORE FOR ME.... THANK YOU GREAT SPIRIT
I want to write a book, everyone wants to hear about it.
One man, one guitar and a wonderful emotional experience in music history. This is Neil Young at his best. That cough in the audience will be immortalized .
Sober since feb 2017
Heroin and crack addict here , this song puts a lot of perspective in my life in many ways . I'm 22 and iv been on it for 8 years . I remember walking into the watershed rehab double doors and I remember how bad I was especially day before. I never want to go back I'm in halfway right now with 3 months sober , not much but for me that's the longest clean time in my life . Most addicts can agree but for me I was afraid of living sober not dying . Thought I just share that , great song though
On jan1, this coming year we get the war on opioids. I've never done heroin, but I can relate, at least a little. I've taken stuff for Chronic severe pain for years, been cut back for it several times to prepare for that day, less than a week away, when no on can get more that 39 milligrams. I missed my doses for over 24 hours to see how bad it would be, and help prepare myself and and found w out about withdrawal that seemed to be a new kind of hell.
I congratulate you and the others who made it thru.
How do you get thru the 1st day, the 1st week, the 1st month?
Right on!!! Hope ur doing ok!
Hey I hope you're still clean???
Keep going man
try harder to stay sober I have 15 years one day at a time ,god bless
Love that this was on the Johnny Cash show. Johnny was cool.
Kate's Free Johnny had been down that road and eventually turned to Jesus to get clean. From what I've seen, and trust me I've seen and experienced quite a lot, it usually takes supernatural help from the Lord to get off the junk.
He has so many great songs. Been a fan for 40 years now. This song is so amazing!
If you've never used, this song is so real, so poignant, that you feel - feel as if you had. And it reminds us that no one is better. We're all junkies, like the setting sun. Beautiful.
I lost my brother, Scott, to heroin & cocaine a few months before he turned 21. He was at a party and a girl turned him onto this new high for the first time. He passed out and never woke up from the "speedball".
My nephew, Scott who was named after my brother, was in and out of jail and rehab with a heroin addiction... The night before his 21st birthday, he was getting ready to go to dinner with his Mom, my sister, and Dad to celebrate his big day. Though he had been clean for a month or so, a couple that he knew gave him some heroin for his 21st birthday. He decided to do it before dinner, gave himself the shot, fell on the floor with the needle in his arm and never woke up... Senseless... Please educate your children and grandchildren. ♡♡♡
Im very sorry to hear about your nephew.. Hopefully people make the right choices about staying away from heroin. That drug wants to kill everyone as i know quite a few that died from it
yeah I agree. ppl want to get high, so we should legalize the safer ones like psychedelics, and weed, and educate ppl how to use them safely so they know all the risks if the want to get high.
Oh God, I’m so terribly sorry. I hate what hard drugs can do to people and their families, so many young lives lost.
Rip to my brother Ryon Bradley Jones
April 3rd 1988- June 28 2017
Miss you everyday
I hate heroin
brother wass a junkie
Brilliant beyond words.
Don't mess with the needle and the spoon, or any trip to the moon. They'll take you away
One of the most amazing songs ever written
I lost so many friends in the early 70's. R.I.P.
Sarah Graham sorry you lost friends. I know how you feel. on a different note... never reply to a troll. That hurts them more than anything.
DereMemo who the F#!! U think UR?
why judge? why the HATE?
thus protest too much
R.i.p to all my friends n brother heroin took from me.. god forgive me for being a junky.....
Good luck with ur addiction god bless man
We love you man, and whenever or however you get through it, there's love overflowing. I lost two friends to it, but gained so much perspective.. stay strong, brother
you are forgiven, brother..
+Erik Parker amen
Who u were isn't who you are now. Sorry for your loss
This song always reduces me to tears. I lost so many people through addiction through the 70's and the 80's and almost followed them through the gate before I cleaned up in 1999 after 18 months of treatment. I went back to college and became an addiction treatment/mental health specialist in San Francisco in 2003. I have seen so much pain since that it has changed me, and not necessarily for the good. Neil Young hit it on the head, but many of us did not Hear his message. I pray that all of you who still "play" with these chemicals wake up and get help while you can. The world turns it's back on us when we are in our addictions. Nobody cares except those who have felt our pain. Be Born again my friends!! Get Clean!! Thank you Neil Young!
This song is so true. Before I was a slave to smack for 3 years in Germany in the early 80's, I never really understood. Got clean in 86 & don't ever want to be a slave again. The thoughts always there, but the end result is death. This song is so very true.
one of the best story tellers in rock and roll...
My best friend died from opiate addiction 4 years ago. She used to play me songs like this and tel me how she identified with them. I never took her seriously. I lover her. I miss her. I wish I understood more about addiction and helped her more in life.
im a recovering herion addic pray i been clean for a year i prayed to Jesus to help me he didim so thankfull
Ben Brown I'll be sure to pray for you man. I hope you still are. Best of luck to you. Stay strong. He loves you.
+HurleyX8 im doing real good staying clean god bless you
May God continue to keep you brother through the good times and the tough. Give him everything.
One day at a time brother. It's just gotta be the most important thing in your life. Wishing you all peace.
Iam a recovering alcoholic but the easiness of opoids make it hard
This song gives me chills damn near every time I hear it. Its one of those songs that's so good you're left wanting more verses.
@rhcpf12 I think that’s the point-,we are left wanting more song the way we want people we lose. And the fact that the song ends so abruptly during the chord progression is definitely meant to mirror early, tragic, abrupt death.
What a performance - there's such serenity in him even whilst playing what is a complicated guitar part. Been learning to learn it myself, give me another ten years and I might get somewhere close to Neil. As for his singing, I'll never get there. Absolute legend, and still somehow relatively under-appreciated by the masses. Long may he run ✊️
I remember watching this on TV when it first aired. I shivered with pleasure.
'Every Junkie's like a setting sun.
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Listen to neil young and it really makes you think back over the years and how much better things were back in the 70s things were alot better and everyone got along better
what a classic from Neil this prb one of my top 3 songs from neil. thxs for playing mk
This is so heavy! wow... You are awsome Neil...
THIS SONG WAS THE SONG THAT HELPED ME GET OFF METH ITS DEEP
RIP Philip Seymour Hoffman
What a powerful song and performance. Brings a tear to my eye every time I watch and listen
Sounds exactly like the recorded version on my 1972 cassette of Harvest. I feel your pain, Neil. Never did drugs, but lost many friends who did. God Bless you, Neil.
@For Whom The Bell Tolls. Funny I started listening to Harvest on vinyl ,then 8 track. Then cassette. Still listening. I’m 63 ,always loved Neil Young and this song. Still sounds the same.
I caught you knockin' at my cellar door
I love you, baby, can I have some more?
Ooh, ooh, the damage done
I hit the city and I lost my band
I watched the needle take another man
Gone, gone, the damage done
I sing the song because I love the man
I know that some of you don't understand
Milk blood to keep from running out
I've seen the needle and the damage done
A little part of it in everyone
But every junkie's like a settin' sun
R. R. Rubin or 'seller' door. depending on its origen.
He is so perfect in so many levels.
Just heard of this guy the other day and now have a CD of his.
Not a son, but a statement...@the one & only & truly amazing Neil Young. Thank you!
Devastatingly great song from Neil...one of many.
You have to have something to legitimately sell it this man has soul and he kept it the rest of us going into next year need these archetypes. Happy Holidays.
a fan , thanks for a life time of great songs
WOW!
Love this song....
Great rendition, thnx for posting :)
A great piece of art created by an artist who views other artists downfalls into darkness. Neil young is not an artist for writing this, but a virtuoso!
more relevant than ever
This song is so close to his I feel,my daughter and mother both struggled with addiction I just pray for the life of my beautiful daughter that she doesn't surcom to her addiction.praying for you my baby girl
Once again, only Neil Young can do this, one man, his guitar and a delivery second to none. I am old now, and immersing myself in his music is like reliving all the sad and glad times.as if they were happening now and yesterday at the same time. As tomorrow looms, Neils' music will be there to guide me as it has been since I first heard Heart of Gold in 72. The rest is is history, beautiful history, thanks Neil.
"Every junkies' like a setting sun".
Enough said.................
Enough said. No need to sing more
He is such a brilliant live singer......
Heartbreaking ..Perfection !
this song means so much to me....I also love the way he makes it sound like there are two guitars playing
Clean off heroin for 5 years 2 months. 🙏🏻
Wonderful Jo. Congratulations.
Good for you😚💪
STAY STRONG
Bravissimo 😚
God bless you
I saw a bumper sticker on the back of a car in Venice one day, it said "Just think, what would Neil Young do??" , I think that about sums it up. =)
Thank you. The poetry and music has helped my soul.
Seether honored neil by covering this on Live tv instead of their own song. amazing song great lyrics
god i love this song
I am with you on that one Sarah!
This and "Old Man" :)
i like it!
I’m going through withdrawal from fentanyl and Heroin this song hits home
get better Sam
SPEED KILLS
@dougney3026 isn't "speed" usually cocaine/meth?
Had two college friends who left to go to Vietnam. Both came back with drug problems, one got off them and the other couldn't. This song hit home for me then and now.
Rhythm, lead, and vocals... SOLO!
I just came around to appreciate how bad ass he was. Thanks for the upload.
What I would have done to be a member of that audience!
LONG LIVE THE GENTLE HIPPY
MERRY CHRISTMAS NEXT TIME YOU LOOK AT CROSS OR READ THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT KNOW JESUS WAS A HIPPY
One of the best songs ever written
The standing ovation brought tears to my eyes.
I have a lot of problems but glad I never went there
Sometimes the pain is really bad. RIP Phil.
Beautiful
So beautiful.
stay with Neil Young, he understands, and he'll be there for you. it's hard enough living this life without addiction, there are people with compassion for what stuggles others are going through. take it one day at a time, sometimes one minute at a time is all any of us can do, and that's the truth!
came to this video as soon as I heard about Scott Weiland.....RIP Scott....
"I saw the needle take another man" :(
Neil young you always deliver!
Incredible performance from Neil Young.
I too have loved and lost from this. 2 of the greatest songs are this one and Skynyrd's Needle and The Spoon and That Smell which are both anti-drug songs. Regardless to a lot of baseless rumours, Ronnie VanZant loved Neil Young wore his t-shirts both on the road and at home.. Neil had sent VanZant several songs he wanted the band to cut one was "powderkeg" but fate had it's way when the plane crashed in 1977. The picture on front of the Street Survivors original album was VanZant wearing Neil's t-shirt under a black leather jacket with black widow spiders on the sleeves..13 days after it was released and there are also 13 letters in Lynyrd Skynyrd.. For those who don't know, " the smell of death surrounds you.." Don't mess around people it ain't no good..RebTL 2016
Who would have thought that the name of this YT channel would become a prominent phrase worldwide in 2020. At first I thought that it was a new channel looking to entertain us as we self-isolate practicing social distancing.
No matter how dark life gets, this song always makes me feel like I'll be alright!
just took my breath away a bit longer than i was emancipating on, wow.