Lynyrd Skynyrd - That Smell (REACTION)
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- @AirplayBeats reacts to Lynyrd Skynyrd - That Smell
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Look into the background of this song, it's not just well written it's their real life experience.
It's got a multitude of metaphors. Death, drugs, success vs failure, lost love depression... it's got everything.
@Greg-io1ip Gary Rossington bought a Ford Torino and crashed it into an oak tree, he also had the nickname Prince Charming.
Ronnie Van Zant was using H. The rest of the band were drinking heavily, smoking weed and doing cocaine.
@navagate1900 The Allman Brothers Band biography, 'One Way Out', is a great eye-opening read that reveals the inside story of the band...at one point every member was hooked on heroin.
And most of their songs had a big element of real life experience to them !!!
So we'll said my man
The song was written as a warning to guitar player Gary Rossington who was doing all the things mentioned in the song. After the success of the first album and tour, he crashed his car into an oak tree during a night of partying. He delayed the second tour by months. Singer Ronnie Van Zant(band leader) was furious and worried about fellow band member Gary Rossington. So he wrote this song as a warning to Gary and all others who indulge. Oddly enough, with all of Gary's vices, he was the last surviving member of the original band.
A lot of us in the 70’s smelled that smell. Lucky to be alive.
Got that straight.
In spite of ourselves... Or maybe it was TO spite ourselves...
What was Fun back in the day, catches up with you- if you survived! Saw them in 197?- Fillmore style. Was 3rd row back in line of standing people... right in front of Ronnie! His facial expressions had such ATTITUDE!! This song never gets old. Neither does the massage! ☠️
Air Play Beats on 🔥🔥🔥today!!!
You dam right 😂😂
You got that right.
It's an over used cliche, but to me, Leon Wilkerson was a tragically underrated bass player. His name is never mentioned among the elites, but his tremendous talent and style drove many Skynyrd tunes, this song being a great example. With Van Zant's in-yer-face vocals and that three guitar battalion tearing it up, it was easy to overlook Leon's huge contribution, but that boy deserves serious respect.
Leon was one bad dude.
I agree. The Mad Hatter is absolutely flawless on that bass.
He certainly had to have some chops to lay it out for all those guitars to play off of.
Especially in the song Saturday Night Special.
Yes Leon!!! He made the songs with his bass lines!!
You're just scratching the surface with Skynyrd .. Truly the greatest American band in history ..
What about Tucker.
Always loved it when Ronnie Van Zandt would do that whistle during a song because you knew he was calling out his three guitarist to the front to jam it out with each other
"Bring out my mules and kick 'em one time. (Whistle)"
Or trying to get the dope mans attention on the street
One more from the road 💯🔥
@@jeremywanner4526loser
I challenge anyone to dispute the fact this isnt one of the best songs ever written and performed. The drums, the bass, the guitars, the vocals, and the lyrics are all perfect. Absolutely legendary song.
ABSOLUTELY!!!!
It’s so good it’s been stuck in my head for a long time
It's my favorite song of there's.
"... one hell of a price for you to get your kicks"
Says it all. We lost so many back in those days, and still are. A cautionary tale for the ages. With some very dope music to drive it home.
Heroine has decimated the Seattle alternative scene bands. Almost all gone now.
You guys crushed it today! Zep, Who, Skynyrd! Hell Yes. This is an iconic song. Their first 5 albums has all bangers!
💙💙💙💙💙
Skynyrds guitar army is absolutely
Astonishing.
I wish we could bring back this era of great bands with deep meaning lyrics. So glad I was around back then when it all went down.
Processed music of today can't hold a candle to the decades of raw organic music so many of us were lucky to grow up with.
Amen to that!
This album cover is something of a collector's item. The record had shipped when they had their awful plane crash and the company pulled it in a hurry.
It's interesting but VERY easy to find for around $20. They printed 750,000 of it. The flames were removed after the crash, but it is commonly thought of as rare when it's not.
I was a huge Skynyrd fan so I bought this the day it came out, still have it in my vinyl collection!
The 'flames' photo was brought back eventually, and has been the cover for reissues, deluxe editions etc for a while now.
Very personal to me. A good friend, fraternity brother and basketball teammate would play this for me during a difficult time in my life. Thankfully I survived! Thanks my friend Karl
They're so good, it's almost exhausting to endure the greatness.
Skynyrd rockin' truth. Thanks for your reaction.
This great song takes you on such an intense journey about the horrors of drug and alcohol addiction. The guitar and descriptive lyrics are perfect. Thanks guys for reacting to this one!💞
As a kid growing up in the 60's and 70's songs like this from bands like this were on the radio all day everyday. What a time to be alive. I had forgotten how much of a banger this is and Skynyrd with there legendary dual guitar solos.
TRIPLE
Written about guitarist Gary Rossington as a warning. Can't imagine playing live on a song for 40+ years that was about you.
Ironically he was the last original member to SURVIVE EVERYTHING❗️📣
"DON'T MISSUNDERSTAND ME".....!!!
'I know a little' is another awesome tune of this album.
Thanks for the reminder. Going to go there as soon as this finishes.
Really doesn’t get much better than Lynyrd Skynyrd! Everyone on that album cover who has fire touching them died in the plane crash. RIP
That is not correct
Not every one on the album cover died in the plane crash
Only Ronnie and Steve from the cover photo died in the crash and there was no fire at the crash site - the fuel tanks were empty
You can never go wrong with Skynyrd, but this is my personal favorite.
ALL THOSE BROTHERZ KNEW THAT SMELL!!! STEVE GAINES, THANK YOU MY BROTHER FOR BRINGIN' A COMPASS!!!!! YOU ROCKED WITH THE HOMIES, AND INSPIRED!!!!! ROCK IN PEACE!!
One of the guitar players, Gary Rossington, got his front teeth knocked out in a bad car crash because he was high. Strangely enough, he was one of the survivors of the plane crash. He just died this year at 71 years old.
Deep irony that he was the last one standing. Dark as well.
@@BlackSmokeDMax Artemis Pyle, the drummer who replaced Bob Burns, is still alive. He also survived the crash.
@@324cmac Ah, you are right, guess I meant original members are all gone, but you are right about survivors!
@@BlackSmokeDMax I actually forgot that he wasn't the original drummer. That documentary, If I Leave Here Tomorrow, is great!
@@324cmacTrue but he wasn't a founding member of the band.
I hope this spoke to someone who needed to hear the message. As the Righteous Brothers once said,
"If there's a rock n' roll heaven
Well you know they've got a hell of a band"
RIP Skynyrd.
Such a powerful song and it is so well constructed and so well delivered. It's so sad that this is the last album before the plane crash, because they had just picked up Steven Gaines on guitar, brother to Cassie Gaines in the trio of women backing vocalists known as The Honkettes, and it just seemed like they were really starting to take off even more and creating such incredible albums for the time.
They were on the precipice of SUPERSTARDOM when the plane crash occurred . The Live "Freebird" video from the Day on the Green show in Oakland where they opened for Peter Frampton at the height of Framptonmania , proves it . Frampton had to go on after THAT ! Talk about going on stage under that kind of pressure to perform 😲
@@user-bh5jv8hi3b Oh yeah, I was in junior high and it was just devastating. And then we get John Bonham ending Led Zeppelin with his death and Bon Scott ending an era of AC DC with his death. All right around that time. John Lennon being assassinated. Keith Moon of The Who, etc.
Yep, they were taking off like a racket, straight out the stratosphere,it was that penny pinching coke sniffing Peter Rudge that saddled them with that relic of a plane
That plane crash happened 3 days after the release of this album 😢
Great song / great album
Great reaction!
🔥❤️🙏🏻🥲
I bought the album the day it was released. Enjoyment to sadness in three days.
I had tickets for the show that night.....
@@kenneth9874 tell you what’s worse… going to see Peter Frampton, Ted Nugent & Skynyrd. I blacked out during Ted Nugent and came to AFTER Skynyrd left the stage… now that is f*ckef up!
@@Rock_Snob oh no! Lol, at least I was able to see them a couple of times before but that day was still a bummer, although I did get to see Blue Oyster Cult and Led Zeppelin on the same night that same year.
All this band did was tell us what we needed to hear again and again.
If you really want to see and appreciate how tight they were listen to their live record one more from the Road
Man....The Who, Zep, Skynyrd back-to-back......greatness overload.
Written in Hell House a couple miles down the road from me in Green Cove Springs , Fl. We love them boys!
My favorite band of all time, so much talent gone far too soon. RIP Ronnie, Steven, Leon, Billy, Allen and Gary. You’ll forever be missed
Y'all are wise beyond your years!
Agree, many others that give their reactions on You Tube don't seem to have a clue about what many of the 70's Southern rock songs were all about. Helps to study some history of the times. I like these two guys, seem to understand and appreciate good music
Led Zep, The WHO, and now Skynyrd taking me back to the days of young unabashed craziness. I do enjoy watching you men discovering the music that I discovered as a teenager in the 70s. Here are some songs you never hear them talking about with LS. Hide, Road Fatigue, Cottonmouth Country, Double Trouble, Woman of Mine, Hide your face, Cheatin Woman, Every Mothers Son. all as good as any LS song written.
“Story-telling at its finest.” That’s the genius of Ronnie Van Zant.
I don't know if anyone else has mentioned this... this album, with the cover shown on here came out around the same time they were touring, right before the plane crash. After the plane crash, for obvious reasons, they discontinued this album cover and then re-released it without the flames in the background.😢
That Smell and The Needle and The Spoon are both 70's interventions done Skynyrd style!
Guitar heaven…watch this live. The story behind this song is great but sad. The three guitars killed it.
There's only ever been a handful of rock and roll songs this good, really. This is a musical masterpiece.
That's the original album cover, they took the flames away after the plane crash, this song was written for Gary, probably Allen too.
I saw lynyrd skynyrd in 1977,Anaheim stadium, there last time in California....awesome,they played, that smell.
could have been one of the best bands ever. RIP
Back in 1980, I was at an audio store looking to buy a a stereo set and the salesman put this on a cool JVC set and I was sold.
La and Che your on fire 🔥 today. I was fortunate to see them twice as a warm up band. I thought they were better than the headline band. On once with Ronnie's younger brother. So many great songs to delve into. One I would recommend is The Ballard of Curtis Lowe. As always fellas great reaction. Appreciate you 🙏 ❤
One of my all time favorites from Skynyrd. Thanks for the reaction ❤
Needle & the Spoon is a great one as well ❤
Steve Gaines, great guitar work, so clean, so funky, so effing good. What a loss.
I was building an album collection back in the 70's. An album every Payday Friday. Bought Street Survivors right when it came out. With the flames. Can remember exactly where I was when the news came on the radio about The Crash. Was crushed. Lynyrd Skynyrd was idolized Down South In New Orleans. And not only Down South , of course. I also had the original Rolling Stones album Some Girls. The album cover had pictures of celebrities that The Rolling Stones did not obtain the rights for. They had to reissue the album without these stars on the cover.
'Can't speak a word when you're full of lude's',he is referring to Quaaludes,a prescription drug that was for depression and mental disorders.They were being used everywhere in the 70's,they were banned in the early 80's.
The smell of death surrounds you......Hard words when I was 18 years old listening to this song......
This song was actually about Gary Robinson last surviving member that passed away on April 5 this year, they guitarist who did the slide.
The song was directed specifically at guitarist Gary Rossington (as well as other band members) nicknamed "Prince Charming" who had caused the delay of one of their tours because he crashed his new car into an oak tree. Be just so no one though he was moralizing he says in the song "I been there before" because Ronnie Van Zant was no stranger to any of the stuff he was singing about! You should do Needle and Spoon for a song with similar message.I think you should do literally every song they recorded prior to their plane crash and many of the songs they recorded after reuniting
I went down a Skynyrd documentary rabbit hole years ago and ever since then, I've considered this one of the most ironic songs in rock and roll history (including Isn't it ironic by Alanis, which, ironically, isn't all that ironic). The nutshell of what I learned is that the band understood and accepted its descent into hedonism. Reportedly, they had decided to attempt to "right the ship" as it were. Hence, this song. Of course, the irony is the subsequent plane crash, which, in hindsight might not be so much irony, as fate.
I share the same story this song tells when an oak tree took the the life of a dear friend
❤the year 1978
That's the original album cover for Street Survivors. The plane crash happened October 20, 1977, the album was to be released on October 23rd. The record company freaked out and had to change the cover quick. No way they could release it with the band surrounded by flames. Eery coincidence.
I still have my copy. Flames cover it has since been reissued with the original cover.
There is a flame above the head of each member that perished.
@@marqmars3599
Yes. Band leader Ronnie Van Zant (3rd from the left, black hat), Steve Gaines, (tall guy middle, that first beautiful guitar solo). Gaines's sister Cassie, backing singer, the pilot and co-pilot, all killed. All the rest very badly injured.
I was building an album collection back in the 70's. An album every Payday Friday. Bought Street Survivors right when it came out. With the flames. Can remember exactly where I was when the news came on the radio about The Crash. Was crushed. Lynyrd Skynyrd was idolized Down South In New Orleans. And not only Down South , of course. I also had the original Rolling Stones album Some Girls. The album cover had pictures of celebrities that The Rolling Stones did not obtain the rights for. They had to reissue the album without these stars on the cover.
I saw them in 1977 you can't go wrong with a Skynyrd song
Hi la and Che... you are the best reactors... most reactors think the smell is weed 🌳but it’s the smell of death....
More Lynyrd Skynyrd please!! More Southern Rock period!
Great Band and song…Ohhh that Smell 😊
The ones who lived to tell from the darkness of addiction, can relate to this song.
I'm in Portland and I see that smell every day!
You are right about band being tight. They were probably the most rehearsed band ever. The lead put them together and demanded perfection.
Yup brothers because By Far One Of The Greatest Songs Ever Written with deepest darkest meanings ever if you know what i mean if you been there dun that and survived this song says it all on all levels
I can remember saying "see Dad, they're singing against drugs". :)
this song is just epic, guitar work transcendent, clear and righteous message
“The smell of death surrounds you”
Earlier anti-drug song from 1960s was “Kicks” by Paul Revere and The Raiders.
"Oak tree, you're in my way"
He hit the tree. I've seen it, it's famous now; in Jacksonville.
This was a warning to himself as well as everybody else.
Fellas, the looks on your faces are priceless! I love it. You appreciate good music and you show it!
"Oak Tree, you're in my way...." I've luckily lived thru that line myself.
It was about one of the band members that was drunk and high hit a tree and almost died!
When the A's fan was closing his eyes, I knew he was hearing those guitars.
Three great classics from the 70s today! Zep, The Who, Lynyrd Skynyrd....the soundtrack of my teens. So grateful!
The album cover with the flames was recalled after their airplane went down during this tour. One of the back up singers (Cassie Gaines), lead singer (Ronnie Van Sant) and 3rd guitarist Steve Gaines were all killed. Lynyrd Skynyrd was already a great band. After Steve joined late in the original line up, he was going to take them to new levels. Damn shame that plane went down.
70’s was a lot of fun as a young man but I’m glad it’s over..I’m fortunate to be alive
Che is rocking this the way we did back in the day, close your eyes and get into it
"That was magnificent." Word.
The back up singers, The Honkettes, deserve some love for their contribution to this song and others.
Tight is right. Ronnie ran a tight ship! Love listening to ya'll. Soundin like producers. Keep going, you 2 are damn good at it. yo!
My favorite Skynyrd song love it love you
this song still hits as hard as it did 40+ years ago..
One of the greatest anti drug songs ever.🤘🏻🔥
Y’all gotta listen to “Things goin on” by Lynyrd Skynyrd as well as On The Hunt!
"Saturday Night Special " is a great song that should be listened to. Like this is about the pitfalls of drugs and has some "grit" to it, SNS covers three different scenarios of gun violence and death via the use of a Saturday Night Special just as much grittiness
Love me some skynard.Seen them three times amazing.
You speak the truth that should be playing for all or youth. ❤
Sounds as great today as the first time i heard it back in the 70's
Great band leader, must of been good with animals, communicating on a high level, that whistle is awesome
The panning of the last solo is iconic,Ed King was a musical genius
Ed King was not on this record. He left a couple years before Street Survivors came out. Guitar line up for this LP was Gary Rossington, Allen Collins and last but not least the new kid on the block Steve Gaines. Respect
Allen Collins!
Great reaction to a great choice.
Such a great song. Thank you.😊😊😊😊
Their song Sweet home Alabama, a song every one knows is a rebuttal song to Neil Young’s song Southern Man. You should listen to Neil Young’s song first then listen to Sweet home Alabama. I know y’all heard Sweet home Alabama before, but it will have a whole new meaning after hearing Neil’s 1st.
They lived this song like so many other rock bands, money, drugs and booze at their fingertips and hard, sometimes deadly lessons to be learned!
My favorite Skynyrd song.
You guys are the best out here
Been a fan of skynyrd since the early to mid 70s my fav
Pick any song won't be disappointed
Mr Banker
On the Hunt
Ballad of Curtis Lowe
Was I right or wrong
Skynyrd is one of the rock goats!
That "hell yeah" after " one hell of a price to get your kicks" 🔥
Hadn't heard this in a while and forgot how good if not great it is...the lead guitar is Killer, and Kills It.
When my friends started calling me prince charming that was my sign to settle down 😅
Check out Lynyrd Skynyrd live performances. They were amazing in the 70’s on stage. Total guitar overload with awesome story telling.
This album was the first with young Steve Gaines and Steve's sister Cassie as one of the singers (3 girls back up singers) Steve gave the band new juice and they were maturing and the best was yet to come. Sadly....it all ended same week album was released. Listen to "I Know a Little" from this album with Steve writing the song and playing lead. You will be blown away at where this band was rising to.
Steve was on on more for the road live album