Lynyrd Skynyrd - The Needle And The Spoon (Live) | REACTION

[@jamelakajamal]

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[@threwthelookingglass7194]

... ohhhhh SNAP.. IN FOR A TREAT!. stank face. 3:33

[@Official_ry_Nirvana]

@Jamel_AKA_Jamal my father was a huge fan of yours before he passed recently from cancer and this is one of his favorites from Them

[@kellycurtiss1163]

Have you ever heard of the Gear Daddys?

[@baird5776mullet]

You need to listen to "Train, Train" by the band Blackfoot.

[@quintonpriest]

Allen Collins is one of the best guitarist ever on planet earth and doesn't get near enough recognition... but he's still my favorite. And Lynyrd Skynyrd was, and still is,the greatest rock band ever... Thanks for all the Skynyrd songs you've covered... I look forward to seeing more... God Bless

[@BullseyeForever24]

I agree man he wrote all the bests songs

[@Kevin-py7hb]

Any Skynyrd song will create that”stank face”… Best southern rock band 🎸!!!!!!

[@skydog6376]

Yep…right behind the Allman Brothers ✌️

[@walterlangley9793]

The older I get and the more I listen to these old bands the more I realize the amazing talent. I'm a rush fan and everybody knows how musically advanced they were. I put Skynyrd right up there with them.

[@johnskirtich5676]

Skynyrd starts my every day ... the world needs a new run of old school rock.

[@toddcreech3763]

Two thumbs up ! Ronnie Van Zant was the man.

[@jamestate5059]

Skynyrd always had 3 guitar players that would have been mega stars in a band where they were "the guy" but each found their own way to shine in a band loaded with guitar talent

[@rickvalentine7900]

All three of them combined couldn't hold a flashlight for Gary Moore.

[@raymcarthur3870]

Well said,they were all Great

[@rockinredneck57]

@@rickvalentine7900 different styles. Moore couldn't hang in a rock band. All 4 early Skynyrd guitarists were top self in any band.

[@bjaded1]

@@rickvalentine7900 im not big on gary moore. these 3 and the replacement for ed king were top notch musicians in every sense of the word

[@BradCross1982]

Steve Gaines was the best one in my opinion, he’s my favorite anyway 🤘🏽

[@rnrweb1968]

Absolutely underrated solo and song!! Great reaction as always!

[@cjoin83]

You can feel the passion and perfection in that solo, Allen Collins is one of the greatest guitarists to ever live

[@54chewbacca]

Ronnie fucking Van Zant. One of the top 10 greatest front men of all time

[@ianhenry4046]

Who else do you have on the list? I'd go with Mick Jagger, Freddie Mercury, Rodger Daltery and Robert Plant. There's another one who is not so well known, Paul Young of the band Sade Cafe (not the Paul Young of Wherever I lay my Hat).

[@EPstroker]

top 2.....him and bon scott are a toss up for 1 and 2.

[@kingleo79]

Top 10 ? U mean top 1

[@nickhawkins6054]

@@ianhenry4046 who else could break The Rolling Stones rule of don’t go out on the tongue other than the RVZ! and get away with it, I’ll tell you none! The most badass frontman to ever have existed past and future!

[@acheartist]

My best friend's son died six months ago from an overdose. She went to check on him because he wasn't responding to calls. Her most precious gift in this life had passed away with the needle still in his arm. She called me before the ambulance and I was a six hour drive away. The hardest part was hearing her voice and having to wait seven hours before I could comfort her in my arms. After I arrived, I sat next to her, their daughter, and husband in the home where he died. I begged God to distribute their pain on me to help shoulder their agony. It's unbearable to watch someone you love so much, who hurts so badly and not be able to help them. I hope if someone is struggling and reads this, my experience will help you to hold on for another day. I don't know you but I can assure you that someone loves you very much and they would be destroyed if you left them.

[@jlhilbert1]

Will Rogers once said, “There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.” That is the same with those people you warn and they still have to find out for themselves.

[@esparka]

I really love those 1970s analog sounds with the apps in with the speakers the hum, that 60 cycle hum….

[@myownchannel247]

This song and That Smell are excellent anti-drug songs that rock 🔥

[@chrisa4695]

Yes and Saturday Night Special was a great anti-gun song from a band not known for messages.

[@myownchannel247]

@@chrisa4695 even better for me was Gimme Back My Bullets

[@JF-kv1gm]

Classic Lynyrd Skynyrd, great to hear this once again. Thanks, Jamel!!

[@paulmistretta8326]

You the man brother! Very entertaining for quite sometime now!! Been following! Keep up the good work!

[@MM-cq2jy]

Although not a fan of this song, I'm a huge fan of you. You have the terrific talent of making people happy and smile even if it's for a minute. God Bless You! Keep up the great work!

[@patriotsports7745]

So many memories tied to this song!

[@gw5309]

I wore that "Second Helping" 8-Track out my Senior year (1976). RIP Ronnie, Allen, Billy, Steve, Cassie, Leon, Ed

[@russburton8517]

Allen was always underrated (Gary as well) this solo, although short, was a good one.

[@Craig_Fussell]

My hometown guys! Went to the same high school (several years afterwards), but their legacy was still all over the place! Pride of Jax, FL and such a talented band! 🤙🏻🎶🎸

[@denniskastner9185]

I love that you react to their more obscure stuff and deep cuts. Need All My Friends by Lynyrd Skynyrd is one of my all time favorites. Love you Jamal, and God bless you ❤️🇺🇲🔥

[@ja9291]

Love Skynyrd! This is my fav song :)

[@davidmilam8927]

One of my favorite guitar solos

[@clintlautner9542]

‘73-‘77 Skynyrd is unmatched. I’ll prove it. That music is 50 years old, and still on the radio EVERYDAY! Nothing else can touch that.

[@Kimberrann]

Some of my favorite memories as a teenager were rocking out to Ronnie and the guys live in San Francisco/Oakland etc. I think I saw them at least 2 dozen times in the 70s. Their song “That Smell” also addresses this issue.

[@BigPete44]

Eyyy ohhh Thanks Mel!! 🙌😂 Haven’t watched yet but wanted to say thanks! Shoutout to all the good humans out there! 🙌🙏😎

[@jackiegoodspeed1849]

Lynard one of the best to this day. Our generation did not mess with that needle and spoon. Today is another story.

[@bluetopguitar1104]

Sorry but I think every generation messed with it. Amazing that some people still try it.

[@Edb007th]

“Red, White and Blue” and “Ballad of Curtis Loew”.

[@andrewmcinnis1123]

From the 1974 album Second Helping! Great song from a Superior album by Lynyrd Skynyrd! ❤️‍🔥❤️😊🤘

[@doulbledee9758]

One of my all time favorite

[@dagmar.6954]

Great southern rock band from the 60's-80's. It is very sad what happened to this band in losing so many members. My favorite songs are "Simple Man", "Free Bird" & "Sweet Home Alabama". They had lots of great songs such as "Call Me The Breeze", "Tuesday's Gone", "That Smell", "The Ballad Of Curtis Loew", "What's Your Name", "Gimme Three Steps", "Saturday Night Special" etc.

[@wesfizerfizer2589]

Great song 🎵

[@lorirose5343]

One of my favorites 🔥🎸

[@mikejacon6037]

Skynyrd is in my top 3, they have some of the best guitar work, ever, across the board. I love your reviews/reactions. one of my favorites is Gerry Rafferty's "Right Down The Line". Keep up the great work!

[@ogmike7302]

Skynyrd is in my opinion the top southern rock band 🎸 of all time…. One of the guitars King said that if you want to know Ronnie (the lead singer/song writer in terms of lyrics) listen to any six songs by Skynyrd. Please do “Don’t ask me no Questions” it’s raw and real about the life of traveling/touring bands….

[@freebirdtony]

Forever Lynyrd Skynyrd.

[@rsw1227]

Well now you have to do, LYNYRD SKYNYRD: "Poison Whiskey"

[@cherienotcherry9131]

Yes! Fantastic song. No bad Skynyrd songs in my opinion

[@davidjourdan212]

My all-time fav Lynyrd song!

[@Road_Rash]

One of my favorite Skynyrd songs...if you haven't already listened to it, you should do Whiskey Rocka Roller...might just qualify as my all time favorite Skynyrd...but All I Can Do Is Write About It is also an all time uberclassic as well...

[@laudanum669]

I agree "All I Can Do Is Write About It" is one of my favorite Skynyrd tunes and is so overlooked.

[@rockinredneck57]

This looks to be between Edv King leaving and Steve Gaines joining the band. They toured with just two guitar players for a year and a half. Steve made Allen and Gary step up their game to match him.

[@kevindarrell3500]

Wish I were more like you brother. You’re a beautiful human being. Peace Out 🤘🏻

[@kurtsaxton823]

My favorite Lynyrd Skynyrd song. I had a very good friend die from a heroin overdose recently.

[@jld4870]

Sorry to hear that! Drugs SUCK!!!!

[@angelatucker674]

People dropping like flies...fentanyl "enhanced" heroine

[@kurtsaxton823]

@@angelatucker674 yep it's a major problem.

[@tonya4249]

Great choice from an awesome band. Have a listen to “I never dreamed” off the Street Survivors album. Thanks for sharing all the great music!

[@EvanWeber1234]

ohh the live version!!! Hot!!!

[@purplebeard1526]

Never heard this tune from them but I like it.

[@mickeymayfield4192]

One of my favorite

[@foxchasejrt1]

Thank you for picking an original Skynyrd band video.❤❤❤❤❤ I would live to see your reaction to "I Know A Little" studio version please. No live version available with the original LS band.

[@dawnbarnett7601]

Neil Young sang about the same in Needle & the Damage Done

[@BobSmith-wn7oc]

Love what you're doing brother, thank you. If you haven't already, check out "On The Hunt", another Skynyrd great, IMHO.

[@jongr7779]

I lived this song clean now Thanks for doing it.

[@mairikarlovits]

Freebird 7-2-1977 Oakland Coliseum Stadium STUNNING!!

[@RickyBobby615]

Ronnie's shirt says "Smoke House" - Nashville, TN, All Iknow is that all tha rock bands that came into town, this was where they stayed.

[@tonyanderson3143]

So true lost my daughter In August from it

[@jld4870]

SO SORRY!! 😢 ❤️

[@dingusmagee3326]

If you are looking for a request, assuming you haven't already checked it out, scope "1976 live Knebworth T for Texas", probably my favorite live LS performance. The whole show is fantastic you can watch any song, it was a Rolling Stones concert in the UK(the first time LS went to Europe) that LS got as an opener for the Stones.

[@GBeret83]

The Needle and The Spoon & That Smell are both Ronnie Van Zant interventions done Skynyrd style!

[@domjohnson8723]

Lynyrd Skynyrd - That Smell Live 1977 Convention Hall

[@steveh1395]

Yup, these Winterland black and white videos are great live versions of the band another great choice after hearing Danny’s Song today. As I mentioned about my first girlfriends Loggins and Messina album in the other comments,this was a little more my style back then. For those who remember the bands airplane crash, it was devastating to loose some of these guys when your 16 and hearing this “Simple Mans” sounding rock while its still new and edgy.

[@ryenstrotheide2537]

“That Smell” is another anti drug song they recorded. I don’t know if you’ve reacted to it already. If not, it’s worth checking out.

[@rjs2005]

That Smell was a direct shot from Ronnie Van Zandt and Allen Collins to Gary Rossington- he admitted he was "Prince Charming" alluded to in the song. Tragically it was Collins who paid the price for substance abuse when he crashed his car in '86, killing his girlfriend and paralyzing himself. He was wheeled out at Skynyrd concerts to warn fans of the dangers of impaired driving until he died in '90.

[@spike3082]

And the first 2 lines of that smell is a direct reference to Gary's crash Whiskey bottles and brand new cars Oak tree your in my way

[@glenmaylone6333]

Love LS, so many great songs. Great in concert.. would love to see you do some smoking blues bands. Luther Allison, Bernard Allison, Pat Travers, or a real great one would be Walter Trout and the Free Radicals. Do the live version of Finally Gotten Over You.. it really rocks.

[@waynethera2712]

I don’t believe you’ve done T for Texas yet good sir. Live from Knebworth is awesome. It’s an old 1920’s yodelling song turned into a smouldering slow burn of a jam. The crowd starts off somewhat quiet and then you see the crowd just being building into a slow boil and digging every second of it.

[@denniskastner9185]

Would love to see reactions for "Need All My Friends" by Skynyrd and "Don't Ride That Horse" by Old Crow Medicine Show

[@drjoshuamc]

Ballad of Curtis Loew, Double trouble, Georgia Peaches

[@bluetopguitar1104]

A great video. Ed King is a big standout on some songs. The wawa solo is straight out of "white room" You can tell they listened to cream. Great lyrics. When will people learn about hard drugs like heroin and coke?

[@Coachdoug4life]

Great song that most ppl don't know. Ty for reacting to it

[@keithjames7843]

Man you should check out their live album they made in the Fox Theater in Atlanta Georgia It’s called One More for the Road and it’s by far their best live performance This is the best rock band to ever do it If RVZ had not died in the plane crash there’s no telling what would have happened How many rock bands do you know that every song they ever made was a great song I don’t know of but one and Skynyrd is this band You can make a list of songs from this band from any album and put your finger on one and you will either like it or be able to relate to it in some way Merle Haggard wrote a song called I’m a Honky Tonk Night Time Man and gave it to Skynyrd to record and they killed it Man this band is the all time greatest band in history in my book The amount of songs in such a short period of time is almost unbelievable how good they really were RIP TO A LEGENDARY BAND

[@joymarkdelatore251]

Absolutely my man!! This band was just figuring it out. Gene Odom was helping them get cleaner and stopping the hanger-ons from stealing and soon they would get rid of that damn plane. I feel this band was on the verge of going from great band to epic legendary status. So much more music could have been made and Southern Rock door opens even farther. But with the changing of music in the 80’s who knows. Ronny was the ram-rod of that outfit in my opinion. His persona oozed from every songs lyrics. What could have been. If the drugs where gone earlier maybe they don’t keep that damn plane, then again. Maybe not.🤷‍♂️

[@johndevlin7700]

Love your reactions I like Skynyrd before the plane crash not so much after

[@Ekkis25]

Toad the Wet Sprocket "Hold her down" This song is often misunderstood but it is an anti-rape song, but it takes careful listening to see that it is a critique of rape.

[@carojayess1723]

Very cool! Thanks, Jamel, aka Social Butterfly 🦋💕

[@Ken-vk8pb]

Wow, Jamel is really cranking out the videos today. He must be trying to get caught up on the requests since there are many to do.

[@jamestate5059]

You should check out the Skynyrd songs 1. Love Don't Always Come Easy 2. Simple Life 3. Still Unbroken 4. The Last Rebel

[@christophereverett276]

Those aren’t skynyrd songs smh

[@foxikolol]

dude you have to react to mindless self indulgence,i’d recommend their song shut me up or cake. they’re an insane band!!

[@owenball7218]

Damn it allen was so good! Not that Gary, big ed or steve wernt, but when allen went off it was a beautiful thing!

[@mark-be9mq]

Love this one. Thanks Jamal

[@RareHarmony]

This needs more views!!

[@mickeymayfield4192]

Smell that Smell should be next

[@michellerutherford9551]

That's Ronnie's mules , 3 of the best guitarist!!

[@jld4870]

As always always a nice addition to hear a bit about you Jamel. Somehow you escaped…keep speaking up, perhaps you can help others escape the madness of addiction and self destruction!

[@bloppysloppy4057]

More relevant now than it was in 1974. I know more people who've died from the 🐴 than from anything else.

[@SecretAgentSuperDragon]

Easily the best multi-guitar band there ever was or will be.

[@flyingburritobro68]

Love them but The Allman Brothers Band with Duane and Dicky on guitar! How about later Allman Brothers with Dicky Betts, Warren Haynes and Derek Trucks. Amazing guitar attack. Also don’t forget the Thin Litzy guitarists!!!

[@SecretAgentSuperDragon]

@@flyingburritobro68 Yep, you're not wrong at all. My comment was a bit hasty because I love this band, as well as the Allman's. I would definitely say I prefer earlier Allman's with Duane and Dicky over the other incarnations.

[@jonantis5790]

Talk about some nasty guitar licks…!!!😎

[@KM7462]

Check out THAT SMELL and SATURDAY NIGHT SPECIAL

[@AlexHamelMusic]

Ooh cool one. Strangely, wasn't too familiar with this one. Been binging on Toots and the Maytals over here today. You could be related to Toots, you both have that feel-good vibe going. If you're ever in the mood, and don't already know the songs, '54 46 Was My Number' or 'Pressure Drop' are classics. Totally unrelated to this but, just sharing :)

[@jen_alanfromchicago53]

Love me some Toots, I was hooked on them when I heard 'Tdd ake Me Home Country Roads'👍

[@AlexHamelMusic]

@@jen_alanfromchicago53 Total legend. Just wish I had the chance to see him. One of the few reggae artists I didn't get to see.

[@dillonsnyder1172]

I lost a couple friends from a needle and spoon. I always tell people, if you have the desire to try a drug and you won't be talked out of it, do something safe, like eat some pot brownies or something. That hard stuff will give you a good time, then make ya dead.

[@jld4870]

It’s all about taking the pain away. So sad!

[@ninline2000]

I used to drink a lot when I was young. I didn't drink all the time but when I drank I always drank too much. I never lied to myself though. I never took my car when I went drinking because I knew I was going to get drunk. One day I was watching my two kids playing and I decided to just quit that foolish shit. I never missed it. Thank God I was never tempted to do drugs. I saw what it did to others and decided I didn't want any part of it.

[@bynumite76]

Trust me the stoners loved "That Smell" and Needle and the Spoon". They missed the message.

[@bobperu1]

They truly knew they was probably doing it right before that concert as well as a z of cochise and a fifth of jack.

[@lennyking1899]

👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼 haven't heard this since idk when ✌🏽✌🏽✌🏽

[@maxinecatherall6840]

Just listen to gifted hands BP on the keyboards. The Master.

[@peteyn.y.7960]

Love LS!!! 🔥🔥🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽 Check out “Gimme Back My Bullets” if you get a chance. Keeping great music alive! 🤘🏽

[@michellerutherford9551]

Love it!!

[@smokeyplays7183]

love your vids bro

[@BullseyeForever24]

Another good Anti-Drug song by Skynyrd !! Another one is That Smell

[@bama332317]

Check out behind the music Skynyrd or react to it . Tells part of the Skynyrd story. Also there's a documentary about the muscle shoals sound studio and fame studio in muscle shoals alabama. Acts like Skynyrd, rolling stone, Aretha, Wilson picket, percy sledge and many other artists recorded their music there. Great documentary. Title is Muscle shoals

[@doulbledee9758]

Awesome band

[@MrToband]

Don't mess with the needle, I've seen it destroy a lot of good friends.

[@tommybryant4429]

I love them and had every album and saw them in concert 5 times, however, I was one of the idiots that used the needle and the spoon. Only by the grace of God I am here to tell this

[@k-nutl6386]

Rockin da good stuff

[@byronglover7998]

Please please please please please please please please review Lynyrd Skynyrd "I Need You"

[@michaeldistefano7027]

To be clear...Ronnie van zant DID NOT ever use the needle. He was taking poetic license with that one to get the point across. He was a good ole boy who drank and smoked pot. A little blow now and then. Im a Skynyrd historian... And to all the youngsters out there....this was a live version id a GREAT BAND. A list art form

[@patches600]

Live version in the best from one more from the road.

[@wickedmisfitslastride9546]

My bad for my first post, but how about some Eagles "Hotel California", or some Foreigner "cold as ice", Volbeat "A Warrior's Call". Any of those three are good, Volbeat is not an old band tho but great music.