Talk:The Needle and the Damage Done

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There is a reference to lethal injection, but Nebraska has had the electric chair as its sole form of capital punishment since this album was released. 216.39.170.107 03:05, 21 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Nebraska has only executed three people since the death penalty came back in 1976, and only one prisoner was executed by lethal injection - John Jubere, who chose it over the electric chair. This fact alone suggests that this comment is incorrect by virtue of the plural form alone, and since there's no citation, I've removed it. --12.159.132.170 09:10, 15 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It's not about lethal injection as capital punishment, it's about heroin.

This song made me learn to play guitar.

Danny Whitten[edit]

Are you sure this song is about the death of Danny Whitten? Harvest came out in February 1972, and Whitten died in November. (unsigned)

Timing[edit]

I agree -- Whitten died long after the song first appeared (we know, for instance, that Young sang it in his 1971 concert at Massey Hall, because it's...on the cd!). Bubble07 13:03, 15 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It's not about the death of Danny Whitten, it's about Danny Whitten's addiction. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.22.86.36 (talk) 03:54, 14 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

theres rumours this song was not written by neil young at all.if you look inside the sleeve notes of harvest it is the only song without a direct credit to neil.instead it states a publishing company.incidentally this song is claimed by a school teacher from liverpool,who reckons he sold it whilst travelling around canada in the late sixties —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.98.172.204 (talk) 00:30, 13 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

According to Neil Young's intro to the song January 17, 1971 at Masonic Auditorium in Detroit, this song was newly written (by him) and he was playing it in public for the first time. My personal recollection; although the Sugar Mountain website has the song on the setlist for January 7, 1971, in Portland. http://www.sugarmtn.org/year.php?year=1971

Lyrics[edit]

Anyone explain what the part about 'Milk-blood to keep from running out' bit means? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.37.250.195 (talk) 20:24, 17 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It means to withdraw blood from the vein you are shooting into and reinjecting it later. You are extracting blood laced with whatever you are shooting... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.190.247.155 (talk) 20:24, 6 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

yeah ... or when your friend od's... and you two are the same blood type... you gotta milk his blood so it doesn't go to waste. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.140.152.179 (talk) 02:01, 5 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]