Supposedly, as the story goes, one of the members of Crazy Horse (whose name escapes me at the moment) got addicted to heroin. So Young kicked him out of the band, gave him a plane ticket and $50 to go to LA, enter rehab and clean himself up. Instead, he spent the money on more heroin and ended up Oding. Very sad.
And the "milk blood" line is about how junkies draw their own blood and re-inject it to get a mild high.
If you like this song, you'll like the whole album Tonights The Night - another band member ODed, so everyone in Crazy Horse just got piss drunk and recorded the whole album in pretty much one take. All kinds of slurred words, missed tempos and stuff - but it's absolutely amazing nonetheless.
Your interpretation of "milk blood" is absolutely right. When my best friend and I were shooting year ago, he loved to draw out just enough blood from me to create a rose in the syringe, then re-inject it. That guaranteed he hit a vein and did give me a great high before I started to nod on and off.
Your interpretation of "milk blood" is absolutely right. When my best friend and I were shooting year ago, he loved to draw out just enough blood from me to create a rose in the syringe, then re-inject it. That guaranteed he hit a vein and did give me a great high before I started to nod on and off.
@headlessparrot minor quibble, but Danny Whitten didn't actually die of a heroin OD. Yes, he was horribly strung out, and sooner or later he would have had he kept going as he was, but technically, what killed Danny Whitten was Valium and alcohol. Might have been helped along by whatever H was InHim at the time, not to mention he had to have been in a weakened state from a few years of hardcore drug addiction ... but his actual cause of death was diazepam intoxication.
@headlessparrot minor quibble, but Danny Whitten didn't actually die of a heroin OD. Yes, he was horribly strung out, and sooner or later he would have had he kept going as he was, but technically, what killed Danny Whitten was Valium and alcohol. Might have been helped along by whatever H was InHim at the time, not to mention he had to have been in a weakened state from a few years of hardcore drug addiction ... but his actual cause of death was diazepam intoxication.
Supposedly, as the story goes, one of the members of Crazy Horse (whose name escapes me at the moment) got addicted to heroin. So Young kicked him out of the band, gave him a plane ticket and $50 to go to LA, enter rehab and clean himself up. Instead, he spent the money on more heroin and ended up Oding. Very sad.
And the "milk blood" line is about how junkies draw their own blood and re-inject it to get a mild high.
If you like this song, you'll like the whole album Tonights The Night - another band member ODed, so everyone in Crazy Horse just got piss drunk and recorded the whole album in pretty much one take. All kinds of slurred words, missed tempos and stuff - but it's absolutely amazing nonetheless.
Your interpretation of "milk blood" is absolutely right. When my best friend and I were shooting year ago, he loved to draw out just enough blood from me to create a rose in the syringe, then re-inject it. That guaranteed he hit a vein and did give me a great high before I started to nod on and off.
Your interpretation of "milk blood" is absolutely right. When my best friend and I were shooting year ago, he loved to draw out just enough blood from me to create a rose in the syringe, then re-inject it. That guaranteed he hit a vein and did give me a great high before I started to nod on and off.
@headlessparrot minor quibble, but Danny Whitten didn't actually die of a heroin OD. Yes, he was horribly strung out, and sooner or later he would have had he kept going as he was, but technically, what killed Danny Whitten was Valium and alcohol. Might have been helped along by whatever H was InHim at the time, not to mention he had to have been in a weakened state from a few years of hardcore drug addiction ... but his actual cause of death was diazepam intoxication.
@headlessparrot minor quibble, but Danny Whitten didn't actually die of a heroin OD. Yes, he was horribly strung out, and sooner or later he would have had he kept going as he was, but technically, what killed Danny Whitten was Valium and alcohol. Might have been helped along by whatever H was InHim at the time, not to mention he had to have been in a weakened state from a few years of hardcore drug addiction ... but his actual cause of death was diazepam intoxication.