From here on, drugs and alcohol were banned from the dressing rooms and the band strove to stay out of drugs and alcohol during the tour. The track was included and released in 1977 in the fifth album of the band, “Street Survivors.” The One More From The Road tour had to be delayed due to injuries sustained by Gary Rossington, who was fined $5,000 by the band for his recklessness. ![]() The accident is the trigger for Ronnie Van Zant along with Allen Collins to write the song That Smell, a clear warning about drug and alcohol abuse that was clearly directed at Rossington and some other member of the band. ![]() The result is the collision of the car against a telephone pole and an oak tree to end up literally embedded and parked in the garage of someone else’s house. ![]() On the weekend of the American holiday and there are a few days before the band begins its new tour, One More From The Road, and Gary Rossington can think of nothing else in his native Jacksonville (Florida) than to get behind the wheel of his Ford Gran Torino completely drunk. Billy Powell and Allen Collins are two of the components involved in both accidents, but the trigger would be the one suffered by Gary Rossington. Alcohol, drugs, and driving are a bad combination. Why don’t you take a whiff, while I attempt to come to my senses.At the end of 1976, there were a series of car accidents suffered by various components of the group due to excesses. This one was famously about the smell of death, another musk that’d be okay to miss. But importantly, my self-assigned mind game rules did not concurrently make it necessary to surrender, per se, Lynyrd Skynyrd’s odiferous ode, ‘That Smell,’ a southern-fried classic second only to ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ for most renowned rancid-related rocker. Yeah, I’d say smell would have to be the one sacrificed in this absurd theoretical whereby I’m forced to take leave of…just one of my senses. F G Am F Am F Am Oo-oo that smell, the smell of deaths around you Verse F Am F Am Angel of darkness is upon you, stuck a needle in your arm (you fool you) F Am So take another toke, have a. Compare different versions and buy them all on Discogs. Not to mention, I’d also potentially be eliminating a lot of truly objectionable odors, like the most foul stench of rest-stop bathrooms and my dog’s breath. Explore songs, recommendations, and other album details for Street Survivors by Lynyrd Skynyrd. And I generally run my autos into the ground so the contented pleasure of “new car” smell arrives only once or so a decade. But, I’m no fan of mowing the lawn, and how often does one actually stroll past an aroma-wafting bakery? I don’t quite savor the thrill of sniffing the salty sea air cherished by so many (like my wife), nor am I generally too adept at stopping to smell the proverbial roses. Sure, Al Pacino could start us off with the scent of a woman (hoo-wah!), plus there’s newly cut grass and freshly baked pies, for instance. Van Zant had said he started drinking heavily to relieve the pressure of performing in front of large audiences. At the time the song was written, the band had been drinking and indulging in many different drugs. Could I adjust to missing that? I mean, how many really great smells are there. Written by Ronnie Van Zant and Allen Collins That Smell was released on the album Street Survivors. Touch might not be that big a deal, but I fear lacking it would lead to a lot of severe burns when tossing logs on the fire or grabbing my overheated plates out of the microwave. F G A m F Oo-oo that smell, G A m F A m The smell of deaths around you Angel of darkness is upon you Stuck a needle in your arm (You fool, you) So take another toke, have a blow for your nose One more drink, fool, would drown you (Hell yeah) Chorus : Ooh, that smell Cant you smell that smell Ooh, that smell The smell of death surrounds you. I treasure eating and I’m (duh) a rather big music fan, so I can’t be without taste and hearing. ![]() Sight is pretty much my top priority I hate not being able to see where I’m going, and am basically afraid of the dark. My recent self-query posed for absolutely no apparent reason was this: If you had to give up one of your senses, which would you choose? Though I’m not aware of any respected medical journals to have yet taken up this research, of late I’ve thought about it a lot. Or maybe it could be…Well, there we go again. Difficulty: intermediate: Capo: no capo: Author jordan93 a 183. Is this in any way normal? A healthy exercise of critical reasoning, or a possible sign of insanity. 15,259 views, added to favorites 101 times. I have a curious penchant for developing weird hypotheticals, strawman arguments I create for myself, resulting in cyclical internal monologues I can obsess over for great lengths of time and to no discernibly useful end.
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