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Jeff Buckley
He is, like, my ultimate hero.
Number one. Numero UNO...... #1
I got stuck into a YouTube marathon session on Jeff last night... Lots of "live in Chicago" clips.
I'm still a quivering mess.............
The man was - and is now - an angel.
No one in my lifetime will ever be able to compete with Jeff. His beauty (inner and outer).... his voice... his humour, his charismatic onstage energy... nor compose songs like his... no one has since... My only regret is not seeing him perform live. I had a lot of friends in Melbourne who used to be a member of his fan club and saw him a perform a number of times.
If I could go back in time, I'd take myself to every single one of his gigs.... That is where my time machine would go.
No one can write like he did. No one.
Watch him on YouTube.. DO IT NOW!
Sigh.
And another sigh.
(puts on Dream Brother)
Cheeky.
COME ON! I know you agree, anyhow........... (with me, that is).....
SIGH.
Time for some scrambled eggs.
i particularly enjoy
his live rendition of 'je n'en connais pas la fin'
yeah
his dad was better.
^
sorry Rose.
mmm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRECjxqK-Es
Postcards from LA was a great LP
but I prefer Jeff.... SIGH SIGH SIGH.........
great singer and inventive guitarist
overdid it at times though. But if I had a voice like that I would too...
"over did it sometimes?"
Overdid what? Genuine question.
Exactly - if you had a voice like that you would too - that kind of talent is a gift....
sometimes he does
over do the whole "range" thing, muchlike anyone with that kind of voice tends to. grace if it can be criticised at all can be for that lack of self control occasionally making it a bit prima donnaish, in the same kind of way the antony's album is.
sketches... shows that he kind of new that and is far more mature in a way, with him using his talent more subtly and stuff.
still, truly amazing, i periodically go back to grace and get blown away by just how good the whole thing is.
I listen to Grace quite a lot.
I think watching footage of him (which admittedly I haven't really done before) kind of blew me to a new stratosphere in terms of my love for him. I've been bowled over.
mmm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVBFYHmcXXs
he is overrated
toss I'm afraid. All I can do is laugh at his overly dramatic live shouting and reverb soaked yawnfest on that live dvd. Sure the guy obviously can sing nice quiet soul stuff but when he's shouting it's so contrived and his band look like a bunch of bored students. I really don't understand the bumming he gets.
Tim Buckley is much better. He has the voice of melted butter. I saw him sing 'Dolphins' on the Old Grey Whistle Test today and it was just brilliant, even though he looked about 40.
i have to say
i think the live in chicago dvd is a very bad recording and performance. the sound is awful, jeff is hamming it up too much and the band don't play that well. i've seen and heard FAR FAR better live jeff stuff.
NOT overrated,
BUT did manage to get away with getting a lot of 'best musician ever' tags because of the comparatively small body of work he made.
Definitely VERY talented though.
blasphemy
I am truly shocked.
ok, what other footage of him can you suggest watching?
?
i'm much more interested by
stuff he does on his own. Some of his early solo gigs when nobody is listening are incredible.
to answer rose's questions
this. i'm assuming you've got the double cd Live At Sin-E release? there's a few bits of video footage from those gigs that are leagues ahead of the stodgyish band he played with later.
part of me thinks that on his own he could let his talents flow better than with a band, where they weren't as good as him and so he was sort of restricted in his improvisation, thus meaning that the only way to really do something spontaneous was by voicewanking every 5 seconds.
That Live in Chicago dvd
is the epitome of self indulgent toss that can only be scoffed at surely? I accept that there is probably more interesting/better footage of him out there but anyone who holds that 'performance' up as some sort of mindblowing masterpiece has to have a screw loose and/or be bigging it up for the sake of it. If you watch it stoned it is excrutiatingly embarrassing.
ok. well that's an interesting angle you have throw into this pot.
However, if that's voice wanking, I'd love to see him actually 'going for it'... It's an emotional LP, Grace is... It was his debut. His youth - why the hell should he have suppressed that? If he had lived, his later career may demonstrated a maturity to his work.. But Christ, he was so young when he died.
I can't believe they are going to make a film about his life. I hope to god, they do him justice.
Sigh.
YES YES YES!
There is footage of him singing at the Sin-E (??) cafe before he 'made it'... and that is brilliant.
He also reads one poem out on new years eve that he wrote which actually brought a tear to my eye when I heard it. A small quiet tear. But it was there.
He's magnificent...
you should get that double cd
if you dont have it:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Complete-Live-Sine-2CD-DVD/dp/B0000AM6RO/sr=8-1/qid=1170615601/ref=pd_ka_1/026-1912685-0058025?ie=UTF8&s=music
oops
http://tinylink.com/?HwD6AOuxXT
I LOVE YOU. I am purchasing this RIGHT NOW.
I don't own it. Yet.
Thank you.
x
prolly my favourite
jeff release. hope you like it!
I just bought it! I also got MYSTERY WHITE BOY
Sigh.
Thanks.
I'll get back to you on it as soon as I've had my first Rosalita session with Jeff.
:)
there's a similar 2CD/DVD version
of grace that's also worth getting, if you don't have it.
nah, don't have it.
will have a look for it too.
I also want to read that biog, Dream Brother about Tim / Jeff... that could be my new rock biog, after I've finished reading about Syd Barrett.
re dolphins
the original by fred neil, listen to THAT and the tim buckley "version" pales into significance. no, really.
I still would have, tho...
...
glastonbury 95
it's a bbc broadcast isn't it? i found it on dimeadozen a while back, it really is an excellent recording. brilliant version of 'what will you say'.
i think the boot
was taken from the transcription disc - so off the disc they brodcast from rather than on the recipients end, from an FM radio. = bootlegger's holy grail, pretty much.
also
some great unreleased stuff on:
http://fuelfriends.blogspot.com/2006/07/more-jeff-buckley-rarities.html
surprisingly good quality
!!
thanks for posting those - brilliant.
bf
Hmmm...never really 'got' Jeff Buckley. Heard that live ep, expecting bit things, and as I recall it was just a load of shouty metal.
Re: Tim Buckley being better- YES, but Postcards from LA makes me want to slice my own face off.
That is fucking rubbish tuneless white boy funk.
Listened to his first album last night, and it rules