He would've turned 46 a fortnight ago. I got to see him and his kickass band right in front of my naked steaming eyes. Still miss ya dude.
He would've turned 46 a fortnight ago. I got to see him and his kickass band right in front of my naked steaming eyes. Still miss ya dude.
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It won't embed the vid...
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xzq...nal-life_music
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Talented mofo gone way too soon.
I love Jeff ! I missed him in France !
http://vhfrance.activebb.net/ (1 er Site Francophone sur Van Halen)
http://www.youtube.com/user/VHFranceVideos (Our new Channel)
Grace is just a great album that I listened to heavily for a few years. It's been a while since I have sat down and played it through.
I also really like a lot of Sketches for my Sweetheart the Drunk, which I believe was patched together from tracks that Jeff might not have approved for release if he had still been alive - did it come out just around the time he died (or am I getting confused)?
'Vancouver' was always a fave:
THINK LIKE THE WAVES
Ever since I first encountered this song back in the mid-nineties, I felt this was the way Led Zeppelin would have sounded had they not come off of the rails. And I mean that as a compliment.
“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”― Stephen Hawking
Aaaaaaassh!!! Where are you???
The heart is on the left. The blood is red.
Grace - eh, there.
Eh? Yeah, ok.
I'm here. Where are you???Originally Posted by envy_me
Aaaaaaassh!!! Where are you???
I really like live a L´Olympia, outstanding performance.
I've got everything. All of it. Even talked to Mary via email. My prized possession is that pick in post 3.
One great memory from twentieth feb 1996, I was dressed head to toe in black. Long hair, John Lennon glasses. A chick asks me, 'are you Gary Oldman?' I told her I wasn't. Then she asked what the first song might be, I said hopefully dream brother. Sure enough it was.
I don't know, i just thought you haven't posted in a while, but then I was like "he posted this morning, how could i have missed it".I'm here. Where are you???
Yes, I am a busy boy. We're heading into summer here, and I'm playing in a popular band.. God I love the music biz.
Summer??? Go ahead, rub it in
An Aussie summer would hurt you, petal.
All that romping in the surf, not to mention the snakes and spiders.
Jeff liked it here, though.
Yeah, you're right. I'm only used to rain. I dry out if it doesn't rain
Do you own a bikini?
If so, it's completely useless. The first time you encounter a swell bigger than a metre, it'll rip it right off.
The worst thing is when jumping in water from high cliff and the bikini top just goes up :-/
I just googled who Jeff Buckley is, what a tragic story :-(
I took a mild interest in Jeff about the time I first heard Last Goodbye. Summer of '93 I guess. I'm not good with time. I remember being drawn to the song for a number of reasons. 1) Grunge was not yet dead and there was this song, from out of nowhere, fighting mightily against it. 2) I had always been drawn to the vocal stylings of DLR and the like when it came to rock and roll. Real hair-on-the-chest growling and belting it out. Jeff was unafraid to sing with a sweet, almost feminine falsetto. I found that to be somewhat courageous at the time. 3) Nothing in music at the time had any kind of crescendo to it. This song starts off with the purpose of drawing you in and keeping you there 'til the bitter end and succeeds. 4) The lush, Zeppelin-esque (that's right Kristy) string arrangement. I was even more fascinated later on to find that the strings were based entirely on how Jeff played the song as a one man show with a Tele in the clubs of New York.
Grace had been out for about 4 or 5 months before I decided to pick it up and see if there was anything else on it that was remotely as good as Last Goodbye. Let me just say this. This was the first CD that left me simultaneously puzzled, blown away and anxious for more in a very very long time. Puzzled by the cover song selection, which would later make all of the sense in the world when discovering what it was that made him tick. Blown away by the sheer musicality exhibited throughout along with vocals that soared between ballsy and beautiful. Anxious for more as it is a fast listen that leaves you wanting more from the end of your first listen. Needless to say, my mild interest had evolved into full blown 'Holy shit!! This guy's the real fucking deal!!'
Jeff wielded a mighty trio of power. His voice, his guitar playing and his completely spontaneous and unpredictable way of life. He truly was a butterfly. I miss him sorely.
The smiths' cover
That was great, Bridge. Another thing... When I decided to go see him live, I took a mate with me. I clearly remember saying to him 'there's no way this dude can pull this off live'. Boy was I wrong. That band was ASTONISHING. Absolutely mind bogglingly good. I had never seen a band that could play so quiet you could hear the cash registers at the bar, and then so ferociously loud it was like Armageddon.
I miss him too.
So insanely true. I'm sure you've heard the version from Bataclan of The Way Young Lovers Do. He's on absolute fire on that one. Somewhere in the middle of it, he busts into some obscure early tune of his from the Gods and Monsters days with Gary Lucas. Right at the transition, you can hear a chick squeal and probably wet her pants at the delight of what he was doing. He played the most ripping guitar on that one, all the while doing all of that crazy vocalese stuff he was also proficient at. As he wound the song down, he threw in a couple of verses from Nina Simone's All That I Ask acapello to an utterly silent room, like you said, pins dropping across town could probably be heard. He finishes and then there's an eruption of cheers from easily 800 people or more. Damn, such command of an audience.
Can you post it? I don't have a clue how. I think it was over a little more than 12 minutes.
His music was pretty special. Check it out.
I couldn't have known when I saw him that he had a little more than fifteen months to live. I thought he'd dominate the airwaves for decades with his amazing oeuvre. He clued me in to the fact that 'big rock' doesn't necessarily have to be 'big', or 'rock'.
Radiohead and probably other similar bands bear this out. He had a hellava lot of imitators posthumously,
They say that's the sincerest form of flattery?
When I saw SRV in 88 i thought this guy is gonna get bigger and better he was on top of his game and I thought no one can touch this guy live .
less than two years later , Just shows you never know,
fuck your fucking framing
Imagine the people who saw that gig? Or the guy who didn't get to da chopper...
Life's a random number generator.
Your not wrong
Brings to mind the happenstance or myth regarding the 1959 plane crash that took the lives of the pilot (Roger Peterson), Ritchie Valens, J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson and Buddy Holly, which supposedly spared the lives of Waylon Jennings and Tommy Allsup over the mere toss of a coin flip. You could make a convincing argument that the future history of beat music was irreparably changed that day, and wound up providing the planet with the somewhat bizarre anthem "American Pie" that filled the airwaves in 1972, written and performed by Don McLean. Even more drastically nuts, this results in a series of crude teen-sex movies based upon the title,and finally, with a perverse take on the tune performed by the highly unlikely trio of McLean, an obviously and truly embarrassingly wasted or intoxicated Nanci Griffith (who at one time seemed to be the arbiter of good taste and charm) doing an awful latter-day Bob Dylan impression, along with of all people, fucking Garth Brooks.
Look on in horror, friends...
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Live from the Bataclan, The Way Young Lovers Do is the second song.
I'm listening to Grace.
Superlatives superfluous.
Fucking amazing album.
I just found out that there's a movie about the Buckley family...and Jeff specifically.
I apologize if this was posted before, but here is info about "Greetings from Tim Buckley"
http://www.denverpost.com/movies/ci_...tings-from-tim
Originally posted by perilouspete
fryingdutchman you pretty much own everyone.....sick comebacks, well put. top class wit.
I think chef mentioned this recently, fdutch...
Gotta hunt it down
That movie looks promising.
Here's an awesome song written about/for Jeff....
and this one...
I have to say that firs Chris Cornell record - 'Euphoria Morning' - is absolutely superb. It would easily be one of my desert island discs.
The Power Of The Riff Compels Me
Am I the only one who thinks that the demos Jeff left for material after 'Grace' are somewhat underwhelming.....
you gotta remember binnie; 'demo's' is the keyword. there are some diamonds in there.. who wouldn't feel the pressure of even getting to 80% of the pure mastery of 'grace'?
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