Tim Buckley
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remember him besides me? I have three copies of the original vinyl
version of his third album, "Happy Sad," and all three have been
played to death. Thank god for CD reissues. "Buzzin' Fly" is
possibly my favorite tune of all time.
Some of you maybe familiar with Tim's son, Jeff Buckley, who has been
receiving some notoriety of late with his album "Grace." I saw Jeff
when he was here in Nashville last year, and I'll admit to some bias--
I probably wanted to see his father. There is great similarity in
their voices. Jeff has his father's amazing 5 octave range. But he
does not have Tim's control...his voice is still very much an untamed
instrument.
Anybody else got any Tim Buckley stories or reminiscences?
--Paul S.
Ton Maas
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Why don't you join the rest of us on The JEFF BUCKLEY Mailing List
<buc...@ritz.mordor.com>, which - despite it's name - is devoted to
discussions about *both* father and son (although I have to admit it's
also a pseudo fanclub for Jeff). Personally I am a big fan of Tim as well
and Happy Sad has been my favorite TB-album for many, many years (only
incidentally overtaken by Blue Afternoon and Lorca).
Ton Maas, Amsterdam NL
Kerouac
> It's time I saw Tim Buckley's name mentioned in these parts. Any body
> remember him besides me? I have three copies of the original vinyl
> receiving some notoriety of late with his album "Grace." I saw Jeff
I, too, think it is high time that Tim Buckley's name is mentioned. I think
he was incrediable. I've seen his son live twice, but I wasn't impressed. I
don't think he's all that good. There are so many other your performers out
there with much more talent...unfortunatley, they don't have a famous father
to get a name from!
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Kim Cooper
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> Anybody else got any Tim Buckley stories or reminiscences?
>
> --Paul S.
Sure... I brought home a trashed copy of HAPPY SAD when I was
about 14, cleaned it up and put it on... my mom came racing into
the living room yelling something about that lousy rotten so and so...
turned out when I was a baby, Tim lived a few houses away from us
in Venice... he used to come home from playing shows and crank up
his electric guitar in the middle of the night, waking me up and
making me cry... It annoyed my mom no end to hear him sing again,
but I felt an immediate love of his stuff, probably ingrained in
infancy. I still think he's got the greatest voice ever. And no,
Jeff doesn't move me at all. His songs are so DULL!
Kim
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>
> Sure... I brought home a trashed copy of HAPPY SAD when I was
> about 14, cleaned it up and put it on... my mom came racing into
> the living room yelling something about that lousy rotten so and so...
> turned out when I was a baby, Tim lived a few houses away from us
> in Venice... he used to come home from playing shows and crank up
> his electric guitar in the middle of the night, waking me up and
> making me cry... It annoyed my mom no end to hear him sing again,
> but I felt an immediate love of his stuff, probably ingrained in
> infancy.
Great story, thanks for sharing it. I can imagine in Venice...it's
so...well, dense...any loud music in the wee hours would bug just
about any one.
About a year ago, I was wandering around in, I think Tower Records in
LA. Actually, I was looking for Beatles album on CD, so I was in the
B's...and I found a CD release of a Tim Buckley concert in England
in about 1968 or 69. The first time I put it on, it was like magic,
like hearing him for the first time again. If you can ever find it,
it's called "The Dream Letter Concert" and it's a double CD, well
worth the price, in my estimation. Starts right out with Buzzin' Fly.
I saw him Live once, at the Cellar door, with the band that appeared
on Happy Sad (Lee Underwood on guitar) and it was one of the greatest
shows I ever saw in a club. But God, that was a long time ago.
>I still think he's got the greatest voice ever. And no,
> Jeff doesn't move me at all. His songs are so DULL!
Yeah, I've heard one cut from "Grace" on the radio out here and was
totally unimpressed. I also saw him when he was here a few months
ago (in Nashville) and was not sufficiently impressed to stick around
for the whole show. But I admit...I wanted to see Tim.
--Paul
Walter E Ingram
> --Paul
By far my favorite Tim Buckley album is Goodbye and
Hello. The famous Pepsi bottle cap in his eye on the
cover first caught my eye.I didn't particularly care
for anything on Happy Sad except for Buzzin Fly,
which I agree is his best song of all. I just loved
Goodbye... every song is still a classic. I even heard
Once I Was as a background song in a recent war movie.
He was a great talent.
--
"Nobody goes to that restaurant any more. It's too crowded."
Yogi Berra
eichel...@uh01.colorado.edu
I too am a die hard fan of Tim Buckley, I still get chills when I
listen to his recordings. I'm going to do my best to find the
afore mentioned Dream Letter Concert. I also wanted to say that
a few months back someone on this newsgroup mentioned how great
his son was and I went out and bought the first tape he had made
upon this persons praise of it. Needless to say it must be a
generation thing because I sure wasted good money buying that tape.
That racket gives heavy meatal a good name, if that's possible.
Richard
Ton Maas
eichel...@uh01.Colorado.EDU wrote:
> I too am a die hard fan of Tim Buckley, I still get chills when I
> listen to his recordings. I'm going to do my best to find the
> afore mentioned Dream Letter Concert. I also wanted to say that
> a few months back someone on this newsgroup mentioned how great
> his son was and I went out and bought the first tape he had made
> upon this persons praise of it. Needless to say it must be a
> generation thing because I sure wasted good money buying that tape.
> That racket gives heavy meatal a good name, if that's possible.
Since then a second reissue of a Tim Buckley concert has come out. It's
called "Live at the Troubadour 1969" and is released by Edsel Records
(EDCD 400). You may want to check that out as well. There are a few
overlaps with "Dream Letter" but it's a very different setting and has
some great moments as well!
Ton Maas, Amsterdam NL
root
: I too am a die hard fan of Tim Buckley, I still get chills when I
: listen to his recordings. I'm going to do my best to find the
: afore mentioned Dream Letter Concert.
It's on Rhino, and it's stupendously good. Better than any of the studio
albums I've heard.
Gavan Tredoux
Cape Town
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I definitely second that emotion. I remember when I first started playing the
dream letter concert album...chills, indeed. Like being transported through
time...that crystal voice still lives, if only in vinyl/digital form.
--PS
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long before he OD'd. I thought his material then was a bit erratic, but
I'm still glad I caught him. I, too, think "Goodbye and Hello" is his
best work. I've taken lysergics while listening to it and....wow!
"Hallucinations", "Pleasant Street", "Morning Glory", etc. I bought a
cassette "Tim Buckley/The Peel Sessions"(recorded Apr.2nd,1968/BBC/5
songs) available from Strange Fruit/Dutch East India Trading Co. as of
three years ago. It's pretty good. Lastly, I saw Jeff Buckley perform a
free concert at Tower Records on the Sunset Strip last December, and
lurking among the crowd was Herb Cohen, Tim's former manager and record
company boss(Bizarre/Straight Records). Wonder what was
going thru his mind(he also used to manage Tom Waits, Frank Zappa, and
many others who ended up regretting getting involved with him. Tim died
while under contract to Herb Cohen. That's all I know...Hope this was of
interest to someone!
Paul Schatzkin
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IT was certainly of interest to me, since I was the one who more or less
started the thread, which has since pretty much unraveled...thanks for picking
it up again.
I don't think I ever listened to Tim on Lysergics...but I do remember the
first time I heard "Happy/Sad" I was pretty stoned on herbs, and the music
struck me as very powerful. Maybe that's why I always liked some of those
cuts so much, because they transported some dark recess of my brain back to
another time and place.
I saw him Live once, at the Cellar Door in Wash DC, with most of the players
from his Hello/Goodbye and Happy/Sad days, principally Lee Underwood on
Guitar. It was, as I recall, an amazing show. There was one tune that was
very erotic, built slowly to a fevered pitch, and then exploded orgasmically
off the stage before receding into a calmer denouement. I hoped that tune
would be on the "Dream Concert" CDs, but it wasn't, at least not in the
fashion that I recalled the performance. I don't recall the name of the
tune so I really don't know what to look for.
It was all so long ago...