Wednesday, January 31, 2018
MTV Japan
1. Mojo Pin
2. So Real
3. Last Goodbye
4.Hallelujah
Adorable bit for the cameras
5. Eternal Life
Tuesday, January 30, 2018
Liquid Room
On this day in 1995, Jeff played the Liquid Room in Tokyo, Japan...I like how he softly tries some lyrics on "Vancouver" here for the first time. 😊 (website)
Meeting fans backstage
Setlist:
1. Dream Brother
2. Grace
3. So Real
4. Last Goodbye
5. What Will You Say
6. Lilac Wine
7. Mojo Pin
8. Eternal Life
9. Mystery Gig/Lover, You Should've Come Over
11. Vancouver
12. Kanga-Roo
13. Hallelujah/I Know It's Over (with improv)
courtesy of Junko Kudo
Japanese Interview
A lovely little interview done for the Japanese press in the winter/spring of 1995...not the greatest quality visually, but the beauty still shines through...
Monday, January 29, 2018
So Real Video
“The song 'So Real' is about that. That is my personal battlefield. The fight between them was too real. Around that time, I learned how to adapt reality to your advantage. Sometimes magic is real, too. Superstition, ghosts, elves, cats that can speak and think. To me, those kinds of things are still very real. Somewhere in here (points to his head) a cat can talk. Somewhere in here real magic and chaos reign.”-Jeff about the divorce of his mother and Ron Moorhead, when he was six or seven years old, and "So Real"
Live from Omega Studios
Today's gig is from a stop at the Omega Studios aka WHFS in Rockville, MD for their "Just Passin' Thru" show recorded on April 16 and aired on June 11 of 1995 (that "Grace" though, oy...)...enjoy! 🙂
Setlist:
- Last Goodbye
- Lover, You Should've Come Over
- So Real
- Grace
Sunday, January 28, 2018
Zeppelin Covers
Like me, Jeffy was a huge fan of Led Zeppelin, so here are the couple covers he did...I wish hed done a few others...
Night Flight: Sin-e version
Night Flight: You and I version
When the Levee Breaks
KSCA
On May 3, 1995, Jeff did an interview on KSCA in Glendale, CA...I love how flustered the interviewer gets, though I'd be the same if not worse lol...enjoy!
- Last Goodbye
- Lover, You Should've Come Over
- So Real
Saturday, January 27, 2018
Athenaeum Theatre
Today's gig is from the Athenaeum Theatre in Melbourne, Australia on September 3, 1995. Before you listen, however, a warning: the audio here is extremely poor...to the point of distraction in my opinion, and the "Kanga-Roo" is also unforgivably cut off at only 4:32, and therefore mostly lost to history (unless someone managed to get the whole thing-if so PLEASE let me know!). I suppose the main reason to include it is for prosperity's sake as I feel any recording we have at all is priceless, no matter if it's among the worst I've heard...enjoy anyway, it is him after all! 😉 (website)
Setlist:
- Chocolate/Mojo Pin
- Dream Brother
- So Real
- Lilac Wine
- Last Goodbye
- What Will You Say
- Eternal Life
- Kick Out The Jams
- That's All I Ask
- Grace
- Lover, You Should've Come Over
- Hallelujah
- Vancouver
- Kanga-Roo (cut)
Triple J Interview
Here's an interview Jeff did for Triple J radio during his first Australian tour in August 1995...once again, the wit and humor is in top form. :-)
Friday, January 26, 2018
"The Music Faucet": 4-19-92
Today's gig is one of a few Jeff did for WFMU's "The Music Faucet" at the Knitting Factory in NY on April 19, 1992. Only four songs, but still a gem...enjoy! ☺ (website)
Satisfied Mind
Setlist:
- Satisfied Mind
- Killing Time
- All Tomorrow's Parties
- I Know It's Over
The location now
The current venue (101 Avenue A)
Thursday, January 25, 2018
Lowlands 1994
Here's the footage of Jeff's performance at Lowlands Festival on August 27, 1994, along with a fabulous duet with G. Love and some short clips of some news footage talking about the festival...🙂 (website)
Setlist:
1. Mojo Pin 2. So Real 3. Grace 4. Lover, You Should've Come Over (incomplete)
1. Mojo Pin 2. So Real 3. Grace 4. Lover, You Should've Come Over (incomplete)
News clip
Wednesday, January 24, 2018
Man on the Moon
On January 24, 1994, Jeff gave an acoustic performance on KCRW's "Man on the Moon" in LA. I love this one, and as with all his LA shows, it's close to my heart...enjoy! ☺
Setlist:
1. Grace
Setlist:
1. Grace
2. I Against I
3. Lover, You Should've Come Over
4. Last Goodbye
5. Strange Fruit
Tuesday, January 23, 2018
Musiqueplus
The interviews and wonderful acoustic performance on the Canadian show Musiqueplus...💗
Interview: October 25, 1994
Interview and performance: May 27, 1995
1. Lover, You Should've Come Over
2. So Real
3. Last Goodbye
4. Grace
Monday, January 22, 2018
WXPN World Cafe
Today's gig is an interview and performance from WXPN's World Cafe in Philadelphia, PA on February 24, 1994...enjoy! ☺
Setlist:
- Grace
- Mojo Pin
- Lover, You Should've Come Over
Sunday, January 21, 2018
Le Botanique
Today's gig is from Le Botanique's Orangerie in Brussels, Belgium on February 26, 1995...enjoy! ☺ (website)
Setlist:
- Dream Brother
- So Real
- Grace
- Lilac Wine
- Last Goodbye
- What Will You Say
- Chocolate/Mojo Pin
- Kick Out The Jams
- Eternal Life
- Lover, You Should've Come Over
- The Man That Got Away
- Hallelujah
- Vancouver
- Kanga-Roo
Courtesy of oannaf on IG
Saturday, January 20, 2018
Knitting Factory: March, 1992
A wonderful early document with Gods and Monsters done at the Knitting Factory on March 22, 1992 for WFMU'S "The Music Faucet"...seeing him enjoying himself and totally loosing it in the music at one point (you'll know it when you see it lol) is wonderful to see. This was also Jeff's last show with the band...enjoy! ☺ (website)
Setlist:
1. Dink's Song
2. How Long Will It Take
3. No One Must Find You Here
4. Cruel
5. Malign Fiesta (No Soul)
6. Mojo Pin
7. Grace
8. Distortion
9. Satisfied Mind (solo)
10. Hymn L'amour (with Gary Lucas)
The location now
The current venue (101 Avenue A)
Friday, January 19, 2018
RRR Rooftop Cafe Show and Interview
On August 31, 1995, Jeff gave a stirring performance on a cold and windy rooftop for Australian radio station RRR in Melbourne, proceeded by a great interview...enjoy! ☺
Interview
Performance
Setlist:
- Last Goodbye
- Grace
- That's All I Ask
- Lover, You Should've Come Over
Courtesy of Paul Hoag
Thursday, January 18, 2018
Knitting Factory: August, 1992
Today's gig is another early one: the Knitting Factory in NYC on August 13, 1992...enjoy! (website)
Setlist:
1. Dink's Song
2. If You See Her, Say Hello
3. Eternal Life
4. The Way Young Lovers Do
5. Hallelujah
6. Calling You
7. Corpus Christi Carol (end cut)
2. If You See Her, Say Hello
3. Eternal Life
4. The Way Young Lovers Do
5. Hallelujah
6. Calling You
7. Corpus Christi Carol (end cut)
The location now
The current venue (101 Avenue A)
Buckley Dreams
Liberation, February 11, 1995
By Lauren Rigoulet
Submitted by Sai
Translated by me
SONG. At the time of the Parisian stage enthronement (after two false entries), a return of the American "sensation" of the season: the son Buckley, from the origins to the present day.
Buckley dreams: JEFF BUCKLEY, in concert Saturday at 8 pm at Bataclan, 50, bd Voltaire, Paris XI (complete). Another date is scheduled for July 6 at the Olympia.
New York, Special Envoy - He arrived in New York from the top. He crashed at Central Park, in the latitudes of 90th Street, and spent some time in Harlem. But it did not make sense for him to live there. It's downtown that Jeff Buckley's character is "made". His apartment is located on the edge of the "Lower East Side", a hotspot for bohemian life in the lower parts of Manhattan. According to the visitors, he burns incense there and has for furniture only an unmade bed, disks and collections of poetry in bulk (Rilke, Rimbaud, Kerouac...). A few minutes from here, is Tompkins Square, where the young folk scene moved in the early 80's when it was snubbed by the expensive Greenwich Village clubs dear to Bob Dylan (and Tim Buckley). The singer's other house is on St Mark's Place, under a modest sign: Sin-e cafe, a cozy place-two tiny pieces painted in a creamy yellow-that speaks volumes about the young phenomenon.
That's where everything started. Where the career took form. It is also where Buckley returns as soon as a break in the multiple tours allows him to land in: New York. "The last time he came here he said let me do the dishes, please, I need it..." says Emer Nagle, who is working slowly behind the cramped counter. He spent hours to discuss, to take notes, nothing hurries him, he is at home. "I have trouble with this success," commented the person, met this week, between Japanese concerts and European tour, in a quaint hotel in the Latin Quarter. "I do not understand it very well. It happened too fast. I do not feel so far from the time when I was passing the hat at Sin é." In support of these remarks, he says he refused the first part of the mega-tour of Page-Plant that was to launch his career in the US "for a quiet stay in New York, find time to mature and write."
When he left Los Angeles for Manhattan, the young man had in mind a certain romanticism about New York: "Lou Reed posing with a syringe, Patti Smith, the Talking Heads, Truman Capote..." In his new neighborhoods, it could have pushed open other doors than that of Sin é, go to CBGB and "visit the ghost of the Ramones" or, at 50 meters, take a chance at the Sidewalk Café, area of the "anti-folk" scene which has Brenda Khan, Beck, Mike Rimbaud...emerged. Oddly, the cheeky Jeff did not feel up to it. Not ready to face the crowd of neo-Dylans who weigh every word of his acid and committed texts: "I did not have enough confidence in what I wrote," he says. Neither in what I had to say." Today, the choice seems to make perfect sense. Sin-e is an Irish cafe where it's easy to focus on emotion, where the boss, who sorted the tapes, loves the exalted. When they're in town, Sinead O'Connor, Gavin Friday or Shane Mc Gowan are happy to carry a tune near the old stove where the speakers are placed.
The young Buckley, who likes to give substance to things, talks about the time spent in Sin-e (over a year) as an almost mystical learning. He says he has entered it brand new. Ready to become what experience would make him. Before coming to this point, in 1991, he tackled the very troublesome problem of his father during a tribute concert to Tim Buckley at a church in Brooklyn Heights. "I sacrificed a little by agreeing to do that," he says. After a long media silence, he told the American press this fall: "At first I did not want to play it," he says in Interview. But I was not invited to my father's funeral and it did not leave me alone. I thought that if I went to show my respects, I would be done with all that. I sang 'I Never Asked to Be Your Mountain', where he talks about his desire to leave the routine for a bohemian life and where he refers to my mother and myself. It was a song that I loved and hated at the same time." The impression left at this famous concert could have served as a springboard for the New York rock scene. But he prefers the "passage" alone. "I wanted to start all over again. I needed to anchor myself somewhere, to become a child again, to sing as one scribbles. To find my style and magnify my voice."
At first, Sin seems inaccessible. Too many candidates. An endless waiting list. Then a guy who had his place every Monday night passes the torch almost by chance. "It was perfect," says Buckley, "Monday is probably the toughest night, the atmosphere is a bit soft." Armed with his notebook, where there are dozens of songs, his angel's mouth and his porcelain complexion, some stories, an enthusiasm for teasing (apparently he's very talented for imitations), and an immoderate penchant for trance and pathos, he commands attention. "I played as much as I sang, I learned to free myself. To the point that some reproach me for submerging them with my emotions." He sings in a cathartic way. In bulk and in judgment. Van Morrison and Dylan, the Smiths and Ride, Piaf and Judy Garland, Mahalia Jackson and Robert Johnson: "My initiatory journey," he says, "Slip into the skin of my idols to find myself. Trying to touch people by saying things like Ray Charles did it for me. Today, this education is over."
Sin-é Café and Buckley grew up together. We are in a hurry nowadays to hear who's performing, overflowing extensively onto the sidewalk. After a few Mondays, word of mouth started and record companies began to make the trip. "I saw Jeff one night when there were supposed to be seven people in the venue," said Steve Berkowitz, a former Cars manager who signed Buckley's youngster on Columbia, the Dylan and Springsteen label. "His voice was amazing, but he had a way of singing Bad Brains like Billie Holiday, making them sound like Jeff Buckley. And he seemed ready for all risks. He experimented constantly. Over the evenings, I saw him singing Strange Fruit several times: he never performed it the same way. He changed everything, even the arrangements." One of the rare idols that Buckley did not cover during the New York initiation was Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, the master of sacred Pakistani music, whom he claims to worship more than anything ("My Elvis"): "He has a major influence on the way I play. But covering his songs would be an insult. The way I would like to approach him would be to make the American musical legacy as profound as he did with the memory of his people."
By Lauren Rigoulet
Submitted by Sai
Translated by me
SONG. At the time of the Parisian stage enthronement (after two false entries), a return of the American "sensation" of the season: the son Buckley, from the origins to the present day.
Buckley dreams: JEFF BUCKLEY, in concert Saturday at 8 pm at Bataclan, 50, bd Voltaire, Paris XI (complete). Another date is scheduled for July 6 at the Olympia.
New York, Special Envoy - He arrived in New York from the top. He crashed at Central Park, in the latitudes of 90th Street, and spent some time in Harlem. But it did not make sense for him to live there. It's downtown that Jeff Buckley's character is "made". His apartment is located on the edge of the "Lower East Side", a hotspot for bohemian life in the lower parts of Manhattan. According to the visitors, he burns incense there and has for furniture only an unmade bed, disks and collections of poetry in bulk (Rilke, Rimbaud, Kerouac...). A few minutes from here, is Tompkins Square, where the young folk scene moved in the early 80's when it was snubbed by the expensive Greenwich Village clubs dear to Bob Dylan (and Tim Buckley). The singer's other house is on St Mark's Place, under a modest sign: Sin-e cafe, a cozy place-two tiny pieces painted in a creamy yellow-that speaks volumes about the young phenomenon.
That's where everything started. Where the career took form. It is also where Buckley returns as soon as a break in the multiple tours allows him to land in: New York. "The last time he came here he said let me do the dishes, please, I need it..." says Emer Nagle, who is working slowly behind the cramped counter. He spent hours to discuss, to take notes, nothing hurries him, he is at home. "I have trouble with this success," commented the person, met this week, between Japanese concerts and European tour, in a quaint hotel in the Latin Quarter. "I do not understand it very well. It happened too fast. I do not feel so far from the time when I was passing the hat at Sin é." In support of these remarks, he says he refused the first part of the mega-tour of Page-Plant that was to launch his career in the US "for a quiet stay in New York, find time to mature and write."
When he left Los Angeles for Manhattan, the young man had in mind a certain romanticism about New York: "Lou Reed posing with a syringe, Patti Smith, the Talking Heads, Truman Capote..." In his new neighborhoods, it could have pushed open other doors than that of Sin é, go to CBGB and "visit the ghost of the Ramones" or, at 50 meters, take a chance at the Sidewalk Café, area of the "anti-folk" scene which has Brenda Khan, Beck, Mike Rimbaud...emerged. Oddly, the cheeky Jeff did not feel up to it. Not ready to face the crowd of neo-Dylans who weigh every word of his acid and committed texts: "I did not have enough confidence in what I wrote," he says. Neither in what I had to say." Today, the choice seems to make perfect sense. Sin-e is an Irish cafe where it's easy to focus on emotion, where the boss, who sorted the tapes, loves the exalted. When they're in town, Sinead O'Connor, Gavin Friday or Shane Mc Gowan are happy to carry a tune near the old stove where the speakers are placed.
The young Buckley, who likes to give substance to things, talks about the time spent in Sin-e (over a year) as an almost mystical learning. He says he has entered it brand new. Ready to become what experience would make him. Before coming to this point, in 1991, he tackled the very troublesome problem of his father during a tribute concert to Tim Buckley at a church in Brooklyn Heights. "I sacrificed a little by agreeing to do that," he says. After a long media silence, he told the American press this fall: "At first I did not want to play it," he says in Interview. But I was not invited to my father's funeral and it did not leave me alone. I thought that if I went to show my respects, I would be done with all that. I sang 'I Never Asked to Be Your Mountain', where he talks about his desire to leave the routine for a bohemian life and where he refers to my mother and myself. It was a song that I loved and hated at the same time." The impression left at this famous concert could have served as a springboard for the New York rock scene. But he prefers the "passage" alone. "I wanted to start all over again. I needed to anchor myself somewhere, to become a child again, to sing as one scribbles. To find my style and magnify my voice."
At first, Sin seems inaccessible. Too many candidates. An endless waiting list. Then a guy who had his place every Monday night passes the torch almost by chance. "It was perfect," says Buckley, "Monday is probably the toughest night, the atmosphere is a bit soft." Armed with his notebook, where there are dozens of songs, his angel's mouth and his porcelain complexion, some stories, an enthusiasm for teasing (apparently he's very talented for imitations), and an immoderate penchant for trance and pathos, he commands attention. "I played as much as I sang, I learned to free myself. To the point that some reproach me for submerging them with my emotions." He sings in a cathartic way. In bulk and in judgment. Van Morrison and Dylan, the Smiths and Ride, Piaf and Judy Garland, Mahalia Jackson and Robert Johnson: "My initiatory journey," he says, "Slip into the skin of my idols to find myself. Trying to touch people by saying things like Ray Charles did it for me. Today, this education is over."
Sin-é Café and Buckley grew up together. We are in a hurry nowadays to hear who's performing, overflowing extensively onto the sidewalk. After a few Mondays, word of mouth started and record companies began to make the trip. "I saw Jeff one night when there were supposed to be seven people in the venue," said Steve Berkowitz, a former Cars manager who signed Buckley's youngster on Columbia, the Dylan and Springsteen label. "His voice was amazing, but he had a way of singing Bad Brains like Billie Holiday, making them sound like Jeff Buckley. And he seemed ready for all risks. He experimented constantly. Over the evenings, I saw him singing Strange Fruit several times: he never performed it the same way. He changed everything, even the arrangements." One of the rare idols that Buckley did not cover during the New York initiation was Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, the master of sacred Pakistani music, whom he claims to worship more than anything ("My Elvis"): "He has a major influence on the way I play. But covering his songs would be an insult. The way I would like to approach him would be to make the American musical legacy as profound as he did with the memory of his people."
Wednesday, January 17, 2018
Club Logo
Today's gig is from Club Logo in Hamburg, Germany, on February 22, 1995...Enjoy! ☺ (website)
Setlist:
1. Dream Brother 2. So Real 3. Last Goodbye 4. What Will You Say 5. Lilac Wine 6. Mojo Pin 7. Grace 8. Eternal Life 9. Lover, You Should've Come Over/All Flowers In Time 10. Will The Circle Be Unbroken 11. Hallelujah 12. Kanga-Roo
Setlist:
1. Dream Brother 2. So Real 3. Last Goodbye 4. What Will You Say 5. Lilac Wine 6. Mojo Pin 7. Grace 8. Eternal Life 9. Lover, You Should've Come Over/All Flowers In Time 10. Will The Circle Be Unbroken 11. Hallelujah 12. Kanga-Roo
Select "Grace" Review
By Gina Morris
Anyone who witnessed one of Jeff Buckley's low-key solo dates, or who was fortunate enough to hear his ear-wrenching acoustic five-track mini-album "Live At Sin-e", will probably be well geared up for this remarkable debut. "Grace" is the achingly majestic work of a truly gifted man, which has little or nothing to do with the fact that his father happens to be the great avant garde folk hero Tim Buckley.
Though there are genetic similarities (identical eyebrows and chiseled good looks), Jeff's sorrowful meanderings and swooping, soulful ballads are not obviously inspired by Dad's "Happy Sad", more by Van Morrison's "Astral Weeks". It's impassioned, torch song poetry, with elements of hymnal innocence ("Corpus Christi", Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah") and yet, using his band to the full, Jeff creates enough scope to incude grungy and rocky diversions ("Eternal Life" and "Grace" respectively). And all the while his voice unfurls and drifts into pure emotive loveliness with gruff, raunchy inflections-like a choirboy serenading a hooker.
4/5
Anyone who witnessed one of Jeff Buckley's low-key solo dates, or who was fortunate enough to hear his ear-wrenching acoustic five-track mini-album "Live At Sin-e", will probably be well geared up for this remarkable debut. "Grace" is the achingly majestic work of a truly gifted man, which has little or nothing to do with the fact that his father happens to be the great avant garde folk hero Tim Buckley.
Though there are genetic similarities (identical eyebrows and chiseled good looks), Jeff's sorrowful meanderings and swooping, soulful ballads are not obviously inspired by Dad's "Happy Sad", more by Van Morrison's "Astral Weeks". It's impassioned, torch song poetry, with elements of hymnal innocence ("Corpus Christi", Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah") and yet, using his band to the full, Jeff creates enough scope to incude grungy and rocky diversions ("Eternal Life" and "Grace" respectively). And all the while his voice unfurls and drifts into pure emotive loveliness with gruff, raunchy inflections-like a choirboy serenading a hooker.
4/5
"Grace" on BBC Late Show
On this day in 1995, the guys played this fantastic version of "Grace" on the BBC Late Show in London, UK:
Tuesday, January 16, 2018
"Ulalume"
Two of my favorites meet: Jeff reading Edgar Allan Poe's "Ulalume" from the 1997 album "Closed on Account of Rabies" :-)
"Nocturnal Emissions" Interview
An interview and performance on WBCN's "Nocturnal Emissions" on October 23, 1994 in Boston. The version of "Grace" here is one of my favorites...enjoy! ☺
Setlist:
- Grace
- So Real
- Lover, You Should've Come Over
Monday, January 15, 2018
Exo 7
Today's gig is from Exo 7 in Rouen, France on June 28, 1995...enjoy! ☺
Setlist:
- Dream Brother
- So Real
- Lover, You Should've Come Over
- Eternal Life
- Kick Out The Jams
- That's All I Ask
- Mojo Pin
- Last Goobye
- What Will You Say
- Lilac Wine
- Grace
- Hallelujah
- Je N'en Connais Pas La Fin
- Vancouver
- Kanga-Roo
Courtesy of Shelly Happart
RIP
Courtesy of Shelly Happart
The location now
120 Minutes Performances
Here's the footage of the guys done for MTV's 120 Minutes on this day in 1995:
"Grace"
"So Real"
"Last Goodbye"
"Last Goodbye"
MTV Outtakes
On this day in 1995, Jeff and Mick spoke with MTV before taping a performance for 120 Minutes ☺
Sunday, January 14, 2018
Dancing at BDFW
Yet another classic example of "how adorable can one person possibly be?", here's that priceless footage of Jeff doing a bit of dancing to Steve Windwood's "Higer Love" at his friend Penny Arcade's performance piece "Butch Dyke Fag Whore"...I've loved this song since it was a hit, so seeing this for the first time nearly killed me and I can now no longer hear it without thinking of this...
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