Jeff Buckley Classic or Dud?

xxpost yes weirdly hot is otm - has kind of a vague sleazy 70’s classic rock vibe that i like, that he hadnt really fooled around with before. i wish he could have hung around & done more stuff in that crunchy vein

unrelated: my favorite thing, period, is when he did his spoken Edith Piaf impersonation in Paris, i think it’s on the Mystery White Boy live album. he was a huge dork

idg the word crunchy in relation to this.

guitar goes crunch

^ gets it

yer both mad.

>:(

Oh look an excuse to post this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lPdj4mE6wQ

what a song

one of the very few songs totally ruined beyond salvage thanks to high school cringe as mentioned upthread

Jeff & Michael Tighe awkwardly hosting 120 minutes in 1995 - i get distracted purely by the fact that he’s smoking on camera


https://youtu.be/5Y03BeeYH3k

i saw him twice live in Melbourne - once at a community radio station rooftop gig in 1995, and once at the Palais in 1996.
I was supposed to go to his first Australian show at The Lounge too but I was sick & my friends went & ugh regrets i have had them

i was a fan, am still a fan, but after his death how he was remembered ~culturally~ didnt seem seem to have a lot to do with what it was like enjoying his music as a fan at the time & my enjoyment of him became more and more private

like now, what, 23 years later? so much of the narrative about him now is limiting & binary, either ppl complaining about Hallelujah or claiming his sainthood.
like with Cobain it was different bc he was so massive but it feels with Jeff Buckley that somehow his memory was overwritten with lots of crap that just doesnt even honor him

anyway

he was fun, magnetic, weirdly humble, & also a dorky normie who liked records.

oh my god that 120 minutes video is extremely goofy

i saw him twice live in Melbourne

God, I envy that.

I know people tend to kind of automatically, maybe lazily assume he was headed for superstardom of some kind, imo the most realistic scenario for him was more like a few more hype years and maybe one or two more big to semi-big album cycles, then settling into a solid if idiosyncratic singer-songwriter career after that, ultimately cropping up as a hip influence on the youngsters....around now, really.

(I'm not trying to downplay the tragedy of course. I wish he'd gotten to do all that!)

I know people tend to kind of automatically, maybe lazily assume he was headed for superstardom

yeah this never tracked for me, he was headed toward making weirder and more fascinating records imo

the superstar assumption is just bc of his voice but it completely discounts his personality, background & literally everything irl about him

This guy was really something… much respect (I’ve been spinning Mystery White Boy & Live at Sin-é)

He was a f’in good guitar player, man (and I’ve heard one or two).

Imagine having the dude singing a few feet from you while you were eating a muffin.

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, August 15, 2013 5:48 PM (ten years ago)

Sin e is so great, I wore out that CD

Almost exactly 30 years ago he sang a few feet from me while I was having a Sunday lunchtime pint in the biker pub in Stevenage Old Town.

https://live.staticflickr.com/3023/3250195553_a56704d029_b.jpg

I went to his Olympia gig and indeed the Piaf moment was charming. One of the few things I remember about it !
I don’t know if his duet with Liz Fraser was mentioned here. I wasn’t aware of that story then.

More pics here https://flic.kr/s/aHsj9mtUAQ He was persuaded to do a second set in Stevenage that evening, third on the bill to some local punk bands at the new town youth club.

Very cool !

Amazing!

getting a 404 on that flickr link?

Not having looked at my flickr account in about 15 years I realised all the pictures of my kids were publically viewable so I quickly made them private! Think I've just made the JB pics public again.
Think