#tim buckley tribute

[folkimplosionmusic]

April 26, 1991

[sweetdreamsjeff]

JEFF BUCKLEY DEBUT TICKET STUB ST. ANN'S HISTORIC GREETINGS FROM TIM BUCKLEY

This ticket stub is a piece of music history that any fan of rock and pop should have in their collection. From the iconic Jeff Buckley and his debut performance at St. Ann's to the touching memories of his father in Greetings from Tim Buckley, this ticket is a true gem for any music memorabilia collector.

"Greetings From Tim Buckley" A Tim Buckley Tribute Concert at the Church Of St. Ann & The Holy Trinity, Brooklyn Heights, New York. April 26th 1991. Tracklist:

01 - I Never Asked To Be Your Mountain 0:00

02 - Sefronia (The Kings Chain) 11:02

03 - Phantasmagoria In Two 14:08

04 - Once I Was 20:50

Performers: Jeff Buckley ~ Greg Cohen ~ Chris Cunningham ~ Cheryl Hardwick Julia Heyward ~ Shelley Hirsch ~ Gary Lucas Barry Reynolds ~ Hank Roberts ~ G.E. Smith

[larrybeckett]

The Life of a Song: ‘Song to the Siren’

"To the ancient Greeks, they were hybrid creatures, part bird, part woman, who lured sailors to their death with the spell of their music. In 1967, singer and songwriter Tim Buckley and poet and lyricist Larry Beckett paid tribute to those deathly seducers with 'Song to the Siren,' a haunting ode to doomed love whose story is the stuff of pop legend.” David Cheal Financial Times APRIL 22 2016 Full article here: https://tinyurl.com/ycvs324p

[emily-watch-the-stars]

Brendan Perry - Dream Letter (Tribute to Tim Buckley)

[manmetaphysical]

Today is the birthday of Jeff Buckley so to commemorate that, here is an excerpt from the article I wrote in 2019.

"Jeff Buckley: The Secret Chord that Pleased the Lord'' Part 1

There is some profoundly archetypal message in the lives and deaths of Tim and Jeff Buckley, father and son who never knew each other. They both sang with a heightened intense emotion, a poetry of song that transcends the usual. They both had the power to catalyse emotions in the audience; they were both magnetically alluring to those who came into their orbs. They both put music above commercial gain and they both died before they achieved their full potential. Tim left Jeff’s mother before Jeff was born in 1966 so he only knew his father through his recorded music. They met once but it was brief. The father, Tim Buckley, a singer-songwriter star in the late sixties and early seventies was an Aquarius born on Valentine’s day, February 14th, 1947; and the son Jeff whose career blossomed for a brief few years in the nineties was born a Scorpio, on 17th November, 1966. These are both ‘fixed’ signs so they were both intensely driven and didn’t give in easily. If Jeff were alive today, he would be 53. I can’t do full justice to this story which deserves longer treatment, but I can hint at the complex parallel signatures in the natal and event charts to cherrypick what pointers the aspects have to reveal.

Jeff Buckley was a highly sensitive and gifted musician, handsome but delicate – some compared him to a wild horse ready to bolt at any moment, somewhat untamed. He was born in the year of the Fire Horse -1966 – said to make those born that year highly strung. He was, as is common of people who observe how Scorpios move, compared to a volcano ready to blast off. He surprised everyone with his voice when he first appeared on stage in New York in the early 1990s at a tribute to Tim Buckley –people gasped that he sounded so like his father. He has the same look and mannerisms. No one had any idea there was a son. Gary Lucas (a double Gemini) worked with Jeff later was the musician who had played with Captain Beefheart. He helped organised the tribute concert. When he first heard the astonishing voice of the young and unknown Jeff, he said that it was no mere imitation, of his father “Jeff was inhabited by the spirit of Tim Buckley.”

Jeff’s voice is different from his father’s but it has that same magical elasticity and was able to soar beyond the notes into some ethereal place other voices simply cannot reach. Jeff played down the comparisons and could get angry when fans asked for Tim’s songs but Gary said that Jeff had the presence of an ‘atomic bomb’ and was ‘on fire’ -this also echoes the Scorpionic twist.

When he produced his one album in 1994 it was called ‘Grace’. This concept clearly meant a great deal to him as he said of it “Grace is what matters in anything, especially life, especially growth, tragedy, pain, love, death. That’s a quality I admire very greatly. It keeps you from reaching for the gun too quickly; it keeps you from destroying things too foolishly and sort of keeps you alive.” Growth, pain, love and death are all straplines of the eighth sign and eighth house matters, said by a true Scorpio sun-sign. He had that quality but it didn’t keep him alive, alas. But there is a story in that too. His eighth house is Pisces, ruled by Neptune and the house guests are Saturn and Chiron sitting together where the wounds are obscured by the grand master (the father?) who would make sexual matters more difficult and intense and leave a scar of abandonment to wrestle with through life. Traditionally, it may also point to a death by water but that is easy to say in hindsight.

The stellium of planets in Scorpio is extremely powerful –not only is the South Node conjunct the IC, but the story starts nebulously with Neptune, then Mercury the Sun and Venus all within five degrees in the last decan of Scorpio ruled by the Moon. This medley of all the ‘art’ and ‘creative’ planets most definitely describes a native blessed with artistic gifts that are positioned in the sign that digs deep in order to have a profound impact. He did just that by getting under people’s skins. You don’t just ‘like’ Jeff Buckley, you love and adore him, or you loathe him; there’s no middle ground. The sign of Taurus, associated with the throat and singing, is on the MC and Jeff quickly became widely known as being a singer of extraordinary range – from angelic to demonic- with delicacy in the high notes. He was a tenor whose voice could manage four octaves but could also do counter tenor. What is also fascinating is that he lacked the drive to become famous, was anti the star-making machine, even though fame rushed upon him.

There is zero Cardinal energy, and for that reason powerful drives to push forward may have had a shadow quality to them, rising up when least expected. He kept record company A&R men dancing around till he was ready. He also had an out of bounds Moon so he broke all the rules and chose to exile himself from ‘stardom.’This Moon opposes Jupiter, so impulsiveness may have ruled him in shifting ways he could not explain. Contradictorily, there is a lot of fixity, as both Sun in Scorpio and Ascendant in Leo are in fixed signs. And if you are worried about the Pluto-Saturn conjunction in January 2020 consider that there are people like Jeff who was born with them in opposition – and his father Tim had Saturn and Pluto conjunct in Leo.

There is a tight rectangle – not the obvious ‘mystic’ type- which has more harmonious aspects, but this one is formed of two sesquiquadrates and two semi-squares that traps in the energy of these to crossed oppositions. There is little in astrological literature said about this formation, but nevertheless it marks out his chart pointing to some tightly concentrated circuit of locked energies. Mars/Uranus sits opposite Saturn/Chiron which points to wanting to fulfill the promise the father failed to fulfill, also pointing to ancestors with the stellium in the fourth house, which could also be his father, Tim Buckley who had a gypsy spirit, troubadour and vagabond, and left a lot of his relationships thinking life was a ‘river’.

Jeff Buckley lived and breathed Qawwali which is the devotional music of the Sufis. Its most renowned singer was Nusrat Fateh Ali Kahn and Jeff adored this style, calling Kahn his ‘Elvis’. It the type of music that has fanatical devotees will to listen and engage for 5-hour long performances. The singing riffs on poetic devices and improvisation that is described as “jumping off a cliff and fluttering towards heaven” and it is clear Jeff attempted to do just this in his performances being open and experimental going to his edge. He had memorized whole quatrains and ghazzals sung in Urdu and treated his audience sometimes to a rendition of Qawwali singing. “In between the world of the flesh and the world of the spirit… the void’ and with Qawwali ‘there is only pure devotion and a fierce virtuosity to grow wings and soar through music.”

Jeff was gifted and it would be enough to point to the conjunction of Neptune, the Sun, Mercury and Venus, but to me he was also a great example of someone touched by the muses, divinely inspired, and the astrology of muse asteroids is a fascinating addition to the astrologer’s colour palette. They dance around in the background. Brad Pitt, who became obsessed with Jeff Buckley, said that listening to him sing and play goes right to the very source of genius- that indefinable place artists seek to reach but Jeff went there effortlessly. He found the chord that pleased the Lord as the lines from ‘Hallelujah’ go. Melpomene, the muse of tragedy is conjunct his Venus and the Sun and he certainly the dark side of life in his music, loss and grief. Calliope, the muse of epic poetry, is conjunct his MC which opposes that same Venus/Sun/Mercury conjunction creating a dramatic tension that played out in his life. Classic emphasis on his sheer artistry as a musician is that Euterpe, the muse of music, is conjunct his Neptune there in Scorpio, just one degree apart.

The qawwali singing represented this seeking to go beyond is evident in his singing which stretched beyond limits in ‘Hallelujah’ (1994) a song with spiritual and transcendent leanings. He owned this rendition making it his own signature song. He extracts every last drop of devotional and spiritual energy out of it. The song was Leonard Cohen’s but Jeff was inspired by John Cale’s version. Neptune conjunct the sun and Venus would add this kind of rapturous beauty to his voice that touches on the sacred. But also the muse asteroids are present. The muse asteroid of sacred music Polyhymnia is bi-quintile his sun. This is so expressive of the sublime tone of which he was capable.

[moochilatv]

Hidden Giants presents: Silent Waters

A tribute to Jeff Buckley

About Jeff Buckley:

He is an artist who died far too young, one of the infamous club of 27. With his songs, style and passion he has had a lot of influence on us and also on other great bands that inspire us. In this song, we wanted to blend his (and his father Tim Buckley's) tragic story with his musical influences.

Silent Waters is about drowning in unresolved grief, sadness or depressive feelings. How do you keep your head above water?

This is the first single from our full band debut album, which will be released in October.

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BIO:

Hidden Giants is an experienced DIY Indiepopband from The Netherlands. Our self written and - produced songs are inspired by musical geniuses like Jeff Buckley, Radiohead, Snowpatrol and Saybia. In the footsteps of these giants, it is now our time to shine and share our mysterious and powerful songs with the world!

[popmusicu]

Jeff Buckley's legacy

Despite having released only one studio album, Jeff Buckley made a huge impact on many other artists, who have taken him as a musical inspiration and others have even dedicated songs to him. Jeff Buckley was born on november 17, 1966 in California. Son of musician Tim Buckley but raised by his mother and stepfather under the name Scott Moorhead. He discovered music at an early age; when he was 5 years old he began learning to play the guitar and decided he wanted to become a musician when he was 12. In 1990, he moved to New York and in 1992 Buckley began to perform weekly at Sin-é, his repertoire consisted of covers of artists such as Bob Dylan, The Smiths and Elton John and some original songs that he had previously written with Gary Lucas. Over time, Jeff began to gain popularity and multiple record labels approached the café trying to convince Buckley to sign with them, he ended up signing with Columbia Records in september of the same year. After this, he and his team started working on what would be his first and only studio album, Grace, which was released on April 23 of 1994, where Jeff showed his great vocal range and ability as a composer. Two years later, he started to work on his second LP, titled My Sweetheart the Drunk, unfortunately it was never finished due to Buckley's death in may 1997 at the Wolf River Harbor by an accidental drowning. Jeff's death caused a great sadness among his peers, who wrote songs to pay tribute to him, some of them are Memphis by PJ Harvey, Wave Goodbye by Chris Cornell and Rilkean Heart and Half-Gifts by Cocteau Twins.

His music was praised by Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and David Bowie and inspired many other artists such as Coldplay, Adele, Lana del Rey and Radiohead, the latter revealed that they were able to overcome a creative block after seeing Buckley live. I wanted to make this post about him because this week was the anniversary of Jeff's death and wanted to commemorate him and remember his short career. A very talented musician with a brilliant mind that left us way too soon:(<3.

Valentina Fuentes

[ramrodd]

Chapter 3: Two pastors react to Tim Alberta's book "The Kingdom, the Pow..

COMMENTARY:

The politics connected to The Total Depravity Gospel  of the Pro-Life Fascism of Evangelicals begins with the Army-McCarthy Hearings and William F Buckley's publication in 1960 of the Sharon Statement, which is a white supremacist agenda of the John Birch Society to elect a clone of Joe McCarthy and overthrow the federal government and the Nazification of America that runs, straight as a laser, to January 6,  

My dad was working for Matthew Ridgway during the McCarthy Hearings, Before Roy Cohn began his assault on the Army to get special treatment for his boy friend, the Army backed his focus of Soviet and domestic Communist infiltration of the federal government, but the lesson they learned, the colonels and majors engaged in running the Army, was that the Commies were a nuisance but the true existential threat to America was Domestic Extremism and White Nationalism. The Army bands began to play the 1812 Overture at Post 4th of July celebrations with cannons and fireworks. The Overture is appropriately noisy, but the Army had two other subversive messages.

One was a tribute to the Red Army for their incomprehensible sacrifice for the de-Nazification of Germany celebrated at the Elbe Bridge. If you watch The 4th of July on the Mall on PBS, that's the US Army celebrating the Elbe Bridge in gratification to the Red Army for entering Manchuria  as part of the invasion of Japan, My dad was part of the Order of Battle for the invasion of Japan and he said all the GIs in the Pacific were grateful for the Soviet invasion,

The other message needs to be understood in the context of the tribute to the Red Army by the US Army on the 4th of July is both a prophecy and an insult, the prophecy is "Beware the John Birch Society: and the insult is "Fuck YOU,, Joe McCarthy and that January 6 horse you rode in on,"  

That's the political side, I voted for Nixon before i went to Vietnam and I voted for him when I got bac. Sfter 1963, I could have had a job in the Nixon White House as a research assistant for Ray Price, but i was on another trajectory and I didn't want to work in the same building as Pat Buchanan and the Plumbers, a collection of white supremacist thugs who had hijacked Barry Goldwater's' Conservative brand as campaign worker and Conservative became the brand of the John Birch Society, They are now MAGA Conservatives who have the January 6 majority in the House which is looking for an excuse to cause America to default on it's debt in hopes of a social collapse like in Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrigges, which was the Turner Diaries of the Boomer generation of Por-War Country Club Republican campus Brown Shirts, the Young Americans for Freedom, I was an ROTC Cadet from 1965 - 1969 and i was stuck between Liberal anti-war campus radicals and it is a generational food fight that continues until this moment,

This is the purely political side of the MAGA Conservative equation, The  presenting existential threat in the looming budget dead line and Speaker of the House who is the David Koresh of the January 6 majority,

It would serve your purposes to review the climax of Atlas Shrugged,  Steve Bannon is the John Balt of the January 6 Committee to Install Trump and the connection to the lunatic fringe of the Born Again Pro-Life Rapture Coalition is far more insidious than I can fully convey in this essay,

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[denniswilsonzine]

Roses for Denny

Original fb post from (fuck me) 9 years ago

“Jenna Appleseed 7 August 2014 · The internet went down quite a bit earlier today so I made a thing. (soundtracked by parts of disc one of the Tim Buckley comp I've been spamming all over fb for most of the afternoon/evening/night). Took a photo of some fabric flowers I got in a card kit & am planning to sell / stick on a swap site, transferred the photo yesterday & wondered how it would look w/ different colours - the original roses are *green* wuh? - did some fake tinting via paint shop pro (old school jasc version) blend modes & thought about making it into a tribute... only to accidentally close the image without saving *arrgh* decided to re do it & carry on - keeping layers & saving each time, this time and this is the result.”

[imtheiliad]

[Image Description: a picture of a page in TV Guide Magazine, on the right there is a photo of Angela Bassett and Peter Krause, in uniform. The header reads: "Monday, March 11-Sunday, March 17. Your day-to-day guide to the week's best television. What's Worth Watching. 9-1-1, Season Premiere Thursday March 14, 8/7c, ABC." A spiky circle surrounds "pick of the week!" next to the block of text which reads, "What a rescue! After Fox axed 9-1-1 right before the writer's strike last summer, ABC snapped up the drama about Los Angeles' first responders. And seven seasons in, these heroes remain as disaster movie-ready as ever. "I have discovered that [showrunner] Tim Minear has aspired to be television's Irwin Allen," says Peter Krause, reference the "Master of Disaster" '70s filmaker, "because we have done an earthquake, a tidal wave...." (Note: Krause's LAFD captain Bobby Nash has also endured a burning blimp, a landslide and a blackout!) Now, to make a splash in their new home, "we're doing The Poseidon Adventure and making no mystery of it," Minear says, adding that the opening minutes feature "an absolute tribute to Irwin Allen." As viewers know, Bobby and his wife, LAPD sergeant Athena Grant-Nash (Angela Bassett, right, with Krause), are setting sail on a belated honeymoon cruise. (Expect to see a couple familiar faces on board.) Things take a titanic turn when pirates seize the ship, leading to a massive explosion and an all-hands-on-deck effort to avoid capsizing and sinking into the Pacific. Meanwhile, for the gang at Bobby's station 118, Minear promises "aother great disaster" inspired by a real-life case: "A fighter pilot had to bail out of his plane-- and they didn't know where the plane went." In addition to the series' big 100th episode in April, emotional off-duty stories are continued, including what Oliver Stark calls "a season of self-discovery" for his reckless firefighter Evan Buckley nad the long-over due wedding of Buck's sister, call-center operator Maddie Buckley (Jennifer Love Hewitt), to the LAFD's Howard "Chimney" Han (Kenneth Choi). In fact, it's these character-driven dramas-- and not the often insane calamities-- that have become the real heart of the show. "This is a family of people who work together and love each other through thick and thin," Krause notes. "And because this is a comic book about first responders come to life, it's mostly thick." --Damian Holbrook" /End ID]

WHAT'S WORTH WATCHING: 911

TV Guide Magazine March 11-31 edition

[parkerbombshell]

Rules Free Radio Aug 15 2023

Tuesdays 2pm - 5pm  EST Rules Free Radio With Steve  Caplan bombshellradio.com On the next Rules Free Radio with Steve Caplan. we’ll pay tribute to two artists we lost recently. One had an extraordinary story of discovery long after his recordings in the early 70s. His name is Rodriguez and In the U.S. he was virtually unknown until a 2012 documentary was released. It’s called  Searching for Sugar Man, and it’s about the circumstances that made him hugely popular in South Africa, unbeknownst to him. The documentary gained him long-overdue recognition at home in the US and he toured and got to connect with his overseas audience. In the third hour, we’ll play some of his songs and mix in a lot of music by other artists in a similar vein and time. The other one is Robbie Robertson from The Band. By comparison he and they are quite well known. A lot of people have recorded his music and we'll listen to some of those artists doing his songs as well as The Band and his solo work. That’s in the second hour. We'll start with a mix of some new releases and toss in some classics in the first hour with The Young Hasselhoffs, The Make Three, Annie Hart, Mary Strand, Slaministas, Mikaela Davis, Cornelius, and others. The Searchers, The Bangles, The Doughboys, Cocktail Slippers, and more! The Young Hasselhoffs - Dear Departed The Make Three - Black Cloud The Dangtrippers - Talk About Love Annie Hart - Boy You Got Me Good The Bangles - In a Different Light Cocktail Slippers - Like a Song Stuck in My Head Mary Strand - The Me I Need To Be Slamdinistas - We Say Goodbye The Searchers - Needles And Pins Mikaela Davis - Promise The Doughboys - The Tears of a Clown Candy Claws - Illusion (Fern Lake) Cornelius - Sparks Klee - Gold New Order - Blue Monday We Are Scientists - Less From You Robbie Robertson - Somewhere Down The Crazy River The Band - Don't Do It Levon & The Hawks - Honky Tonk Levon & The Hawks - He Don't Love You (And He'll Break Your Heart) Pointer Sisters - The Shape I'm In My Morning Jacket - It Makes No Difference Gomez - Up On Cripple Creek The Band - The W.S. Walcot Medicine Show Blues Traveler - Rag, Mama, Rag Steve Reynolds - Stage Fright The Staple Singers - Weight The Band - Life Is A Carnival The Band w Bob Dylan - Down In The Flood Rodriguez - Sugar Man Tim Buckley - Pleasant Street Rodriguez - I'll Slip Away Dion - Daddy Rollin' (In Your Arms) Jose Feliciano - Hitchcock Railway The Stone Poneys - December Dream Joni Mitchell - Sisotowbell Lane Tommy Flanders - Morning Misty Eyes Rodriguez - To Whom It May Concern Patty Griffin - Cold As It Gets Jesse Colin Young - Four in the Morning Rodriguez - Cause Van Morrison - Astral Weeks Read the full article

[folkimplosionmusic]

Tim Buckley Tribute Saint Ann's Church (April 26, 1991)

Jeff's first-known New York appearance was at the Tim Buckley Tribute held on April 26, 1991. He came from LA to participate, and he had stated that it was his way of saying goodbye to the father he hadn't really known. Various artists performed Tim Buckley's music (usually 2-3 songs each), and Jeff went on before intermission.I Never Asked To Be Your Mountain Sefronia - The King's Chain Phantasmagoria Once I Was

[sweetdreamsjeff]

Obituary: The son who soared: Jeff Buckley

Date: June 6, 1997

From: The Guardian (London, England)

Publisher: Guardian News & Media

Document Type: Obituary

Byline: ADAM SWEETING

FEW ROCK business careers began more tantalisingly than that of Jeff Buckley, who has drowned in the Mississippi river, aged 30 (his body was found on Wednesday this week). In 1991, record producer Hal Willner, known for assembling imaginative, star-studded tributes to Charles Mingus and Kurt Weill, put together a tribute concert for Jeff's father, Tim Buckley, at St Ann's Church, Brooklyn, New York. Tim had died of a heroin overdose in 1975, aged 28, but his early death ignited a slow-burning musical legend. It was founded on his recorded legacy in which soul, blues and jazz influences mingled freely, the process stirred by his arrestingly elastic vocal style.

His son Jeff, born in California during Tim's brief marriage to Panama-born Mary Guibert, had always been ambivalent about his father. Tim left Mary when Jeff was six months old, and his son was brought up by his mother and stepfather during a peripatetic childhood. 'We moved so often I had to put all my stuff in paper bags,' Jeff recalled. 'My childhood was pretty much marijuana and rock 'n' roll.'His decision to participate in Willner's tribute event launched Buckley Junior as a new phenomenon on the New York music scene, and simultaneously affirmed his quasi-mythic credentials, particularly when he performed his father's song Once I Was. 'It bothered me that I hadn't been to his funeral, that I've never been able to tell him anything,' said Jeff. 'I used that show to pay my last respects.'

Thus launched in public, Buckley was rescued from a string of odd jobs by joining the avant-garde combo Gods &amp; Monsters, which featured Pere Ubu's ex-bassist Tony Maimone and Captain Beefheart's erstwhile guitarist Gary Lucas. But it was more a loose group of individuals than a real band and Buckley quit in early 1992 to pursue a solo career.

He began performing at small Manhattan clubs, particularly the Cafe Sin-e, where record company executives and A&amp;R men were soon arriving by the limo-full, waving chequebooks. 'I went into those cafes because I really felt I had to go to an impossibly intimate setting where there's no escape, where there's no hiding yourself,' he explained.

Buckley's remarkable voice (his most obvious inheritance from his father) and movie-star looks left nobody in doubt that he was a star in the making, though the eclecticism of his shows confused some listeners. Buckley would pluck songs out of the air as the mood took him. It might be something by Van Morrison, the Hollies or Big Star, or a tune made famous by Nina Simone or Mahalia Jackson.

With a hippie-esque suspicion of large corporations, he turned down several deals before signing with Columbia at the end of 1992, apparently because he knew and trusted the label's A&amp;R man Steve Berkowitz. The company previewed their new acquisition with a live EP, Live At Sin-e, following which Buckley travelled upstate to Bearsville to start work on his debut album, Grace.

The disc was released in 1994 to instant critical adulation. The sleeve pictured Buckley clutching a microphone and looking poetically dishevelled, while the music inside was a cornucopia of rockers, ballads, hymns and even a bold rendition of Benjamin Britten's Corpus Christi Carol, by no means standard rock 'n' roll fare. His voice was wild, passionate and sensual. If his music was hard to describe in a soundbite, it was bursting with hidden depths and infinite potential. Grace won Buckley the Best New Artist award from Rolling Stone magazine in 1995.

Buckley's inquisitiveness and musical ambition earned him acceptance across a broad spectrum of fellow performers. Elvis Costello brought him over in 1995 to perform at London's Meltdown Festival, where he easily held his own among string quartets and jazz ensembles, and last year he featured on Patti Smith's comeback album, Gone Again. He was also a fan of Eastern music, particularly the Islamic devotional Qawwali songs of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.

Buckley had been in Memphis since February, recording new material. He decided to go swimming in the Mississippi, fully clothed and carrying his guitar, but was apparently pulled under by the wash from a passing tug.

Jeff Buckley, rock singer, born August 1, 1966; died May 29, 1997

[isaeva98]

Jeff performing a tribute show for his father (Greetings from Tim Buckley) at St.Anne’s Church, NYC

26.4.91

[itwas50yearsagotoday]

8/25/22:  It was 50 years ago today, August 25th, 1972, the Kinks would release their eleventh (!!) album ‘Everybody’s In Show-Biz’.  If you liked ‘Muswell Hillbillies’ you most likely will like this release as well... tons of pseudo-dixieland horns soaked in whiskey, but just a tad more refined... and that is for effect, as this is a loose concept album by main lyricist Ray Davies about ‘life on the road’ as a Rock Star... it’s pretty damn good, and honestly besides the song from Avengers: Endgame I didn’t know shit about this semi-obscure record.  So of course I linked the Avengers tune... you know, during the first ‘Fat Thor’ scene, ‘Supersonic Rocket Ship’ is playing... as an aside, I just very recently purchased Joel Whitburn’s Top Pop Singles 1955-2018.  Holy shit, this is like crack for someone as OCD as myself about music.  Anyway, now I can see beyond the Top 40 and even the ‘Bubbling Under’ tracks between 100 and 125!  I bring this factoid up because ‘Supersonic’ charted in 1972 at #111... a travesty!! I’m super-glad the MCU has the best taste in classic Boomer pop music since Quentin Tarantino’s ‘90s hey-day.  Anywho, ‘Supersonic’ is just a damn purty little tune... tasteful horns, what sounds like a plucked mandolin (??), quick tempo changes... it’s wild how this was not a real hit, but I guess this is the beginning of the Kinks’ so-called Dark Ages where they avoided the U.S. Top 40 until 1978 (really 1983′s ‘Come Dancing’ was the true, but brief, comeback)... which is too bad, because I think the closest contemporary analogue to this sound is the Band, with less pretensions and harder rockin’ (yes, I said the Band is pretentious... c’mon, you know it to be true).  Honestly, all these songs are at least good, if not great... opening track ‘Here Comes Yet Another Day’ is a steady rocker, ‘Maximum Consumption’ could have totally been on ‘Muswell’ with its hilarious lyrics about eating everything in sight as a way to keep energetic on the Road.  ‘Unreal Reality’... that one is the first Band-ish song (and maybe even a little like Tim Buckley at the beginning... or not)... love the piano and horns throughout.  ‘Sitting In My Hotel’ starts off kinda slow, but it’s pretty epic... probably the most concept-y track, and it works!  What else... Dave Davies has an excellent song here, the upbeat (and too short!) ‘You Don’t Know My Name’... is he talking about himself versus his better-known brother??  Maybe... his voice is great here, it actually falls somewhere between Rod Stewart and Ronnie Lane... like it could be a Faces song... then the Rock-flute kicks in, wow awesome.  As I said the remaining tracks are all good too... the first record ends with Ray’s tribute to Hollywood stars ‘Celluloid Heroes’... another epic track.  Wait did I say first disc?  Yes, this is indeed a double-album--in keeping with the theme the second disc is all live tracks, mostly drawn from songs from the previous three records... ehhh... not a whole lot special here, except maybe the audience acapella version of ‘Lola’, but shit it’s less than two minutes long.  Seriously, they are not even trying to pander to their audience, as there are none of their ‘60s hits here... maybe that’s good from the artist’s perspective, but commercially this is where their big drop in popularity really starts, and the band does a bunch of concept albums and Rock operas for the rest of the decade, for better or for worse, with little success beyond a cult following.  I’ve heard a little bit between this and their 80s comeback, and not a whole lot really stands out... I will review their 1973 release which is really supposed to be a cliff-jumper, but whatever maybe I’ll be pleasantly surprised again.  I hope so, because these tracks on this record are excellent and I’m glad I now know them.  Go listen to this record... er, at least the first record.  Also, Joel Whitburn, RIP.

[crhiscornell]

confession: i’ve never actually seen or heard jeff’s performance of once i was at the tim buckley tribute. i’m waiting until i’m prepared, which could be never, but i guess at minimum i feel like i need to reserve like. half a day to experience it and process it completely.