It's out of print now, but in 2008 I got the Tim Buckley documentary DVD, My Fleeting House. Just watched it again yesterday and was impressed with the comments of lyricist Larry Beckett and guitarist Lee Underwood.
Hope you managed to watch this, Onya...wherever you are.
Wish they'd included the entirety of Boboquivari and that other show, the latter featuring a GREAT live performance of "Come Here Woman." Those 1970 reactionary, future-Reagan-voting hippies probably hated having to sit through that! Hippies weren't actually "hip", you know.
It's out of print now, but in 2008 I got the Tim Buckley documentary DVD, My Fleeting House. Just watched it again yesterday and was impressed with the comments of lyricist Larry Beckett and guitarist Lee Underwood.
Hope you managed to watch this, Onya...wherever you are.
Wish they'd included the entirety of Boboquivari and that other show, the latter featuring a GREAT live performance of "Come Here Woman." Those 1970 reactionary, future-Reagan-voting hippies probably hated having to sit through that! Hippies weren't actually "hip", you know.
Is this the same one that contains complete surviving performances? If it is, I got it for my wife as a gift several years back.
So let's discuss releases beyond Tim's core discography.
I have these:
Dream Letter (live) Live at the Folklore Center Live at the Troubadour Works in Progress (Happy/Sad-era material)
Also, there is an early non-LP track on the LA Nuggets box set, but I can't remember the title offhand.
I don't have Honeyman or BBC. Are these worth getting?
Are there others I don't know about?
This thread is overwhelmed with responses, but I'm taking the time to address your query immediately.
I have all the ones you've listed. Honeyman is a solid representation of Timbo's live sets of the time albeit in a more intimate setting. Get it based on your level of interest in 1973 Buckley.
The Beeb set is imo a must buy. I loooove Tim circa 1968 and the rendition of Hallucinations/Troubadour differs from the magnificent one heard on Dream Letter.
A new release, Lady, Give Me Your Key, consists of 1967 solo acoustic demos. I just recently learned of this but haven't listened to the samples at length as yet.
You know, I have never gotten around to getting the last two albums after "Greetings from LA." I've heard negative things about them. What do you think?
You know, I have never gotten around to getting the last two albums after "Greetings from LA." I've heard negative things about them. What do you think?
I like them okay. As I mentioned before, "Sefronia" was my intro to Tim and while the album was (and remains) a mixed bag, I liked enough of what I heard to pursue more of his work so I'll always be grateful for that.
On the surface, "Look at the Fool" is slick, greasy fun. It's easy to picture burned-out Boomers grooving to this stuff while wearing some hideous polyester clothes of black and tan like my dad used to wear circa '74. However, "Look at the Fool" can also depress the shit out of me if I think how far Tim had fallen artistically by that point. He just sounds so desperate. There really was no turning back after Starsailor though his live shows still kicked ass.
Also, what did you think of Jeff Buckley?
Jeff Buckley was on his way to becoming a magnificent artist. I mourn his stupid, stupid death regularly.
Been listening to the Buckley Peel Sessions again. I think this performance of "Happy Time-Morning Glory" is the best either of these songs have ever been performed that can still be heard, anyway. Love the extra guitar bit at the start of "Happy Time" and every damned thing in "Morning Glory", which was Tim's most beloved song in his lifetime.
Since it was one of the only early post-1975 Buckley "blips", I thought I'd mention This Mortal Coil's 1984 cover of "Song to the Siren."
I dislike this version. Her phrasing is atrocious as is her singing voice. I remember some black-garbed Goth girls paying attention to this song because they liked Cocteau Twins and that 4AD label stuff. I am respectful of the fact that this cover version put Tim back out there, albeit briefly.
Something I've never heard before now is Tim (wordlessly) singing along in the opening of "Come Here Woman." He can be heard beginning around the 0:26 mark, well before the "You caught me starin'" lyrics begin. I'm sure I'm the only one who's just now realized this.
