“I love my music so much that I’ll do whatever it takes to pull it up and out of me and give it to you . And if I have to die young , if I have to burn so hard at both ends until I flame out in the middle then so be it . This is my life , I was born a blue melody .” - Tim Buckley
It's kind of weird hearing him talk about serving people and all that when he abandoned his beautiful son, like Jeff was such an incredible young man, I can't imagine him not being as incredible when he was a kid. He missed out man
One can't close their eyes to the terrible emptiness in his heart - no matter how much a man wants to give to a little boy, it may be the empty part that he couldn't fill in himself. But his music meant everything to me in my teen years - saw him 3 times - the passion I felt was in every song.
for sure. it's a shame because they also seem so similar in temperament and expression (the way they phrase things, gestures etc.) and that's without having really known one another. totally understand why jeff carried that pain around.
well...if ya like the music it isn't like you're doing anything wrong....you're not contributing to anything bad. I think he suffered plenty from his frailties. After all is said and done....he died and I don't know but I don't think he was very happy...or maybe he was who knows. I don't care. I know I've done things I just cringe when I think about all of it. Maybe you have never done anything really wrong. Congratulations if you haven't....but you wouldn't be honest
I found Tim's music through Jeff's music and both are amazing but so ,so different....Tim's Goodbye and Hello album is one of my favorite albums of all time, what a masterpiece.
@@astridvvv9662 I just saw a clip of someone who reminded me completely of jeff buckley and it turned out to be bono's son Eli. For a moment I thought Jeff maybe unknowingly had a child. Wishful thinking lol
A one and only artist...gone way too soon. I saw him twice live. First time at the Boarding house in San Francisco in the early 70's and then again at the Great American Music Hall in SF a month before he died. He was brilliant both times. Great to see this documentary of Tim.
Tim Buckley was at the cusp of an amazing time in music the late 60s and early 70s. I don't think we will ever see a period like it again in popular music.
Thousand miles is still my favourite song and the piano part is my absolute favourite tune of all time. It’s genius. I like it more than all of the classical Melodies out together! Also she’s always a woman to me by Billy Joel is another favourite song of mine. I think Jeff Buckley sings hauntingly beautifully and also of course Tim Buckley sings beautifully too.
I’m 74 and just discovered Tim this week 24/6/2022. I’m in love! Something new an magical to enjoy in my later years. In Qld Australia in the 60’s we missed out on a lot in the music world.
My Favorite "Happy, Sad". Discovered in 1969, U.S. Army, Ft. Holabird, Md. favorite song "Gypsy Woman". Favorite video performance "Honey Man", "Old Grey Whistle Test" 1974.
Man such a fantastic documentary. Man Tim is so good. I wish so many people that I know would of listen to this genius songwriter and singer. I would do anything to go back in time back in the 1960s and then the 1970s to see him live and meet him. I was a 1990s kid. Such an unbelievable gifted musician.
Bought his first album aged 13 and everyone was, what? Not the Beatles or the Stones? I never tire of Tim Buckley or Jeff. Thanks for posting! Brilliant!
tears were shed... what a beautiful soul Tim was. The fact that he was visiting Larry Beckett through dreams all those years after his passing, just goes to show that the end is never really the end. Tim's influence lingers & his music is forever
NOW, I understand, he was pure feel, inspiration, evolution and outside of the box during his time... I also understand why his beautiful son Jeff, was Jeff. Imagine the two of them talking music and jamming together? His mom Mary sounds like she was a real sweetheart to her son. Ahhhh.... this was such a treat❣️ Thank you so much everyone for this gorgeous collage of music, creativity, your precious time and passion.
I don't know about Mary and Jeff. He was a perfectionist and was re-recording his second album because he wasn't happy with it. On the way to the studio decided to take a dip and drowned. He didn't want that first version of the album released but Mary released it anyway, and kept releasing everything she could get her hands on. Yes, I love that there's more of him to listen to but it pains me because he didn't want it released. So . . . loving mother?
@@ryangettig274 well... First off, do you KNOW that a invisibe kingdom of evil entities exist that seek the eternal DESTRUCTION of all men in hell separating them from the TRUE ETERNAL LIFE in JESUS CHRIST ?
I discovered Tim Music over a year ago ...And i am totally mesmerized by his talent as a singer nd song writer. His voice and singing technique are so unique...A true artist...Just wished he was still with us and imagine all the music he would have created till this day. RIP Angel voice
65 now and as always my breath is taken away the moment I hear his voice. His voice! Heaven. And his message, serve humanity don't serve your country or your company but serve people. Such a hard thing to do in this system. Now in '22 Europe and US are going to war again, no talking between Russia and us, both sides making money over the dead bodies of normal people. Such bad times, we need more bards like Tim!!
I absolutely looove jeff but song to the siren has to be one of the greatest songs of all time. It's just out of this world and makes me weep every time I hear it
Caro Andrea Song to the siren è stata l'ultima disperata leggendaria preghiera dell'uomo a Dio. Signore ci hai fatto il più prezioso regalo ma gli uomini non possono sentire cosi nel profondo...
I whole heartedly concur. It's otherworldly and ethereal. Every time I hear it or even my lame attempt of imitation it takes me somewhere else completely. Body and mind are transported to some magical unknown place.
66 years old here....a favourite Soul of mine that I spent many many hours listening. Met him in Cleveland back in the Earl 70s. Gentle Soul we miss you Tim, you passed to early in life
Starsailor is one of the greatest singer/songwriter albums ever. Such pure expression, and an amazing pace that the album has; his masterpiece for sure.
Fascinating documentary. In order to keep alive our chances of more talented individuals like Tim, we need to buy more music and go to more gigs in this age of free music. Think how many great artists of the past didn't really get going with their best work until album 3, 4, 5, 6. Today many artists don't get past album 1 due to the aforementioned. Turn off your boxsets and absorb new music. Live.
0:07:41 Song To The Siren 0:14:13 No Man Can Find The War 0:18:08 Morning Glory 0:25:01 Happy Time 0:31:19 Who Do You Love 0:37:38 Sing A Song For You 0:42:54 Happy Time 0:51:13 I Woke Up 1:02:05 Come Here Woman 1:11:08 Blue Melody 1:18:34 Venice Beach 1:26:12 Pleasant Street 1:33:55 Sally Go Round The Roses 1:41:11 The Dolphins
The folk song "Geordie" was mentioned that Tim would sing this song when he was about 18 years old. Is there anywhere to hear Tim singing that very folk traditional ballad?
When that lady on the Steve Allen Show asked him" does your hair", The look immediately on Tim's face was like I cannot believe she just asked me that. Great documentary thanks so much for posting it. Love Tim and Jeff's music.
Yes, that sort of thing happened quite a bit on the talk shows at that time when an old and a new aesthetic were colliding. It was _total_ cringe. Steve Allen and his wife (Jayne Meadows -- what an embarrassment) knew, somewhere in their heads, that this guy looked waaaay more attractive than they did and was waaaay cooler than they were. And their pampered egos couldn't cope with it, so their lame, snotty response was to try to embarrass him. The "adults in the room" were behaving like children.
I ended up here because I've been curious about the heightened stigma and perception around overdoses. As well as trying to gauge the influence of this social conditioning on the recount of history today. I watched this, and have also read many other texts on Tim, and have learnt that he was someone who seemingly pioneered ideas of community, humanity and love. Thinking to the recent wins society and culture have had in my lifetime of 28 years, I have personally experienced much frustration, while also acknowledging much of my privilege at the same time. I can only empathise with the reality that Tim faced in his lifetime, and the empathy he had for the injustices he was witnessing. I find it so interesting the perception (and possible reality) that Jeff detested his father. When I look at Tim I see a man with his own trauma living as a touring artist of his time. When I witness Jeff, I see a boy that is described in Tim's song of a Blue Melody: seemingly the only access he had to establishing a relationship with his father being through his music. Jeff paying tribute to his father is a moment that I hope was somewhat cathartic for him. Their separate impact on the generations of their time was so profound. This story is so sad, yet I'm so deeply grateful for their music and their pure expression. The dedication to their craft is inspiring, and seemingly necessary. Beyond the mystique of their untimely passings, I'm grateful for their vulnerability, commitment to art and raw expression. Acting as permissionist's for us to do the same.
🙏🏽👏🏽thank you. This was a goldmine😍When I listened to Song to the Siren - I thought it was Jeff - only to find out it was Tim. Their voices (especially the fluidity going from low to high) are so eerily similar that I had to find out more about this artist. This documentary is incredibly detailed and gives us such an in-depth look at Tim and his progress as an artist and then there is invaluable commentary from his artistic collaborators Larry Beckett & Lee Underwood . I was so fascinated. He deserves a lot more recognition of his work than he got. 🌺 The main narrator/journalist was brilliant in the way he wrote it as well.
Just watched this. Amazing on so many levels. It is like he is still here and we got to visit again. I hope to watch this again and again when I miss his music and presence.
Hope we could find more performances of Tim in the future, especially from the Starsailor period. Never heard before these versions of Come Here Woman and I woke up... Astonishing. And thanks for sharing this gem with us.
I was first introduced to the Music of Tim Buckley in the late sixties through the early seventies on FM - freeform radio station WABX in Detroit. The A-side of Greetings from LA was played at every party.
I first heard Greetings from LA when I was about eleven at the start of the 70's, knowing nothing about Tim Buckley, then I heard tracks from Sefronia soon after. Years later, I picked up on more of his music and keep returning to it, get drawn back. To me there is nothing like it. I read Blue Melody by Lee Underwood and My Fleeting House is a great documentary film, it's brought insight about the man, his music and unique qualities that make so many tracks, so diverse in style, stand out all these years later. Great musicians working with him too.
I saw him at the Troubadour with my college roommate in 1969 or 1970. He was pretty deep in his addiction . Broke my heart . I had his first album but lost it some years ago , just as we lost him.
The Music of my youth . We were his generation I listened to him when we filled with hope and love and optimism. The era of the BEST VARIETY OF THE BEST MUSIC EVER. Period.
Remembering Tim Buckley born on February 14, 1947. He was an American vocalist, songwriter, guitarist and producer. His music and style changed considerably through the years. - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Buckley
Thank you so much for uploading the documentary movie about Tim Buckley. I use to love Jeff's music and I still enjoy his voice and music but at the same time I can't listen to his son anymore or documentary on his life since of because his very deep dark moody depressing music and lyrics. It's just way to much to handle but still think he's an amazing just like his father. 😔But do like some his listenable songs and Grace is an insane song and album. His music is insanely amazing. But got to go with Tim. Tim Buckley I still love his music to this very day for so long now. I adore his beautiful feel good or sad mellow calming songs. I'm forever and always a Tim fan . His music is so magical like out of some medieval time feel to them.
You kinda remind me of me. So strange because I discovered Jeff first and got really obsessed about him for at least two years. When I said obsessed, I mean as in I only listened to his music, nobody else. UA-camd him. Discussed about his life and music with other JB lovers. Saved his photos. Daydreamed about him. When I think about it now, why did I seem so insane, lols. Then I decided to discover Tim. Fast forward 10 years, I still listen to Tim on and off. Jeff, not so much....
It can be quite interesting to take it as a counterpoint to Starsailor, or a soft extended version to it. In this one he was stretching his voice, and in the other he seems to compress it (I think that's more an artistic choice than a broken voice, like most of his fans seems to think...) and there is something in his way of making different noises with his voice that clearly refers to his Starsailor period. The real problem with this album is that it's very bad produced. The brass are way to high and it's sometimes unpleasant to listen. It should actually get remastered again.
This album is almost universally panned by the critics, then and now, and yet I absolutely love it, and still play it regularly all these years later. Never could understand what their problem was with it....
Part of my letter to Lee Underwood, November 1985: „Your article first appeared in Downbeat on June 16, 1977. One week later I first met Buckley in a record shop, at the age of 18. I was banned from Buckley because of his faulty „Folk-Image“. Until october 78 i liked „Happy Sad“ the most, but meeting „Starsailor“ was an incredible point in my life. The sound was quite archetypical for me, first I thought I know this music from somewhere. But there was no possibility to have heard it before. Then with fear and joy i recognised this sound was created before my birth - dedicated to me. Some kind of incredible telepathy. This fact was too strong for me. In a symbolic act I diged a hole in my parents garden and burried „Starsailor“ with passion - just to buy another copy a few days later. Since then, always I’m listening to this record, it’s like to be in uterus!" 💙🙏🌹
Tim Buckley was a very talented singer/songwriter with a stunning voice. He was also very attractive, eloquent and a charismatic perfomer. So, why didn't he have a much bigger career? I think that he was too versatile for his own good, and therefore he wasn't able to attract a core audience. He was always in his own universe - or rather multiverse. Even today most of his fans intensely dislike some of his stuff.
Sabine B. I think he was successful albeit an uncompromising artist. I and most of my contemporaries (I’m 70) listened to many of his albums starting with Goodbye and Hello..Starsailor and Look At The Fool we’re a difficult listen but Greetings From LA was mainstream popular and Sweet Surrender got a lot of airplay.I saw him live in 1974 not long before he passed and it was painful to see his evident demise borne out on stage..I still listen to him often particularly Happy Sad and Buzzin’ Fly is an absolute gem of a song I still delight in turning people on to.
@@davidwright9318 , thanks for your thoughts! I discovered Tim Buckley 12 years ago because he was mentioned in a very shallow mainstream movie. A still attractive older woman brags about having been a successful groupie back in the days. She claims that she had an affair with Tim Buckley. One of his songs is played in the background, and I was instantly fascinated by his voice. I started to research him, and I discovered an artist who was occasionally wonderful. I listened to many of his songs in order to find the one I had heard in the movie. It turned out to be "Song To The Siren". I also noticed that Tim Buckley had recorded a lot of very diverse stuff . I didn't really care for quite a bit of his oevre. "Greetings From L.A'" for example isn't my cup of tea at all, but other Buckley fans say that they like this straighforward rocky and less artsy style much better than his high brow experimental stuff from "Star Sailor". That's what I meant when I said that even Tim Buckley's fans can't agree on what they like or dislike. This is of course true for all artists whose style evolved during their career. But in Tim Buckley"s case it's extreme IMO. He seems to completely change his direction in a very short time. This alienated his old fans before he was able to build up a new fan base who liked his new stuff. And in the years before his untimely death he just struggled to earn money in order to make a living. For me it was nevertheless great that I have discovered him. "Buzzin' Fly" is one of my favorite songs, too - especially the live version from a concert 1969 in Paris. But Tim seems to have loathed that song at least for a while and he got angry when fans still requested the song although he had moved on by then to a very different artistic concept. It's really sad that his immense talent and creativity didn't lead to a bigger audience. I also learned about the strange story of his son Jeff Buckley who became an successful artist in his own right and who just like his dad also died because of one silly act of recklessness. But Jeff doesn't have the same appeal to me. While he was undeniably a very talented musician with a unique voice, he wasn't a great song writer IMO. He did his best work when he covered songs like "Halleluja" or "Lilac Wine".
Sabine B. Agreed, as to Buzzin Fly (profoundly self deprecating lyric, that). Though none of his later work can compare with Goodbye and Hello, Tim’s Sergeant Pepper’s, so to speak-a densely populated lyrical and vocally expressive masterpiece beyond the reach of any subsequent album.
David Wright Agreed as to Buzzin’ Fly. Goodbye and Hello, however, is a nonpareil- a none such! The creative ‘weight’ of that early album exceeds, by far, all of what trailed along after. In a similar way, The Moody Blues could never replicate, try as they may, the imaginative density of Question Of Balance, or To Our Children’s Children’s Children.
You mean you hear so much of Tim in Jeff's voice. Also, why are you awesome for liking a certain artist or why is your age/gender relevant? That's silly. People have been listening to artists that came before them for years.
“Serve people”. ✊♥️ Jeez he was beautiful. Like his wife, and his son, People are more important than abstract ideas. So many who truly understand this get taken way too soon.. then conveniently obscured. “The jury” is not still out on these ideas. The jury has been bought, conditioned, and trauma bound. None of this should be treated as an inevitability, as if rapacious capitalism, empire itself, is a force of nature, like a hurricane or earthquake. When they are no such thing. Its a damn shame people with his message, whatever their style, form or art, have been cartoonized. Across all the ages. People whose vision, reason, and passions are true and pure and bigger than empires and the ruins they make of themselves. These are the lovers of the world.
Don't know about that. Tim didn't care about Jeff. Maybe he would, if he had made it to the 90's, at least, to see his son's work. Well...maybe Tim saw Jeff's work from wherever he was, and now they're in peace with each other and playing together. And I don't know what am I saying anymore. I love them both
@@paulolapa3040 I don't think that would matter in another realm. I don't think it's because he didn't care, he was only a teenager himself when Jeff was born and I think Jeff longed to know more. But I think you're right, I'm sure they are together now :)
@@paulolapa3040 He did care. Listen to Dream Letter. If you believe that song didn't come from a genuine, heartbroken place, I don't know what to tell you.
Great documentary about a true artist. He could see the ills and hypocrisy of society and wanted no part of it. He paid for his dissidence as well. I liked what he said about TV being a tool for hypnotism. We wouldn't be in the mess we're in now if people weren't hypnotized by the media. They will believe and do whatever they are told, even though it makes no sense from a factual basis.
Until the other day I knew Tim Buckley from a single recording of a single song only: “Happy Time”, included on the Warner Brothers compilation two-vinyl-disc set called “The Big Ball”. This record had been released in 1970, I think, and I sent away for my two-dollar mail-order copy in maybe 1971 or 1972. Things are radically different nowadays with the Internet in general and UA-cam in particular. You can pretty much listen to whatever you want and learn background information about the performers that simply wasn’t available before. It’s too easy by far now, in fact. You lose the sense of wonder, mystery, and discovery and the sense of a community of listeners. The performers themselves lose a livelihood.
We were. ...in some fashion not easily made clear. But pre Altamont & Manson, we freaked. Read ‘A Scanner Darkly’ by Philip K Dick. To some extent, only the Christian Martyrs were more invested in a worthy cause. Classic Rock music was a clarion call, instantaneously transfixing. As a generation we opened eyes we never knew we possessed. Viewed the passing of thousands of years, like a night under Elf Hill. Ours was The Palm Tree Garden versus a Black Iron Castle. That’s right, “the young people,” following Kier Dullea to the infinite, reborn. More than human. ...till it burned out like shards of magnesium pitched into a campfire. Freaks.
Man, the '60s & '70s were so much cooler than the '90s in many ways. By the 1990s everybody was depressed & burned out after the Reaganite '80s, the Cold War, AIDS, crack cocaine & all the rest. It was the last great period before the new millennium, but even that wasn't all that great. You can feel the misery in pop artists' music from the '90s: (Nirvana, Soul Asylum, 2Pac, Sinead O'Connor, Cranberries, Jeff Buckley).
“I love my music so much that I’ll do whatever it takes to pull it up and out of me and give it to you . And if I have to die young , if I have to burn so hard at both ends until I flame out in the middle then so be it . This is my life , I was born a blue melody .” - Tim Buckley
It's kind of weird hearing him talk about serving people and all that when he abandoned his beautiful son, like Jeff was such an incredible young man, I can't imagine him not being as incredible when he was a kid. He missed out man
yeah Brenda it's weird one of my closest friends Brian Hartzler was Tim guitarist in the early days, he later disappeared from the scene.
One can't close their eyes to the terrible emptiness in his heart - no matter how much a man wants to give to a little boy, it may be the empty part that he couldn't fill in himself. But his music meant everything to me in my teen years - saw him 3 times - the passion I felt was in every song.
for sure. it's a shame because they also seem so similar in temperament and expression (the way they phrase things, gestures etc.) and that's without having really known one another. totally understand why jeff carried that pain around.
well...if ya like the music it isn't like you're doing anything wrong....you're not contributing to anything bad. I think he suffered plenty from his frailties. After all is said and done....he died and I don't know but I don't think he was very happy...or maybe he was who knows. I don't care. I know I've done things I just cringe when I think about all of it. Maybe you have never done anything really wrong. Congratulations if you haven't....but you wouldn't be honest
@@heaven7360 what?
Tim Buckley was one of the singers I cannot get out of my mind - all these 50 plus years later. I listen to him daily. Thank you for posting this!
I'm 78 and grew up with this magic. Timeless - real, no sell out.
man i wish i was born 50 years ago.... the future looks grim
@@robertslater2949 The future may look grim, but this world isn't where the future is. So don't worry man!
@@roar40s Very intelligent response.
@@imryanvalentine So you figured to do a better job with yours.
Wouter Lensvelt I wasn’t being sarcastic
I found Tim's music through Jeff's music and both are amazing but so ,so different....Tim's Goodbye and Hello album is one of my favorite albums of all time, what a masterpiece.
Mine too!
Tim and Jeff both had something special. Too bad I could not see either
I feel the same way
Wish Jeff had a son.
@@astridvvv9662 I just saw a clip of someone who reminded me completely of jeff buckley and it turned out to be bono's son Eli. For a moment I thought Jeff maybe unknowingly had a child. Wishful thinking lol
song to the siren is such a great song...
A one and only artist...gone way too soon. I saw him twice live. First time at the Boarding house in San Francisco in the early 70's and then again at the Great American Music Hall in SF a month before he died. He was brilliant both times. Great to see this documentary of Tim.
Wow, I wiuld have loved to see him live! Did you hear any new songs he was working on before he died?
Tim Buckley was at the cusp of an amazing time in music the late 60s and early 70s. I don't think we will ever see a period like it again in popular music.
Well you might be mistaken
Thousand miles is still my favourite song and the piano part is my absolute favourite tune of all time. It’s genius. I like it more than all of the classical Melodies out together! Also she’s always a woman to me by Billy Joel is another favourite song of mine. I think Jeff Buckley sings hauntingly beautifully and also of course Tim Buckley sings beautifully too.
And of course Bob Dylan is one of the greats. I really like Bon Iver, Novo Amor and Basia Bulat out of the modern singer songwriters.
I’m 74 and just discovered Tim this week 24/6/2022. I’m in love! Something new an magical to enjoy in my later years. In Qld Australia in the 60’s we missed out on a lot in the music world.
I saw Tim 3 times in Britain and no live in Queensland!
@@2ridiculous41 You were so lucky. Did you enjoy his performances?
@@carolanndowding8558 oh yes. The best was probably the one recorded/released as Dream Letter.
If you listen very carefully, you can hear me clapping.
My Favorite "Happy, Sad". Discovered in 1969, U.S. Army, Ft. Holabird, Md. favorite song "Gypsy Woman". Favorite video performance "Honey Man", "Old Grey Whistle Test" 1974.
So glad you found this treasure Tim buckley❤
That high-pitched vocal range intensity is so Jeff Buckley it's just amazing how they both had it almost identically
Man such a fantastic documentary. Man Tim is so good. I wish so many people that I know would of listen to this genius songwriter and singer.
I would do anything to go back in time back in the 1960s and then the 1970s to see him live and meet him. I was a 1990s kid. Such an unbelievable gifted musician.
Bought his first album aged 13 and everyone was, what? Not the Beatles or the Stones? I never tire of Tim Buckley or Jeff. Thanks for posting! Brilliant!
tears were shed... what a beautiful soul Tim was. The fact that he was visiting Larry Beckett through dreams all those years after his passing, just goes to show that the end is never really the end. Tim's influence lingers & his music is forever
NOW, I understand, he was pure feel, inspiration, evolution and outside of the box during his time... I also understand why his beautiful son Jeff, was Jeff. Imagine the two of them talking music and jamming together? His mom Mary sounds like she was a real sweetheart to her son. Ahhhh.... this was such a treat❣️ Thank you so much everyone for this gorgeous collage of music, creativity, your precious time and passion.
Would have been excellent to see them jam.
I don't know about Mary and Jeff. He was a perfectionist and was re-recording his second album because he wasn't happy with it. On the way to the studio decided to take a dip and drowned. He didn't want that first version of the album released but Mary released it anyway, and kept releasing everything she could get her hands on. Yes, I love that there's more of him to listen to but it pains me because he didn't want it released. So . . . loving mother?
@@aliceandrade4364 appears she was a witch..
And Her deals with demons killed father and son young
@@AMEER-114- WTF?Elaborations?
@@ryangettig274 well...
First off, do you KNOW that a invisibe kingdom of evil entities exist that seek the eternal DESTRUCTION of all men in hell separating them from the TRUE ETERNAL LIFE in JESUS CHRIST ?
I discovered Tim Music over a year ago ...And i am totally mesmerized by his talent as a singer nd song writer.
His voice and singing technique are so unique...A true artist...Just wished he was still with us and imagine all the music he would have created till this day. RIP Angel voice
Me too him and his son and Elizabeth frazer.
65 now and as always my breath is taken away the moment I hear his voice. His voice! Heaven. And his message, serve humanity don't serve your country or your company but serve people. Such a hard thing to do in this system. Now in '22 Europe and US are going to war again, no talking between Russia and us, both sides making money over the dead bodies of normal people. Such bad times, we need more bards like Tim!!
Tim Buckley was an awesome performer.
He was very good at working with an audience
He was very good
God, Larry Beckets last words about the dreams hit me hard. Rest in peace Tim.
yeah, me too
I absolutely looove jeff but song to the siren has to be one of the greatest songs of all time. It's just out of this world and makes me weep every time I hear it
Me, too.
Caro Andrea Song to the siren è stata l'ultima disperata leggendaria preghiera dell'uomo a Dio. Signore ci hai fatto il più prezioso regalo ma gli uomini non possono sentire cosi nel profondo...
I whole heartedly concur. It's otherworldly and ethereal. Every time I hear it or even my lame attempt of imitation it takes me somewhere else completely. Body and mind are transported to some magical unknown place.
Phantasmagoria In Two
Is phenomenal. Check it out
I've been wanting to watch this for so long but I couldn't even find the DVD, so thank you SO much for uploading this!
This is amazing. I'm so glad I found this! I really wish his son could've seen this.
Sweet surrender an opera in itself.
Hong Kong Bar.
Swept me away the first time in 1976.
Timeless.
66 years old here....a favourite Soul of mine that I spent many many hours listening. Met him in Cleveland back in the Earl 70s. Gentle Soul we miss you Tim, you passed to early in life
I am under 30, but I connect with Tim's music strongly. sometimes it feels like he's speaking to my soul
Starsailor is one of the greatest singer/songwriter albums ever. Such pure expression, and an amazing pace that the album has; his masterpiece for sure.
For me is Happy Sad
thank u diego, yes
Diego Martinez Happy Sad, Goodbye And Hello for me...
Starsailor is the most important album in the history
@@futuropasado that’s tied with Starsailor for me, though all four of his 1969-70 albums range from brilliant to genius, definitely my favorites.
A true artistic genius. He was never satisfied standing still, had to move musically forward. Never again. Sweet sorrow. Thank you.
Fascinating documentary. In order to keep alive our chances of more talented individuals like Tim, we need to buy more music and go to more gigs in this age of free music. Think how many great artists of the past didn't really get going with their best work until album 3, 4, 5, 6. Today many artists don't get past album 1 due to the aforementioned. Turn off your boxsets and absorb new music. Live.
I love the gentleness of his spirit. His music touches people deeply even today. Thank you both for collaborating, kindred spirits clearly.
0:07:41 Song To The Siren
0:14:13 No Man Can Find The War
0:18:08 Morning Glory
0:25:01 Happy Time
0:31:19 Who Do You Love
0:37:38 Sing A Song For You
0:42:54 Happy Time
0:51:13 I Woke Up
1:02:05 Come Here Woman
1:11:08 Blue Melody
1:18:34 Venice Beach
1:26:12 Pleasant Street
1:33:55 Sally Go Round The Roses
1:41:11 The Dolphins
Thank you
The folk song "Geordie" was mentioned that Tim would sing this song when he was about 18 years old. Is there anywhere to hear Tim singing that very folk traditional ballad?
Thanks for posting this, you've made UA-cam relevant for me again!
When that lady on the Steve Allen Show asked him" does your hair",
The look immediately on Tim's face was like I cannot believe she just asked me that.
Great documentary thanks so much for posting it. Love Tim and Jeff's music.
steve allen's wife.
Classic of straights (non counterculture folks) to mock hair choices.
@@cremetangerine82 while she is sitting with hair like hers)
Yes, that sort of thing happened quite a bit on the talk shows at that time when an old and a new aesthetic were colliding. It was _total_ cringe. Steve Allen and his wife (Jayne Meadows -- what an embarrassment) knew, somewhere in their heads, that this guy looked waaaay more attractive than they did and was waaaay cooler than they were. And their pampered egos couldn't cope with it, so their lame, snotty response was to try to embarrass him. The "adults in the room" were behaving like children.
Tim Buckley; one of musics supreme geniuses.
I ended up here because I've been curious about the heightened stigma and perception around overdoses. As well as trying to gauge the influence of this social conditioning on the recount of history today. I watched this, and have also read many other texts on Tim, and have learnt that he was someone who seemingly pioneered ideas of community, humanity and love. Thinking to the recent wins society and culture have had in my lifetime of 28 years, I have personally experienced much frustration, while also acknowledging much of my privilege at the same time. I can only empathise with the reality that Tim faced in his lifetime, and the empathy he had for the injustices he was witnessing. I find it so interesting the perception (and possible reality) that Jeff detested his father. When I look at Tim I see a man with his own trauma living as a touring artist of his time. When I witness Jeff, I see a boy that is described in Tim's song of a Blue Melody: seemingly the only access he had to establishing a relationship with his father being through his music. Jeff paying tribute to his father is a moment that I hope was somewhat cathartic for him. Their separate impact on the generations of their time was so profound. This story is so sad, yet I'm so deeply grateful for their music and their pure expression. The dedication to their craft is inspiring, and seemingly necessary. Beyond the mystique of their untimely passings, I'm grateful for their vulnerability, commitment to art and raw expression. Acting as permissionist's for us to do the same.
🙏🏽👏🏽thank you. This was a goldmine😍When I listened to Song to the Siren - I thought it was Jeff - only to find out it was Tim. Their voices (especially the fluidity going from low to high) are so eerily similar that I had to find out more about this artist. This documentary is incredibly detailed and gives us such an in-depth look at Tim and his progress as an artist and then there is invaluable commentary from his artistic collaborators Larry Beckett & Lee Underwood . I was so fascinated. He deserves a lot more recognition of his work than he got. 🌺 The main narrator/journalist was brilliant in the way he wrote it as well.
Tim Buckley is one of my favorite artists of all time! Great video!
Just watched this. Amazing on so many levels. It is like he is still here and we got to visit again. I hope to watch this again and again when I miss his music and presence.
I saw him in the early 70's playing here in Vancouver BC CAnada. He was my all-time favorite.
How did I ever miss this video? What a jewel ❤❤
Excellent documentary of this brilliant performer. Thank you for telling his story so well, and for including so much wonderful footage.
Fantastic versatile voice and interesting backup musicians.
I reviewed "Hello Goodbye" in my high school paper back in '67 or whatever. Everyone goes, "Who is Tim Buckley? Been a huge fan forever.
Same here High school.
Hippie era of Love and power of change everywhere.
Greetings from L.A. is my favorite all time album. Every song a classic. Has such a haunting groovy magic to it.
Hope we could find more performances of Tim in the future, especially from the Starsailor period. Never heard before these versions of Come Here Woman and I woke up... Astonishing.
And thanks for sharing this gem with us.
Tim’s output was just astonishing.
Yeah one album a year was great and I wish his son did as many albums as he did
And so diverse
Holy Jeff & Tim are twins! I can’t tell them apart
Tim is the singer who made all those wonderful albums
@@realoldfart69 um yes so did Jeff!!
I have this on DVD. Fantastic documentary!
Tim Buckley=Bucking Frilliant!!:)
I miss Carter C. C. Collins. His conga playing was brilliant. He was a natural talent
Brilliant Buckley voices..voices of Angels..
Pure joy watching and listening to him. Thank you so much for this beautiful documentary
I was first introduced to the Music of Tim Buckley in the late sixties through the early seventies on FM - freeform radio station WABX in Detroit. The A-side of Greetings from LA was played at every party.
I first heard Greetings from LA when I was about eleven at the start of the 70's, knowing nothing about Tim Buckley, then I heard tracks from Sefronia soon after. Years later, I picked up on more of his music and keep returning to it, get drawn back. To me there is nothing like it. I read Blue Melody by Lee Underwood and My Fleeting House is a great documentary film, it's brought insight about the man, his music and unique qualities that make so many tracks, so diverse in style, stand out all these years later. Great musicians working with him too.
There is a street in Prescott az named pleasant street and I always think of Tim when I pass it by, and sing it
Fantastic documentary
I saw him at the Troubadour with my college roommate in 1969 or 1970. He was pretty deep in his addiction . Broke my heart . I had his first album but lost it some years ago , just as we lost him.
I'd love to see the whole gig that "Sally Go 'Round The Roses" comes from. I really liked him when he got "Funky"!
The Music of my youth .
We were his generation
I listened to him when we filled with hope and love and optimism.
The era of the BEST VARIETY OF THE BEST MUSIC EVER. Period.
I am so glad that I can listen to and see this he was a very special person
what a find thank you for uploading
such a enriching doc
Thank you! Serve people :)
I've always loved his music. I'm so glad I was able to see him one time, opening for the Grand Wazoo in Boston...
Tim Buckley and Jeff Buckley will both forever live on.
Remembering Tim Buckley born on February 14, 1947. He was an American vocalist, songwriter, guitarist and producer. His music and style changed considerably through the years. - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Buckley
Thank you so much for uploading the documentary movie about Tim Buckley. I use to love Jeff's music and I still enjoy his voice and music but at the same time I can't listen to his son anymore or documentary on his life since of because his very deep dark moody depressing music and lyrics. It's just way to much to handle but still think he's an amazing just like his father. 😔But do like some his listenable songs and Grace is an insane song and album. His music is insanely amazing. But got to go with Tim.
Tim Buckley I still love his music to this very day for so long now. I adore his beautiful feel good or sad mellow calming songs. I'm forever and always a Tim fan . His music is so magical like out of some medieval time feel to them.
You kinda remind me of me. So strange because I discovered Jeff first and got really obsessed about him for at least two years. When I said obsessed, I mean as in I only listened to his music, nobody else. UA-camd him. Discussed about his life and music with other JB lovers. Saved his photos. Daydreamed about him. When I think about it now, why did I seem so insane, lols.
Then I decided to discover Tim. Fast forward 10 years, I still listen to Tim on and off. Jeff, not so much....
Look at the Fool is a very underrated album - probably my favourite of Tim's.
It can be quite interesting to take it as a counterpoint to Starsailor, or a soft extended version to it. In this one he was stretching his voice, and in the other he seems to compress it (I think that's more an artistic choice than a broken voice, like most of his fans seems to think...) and there is something in his way of making different noises with his voice that clearly refers to his Starsailor period.
The real problem with this album is that it's very bad produced. The brass are way to high and it's sometimes unpleasant to listen.
It should actually get remastered again.
@@zarthus8545 You’re right; my only problem with the album is mastering and sound quality. A remaster would definitely do it justice
This album is almost universally panned by the critics, then and now, and yet I absolutely love it, and still play it regularly all these years later. Never could understand what their problem was with it....
This music breaks open my heart...in a good way.
I love Morning Glory along with everything else. Steve Katz and Fairport Convention did really great covers of that particular song! ❤
I was today years old, when I learned that Song to the Siren was a Tim Buckley song. I’d grown up with This Mortal Coil version.
Part of my letter to Lee Underwood, November 1985: „Your article first appeared in Downbeat on June 16, 1977. One week later I first met Buckley in a record shop, at the age of 18. I was banned from Buckley because of his faulty „Folk-Image“. Until october 78 i liked „Happy Sad“ the most, but meeting „Starsailor“ was an incredible point in my life. The sound was quite archetypical for me, first I thought I know this music from somewhere. But there was no possibility to have heard it before. Then with fear and joy i recognised this sound was created before my birth - dedicated to me. Some kind of incredible telepathy. This fact was too strong for me. In a symbolic act I diged a hole in my parents garden and burried „Starsailor“ with passion - just to buy another copy a few days later. Since then, always I’m listening to this record, it’s like to be in uterus!" 💙🙏🌹
Wow Jeff though he barely knew him was just like him
Tim Buckley was a very talented singer/songwriter with a stunning voice. He was also very attractive, eloquent and a charismatic perfomer. So, why didn't he have a much bigger career? I think that he was too versatile for his own good, and therefore he wasn't able to attract a core audience. He was always in his own universe - or rather multiverse. Even today most of his fans intensely dislike some of his stuff.
Sabine B. I think he was successful albeit an uncompromising artist. I and most of my contemporaries (I’m 70) listened to many of his albums starting with Goodbye and Hello..Starsailor and Look At The Fool we’re a difficult listen but Greetings From LA was mainstream popular and Sweet Surrender got a lot of airplay.I saw him live in 1974 not long before he passed and it was painful to see his evident demise borne out on stage..I still listen to him often particularly Happy Sad and Buzzin’ Fly is an absolute gem of a song I still delight in turning people on to.
@@davidwright9318 , thanks for your thoughts!
I discovered Tim Buckley 12 years ago because he was mentioned in a very shallow mainstream movie. A still attractive older woman brags about having been a successful groupie back in the days. She claims that she had an affair with Tim Buckley. One of his songs is played in the background, and I was instantly fascinated by his voice. I started to research him, and I discovered an artist who was occasionally wonderful. I listened to many of his songs in order to find the one I had heard in the movie. It turned out to be "Song To The Siren". I also noticed that Tim Buckley had recorded a lot of very diverse stuff . I didn't really care for quite a bit of his oevre. "Greetings From L.A'" for example isn't my cup of tea at all, but other Buckley fans say that they like this straighforward rocky and less artsy style much better than his high brow experimental stuff from "Star Sailor". That's what I meant when I said that even Tim Buckley's fans can't agree on what they like or dislike. This is of course true for all artists whose style evolved during their career. But in Tim Buckley"s case it's extreme IMO. He seems to completely change his direction in a very short time. This alienated his old fans before he was able to build up a new fan base who liked his new stuff. And in the years before his untimely death he just struggled to earn money in order to make a living.
For me it was nevertheless great that I have discovered him. "Buzzin' Fly" is one of my favorite songs, too - especially the live version from a concert 1969 in Paris. But Tim seems to have loathed that song at least for a while and he got angry when fans still requested the song although he had moved on by then to a very different artistic concept. It's really sad that his immense talent and creativity didn't lead to a bigger audience.
I also learned about the strange story of his son Jeff Buckley who became an successful artist in his own right and who just like his dad also died because of one silly act of recklessness. But Jeff doesn't have the same appeal to me. While he was undeniably a very talented musician with a unique voice, he wasn't a great song writer IMO. He did his best work when he covered songs like "Halleluja" or "Lilac Wine".
Sabine B. Agreed, as to Buzzin Fly (profoundly self deprecating lyric, that). Though none of his later work can compare with Goodbye and Hello, Tim’s Sergeant Pepper’s, so to speak-a densely populated lyrical and vocally expressive masterpiece beyond the reach of any subsequent album.
David Wright Agreed as to Buzzin’ Fly. Goodbye and Hello, however, is a nonpareil- a none such! The creative ‘weight’ of that early album exceeds, by far, all of what trailed along after. In a similar way, The Moody Blues could never replicate, try as they may, the imaginative density of Question Of Balance, or To Our Children’s Children’s Children.
I think he was too musically adventurous for his own good. And this is the precise reason why he was a genius.
But Greetings From LA, they almost say it's a sell out. It's ASTONISHING vocally!
Happy birthday to you, TIM BUCKLEY!
I hear so much of Jeff in his voice
I can see it so much too. Even in the way he verbalized
By the way, can I just say it's awesome to see a young woman like me looking up tim Buckley only 1 hour apart from each other :-)
@@Audreyreagan.s kinda cool huh ... It's cause we are awesome lol
Well he was his father after all, what do you expect?
You mean you hear so much of Tim in Jeff's voice. Also, why are you awesome for liking a certain artist or why is your age/gender relevant? That's silly. People have been listening to artists that came before them for years.
Great documentary!
“Serve people”. ✊♥️ Jeez he was beautiful. Like his wife, and his son,
People are more important than abstract ideas. So many who truly understand this get taken way too soon.. then conveniently obscured. “The jury” is not still out on these ideas. The jury has been bought, conditioned, and trauma bound.
None of this should be treated as an inevitability, as if rapacious capitalism, empire itself, is a force of nature, like a hurricane or earthquake.
When they are no such thing.
Its a damn shame people with his message, whatever their style, form or art, have been cartoonized. Across all the ages.
People whose vision, reason, and passions are true and pure and bigger than empires and the ruins they make of themselves.
These are the lovers of the world.
Starsailor, Lorca are great. But for me Happy Sad is his best masterpiece. Such mystic and warmth.
For me, Goodbye and Hello is his masterpiece and Happy Sad a mere, and somewhat muted, extension of that earlier work.
For me, I really cannot choose. Starsailor, Lorca, Blue Afternoon and Happy Sad are all great albums :)
Imagining what albums Tim and Jeff are writing together in those dreams.
Don't know about that. Tim didn't care about Jeff. Maybe he would, if he had made it to the 90's, at least, to see his son's work. Well...maybe Tim saw Jeff's work from wherever he was, and now they're in peace with each other and playing together. And I don't know what am I saying anymore. I love them both
@@paulolapa3040 I don't think that would matter in another realm. I don't think it's because he didn't care, he was only a teenager himself when Jeff was born and I think Jeff longed to know more. But I think you're right, I'm sure they are together now :)
@@paulolapa3040 He did care. Listen to Dream Letter. If you believe that song didn't come from a genuine, heartbroken place, I don't know what to tell you.
Thankyou for thisgem
Great documentary about a true artist. He could see the ills and hypocrisy of society and wanted no part of it. He paid for his dissidence as well. I liked what he said about TV being a tool for hypnotism. We wouldn't be in the mess we're in now if people weren't hypnotized by the media. They will believe and do whatever they are told, even though it makes no sense from a factual basis.
Tim Buckley is the greatest songwriter of all times.
True
Los Huxley’s You seriously need to widen your horizon. Seriously.
He's up there for sure...
I'm a big fan of Tim Buckley's music . His singing style and delivery owes a huge debt to Fred Neil .
Yes
Blue afternoon is so underrated
Tim Buckley: I have suffered for my art - now it's your turn.
Great rendition! ❤️
Thanks!
2:10; "They're not accidents, man..." Lol! ✌️
The Summer Of Love made it to Kansas City in 1968 ,,I met a girl at the Park who turn me into a fan and it stuck !!!!
Until the other day I knew Tim Buckley from a single recording of a single song only: “Happy Time”, included on the Warner Brothers compilation two-vinyl-disc set called “The Big Ball”. This record had been released in 1970, I think, and I sent away for my two-dollar mail-order copy in maybe 1971 or 1972. Things are radically different nowadays with the Internet in general and UA-cam in particular. You can pretty much listen to whatever you want and learn background information about the performers that simply wasn’t available before. It’s too easy by far now, in fact. You lose the sense of wonder, mystery, and discovery and the sense of a community of listeners. The performers themselves lose a livelihood.
His songs could Give Bob Dylan a run for his money. I love Tim, so much talent so humble.
Crazy they both died so young now they have all the time in the world to talk
A Genius, A beautiful Man And Soul .. 🙏💖🙏
I love the top and bottom pickguard on his acoustic
I was lucky enough to see him at the Fillmore East
The Man!
People in the 60s kept saying "the young people" like they're some kind of other species lol
We were. ...in some fashion not easily made clear. But pre Altamont & Manson, we freaked. Read ‘A Scanner Darkly’ by Philip K Dick. To some extent, only the Christian Martyrs were more invested in a worthy cause. Classic Rock music was a clarion call, instantaneously transfixing. As a generation we opened eyes we never knew we possessed. Viewed the passing of thousands of years, like a night under Elf Hill. Ours was The Palm Tree Garden versus a Black Iron Castle. That’s right, “the young people,” following Kier Dullea to the infinite, reborn. More than human. ...till it burned out like shards of magnesium pitched into a campfire. Freaks.
Man, the '60s & '70s were so much cooler than the '90s in many ways. By the 1990s everybody was depressed & burned out after the Reaganite '80s, the Cold War, AIDS, crack cocaine & all the rest. It was the last great period before the new millennium, but even that wasn't all that great. You can feel the misery in pop artists' music from the '90s: (Nirvana, Soul Asylum, 2Pac, Sinead O'Connor, Cranberries, Jeff Buckley).
1:28:00-1:28:35 "Well, aren't you gonna take any pictures?" 🖤