This is one of those songs that stopped me dead in my tracks the first time I heard it. I was in a music store in Houston (probably summer of '69) and they were playing it. I don't think I took a breath until it was over, then went up and asked who it was. At the time I had almost no money and nothing on which to play a record, but I bought it anyhow. The man was a genius. Sad loss.
Me too, when I first heard this it captured my attention and I was instantly in love with this song and then started to listen to other songs of Tim, and then I was hooked. But this was the first song…
People didn't really listen to him until after his premature death. The This Mortal Coil projects introduced, through covers of his songs, his music to a whole new generation.
THANK YOU WOLFF FOR SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT. LIFE AND LOVE ARE THERE FOR THE TAKING BUT SOMETIMES SOMEHOW THEY TAKE THE BETTER OF US. I AM TRYING HARD AS A WRITER AND MUSICIAN NOT TO LET THAT BE MY FATE. AMEN.
I first heard 'Morning Glory' when I was 11 years old back in 1967. After I heard it the first time I always listened to it alone because it just made me cry for the loneliness that it sent into me. Boys couldn't be seen crying so I listened in my room, alone. Today was the first time that I got to hear it in about forty-five years and all of the loneliness came back and after listening to it seven times, I am completely drained from crying. Such a mournful tune, such a voice singing it. When the time comes and I listen to it along with the Tom Waits songs 'Pony' and 'Georgia Lee', I will be a wreck Drained for days, I imagine.
I went to a concert of his and remember him singing this song. I will never forget his pure voice and watching him sing from this deep and honest place within himself. I too cry when I hear this song. Thank you.
thetheraine Oh my, if only all youtube comments were like yours - kind and profound. I am usually fleeing in horror, telling myself, "You KNOW better than to read there."
Heard Tim Buckley first on WBAI FM in NYC on Steve Post show after midnight in weekends and so many of these songs are still powerful, introspective and sad, I played all these songs on my college radio show in early 1970s as well ..never got to see him perform live .. I probably listed to as many Buckley songs as I did Farina and Hardin, in terms of importance to me... his song, "Once I Was" featured in movie "Coming Home" was utopian.
Homeless people can be difficult, but man it must be hard for them. Thank you, Tim Buckley, for helping us to reflect and be introspective about those of us who, for whatever reason, must be without a home, sometimes for the rest of their lives.
Amazing how people listen to this music through the years. When they were recording a video for this song there was completely no Internet around. Now it's already 2016 and it's here on UA-cam and lots of people enjoy it. Tim would be happy.
I'm only 23 but this is my jam. Been exploring a lot of great music over the past 4-5 years. I've listened to hip hop almost exclusively my whole life but I have broadened my horizons so damn much. I'm proud of myself.
And you should be proud of yourself Bryant. I'm 56, and I've known precious few people who have made the effort to explore things unfamiliar. You risk wasting time. Being sensitive to quality when you don't really know what you're looking for or at can be confusing and even tedious. And I don't figure people your age are too impressed with Tim Buckley. I'm impressed by your effort and sense of adventure. Here's some people you may want to check out: Bob Dylan (Highway 61 Revisited, Blonde on Blonde); John Gorka (Old Futures Gone, Out of the Valley); Janis Ian (Between the Lines); Jim Carroll (Catholic Boy); Jim Croce (Life and Times, You Don't Mess Around With Jim); Lou Reed (Street Hassle, Growing Up in Public); Moby (Play and Play); The Smiths (The Sound of the Smiths); The Spinners (The Very Best of the Spinners); Sylvester (The Original Hits); Woody Guthrie (Library of Congress Recordings). OK. It's a ridiculously long list. And some of it will probably leave you cold. But try a few. All these albums have been important to me. You might find something you really love.
Mike Bael You're awesome man! Thanks for the kind words and suggestions. I've been into bands like Joy Division and The Smiths (one of my favorite bands) for a while now and I've read into the influence of Bob Dylan on music back in college. I also coincidentally got into The Spinners and The O'Jays a couple of years ago. And of course, Lou Reed is a legend. I'll definitely take a look at the rest of the suggestions.
+Jay Coburn I really like Tim's songwriting, but it is definitely an overstatement to declare him the greatest vocalist in the history of music. Even his son had greater vocal capabilities (not songwriting though), let alone Freddie Mercury etc. etc. ... That's just my opinion.
Mykyta Panarin Thanks for the reply. I always thought Tim had a better vocal range than Jeff?? Apologies if I'm mistaken. I'm a big fan of Jeff also, I just like the romantic idea of Tim,s ideology ,being a fan of the sixties. And yes I agree that sometimes one can get carried away in the excitement of the moment declaring the finest vocalist of music.
i feel i must thank jeff buckley.amazing and all is he was.only for him i may never have discovered tim.i really cannot describe how much i love this mans music.so heartfelt and so pure.after so many years who compares?
I heard Tim the first time around on the radio in the mid-1960s and live in Central Park in August 1969; he was great. Then in the 1990s, my daughter met Jeff and told me about him--"Tim Buckley's son?" I asked her. Yes. I agree with you, "Who compares?"
Tim left us his beautiful music and his gifted son, my life would not be the same without both their music! I saw Jeff Buckley play live in 1996 in Sydney and it was the most powerful performance I have ever seen. He held the crowd in a trance for the whole concert. Now father & son are together at last sadly....
A tragic story but they'll forever live on through their art, what a blessing you've got to witness live. How'd you feel if you don't mind me asking, the buckleys have always touched my heart sending me mixed emotions
I lit my purest candle close to my Window, hoping it would catch the eye Of any vagabond who passed it by, And I waited in my fleeting house Before he came I felt him drawing near; As he neared I felt the ancient fear That he had come to wound my door and jeer, And I waited in my fleeting house "Tell me stories, " I called to the Hobo; "Stories of cold, " I smiled at the Hobo; "Stories of old, " I knelt to the Hobo; And he stood before my fleeting house "No, " said the Hobo, "No more tales of time; Don't ask me now to wash away the grime; I can't come in 'cause it's too high a climb, " And he walked away from my fleeting house "Then you be damned!" I screamed to the Hobo; "Leave me alone, " I wept to the Hobo; "Turn into stone, " I knelt to the Hobo; And he walked away from my fleeting house
@@kennethj.benton8641 ...people have surmised that "fleeting house" refers to the brief period of time that Tim spent in the "limelight". I'll ask someone who can confirm this and get back to you. This "someone" is Jim Fielder, a high school friend and band mate of Tim and Larry Beckett who was also the founding bass player for Blood Sweat and Tears. Jim recently moved three houses away from me in Asheville NC. I'm sure he can give me some input on this great song's meaning!
He's the only artist I mourn the passing of, because he didn't leave a huge legacy, like Prince for instance. I only discovered Tim on a radio station in Johannesburg, late eighties, with Sweet Surrender. Bought the LP the same week. Nowadays I swoon via Spotify and sometimes here, and then I cry when I see his beautiful face. Love ya, Timmy!
Music has some great singers and performers. But for a lot of then you don't believe what they are singing or saying. With Tim Buckley you knew he meant it. His voice is straight from the heart.
All of Tim's music was written from the bottom of his heart not from the top of his head like most modern music. Tim really wasn't fussed for money or fame all he wanted to do was to portray his thoughts and feelings through his beautiful music. Most modern ''musicians/artists''(if they can be called that) write material to make money and fame not to educate like Tim's music. Tim buckley died too young as like many great and overlooked musicians and artists.
What a beautiful song. Thank you John Besharian for sharing your story about the time you spent with Tim. I live in OC where Tim lived and his son Jeff was born. This weekend I'm going to drive thru the streets of OC to feel their spirit and to say a little prayer for them. By the way, Happy 50th. Birthday Jeff. Nov. 17th. 2016.
I actually was fortunate enough to talk with the guy who wrote the song mostly, Larry Beckett, he and I talked about the song after I asked for his take on it and he challenged my thought perception of the song in a good way, as to help me to understand the psyche of it. I don’t remember everything he said about it but I wish I could; maybe it’s the mushrooms overpowering my brain right now. I was touched just to speak to such a beautiful complex mind, and was grateful to get to talk to him. Larry knows he is a very smart man as well; but he is giving and wants to help enlighten others. He invited me to come see him in San Francisco… how I would of loved to go there but I don’t have the means. I can’t get to San Francisco it’s just too high a climb.
These artists will live on...I was 16 listening to the new Tim Buckley album...I remember. With UA-cam I can share this poetry with my kids...My 13 yr old is playing Leonard Cohen...past on the music and maybe there is a chance for the future. You are not not forgot
this song makes me remind the good times of my childhood when i awoke and i saw my grandma in her home drinking coffe and my grandpa going to work in the fields... really i was a lucky man to live those things so simple and at the same time, so beatiful and lovely. great music great singer. kisses from Brazil.
Sublime. Tim always made music that (I for one), couldn't just put on the turntable and leave. He manages to draw me in every time, every song, well, every word. An incredible talent, that heart wrenching voice never fails to blow me away. RIP Tim.
Tim Buckley was always someone i never set the bar for. He was always someone i was satisfied with, just as they were. He was always and still is someone i can come across any day, and know he's with me, speaking to me just for me. i don't know why i feel the way i do about Tim. as if he was always crashing at my place and milling around in a mindless mood, but i didn't mind how he acted. i just knew he wanted my attention and appreciation, and it satisfied me to be just that for him.
Marvelous. Because there are no more. He had one of the strongest voices I've ever heard. He covered a number of styles in a remarkably short period of time.
Tim is one of the reasons I think my generation were blessed. There was so much talent in the sixties, it was possible some people missed Tim. I'm glad I discovered him and bathed in his beauty, and continue to. Good to know his spirit continues to inspire.
I first saw Tim in the summer of 1969 at a marvelous outdoor festival not far from Seattle. I was 17. His emotional phrasing and soulfulness just blew me away, and I became a lifelong fan. I was distraught when I heard of his untimely death. But I still play his records, in those special moments, as when I am driving through a forest or along the ocean.
first time listening to Tim...been a Jeff fan for years. Very nice...completely different. I think its amazing that Jeff sounds nothing like him and has such a completely different musicality.
This song is an old friend and our friendship has been growing deeper, upward and outward for years; I feel so alive that this song is as fresh to me today because it is still unfolding. Feeling so thankful and lucky to savor the years of this unfolding. Thank you, this live version knocked me out.
I've known about this song for years through This Mortal Coil. Had heard other versions too & always thought it an odd tune. This week I walked a mentally ill friend of many years to a homeless shelter and through the intake process. I now know what this song is about.
Tim was a friend of mine back int the '60's from the Mecca, Mon Ami/Paradox days. He and I used to sit in my apartment, or in the Orange Julius down below it (at the intersection of Lemon & Chapman in Fullerton, Ca.) and talk and play by the hour. This album (one of only a dozen vinyl one's I've ever bought in my life), is a total mischaracterization of Timmy's true talents as a musician and his song writing abilities. Let's call it the "Hollywoodification" of him back then. (Over produced and under represented.) We met at, and were a part of, the music conflabulation of about 40 or so musicians who were inspired and misunderstood by Hollywood, but not the owner, Dick Stout, who use to open one or the other of his clubs on a "Dark (closed) Night" to let us poor fledglings learn our craft , Dick, the owner of two clubs, the Mecca in Buena Park and the Mon Ami in Tustin, Ca., which became the Paradox when he sold it later on. The new owners continued the tradition started by Dick at the behest of both Denny Brooks (Of the New Christy Minstrels) and Jose Feliciano. That little fledgling group spawned so many influential musical "Offshoots" during that time that it's almost impossible to count them all.Those days, best encapsulated as "These Days", because Jack was as an integral part of them and a friend of Tim as well as the rest of us as John McEwen, or Jim Fielder, Penny Nichols, Steve Noonan, Mary McCaslin, Jim fielder, &, or etc. It was truly a "Magic time' musically. (Bye the by, the original album had his right eye covered by a "Pepsi" bottle cap. When did they withdraw their sponsorship"
Thank you for sharing! I've not listened to many of his albums, really, because of the quick impression that they sound somewhat soulless in comparison to these live, acoustic versions which are simply gems in themselves. Any recommendations ?
Only, "Let your[Ears] do the [Listening]". I've only bought a dozen vinyl record albums in my life. The one with his one eye with a Pepsi bottle cap in it (yellow background) when it came out, was one of them. (I've never wanted to "Copy" anybody else's style/licks exactly. Unlike many of my contemporaries.
+John Besharian Hello Goodbye was in heavy rotation in my house as a kid; my father loved it. By the time I took the album from his collection it was well worn and I had to buy my own CD (which I also wore out playing so much). Thank you for sharing your memories with us. For me, Tim and his son are greatly missed in this world
First saw him in 1968. Fell in love the first time I heard his album. Haunting voice, words, face. 50 yrs. later he is still my favorite artist.... so sad that he and his son are no longer here .to make beautiful music.Dreamlike verses and music......Music of my youth, but it seems like yesterday that I watched this troubador on stage.
This is amazing. I first heard this song done by Blood Sweat and Tears on their first album when Al Kooper was the leader of that band. Looks like I've got some catching up to do. I love these moments 🙂
There would be no discussion about who was the better singer and musician without Tim. Without the Father, there is no Son. I saw Jeff live once and have never been as impressed, with any other performance, by thousands of others. I never got to see Tim but I still have all of his vinyl and some live heroin fueled CD's recorded in NYC. They both made ageless music.
This lyrical narrative put's me in mind of Albert Camous' The Stranger, because of the stance of our incapacitated view of others through the trappings of materialism, even if not considered rich, just being better off and trying to reason with someone's disposition and the relationship between the two. Beautiful chord's from a legendary musician and such a unique stand point only he has achieved.
Its so good to know that some people have not forgotten Tim in the past 36 years, and that there are people, myself included, that have been lucky enough to discover him. Rest in Peace Tim. X 29 June 1975
This is one of those songs that stopped me dead in my tracks the first time I heard it. I was in a music store in Houston (probably summer of '69) and they were playing it. I don't think I took a breath until it was over, then went up and asked who it was. At the time I had almost no money and nothing on which to play a record, but I bought it anyhow. The man was a genius. Sad loss.
Me too, when I first heard this it captured my attention and I was instantly in love with this song and then started to listen to other songs of Tim, and then I was hooked. But this was the first song…
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What a beautiful memory, music will do that to a guy. In your case Gal. 😊
I met him
I mean the contrast between listening to a song like this and then being instantly bombarded with a casino commercial just boggles my mind...
Tim Buckley was one of the most underrated singer ... just a great and pure artist .
He kills me, man...maybe not the best but it doesn't get better
Absolutely true
People didn't really listen to him until after his premature death. The This Mortal Coil projects introduced, through covers of his songs, his music to a whole new generation.
Both him and his kid Jeff, just different breeds
@@bartonim that's why am here got TMC 3 albums lots off covers to check out
As a kid growing up I was struck by his amazing voice and the images his songs painted , I still feel the same way !
Fuck the addiction issues, he was never a serious user. But he was a fragile and a poet and an incredibly good musician
tim was too fragile to live long, but he will live forever.
THANK YOU WOLFF FOR SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT. LIFE AND LOVE ARE THERE FOR THE TAKING BUT SOMETIMES
SOMEHOW THEY TAKE THE BETTER OF US. I AM TRYING HARD AS A WRITER AND MUSICIAN NOT TO LET THAT BE MY FATE.
AMEN.
I first heard 'Morning Glory' when I was 11 years old back in 1967. After I heard it the first time I always listened to it alone because it just made me cry for the loneliness that it sent into me. Boys couldn't be seen crying so I listened in my room, alone. Today was the first time that I got to hear it in about forty-five years and all of the loneliness came back and after listening to it seven times, I am completely drained from crying. Such a mournful tune, such a voice singing it. When the time comes and I listen to it along with the Tom Waits songs 'Pony' and 'Georgia Lee', I will be a wreck Drained for days, I imagine.
I went to a concert of his and remember him singing this song. I will never forget his pure voice and watching him
sing from this deep and honest place within himself. I too cry when I hear this song. Thank you.
thetheraine Oh my, if only all youtube comments were like yours - kind and profound. I am usually fleeing in horror, telling myself, "You KNOW better than to read there."
Heard Tim Buckley first on WBAI FM in NYC on Steve Post show after midnight in weekends and so many of these songs are still powerful, introspective and sad, I played all these songs on my college radio show in early 1970s as well ..never got to see him perform live .. I probably listed to as many Buckley songs as I did Farina and Hardin, in terms of importance to me... his song, "Once I Was" featured in movie "Coming Home" was utopian.
Brother you are never alone.
@@pentangle4444 Steve Post my favorite, one funny guy
Im so much in love with Buckley family.
Archy Gogitidze they were like a real life shakespearean story
Listening in my fleeting house
Homeless people can be difficult, but man it must be hard for them. Thank you, Tim Buckley, for helping us to reflect and be introspective about those of us who, for whatever reason, must be without a home, sometimes for the rest of their lives.
Amazing how people listen to this music through the years. When they were recording a video for this song there was completely no Internet around. Now it's already 2016 and it's here on UA-cam and lots of people enjoy it. Tim would be happy.
Wrong, it's 2020 actually
What does having no internet around have to do with anything?
There was a time when TV didn't exist.
@@MIKECNW there was a time when a wheel didn't exist
And even then love was already a thing.
@@sashkokoval7055 wrong it’s 2021
I'm 68 and all my life I have lived with this gift to us. A very rare and special gift Tim was for us.
I'm only 23 but this is my jam. Been exploring a lot of great music over the past 4-5 years. I've listened to hip hop almost exclusively my whole life but I have broadened my horizons so damn much. I'm proud of myself.
check out the version by This Mortal Coil
And you should be proud of yourself Bryant. I'm 56, and I've known precious few people who have made the effort to explore things unfamiliar. You risk wasting time. Being sensitive to quality when you don't really know what you're looking for or at can be confusing and even tedious. And I don't figure people your age are too impressed with Tim Buckley. I'm impressed by your effort and sense of adventure.
Here's some people you may want to check out: Bob Dylan (Highway 61 Revisited, Blonde on Blonde); John Gorka (Old Futures Gone, Out of the Valley); Janis Ian (Between the Lines); Jim Carroll (Catholic Boy); Jim Croce (Life and Times, You Don't Mess Around With Jim); Lou Reed (Street Hassle, Growing Up in Public); Moby (Play and Play); The Smiths (The Sound of the Smiths); The Spinners (The Very Best of the Spinners); Sylvester (The Original Hits); Woody Guthrie (Library of Congress Recordings).
OK. It's a ridiculously long list. And some of it will probably leave you cold. But try a few. All these albums have been important to me. You might find something you really love.
Mike Bael You're awesome man! Thanks for the kind words and suggestions. I've been into bands like Joy Division and The Smiths (one of my favorite bands) for a while now and I've read into the influence of Bob Dylan on music back in college. I also coincidentally got into The Spinners and The O'Jays a couple of years ago. And of course, Lou Reed is a legend. I'll definitely take a look at the rest of the suggestions.
BigBad Bryant
If you haven't already check out The Chameleons and Rory Gallagher ;-)
40 years ago today, we lost one of the greatest vocalists in the history of music. RIP Tim Buckley.
Agreed sir.. Only Harry Nillson comes close.
+Jay Coburn I really like Tim's songwriting, but it is definitely an overstatement to declare him the greatest vocalist in the history of music. Even his son had greater vocal capabilities (not songwriting though), let alone Freddie Mercury etc. etc. ... That's just my opinion.
Mykyta Panarin
Thanks for the reply. I always thought Tim had a better vocal range than Jeff?? Apologies if I'm mistaken. I'm a big fan of Jeff also, I just like the romantic idea of Tim,s ideology ,being a fan of the sixties. And yes I agree that sometimes one can get carried away in the excitement of the moment declaring the finest vocalist of music.
Mykyta Panarin PS. And yes Freddie was up there with the very best
One of the best, after his son though.
One of the most beautiful songs ever written? Without a doubt.
Lyrics by poet Larry Beckett.
@@scottdavison1420 Not only...Songwriters: Larry Beckett / Tim Buckley
The part of Tim I still love after all these years is the Irish Minstrel inside him. and he was so excruciatingly beautiful!
i feel i must thank jeff buckley.amazing and all is he was.only for him i may never have discovered tim.i really cannot describe how much i love this mans music.so heartfelt and so pure.after so many years who compares?
I heard Tim the first time around on the radio in the mid-1960s and live in Central Park in August 1969; he was great. Then in the 1990s, my daughter met Jeff and told me about him--"Tim Buckley's son?" I asked her. Yes. I agree with you, "Who compares?"
How can 15 people dislike this?! It is so beautiful. They must be devoid of any soul!
If you give a 👍🏼 UA-cam will begin sending you his genre of music, that’s all. It doesn’t mean people don’t like his song, just not their genre.
People who disklike this are dreadful. It's like putting on a sheet of armor to attack a banana split.
A dreamer stuck at a rest stop in Utah with this song on repeat. God speed all you restless dreamers
amen
Tim left us his beautiful music and his gifted son, my life would not be the same without both their music! I saw Jeff Buckley play live in 1996 in Sydney and it was the most powerful performance I have ever seen. He held the crowd in a trance for the whole concert. Now father & son are together at last sadly....
A tragic story but they'll forever live on through their art, what a blessing you've got to witness live. How'd you feel if you don't mind me asking, the buckleys have always touched my heart sending me mixed emotions
A genius! The man's music is timeless!!
"Sabes que te voy a amar siempre".
Paracaídas
más bien!
clarooo
Así que de aquí lo saco, increíble
This is the most mysterious song ever written
Tim. God like genius with the voice of a weary angel🙏😍😍
I lit my purest candle close to my
Window, hoping it would catch the eye
Of any vagabond who passed it by,
And I waited in my fleeting house
Before he came I felt him drawing near;
As he neared I felt the ancient fear
That he had come to wound my door and jeer,
And I waited in my fleeting house
"Tell me stories, " I called to the Hobo;
"Stories of cold, " I smiled at the Hobo;
"Stories of old, " I knelt to the Hobo;
And he stood before my fleeting house
"No, " said the Hobo, "No more tales of time;
Don't ask me now to wash away the grime;
I can't come in 'cause it's too high a climb, "
And he walked away from my fleeting house
"Then you be damned!" I screamed to the Hobo;
"Leave me alone, " I wept to the Hobo;
"Turn into stone, " I knelt to the Hobo;
And he walked away from my fleeting house
What is a fleeting house?
@@kennethj.benton8641 ...people have surmised that "fleeting house" refers to the brief period of time that Tim spent in the "limelight". I'll ask someone who can confirm this and get back to you. This "someone" is Jim Fielder, a high school friend and band mate of Tim and Larry Beckett who was also the founding bass player for Blood Sweat and Tears. Jim recently moved three houses away from me in Asheville NC. I'm sure he can give me some input on this great song's meaning!
Thank you!
Not correct at all lol
@@husseymangtv mostly correct for studio version on Hello and Goodbye
Lucky you. We don't realize some people are only going to be here a little while. Buckley was great.
Very calming. Love that chime in there, lightens it up.
He's the only artist I mourn the passing of, because he didn't leave a huge legacy, like Prince for instance. I only discovered Tim on a radio station in Johannesburg, late eighties, with Sweet Surrender. Bought the LP the same week. Nowadays I swoon via Spotify and sometimes here, and then I cry when I see his beautiful face. Love ya, Timmy!
Music has some great singers and performers. But for a lot of then you don't believe what they are singing or saying. With Tim Buckley you knew he meant it. His voice is straight from the heart.
+SirPeter6464 i think the same
+SirPeter6464 This, a lot of new singers just can't seem to convince me, It sounds so ungeniune
Nothing as fantastic as this music will ever come again
Stunning, one of those songs that takes you to another place.
All of Tim's music was written from the bottom of his heart not from the top of his head like most modern music. Tim really wasn't fussed for money or fame all he wanted to do was to portray his thoughts and feelings through his beautiful music. Most modern ''musicians/artists''(if they can be called that) write material to make money and fame not to educate like Tim's music. Tim buckley died too young as like many great and overlooked musicians and artists.
Tim had such an incredible voice and a great song writer.
What a beautiful song. Thank you John Besharian for sharing your story about the time you spent with Tim. I live in OC where Tim lived and his son Jeff was born. This weekend I'm going to drive thru the streets of OC to feel their spirit and to say a little prayer for them. By the way, Happy 50th. Birthday Jeff. Nov. 17th. 2016.
This is absolutely breath-taking. The beauty of this song brought tears to my eyes :'(
I almost can't breathe during this performance.
This guy's music is a treasure. There's something about his voice that's hypnotic.
I actually was fortunate enough to talk with the guy who wrote the song mostly, Larry Beckett, he and I talked about the song after I asked for his take on it and he challenged my thought perception of the song in a good way, as to help me to understand the psyche of it. I don’t remember everything he said about it but I wish I could; maybe it’s the mushrooms overpowering my brain right now. I was touched just to speak to such a beautiful complex mind, and was grateful to get to talk to him. Larry knows he is a very smart man as well; but he is giving and wants to help enlighten others. He invited me to come see him in San Francisco… how I would of loved to go there but I don’t have the means. I can’t get to San Francisco it’s just too high a climb.
I saw Tim Buckley summer 1974 at the Summerfestival in Holland; very nice performance.
Beautiful lyrics & haunting melodies make Tim Buckley a truly unique musician & wonderful guitarist. He left us much too soon…Peace
Lyrics by poet Larry Beckett.
@@scottdavison1420 Thanks for the info ~ I guess he didn't compose all the songs on his albums, but he sure made the lyrics resonate!
These artists will live on...I was 16 listening to the new Tim Buckley album...I remember.
With UA-cam I can share this poetry with my kids...My 13 yr old is playing Leonard Cohen...past on the music and maybe there is a chance for the future.
You are not not forgot
this song makes me remind the good times of my childhood when i awoke and i saw my grandma in her home drinking coffe and my grandpa going to work in the fields... really i was a lucky man to live those things so simple and at the same time, so beatiful and lovely. great music great singer. kisses from Brazil.
Tim was a life line on my palm that ended abruptly. How I wish we still had him here✌️💜
Sublime. Tim always made music that (I for one), couldn't just put on the turntable and leave. He manages to draw me in every time, every song, well, every word. An incredible talent, that heart wrenching voice never fails to blow me away. RIP Tim.
Lyrics by poet Larry Beckett.
he does that quite a bit, I love it. He sometimes adds or takes out words to make the song flow smoother.
Tim Buckley was always someone i never set the bar for. He was always someone i was satisfied with, just as they were. He was always and still is someone i can come across any day, and know he's with me, speaking to me just for me. i don't know why i feel the way i do about Tim. as if he was always crashing at my place and milling around in a mindless mood, but i didn't mind how he acted. i just knew he wanted my attention and appreciation, and it satisfied me to be just that for him.
This Father-Son duo is one of the greatest, sad they left too early ! :(
So beautiful....known his music since I was an adolescent... still get tears in my eyes....
Marvelous. Because there are no more. He had one of the strongest voices I've ever heard. He covered a number of styles in a remarkably short period of time.
Tim is one of the reasons I think my generation were blessed. There was so much talent in the sixties, it was possible some people missed Tim. I'm glad I discovered him and bathed in his beauty, and continue to. Good to know his spirit continues to inspire.
Danny Thompson on bass is a pleasant surprise, connecting my love for the music of Tim and all of Danny's work with Pentangle and beyond
DT is on the TB 'Dream Letter' live album too - one of my faves.
I first saw Tim in the summer of 1969 at a marvelous outdoor festival not far from Seattle. I was 17. His emotional phrasing and soulfulness just blew me away, and I became a lifelong fan. I was distraught when I heard of his untimely death. But I still play his records, in those special moments, as when I am driving through a forest or along the ocean.
So wonderful, so vulnerable, so high above everything else. Always loved Tim Buckley.
So caring.
One of the best memories of the WOR-FM years in New York. This got played a lot (and BS&T listened).
I've been listening to this song -
On child is father to the man -
BS&T since 1967 -
So I enjoy this as well-
I've listened to this song for years never knowing Blood, Sweat & Tears were just covering it! thank you wumb.
he is so great! Today, 40 years ago, this fantastic and extremely handsome Artist died on the age of 28. I think of him!
Man this guy was great..... Thank you for some beautiful work Tim...
first time listening to Tim...been a Jeff fan for years. Very nice...completely different. I think its amazing that Jeff sounds nothing like him and has such a completely different musicality.
This song is an old friend and our friendship has been growing deeper, upward and outward for years; I feel so alive that this song is as fresh to me today because it is still unfolding. Feeling so thankful and lucky to savor the years of this unfolding. Thank you, this live version knocked me out.
I've known about this song for years through This Mortal Coil. Had heard other versions too & always thought it an odd tune. This week I walked a mentally ill friend of many years to a homeless shelter and through the intake process.
I now know what this song is about.
I am facinated by the song and especally in awe of the photography considering the time peaiod. That just too Good X 2 !
First time. Thank heaven for UA-cam. Awesome.
One of the few musicians who feel their music!
RIP!
Beautiful version! ♥
Tim was a friend of mine back int the '60's from the Mecca, Mon Ami/Paradox days. He and I used to sit in my apartment, or in the Orange Julius down below it (at the intersection of Lemon & Chapman in Fullerton, Ca.) and talk and play by the hour. This album (one of only a dozen vinyl one's I've ever bought in my life), is a total mischaracterization of Timmy's true talents as a musician and his song writing abilities. Let's call it the "Hollywoodification" of him back then. (Over produced and under represented.) We met at, and were a part of, the music conflabulation of about 40 or so musicians who were inspired and misunderstood by Hollywood, but not the owner, Dick Stout, who use to open one or the other of his clubs on a "Dark (closed) Night" to let us poor fledglings learn our craft , Dick, the owner of two clubs, the Mecca in Buena Park and the Mon Ami in Tustin, Ca., which became the Paradox when he sold it later on. The new owners continued the tradition started by Dick at the behest of both Denny Brooks (Of the New Christy Minstrels) and Jose Feliciano. That little fledgling group spawned so many influential musical "Offshoots" during that time that it's almost impossible to count them all.Those days, best encapsulated as "These Days", because Jack was as an integral part of them and a friend of Tim as well as the rest of us as John McEwen, or Jim Fielder, Penny Nichols, Steve Noonan, Mary McCaslin, Jim fielder, &, or etc. It was truly a "Magic time' musically. (Bye the by, the original album had his right eye covered by a "Pepsi" bottle cap. When did they withdraw their sponsorship"
+John Besharian Thanks for sharing that ...I'm grateful for our small coffee shop collective here, I know there is no better music ...
Thank you for sharing!
I've not listened to many of his albums, really, because of the quick impression that they sound somewhat soulless in comparison to these live, acoustic versions which are simply gems in themselves. Any recommendations ?
Only, "Let your[Ears] do the [Listening]". I've only bought a dozen vinyl record albums in my life. The one with his one eye with a Pepsi bottle cap in it (yellow background) when it came out, was one of them. (I've never wanted to "Copy" anybody else's style/licks exactly. Unlike many of my contemporaries.
+John Besharian Hello Goodbye was in heavy rotation in my house as a kid; my father loved it. By the time I took the album from his collection it was well worn and I had to buy my own CD (which I also wore out playing so much). Thank you for sharing your memories with us. For me, Tim and his son are greatly missed in this world
Thank you for sharing ....
I love this dear sweet soul. So grateful to have seen him in the early years.
this is so powerful, so beautiful
wow what a heart wrenching performance...absolute top shelf. incredible
A poet that died before he was finished. What a loss to us!
You can see where Jeff got his talent and voice from... Great song.
Ironically, Jeff wasn't impressed with it!
First saw him in 1968. Fell in love the first time I heard his album. Haunting voice, words, face. 50 yrs. later he is still my favorite artist.... so sad that he and his son are no longer here .to make beautiful music.Dreamlike verses and music......Music of my youth, but it seems like yesterday that I watched this troubador on stage.
Precious man,love u Tim!!
Love him!
My first exposure to this song was on the first Blood Sweat & Tears album. I really like both versions.
wow....this is just fantastic...the lyrics...just make me think of different times...places...and friends...
this has got to be one of my favorite songs ever. no joke.
thanks! and nice to read so many still enjoy his music!
This is amazing. I first heard this song done by Blood Sweat and Tears on their first album when Al Kooper was the leader of that band. Looks like I've got some catching up to do. I love these moments 🙂
There would be no discussion about who was the better singer and musician without Tim. Without the Father, there is no Son. I saw Jeff live once and have never been as impressed, with any other performance, by thousands of others. I never got to see Tim but I still have all of his vinyl and some live heroin fueled CD's recorded in NYC. They both made ageless music.
True but without the son there is no father ….
Beautiful i love this song
beautiful voice, beautiful boy
What agreat pleasure to be taken to "that place" by singers and songs ie Mr buckley,glad i was born when i was,yes to our generation.
Wish I was able to see him at his best but it is impossible...this video is amazing. not many are gifted with this incredible talent.
beautiful song, great Tim, thank u
Breathtaking
Thanks for the positive words.
It is an absolute pleasure to listen to someone as gifted as Tim sing any of the treasures he left for us to enjoy.
Comme c'est beau! que d'émotions dans sa simplicité!
"We live, as we dream -- alone." J. Condrad
absolutely beautiful!
So long gone an still sorely missed ,Uploader we salute you!
his voice is uncomparable he takes me away to places in the heart everytime....thanks for posting love him eternally
Fantastic!
I just love him and his music.
Absolute musical magic. Been playing this song on repeat the past few days.
I DONT HAVE WORDS.
my favorite Tim song EVER, its lush!
This lyrical narrative put's me in mind of Albert Camous' The Stranger, because of the stance of our incapacitated view of others through the trappings of materialism, even if not considered rich, just being better off and trying to reason with someone's disposition and the relationship between the two.
Beautiful chord's from a legendary musician and such a unique stand point only he has achieved.
Its so good to know that some people have not forgotten Tim in the past 36 years, and that there are people, myself included, that have been lucky enough to discover him.
Rest in Peace Tim.
X
29 June 1975
Wow. I’ve never heard this song before. So beautiful!
so, so beautiful
such beauty.. and laid back brilliance on the outro