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Jeff Buckley – Everybody Here Wants You full length documentary and full concert
“He quite clearly had his feet on the ground and his head and his imagination was flying way, way out there, beyond, beyond.”
– Jimmy Page
I remember when I first heard Jeff Buckley at a record store, I bought Grace that day. After that I’ve gotten everything that was released by him.
This 2002 documentary, revisits the short life and times of the young artist. The movie has stories and testimonies from Jimmy Page, Patti Smith, Chrissie Hynde and many more of the people who were close to Jeff Buckley. It tells the story of his early work as a guitarist in Los Angeles and his emergence as a singer and songwriter in New York. There are 4 or 5 Jeff Buckley docus out there, but this is my favorite.
Everybody Here Wants You (documentary):
I’ve included a full set from Frankfurt in 1992, great quality, intense concert (as expected):
Setlist Jeff Buckley live in Sudbahnhof the 24/02/1995
01 – 00:03 – Chocolate
02 – 05:20 – Mojo Pin
03 – 12:15 – Band introduction
04 – 12:56 – So real
05 – 19:10 – Last Goodbye
06 – 24:00 – Jeff speaking
07 – 24:37 – What will you say (first time ever sung)
08 – 32:30 – Jeff speaking
09 – 33:47 – Lilac Wine (incredible version)
10 – 40:35 – Jeff speaking
11 – 42:05 – Grace
Enjoy!
– Hallgeir
Today: it is 16 years since Jeff Buckely died
“He really wasn’t built for the strand of rock music borne of rebellion or release; he was a songbird…”
– Dominique Leone (Pitchfork)
Today marks the sixteenth anniversary of Jeff Buckley’s tragic drowning in the Wolf River. Jeff Buckley was a man who shunned celebrity, he had spent two years touring in support ofGrace, before recording what he intended be his next album, My Sweetheart the Drunk.
He never got to see its release. In 1997, while re-recording a few songs, Jeff Buckley drowned after going for a swim. It was was ruled an accidental drowning.
It was posthumously released under the name Sketches For My Sweetheart The Drunk after Buckley’s mother asked for a title change because of the unfinished state of the songs.
“Jeff Buckley was a pure drop in an ocean of noise.”
– Bono
Jeffrey Scott “Jeff” Buckley (November 17, 1966 – May 29, 1997), raised as Scotty Moorhead, was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. He was the son of Tim Buckley, also a musician. After a decade as a guitarist-for-hire in Los Angeles, Buckley amassed a following in the early 1990s by playing cover songs at venues in Manhattan’s East Village, such as Sin-é, gradually focusing more on his own material. After rebuffing much interest from record labelsand his father’s manager Herb Cohen, he signed with Columbia, recruited a band, and recorded what would be his only studio album, Grace. (wikipedia)
Documentary from Columbia Records on the making of Grace:
Awards and nominations
- MTV Video Music Award nomination for Best New Artist in a Video for “Last Goodbye”, 1995.
- Rolling Stone magazine nomination for Best New Artist, 1995.
- In 2006, Mojo named Grace the #1 Modern Rock Classic of all Time. It was also rated as Australia’s second favorite album on My Favourite Album, a television special aired by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on December 3, 2006.
- Grammy Award nomination for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance for “Everybody Here Wants You”, 1998.
- Grace was ranked #303 of the 500 Greatest Albums by Rolling Stone in 2003.
- Buckley’s cover of “Hallelujah” was ranked #259 of the 500 Greatest Songs by Rolling Stone in 2004.
- Rolling Stone ranked Buckley #39 in its 2008 list: The 100 Greatest Singers of All Time.
Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen) – Jeff Buckley:
The Album of the day is of course Grace:
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