Jeff Buckley - 'Grace' (Live at Meltdown Festival 1995)
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- "I was amazed when he did meltdown. I asked him what he wanted to sing and he said he'd like to do one of Mahler's Kindertotenlieder in the original German! Absolutely fucking fearless. He was convinced he could sing it without rehearsal, just because he liked it. In the end he did a Purcell song, Dido's Lament, which is in danger of sounding incredibly poignant in retrospect: 'Remember me but forget my fate.' But he also sand Boy With the Thorn In His Side because he liked it, and Grace to show something of himself" - Elvis Costello
Oh my god!!! I saw this live, was sitting right at the front. So incredibly happy to find it uploaded. It was one of the most amazing things I ever witnessed in my life!
I'll admit I didn't know much about Jeff Buckley, had heard of his Dad of course, so when me and Wendy saw Elvis come on to introduce Jeff and, with us being in 3rd row I seem to recall, the explosion of applause behind us made us look at each other and say, 'Jeff who?' What an introduction to his music eh! It was a great but too short a set, just like his life. This is great to hear again.
whoah !! just finding the meltdown audios after wondering for years if anyone had recorded them Thank you sooo much. I was there .. it was unearthly... unreal.. now hearing them again they are as amazing, spine-chilling as I remembered, maybe moreso.. the word stunning is overused- not for these performances; Jeff's spirit, his gift, whatever it was that allowed him to channel such fearsome beauty was/is shocking. It reminds me what is is to be in the presence of radical presence.
Thank you! Thank you so much Jeff!
Beautiful version
Wow, first time hearing this one, I thought I had all the meltdown festival songs. Incredible!
Jeff Lives, lucky us. No one else like him. As allhealed said below: Radical Presence - perfect.
the voice from heaven or hell... not from earth
Absolutely from heaven ^^
Oooh, much better sounding than the bootlegs I've had for 10+ years! I kind of recall hearing that Elvis Costello has tapes of Meltdown, but won't release them for some reason.
Jeff. You f*cking legend.
The pain you left behind
Wow. Thank you
legend
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yup
It's official: I want Siouxsie to cover this acoustic version of "Grace" for her next album. Sioux's ghostly, emotive, exotic voice could do this great justice...on this song, his voice reminds me a lot of her stylings. I remember her remarking how she believed she was truly a songwriter when she found out that Jeff Buckley had did a cover of (hers and Budgie's) The Creatures' (1989) song, "Killing Time". One good tribute deserves another. It seems the Meltdown Festivals are just good witchery.
soundboard tapes anyone?