Whispering Bob got it wrong! I did not play bass on the show I played fender Rhodes. The bass player was Frank........... I can't remember his surname but he was a drinking buddy of Charlie Whitney who played lap steel guitar on the gig. I'm amazed how many times the two songs we recorded have been replayed by BBC and released multiple times on DVD's. Just goes to show how these odd one off performances become so popular. Funny watching it after all these years but Buckley was a powerful performer for sure.
Dickie it's one of the best things on TH-cam-- so awesome you chimed in. I've never seen a man sing the blues quite like Tim Buckley. It's kind of like a pure tenor opera voice singing tripped out songs. Yall were so good on these two tunes.
Live at a small club near Fenway Park in Boston April 1973. We had a blast. Stayed for both shows, front table. The band bought us drinks in between sets and visited. We all had a grand time. How anyone can compare his son to him is beyond me. Tim was one of a kind. His voice was 3 more instruments.
This take is asinine, and I say that as someone who absolutely loves just about every note Tim sang. Jeff was an ASTONISHING talent, and you’re simply kidding yourself
I played Fender Rhodes on this performance not bass as Whispering Bob announces. Charlie Whitney is playing a Fender lap steel guitar not a pedal steel. When Tim arrived his guitar had been held up/lost by the airline. He was very upset and thought we would not be able get him a temporary replacement. It was a Fender XII model electric 12 string, a pretty rare guitar then and now. Charlie Whitney had one and Tim was surprised and very pleased. I had lunch with Tim Buckley and found him to be a real cool, laid back guy and very interesting. I was shocked when I heard of his death as I'm pretty sure he was not a heroin type of guy but then.......
Fascinating! how did you get to be in the "pick up band"? I assume you were all session musicians and were in the right place at the right time? FYI I really do feel that this version of Honey man and the Dolphins cover that you all did are MUCH better than the album versions (as is the case with so may whistle test sessions!!.....)
It was Stuart Hornell at Warner Bros who called me about the gig. He also called me for the Tom Waits TV special. I owe him! In some respect it was being at the right place at the right time but I also feel my experience playing with a lot of top acts helped.
What a special person he was. I talked to a guy about Tim not that long ago and he told me nothing but his "folk" albums were worth listening to. I couldn't believe it, I'm a fan of everything I've ever heard of his. He couldn't be contained by any specific genre.
Love Tim Buckley 💜 Discovered him in 1976 age 16 and was my teenage crush. This is a great live version of one of my favourite songs. Thanks for posting..
Someone said that Buckley had a wrist problem & could not play bar cords. However, clearly in this version of Honey man he appears to use some bar cords. Just an observation. What a voice...true blues. Vince James
The someone was Lee Underwood in his book, and I'm not sure it was the wrist, I would have said a knuckles problem (this has to be checked out), he had had while playing american football in high school.
This is actually a conservative , conventional one for Tim. It is not a radical innovative one like the Starsailor LP. Tim demonstrates in this clip how versatile he is . He can do melodic hook laden folk and pop. He can do psychedelia and jazz. Here he does an excellent original bluesy one . What a talent he was but he never really broke through to the mainstream
BBC Four on a Friday night is a godsend... some great documentaries that are always interesting even if they're covering a genre I don't particularly listen to... "Dolphins" had been in circulation for ages, so much so I began to doubt anything else remained in the vaults but here we have this real, raw live performance (amongst the VERY VERY FEW pieces of footage we have of this genius at work!) Amazing how many people I've seen thinking The Who performance of "Relay" is live!
Charlie Whitney’s Fender Lap Steel contribution has this slightly eerie effect especially when it’s repetitive. When he’s soloing with it, it reminds me of the guitar tone George Harrison had sometimes, like on John Lennon’s ‘I Don’t Wanna Be A Soldier, Mama, I Don’t Wanna Die.’
It was the same show, Zararity - singers and bands used to do two songs on the OGWT. I taped this on a reel-to-reel when it first aired and I still have the recording! I never thought I'd see it again though.
How do you figure that? He did what he needed to do. I get really tired of stupid, non-playing motherfuckers saying ignorant shit like that. You never walked in his shoes, so how the fuck would you know?
Timmy just missed the iconic age of passing away at age 27,but that was Tim Buckley- he was unique. He walked to the beat of his own drum and this performance is so wonderful! One of my faves!
Oh sorry - obviously it's BBC4 (thank God for BBC4's Friday nights) but I couldn't tell you exactly when it was broadcast. They've done several Whistle Test compilations and specials - I was glad to see this performance for a change rather than Dolphins (which I think is on the OGWT DVD anyway). This is an amazing performance, and the band is playing live, which a lot of bands didn't on the OGWT - even the Who played with a backing track.
@posthumanhero I really like Greetings form L.A, nothing but cathchy, songs great hooks and monster vocals, Starsailor whilst admiringly experimental is a tough album to find a suitable time to listen to, my favourite Tim stuff is Goodbye and Hello, and Happy Sad, but he reinvented himself so often that the later period stuff could be considered an entirely different artist
As a singer i can confirm that Tim had a lot of control! In my opinion neither his son Jeff was at that level of voice control and mixing during live performances. Both were insane singers but Tim passed him for some reasons. Shame he was an heroin addicted and died too soon. Hope that father and son are playing together in heaven now (:
maybe just maybe he was too much of perfectionist and did not realize the gift that God had given him, to express some of our deepest yearnings to really connect with our opposite number, but one thing I will always love him for, is that he never held anything back, he gave his very soul in his attempt to convey to us, he had a lot of love to give.
June 29, 1975...Bye, bye baby. Tim was no longer a hard drug user and had cleaned himself up of that shit at that time in his life. Booze was another matter. It is believed that Tim mistakenly thought he was snorting cocaine. The coroner's report indicated there were no signs of heroin addiction. The booze mixed with the heroin did him in. His son Jeff mistakenly thought he could swim in the confluence of the Wolf and Mississippi rivers. The area where Jeff drowned was notorious for drownings. Jeff was new to Memphis and wasn't aware of it. I don't like the comparing game. They both had extraordinary vocal ranges in styles of music where it wasn't expected. They both touched raw nerves of emotion that gripped the listener or at least us fans.
I meant to ask what show was it RE-broadcast on... my mistake! It's amazing to see this, but I regularly watch music shows on BBC Four and have never ever seen one containing this... astounding to see it dug out from the vaults!
Good to see this here. I'd been trying for months to upload this better quality video to supplant the camrip present here on TH-cam, but it ended up being rejected every single time due to ''terms of use violation". How did you do it?
So hot ... Very wrong me saying That as he would be 65-67 by now? :O But what beautiful voices him and jeff had :'( hope they're rocking it up in heaven
Great looking, great voice, great songwriter, great guitarist - the guy had it all.
Great smile...
The objectifying live it
The most extraordinary and original male vocalist of the twentieth century. RIP Tim
Absolutely!!
This head shaking during high notes, it's so Jeff.
the other way around surely?
@@jamesvonhendriksen6314 Yes you're right. I was only saying that I can see Jeff in his dad and vice versa.
@@HelloSpyMyLie That's kind of irrelevant. I was just commenting on being reminded of his son in the dad's mannerisms.
@@jamesvonhendriksen6314 His pinky didn't have the talent of Jeff
*it's so Tim. but I love Jeff for picking up on his dad's mannerisms
These live versions of "Honey man" and "Dolphins" are even better than the studio versions. I like it so much!
live version of "get on top" that's right up there too
The version of dolphins is raw and the guitar is sublime. The studio version seems dull in comparison I think
No real place for this man to breathe in the cesspool of the music industry.
saddest father son tragedy, along with bruce and brandon lee.
Too talented.
I never saw the comparison till now i see it like the bobbi kristina brown and Whitney houston tragedy
@@adonaiyah2196 and the daughter
Tragedy really does dog some families down through the generations. Seen it too many times.
I saw this live in 1974 when at uni. Tim was the greatest and what a voice
Tim pales in comparison to his son Jeff.
@@tonyhamsardoo8902 couldn't agree more. Jeff was insane.
I think i prefer him to his son. More material i can only listen to mojo pin so many times
Oh please, let's not have this argument. They both came from a long line of tenors; if you haven't read "Dream Brothers," it's a must.
@@hopelove6658 Tim sounds more like a man and didn't shriek like a Banshee in every song.
I am impressed with the steel guitar player's skill and technique!
He was the guitarist in Family
Whispering Bob got it wrong! I did not play bass on the show I played fender Rhodes. The bass player was Frank........... I can't remember his surname but he was a drinking buddy of Charlie Whitney who played lap steel guitar on the gig. I'm amazed how many times the two songs we recorded have been replayed by BBC and released multiple times on DVD's. Just goes to show how these odd one off performances become so popular. Funny watching it after all these years but Buckley was a powerful performer for sure.
Dickie it's one of the best things on TH-cam-- so awesome you chimed in. I've never seen a man sing the blues quite like Tim Buckley. It's kind of like a pure tenor opera voice singing tripped out songs. Yall were so good on these two tunes.
Frank Farrell on bass...
dickie pride i
Nice one. He's says it so knowledgeably that no one has ever contradicted him till now.Terrible tragic endings for both Buckleys, father& son
dickie pride wow you played with Tim?
“The only thing I ever stole from my father was a fleeting glimpse.”, quoth 💀 Son of Buckley.
Live at a small club near Fenway Park in Boston April 1973. We had a blast. Stayed for both shows, front table. The band bought us drinks in between sets and visited. We all had a grand time. How anyone can compare his son to him is beyond me. Tim was one of a kind. His voice was 3 more instruments.
Have you ever listened to his son ??
This take is asinine, and I say that as someone who absolutely loves just about every note Tim sang. Jeff was an ASTONISHING talent, and you’re simply kidding yourself
I played Fender Rhodes on this performance not bass as Whispering Bob announces. Charlie Whitney is playing a Fender lap steel guitar not a pedal steel. When Tim arrived his guitar had been held up/lost by the airline. He was very upset and thought we would not be able get him a temporary replacement. It was a Fender XII model electric 12 string, a pretty rare guitar then and now. Charlie Whitney had one and Tim was surprised and very pleased. I had lunch with Tim Buckley and found him to be a real cool, laid back guy and very interesting. I was shocked when I heard of his death as I'm pretty sure he was not a heroin type of guy but then.......
Fascinating! how did you get to be in the "pick up band"? I assume you were all session musicians and were in the right place at the right time? FYI I really do feel that this version of Honey man and the Dolphins cover that you all did are MUCH better than the album versions (as is the case with so may whistle test sessions!!.....)
It was Stuart Hornell at Warner Bros who called me about the gig. He also called me for the Tom Waits TV special. I owe him!
In some respect it was being at the right place at the right time but I also feel my experience playing with a lot of top acts helped.
You my friend are a legend!!! RESPECT!!! XXXxxx
I LOVE that Rhodes sound! One more question, who was playing bass?
dickie pride great stuff dude , you should be so proud.
It's a shame how much better this is than the album version :(
Theres an OGWT version of Dolphins on TH-cam thats better than anything I've heard on record.
Was Charley Whitney playing on this session?
What a special gift he was to this world. That passion and glimmer is so rare to find now. But also wOAH TIM
Beyond genius. ❤❤❤❤
LOVE THIS MAN~~~MY "SWEET LITTLE HONEY MAN"~~~~WRONG TIME, WRONG PLACE......RIP, SWEETNESS~~~
every time i watch this vid i wish I was that microphone!
Wow...a proper singerist !!
What a special person he was. I talked to a guy about Tim not that long ago and he told me nothing but his "folk" albums were worth listening to. I couldn't believe it, I'm a fan of everything I've ever heard of his. He couldn't be contained by any specific genre.
Veramente unico. Dal 1975 il mio preferito rip Tim
Top guy great voice a one off... way underrated
THIS IS ADDICTIVE
wow, Love Charlie's signature slide work and Buckley's vocals...
the djinn in full force at the end there. LOVE YOU TIM IM IN LOVE WITH YOU YOURE JUST OUT OF THIS WORLD
Indeed, the djinn at full force. A pity it didn't protect him from his own microcosm
What a voice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
A great freakin' tune, still a stunner after all these years...
Very underrated
Love Tim Buckley 💜 Discovered him in 1976 age 16 and was my teenage crush. This is a great live version of one of my favourite songs. Thanks for posting..
Watched this a lot as I am writing about Tim,Jeff and the love of the sea! Can't really think of a better performance on OGWT! Absolutely amazing.
Magnifique...! Sadly missed 😟...!
My honey man!
absolute legend!!
Great song and performer, thank you for this. I discovered Jeff first and now am studying his father's music.
wow that's groooooving 🤠 the high pitch singing reminds me of someone
Someone said that Buckley had a wrist problem & could not play bar cords. However, clearly in this version of Honey man he appears to use some bar cords. Just an observation. What a voice...true blues. Vince James
The someone was Lee Underwood in his book, and I'm not sure it was the wrist, I would have said a knuckles problem (this has to be checked out), he had had while playing american football in high school.
*OH NO HES HOT*
One of my favourite vocalists... especially Sefronia: After Asklepiades, After Kafka from this album... and Peanut Man, and Because Of You...
Yeah me too and at the start he sings..."I am king here tied to this hut by the king's chain"
His voice and vibrato are just heavenly.
2:59 - 3:03 glorious...
A singer truly "pica das galáxias"
Bao cum força
real demais, o cara é foda
This song is so great! so much thanks you for this song Tim Buckley!
People might think Sefronia as a confusing album, but the spirit inside of it was promising....
I think it's maybe my favourite of his - it flows well. The debut is excellent too, if a bit samey.
40 years! :'( #GreetingsFromEarthMrBuckley
... like father like sun... music of angels...
This is hits so hard. Pure rock. Woo
This is actually a conservative , conventional one for Tim. It is not a radical innovative one like the Starsailor LP. Tim demonstrates in this clip how versatile he is . He can do melodic hook laden folk and pop. He can do psychedelia and jazz. Here he does an excellent original bluesy one . What a talent he was but he never really broke through to the mainstream
Whispering Bob> It's Just that there are so little live performances for Tim.
I loved it all, and all played BRILL.
FIFTY years old and still sounding good!
Un genio con una voce pazzesca!
Sei e sarai per sempre unico....
BBC Four on a Friday night is a godsend... some great documentaries that are always interesting even if they're covering a genre I don't particularly listen to...
"Dolphins" had been in circulation for ages, so much so I began to doubt anything else remained in the vaults but here we have this real, raw live performance (amongst the VERY VERY FEW pieces of footage we have of this genius at work!)
Amazing how many people I've seen thinking The Who performance of "Relay" is live!
thing is this is one amazing live set.
the best voice in the universe
Hot.
Charlie Whitney’s Fender Lap Steel contribution has this slightly eerie effect especially when it’s repetitive. When he’s soloing with it, it reminds me of the guitar tone George Harrison had sometimes, like on John Lennon’s ‘I Don’t Wanna Be A Soldier, Mama, I Don’t Wanna Die.’
Well said, graet companions. Charlie's always a class act.
Grande ❤️
Tim Buckley played in Ann Arbor, Mi, saw him live there about 1973 @ the Power Center( U Of M campus )
what a fucking legend that man was.....playit flull blast headphones drunkxxxxxxxxxxx
Stellar stuff..
amazing ...play it full blast through headphones
It was the same show, Zararity - singers and bands used to do two songs on the OGWT. I taped this on a reel-to-reel when it first aired and I still have the recording! I never thought I'd see it again though.
souvenir de jeunesse
Meu, esse cara era cantava demais! Expressão muito foda! Uma pena que se foi tão cedo...
I have often heard Tim Buckley compared to Nick Drake . Another genius who was gone to soon . I happen to agree .
Talent is in the double helix.
AWESOME!!! Thank you for this video.
Legendary
Mad I saw this message as I was listening to my friends radio show, hes playin "Pleasant st" some tune
Oh hell yes!
is anyone else unable to hear tim's guitar in the mix ??
Outstanding vocal control. One of the greatest wastes of talent ever
How do you figure that? He did what he needed to do. I get really tired of stupid, non-playing motherfuckers saying ignorant shit like that. You never walked in his shoes, so how the fuck would you know?
damn he could sing
Great video 💓🔥🍺 !
Great !!
Timmy just missed the iconic age of passing away at age 27,but that was Tim Buckley- he was unique. He walked to the beat of his own drum and this performance is so wonderful! One of my faves!
Iconic age? 🤨 are you nuts? i wish he lived till now so i can meet him because i born too late. there's nothing iconic in dying so young.🤦♂️
Oh sorry - obviously it's BBC4 (thank God for BBC4's Friday nights) but I couldn't tell you exactly when it was broadcast. They've done several Whistle Test compilations and specials - I was glad to see this performance for a change rather than Dolphins (which I think is on the OGWT DVD anyway). This is an amazing performance, and the band is playing live, which a lot of bands didn't on the OGWT - even the Who played with a backing track.
素晴らしい...
Unbelievable...
@posthumanhero I really like Greetings form L.A, nothing but cathchy, songs great hooks and monster vocals, Starsailor whilst admiringly experimental is a tough album to find a suitable time to listen to, my favourite Tim stuff is Goodbye and Hello, and Happy Sad, but he reinvented himself so often that the later period stuff could be considered an entirely different artist
He can be my sweet little honey man 🥵
That is Ian Wallace on drums and the legend Charlie Whitney (Family) on slide guitar
Charlie Whitney was a genius. What he did on albums like "Fearless" and "Bandstand" is wonderful.
great
Yes
He looks like John Lennon on 0:32 for just one moment
3:50 onwards - and THAT is how you sing!
❤
As a singer i can confirm that Tim had a lot of control! In my opinion neither his son Jeff was at that level of voice control and mixing during live performances. Both were insane singers but Tim passed him for some reasons. Shame he was an heroin addicted and died too soon. Hope that father and son are playing together in heaven now (:
maybe just maybe he was too much of perfectionist and did not realize the gift that God had given him, to express some of our deepest yearnings to really connect with our opposite number, but one thing I will always love him for, is that he never held anything back, he gave his very soul in his attempt to convey to us, he had a lot of love to give.
June 29, 1975...Bye, bye baby. Tim was no longer a hard drug user and had cleaned himself up of that shit at that time in his life. Booze was another matter. It is believed that Tim mistakenly thought he was snorting cocaine. The coroner's report indicated there were no signs of heroin addiction. The booze mixed with the heroin did him in.
His son Jeff mistakenly thought he could swim in the confluence of the Wolf and Mississippi rivers. The area where Jeff drowned was notorious for drownings. Jeff was new to Memphis and wasn't aware of it. I don't like the comparing game. They both had extraordinary vocal ranges in styles of music where it wasn't expected. They both touched raw nerves of emotion that gripped the listener or at least us fans.
No that’s far off.. Jeff was far greater. Better lyricist, singer, artist, guitarist and human being
That looks like the King Crimson drummer at the end.
#don gato….the late great ian Wallace on drums, indeed you spotted correctly
3:16-3:23 those parts sound so much like Jeff 😢
Did anyone notice the eerie noise that makes it difficult to listen to this song with headphones on
is it me or did it suddenly get HOT in here ?
If I ever go gay, I want HIM to be MY honey man!
You've already gone gay, you just haven't admitted to to yourself yet :D
I meant to ask what show was it RE-broadcast on... my mistake!
It's amazing to see this, but I regularly watch music shows on BBC Four and have never ever seen one containing this... astounding to see it dug out from the vaults!
Tim Buckley would have made a good Joker for 70s Batman
❤🍯🐝
Good to see this here.
I'd been trying for months to upload this better quality video to supplant the camrip present here on TH-cam, but it ended up being rejected every single time due to ''terms of use violation". How did you do it?
Is that a sho-bud pedal steel guitar?? Haunting sound!!
What show was this broadcast on? I've only ever seen the "Dolphins" performance from this show before!
So hot ... Very wrong me saying That as he would be 65-67 by now? :O But what beautiful voices him and jeff had :'( hope they're rocking it up in heaven
Tim was born on February 14th 1947 :) Valentine's Day.
Anyone know the words to this song, ha
@BlackSabbathory That's coz he looked 30 when he was 19 :)
Amazing, unequivocal Tim.