Chords for Jeff Buckley On Tim Buckley
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Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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I guess today on the World Cafe, warming up on [G] whammy barless [F#] versions of some surf classics.
It's kind of been the object of a ferocious music industry buzz for the last couple of years.
[G] A buzz that began with a solo performance at a 1991 tribute concert to his late father, Tim Buckley,
and he seems to have weathered the storm and is about to release his first album on Sony.
Jeff Buckley joins us.
Welcome.
Hi.
[N] I was curious as to how you ended up on the bill at the Tim Buckley benefit concert,
because my understanding is you didn't really know your father that well.
Did you know his music well?
I don't know how I ended up.
I think somebody talked to the
He split before I was born.
He didn't really keep contact with me and my mom, except for one time.
And I was asleep at the time.
I was probably two.
You know, it was like he went off, he decided not to be a father.
So, just me and my mom.
And I saw him once for a week, and then it was two months before he crashed on heroin.
And in between then there was no contact, and in between the death and the funeral there was no contact.
And I guess I missed it.
It always bugged me.
So I decided to
They asked me to come, the people at St.
Ann's, the very beautiful people at St.
Ann's.
They asked me to come.
I said no at first.
And then I said, okay, but I don't want to be billed, and I just want to come on and sing and come off.
This is not a springboard.
This is something really personal.
And I would never, and probably will never, ever perform that music, you know, as I've got my own music.
And then after that, that's how I met Gary Lucas.
Gary was playing there also, with Gods and Monsters?
No, he was by himself.
He was playing with somebody who was collaborating with Julia Hayward,
a really great performance artist in New York.
Were you surprised by the reaction?
And were you leery of the reaction?
Leery and not surprised, no.
Yeah.
As I didn't think it had anything to do with me at all.
And there's a
I don't really dig talking about this subject,
but my friend Bill Flanagan wrote this really loving article about me.
And I came on the stage and he said he heard Tim Buckley's haunted voice.
And if that's the impression I gave to people, it was purely
It's not his voice, and it's not my voice.
It's the voice that's been passed down through every man in the family.
His father, I found out, sang.
He had a beautiful voice.
Wow.
It's just an Irish thing.
You wouldn't understand.
Can I say something?
I don't hate my father.
And I don't resent him existing.
It's just something I've grown up with all my life.
Not being a part of the life that has so much energy over here and having my own.
And then when you're a kid, people assume that you have no mind of your own,
which at a very early age I did.
It's my way of resisting people's trivialization of my music.
If it should be known, and it should,
I have a great, great admiration for Tim and what he did.
And some things that he did completely embarrassed me to hell.
But the things that were great, I'll hold up against anything.
But that's a respect as a fellow artist, because he really wasn't my father.
My father was Ron Moorhead.
But because I've done so many interviews and I look at the page,
I think that the feeling that comes across, it's not accurate.
It shouldn't be remembered as that, because it looks very
I guess today on the World Cafe, warming up on [G] whammy barless [F#] versions of some surf classics.
It's kind of been the object of a ferocious music industry buzz for the last couple of years.
[G] A buzz that began with a solo performance at a 1991 tribute concert to his late father, Tim Buckley,
and he seems to have weathered the storm and is about to release his first album on Sony.
Jeff Buckley joins us.
Welcome.
Hi.
[N] I was curious as to how you ended up on the bill at the Tim Buckley benefit concert,
because my understanding is you didn't really know your father that well.
Did you know his music well?
I don't know how I ended up.
I think somebody talked to the
He split before I was born.
He didn't really keep contact with me and my mom, except for one time.
And I was asleep at the time.
I was probably two.
You know, it was like he went off, he decided not to be a father.
So, just me and my mom.
And I saw him once for a week, and then it was two months before he crashed on heroin.
And in between then there was no contact, and in between the death and the funeral there was no contact.
And I guess I missed it.
It always bugged me.
So I decided to
They asked me to come, the people at St.
Ann's, the very beautiful people at St.
Ann's.
They asked me to come.
I said no at first.
And then I said, okay, but I don't want to be billed, and I just want to come on and sing and come off.
This is not a springboard.
This is something really personal.
And I would never, and probably will never, ever perform that music, you know, as I've got my own music.
And then after that, that's how I met Gary Lucas.
Gary was playing there also, with Gods and Monsters?
No, he was by himself.
He was playing with somebody who was collaborating with Julia Hayward,
a really great performance artist in New York.
Were you surprised by the reaction?
And were you leery of the reaction?
Leery and not surprised, no.
Yeah.
As I didn't think it had anything to do with me at all.
And there's a
I don't really dig talking about this subject,
but my friend Bill Flanagan wrote this really loving article about me.
And I came on the stage and he said he heard Tim Buckley's haunted voice.
And if that's the impression I gave to people, it was purely
It's not his voice, and it's not my voice.
It's the voice that's been passed down through every man in the family.
His father, I found out, sang.
He had a beautiful voice.
Wow.
It's just an Irish thing.
You wouldn't understand.
Can I say something?
I don't hate my father.
And I don't resent him existing.
It's just something I've grown up with all my life.
Not being a part of the life that has so much energy over here and having my own.
And then when you're a kid, people assume that you have no mind of your own,
which at a very early age I did.
It's my way of resisting people's trivialization of my music.
If it should be known, and it should,
I have a great, great admiration for Tim and what he did.
And some things that he did completely embarrassed me to hell.
But the things that were great, I'll hold up against anything.
But that's a respect as a fellow artist, because he really wasn't my father.
My father was Ron Moorhead.
But because I've done so many interviews and I look at the page,
I think that the feeling that comes across, it's not accurate.
It shouldn't be remembered as that, because it looks very
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_ _ _ I guess today on the World Cafe, warming up on [G] whammy barless [F#] versions of some surf classics.
It's kind of been the object of a ferocious music industry buzz for the last couple of years.
[G] A buzz that began with a solo performance at a 1991 tribute concert to his late father, Tim Buckley,
and he seems to have weathered the storm and is about to release his first album on Sony.
Jeff Buckley joins us.
Welcome.
Hi.
[N] I was curious as to how you ended up on the bill at the Tim Buckley benefit concert,
because my understanding is you didn't really know your father that well.
Did you know his music well?
I don't know how I ended up.
I think somebody talked to the_
_ He split before I was born. _ _
He didn't really keep contact with me and my mom, except for one time.
And I was asleep at the time.
I was probably two.
You know, it was like he went off, he decided not to be a father.
So, just me and my mom.
And I saw him once for a week, and then it was two months before he crashed on heroin.
_ _ _ And in between then there was no contact, and in between the death and the funeral there was no contact.
And I guess I missed it.
It always bugged me.
So I decided to_
They asked me to come, the people at St.
Ann's, the very beautiful people at St.
Ann's.
They asked me to come.
I said no at first.
And then I said, okay, but I don't want to be billed, and I just want to come on and sing and come off. _ _
This is not a springboard.
This is something really personal. _ _
And I would never, and probably will never, ever perform that music, you know, as I've got my own music.
And then after that, that's how I met Gary Lucas.
Gary was playing there also, with Gods and Monsters?
No, he was by himself.
He was playing with somebody who was collaborating with Julia Hayward,
a really great performance artist in New York.
Were you surprised by the reaction?
And were you leery of the reaction?
Leery and not surprised, no.
Yeah. _
As I didn't think it had anything to do with me at all.
And there's _ a_
I don't really dig talking about this subject,
but my friend Bill Flanagan wrote this really loving article about me.
And I came on the stage and he said he heard Tim Buckley's haunted voice.
And if that's the impression I gave to people, it was purely_
It's not his voice, and it's not my voice.
It's the voice that's been passed down through every man in the family.
His father, I found out, sang.
He had a beautiful voice.
Wow.
It's just an Irish thing.
You wouldn't understand.
Can I say something?
I don't hate my father.
And I don't _ resent him existing. _
_ It's just something I've grown up with all my life.
Not being a part of the life that has so much energy over here and having my own.
And then when you're a kid, people assume that you have no mind of your own,
which at a very early age I did.
It's my way of resisting people's trivialization of my music. _ _
If it should be known, and it should,
I have a great, great admiration for Tim and what he did.
And some things that he did completely embarrassed me to hell.
But the things that were great, I'll hold up against anything.
But that's a respect as a fellow artist, because he really wasn't my father.
My father was Ron Moorhead.
_ _ _ _ But _ because I've done so many interviews and I look at the page,
I think that the feeling that comes across, it's not accurate.
It shouldn't be remembered as that, because it looks very
_ _ _ I guess today on the World Cafe, warming up on [G] whammy barless [F#] versions of some surf classics.
It's kind of been the object of a ferocious music industry buzz for the last couple of years.
[G] A buzz that began with a solo performance at a 1991 tribute concert to his late father, Tim Buckley,
and he seems to have weathered the storm and is about to release his first album on Sony.
Jeff Buckley joins us.
Welcome.
Hi.
[N] I was curious as to how you ended up on the bill at the Tim Buckley benefit concert,
because my understanding is you didn't really know your father that well.
Did you know his music well?
I don't know how I ended up.
I think somebody talked to the_
_ He split before I was born. _ _
He didn't really keep contact with me and my mom, except for one time.
And I was asleep at the time.
I was probably two.
You know, it was like he went off, he decided not to be a father.
So, just me and my mom.
And I saw him once for a week, and then it was two months before he crashed on heroin.
_ _ _ And in between then there was no contact, and in between the death and the funeral there was no contact.
And I guess I missed it.
It always bugged me.
So I decided to_
They asked me to come, the people at St.
Ann's, the very beautiful people at St.
Ann's.
They asked me to come.
I said no at first.
And then I said, okay, but I don't want to be billed, and I just want to come on and sing and come off. _ _
This is not a springboard.
This is something really personal. _ _
And I would never, and probably will never, ever perform that music, you know, as I've got my own music.
And then after that, that's how I met Gary Lucas.
Gary was playing there also, with Gods and Monsters?
No, he was by himself.
He was playing with somebody who was collaborating with Julia Hayward,
a really great performance artist in New York.
Were you surprised by the reaction?
And were you leery of the reaction?
Leery and not surprised, no.
Yeah. _
As I didn't think it had anything to do with me at all.
And there's _ a_
I don't really dig talking about this subject,
but my friend Bill Flanagan wrote this really loving article about me.
And I came on the stage and he said he heard Tim Buckley's haunted voice.
And if that's the impression I gave to people, it was purely_
It's not his voice, and it's not my voice.
It's the voice that's been passed down through every man in the family.
His father, I found out, sang.
He had a beautiful voice.
Wow.
It's just an Irish thing.
You wouldn't understand.
Can I say something?
I don't hate my father.
And I don't _ resent him existing. _
_ It's just something I've grown up with all my life.
Not being a part of the life that has so much energy over here and having my own.
And then when you're a kid, people assume that you have no mind of your own,
which at a very early age I did.
It's my way of resisting people's trivialization of my music. _ _
If it should be known, and it should,
I have a great, great admiration for Tim and what he did.
And some things that he did completely embarrassed me to hell.
But the things that were great, I'll hold up against anything.
But that's a respect as a fellow artist, because he really wasn't my father.
My father was Ron Moorhead.
_ _ _ _ But _ because I've done so many interviews and I look at the page,
I think that the feeling that comes across, it's not accurate.
It shouldn't be remembered as that, because it looks very