| 94-09-01 | The Garage Finsbury Park, London, England |
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| Setlist: 01. What Will You Say 02. So Real 03. Dream Brother 04. Lilac Wine 05. Hallelujah 06. Eternal Life 07. Lover, You Should've Come Over 08. That's All I Ask 09. Kanga Roo / Chocolate Notes: | Peyote Radio Theater Tour Europe. "September 1, 1994, The Garage in London's Finsbury Park. Jeff Buckley removes his shirt. The first three rows - entirely comprised, it seems, of smitten women - swoon en masse. The room ripples with sweat and electricity throughout the heady song which follows. As it finishes, one girl yells in a desperate, yearning tone, "Have my babies!" "And mine!" shouts another. Jeff laughs. "Hey I gotta show to do." " -- Jim Irvin ("It's Never Over: Jeff Buckley 1966-1997", Mojo Magazine, August 1997) "This one has taken on almost mythic status among Buckley fans, with good reason; it might be the most harrowing and disturbing performance he ever gave, and it certainly engendered the magnificently angry "road version" of Eternal Life. The final encore starts breezily enough, with a relaxed Jeff joking about a lost phone number and dedicating the song to a fan ...and then to "someone else". Nina Simone's beseeching All That I Ask morphs into Big Star's Kangaroo and then into Jeff's own Chocolate improvisation, here stretched and extended into the kind of wired, spontaneous theatre which might have made Jim Morrison proud. It's a descent into the underworld, a stream-of-consciousness assault on stores of memory and desire, a devastating self-flagellation.("There you stare, your finger twisting your red hair, your accusations flying from you, oh you call me a liar, a cheater, you call me a whore..") It's sometimes violent, sometimes erotic, sometimes tender, sometimes terrifying, and so painfully intimate that it becomes overwhelming to witness. "Some day I'd like to become you and to know what it's like to feel me inside...when I wake up in your hair, when I wake up in your arms, I swear upon my blood I understand you, I swear on my grave I understand you..." A Sony executive in the audience later sent him a memo asking him not to repeat the half-hour encore, claiming he was failing to "do justice to himself as an entertainer." Jeff reacted by turning his song Eternal Life into a vicious piece of hardcore directed straight at the music business he so mistrusted. However, Thom Yorke, who was in the audience that night, was reduced to tears. Bassist Colin Greenwood told UK music magazine Mojo how Radiohead returned to the studio after the show and recorded their classic Fake Plastic Trees - a performance which had been eluding them for days." -- (Web Article, Clare O'Brien, 'Flowers in Time' website |
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Notes: stepping down rolloff to under -90dB by 19kHz. Small spike at 15.5kHz. Audible tape hiss. There is a fade at the end of disc 1 (Lover, You should've...) & there is some light static during the beginning of the epic last track but nothing too distracting. FFP: jb1994-09-01d1t01.flac:48e8f41e183b037bb4d56760c4cb29f6 jb1994-09-01d1t02.flac:ecba3f3df1389db4144136d8af379bdb jb1994-09-01d1t03.flac:7f927a74a060c3dbb7021f745fdd6bef jb1994-09-01d1t04.flac:0edce7a7dd6b5a291ffbb18baab6a17c jb1994-09-01d1t05.flac:e11374947d0b27f72c78fb73ad0f7799 jb1994-09-01d1t06.flac:e9f86a786fef568b592639ce991822f3 jb1994-09-01d2t01.flac:24dc870a5c4d3ba8451985a669f9a6a9 jb1994-09-01d2t02.flac:158257916a7584471ac49c6de596a158 jb1994-09-01d2t03.flac:d297e50db004ae7bfe9b8596f9019d09 jb1994-09-01d2t04.flac:c8269f63f91811b012267f568823a3fc |