91-04-26 St. Annes Church, Brooklyn Heights
New York, New York, America
Verified
Setlist:
01. I Never Asked To Be Your Mountain
02. Sefronia - The King's Chain
03. Phantasmagoria in Two
04. Once I Was
Notes:
Public Debut - Tim Buckley Tribute Performance. Sefronia was before intermission, Phantasmagoria was the finale jam, and Once I Was was solo, at the end of the show.

"They found out I sang and they asked me to come," Jeff says now of the tribute concert. "I realized I probably wouldn't ever have another chance to pay my respects, no matter what kind of twisted feelings I have about Tim, no matter what kind of pain or anger I have against him--whatever I haven't come to terms with. The fact that I never got to go to his funeral always bothered me. And I thought, I can sink down with this or I can get off it, and then whatever sort of development I've gone through, at least I've done that."

Asked to go back and do one more song at the end of the tribute show, Jeff reluctantly went out and sang Tim's "Once I Was." "It was the first song my mother ever played me by Tim," he explains. "After she left my stepfather, I guess she wanted to get me into who my father was and she played me 'Once I Was.' So I learned it. It was hard to learn it. I couldn't do a really full version of it at home without crying. I almost cried onstage. I broke a string onstage at the end of that song. They were brand new strings. I was really pissed. I felt embarrassed about the whole thing. I just felt really open and vulnerable. There's such a ravenous cult around Tim and you know how people are. I mean, if people learned they could recreate Jim Morrison from his ancient bone marrow they'd fucking do it." -- Jeff Buckley ('The Arrival of Jeff Buckley: A Talented Young Musician Learns to Navigate the Record Business While Protecting His Music', Bill Flanagan, Musician, February 1994, p97-101)
Source 1a - SBD

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Grade: D
Lineage:
SBD>?>TAPE(x)>CD(x)>EAC>FLAC
Notes:
Hard rolloff to under -90dB at 14kHz. Badly damaged tape heritage evident - high noise floor, and audio warbling...

FFP:
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Source 1b - SBD

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Grade: B
Lineage:
SBD>?>TAPE(x)>?>FLAC
Notes:
Frequency plateau's out at -70dB by 10kHz. Spike at 9.3kHz. No rolloff, unlike source 1a.

FFP:
Jeff Buckley - St Ann's Church, New York 26-Apr-1991 - 01 - I Never Asked To Be Your Mountain..flac:8f1da7a447bdf9749db20d82422a29b7
Jeff Buckley - St Ann's Church, New York 26-Apr-1991 - 02 - Sefronia (The King's Chain).flac:6f2a72428c80a0444e00dadf57bc76d0
Jeff Buckley - St Ann's Church, New York 26-Apr-1991 - 03 - Phantasmagoria In Two.flac:a35c7bfe4a74914c18b141d0c07077d6
Jeff Buckley - St Ann's Church, New York 26-Apr-1991 - 04 - Once I Was.flac:60f91f33bcc7d6f538b87d4040e6e195
Source 1c - SBD

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Grade: C
Lineage:
SBD > ? > TAPE > ? > FLAC
Notes:
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