| 95-09-06 | Phoenician Club Sydney, NSW, Australia |
| Verified |
| Setlist: 01. Dream Brother 02. Mojo Pin 03. So Real 04. Last Goodbye 05. What Will You Say 06. Lilac Wine 07. Grace 08. Eternal Life 09. Kick Out The Jams 10. The Way Young Lovers Do 11. That's All I Ask 12. Lover, You Should've Come Over 13. If You See Her, Say Hello 14. Hallelujah 15. Vancouver 16. Kanga Roo Notes: | Tracks 9-16 were not broadcast. Broadcast 11/9/95, rebroadcast 25/12/95 and 9/6/97. "Jeff Buckley's two visits to Sydney left an enduring impression. He came twice within six months, first in August of 1995 and then in February of last year. That first brief trip came on the back of an extended European tour. "I was getting tired of it in the last moments of playing in Europe, but it's entirely new here and I've had time to convalesce," he told a reporter on arrival. Over the next few days, he gave two unforgettable performances: one at a small club called the Lounge in Melbourne and the other at Sydney's Metro nightclub. To those present, the Metro show on August 28 rates as one of the greatest musical performances ever witnessed in this city. In a magical 90 minutes, Buckley and his three-piece band delivered a remarkable set of light and shade featuring much of the Grace album as well as the aggressive covers of MC5's "Kick Out the Jams" and Big Star's "Kanga-Roo". Buckley's pure, acrobatic voice sounded all the more extraordinary in the flesh. "You could hear a pin drop," recalled tour manager John Pope. "He held the audience in the palm of his hand. He'd take you on the ride with him. He'd lift you and take you down. He paced his gigs with finesse. When he walked on to a stage, he felt a responsibility, but it wasn't to the audience. It was to something else. God knows what." "There was high anticipation which was rewarded tenfold when he played, added Jen Brennan, manager of the night's local support act Crow. "He just moved a lot of people. It was quite extraordinary. It's not often that you get a crowd at the Metro that's so silent and still. It was serene and very powerful." Indeed a couple of nights later at the Lounge show in Melbourne, the venue's management found it necessary to turn off the cash registers because their collective clanging messed with the ambience. That first visit was meant to be a simply a quick promotional trip to push Grace, but such was the impact of the Metro show that Buckley was persuaded to return to Sydney and play two extra gigs at the Phoenician Club to quench the city's sudden fascination with him." -- (Tribute article, "The Last Goodbye", Dino Scatena, Sydney Telegraph, 6 June 1997) |
| Source 1a - SBD |
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| Grade: B |
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Lineage: SBD>FM>?>BOOT>?>FLAC |
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Notes: from 'Eternal Life' Bootleg, assumed to be recorded of the JJJ FM broadcast, although pilot tone spikes are not conclusively found. MD5: a1b0b25aced3495d8b060202be09b9f4 *01Dream Brother.ape 2f15362285c74cec454d81ac228aead9 *02Mojo Pin.ape 40c413a6723a7bb8c50886b976bc45e3 *03So Real.ape e87cc48cc2479885b89dccdbaba0474f *04Last Goodbye.ape 588421ad521e44b04f29c63fcf20eef3 *05What Will You Say.ape 28d0d60df91fb9835afa1e8856e3f16d *06Grace.ape d13558598f4deca26cb0b22f4617e08f *07Should've Come Over.ape 7804a9d4392538d682c4e2bcab4358c8 *08Eternal Life.ape |
| Source 1b - SBD |
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| Grade: B |
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Lineage: FM>TV/FM Tuner Card>PixelFM>WAV>WAVELAB (normalize & cuts)>WAV>FLAC |
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Notes: slight rolloff at 15kHz, then a (high noise floor?) plateau at -65dB until the large 19kHz pilot tone spike. Recorded from JJJ radio rebroadcast during their Impossible Music Festival in 2005, and as such, not the complete set, just what was broadcast. FFP: 01.flac:2772c5e92f2d2cf4ae1d8dc30ff53568 02.flac:b9958330a08053c50c5291187cab378c 03.flac:b1f5886c83e77d7e32896e9a9d5895ef 04.flac:f0f5b159964ce3d7e9f479dc6cf95d1a 05.flac:76c6dd4324b8beafd45a511407e34aae 06.flac:bb9777c790cd2923d3838d3b71f72407 07.flac:f7a1934767321f12cb28b2401b65555c 08.flac:dcc8f380a78cfe123eb069d03930fdf8 |