| 95-12-17 | 'Idiots Delight', WXRK Radio New York, New York, America |
| Verified |
| Setlist: 01. (Saturday Night Fish Fry - Louis Jordan) 02. (Rocket Reducer #62 (Rama Lama Fa Fa Fa) - MC5) 03. Alligator Wine (Screaming Jay Hawkins) 04. So Real (Album version) 05. Lover, You Should've Come Over 06. I Woke Up In A Strange Place 07. Last Goodbye (Album version) 08. (I Want a Little Sugar In My Bowl - Nina Simone) Notes: | There may be 2 versions of this circulating. 1) complete, and 2) from 'Lover You Should've Come Over' onwards Jeff Buckley - Dec 17 1995 on WXPK (K-Rock), NY with Vin Scelza. I met Jeff during the time when he was doing shows in NYC with guitarist Gary Lucas. The night we met they were performing at some benefit show at Tramps. This was before the release of Live at Sin-e (EP, 1993) or his debut album grace (1994). I had heard reports about Jeff's performances, but have never heard anyone sing like he did that night (except for the inevitable eerie comparison to his father, Tim Buckley, who died when Jeff was still a very young child). When I was introduced to him by Gary, for some reason I expected he would be painfully shy or terrribly cocky. He was neither (well, maybe a bit shy). He was warm, gracious, funny and very humble about his talent (all of which is evidenced in this archive recording). I asked him to come up on the show, but it took almost two years - and major changes in Jeff's professional life - for this visit to happen. Before coming into the studio on this December night, I invited Jeff to thumb through my record and CD collection and pick out some things for us to play. Everything up to thi Nina Simone recording was Jeff's pick - some fun stuff! He only perfomed two songs, the second being an untitled "work-in-progress" that he had jotted the lyrics to in a notebook, a song which would see release on the posthumous live album Mystery White Boy, in 2000. He peformed alone. Listening to this recording for the first time in 8 years, as I prepared it for the Be My Guest archives, I found myself both delighted by this man's boyish humour and ebullience and saddened once more by the loss so many of us still feel when thinking of Jeff... how his life was cut so short by the cruel fate of his drowning accident in Memphis, May 1997. Vin Scelza |
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A Voice to Hold in the Dark (Bootleg) |
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| Grade: B |
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Notes: Plateau's down to -90dB by 11kHz. small spike at 14.7kHz, probably related to being broadcast. FFP: Track01.flac:58d4972896a4fc08665b0b5e88cfa876 Track02.flac:cd54d6924cf7d901ca06d4ff250da9b3 Track03.flac:2cacf8b034be619c6ba643361011eaf0 Track04.flac:1999e6a57f144469c30cf32b49bf1775 Track05.flac:15241168dfcdc7735497b21a49f930aa Track06.flac:e940f7b56a1b8aa2c56b886fe4c7882f Track07.flac:87f83475b6657eae6d4e0fcfaf2dc9b4 Track08.flac:fd987a4401b4b50ec3ec592c38b4ac5d Track09.flac:47100cd5a6e5436ea42aad42ba1294fa |
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| Grade: A |
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Lineage: SBD>FM>?>CD(x)>EAC>FLAC |
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Notes: Slight step down of around 6dB at 15kHz. live performed tracks only. FFP: (09) Track09 - Unknown Artist.flac:ed3fe6781abefecece04d834956368f6 (10) Track10 - Unknown Artist.flac:db475c7f0502f399da359106739be81d |