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cybot wrote:...recognise anyone?...

was that a young William Shatner?

Ivor wrote:

cybot wrote:...recognise anyone?...

was that a young William Shatner?

Indeed it was! Well spotted Ivor :)

I stumbled on this recently on Youtube and it took my breath away. The great Tim Buckley caught live in 1970 performing/re-imagining two tracks from his masterpieces, Lorca and Starsailor. Extraordinary, just extraordinary. What a talent and what a loss.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbuCCXF7qew
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7nZoHgo ... re=related

mcq wrote:I stumbled on this recently on Youtube and it took my breath away. The great Tim Buckley caught live in 1970 performing/re-imagining two tracks from his masterpieces, Lorca and Starsailor. Extraordinary, just extraordinary. What a talent and what a loss.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbuCCXF7qew
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7nZoHgo ... re=related

Thanks for the links Paul. Great talent and as you said what a loss.

I quite like this one..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAo4xWIPFE0

DaveF wrote:

mcq wrote:I stumbled on this recently on Youtube and it took my breath away. The great Tim Buckley caught live in 1970 performing/re-imagining two tracks from his masterpieces, Lorca and Starsailor. Extraordinary, just extraordinary. What a talent and what a loss.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbuCCXF7qew
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7nZoHgo ... re=related

Thanks for the links Paul. Great talent and as you said what a loss.

I quite like this one..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAo4xWIPFE0

That's a timeless performance, Dave. He always sang that so well that he really made it his own. The expression on his face as he sings - eyes closed and utterly consumed by the music - never fails to break my heart. You really can't say enough good things about the man. I think his last 2 albums were greatly weakened by label interference and it would be good to see more live performances from these, his last years, which really reflect where he was creatively at this time of his life. How about this link, a performance of Blue Melody from his last ever show in Dallas (June 26th 1975) with less than 3 days remaining of a brief yet full life.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KVDdYfYQVU

To quote Song to the Siren, "my heart shies from the sorrow" of the tragic loss.

Some more great live tracks from Tim Buckley in 1970. I don't know the provenance of the last track, Venice Beach, but what a performance. A masterclass in studied concentration, the man is truly lost to this world.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2GEzbg- ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjdK-jUi ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xmaj3rKxzKI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwWcGSB8 ... re=related

Don't really know what to make of this, but it's oddly addictive.

A Strat is born.

http://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/ ... tes-536840

Derek wrote:http://rmirror.net/r/videos//comments/r ... harmonica/

He must be the pride of the trailer park.