Jeff Buckley - Glastonbury - 1995

Jeff Buckley played the Glastonbury Festival on the 24th June 1995.

Songs performed are listed below.

1. Dream Brother 2. Lover, You Should've Come Over 3. So Real 4. Last Goodbye 5. What Will You Say 6. Mojo Pin 7. Eternal Life 8. Kick Out The Jams 9. Grace.

Unfortunately my copy of this concert excludes the final song (Grace), however that said this was a fantastic gig, I just wish I could have been there !

The link to the concert is below (again a zip file)

Jeff Buckley - Glastonbury 24th June 1995.

The Beehive Candy Store Jeff Buckley page is HERE.

Jeff Buckley - Live at The Knitting Factory 1997

Reloaded 20/May/2015 - This was clearly Beehive Candy in our minimalist era, music is superb though so enjoy!

Five days prior to playing at Arlene's Grocery, Jeff Buckley performed a solo gig at The Knitting Factory in New York City.

Set List:

1. Lover, You Should've Come Over
2. Jewel Box
3. Morning Theft
4. Grace(with Gary Lucas)
5. The Sky Is A Landfill
6. Everybody Here Wants You
7. Yard Of Blonde Girls.

The Beehive Candy Store has a page dedicated to Jeff Buckley HERE.

You can find out more about The Knitting Factory HERE.

Reloaded - 20/May/2015 - download link in comments.

Jeff Buckley - Arlene's Grocery - 1997

Jeff Buckley was born in California's Orange County in 1966.

He died in a tragic drowning accident on May 29th 1997.

He left one near perfect album, several live concerts recorded and released in full or part prior to, and/or after his death, and the material that may have lead eventually to a second 'proper' album.

If you are a fan this leaves a void, that can never be filled.

Sadly for an artist as talented as Jeff, the 'unofficial' recordings remain sadly few and far between. In away this is a good thing, as a badly recorded concert, would be such an injustice, to someone who was capable of such incredibly moving music, and never had the chance to expand definitively beyond his debut album.

The bootlegs that I have of Jeff Buckley are few in number. I know of around fifteen, that are supposed to be of good quality, the live radio material seem to be those most widely circulated.

This is my favorite. The copy I have was called 'The Grace Of J'.

At midnight on February 9, 1997, Jeff Buckley debuted his new drummer, Parker Kindred, in a show at Arlene Grocery on New York's Lower East Side. He also played a couple of solo gigs in New York during the first months of 1997: a gig at the Daydream Cafe (featuring band members Mick Grondahl and Michael Tighe as "special guests") and a solo performance February 4 as part of the Knitting Factory's 10-Year Birthday Party.

Set List:

Nightmares by the Sea
Witches' Rave
So Real
Haven't You Heard
Lover, You Should've Come Over
Morning Theft
Vancouver
Snail
The Sky Is a Landfill
Mojo Pin
Grace
Last Goodbye

Find out more about Arlene's Grocery HERE.

Audio quality: Suggests the soundboard was used, even if audience 'chatter' is apparent on a couple of occasions. The conversation between Jeff Buckley and the audience is in really good humour, his impersonation of Tom Waits is priceless.

Reloaded 21/June/2015 link in comments.

Steely Dan - The Rainbow Finsbury Park London 1974

Steely Dan - precise, cool, bluesy, jazzy, mature, thoughtful, clever, serious, catchy, timeless, flawless, and hopefully you get my drift.

Steely Dan were one of the bands that taught a younger me, that there was much more to music than three chord rock anthems, or in them day's who looked the part. When I bought Pretzel Logic, it became my favorite album of the time. I obtained a copy of a 1994 concert a while back, and was impressed with how good they sounded.

I went to see them in London in 1974, I even remember the hassle our driver had finding somewhere to park, and the subsequent frantic search for a bar, before the gig. Arriving at the venue, the foyer was a sea of faded denim, and hair, so many long haired blokes, it seemed the hippies were back, from memory it seemed a rather male audience. So when I obtained a boot of the show recently I have to say I was over the moon. I was almost nervous when I began to play it, hoping it was at least listenable, and looking for signs that this really was the gig I had attended thirty plus years ago.

The memories flooded back, this was definitely the show (all I need now is for someone to tell me, if it really was Kiki Dee supporting them? as that remains a vaguer recollection). The quality of the boot is astounding, definitely from the sound desk, and mastered, with some care.

Set List:

CD 1:
01 - Intro Bodhisattva
02 - The Boston Rag
03 - Do It Again
04 - Brooklyn (Owes The Charmer Under Me)
05 - King Of The World
06 - Rikki Don't Lose That Number
07 - Pretzel Logic
08 - Band Introductions

CD 2:
01 - My Old School
02 - Dirty Work
03 - Instrumental (Your Gold Teeth Ii)
04 - Reelin' In The Years
05 - Crowd And Tuning
06 - Show Biz Kids
07 - Crowd And Tuning
08 - This All Too Mobile Home

Band:

Donald Fagen - piano, vocals
Walter Becker - bass
Jeff Baxter - guitar
Denny Dias - guitar
Jim Hodder - drums
Jeff Porcaro - drums
Royce Jones - percussion, vocals
Michael McDonald - electric piano, vocals

Quality: Soundboard & mastered.

Reloaded 22/June/2015 link in comments.