Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley (Live)

	Duration: 06:25 minutes Upload Time: 07-08-07 20:45:38 User: MindlessCerebral :::: Favorites
Description: Jeff Buckley (November 17, 1966 -- May 29, 1997. Early life: Born in Anaheim, California, Jeff Buckley was the only son of Mary Guibert and Tim Buckley. His mother was a Panama Canal Zonian of mixed Greek, French, American and Panamanian descent, while his father was the descendant of Irish immigrants from Cork. His father was also a singer-songwriter who released a series of highly acclaimed folk and jazz albums in the late 1960s and early 1970s. About his father Buckley said, "I never knew him... I met him once, when I was 8." Tim Buckley died of a drug overdose in 1975. Jeff Buckley was raised by his mother and stepfather, Ron Moorhead, in Southern California, and had a half-brother Corey Moorhead. Buckley moved many times in and around Orange County while growing up with a single mother, an upbringing Buckley called "rootless trailer trash". As a child, Jeff Buckley was known as Scott "Scotty" Moorhead based on his middle name and his stepfather's surname. After his father died, he chose to go by Buckley and his real first name which he found on a birth certificate. To members of his family he remained "Scotty". Buckley was brought up around music. His mother was a classically trained pianist and cellist. His stepfather introduced him to Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, The Who, and Pink Floyd at an early age. Buckley grew up singing around the house and singing in harmony with his mother. "Everybody in my family sang," Buckley said. He found an acoustic guitar in his grandmother's closet that he started playing with at the age of 6. Led Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti was the first album he ever owned. The hard rock band Kiss was also an early favorite. At the age of 12, he decided to become a musician. He received his first electric guitar, an imitation black Gibson Les Paul, at the age of 13. By high school, Buckley had developed an affinity for progressive rock bands such as Rush, Genesis, and Yes, as well as jazz fusion guitarist Al Di Meola. Buckley played in the school jazz band. In 1984, Buckley graduated from high school and moved north to Hollywood to attend the Musicians Institute. He graduated from the one-year course at the age of 18. "It was the biggest waste of time," Buckley once stated about the school. However, Buckley did appreciate studying music theory there saying, "I was attracted to really interesting harmonies, stuff that I would hear in Ravel, Ellington, Bartók. "He had some of the most interesting chords and chord progressions of my generation," musician Ben Harper said about Buckley years later. Buckley spent the next 6 years working in a hotel and playing guitar in various struggling bands, spanning a diverse range of styles from jazz, reggae, and roots rock to heavy metal; he also played the occasional funk and R&B studio session and toured with the dancehall reggae artist Shinehead. All the time, Buckley limited his singing only to backing vocals. Death: After completing touring in 1996, Buckley started to write for a new album to be called My Sweetheart the Drunk. In 1997 he moved to Memphis, Tennessee, where he rented a shotgun house of which he was so fond he contacted the owner about the possibility of buying it. Buckley started recording demos on his own 4-track recorder. He went into the studio again, recruited a band, and plans for the new album looked hopeful. On May 29, 1997, as the band's plane touched down on the runway to join him in his Memphis studio, Buckley went swimming in Wolf River Harbor, a tributary of the Mississippi River, while wearing steel-toed boots, all of his clothing, and singing along to a radio playing Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love". A roadie of Buckley's band, Keith Foti, remained ashore. After moving the radio and a guitar out of reach of the wake from a passing tugboat, Foti looked up to see that Buckley was gone. Despite a determined rescue effort that night, Buckley remained missing, and the search was called off the following day due to heavy rain. It is likely Buckley was sucked under the water by a strong under-current and fell into unconsciousness due to the sudden force pulling him under. Three days later, his body was spotted by a tourist on a riverboat marina and was brought ashore. The biography Dream Brother, written about him and his father, reveals that, the night before his death, Buckley reportedly admitted to several loved ones that he suffered from bipolar disorder. The autopsy confirmed that Buckley had taken no illegal drugs before his swim, and a drug overdose was ruled out as the cause of death. He was thirty years old. A recent statement from the Buckley estate insists: Jeff Buckley's death was not "mysterious," related to drugs, alcohol, or suicide. We have a police report, a medical examiner's report, and an eye witness to prove that it was an accidental drowning, and that Mr. Buckley was in a good frame of mind prior to the accident
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clicheddisaster ::: Favorites This is one of my favourite songs in the whole world. 07-08-26 17:55:29 _____________________________________________________
guitarmaniac99 ::: Favorites This is one of the greatest songs of all time 07-08-26 23:28:23 _____________________________________________________
eternallybeatdown ::: Favorites yes, thank you 07-08-27 03:52:15 _____________________________________________________
thatblakchik ::: Favorites wat a beautiful man and a beautiful song... 07-08-27 05:35:25 _____________________________________________________
MindlessCerebral ::: Favorites Now that is something I agree with, although the truth is, I had another choice when uploading this video...this song or another one of my all time favourites 'Stairway to Heaven' I chose this....mainly because 'Stairway to Heaven' was over 11 Minutes long, and you-tube wouldn't accept it, but I'm still happy with the choice:) 07-08-27 07:39:58 _____________________________________________________
markkluke ::: Favorites One of the most beautiful songs ever performed... 07-08-27 17:45:45 _____________________________________________________
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arpiel ::: Favorites thanks for posting a great moment in contemporary music - do you know when and where this took place? 07-08-28 09:40:16 _____________________________________________________
SoundgardenReunion ::: Favorites u made the right choice. :). 5. Nutshell (Alice in Chains) & Miss Misery (Elliot Smith) a top 6 doesnt make sense haha so its a tie! 4. Oh My Love (John Lennon) 3. Say Hello 2 Heaven (Temple of the Dog) 2. Tears in Heaven (Eric Clapton) 1. Hallelujah (Jeff Buckley version) 07-08-28 18:47:48 _____________________________________________________
JPD620 ::: Favorites Record people suck. There was about 8 other live performances of this song up a few months ago, where buckley did'nt sound like he was holding back. Sadly they were taken down, still great nonetheless. 07-08-28 22:32:20 _____________________________________________________
MindlessCerebral ::: Favorites Now that's a list and a half, althouth I will have to replace 'Oh My Love' with Imagine:) 07-08-28 23:59:52 _____________________________________________________