Happy Time from that great taping on BBC...thank you, thank you for preserving this BBC! It echoes the more progressive jazz free form figures of Lorca...amazing. God, what a voice...effortlessly soaring!
Has the Zappa estate, with its endless bickering, finally freed Blue Afternoon. It was unavailable for so long!
Sadly, I don't think so.... I just snagged a copy of the late-80s CD on eBay for a decent price. At least copies can be found...!
Wow. My Straight vinyl in NM condition must be really rare nowadays! Good find @CybrKhatru ! I am sure you will treasure it.
Outstanding. Astonishing to think of the copious amounts of footage the BBC taped over or binned that this gem should've survived. I like to think it was saved by one of the legendary engineers who copied it for his own collection.
Happy Time Great opener to the album. We have 6 versions of this recorded in 1968 including the 2 TV appearances from April. So it might seem a little surprising that it didn't make it onto Happy Sad. But then maybe he just had too many great songs at the time. So Blue Afternoon is partially a look in the rear view mirror, and I am thankful for that as so many gems would have been lost otherwise.
Great thread Lemonade Kid! Tim Buckley has been away from my turntable and CD player for too long. Got 7 of the original studio albums on vinyl all purchased in early- mid 1980’s mostly from a shop appropriately called Driftin’ in Cheltenham, England. The owner was a Tim Buckley fan. Anyway my copy of Blue Afternoon is WS001842 and says made in Greece. I was surprised to find a copy after looking for quite a while back then.
Thanks Fuller. Cheers from across the pond. Cool that you have 7 Buckely LPs. And happy you are enjoying the thread.
recently re-issued "Blue Afternoon" vinyl available here Tim BUCKLEY Blue Afternoon vinyl at Juno Records. cd is available here https://www.amazon.co.uk/Original-A...=1&keywords=tim+buckley&qid=1605206671&sr=8-5
Thanks LK. Only two I haven’t got on vinyl are the first and last studio albums but got both those two on CD. I’ve just listened to Happy Sad and Blue Afternoon straight through, takes me back to a time 35 or so years ago. Love the interplay of jazz guitar, double bass, understated drums and cymbals and glorious vibes. Topped off by Tim’s unreal vocals. Brilliant.
Funnily enough my Lorca is from New Zealand and Starsailor from Italy. All three on Warner Bros. Must admit I didn’t really take much notice where they came from back then. I was just pleased to get hold of his vinyl albums! And probably paid about four quid each for them!
I adore ‘Blue Afternoon’. I got it blind on CD when it was reissued in 1989. It’s been in regular rotation ever since. It’s the ultimate initially low key record that just sticks around and keeps on giving. Not a weak track (which separates it from ‘Happy/Sad’, and two five star classic songs. Which we will come to shortly.
Interesting one in the US, promo version: TIM BUCKLEY: Blue Afternoon LP (WLP, promo toc, gatefold, clean Rock & Pop | eBay
track 2) Chase The Blues Away Definitely an all time favorite. An absolutely stunning song and studio performance! This one @Nick Dunning ?! A masterpiece of a song. Well come along walk with me And learn the songs that lovers sing When they believe We'll dance along the river's edge Just arm and arm along the moonlit shore The midnight cries Well I just came to chase the blues away For awhile Just like a child you'll cling to me From every sound along that rushes near It's just the breeze that licks your skin And rubs your breast And as we lay our river's flow away Your woman fear Well I just came to chase the blues away For awhile With the morning sun we'll wake And lift our eyes and watch the eagle fly Up mountain high And on his wings our love will climb And never fail until he soars and dives Oh, he'll take your breath away Well, he just came to chase the blues away For awhile
Chase The Blues Away Another song dating back to the first half of '68. You really must hear the 2 live versions from the Troubadour concerts. The version below was released only 3 years ago- proving that Tim Buckley is the gift that keeps on giving. Its much less bass-centric than the studio version, and the interplay between Tim's 12-string and Lee's guitar, particularly in the instrumental break and the outro, is some of the most subtle yet sublime music I have ever heard.
Starsailor at 50 We'll get there soon enough, but Starsailor turned 50 this month. Sadly no enlarged reissue planned.
So this is not out on CD? That's terrible...I was lucky and found a copy in a thrift store back in the 90s (I think it's on the Straight or Bizarre label) and it's one of Tim's best IMO. Haven't listened to it in a long time, but I would call it very melodic and accessible.
Yep...that's the one. I only have two original vinyl Tim Buckley LPs, the other one is Goodbye and Hello.
We are very blessed to have the Straight vinyl as a mere 5000 copies sold from the original vinyl release in 1969.
Albeit, more sold as cutouts, but mine is not a cutout which is much rarer. And to have survived the subsequent five decades, a feat in itself.