Today marks the 26th anniversary of the drowning death of one of my favourite Artists of all time: Jeff Buckley.
(29th May 1997)
I had intended on recording and releasing a video for you all today, talking about my research and the supernatural and syncromystic events surrounding Jeff's life and death, and about the time I received a visit from his spirit, as well as a communication ...
I have a strange connection to this special soul, and oddly enough, my daughter's father looks just like him that it is surreal.
I will try to record an overview of my research and experiences very soon, in the middle of home renovations ...
Until then, I'm lighting a candle and saying a prayer for dear Jeff 🎶🎸 🕯🕯🕯🙏
Love,
JC Kay
Watch this to learn more
https://youtu.be/Npx63XF_-RIادامه مطلب ...
Jeff Buckley: The Tragic Death Of The Musician & Making Of Grace
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Today we take a look at 90's musician Jeff Buckley
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It’s a voice that was unmistakable and unforgettable. i’m talking of course about musician Jeff Buckley who only released one studio album during his short lived career. Despite his lack of musical output during his time alive he, hE still managed to garner a cult following, which included some of the biggest names in rock n’ roll. His death was not your typical rock n’ roll tragedy. There were no drugs, or large amounts of alcohol involved, instead a strange set of circumstances So what happened? Stay tuned to find out.
Buckley came from a musical family with his mother being a classically trained musician while his father was the psychedelic folk singer named Tim Buckley who died at the young age of 28 due to a drug overdose. Jeff was only 8 years old at the time of his father’s death, but he wouldn’t have a close relationship with him. The younger Buckley was only met his father once several months before he his death. Buckley would tell the new york times in 1993 I never knew him,”. “I met him once, when I was 8. We went to visit him, and he was working in his room, so I didn’t even get to talk to him. And that was it.”
Buckley wouldn’t even be invited to his father’s funeral and his mother would claim in a 2002 documentary that her son tried to avoid much of the same pitfalls that ended the life of his biological father.
Known as “Scott Moorhead” for much of his childhood, Jeff borrowed the name from his step father who he was close to.. It’s likely that Moorhead had a bigger influence on Jeff’s career path than his biological father. Moorhead gave Buckley one of his first albums which was Led Zeppelin’s Physical Graffiti. Buckley would tell an interviewer in 1994 reflecting on Led Zeppelin “That was the first voice I really fell in love with. Young Robert Plant back when he sounded like Jeans. He was trying to sound like Howlin' Wolf, but he didn't. He sounded like some big fing animal.” he’d say.
In addition to Zeppelin Buckley would also be heavily influenced by Queen, Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Kiss and Pink Floyd.
As a child Buckley lived in many places as his family moved around a lot within California with the singer referring to his childhood as “rootless trailer trash’. Buckley would also claim that he never fit in anywhere as a child telling the guardian newspaper in 1994 how his mother was the one pushing for the family to move around saying “We’d spend a few months in some places, longer in others. But we never hung around for long. The best places were also the worst because just as I’d make friends with someone we’d be out of there. I got pretty good at working out who wanted to punch me and who would defend me. I’m an excellent judge of character now. I guess my mother just always wanted to know what was around the next corner.”
Throughout his years in high school, Buckley played in a series of cover bands and soon after graduation he attended the Los Angeles Musicians Institute He would reveal to Rolling Stone magazine in 1994 that while the institute did teach him a lot about music theory, specifically harmonies,, overall he felt the experience was a waste of time. Buckley would spend the next half a decade in LA playing as a session guitarist in a wide variety of bands covering a range of styles including jazz, reggae, and heavy metal, Lacking any real success and growing tired of the LA music scene, Buckley in 1990 moved across the country to New York City where he initially didn’t have a lot of success working as a musician. He would split time…