what does this live double disc mean to me?

in october of 2004 (my junior year of college) i drunkenly made the mistake of climing a ten-foot overhang to an apartment entrance. well, i was drunk....i fell on my back and whiplashed, hitting my head on the pavement. my friends, roomates thought i was dead. they carried me to my room and tried to keep my up but i fell asleep.

i couldn't see straight, read or concentrate for roughly a week. so i told my parents i fell playing football and went to the hospital.

what'd i find out? concussion, with a good chance of post-concussion sydrome. what is post-concussion syndrome? basically deep depression.

i didn't want to go out, ever, so i'd lock myself in my room. i went out with a bunch of girls, but nothing ever progressed beyong a first hangout because i just couldn't handle it.

at this time, i had just gotten live at sin-e' for my birthday. (bout a month after the incident) i had never, ever heard buckley before, other than an mp3 of 'last goodbye' from grace my friend sent me.

if i had a last.fm for that period of time in my life, you'd see that i probably listened to nothing but this show. i couldn't sleep at night because of depression so i'd put this album on and basically sulk away to jeff' beautiful voice and deep emotional music. to this day, hearing 'lover, you should've come over' brings tears to my eyes.

it's just fucking amazing. his guitar sounds so beautiful and perfect. he doesn't miss one string. he doesn't miss one note. you know how even you're favorite albums you sometimes go through periods where you don't listen to them? i listen to this every fucking day. i've never, ever had something hit me like this, other than MAYBE yield.

(oh, and i know i didn't mention this in the 'albums that changed your life' thread, but i've basically been wanting to keep this post to itself.)

i almost want to go to sin-e', grab a beer and put this on my ipod and just imagine him wailing away.

god, such fucking beauty.

i need to start listening to jeff.

The sin-e that exists now is not the original he played in, no?

darn-tootin' mister.

excellent post, i wish i had a story as good detailing my relationship with this album, but i don't. i went to best buy one day, saw the deluxe edition of sin-e, bought it and loved it. i was obsessed with grace at the time, so it was a natural progression.

in a sin-e related note, soon after it came out i borrowed it to a prof i had who was a fellow music freak and loved jeff as well (sidenote: he wrote on a paper of mine, in which i mentioned jeff, that he always gets chills on the line "she's the tear that hangs inside my soul forever" from "lover..."). he told me he put it in when he and his wife were going on a trip and she almost immediately started bitching and saying that this guy couldn't sing.

i've come to realize through that anecdote and my own experience with my family that jeff is an acquired taste. oh well, that just makes it seem more special to know him through his music and wonder about what could have been.

I need to get this. I have Grace and thats it. I hear there is a pretty good dvd as well.

that is correct

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/073890 ... ance&n=130

highly recommended

am i allowed to post yousendits of this?

it's just a bootleg, right? If so I think so but you might want to pm GoS and ask him. This is his domain.

This is commercially available material so I would assume the answer would be BAN.

well...

i didn't think just jeff and an electric guitar in a small cafe would produce the most powerful version of 'eternal life,' but somehow it did.

i had a look at this in the record store today but i didn't buy it. $$
i will at some point, and that's a promise, c_b.

Yeah, the road version is much better than the Grace take. You should be able to hunt down the studio road version if you don't have it already, CB.

i still have to get the grace legacy edition. it's on there, right?

another thing of beauty here is how buckley makes his voice and guitar sound like more than what they are. you could swear there's more than just him and an electric in that cafe.

s'ok. all in good time, my friend.

Is Live at Sin-e better than Mystery White Boy and Live at L'Olympia?

I still haven't gotten this.

that's a difficult question, i will avoid directly answering it by saying it is just different. all are great -- although i'd put mystery at the bottom and sin-e at the top -- but offer varying looks at mr. buckley: solo (sin-e), compilation of performances (mystery), l'olympia (complete performance).

i'd recommend getting all three if you don't have them

I like Sin-e for how personal the whole CD feels. There is just a great energy throughtout. Mystery White Boy is nice for (lack of a better word) best of and rarities album that has a nice somewhat more aggressive and passionate feel to it. Pick up both. Olympia is a bit more scattered feeling to me. I love it, but I think it is more for the more rabid fan. Highly recommend all three though.