Once He Was: Tim Buckley’s Time As Folk Darling｜Vinyl Monday
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Welcome (or welcome back) to Vinyl Monday! This is my series where I give the who/what/when/where/why and how I feel about classic albums in my collection. My thoughts on Tim Buckley’s short-lived psychedelic-folk moment, Goodbye and Hello (released 1967.) Subscribe for more Vinyl Monday!
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Timestamps:
intro – 0:00
art/packaging/personnel – 1:56
Goodbye and Hello – 5:08
track listing/release – 9:01
the Jeff of it all – 11:55
my thoughts – 13:12
thanks for watching! – 37:43
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@abigaildevoe
September 26, 2025 at 8:07 pm
what’s your favorite tim song? clearly hallucinations held up for me over 3 years – comment below!
@danielg.w5733
September 26, 2025 at 8:07 pm
How tall was Tim? I know Jeff was around 5'7 but i can't find any info on Tim's height
@oceansssmaki8879
September 26, 2025 at 8:07 pm
I am really happy that you did this,I love Tim buckley he was one of the first artist i discovered(Im 17) and helped me score a job at a record store. Thanks for this Vid i really enjoyed it!
@christophermoebs9341
September 26, 2025 at 8:07 pm
I probably played his Greetings From L.A. album a thousand times
@TomDunn-p3q
September 26, 2025 at 8:07 pm
Lots on the personality but not much on the music. Tim was never really captured well in the studio. You should do a review on live at the Troubadour. It contatins the definitive versions of many of the big songs on those records. Kinda like the Dead. Good info though. I was at his sons last show, very tragic.
@jessimmersimqueen
September 26, 2025 at 8:07 pm
I did not know Henry Diltz played harmonica! I have that album and never ever saw that! Thanks again. They shared your video on the Tim Buckley FB list and I am glad.
@jessimmersimqueen
September 26, 2025 at 8:07 pm
OMG that is your natural hair don't ever tame those curls! I am jelous.
@jessimmersimqueen
September 26, 2025 at 8:07 pm
Oh I LOVE Tim! Life long fan here. Thank you for this!
@dreamsinthree
September 26, 2025 at 8:07 pm
Once I Was is such an incredible song. One of my favorites by anybody.
@acousticwalden11
September 26, 2025 at 8:07 pm
Suggestion-Go obscure folk: Pearls Before Swine-One Nation. Underground
@acousticwalden11
September 26, 2025 at 8:07 pm
Suggestion: Fairport Convention-Liege and Leif and or Pentangle-s/t
@cheapcheerfulrecordcollect8071
September 26, 2025 at 8:07 pm
I’m old enough and lucky enough to have seen Tim at the 1968 Newport Folk Festival. Drugs had started to take its toll so his performance wasn’t very focused. I had been immersed in the 60’s folk scene, so was a fan early on. Thanks for the trip down memory lane. Time for me to pull my later, butterfly label copy, off the shelf and give it a spin.
@stefano.b65stef77
September 26, 2025 at 8:07 pm
Hi, i'm catching up on some of your videos, Tim Buckley is one of my favourite, especially on live albums, Troubadors and so on
@Joseph-ax969
September 26, 2025 at 8:07 pm
Dream Brother is a book about Tim and Jeff, highly recommended.
@LucaDickCazzella-zj5dq
September 26, 2025 at 8:07 pm
Do the modern Lovers !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@jlovebirch
September 26, 2025 at 8:07 pm
Was amazed to see him turn up at the end of a Monkees episode doing Song to the Siren several years ago. Bryan Ferry did a recent cover version as well. Would love to see you cover Roxy Music someday.
@alanartme1
September 26, 2025 at 8:07 pm
Brilliant analysis! You are a great music writer! Also one of my favorite songs of Tim's is "Hallucinations" too. Both studio and the live version. Strangely enough, the song always reminded me of Edie Sedgwick. Her face always appears before me whenever I play the song…..Who knows…..I'm weird….
@PrinceOfGenovia
September 26, 2025 at 8:07 pm
Love your channel! Just found it today and your reviews are great. Instant sub. I really appreciate the history and back story you include. Really enjoyed your astral weeks review too. Also, need a review of Jeff Buckley’s Grace asap big dog! Keep up the great work!!
@cradio52
September 26, 2025 at 8:07 pm
You and Elliot Roberts are literally my two favorite music discussion-oriented YouTube channels period — y’all should cook up some sort of collab together! 😊
@kc0lif
September 26, 2025 at 8:07 pm
interesting singer.
@user-vr2if8ug2m
September 26, 2025 at 8:07 pm
8:17 my chemical romance mentioned !!!! 🥳🥳
@maxissoooooawesome
September 26, 2025 at 8:07 pm
the chorus of pleasant street sounds so much like a jeff buckley song it amazes me. i’m sure he drew influence from his father, but i wonder if that part specifically was an influence
@forest.02.
September 26, 2025 at 8:07 pm
it would be really cool to see a review of "Cold Fact" by Rodriguez. Its a really cool album from a somewhat less well known early 70's artist.
@btraven7681
September 26, 2025 at 8:07 pm
I got serious flashbacks from listening to this. Also, what do you think about Pat Kilroy whose second album got shelved when he died in 1967.
@flyingcosmograma
September 26, 2025 at 8:07 pm
A FD Signifier shoutout is sick as hell 🙂
@rickwilliams3028
September 26, 2025 at 8:07 pm
In the group photo on the back of Stone Poneys Vol. III; to Tim's immediate left is (of all people) Rodney Bingenheimer, to Tim's right is his then girlfriend, Jane Goldstein (Tim's "Song For Jainie"). To Linda's right is Bobby Kimmel is Stone Poney Bobby Kimmel, and to the right of Bobby, it's Donna Carson (later Donna Capers) of the folk rock duo Hedge & Donna, produced, like Linda & the Stone Poneys, among others (Fred Neil, John Stewart, Dory Previn, not to mention the Beach Boys, and many more) by the late, extremely great, Nik Venet (no "C" in there, just Nik, for Nikolas) who was very Greek, and very, very cool.
@katfishzomby
September 26, 2025 at 8:07 pm
Thanks for the listen recommendation. I know Jeff's cover of Mama You've Been On My Mind which I really really like.
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