Once I Was | Tim Buckley cover

[MouhadLuas]

beautiful

[rahlgren]

@MouhadLuas Wow! Thank you!

[61dodgelancer]

I enjoy your version. You play your guitar well. Beautiful song and Tim Buckley was great. Thanks!

[rahlgren]

@61dodgelancer You are too kind. Tim Buckley was great indeed

[Ljandj99]

chill mood, but the vocals are shaky, if your gonna do Tim you gotta have a strong smooth voice

[rahlgren]

I agree, but you also gotta just try. Going on four years now, and I've gotten better at it. Much better I think. Did it at an Open Mic a few months ago and got some nice comments. Someday i will try to video and post version #2. Thanks for commenting!

[Ljandj99]

I agree, gotta keep on doing it no matter what, criticism is a tool to help us improve. You have a great soul!

[Lukamusic81]

I just uploaded a video of me doing "Once I was" live at a restraunt last week. hope you enjoy

[SirHuckenden]

good, better than most of the others ive heard here. at least you have the right chords

[rahlgren]

Thanks! When I uploaded this, it was the first cover. Practically the first TIm Buckley cover period, I think. Back then Neil Young had 7 whole pages of hits too.

[gertbacktracks]

didn't know this song. Interesting.....not easy to sing...you are courageous...

[penypicker]

ill just state the obvious, no ones ever gonna really beat tim on vocals, but good try

[rahlgren]

I agree, Tim's voice is unique, but it's fun singing this song. Thanks for the compliment, nonetheless. It's appreciated

[MorningTheft888]

beautiful song

[lord123nobunaga]

Very Cool version. Tim would be proud

[ambassador7]

Really enjoyed that performance - not easy! Now I'm off to try and play it!

[rahlgren]

thank you to dresikorinike (fellow swede), Faure45, mazrio128, and sgbeattie. Wish I had better audio equipment. I could get a lot more on here.

[sgbeattie]

This is a VERY good performance.

Would definitely benefit from better AUDIO though.

Well done!

[mazrio128]

Great job! Very well done!

[Faure45]

i enjoyed this a lot :) well done!

[dresikodorinike]

I like the guitarplaying, so now i'll have to sit down with my own, to teach myself the song, and i thank you for it!

[rahlgren]

thank you gil, rod and ff. Gil, there's one Roy Orbison cover I try to sing. I'll see if I can get it on hear someday when the planets are aligned just right.

[fightersfan]

I bet the star sailor himself would agree that this is one good cover. I definitely hear tim.

[ROD1945]

Well done my friend. One of my top 10 ever songs.

[g6120]

WOW, that performance just knocked me over! That was done with such feeling and it comes through. You carry that off extremely well and your voice has a beautiful Roy Orbison quality to it. Do you cover any Roy material? KUDOS!

[penypicker]

Well sung, though i think everyone here will agree you're never really going to beat Tim Buckley III at his own song (although I'll admit Jeff did beat time with "I never asked to be your mountain")

[rahlgren]

I would agree too...it's just an amazing song that I've listened to ever since it was released... Thanks for taking the time to listen and give feedback.

[prestoballs]

aww!! you sound really great. considering tim's immeasureable octave you really carry this song well. awesome

[rahlgren]

Thanks! Appreciate the kind words...

[silvermoon2003]

I'm glad Tim Buckley hasn't been forgotten...

[Madmooemily]

i love this song, great job!!!

[YourMumRocks]

nice effort!

it's definitely a breathtaking song by the great Tim Buckley! And I also find it preety hard to sing.. I've tried it a few times but I always end up murdering the song..

[sieon]

nice

it's actually not an easy song to sing

[rahlgren]

Thanks for the compliment; not too easy for me to play & sing it at the same time.