Lord Buckley/"The Nazz"

[Jozsus]

I learned about this from psychonaut Terence Mckenna

[OceanderTethyseus]

i heard him say "higher" and that's about it.

[ferdinandthecrow]

Incredible to see this!

[Diogenes1360]

(to) make the legal move (verb): Get married. Einstein, says Lord Buckley, found his woman, "made the legal move, rang the bells and out of this union were born two swingin' Marsheads."

[azuresalver]

@NoGoodUserNamesSadly Terence's last interview played on the recent installments of the Psychedelic Salon turned me onto Lord Buckley.

[Bogframe]

@thew: LSD-25 was invented/discovered by Albert Hoffman in 1947. Notables who tried and benefitted from it include Claire Booth Luce, Timothy Leary, Alan Ginsburg and William Burroughs

[deejaybee]

The way his eyes pop right open when yells "......and they DUG it!!" always gets the hair standing on end. Been digging the lord (this one, not the pretend one in that big old storybook) since my dear old granddad played me The Nazz way back when i was a squinty eyed ten year old,. Thanks Gramps - i owe ya! This cat is the very embodiment of that now fatally overused word - genius.

[Onlymusical]

@deejaybee Wish an entire film of this presentation was available somewhere. My favorite clip on youtube and one of the damndest things I've ever seen. And I agree, Lord Buckley's close gives me chills as well, no matter how many times I watch it. I'm sure you're familiar with his Groucho Marx appearance, during which he outshone Groucho by powers of magnitude on Marx's own turf, something I can't say I've seen before or since. It's horrifying that Lord Buckley died so very young!

[deejaybee]

@Onlymusical Oh yeah man! I always found his appearance with Groucho a really curious thing to watch. I mean, sure, it's scripted to within an inch of its life (even Goucho's "off the cuff stuff" gets plenty of time for the audience to catch on that they ought to be laughing) but you can see if they'd given him more than those few seconds on "hipping" Shakespeare, he'd have slayed them and I honestly feel that if they'd REALLY let the Lord go, Groucho wouldn't have kept up. Just my "vibe".

[Onlymusical]

@deejaybee Yes, I and some others I've spoken with felt that Buckley really outdid Groucho on his own television series, and Amy Poelher's grandmother is sharp as a razor. . Groucho was famously protective of his career, to the point of keeping Zeppo bereft of anything to do on screen or stage and earlier convincing Harpo, who's deep, resonant voice made Groucho sound like a little girl by comparison, not to speak in the act, a terrible loss.

[torpedopants]

@Onlymusical Actually, Harpo stopped speaking onstage when he read a review that said he did wonderful pantomime, but that the effect was spoiled when he opened his mouth to speak. From there on out he relied entirely on his physical business and it made his character what he was. It had nothing to do with Groucho.

[Onlymusical]

@torpedopants There are so many differing stories about the origins of the Marx Brothers (I've read or heard a dozen about how they got their names, and each brother had his own version) that I hesitate to believe anything wholeheartedly at face value. My take that Groucho convinced Harpo not to speak was intuited from listening to the rare recordings of Harpo's deep voice, one of the greatest I've ever heard (right up there with Buster Keaton's and Babe Ruth's). Too bad about that critic!

[Anntelope]

That man said some of the very coolest things ever. One of my favorites was "Oh sweet double hipness, you put it down; we'll pick it up."

[CALVINION9]

a transcript may be helpful...

[CountThrillhammer]

@CALVINION9 If you need a map baby you ain't never gonna dig it.

[Impowers]

Wow, my favorite clip on all of youtube.

[Picardy]

This cat's on opium. Love it!

[popSICKpals]

RasMajnouni, you should stop commenting on things.

[maurocerutti]

Amazing

[willgonow]

this was the "NAZZ", kool or wot ? thx 4 sharing

[LazlosPlane]

Does the remainder of the speech exist????  Awesome.

[WAKExxUPxxAMERICA]

this guy did alot of heroin lol

[neurochris]

I didn't find anything about him doing heroin on wikipedia but I heard terence mckenna mention in one of his interviews that he did ALOT of heroin do you have any evidence that he did heroin, an article or something?

[WAKExxUPxxAMERICA]

wondering whos the moron that gave me a thumbs down.. anyways everyone knows he did drugs so you shouldnt find it that hard to believe he did heroin. im not gonna go searching for an article but im sure you will find your answer at google.

[neurochris]

cannot really find anything on google i think i tried it before you suggested it too, on wikipedia it said he smoked pot but thats it, I didn't give you a thumbs down it was like that before I commented, as proof it is now back to zero. I only heard of Lord Buckley today, I was interested in him because terence mckenna said he turned him on to drugs and that he did alot of heroin lol.

[emithband]

...where did McKenna say this???...link please...

[emithband]

...I read Trager's book,"Dig Infinity",and NO where was there a mention of heroin use...pot,yes,some drink,but no hard drug use...um,"wake up",all comments have an up and down thumb,and please note that there's no +1 next to any of your posts...feeling a bit sensitive are you???...

[RasMajnouni]

No way!Heroin is chemically produced in the lab.Better known as LSD-69,it was first created in 1998 by Timothy Creary a Chemist at Hope College.These facts prove that the Hipster Lord Buckley couldn't possibly have injested a drug not yet developed 60 years later.Says so in Wikipedia

[thew]

???

lsd was created in the 30's by albert hoffman

[RasMajnouni]

though I would never suggest to anyone to drop LSD-25 (I wrote lsd69) Was just joking.I did a lot of it in the 1970's but Its a gigantic risk to take emotionally and mentally,can have horrible effects.I've lots of friends here in the ward who had bad trips and 35 years later haven't come back.

[blessedtoextream]

What? Who is Timothy Creary? LSD -69?

[RasMajnouni]

I was just jivin.Timothy Leary was a pfof. at Harvard who experimented with LSD25.Hope College as I wrote above(ahem).LSD "created in 1998? AsI was joking in my 2 comments above?Seems to me that I saw,etc a few forms of it back in 1968 & on.

[geneyush]

yer an idiot.

[RasMajnouni]

that is cuz I snorted hashish

[Bogframe]

I wish smone had filmed Lord Buckley doing The Naz. Maybe there's footage out there somewhere. I hope so!

[pa20002000]

If this wa in 1960 - it must have been very close to his death..

[PC160]

The Train is the best! Lord Buckley + Jonathan Winters= Robin Williams

[npspec34]

The NAZ is most often

short for

Nazareth, which is where Jesus

came from.

Jesus of Nazareth.

The Naz.

Lord Buckley was out of this world.

If you ever hear "The Train"

you will know his genius.

[ElmoLewiss]

i think charles manson copied some of this guy.

[rvargas68]

You mean train leaving on track 12?

[capthowder]

i always pictured lord buckley as a black dude!

[SeafarFlats]

right on

[telemacherT2]

Is this where Todd Rundgren got his "Nasz"?

[doezeedoats]

You are undoubtedly hip to nth bell of the nth bong.

[yinyangaccount]

fucking brilliant

[willibob86]

haha

your clearly quite narrow minded

probably ignorant

and I'll bet very stupid as well

do us all a favour and fuck off

[ctbzacs444]

thats Naz

[tbzeee]

he said "dig infinity" and they dug it! amen, brother.

[SunsetSix]

What a nut. Thank goodness he's dead and gone.

[smitch06]

fuck you

[pa20002000]

..and that you're alive?

[frozenhosen]

is it zen?

is it art

?

[MegsHead]

What a great bit for the turning of the year!

[BuckNekkid2003]

where's the rest of this film? who has more LB on video? I LOVE THIS GUY!

[AllenGinsbergOM]

thank you. a rare talent. a bird of another color. OM !

[BooBots]

Ahhh...yes! Even a moment of this is sublime.

[adamcomic]

Thank you very much for this post. I have been trying to find the BBC documentary it came from for quite some time, and if that's all there was of his Lordship, then I am glad I never found it.

[stalzz]

watch the groucho and lord buckley piece

[ISB]

... and they dug it!

[rayoll]

great post thanks

[hakzaw1]

Buckley and Mark Twain live on through the portrail of them by the likes of Richard Henzel. Check his website.

[autosam]

YES!!!

[happilyderanged0]

dig infinity!

[anthonypepitoneVideo]

Appreciated - hope more turns up!! Thanks for posting this clip.

[friskylamar]

Stupendous! Who's got more live footage of this unparalleled genius?

js

[wasplake]

Wish there was more. So little Lord Buckley video seems to exist.