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  • It's hard to be a person of depth when you are surrounded by shallow puddles.

  • @The88poppies You're so right...

  • 00:44 jesus christ, you can just see how annoyed he is by the hair comment

  • "I think it's just to have a good time"... oh, jeez, what a Bull S**t answer. Every song he did was a message song. What a BS artist. (but a good one).

  • @Kramnosnits you are a fucking idiot. she didnt ask if his songs have a message. she asked if he writes his songs to get a message across. yes his songs might have a message but that doesnt mean that he wrote those songs because of the message. i would do music just to have good time instead of giving a message and i bet that he did too. you are a damn idiot.

  • Someone that great should not walk like a retard.

  • @Kramnosnits uhmm it is probably hard to walk in those penis/ball squeezing pants mannn

  • @Kramnosnits talking of experience on...being great or retard ;

  • I'm reading Dream Brother at the moment, a book about the story of Tim and Jeff's music career, from their start to end. It's written by Dan Browne and based upon hundreds of interviews, files, facts, documents, diaries etc.

    I've recently read about this interview, and it seems Tim was very annoyed at this time, trying his best to seem professionel but he went out afterwards being annoyed at Steve Allen

  • No worries - I know who he is, the world still does, but no idea who she is.

  • Man what awkward forums for sensitive singer/songwriters people who ask them questions and talk to them about stupid surface bullshit.

  • aw so awkward and loveable

  • Such a gentle soul..

  • LOL.

    "That's groovy. I dig that." says Jane Meadows, leading hipster of the era.

  • 1:37 - what a conceited cunt of a woman! Showbiz twat...I know it's a life time ago but amazing to see it still - once a twat always a twat....and the evidence is on here for life

  • "you young people" HA! What a rascal he was...singing and writing from the soul.

  • @BlackSabbathory I did. All of them.

  • Tim never did a thing for me..except give us Jeff.

  • Ah the hair question is just British humour. Or an attempt at it at least. :)

  • I woukld love to see the rest of this interview, maaaaaaan there are so few videos or any kind of documentation of tim buckley, it's unbeliveable...

  • @andrew19vato You mean interview videos? There's lots of wonderful live coverage of his performances though, fabulous close-ups, quite unique. I liked him a lot in this 'chat'.

    watch?v=p4CCuJblouo

  • @andrew19vato Found something interesting. Fairly long radio interview from 1967.

    Google "Radio Free Oz" Tim Buckley

    and you'll see the site

    timbuckley dott net etc etc

  • @NovaScotiaChick awesome! I heard the interview, kinda boring if im honest. the interviewer just talks and talks and talks and doesn't give buckley much opportunity to speak, but thanks anyway!

  • @andrew19vato I agree. I had not yet listened to it all and thought it was all interview, but it was interspersed with his music. I think that Tim was actually kinda shy when being interviewed (only 20 in that radio interview), and seemed to ride best on smart-assy or humorous replies.

    As so many artists, he expressed himself best through his art, and doing interviews was a necessary evil thing. :)

  • @NovaScotiaChick yeah definitely! have you heard "driftin" from the lorca album? check it out! and also there's some great songs on his "works in progress" album like danang and wayfaring stranger and a really good version of buzzin fly. "dream letter live in london" is awesome too, alot of his live recordings are far better than his studio stuff in my opinion!

  • @andrew19vato Thanks eh, you've just added even more of his music to my obsessive listening phases because I did not know most of these! He is quite awesome live, for sure. On one site they speak of 'haunting brilliance.' That says it all.

    In terms of recorded music, he caught my attention with Sweet Surrender which is still one of the greatest to me. I liked 'driftin' best of the ones you suggested. :)

  • @NovaScotiaChick nice! tim buckley's such a legend in the most literal sense of the word, so it's always good to hear from other people who like him :)

  • Too smart-assy for his own good. :) Love it!

  • wut do u expect from a cat thats into sesame street lol 

  • it would be so wierd to do an interview back then. the hosts are so fake back then its funny to hear tim just hit them with reality weather he is high as a kite or not. its funny how someone being real can be looked at as an outsider or a weirdo. thanks tim thanks jeff the world could have used both of u for a lot longer then ou were here

  • jeff buckley sounds just like his father . CRAZY !

  • you know the whole time Tim was just like...."....IDIOTS....WHY DID I BOTHER"

  • Talented musician. Hipper but not any better than the folks on the show. He totally abandoned his son and that's a hurtful thing.

  • @originalhistory I'm sure he had his sons best interests at heart. it's hard for musicians going on the road to try an make a name for themselves and still have a successfull family life sometimes thats what makes there songs so good

  • @rapeta13 Maybe he thought Jeff's step-dad would make a better father and that he, Tim, should just give him up. It's just sad that it all ends in such tragedy.

  • Tim and Jeff look and even talk the same.

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  • Watch the way he walks in! Hilarious!

  • Sooo really did they invite him just to mock his hair and cut him with a commercial? really?! Awesome show they had there Steve and that fugly dumb wife of his...

  • This is sooooo 60's/70s'! "That's groovy, I dig that!" lol

  • His wife looked at Tim when he walked out like he was a Zoo animal or something.

  • He's such an intelligent, articulate person!

  • @whiterobin well, it's good they let him answer the questions being that it was an interview.The 'fake shit' comment was more their attitude, the vibe they gave off, it did not seem sincere. Tim seemed very sensitive, so the contrast almost hurt to watch, that's all- sorry if I am confusing.

  • Orange lady is so obnoxious and patronizing to Tim, who stays so classy.

  • Love the way he walks in :D HIlarious

  • I'm 14 and I love Tim Buckley, and watching this makes me laugh because it shows me that people, no matter the generation or era, are still the same and will never change.

  • this guys music is pathetic , yet you dumb moronic hippy idiots think its "advanced" fuck ,,,, was there ever a more ridiculous generation than the generation of the hippies?

  • @SHMUJEW I would like to hear the music you claim as not so "pathetic" as Tim Buckley's. You obviously aren't capable of understanding his genius.

  • @SHMUJEW I'm in no way a hippie, but come on, people who think money is not the alpha and omega, who think that values actually matter in life instead of thinking about when the grass is too long and needs to be mowed or which car best suits their personality or their golf handicaps and whatnot. I think that's what the world needs. People who start thinking about what's best for our own inner happiness instead of panicly chasing something outside that we can only find within.

  • "Thats groovie, yeah i dig that"

  • who is that girl in the orange dress she's hideous

  • I never realised how slight he was, so delicate.

  • ..... You're fucking serious?

    You have this man, ready to be interviewed, and you ask him about who does his hair...

    Christ

  • @MemorymanDL HAHA! That's EXACTLY what went through my mind while I was watching this! How the hell could an interesting or insightlful converstaion develop from such a brainless question, anyway? What a waste...

  • I want to board a time machine and set that lady's fake hair on fire.

  • I think the second question was quite good. I didn't know everyone sang because it was fun, I thought He/they sang for a true meaning.

  • @TheLordHodne yeah exactly! it's not what you'd expect someone like him to say, especially back in those days when alot of people like bob dylan, joan baez etc. did actually have a message in their music

  • That's groovy, I dig that!

  • I don't think Allen was as much of a 'dick' as all that. Taken in the context of both the era and his position, he was actually pretty cool. He presented a lot of talent on his show that was beyond the accepted borders of tv in the day, and he was a big jazz fan. There was only so far he could go and keep his job. The fact that he had Tim on at all (were there any other nationwide tv appearances besides him singing 'Song for the siren' on The Monkees?

  • aww he's so adorable. for a dead guy...

  • Damn... I feel his pain....

  • Who does your hair?

  • Tim is too good for this show and the people on this show... it's very surreal.

  • @codeastronomer yes, the contrast here is quite heavy! Sincerity vs. fake shit.

  • The sound of Happy/Sad is so magic just like Nick Drakes Pink moon !

  • What song is that at the beginning?

  • @ginnyxwotsit "Morning Glory"

  • @jordanhorowitz Thanks :)

  • steve's wife is a stupid cow. look at Tim at 00:43

  • I guess it's a pretty good picture of the "generation gap" that existed between young and older people back then. It is really humorous how silly these two come off but on the other hand you have to give Steve Allen some credit for attempting to reach out if only for the fact that how else would this footage even exist. Tim Buckley was an amazing talent, an artist who challenged the industry and even his own fans. Always stretching out & experimenting with his style.

  • his smile...

  • This makes me want to jump into a DeLorean, go back in time, and bitch slap both these douchebags. I hope they realize how effing stupid they looked and sounded here.

  • The thing that seems to pain him the most is that the first thing someone says to him when he sits down is some surface bullshit like "Who does your hair?" and knowing the sad reality that that's a question too many people in the world would want asked...

  • Yeah, I'd rather hear him sing. But this is pretty classic nonetheless.

  • He sounds just like Jeff :(

  • he resembles Dylan in 66' .i love them both

  • Omg he just totally took the piss out of them and they didn't get it at all! And how unbelievably condescending was that woman?! SHE WAS SITTING NEXT TO TIM BUCKLEY, FOR CHRISSAKES!

    But oh fuck, his face at the 'that's groovy' ... *falls over, roaring with laughter* ... and then sticking it to them. Brilliant. That's our Timmy for ya.

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  • Steve Allen actually hated most rock music, and often made fun of it on his show.

  • Isn't that Jane Meadows, sister of the woman on the Honeymooners.

  • This interview's fucked up. That orange & white woman doesn't even seem that much older than Tim and yet clearly doesnt get it. Sic the squares, man! Brilliant retro televisual discomfort for our vouyeuristic pleasure.

  • the woman=shallow as can be

    Steve Allen=a bit more interesting but without any visible sign of emotion

    Tim Buckley=the epitome of honesty and pure talent

  • i LOVE his little walk across the stage! he's so lanky! haha I love him so much... i wish i could have met him... his music has changed my life

  • are there any more tim buckley interviews on youtube?

  • I think you can actually see him physically wince around when she says "that's groovy!" 0:45

  • @mark1800

    Never would have caught that if you didn't mention it. Turns his head and his eyes kind of flutter nervously. Combination of him being shy in that situation and that chick being a complete pandering moron.

    His response was classic though :P

  • Hahaha I love how unimpressed he looks with everybody

  • he was so short and thin!!!! and his shoes! lovely...

  • Yeah that was Steve's wife Jane Meadows...before age really hit hard. Steve was a renowned songwriter of his era as Tim recognized...very cool of him.

    Yet the adults were clueless, how deeply ironic who the mature/cerebral one was. Complete role reversal - it's not a question of plasitcity believe me the older crowd were either scared or clueless of the young lions. I was there.

  • Love this man~Tim Buckley you gave me so much joy through my teen years long long ago

  • Unorganised tv shows are so human and brilliant to watch. Tv today is so robotic. Interviews seem lifeless. Not all tv of course.

  • I never realized Tim was so slight of frame -- wow! Jeff was also kind of waif-ish, but not as much as Tim. As much as there are uncanny similarities between Father and Son, there are also differences in mannerisms. I think Jeff's voice is really similar to Tim's, but Tim moves differently. *Sigh* I could analyze Tim and Jeff forever. Thanks for this amazingly rare and intriguing clip!!

  • Eu estou enganada ou eles cortam o Tim?È surreal!

  • I never realised that he was so thin, also seems shy and awkward here. What a superb voice Tim had. The most underrated talent I can think of.

  • I'd like to think we've made some progress since the period depicted here, and that "adults" no longer address "young people" as if they were Martians.

  • those old cats interviewing him were clueless, Tim is too advanced for people on that time

  • @Ljandj99 i was thinking the same :)

  • @Ljandj99 They seem a bit shallow at times, don't they?

  • I think Tim feels as if he's being talked down to.

  • Not sure if that's it, but there's definitely some serious attitude problems here.

  • typical american show, talk a lot,, abt nothing, a lot of hot air, no substance, superficial all the way, plastic,

  • He looks a lot like Dylan in this clip. Could well be had he lived beyond his 20's he would have gone on to have as big an impact as Dylan.

  • I find Tim Buckley to be a very mysterious figure, and immensely interesting on several levels. I think he's being polite in this clip, but I don't think this show was the appropriate place for him to perform his music, or be interviewed anyway. Steve Allen was an arrogant dick, and his wife is annoying. The problem was there were no better shows at the time. Steve Allen was considered more "out there" than Ed Sullivan. That's why they're using words like "hip" and "groovy". To pander.

  • I don't think that's true on all fronts. Steve Allen was very supportive of artists he thought were good. Of course they are pandering slightly, but that's how things were in the 60's, when mainstream media hadn't quite caught up with what was going on in the music world at the time (not that it's improved that much these days). They had to make these things palatable for the public at the time, and if the artists didn't agree, they didn't have to appear on the shows.

  • @MyInnerEyeMike Absolutely agree. Some heavy wincing goes on every time I watch this clip. Maybe on Carson things would have been slightly better, but I doubt it.

  • @MyInnerEyeMike So in other words, Allen was to his time what David Letterman is to ours eh?

  • @MyInnerEyeMike how you "find" him his irrelevant. but the rest of what you said there was/is so on the mark it's incredible.

  • @MyInnerEyeMike he is very mysterious indeed, or was I suppose i should day, but yeah I agree with what you say, he shouldn't have been interviewed by these kinds of people. his music was way too odd for that kinda thing, i wonder what song he performed that night lol

  • What a walk!

  • hand shakes in 0:24...simple !

  • This clip is kind of painful to watch, because of the inane questions by Steve Allen's wife. I think Tim was expecting something more meaningful than making fun of his hair. You can see the look of irritation pass across his face, although he recovered and handled it well.

  • It was a roundabout way for Audrey Meadows to pay a compliment, but in the end it appeared to be just that. Remember though Audrey is from a Hollywood generation that was glamorous and at the time this was taped people's heads were only beginning to wrap around individualism. So far it has improved some, but conformism still has a foothold in society. I liked Steve Allen a lot and remember watching him as a kid.

  • so freak! is it possible Tim Buckley did all his genial musical songs just for having a good time?...crazy, such a humble fragil guy...that GIANT singer? my favourite artist, above all the rest musicians...and he is so simple? what a lesson to arrogance

  • So weird, so wired and so cool. Thanks. I still dig Tim and Steve, a lot.

  • c-o-o-l! thx.

  • Would love to watch all of the interview?

  • omg he's so tiny here!

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