Lord Buckley/"The Nazz"

A snippit of Lord Buckley performing "The Nazz," Gate of Horn, Chicago, 1960

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• Lord
• Buckley

[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

[yinyangaccount]

fucking brilliant

[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."

[CountThrillhammer]

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

[azuresalver]

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

[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!

[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]

@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.

[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".