Jeff Buckley - Live at Sin-E: Legacy Edition (Bonus Dvd)
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Free Music Notes for Live at Sin-E: Legacy Edition (Bonus Dvd)
Free Music Review: Awsome
Hit: 5 Stars
A great Great album, a must listen. Read other reviews they say it much better then I can. In other word just listen to it you will get it.Free Music Review: Wonderful
Hit: 4 Stars
I disagree with the reviewer that feels the sound is hollow and incomplete on this album. I am amazed at the sound that comes from one person and his guitar and I never realized that Jeff's music could be played without a band backing him up. I absolutely love this album, especially the version of "Lover, You Should've Come Over." This album is great for any Buckley fan but especially great for those of us who never had the opportunity to see him play live. The version I have has 2 audio discs plus a DVD showing live footage of Jeff at Sin-é and short interview clips. My only complaint is that the DVD footage only lasts about 20 minutes and the interview clips are short.Free Music Review: Great but..
Hit: 4 Stars
Fantastic album showing off his huge talent. The audio CD's are brilliant, however, I bought this for the DVD and was dissapointed that it only showed two songs from the concert plus an interview.
Would have liked to see more of the concert, maybe this was not possible but anyway...
Free Music Review: A historical document more than a great album
Hit: 3 Stars
LIVE AT SIN-E: LEGACY consists of two concerts played by Jeff Buckley shortly after being signed to Columbia at Sin-E, the Manhattan cafe where he first gained public attention. Four songs had been released before as the "Live At Sin-E" EP, but in celebration of the tenth anniversary we are presented with the full recording.Buckley performs unaccompanied, a single man standing before a small crowd of cafe-goers. There are no barriers between the audience and the performer, and he even takes suggestions from spectators on what to play next. There are a large amount of cover versions, showing Buckley's vast knowledge of all kinds of music. In the second disc alone he covers Nusrat Fatah Ali Khan, Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Edith Piaf, and Leonard Cohen. But there are also early versions of his original songs that would take their final form on his only album GRACE. While the version of "Grace" here is, I feel, uninspiring, we hear solid versions of "Mojo Pin", "Lover, You Should Have Come Over", and "Eternal Life". The third disc is a DVD which consists of an interview and performances of three songs. The interview is the same as that from the Electronic Press Kit on the LIVE IN CHICAGO DVD, but there is more of it here. Unfortunately, the quality of the video on the performances is poor, as it appears to have been shot with a camcorder.
LIVE AT SIN-E is not something for the listener who merely liked a few songs of Grace. Instead, it is for the die-hard Buckley adorer who has also collected the various other posthumous releases. The Sin-E concert is of value not as a brilliant display of music in its own, but because it shows the genesis of Buckley's musical vision, and the monologues help explain turns that came in his career afterwards.
My only real complaint with the music of LIFE AT SIN-E is the sparseness of the sound. Buckley was an incredible artist, but his band was a key part of his sound. In this Sin-E we don't have Mick Grondahl's superb bass or Matt Johnson's drumming. As a result, the concert as a whole seems a little hollow and incomplete.
If you are a dedicated Buckley fan, and are interested in the work that led up to his major-label signing, LIVE AT SIN-E is an important document. If you're new to Jeff Buckley, this is a bit much for the moment, and I'd recommend GRACE or LIVE AT L'OLYMPIA to get started.
Free Music Review: A tale of 2 CDs
Hit: 3 Stars
This is obviously of historic import. However, one must not let retrospect cloud one's vision. The first CD is, quite frankly, horrible. The guitar is okay, but the singing abysmal. The voice is shrill, all in the throat, and with little or no resonance. If Jeff Buckley really was a fan of Nusrat, then his adoration comes through clearly here, as this is as off-putting as the worst kind of middle-eastern wailing can be. Disc 1 also includes early versions of his famous, later songs. These are also disappointing, sounding to me like little more than anthemic chord progressions. If one is new to Buckley and stopped after listening to this, you would abandon the quest forthwith, and wonder what all the fuss was about.
HOWEVER,...
for the patient and more forgiving, who will listen on through Disc 2, the reward is awesome (in the true sense of that word) and wondrous, and totally eclipses one's initial disappointment. Very little that is truly original has happened since about 1985. Mr Buckley, however, upends this view once and for all on this Disc 2. So what if he does almost exclusively covers; many of the greats did so too, especially during their early years, e.g. Jimi Hendrix, Fairport Convention & The Rolling Stones, whose early work included quite a number of versions.
On Disc 2, Buckley achieves something that is scriptural in its profundity, monumental in its stature, finer as the finest porcelain in its delicacy, something of rare, enigmatic and exquisite beauty that can move you to ecstasy or tears... This work has genuinely revived my confidence in mankind's creative spirit, which I truly thought had gone into hiding after its tremendous exertion during the 60s and 70s. Any music lover - not just the Buckley fan - will be sorely missing out if he or she does not have this album to listen to now and then for genuine inspiration. I'm sure glad that Mr Buckley's Grace has shone down on me!
Oh, and by the way, the 5 stars for CD2 plus the 1 star for CD1 yields and average of 3. However, the price is so reasonable that CD1 doesn't need come into the reckoning, so, Mr Buckley, you take 5 anyway.