Jeff Buckley: From Hallelujah to the Last Goodbye

by Dave Lory

seen. Jeff was so good that people wouldn’t just tell their friends; they’d radiate like they’d had a religious experience.

I want to work so hard that everything of me burns away, like the chemical in the match.

I was playing in a metal band called Buster Cherry, but no bar owner would put that on a marquee,

“I remember the silhouette of his frame as he bent almost double to wrench every ounce of meaning from a song written three hundred years ago. Better than any classical musician I’ve ever heard. It’s probably the greatest musical experience of my life; it turned my world inside out…made me realize I was a musician who played through study rather than played through feel, an incredibly pivotal moment for me. I think about him nearly every day, which is quite strange really, because I only met him for about half an hour.”