"Interviewer: With Jeff, what stage of Jeff's career did you actually become aware of him and his work? Chrissie: He was playing at The Garage, on his own β he didn't have a band β I don't know what year that was. It was probably fairly early; I mean, there was a short career...and he was standing next to me at the bar, afterward β so we started talking β and I actually had a rehearsal studio, which we'd been working at that day, just around the corner, and I said, "hey, do you wanna come around, and...I'd gone to see him with John McEnroe, actually, who was in town...and Jeff was just there on his own, maybe with very small crew, if any crew β I don't remember β it was just him playing guitar. I asked John to give him a hand with his amps, and that was fun to see β to see John act as a roadie for this kid β anyway, we all went around to my rehearsal studio and had kind of a jam β or he had kind of a jam β I was mesmerized. He was such a great guitar player, Jeff. That seems to be something that people have...I think when someone's a good singer and songwriter, you tend to overlook that, but he was a shit hot guitar player. He really blew us away that night, when we saw what he was really up to with the guitar."
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outtake from the BBC documentary, Jeff Buckley: Everybody Here Wants You
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Jeff Buckley
(November 17, 1966 β May 29, 1997), also known as "Scotty Moorhead", was an American singer-songwriter.
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