I met tim buckley in 1975. I was 19 years old. I did not know anything about him. the bar that I frequented had all these flyers on the doors and walls announcing his arrival. 2 nites only. I must say I was not all that impressed the first nite. by the second nite something clicked for me. I don,t know what it was but I was in awe. I had the great fortune to meet him and stayed with him back at the hotel. he was leaving in the morning. It was one of the best times in my life. I am 58 now. I still feel like I did when I met him at 19. watching some of his videos, I still kinda tear up. he was a sweet man and I am so glad I got to meet him.

The Old Grey Whistle Test producer Michael Appleton said that this is his favourite all time Whistle Test performance. Appleton died in 2020, his legacy is gifting us these timeless beautiful performances. Tim Buckley is majestic here.

one of the best singers there ever was.

He had an amazing range of vocal and song stylings. He was a remarkable talent and lost to us far too soon.

I've been infatuated with this video for over a year now. Tim Buckley's performance of this song is haunting, it almost feels like a 'farewell' performance. He sings 'Dolphins' as if he were putting a cadence onto his entire life up until this point.

Commented here 8 years ago, and guess what I'm back again .It's a timeless rendition of Fred Neil .Enjoy it while I'm still breathing.

What a voice!! How lucky we have recordings of this wonderful music.

Him and Jeff and the best father and son vocalists ever….. Fight me

The looks and actions between father and son are mind blowing. I grew up estranged from my biological father and throughout my early life I was told how much my "actions" were like his. Now after seeing Tim and mentally comparing he and Jeff, I totally understand.

The tears in his eyes at 1:42 , such a heartfelt cover of this beautiful song.

Tim Buckley...such vastly underated talent... such a lovely voice... Dolphins is amazing...

Lucky enough to to have seen him twice live in London in the 60s. What a voice.

Tim Buckley has been my late night listening for more than 40 yrs,coming up to midnight put on any album and lay back to the most beautiful music ever.

1 million views for Tim. Let's celebrate with some fine champagne

I met him also! He was so sweet and down to earth.I will never forget the time we spent together.

Fred Neil blessing us with another great tune.

I found him due to his sons music… I’m both saddened and immensely amazed and moved by both. I am 52 now and listening to both their music styles every nite.

Greatest voice ever. No one compares!

I'm so happy some videotapes with Tim exist out there. worth not only listening but watching too

I’ve probably watched this over 50 times. So mesmerizing..!

Great great song by the great Fred Neil. This version gets me tearful. Amazing performance.

All star cast doing THE definitive cover of Fred Neil's Dolphins. The live version on Tim's posthumously released Dream Letter: Live in London, is also astonishing. However, to see this cast of characters from Family (Charlie Whitney, guitar), King Crimson (Ian Wallace, drums) and session player/master bassist Tim Hinkley is bracing in the extreme. They probably had all of 2 days to rehearse for this. Put this up against anything in modern music and you realise what we lost with the passing this era of music. My son is only 11 and he loves exploring my 6000+ vinyl records, yet he cannot stand anything played on modern radio. He has not yet discovered Fred Neil and Tim Buckley. He's still into Jimi, Beatles, Who, Cream etc. But someday he'll pop the needle onto something by Tim and Fred and just go --- WOW!😅

I bought Dolphins after only hearing it once. The words still mean the same today. Wonderful voice, thankyou for the video. X

They don’t make em like they used to. More life experiences in that 28 year olds face than the full top 40 of pop songsters together nowadays. Bless you Tim. Voice untouchable.

No words, absolutely no words to describe how great hé was. A wonderful talent floating through heaven and earth.

But can we talk about how attractive he was😮❤im in love with the soul in the lyrics and the beautiful poet he was so much talented😢💋

I was never that big on Tim Buckley until yesterday when I watched this video, his amazing voice plus the subtitles telling his story gave me goosebumps, too young to die, 28... oh man

Ah Whistle Test, you are missed. Quite the era when we'd get performances such as this.

Jesus Christ this is incredible.

Tim Buckley. For more than 50 years my favorite. And---Dolphins: he adored this song, found all sorts of meaning in it...I guess I do, too. God damn.

Wonderful! He and his son have a luminous yet down-to-earth quality about them. Good band, lovely guitar work.

i swear i watch this video every three days...his vocal was so unbelievable on the performance of this song...this version of the song is actually better than the album version...more soulful...never fails to get me teary-eyed...

Wonderful dreamy sound. Brilliant stuff! Incredible talent Tim Buckley.

This has got to be my favourite version. Love it more than the album version.

Brilliant! This is the most hippie song I ever heard- peace love, dolphins, do you think of me? makes no sense- it's great

May your Soul be blessed, Mr. Buckley! Thank you for your time on this planet.

A great song sung by a great singer. I remember watching this on the TV that night.

I always come back to this video. Such a classic. Who knows what more this man could have accomplished if he hadn't passed away so young?

Never thought I'd see a guy named Tim Buckley who was actually talented. This guy rocks! His son's fantastic too!

The old shivers haunt me when I hear this........brilliant....

Literally brings tears to my eyes.

Are there mere mortals that look AND sing like this out there? Sure thing. He's right there, in the ether.

What a genius aaaaah I love him

Man what a voice, so amazing

The variety of his voice is incredible Her voice chenge from song to song TB great artist

Just an amazing voice & talent. You just don't see this energy and soul in any singer these days. Taken too soon but never forgotten. RIP Tim.

3rd day in a row I'm listening to Tim and I'm still in disbelief that so much power, emotions and pure light can come out of this guy.WOW

Good music is timeless - x factor will be well forgotten, but music such as this will live on for ever & ever .... beautiful.

I can't believe it's 50 years. Where have they gone?

Absolutely sublime!

Sublime guitar by Whitney, sheer understated brilliance weaving itself around the equally brilliant vocals. Beautiful.

Thank you Tim, for both your's and Jeff's music. He couldn't have done it without you. Also, although I don't hear it Gary Puckett was paid a tremendous compliment, just two comments back. I'm still searching fot the Dolphins, three decades later.

Tim is from the future. Fresh as a daisy.

Saw this on Whistle Test in 74 & this performance passed me by at the time. However, age & wisdom has taught me what a great performance this was. A major loss.

The Song's by Fred Neil... I've loved Tim Buckley for 30 years and I never knew about Fred Neil until today! Tim Buckley does this so well... does justice to Fred's memory. Such a mysterious song...

Amazing set, Tim was a extremely talented artist and his live performances were things of beauty and he is truly missed.. Rip ..

it's such a brilliant cover of Dolphins. Having this heard for the first time long ago I did not get his performance out of my head and sung it myself ... It is sad to know he is gone and could not write and sing more of such beautiful tunes anymore ...

I bought some Tim Buckley 8 track tapes at our local drugstore in the 1970's. Blue Afternoon, I think. This guy had 'IT"

Now, THIS IS TALENT. What a stunning voice...

Such Beautiful music and what a voice. Makes me think of happier times..

I'll never tire of this song

What a truly incredible and unique voice; such a tragic loss

We won't see his like again for a long long time. Sublime.

The support band was very good too with Charlie Whitney from Family on lead guitar. But that voice, it feels like soaring away far beyond the Stars... Such a great Man.! Thanks Man!

Without a doubt , one of the greatest performances ever captured on film. Charlie Whitney is superb , beyond superb even , on guitar. I love this little bit of musical legend.

beautiful music, he & Jeff are both dearly missed!!

We'll never forget you Tim.

My God...Tim Buckley is one of the few singers who like Billie Holiday can send shivers diown my spine.

Beautiful cover and performance. The dude had a helluva voice. I love the more bluesy full-band arrangement just as much as the OG version.

what was great about the 60's and 70's was that peace and non-war was what people were talking about. It was like a wave sweeping over us, now it's the opposite

Never tire of listening to Tim Buckley. God I wish I could sing like that, what a voice! Tragedy that he died so young but he left an amazing legacy of music. Also check out The Peel Sessions, one of my favourite live recordings.

L.A.’s treasure! viva Tim! what a Vox!

POWERFUL VOX to go with this great great song! Long live Tim Buckley and what he did for U.S. here in L.A.!

His range is amazing and effortless; this version is a quite country-fied...

This is how you sing PERIOD. So much soul oozing from his lips. I'm a huge Jeff Buckley fan, but his old man had some pipes!

Undoubtedly, a massive talent. Gone too soon, at only 28.

his voice is just beyond expression so much emotion and heart in his voice R.I.P Timmy :[

Very beautiful song :)

A great love of mine introduced me to Tim Buckley in 1969. So very, very dear! What a talent he brought forth from the Soul. Peace

So good, so sad.

The best.

Amazing. Totally amazing. The piper with the guitar, steadfast on opening up all of our minds to the genius of great music.

I saw Tim play at the very first Knebworth in 74... Having driven all night with 14 of my mates in an old white transit (Yup! Those were the days) we arrived about 8am and they were still putting the finishing touches to the stage. We had our tickets so they let us in. We feel asleep in a (more or less) empty field, only to be woken up about Noon by a roar as Sensational Alex Harvey Band came on to the Intro of Rambo Rules.. and 80,000 people behind us....What a Day! We all got sunburn, but the 2 best acts of the day were Tim Buckley (& Band) and Van Morrison. Doobies were oaky(ish) But people started leaving half-way through the Allman Brothers set which was tedious and boring. John Peel Compared the day and was as dry and funny as ever.

Utterly wonderful

Amazing . Just really great

The presenter is absolutely the history teacher type from the 70s:-)

loved this song 30 years ago, still sounds good today!

He is so great!!! Today, 40 years ago, this fantastic and extremely handsome Artist died on the age of 28. I think of him!

Beautiful.

i never met him but if i did i would thank him for the most soulful music that i know

So absolutely wonderful. What a musical legacy. Such energy can never die.

ONE OF MY FAV TUNES.GREAT PERFORMANCE BY ALL THE MUSICIANS

OMG I love this it is beautiful! I hadn't heard this one before.

Wonderful song, Wonderful artist

I saw him in some small place in Toledo, Ohio……………it was the same night as he as Charles Lloyd, jazz man played on the same card. I drove them to their next gig, Ann Arbor, Michigan. U of M…………both great guys and sad deaths

Thank you for this. I loved Tim Buckley and this is a beautiful memory and a treasure...what a loss.

Tim Buckley live in London,(dream letter) is one of those concerts you would have died to be there.

Kay Watson- Greetings from L.A. is still one of my favs, got it on CD as a import from Englad of all places...Move with Me Tim Buckley indeed!

This old world may never change The way it's been And all the ways of war Can't change it back again I've been searchin' For the dolphins in the sea And sometimes I wonder Do you ever think of me I'm not the one to tell this world How to get along I only know the peace will come When all hate is gone I've been searchin' For the dolphins in the sea And sometimes I wonder Do you ever think of me You know sometimes I think about Saturday's child And all about the time When we were running wild I've been searchin' For the dolphins in the sea And sometimes I wonder Do you ever think of me This old world may never change This world may never change This world may never change

love this ♥