He walked the walk. He talked the talk. He is missed. He will not be forgotten.

I played with Townes to the end. We were doing a record for Geffen Records in Memphis. No mattrr what shape he was in he was a gentleman and a true friend right to the end. He took care of his family at the end by making sure they all had ownership to his copyrights. I sat across the table from him out at the lake house while he signed the documents. We took breaks to play cards and rehearse "The Dying Ctap Shorter Blues" which he really wanted to be the center piece for the project. He would then would go back to signing away his rights to the songs. No matter what anyone might think he was a true gentleman and a fine fine friend. He is deeply and profoundly missed.

Townes sure didn't put on airs, did he...nice to see a musician not full of himself, and a genius besides.

Oh Townes, I hope you found peace and resolution from your pain when you crossed that misty river. Thank you for hanging onto Hope as long as you did so that you could share beautiful music with the world.

It's a blessing we get any footage of TVZ at all.

I used to work at the 11th Door when Townes was around. Amazing to know it still stands. Surely his music stands forever. What a blast to hear him talk.

His honesty and integrity is so rarely found. Not even the devil could take it away.

I can't help but love this. I love when he would smoothly transition from one of his tunes into one he admired from another artist. He does the same thing with Colorado Girl slipping into Dylan's "Just Like Tom Thumbs Blues". His sense of humor was sharp even as his other faculties failed him. All that talk about who wrote which parts is him joking. His forgetting the name of the song was not uncommon. He wrote many and, to him, the titles were always secondary to the song itself. The man lived to write the perfect song. A goal I believe he achieved time and time again. RIP Brother. I feel it too Townes. I feel it too.

The finger picking on the cricket blues ~ worth the world to see that.....

My favorite townes performances was like this raw and ready... laying out there like he wrote them probably drunk in his house or motel room...he left it all out on the field for us to hear...the epitomy of a true songwriter...this is what we're missing in these days and times!!!!

at 3:19 he finishes still looking for you and at 5:37 he goes back to the chorus of still looking for you while playing dead flowers i wonder if this footage ever aired on tv this a really beautiful video none the less, it couldnt be better any other way!!!!!!

I am from Austin. I am 50, I saw TVZ play the biggest local venues. I saw Townes play the street corner the next day. I love Townes and I am still missing you. I remember those Sunday mornings on 6th street. We were all just to high to go home, we searched for the next shot. We ate migas in east austin waiting for the dealer. We sat and sweated at his feet, shared our tacos dimes and dope. That was reality...

Your very welcome! I acquired this through a reputable source, and feel like it will be safe for all to enjoy. I have credited the person responsible for it's production, Mr. Larry Monroe, and I would also like to mention Roger Kirkpatrick (a friend of mine) who had the original VHS tape in which this was taken from.

I knew Townes. Not well but from time to time I was lucky enough to talk with him. He was gracious, brilliant, pained. I cried long and deep when he died.

I never got to see Townes Van Zandt play live, I should have known better way back then. I was told plenty about Towne by my brother who has the best taste in music, from listening to recordings of Townes singing his songs, telling his jokes, and talking,I tell that he was a very decent, kind, highly intelligent and very generous human being also a very great singer and songwriter

Townes delivered his lyrics with such raw honesty that empathy is not required of the listener. He just injects the emotions into the soul.

I love his heart and soul. God be with you Townes Van Zandt. There's some blue skies where you are now. walk in in those clouds. ❤ 🌦⛅🌤

Crying...just gorgeous. He was leaving us. Thank you to all for your comments and LOVE for him.

Thanks for the post towerscope. I have to say i love the way he rolls his words right into someone elses story, the way he could see into windows and let everyone see into his

I think this is from the early 90's. There was only one copy of this on a VHS tape that a friend of mine had.

The late years are so painful to hear. Life was not kind to this man, but he took it all and gave back such beauty.

Thanks for the great Townes! Love hearing his live recordings as you often hear songs he never recorded in the studio.

I was so fortunate, seeing Townes was a regular thing in downtown Houston...Grew up there & Austin, Ft. Worth. Seeing & listening to Townes was a way of life it seemed...Still is

Thank you Jonny for posting and keeping this gem forever alive.

It’s a shame some people (namely the 20 dislikes) can’t understand the genius that is Townes ✌️😎

I stumbled onto this great pair of videos this morning and must convey my deepest thanks and gratitude to you for posting them here. Like andross122, I too am easily moved to tears when listening to Townes' music videos these days (tears of sadness as well as tears of joy). My introduction to Townes Van Zandt's music in the early 1970's resulted in a life long love of his recorded songs and the live performances I was lucky enough to witness (I saw Townes on at least a dozen occasions).

Thank you for posting this, towerscope.

thank so much to posting this gem!

Thank you SO much for this.

Thanks so much for posting this footage....it's FAB....regards, Pete

A great man, a great songwriter and truly a sad story of a self destructive journey.

thanks very much for this rare gem. i got to see townes live and he was great.one of my heros.

Thank you, this is great!!!

totally amazing. thank you SOOOOOO MUCH!

Brilliant! Thanks for posting!

Parts one and two~Gems to be treasured. Thanks so much for posting!

Gone at 52, he had at least 20 more good years. Just crazy

Great post. Townes rippin' it up. Medley of "Still Lookin' for You" and "Dead Flowers", mean "Cricket Blues".

The raw emotion he has in this set almost hurts me, it's so honest. Idk if it was the buzz talkin or both. "Lookin for you" is priceless country

depths not many get to see. he was a treasure

This man is something I can find good enough words to explain how just fantastic old Townes & for sure Guy!!I am 35 I have been a music lover,hell I was born in Corpus Christi Tx!!Some how these two escaped my ears n eyes until about 6 months ago!Well I'm making up for lost time cause I wont play nobody else!!

Saw Townes in a small TX hill country bar one night outside Boerne and after we shared a vodka at the bar before his gig I asked him how he comes up with songs and if I recall correctly he said something like " They come when you least expect it, but you have to keep expecting them" Did not know he wrote Send me Dead Flowers which has always been a big influence on my guitar picking style as I listened to that Stones album over and over again. Hope your flying shoes are treating you well Townes.

Love his music. Great song writer and singer, otherwise a tragic life. I feel for him. Rest his soul!

Thanks ForThis VID.

Thanks for sharing this with us

I had a chance to hang out with TVZ in Austin over a few weeks. He was on a kick of drinking Ezra Brooks or George Dickel - I forget which, but he talked like it was his best friend, and that was really his name. You never had a sense of how much he was drinking, because when he drank it was like most people breathe. It was so natural you didn't really notice... until you had a look at the bottle. I realized one night that he was functionally unconscious, but his body and voice were sort of on auto-pilot. There was a point where I could just tell that no one was home. And about 1 in the morning, he decided that it was time to go to a liquor store for more whiskey. I kept trying to tell them that the liquor stores had to close at 9, by law, but he just sort of smiled like he knew something I didn't and got up to go. I thought, "There's no way I'm getting in a car with these crazy-drunk bastards", but they left in somebody's old Impala - and Townes was driving. They came back about an hour later, and damned if they didn't have a couple of bottles. When he forgets the song name at the beginning of this clip, it's not because he was so far gone by then. He was like that a long time before this clip was shot. He told a lot of stories, and it was sort of maddening to listen to. They took about 3 times as long as they should. He would bog down, and throw in a bunch of crap that you know didn't belong in that story, and then circle back around to where he was before. The stories were entertaining, but you would think he was about to make a point and then he'd just leave it hanging and veer off somewhere else. The other thing is that there was always something sad about him. He was always sort of self-deprecating, but you got the feeling that deep down he really believed it. Even now, when I see these old clips, it makes me feel sad. Never mind the forgotten song title. Listen to the beginning, where he says, "It really is nice to be home. I've been... different places, you know". That's him.

Thanks for posting! Great! BSJ

I can only watch this every now and then as it’s as desperate a state of depression that can be put across in song format

Hey, thanks for sharing this! Won't get any better...

this is a treasure Townes Van Zant was a great song writer and a man who fought his own deamons his whole life.I get that,it aint easy

Love his work, miss him...!!

Thank You.... It is like finding buried treasure, when a new clip of Townes shows up. Hopefully the evil forces will not make you remove it!

Poor ole Towns nearing the end. One of the best

thank you "tower scope" for this post... its beautiful- just saw flatlanders in DC (at Wellmont in VA) and it reminded me of Townes- great music.

Love you and miss you Townes.

Greetings from Ireland ❤ keep it country Love TVZ ❤❤❤

I am profoundly touched by Townes music and his stories

my friend, Joe Buchan, gave me his LP, "Flyin Shoes" so many years ago

Love dis man tears dawn my face tanks 4 dis video

Awesome music-loved the Rolling Stones cover ;)

So Fuckin Honest......we need so much more of that!!!

Just because he forgot the name to a song for a bit there doesn't mean he suffered any type of disease, he just forgot. Happens all the time to most of us although it is reported Townes did have some problems earlier on. The treatment given at the time seemed to have erased much of his memory if the stories are to be believed and who'll ever know just how sick the man was? Lot's of booze and maybe other thing's didn't help him live a long life but he gave us so many great songs in the mean time.

A beautiful soul 💜

this is quite quite wonderful

❤Pure Gentleman God Bless Him 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Hell yes ,love him , it is so fucking hard 2 find his Music .

effing wow. lays everything on the line every time he opens is mouth. talk about honest music, Townes sets the bar.

💙 Still Looking For You feels like a song that speaks of eternal things, sung in a simple no frills kind of way.

Thanks !

Whatever drives a man to cast aside everything in place of the needle and spoon is only known by God and the heart of the man. I watched it happen to my daddy. It don't mean the person is unlovable, but it sure makes it harder for people to love 'em.

TVZ BEST SINGER/SONGWRITER EVER....PERIOD

Addiction takes away the best of someone

i don't trust them crickets! god damn, you get me every time, townes.

Che tristezza vedere Townes in queste condizioni. È ancora il mio preferito

💓💓love him so much

Here's part 2....I put the text a little closer to the front of the title to make it easier to find. Thanks for pointing that out!

"I've been...uh...different places, you know."

Hard travllin' my friends... Still, he was our genius while he was here.

I used to see Townes at the 11th Door so very long ago. Amazing group of singers went through that place, lots of foolishness but more wonderful songs than you could shake a stick at.

Kinda funny how one of if not the greatest songwriter of all time introduces himself as a “former entertainer at the red door.”

Still looking for you...🍀🤠

Saw Townes a year before he passed.. He seemed so fragile yet put on a wonderful and intimate show at the Mucky Dick..His spirit still lives on in these parts of Montrose in Hou TX. Every yr has been a celebration of his music at the Old Quarter now in Galveston every new years day. This year is to be the last of this ritual.

wow thank you

i love and live you buddy

Saw this when it first aired in Austin. Kind of sad but still Townes in only his way.

Thanks for sharing. Huge fan. But honestly it's sad to see addiction like this. It's heavy.

"Dead Flowers" was one of Townes favorites.

this was a wonderful time in austin texas - it was deep hanging with townes and we loved him very much and still listen a lot to his songs. we wondering about the second part of the tape we would love to see the part of hans theessink show .. could anybody please let us know about that tape and send it to us or put it up . i think at end of tape 2 hans and townes are playing togther... would be great to see that again. love from milica theessink

Has anyone ever covered Dead Flowers with more pain and emotion?

townes version is the best i also love johnny thunders

haha, "i think keith and mick wrote the still looking for you part....I think I kind of disremember"

I'm 32, only discovered Townes and his music and his story a year ago and its been an amazing journey listening. The comments here are great and bring a tear to the eye, great to see how many people have been touched by his music and hope like myself that he has found peace.

well, at least he still remembers Kay...

As Dali said genius can not be normal .

Who can fill his shoes!

I’m still lookin for you too Townes.

Amen Brother

If I'm ever as cool as this cat,even by a fraction I know I'm using my guitar for something worth listening to!!!!This guitar brother is a Hero 2 me and all who agree,light up your spliff n say a prayer for Poncho and me!

Every time i put him on i cant turn him off

wow