The Parts You Don't Hear - Nick Drake
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- Today, Sunday 25th November 2018 marks 44 years since the death of Nick Drake. When he died he was virtually unknown but those few who knew him were wowed by his incredible guitar playing, his laconic but melodic vocal style and his unique song-writing.
Ashley Hutchings, Joe Boyd, Richard Thompson, Simon Nicol, Dave Mattacks, Dave Pegg, John Wood, Andrew Scheps and Linda Thompson all share there thoughts on Drake's legacy.
Thanks to the Keith Morris Archive.
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It's a pity that Drake never knew the lasting effect his music would have.
Am sure he was happy ..his music must have made happier
@Manpreet TheBeginner : Wasn’t
@@mapreetemails "HAPPY "... not by a long shot... He was a manic depressive... bordering on mad.... but then again most GENIUSES are... check out some of the documentaries on here
Why do you say "It's a pity" I believe that when we die, our spirits leave our bodies, yet they can still see this physical world and know what is happening there!.
@@merseydave1 I agree with you! Also, it's a {tremendous and beautiful} thing to create and have others discover, as well, appreciate* what you've done, while on this earth!
I just heard "Pink Moon" from his work back in 1972!
Never heard this tune before, and now I can't get enough of it! {SMILE🎧}😃...
Joyous Blessings!!! 💚*🙏🏼
Only in the last couple of years did I come to hear of Nick. And that was because through genealogy I discovered that we were related! His great grandmother was my grandfather's sister!
That's so cool
SICK
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omg
Before there was Elliott Smith, Sufjan Stevens, Iron & Wine, there was this guy. I remember buying Bryter Layter at a gas station CD bin back in 2010 simply because I remember seeing his Nick's name listed on the Garden State soundtrack - that was the extent of my knowledge of Nick Drake. I thought Nick Drake was a more recent artist based on his sound. It didn't seem to have a specific date to it; Nick was very much his own voice. It wasn't until later that I realized he was from the late 60's and learned about his tragic career and death, which only made his work even more interesting to me. Ten years later and his work is still a common returning point of enjoyment and reflection.
ty for your comment, put a smile on my face.
Elliott Smith is up there with Nick, another fantastic songwriter
I like to think Elliott was Nick reincarnated. It's a shame both of them went out the way they did. Iron & Wine is great too, though, I feel their themes focus more on peace and tranquility amongst ambience. I don't know, I&W just feels slightly different. I would not all be surprised if I&W was influenced by Nick Drake.
First time I heard "Pink Moon" I was so stunned I had to replay the album five times in a row....
< Five Leaves Left. Sorry.
Same here. It's so intimate.
I discover Nick's music in 1975. I was in a record store and loved the cover of Five Leaves Left. I had no idea who Nick was. I knew that I loved the cover. Little did I know that I would be introduced to a musician that would change my life forever. I think his music is more relevant regarding the covid19 epidemic. There is something about Nick's lyrics that I can't describe. Every night when my wife and I listen to him, we are always discovering something new. No one else like him and I am so honored to listen to him after all these years. A very special person!
I actually have a very similar story. I found his Pink Moon CD in a second hand shop when I was 14 and bought it because I loved the artwork, I knew nothing of Nick
@Deborah Mahmoudieh Nobody but Nick himself can possibly know whether he killed himself intentionally or not. One thing that is certain, however, is that simply taking a double dose of a prescribed anti-depressant could not prove fatal. The coroner's finding was suicide, as the amount of the drug ingested was far in excess of a double dose. As Nick's sister Gabrielle has stated, it's preferable to think that Nick did intend to take his own life, in which case he achieved the outcome he wanted. It was, after all, his choice. It's tragic to think that his death was accidental and that he wanted to continue living.
Oh, and to be a pedant yet again, Nick's father Rodney was not a diplomat. He was an engineer, hence the family's moves to various British colonies, as they were called in those days.
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He's music makes me smile and cry at the same time.
I just discovered Nick Drake and I can honestly say he’s changed my life. I can barely get through the day without listening to a playlist of him...I often break down and cry
Dont do this to yourself, he is dead and you are alive.push forward , live a full life. Sure listen and appreciate the many talented people of the past but being consumed regularly will certainly become detremental to ones own health
I used to do the same and noticed i started to feel down. Its nice to listen to him but it can make you depress. So take a break from his music and came back after a while when you feel better.
@@solangegoncalvesbarbosabal8701 I was in a dark place a year ago. I’m much better now
Then you need to get a LIFE!?!?
@@zackspaulding I was in a very dark place when I wrote that. I’m much better now 😅
Riverman is my favourite song of all time. I only discovered it in 2018, and I am not young.
Similar to me then! I came across Nick Drake from the Unthanks... featuring songs by Molly Drake... Riverman never fails to move me
Jeff Ebdy the Unthanks are good too!
your thumb- nail picture suggests you are young, not that one needs
credence. Age appropriate imagery is all I am implying. Or maybe, you are ' just ' the artistic type.
Sorry to judge! . That is what 6- months in " lockdown " , has done to me. I appreciate your comment,
( that's why I have replied ). No malice intended ,. Just trying to 'jolly-' along,, ,, on our collective paths of self- discovery. ...and trying to connect with like- minded folk along our way. God-Bless and stay safe .
big from Canterbury U.K...
I guessing you from the
" other side off the pond "
Love you all .Xx.
@@royferguson3909 Hahaha! I think the term is young at heart! Or perhaps UA-cam is a funny place to find myself, hence silly picture. I'm old enough to have watched the moon landings, if we'd had a tv in my family at the time, although I wouldn't have remembered it. I am an artist and in London up from Surrey, on my way back to Kent. Catch you later maybe.
I grew up hearing Nick Drake on my parents’ favorite radio station all the time. His music became synonymous with peaceful mornings with family. When I got older and decided I wanted to learn about him, I was eager to see the type of man he was - and was so absolutely gutted when I read how he died. I cried, to know that his music meant so much to me and so many others and he never knew. Tears falling just now thinking of that moment. Like losing a friend I never had. Thank you, Nick.
It is heartbreaking when you learn he died thinking no one liked his music. OMG his music pulls on your soul. For me its the most beautiful sadness. His guitar playing is so great...
Nicely written epitaph Emily. At the very least, his family and friends can take solace in people's appreciation of his beautiful music.
I imagine what more magic he could have created, but thank goodness he left us this much. I miss someone I never even knew. 🖤
"Listening to João Gilberto"?
Amazing! I'm Brazilian and I've been listening to Nick Drake on UA-cam. All his work is... genius.
Not because of his story. He's really amazing!
Somos dois!
@@johnny_carlos Nem acredito que um brasileiro está ouvindo Nick Drake. Acabei de acordar e Bom Dia amigo!
🥰🌹🥰💓🌹
@@AnaLuizaHella Somos três!( E acredito que muito mais...)
@@Thiagolcgomes "Brasileiros que apreciam boa música, Uni-vos!"
Thiago, 💓🌹
Sensacional descobrir que Nick apreciava João Gilberto! 😍
What an excellent musician. Great video
i discovered Nick Drake in early 2000's when i heard his song, Northern Sky, played in the background on the last part of the movie, Serendipity. I fell deeply inlove with his voice and with the way he sung, and every details of the song feels magic. But i felt really sad when i learned that his music got the appreciation only when his not around already.. it was really a heart breaking story for me 💔
`I've fallen so far for the people you area. No Nick, you were great!
Nick writes his own eulogy on Fruit Tree. It's incredible to think someone could write like this at only 20 years old.
I liked this tribute from the fairporters, etc who were so instrumental in bringing his painfully shy persona to the ever growing audience that he deserves. i first heard him at an all night concert in london,of : the nice,yes, renaissance and peter hammil. andy dunkley the dj played 'man in a shed',from the forthcoming 5 leaves left lp,and it was as if i,d always knew him. then at the september concert in 1969 nicki drake appeared,and with john and beverley martyn too. a memory i still cherish,
Wow
Just discovered him a short time ago and was instantly blown away at the depth of the material. River Man, Saturday Sun, Pink Moon and One Of These Things First are my absolute favorites but I'm still absorbing the rest over time. I keep going back to Nick Drake.
Riverman!!! awwwww my absolute number 1 from nick drake!! then the incredible northern sky!!
hopefully I’ll listen to pink moon before I pass away just after the album had finished.
Pink Moon is an album reserved for the most isolated moments of emotion. Its unspeakable how much of an enigma it is
One of my favourite singer/songwriters of all time
My favourite
Totally agree with what the lady at 2:20 said! I happened upon "Pink Moon" in the soundtrack from a movie ("The Way" with Martin Sheen) and was struck by how fresh, unguarded, and CONTEMPORARY he sounded. Imagine how shocked I was to find out the album came out 50 years ago?!!? Even sadder to learn that he left this world so young.
That lady is the great Linda Thompson. He ex-husband and former performing partner, the brilliant Richard Thompson, is also in the video. Check them out if you haven't yet. HIs albums with her and his solo work is remarkable; brilliant songwriting and extraordinary guitar playing. He was also in Fairport Convention.
These comments of praise for Nick Drake are obviously deep and sincere, but I would have appreciated even more than in this brief clip. In any case, Nick Drake remains a unique, powerful, solitary, mournful, heartache of a singer and guitar player--beautiful melancholy in such a resonant, rich voice.
Not to take anything away from Nick (who I thoroughly enjoy) but after hearing an obscure cassette of his own mother singing decades ago at the home piano (a song she composed). I can see where Nick got his style, his tonality, phrasing & intonation. It's his Mom & Nick refined it & made it his own. And brought it to us.
But...a belated thanks to his Mom also. She left Nick something he used wisely. (Is this my opinion? No. It was mentioned in a Nick Drake documentary by family members...it may have even been Nick's own sister).
He was amazing, his finger picking style is so unique. You can really hear it on the entire Pink Moon album. Things Behind the Sun and Which Will are prime examples.
I bought a record player with turntable for my son's birthday. Added 2 of Nick's albums. I knew my son would love this. (He is a guitar/rock player himself). Every now and then Nick's recorded songs are used in films. Recognise him straight away.
just brilliant
I spent a good 2 years learning Three Hours on guitar. The tab transcription was only a guide. Nick made every chorus and verse unique. I played parts over and over on a/b repeat, but stil had to approximate on some passages. Maybe one day I’ll be able to play at full speed. The revelation during the whole journey was that I was only LEARNING his song. At the age of 18 or 19, he COMPOSED this masterpiece and then performed it flawlessly both on vocals and guitar. I feel this is his best guitar work. His technique is right up there with Chet Atkins and Leo Kottke. Nick’s catchy melodies and intriguing lyrical content adds another dimension…Astoundingly, this is only one song off of that great debut album.
Oh jeez, three hours is an absolute nightmare to get down, nice dedication! I believe Place To Be was the first I learnt, then the breakthrough was From The Morning. That marked the day I ditched the plectrum.
@@y007p3 From The Morning was a great choice to close the album. I waffle between his three studio albums on which is my favorite. I guess it doesn’t matter…no doubt Nick Drake was a musical genius.
.. And now you're here; to light up my Northern sky
To understand Nick Drake watch 'A Skin to few'. To appreciate Nick Drake listen to his music many times 🙂
seen it very moving....
I first listened to Last Five in 1975, and thought then that it was the most impressive and interesting album I had ever heard. A truly original piece of both art and musical history. The guitar playing interested me least, because back then being able to play your instrument exceptionally well was sort of taken for granted. However the songs, lyrics, production, composition, arrangement, and above all Nicks haunting voice all put together was something quite sublime.
Artists like Drake feel as though they are channeling something of the divine which has a habit of taking over their consciousness. It drives them to often become self destructive when others seem not to understand the sacrifices that this feeling obliges them to make. This leads to a rapid alianisation from the rest of humanity. Many especially the post war English middle class kids of his generation, where already alienated in many ways.
They had the education, and other manifest benefits of a future administrative elite, without the religiously inspired self discipline required to deal with the privileged position that they have inherited, which their parents would have better had.
Therefore already alienated from their own friends and family, when they also feel alienated from just about everybody else, they often simply fall apart.
They don't all end up dying prematurely, but you can clearly see this social dysfunctionally in many of his ilk, from Mozart to Roger Waters.
@Gary: er yeh maybe...I dunno ,class issues, social pressure for sensitive souls is sorta hard.Some people thrive on showing off , others are too shy... but anyway , . We've got some timeless music and I feel very grateful. Btw you got the album title wrong. So...
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Spot on.
What's "Last Five"? You mean "Five Leaves Left"?
I heard Riverman in January on the BBC Radio 2 Folk Show, I thought it was a contemporary track from a new artist.
Blown away to read all about Nick and his journey.
When was this?
@@sarahdlp524 January 2022.
Stories like these NEED to be told
Pink Moon is stuck in my head, I think from a more recent car commercial than the VW from years ago. Just learning about Nick Drake now who seemed to really suffer in this life. I hear a softer version of Cat Stevens and feel that Jack Johnson has been influenced, or sounds similar as well. Glad to have discovered Nick Drake whose music sounds both haunting and timeless.
The t.v. commercial was transmitted in 2001
wella is a huge fan i hear
When? when? when?when?WHEN?!?!?!......Can't wait.
He would be doing great in todays world. I mean you do not have to walk the miles of struggle to promote anymore. His stuff is original, from the heart and amazingly well written.
I thought that was Rachel Dratch for a second I was about to be like "the chick fom SNL listens to Nick Drake?" Anyways rest in peace to a legend, your music will live on forever
Whole family talented, sister an actress Gabriel Drake
i found out about nick drake from that old commercial.. i was in high school at the time.. i always remember that commercial being so peaceful and i never forgot it.. it was a car commercial where these friends were driving at night and listening to pink moon.. i think if i remember correct i saw an ad in an old magazine years later and it coincided with that commercial (same ad campaign), so i looked up the commercial and then found that the artist was nick drake.. thought the album was great and got a guy at my job into it also.. this was about 2010
Yup, that Volkswagen commercial introduced a lot of people to his music. Simple, great ad with searingly memorable music. One of the few dozen or so of TV advertisements I've come across in my life that I can bring up and remember clearly and instantly in my mind. At the time I knew about Nick Drake already (an aging hippie bartender at a local dive bar I used to hang out at had introduced me to his music a few years earlier) but that ad still made a deep impression on me. Nick Drake is one of those deeply personal and affecting artists that you remember when and where you were when you first heard him, though.
@@zyxwut321 i agree.. and it also reminds me how lame suicide is because u never know what tomorrow can bring.. i mean sometimes people don't really catch on to how good something is until later.. like shuggie otis for example has gotten a lot of recognition in the 2000s for music he did in the 70s
‘Old commercial’ haha seems recent to me!
Best commercial ever because it introduced me to Nick Drake.
River Man is one of the greatest English Songs ever written in my opinion.
Thank you for uploading this 🙏
This looks so good!! I need the whole thing!!!!!
recuerdo que empecé a escuchar a elliott smith y a nick drake en el 2009 pero no le prestaba mucha atención hasta que llego el 2012 y viaje a argentina y su música cobró sentido en mi vida, una vez fui a trabajar a un restaurante el primer día de entrevista entre y justamente estaba sonando nick drake fue un momento mágico, porque ya conectaba con nick desde que había llegado a buenos aires
Everyone says they always thought you were the greatest once you're dead
I think it is probably something that folks planning to make a living out of making music should be aware of: It's entirely possible you could produce great music and have to wait a LONG time for an audience to catch on.
I think it is bitterly ironic that apparently Nick was very disillusioned with a music industry that wouldnt hold him to it's breast and he didnt realise this was actually a bit of a blessing, the artistic freedom this could potentially have afforded him.
First to like this! :) ..quite funny that last night i thought about still not having a first original pressing of the "Pink Moon" album, to then realize today, because of your facebook post, that Nick died exactly 44 years ago. While all his three albums are incredibly great (plus a lot of the the unreleased tracks that came out later), "Pink Moon" for me has the most special place of all albums of any artist i like / have in my collection. There were times i have been listening to that record for so many times.. oh boy.. And really great to hear what Andrew Scheps has to say about it. One of my favorite mixing engineers and such a kool guy. Thanks!
You could've left out that "I'm first" rubbish, and just left a comment like everyone else. It's not a contest or a competition...
@@mattrogers1946 You could have just concentrated on everything i wrote after this, instead of displaying your negative focus on things here.
@@carstendaembkes Then why type it if it's meaningless? Need the attention?
Nick Drake would have been such a great father. I wish he could have overcome the feeling of not being good enough.
I discovered Nick Drake about 10 yr ago. my favorite song of his is Time Has Told Me. After a song is written, the author makes a demo tape and takes it around to producers to get it to the next step. If a writer is not confident in his voice, he will hire a professional singer to cover it and take that recording around. After Nick wrote Time Has Told Me, he got Elton John to record it for him. I found that demo and have it as part of my ND collection. EJ did a good job with it. BTW, this all happened before EJ got fame.
Unknown Pleasures vs Closer, #1 Record vs Radio City, Nick's three albums. Whichever ones you pick you win, really. I love Bryter Layter because of the Jazz element. The album cover as well. I'm American and Nick Drake, The Fairport Convention, and Iain Matthews are magical to me.
Love Bryter.. the 2 Joy albums are superb..
bryter is my favourite album of all nicks recordings.....
@@Mff48 Bryter Layter is one of my favorite albums. It's got a bit of Jazz accompaniment to it and John Cale plays on it as well. And the album cover is simple yet says a lot.
🙏 May Nick Drake be Blessed to a Better World & Realm ... 🕯🌷🌿🌍💜🕊🇬🇧
I honestly thought he was a new musician I hadn’t heard of until I found this on you tube - I love everything about him !! Thanks
Why does everything about Nick Drake leave me wanting for more? This documentary is just impossibley short but great just the same.
He was from another time. Music tells a story
Because of Michael Nesmith producing "Valley Hi" by Iain Matthews I learned of Fairport Convention. Because of them I learned of Nick Drake and heard the thoughtfully-assembled Island/Capitol U.S. compilation "Nick Drake" which blew me away. These decades later it's clear that the resonances he laid down will go on for a long time.
Mike Nesmith was actually the reason I discovered nick drake too! I brought a magazine because they interviewed him but the front cover had Nick on
Awesome!
One word, wow, just wow, goosebumps
First time i listened to pink moon (the song itself) i just immediately started crying like crazy. I liked music but i never felt *connected* to it. And it was so overwhelmingly different, i just couldn't process this whole new emotion. It was incredible. It made me understand just how meaningful and powerful music can be
I can hear the pain in his voice
He was ahead of his time timeless gone to soon
What a guy
what's the latest on the film guys? :) can't wait!
Clearly Nick Drake had that indescribable ‘thing’ as a songwriter most other songwriters are trying to capture, but in which they fail, in spite of all musical knowledge and skill they put in. It’s not a rare phenomenon that these truly gifted musicians are initially banned from public attention just because others (especially music journalists) are unable to comprehend let alone define their talent. Just as it's not rare that final recognition comes too late for the artist himself. Sad but true.
He gave us too many poignant and cryptic lines to try and explain away our loss of him. Did he choose the road that got him through...did the Pink Moon get him or did he just get tired of a world with no replies? Who knows - thanks for the songs, Nick. They're great!
Why didn't this clip have Drake playing in the background, instead of that awful ambient shite?
probably scared of copyright issues.
i dunno, maybe because its a trailer and having someone singing in the background while people are talking isnt the best idea
get over it!
It should be heard on its own, not as background.
My gosh, didn't you know how much Nick hated when he played live and people were talking at the same time? Nick's music deserved full attention, so do the talkers here. Both at the same time would have made that impossible. Plus perhaps copyright issues.
I would like to know the people who bought his first album when it came out
Where can I see the full documentry of this? anyone....?
Heard that Pink Moon was recorded with his back entirely to the engineer. Bloody amazing
Heard there's quite a lot of misinformation floating about on the interwebs. Bloody typical.
@@ulricvoncatalyst1507 it's actually in a biography I've read. Bloody printed word
Signalman: it's true but not "amazing". !??! He was a shy guy .And also you can hear yourself playing and be less distracted that way.🐂💨💨💨💨💨💨
Ok
@@signalmanmusic4225 Don't remember it from the Humphries or Dann ones I read, or from Joe Boyd's White Bicycles, but my memory isn't exactly perfect.
I love nick
I've read a lot of your comments and see that many of you understand that Nick Drake had such a wonderful soul and mind! I have great news for all of you. In 2008 I was diagnosed with the same disorder and handed the same cocktail of medication as Heath Ledger! On the day that they diagnosed me we lost Heath Ledger! I ran home that day and turn the news on. I couldn't believe what I was hearing and then I too was diagnose and prescribe so much medication. These two events that happened on the same day fueled me to start studying the brain. I knew that we had to be doing something different inside the brain that they had not figured out! For a whole year I studied Heath Ledger. Day and night for a year I studied his brain pattern as well as mine. My brain pattern and Heath pattern became like a stencil. During the time that I was studying Heath I noticed that Heath also was probably studying Nick Drake. To make this short and sweet Heath was like my first Domino and then he led me to my second Domino which was Nick Drake. From 2008 to 2015 I studied all of them and I do mean all of them!!! In fact my third Domino was Michael from INXS! To help everyone to comprehend what we are doing inside the brain I would like everyone to read Malcolm Gladwell The Tipping Point. To also explain in a short sweet way to what we are doing inside the brain I'm going to use some of their lyrics and artwork. Let's start with Cello since all of you understand how beautiful it is. Listen to the song one More Time before you read on. I'm sharing an article down below. I want you to picture a Tipping Point for a syndrome. Without dopamine and brain chemistry you just might be Elegantly Wasted! Ben Harper & Heath Ledger's Morning Yearning shows figurines at a yield than the song and engages and the figurines start to move which is another artistic symbol for dopamine to cross over! one more artist which is Chester Bennington because if you have no dopamine in your brain can actually be numb and somebody that's like the teacher in the video could actually create syndromes!
Ladies and gentlemen the article below shows your Black Hole sun! The Tipping Point level that we are on is a very high genius a lover and a fighter as well!!!
www.psypost.org/2019/02/listening-to-the-music-you-love-will-make-your-brain-release-more-dopamine-study-finds-53059?fbclid=IwAR2MnKYk5ovQvuOKLGubEHJyAkWGh2VdpA-mllF1t_S1wQHUX8Qvl_UkXZs
wasn't expecting someone to talk about heath under nick drake video but i am happy to read this comment. God bless you. Heath Ledger lead me to Nick Drake as well. I can see how similar their artistic values and personality were. The world got robbed cause Heath couldn't finish his Nick Drake biography. Heath had the same calm reserved ancient wise spirit on his face as Nick Drake. I don't know about INXS that much but as far i know their lead singer was a same kind of soul. and same goes for Chester. They all were so brilliant, short lived and seem like they came here from another world.
Thank u
Oh they all engage and Implement on a level that society and our leaders are not on. Some more hyper than the other. Thank you for the reply. Getting the trait info out has been pure hell.
Anna, i hope this note finds you well. Hereis another way to not only fill your brain , i fill my whole body with endorphins ! Feeling the blood pumping through my chest, my heart pumping out past my lungs through my arms to my fingernails My legs to the balls of my feet and toes. Pushing my limits at my gyms. Once you meet Ironman competitors and understand what they endure you will get a better understanding of control not only of your body but of your mind
When I first heard him, I thought, “This is the guy that Iron and Wine, Sufjan, and everyone else wants to be. He’s got it down.” Then I found out he died decades before I heard him.
love iron and wine saw them in brum with calexico.....
The album Pink Moon is one of the few contemporary works I can imagine being listened to and readily comprehended and appreciated in 1000 years' time. 'Classic' doesn't cover it.
I love Joe, but hey... sometimes he says he never talked with Nick about gilberto, then here he says he did.
caught that too but probably mixed up wanting to have with having done so. I cut him some slack on it as the guy helped in a fantastic way to get his music made and out into the world. Also he obviously has passion for what Nick was able to create. I give him a pass on that bit of apparent confusion.
Would be nice if the commenters were identified?
@Casper Hoier Mindested And Linda Thompson.
Seems like part of a longer doc where people are identified at their first appearance.
@Casper Hoier Mindested You missed off Ashley Hutchings, founder of Fairport and the man who brought Nick to Joe Boyd's attention; without him perhaps he may never have recorded; John Wood, recording engineer to the Gods;, none better.......and Dave Pegg and Dave Mattacks never played for Fotheringay, that was Pat Donaldson and Gerry Conway on bass and drums respectively.
Its A Tragic Pity That he Couldnt Give hes Records away in hes Time.He Died of Lack Of confidence Through Failure and Of Course the Overdose
still no surviving video of Nick Drake performing. At least there is 20 seconds surviving of Jackson C. Frank. And still a mystery of why Sandy Denny and Nick Drake never connected in their short careers, although both Nick and Sandy covered Jackson C. Frank songs, both connected with John Martyn, and Nick Drake apparently opened for Fairport Convention and Fairport band members played on almost half of one album.
When will this ever come out?
Thanks for telling me man!
I've never seen the image at 01:.04 until now! He's so cute.
So nobody ever said while Nick was alive, " Hey let's get a motion picture camera rollin' on this man!" (?)
Different era. People weren't constantly mugging in front of a camera like today. Video recording wasn't around yet and unless you had a good reason to most people weren't recording themselves on film very often. Nick was painfully, even paralyzingly shy, possibly on the spectrum. He didn't reach the level of fame that would've necessitated him to be in front of a film camera. He wasn't on television, certainly not movies and performed very seldomly live and only at small venues where he rarely made a significant impression. It's a shame there's no footage but not surprising given the time and circumstances.
He was likely schizophrenic and would not have reacted well. He was a notoriously shy performer particularly as his condition progressed and could not tolerate the grueling touring required of British folk musicians of his era. Read his sister’s bio of him if you’d like to better understand him.
It’s one thing (the purest) to be a sublime artist, quite another to be a self promoter.
Traci K True, yet today’s commercial artist is asked to be both things, simultaneously.
Mike W yes that’s right, and it spoils it. I’m an artist, I paint, sometimes make things. People say to me, ‘Why don’t you sell your work? You should start your own business, make a website.’ For me, that almost defeats the object, it’s a completely different part of the brain, totally unconnected to making art or the motivation I have for making it. Now, if somebody sees my work and wants to buy it, if they either offer me more money than I would rather keep it myself, perhaps I would sell it, it depends, but usually it’s not worth my while. I do often give my paintings away, but that’s my choice.
Is this part of larger documentary
If someone would’ve explained to him that mighty oaks grow slowly , maybe he’d be in a treehouse
Could someone please tell me what the names of the first two musicians the American fella lists off at 00:14? I can't make them out! 😖😖
João Gilberto, Miles Davis, Django Reinhardt
Shame you didn’t put up a caption identifying everyone. I have no idea who most of those people are…😊
Joe Boyd and members of Fairport Convention were some of them. Also Linda Thompson.
First time I heard his song was in 7Pounds movie..since then it's been a part of me.
is that it?
UA-cam is rife with videos about musicians that contain no music by those musicians. I wish they would not bother.
Having my glasses not on, I misread "the farts you don't hear".
sry...XD
Nobody mentioned the fact that Nick refused to perform live. R.I.P. Nick Drake.
Robert Pickacard He did do a handful of gigs though.
He played 18 gigs between Feb ‘68 and June ‘70. You are right though that he hated performing.
@@BigSky1 He was too good for his audience.
@@BigSky1 During all his live performances, no one look to the audience just only on his feet. (Ref. of the gigs on " Remember For a While" book).
Is this from a new documentary or something?
Crazy what he says in fruit tree about the fame... Like talking about his future after dying
I know some people really like it a lot, and Peter Buck thinks it may be a 'perfect' album, but for me, "Bryter Layter" was overproduced, taking away too much of the innate power and resonance of what made Drake's songs so great- his voice, lyrics and guitar playing. I'll always prefer "Pink Moon" and "Five Leaves Left" and some of the other songs that have come out since that are just or mostly just him and his guitar as he sings with that amazing voice.
I hate to compare but in my opinion he was better than all the british folk artists of the time. Bert Jansch was a great guitarist but I even think Nick's guitar playing was more interesting.
Nick Drake was at Marlborough College at the same time as Chris De Burgh.
De Burgh asked him if they could sing together, Drake declined..
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I dont think booking him into working mens clubs at the time was the greatest move. pearls before swine someone called it
I dream of a day when Five Leaves Left and Bryter Later would also be offered with ONLY guitar and vocals.
Why did Donovan make it and not Nick- at least not in North America and we all know what happened and I still cry- there is a feeling of "not selling, not making it" - I KNEW, as a young woman, I fell in love, but the small Canadian city I lived in, nobody had heard of him but me and a very small group of hippies- but everybody had Donovan, who I still love, Dylan, and Cat Stevens- WHY IS THERE A PERSISTENT FEELING, NOW RE-EXAMINED- " NICK DRAKE DIDNT MAKE IT"? In Montreal where I next moved too, still at home, the ONLY Canadian city to dare to play Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg "in flagrante delicto" sp? You know the song, I can't spell Engligh yet let alone, French Je t'aime- Moi Non Plus- close enough? There is STILL THE COMPLETE OPPOSITE OF WHAT YOU LOVELY PEOPLE SAID, FLOATING ABOUT IN CYBERSPACE- Nick committed The Big Chill because nobody bought his records, Donovan is selling like hotcakes as I imagine we're, Pentangle and Fairport and The Incredible Stringband- my dates, I love, bought, STILL listen to them all- the contemporary guy would be Elliott Smith who I also dig- I wish I'd had more than 2 min. from you people several of whom knew him? Or not? You obviously know much more about the mechanics of music and the business of marketing, selling, etc. As a Canadian I think of my Number One - I think Nick's producer Joe Boyd? turned him away- LEONARD COHEN. Also a frustrated wanna-be who wasn't a wanna-be in Canada in literary circles- he was our top selling poet, the next big thing, promoted by wonderful, brash, Irving Layton also a poet and his prof. and mentor- Nick's voice was soft, so was Donovan's - whoever is on the other end of this, profer an opinion- yes, I know about the concert, Way to Blue, I was in tears, I adore Lisa Hannigan and actually bought VASHTI back then, the dark, Marianne Faithfull- well Marianne hadn't come out of her cocoon- I meant Andrew Oldham's brunette version- none of my so-called high school friends had heard of her- not in cosmopolitan Montreal. Where I spent most of my teens, the city named for London, England, perhaps due to two Englishmen, one a record shop owner, the other a Coffeehouse, both VERY COOL- maybe? I could rattle on and on- if anybody, I know you are all, busy, important people but my issue isn't odd- Nick had more fans, posthumously- why?
Namaste from I Woke in the Middle of the Night and Nick was Humming, Summer was gone and the heat died down...alias, Holly Golightly
Donovan did things his career I think Nick never would have done; "The Intergalactic Laxative" for example.
One of those awful documentaries they make these days which are all talking heads. Oh, how I hate them.
plate of sushi....
Stupid title to this !?!?
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Well that was a waste of time
Didn't even hear any of his music.
@@kingrobert1st its a trailer.
@@David_Downs That's no excuse.
"How come you stopped playing?"
"My fingers froze."
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