The Nick Drake Appreciation Thread

jamerson macmanus · 03-06-2008, 07:21 PM

what a legacy nick drake left behind. every song he put it affected me in some way. pink moon is in my top 50 albums all time. five leaves left. that opening track time has told me with richard thompson on guitar and danny thompson on bass. sick. bryter layter. genius. nick drake is beautiful.

SATCHMO · 03-07-2008, 12:32 AM

DDefinitely an artists that deserved to have more of a legacy than his untimely death allowed.

pheurton · 04-30-2008, 04:52 PM

I just came across this
Drake's Peel session Anyone have the actually recording? =o

Urban Hat€monger ? · 04-30-2008, 06:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pheurton

I just came across this
Drake's Peel session Anyone have the actually recording? =o

The BBC don't even have it

pheurton · 05-01-2008, 02:34 AM

Do you happen to know the story behind it?

Urban Hat€monger ? · 05-01-2008, 11:59 AM

In the 60s & early 70s the BBC didn't keep everything they recorded because of the lack of space in the archives and because of the price of tape. Everything that was recorded was given a rating out of 1 to 5 usually based on commercial value & historical value, or if the production team thought they may need it again. Anything that ranked low would have just been wiped and the tape used again.

As Nick Drake was a pretty obscure artist during the time he was making music and not really commerically successful during that period it stands to reason the original tapes were wiped.

The Mp3 that you can download online is a fan recording of it and all it contains is the end of the first song , john peel talking for a bit and then the majority of the 3rd song. The 2nd & 4th songs of the session are totally missing still.
Someone may have a tape recording of the whole thing and give it back. That happened with the Damned. Their 3rd Peel session was missing from the BBC archives , the version of it that was included on their BBC Sessions album was remastered from a cassette copy owned by Rat Scabies.

pheurton · 05-01-2008, 05:08 PM

Thanks a bunch, shame no footage has ever surfaced too.

jackhammer · 05-16-2008, 08:01 PM

Nick Drakes sister has kindly allowed a few snippets of tracks to be used on a close friends documentary that is to be shown at the local cinema in a weeks time.

clutnuckle · 02-04-2010, 10:31 PM

Pink Moon is better than everybody says it is. The point being that most people say it's good, and therefore, it's really really really good.

gunnels · 02-04-2010, 10:38 PM

Bryter Layter kicks my ass.
I'm digging Pink Moon too.

03-06-2008, 07:21 PM	#81 (permalink)
jamerson macmanus Groupie Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Dayton, Ohio 1903 Posts: 31	what a legacy nick drake left behind. every song he put it affected me in some way. pink moon is in my top 50 albums all time. five leaves left. that opening track time has told me with richard thompson on guitar and danny thompson on bass. sick. bryter layter. genius. nick drake is beautiful. __________________ theres a solitary man crying hold me

05-01-2008, 11:59 AM	#86 (permalink)
Urban Hat€monger ? The Sexual Intellectual Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Somewhere cooler than you Posts: 18,605	In the 60s & early 70s the BBC didn't keep everything they recorded because of the lack of space in the archives and because of the price of tape. Everything that was recorded was given a rating out of 1 to 5 usually based on commercial value & historical value, or if the production team thought they may need it again. Anything that ranked low would have just been wiped and the tape used again. As Nick Drake was a pretty obscure artist during the time he was making music and not really commerically successful during that period it stands to reason the original tapes were wiped. The Mp3 that you can download online is a fan recording of it and all it contains is the end of the first song , john peel talking for a bit and then the majority of the 3rd song. The 2nd & 4th songs of the session are totally missing still. Someone may have a tape recording of the whole thing and give it back. That happened with the Damned. Their 3rd Peel session was missing from the BBC archives , the version of it that was included on their BBC Sessions album was remastered from a cassette copy owned by Rat Scabies. __________________ Urb's RYM Stuff Most people sell their soul to the devil, but the devil sells his soul to Nick Cave.

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jackhammer Ba and Be. Join Date: May 2007 Location: This Is England Posts: 17,331	Nick Drakes sister has kindly allowed a few snippets of tracks to be used on a close friends documentary that is to be shown at the local cinema in a weeks time. __________________ It be my music and film collection. “A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.”

03-07-2008, 12:32 AM	#82 (permalink)
SATCHMO Al Dente Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Texas Posts: 4,708	DDefinitely an artists that deserved to have more of a legacy than his untimely death allowed.

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pheurton n/a Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 990	I just came across this Drake's Peel session Anyone have the actually recording? =o

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pheurton n/a Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 990	Do you happen to know the story behind it?

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pheurton n/a Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 990	Thanks a bunch, shame no footage has ever surfaced too.

02-04-2010, 10:31 PM	#89 (permalink)
clutnuckle Music Addict Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: -_-_-_-_~__~-~_-`_`-~_-`-~-~ Posts: 1,276	Pink Moon is better than everybody says it is. The point being that most people say it's good, and therefore, it's really really really good.