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| lemonade kid |
Posted - 23/04/2011 : 00:23:41
I'm not going to search for old Nick Drake posts as Nick is always new and a surprise every time I go back to his music--but then I never left.....as close to Arthur Lee/Love as we can get in the absolute fresh-as-the-day-it-was-recorded timelessness.
So now is the TIME for...
NICK DRAKE
From The Morning
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2JjJPDz3EE
Cello Song...so damn beautiful
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Leaves_Left
Things Behind The Sun....love the guitar break, well the whole guitar picking throughout!...so perfect
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FV4D_q9QiuQ&feature=related
Something behind Nick's music says to me no matter how dark life is(or even no matter how dark his song is)... the music will lift you...
FLY!...the beauty of this breaks my heart!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ShXHW_FrlM&feature=related
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| Joe Morris |
Posted - 21/03/2012 : 02:56:05
will be doing a video review of a new Nick biography published this year
heres a video review of a Pink Moon book from last year:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRLcprNXJXI |
| lemonade kid |
Posted - 20/03/2012 : 21:50:39
Things Behind The Sun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlKhi7ZxW4g&feature=related
...for a daily dose...why does Nick fill me with joy? Maybe because he battles severe depression to write some of the most inspired and brilliant songs of all time.
That is victory....true success is achieved through a series of failures...never give up.
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We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers & discoverers-
-thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses.
Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.
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| lemonade kid |
Posted - 25/04/2011 : 20:08:06
quote:
Originally posted by The sweet disorder
LK
I have to side with Joe on that one I'm afraid - I'm not overkeen on the cover. Always fancied the Guild guitar on Bryter Layter though!!!
As an aside - What is your favourite "cover"??
Calexico does a really nice cover ....Clothes Of Sand
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhxAnRaHUK0
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| Joe Morris |
Posted - 24/04/2011 : 02:56:27
Well heres a "cover" of From the Morning
in standard tuning:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIUOUD9mf_0
I was always more impressed with the contents of Pink Moon than the gatefold cover actually. Not really representative of the album (stark, personal, spot on guitar picking!)
The cover to Bryter Layter isn't so hot either - the shot of Nick isn't shot so clear, and you can make out his Guild better! (the guitar on the cover was never actually played by Nick, curiously, at least according to the recent book on Nick - Pink Moon - by fanzine writer Jason Creed
(Video review:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRLcprNXJXI
I'd like to find the original pressing of that album I read about in Record Collector, with Nick smiling and rather garish (in orange color!) though that seems as hard to find as the Interplay record
the Interplay seems to pop up every now and again on eBay for a few grand, although its available for download online |
| The sweet disorder |
Posted - 24/04/2011 : 01:22:43
LK
I have to side with Joe on that one I'm afraid - I'm not overkeen on the cover. Always fancied the Guild guitar on Bryter Layter though!!!
As an aside - What is your favourite "cover"?? |
| lemonade kid |
Posted - 23/04/2011 : 16:32:27
Holy crap Joe....I love that cover!!! but then I am holding the vinyl jacket and that has some impact!!
Anyone Else love it?!!!
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| Joe Morris |
Posted - 23/04/2011 : 02:43:31
Still hate the Pink Moon cover, although side 1 is probably my favorite side by the man
theres actually a Pink Moon art show here in NYC this month - till the 28th April
A group exhibition inspired by Nick Drake’s album:
April 2 – April 31, 2011, opening reception, April 2nd, 5-7pm.
24 east 73rd street, 2nd floor, NYC, 917-861-7312
Tuesday through Saturday, 11 to 5:30
SHFAP presents Pink Moon, a group exhibition inspired by the final album of the English folksinger Nick Drake (1948-1974.) The exhibition includes paintings by Gideon Bok, Duncan Hannah, Kurt Knobelsdorf, Sangram Majumdar, Keith Morris, Stephanie Pierce and Stuart Shils, sculpture by Paul Villinski, music by D.M. Stith and Arborea and film by Chris Wilcha. The exhibition will also include Michael Trevithick’s original painting used for the album design of Pink Moon. The exhibition is accompanied by a pdf/catalog with an essay by Richard Peabody about Nick Drake’s Pink Moon album |
