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Thread #126718   Message #2819198
Posted By: Phil Edwards
23-Jan-10 - 04:38 AM
Thread Name: Nick Drake - hype and reality
Subject: RE: Nick Drake - hype and reality
Kat - the strings are on the first couple of albums. The second album also some 'rock' arrangements which have dated rather badly. The third album is just guitar & voice.

I met someone who'd known him a while back; she was very dismissive, called him a mummy's boy who should have pulled himself together. I ventured the opinion that it might have helped if he'd cut down on the dope a bit, but this just set off a disquisition on the amounts everyone used to smoke in those days, kids these days had no idea.

I once did Fruit Tree and introduced it with, "This is a song written by a nineteen-year-old lad, about how nobody appreciated him and we'd all be sorry when he was dead. Unfortunately he was right."