Nick Drake

Thanks Gary...I still marvel at Nick's legacy. "Lovely bloke...problem with his nut".

I still can't understand how he played the stuff he did without multitracking.

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Originally posted by Mat Cork:
Thanks Gary...I still marvel at Nick's legacy. "Lovely bloke...problem with his nut".

I still can't understand how he played the stuff he did without multitracking.

what makes you think it wasn't multitracked?

You could enlighten me Bob, but I understood that all Drakes guitar work was single source. I'm only basing that on reading his lifestory a while back.

Thanks Gary, there will be some West Norfolk representation, front row Circle.

I once went for a cosy drink with a fabulous looking woman and naturally we got talking about our favourite books, films and music etc. She said she would never sleep with a man who did not own and love some (if not all) of Nick Drakes work as it spoke of a man's emotitional maturity - I of course nodded sagely and agreed and we moved on to other subjects. When I got home I had to google Nick Drake (whom I had never heard of prior to that night)and order some of his stuff (which I liked). I am very pleased I did.

I got introduced to ND back in the early 80s by a fellow student whose main musical tastes were the likes of Banarama, Bonnie Tyler, Madonna et al... The Banarama I could almost understand, as she had gone to high school with one of its members...but still.

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Banarama

It's Bananarama! As in banana....

Nigel

Mat
I remember a documetary about the time that N D suddenly became flavour of the month and all that sub standard stuff got 'discovered' and released and his recording engineer was playing stuff that was not put on earlier albums and he was playing vocal and guitar tracks with and without orchestration so I presumed it was multitracked.

There is a great article on Nick Drake in this months Record Collector.



Dean....