"Now I'm darker than the deepest sea just hand me down give me a place to be" I'm currently feeling this lost in life, but to have nicks beautiful voice lyrics and guitar playing so beautifully conjure up such raw emotion well I wouldn't even dare to try and explain in words how this music makes me feel , his life was short but what a beautiful delicate mind he had a true artist to feel and express what most people lack
A beautiful post, and brings back nice memoires as a seventeen year-old when I listened to this in the family lounge room away from the awful teenage kids of high school. Thanks for posting this clip.
The finger picked version is somehow a bit less dark. It has a beauty to it. The album version feels more stripped down and I can hear a greater sense of desperation. Both incredible.
I think he is doing the delta blues, only his posh english version. he's so completely made it his own, though its hard to tell. I didn't realize it until I heard him playing cocaine blues and heard people who knew him say he played old country blues pieces all the time. He brrough a lot of his own genius to the table too of course but I really think his starting point was people like mississippi john hurt, etc.
@@jamescaleb9676 You are onto something there James. As a lifelong blues fan I'm with you. Nick's need to express his spiritual awareness in ways we might connect with must have pointed him to the blues. he had a view of destiny which few have...I've been there, done that when working as a medium for twenty years. I put Nick drake up there with Van Morrison and Lisa Gerrard..all finding their own ways to reach astral heights.
Oh how I wish that we had really clean and clear recordings (both instrument and vocal) of all of Nick’s performances. I am grateful for this one and all the demos that we have; something is better than nothing, but I would really love to hear these songs on Crystal clear recordings! Especially this song.
@Anthony Ghorayeb The original recording in its entirety is lost, only this mediocre copy remained. However there is a snippet from the original recording that somehow survived. It is the last part of the song including the solo. It appeared on a bootleg called 'Second Grace' on track 18 falsely titled 'saturday sun'. Years ago I made a version that merged the original fragment in the copy. But I don't think it is on youtube. The snippet is on ruclips.net/video/lnPvR_iKafA/видео.html
There is a studio version! It was from a sound check and it's played in a slightly different key. A good fellow on RUclips has combined the two takes into one and it makes for a beautiful transition into clarity
Thanks SaturdaySonLiamStewart! I only know some about Nick and look forward to learning more. Two different people said I sound like him, so I looked him up, but no way am I that good! This song is hypnotic like and lonely, but in a beautiful way. It has a movement to it that for me swings and sways nicely and makes me feel like there is a time in life when it's right to move on, like he's expressing something about the phase of maybe going from home roots and on with his life... yet about 1/3rd of it I can't make out the lyrics. Loneliness and beauty, ruminative, a combined feeling in that phase of life that repeats itself. I'm 66 in a few days and in the phase now narrowing down on belongings and aligning myself with "moving on". My tiny apt is a mess and going to leave my "comfort zone", move on. I think Nick's song is a song about transition. Maybe I misinterpreted it grossly, but tried. I'd love to go to the Drake festival, but costs and England being expensive. Maybe I should start my bucket list from Nick's hometown, then hitch again through Europe like I did for a year in '75 and '76, then on to Africa and my world journey. Bad back this time, aging ha! Bring my two wheeled suitcase ha! You made this recording possible to be heard, a magnanimous deed! Was this not recorded in a studio? Was this recorded at home on his mother's reel to reel? The record quality is not tops and maybe a sound engineer would know what to do, but the music is tops. Thanks for making this possible for the world to hear!
i saw in a documentary (A Skin Too Few) that he was so depressed during the recording of Pink Moon that he literally couldn't play some of his songs. That might be the reason.
I appreciate having this version available, and I like it in some ways. However, I still prefer the original version with strumming rather than finger-picking on the Pink Moon album. Maybe it's the mix here that bothers me a bit, but the finger-picking seems to be too dominant and distracting from his vocal and the overall mood of the song. It's maybe too busy or florid for a song that is so bleak.
I think that's well put, I also think there's something quite beautiful about the rawness of him strumming it, when you know with him more than anyone, that this is a choice and not a necessity. It just makes it feel tired and sincere, like he's not putting anything on.
never heard this one ...the thibilanth ithz nonekthzithtent though. Maybe I'll take it, doctor it up, put back the ethethz & pop it back onto youtube. [translate: ...the sibilance is nonexistent though. Maybe I'll take it, doctor it up, put back the s's & pop it back onto youtube]
ruclips.net/video/rdGrGd3MKII/видео.htmlfeature=shared A me pare che la versione corretta (nel senso della velocità, quindi anche della tonalità) sia questa di cui ho messo il link, a meno che esse non siano due registrazioni differenti della stessa canzone.
"Now I'm darker than the deepest sea just hand me down give me a place to be" I'm currently feeling this lost in life, but to have nicks beautiful voice lyrics and guitar playing so beautifully conjure up such raw emotion well I wouldn't even dare to try and explain in words how this music makes me feel , his life was short but what a beautiful delicate mind he had a true artist to feel and express what most people lack
Hi I’m hoping you’re doing well or managing well in your life. Currently dealing with the recent loss of a best friend
He was like a machine. A beautiful machine.
This is fragile, precious, unique and beautiful. I love this.
A beautiful post, and brings back nice memoires as a seventeen year-old when I listened to this in the family lounge room away from the awful teenage kids of high school. Thanks for posting this clip.
The finger picked version is somehow a bit less dark. It has a beauty to it. The album version feels more stripped down and I can hear a greater sense of desperation. Both incredible.
He was an exquisite guitarist. I love this version. Place To Be is my all time favorite.
These tapes were "liberated" from under that bed.
So Raw. So Beautiful.
It makes me want to cry
I think this is beautiful. I've really fallen in love with this recording.
So often people ask what motivated Nick Drakes music. What were his influences? He listened to his souland tried to express its beauty.
I think he is doing the delta blues, only his posh english version. he's so completely made it his own, though its hard to tell. I didn't realize it until I heard him playing cocaine blues and heard people who knew him say he played old country blues pieces all the time. He brrough a lot of his own genius to the table too of course but I really think his starting point was people like mississippi john hurt, etc.
@@jamescaleb9676 You are onto something there James. As a lifelong blues fan I'm with you. Nick's need to express his spiritual awareness in ways we might connect with must have pointed him to the blues. he had a view of destiny which few have...I've been there, done that when working as a medium for twenty years. I put Nick drake up there with Van Morrison and Lisa Gerrard..all finding their own ways to reach astral heights.
Listen to some of his mother's music. Her name is Molly Drake and her stuff is on spotify
I didn’t know his mother made music. Thank you for sharing. So fascinated by his music and his story
Nick was pure raw emotion. He was trying to express was really in his deep soul
I love you so much Nick...
he is amazing
...gotta get up, clean the place. Me, so many times.
I love how special this is
Oh how I wish that we had really clean and clear recordings (both instrument and vocal) of all of Nick’s performances. I am grateful for this one and all the demos that we have; something is better than nothing, but I would really love to hear these songs on Crystal clear recordings! Especially this song.
Lovely version
been looking for a good quality version of this forever. thank you.
+rob060 There is a higher quality recording of it somewhere. I've only heard it in abridged form on youtube, but it must exist somewhere.
+rob060 yeah here is the one I was talking about :\
@Anthony Ghorayeb The original recording in its entirety is lost, only this mediocre copy remained. However there is a snippet from the original recording that somehow survived. It is the last part of the song including the solo. It appeared on a bootleg called 'Second Grace' on track 18 falsely titled 'saturday sun'. Years ago I made a version that merged the original fragment in the copy. But I don't think it is on youtube. The snippet is on ruclips.net/video/lnPvR_iKafA/видео.html
Eric Schol sorry but just to know how do you know that the master is lost? I still have the hope that someone finds it or have it but i don’t know
Anyone else get chills watching this video while it shows shots of the room where Nick passed away in?
The absolute best version.....and the only one! Too bad this was never done in studio....that would be quite a find.....
There is a studio version! It was from a sound check and it's played in a slightly different key. A good fellow on RUclips has combined the two takes into one and it makes for a beautiful transition into clarity
This is a good song to listen at midnight
My place to be...🙏💜🧚♀️🌟
Beautiful... Thank You Saturday Son.
Awesome
Thanks SaturdaySonLiamStewart! I only know some about Nick and look forward to learning more. Two different people said I sound like him, so I looked him up, but no way am I that good! This song is hypnotic like and lonely, but in a beautiful way. It has a movement to it that for me swings and sways nicely and makes me feel like there is a time in life when it's right to move on, like he's expressing something about the phase of maybe going from home roots and on with his life... yet about 1/3rd of it I can't make out the lyrics. Loneliness and beauty, ruminative, a combined feeling in that phase of life that repeats itself. I'm 66 in a few days and in the phase now narrowing down on belongings and aligning myself with "moving on". My tiny apt is a mess and going to leave my "comfort zone", move on. I think Nick's song is a song about transition. Maybe I misinterpreted it grossly, but tried. I'd love to go to the Drake festival, but costs and England being expensive. Maybe I should start my bucket list from Nick's hometown, then hitch again through Europe like I did for a year in '75 and '76, then on to Africa and my world journey. Bad back this time, aging ha! Bring my two wheeled suitcase ha! You made this recording possible to be heard, a magnanimous deed! Was this not recorded in a studio? Was this recorded at home on his mother's reel to reel? The record quality is not tops and maybe a sound engineer would know what to do, but the music is tops. Thanks for making this possible for the world to hear!
I wonder what made Drake prefer the strummed version to the fingerpicked version when it came to recording for the record.
i saw in a documentary (A Skin Too Few) that he was so depressed during the recording of Pink Moon that he literally couldn't play some of his songs. That might be the reason.
Pink Moon was recorded in late 1971 he wasn't too far gone to play and sing at the same time until 1974 on Black Eyed Dog, Hanging On A Star, etc.
I appreciate having this version available, and I like it in some ways. However, I still prefer the original version with strumming rather than finger-picking on the Pink Moon album. Maybe it's the mix here that bothers me a bit, but the finger-picking seems to be too dominant and distracting from his vocal and the overall mood of the song. It's maybe too busy or florid for a song that is so bleak.
I think that's well put, I also think there's something quite beautiful about the rawness of him strumming it, when you know with him more than anyone, that this is a choice and not a necessity. It just makes it feel tired and sincere, like he's not putting anything on.
isn't this cut off on the Tanworth in Arden II bootleg?
Love it to death!
never heard this one ...the thibilanth ithz nonekthzithtent though. Maybe I'll take it, doctor it up, put back the ethethz & pop it back onto youtube. [translate: ...the sibilance is nonexistent though. Maybe I'll take it, doctor it up, put back the s's & pop it back onto youtube]
ruclips.net/video/rdGrGd3MKII/видео.htmlfeature=shared A me pare che la versione corretta (nel senso della velocità, quindi anche della tonalità) sia questa di cui ho messo il link, a meno che esse non siano due registrazioni differenti della stessa canzone.
Wow
I wish I had a half of what he had to be depressed about
Idiot
Looks like a hobbit's home.