Nick’s music makes me feel less lonely. I have no close friends in life but I wish I could have a friend like Nick. A gentle, brilliant, self-conscious man who deserved so much more in his life.
I used to have close friends but thanks to Joe Biden and many of my friends were supporters of him and I think Joe Biden is just the biggest dip shit ever so now I really have very few close friends except for my sisters and my wife but I relate to what you’re saying and I think Nic would’ve been a great friend he sounds like such a gentle introspective person and I think he was but from everything I’ve heard he would turn off if you tried to be his friendBut his death is a tragedy of just epic proportions
I love Nick Drake's sense of humor and hearing him laugh at the end. I also love it when he laughs when he messes up in the recording of Day is Done in the Family Tree album.
We're so lucky to be able to hear Nick speak, if only for three minutes - the length of a song - and get a fleeting glimpse into this enigmatic and supremely talented young man.
Emm...good evening... Or should I say good morning? The time is twenty-five to five And I've been sitting here for some time now, Actually I After a party which I quite enjoyed, but you know it One has one reservations when one has quite enjoyed oneself, But one has to make reservations because, uh, The people were particularly interesting. In fact, there weren't as many people there as I expected there to be, It was, I thought...you know, The Maynard-Mitchells have a big big do In fact there weren't nearly as many as one might have thought, Which was, which was a pity. In fact, I think I must have drunk rather a lot (Or although it seemed so at the time I felt myself quite sober) But when I leapt into the car to drive home After my merry abandon I found the task extremely difficult! And it was extremely fortunate That, um, there was nothing else on the road because, looking back at it, I seem to remember I had a mental brainstorm (Well, I didn't realise at the time) And I think I drove the whole way home on the righthand side of the road! Which is something of course which comes from driving in France too much, Which is what I've been doing recently, As you probably know, driving in France, you know. And in moments of stress such as was this journey home, One forgets so easily- the lies, the truth and the pain. And so I'm wavering from the point What I was trying to say...is uhm, When I sat here I had an extremely pleasant time on the piano, actually I was playing the piano and sort of singing, And I rather fear I might have kept people awake upstairs One hopes not, but it was pleasant, and it's extremely pleasant sitting here now, Because I think there is something extraordinarily nice About seeing the dawn up before one goes to bed, Because there's something uncanny about it When it suddenly becomes light, because one connects darkness with going to bed, Surely... um, and when one is still up when it becomes light, And it's a new day, and you still haven't gone to bed to sleep (Because the night equals sleep, so easily) And when one is still up when the new day begins It is something of an intriguing experience, I always find. I can look out of the window now, and that tree over there is green, Whereas before one goes to bed, Just when one goes to bed, that tree should be black, surely! Everything should be black before one goes to bed, But that is surely the essence of the Romantic! Anyway, I think I'm straying from the point. I should probably stop talking now Because, um, if I don't I shall start sort of relating on life histories and things, Which will be frightfully tedious. So it's here that I'll sort of say goodnight, you know... Goodnight! (laughs)
Hi Mitmusic! Thanks very much for all the work in typing every word Nick spoke because I didn't understand a lot of what he said. I saw somewhere he was once interviewed and hope to find that. It was very thoughtful of you to do this!
One shall NOT let this video disappear! I love everything about this man! I can't get over the fact that there ain’t no single live footage of his (few) performances. I wish I could see the way he moves or know how tall he really was; these ungraspable details about him keep my mind busy. He’ll be forever missed!
this is strange because i only just started listening to nick, and yesterday instead of going to sleep i was up all night listening to his music/watching documentaries. i was laying in bed but i got up at 5 to look out the window at the trees and i was thinking to myself how they looked so vibrant compared to the pitch black night. I took photos of the sunrise and listened to the birds in the trees. I love staying awake all night because when the morning comes, you're the only person who's awake in the house and it's very peaceful (i live with my family). When nick spoke about staying awake in the night it kind of scared me because it's like he's perfectly saying what i'm struggling to explain.
every time i hear this i just feel pure sadness. it breaks me that he left us so soon. you can hear his heart and soul in his songs and its so sad that he never saw the success he pushed for. he left behind his beautiful art that i will forever cherish. wish i could meet him, or talk to him
In the new biography by Richard Morton Jack, Drake's sister is quoted as saying this is Nick parodying late-night BBC radio, and the affectations of speaking in tenses like "as one does" -- she says she can hear his mischievous tone in it.
I enjoyed what he had to say about going to bed at the start of the day. I don't doubt that he had trouble finding people to connect with on a deep level since he just comes across more as an existentialist with a more cynical view on the world while a lot of his peers were "leaving him behind" chasing the more common goals in life.
Existentialist? He was a severe depressive whose inability to succeed as an artist - commercially - confirmed his worst fears about life, that it was worthless, a hallmark of depression.
Honestly, as a huge Nick Drake fan, I love listening to this. Partly because of the mystery and huge lack of just normal spoken word interviews, or recorded footage, or anything like that of him. It makes his existence almost ghostly, especially compared to so many other musicians of whom we have a ton of footage and videos etc etc to look back on. I also love the fact that he was quite clearly totally off his face in this recording 😄 and philosophizing and drunkenly rambling like we all do, but in his very well spoken posh way. Love it 👌
It's a mixture of posh, being very eloquent due to being well read (and also partly to do with the time - people were more eloquent then, I think), and maybe not having a sense of being fully a part of life, so depersonalising experiences. That last comes across strongly in his songs.
it makes him more charming and gorgeous and i just want to travel back to 1974 and hug him for a long,long time :) yes,one feels one would rather enjoy that :D
Haha I love Nick Drake. He was actually quite funny. More of a dry sense of humor but he was a very well spoken guy and I was dying when he was talking about trying to drive home without realizing he was driving on the wrong side the whole time
He went to bed when the tree was still green. (It's quite prophetic and poetic in a way isn't it? Even though I know is the typical drunk chat. He says everything should be black before someone goes to bed, and then the sound of that "when you leave me" song. No one should die that young.)
hace unos años siempre ponía este monólogo antes de dormir, porque sentía que extrañaba mucho a nick, también tuve sueños con él y lloré mucho por su pronta partida, eso fue en el 2014 maso
that's weird - I just looked at the clock and it's 4.35. Yeah I know, I know, I know. Thanks for this recording of Nick Drake. Really interesting to hear his spoken voice instead of the singing. A voice from an all but disappeared world.
His "posh" accent and background really has no relevance whatsoever to the music he created and the man he was. You have Paul McCartney and John Lennon, two working-class lads from inner-city Liverpool; Johnny Cash, from a poor farming family in rural Arkansas; Bob Marley, from the slums of Jamaica; and Thom Yorke of Radiohead, from a upper-class background in Oxfordshire. All brilliant musicians. Talent and creativity is blind to social class, race and gender.
up before one goes to bed because there is something uncanny about it when it suddenly becomes light because one connects darkness with going to bed surely, and when one is still up when it becomes light and it's a new day and you still haven't gone to bed to sleep because the night equal sleep so easily, and when one is still up when the new day begins it is something of an intriguing experience I always find… (cont)
and it was extremely fortunate that um there was nothing else on the road because looking back on it I seem to remember I had a mental brain storm that I didn't realize at the time but I think I drove the whole way home on the right hand side of the road. This is something that of course comes from driving in France too much, which (stutter) I have been doing recently as you might know… Driving in France and in moments of stress such as what was this journey home what one forgets (cont)
The other time I was imaging a super group with Kevin Ayers, Syd Barrett and Nick Drake. Something like Crosby, Still and Nash but in their amazing psychedelic folk.
Thanks Dr. Dendiol for that diagnosis. It's stunning that you are able to make diagnoses of dead people over the internet, most psychiatrists are unable or unwilling to do so.
Oh what a shame he stopped talking...stopped everything. I might be wrong but is there a very mild stammer there? I know there are many brilliant musicians and singers in particular who have stammers that disappear when singing. It doesn't matter whatsoever: he is my favourite singer of all time. I don't like to speculate about him and his state of mind etc- I just try and hold onto the image of a beautiful, gentle soul, at peace in nature, at one with nature with his ethereal voice.
The Stammer Runs in the family. If you listen to his Father Rodney ..Or his Sister Gabrielle they both speak with a mild Stammer. So I guess that the fact that Nick was rather drunk has no bearing on his Stammering
i wondered that too,if the slight stuttering was due to inebriation (even though he doesn't sound that effected to me) or if it's organic.It could even be a nervous thing,we know he was introverted and rather shy.
some people are so in their heads that they’re focused more at getting their thoughts from their brain to their tongue than from their tongue out their mouth..
Um, good evening or should I say good morning, the time now is 25 to 5. I've been sitting here for some time now actually. It's from my (inaudible) I'l have to (inaudible) which I quite enjoy, but you know, it's… one has ones reservations, one has quite enjoyed oneself but but one has to make reservations, because um, the people are particularly interesting, in fact, there weren't as many people there as I'd expected there to be, (cont)
1:35 "In moments of stress, such as was this journey home, one forgets so easily the lies, the truth and the pain." 2:30 Is this experience which informed the song From the Morning, I wonder?
It's surprising how normal and happy he sounds.I read about this recording in the biography. Are there any more recordings of him speaking? What albums did he have and what bands did he like? He sings similar to Joni Mitchell in 'Black Eyed Dog'. What were his activities in 1974? What were his favourite TV shows?
because I thought you know the Maynard-Mitchells have a big big do, In fact there weren't nearly as many as one might have thought. which was (stutter) a pity, I think I must have drunk rather a lot, although I didm't see it at the time I thought myself quite sober. When I lept into the car to drive home after my Mary abandoned I found the task extremely difficult, (cont)
Thanks so much for uploading this! fantastic of you, really :) and for anyone interested, as they were on the other upload--- the song playing in the background near the end of the monologue is "You Don't Have To Be a Baby To Cry" by Frank Ifield
Oh yes. Nick sounds very 'posh' to me, too, and I love it. I was born in Croydon, dad was a press-tool maker, and I left school at sixteen with not one GCSE, not proud of it, but it's true. And I just wanna say that the most snobbish and snooty snobs in Britain are the working-class. Always having a pop at the public-school mob, yet these same working-class people will do anything to send their kids to the best school possible no matter what it costs. Apologies for the moan. I just believe that Nick would've got a lot of hassle if he were around today because of his upper-class accent. For me Nick's voice emanates fragility and sensitivity, and I can see Nick being very insightful, and displaying great erudition when in relaxed company. Just wish we could hear more from the man.
never apologise,we are all from different parts of the world and it's nice to hear others' stories :) i totally agree with you re the accent;i believe these days Nick would've copped some crap for it from bitter folk who assume that coming from a well-off,posh family means you're fair game to be treated with disrespect.Poor Nick,didn't fit in in a world that wasn't ready for him. I used to visit cousins as a child who used to say "Kate talks posh" haha,because i spoke properly (to be kind,let's just say that they DIDN'T)...then others ask if i am from Britain,but i'm actually Australian!
if anybody would take the time to type out the manuscript to this (or even just a part of it), it'd be much appreciated. i know im stretching here but it's really hard to hear :/
can look out of the window now and that tree over there is green… where as before one goes to bed just before one goes to bed trees should be black surely, everything should be black, before one goes to bed that is surely the essence of (inaudible). But anyway I think I am straying from the point… I shall probably stop talking now, because if I don't um I shall start so relating life histories and things which I think (inaudible) tedious. (cont)
Would have been recorded in the late '60s if it was after a concert. The drink/driving laws were far, far more relaxed back then. They only started to tighten them up in the mid-'70s.
I know it sounds like Elvis Presley, but I don't think it is, Greg. Elvis never used that type of orchestration in his songs. I think the singer is actually Ral Donner who was an Elvis impersonator (a good one) who had hits in England. One poster identified the song as "Don't Leave Me Now," which was a Ral Donner song. Check it yourself, the song is on RUclips.
@zuperduperboi Thanks 4 that info. Bert Jansch, yes, but it seems he did'nt like rock music @ all just folk. America was recording @ Island Studios @ the same time and maybe he thought if they had so much sucess with Horse With No Name (and that whole album,too) that he should have as much success,too, but who knows. Thx.
Funilly enough my dad went to Malborough and Cambridge (but a different college), so I lent him a book I'd got about Nick, and for the rest of his life he t
@zuperduperboi Well, I am interested in all things 'Drake', I suppose! But the song was easy, I mean I just googled the lyrics and there they were, so I had the song title. Then one day I stumbled across the artist (because of it being a popular tune its been done by so many people) but on one of the Drake forums someone mentioned Frank Ifield, so two and two :) It was a lucky break really. You should try the forums if you haven't already.
What!?#$%@. Did he say "surrealiating"? It would be a really good idea if this was transcribed and included here. There are lots of surrealiating lines spoken: drove on the right side of the road; extremely pleasant/extraordinary nice; merry abandonment...
He sounds much more Home Counties than one might expect from a boy from Warwickshire, but I suppose it's his father's Indian Civil Service coming through, plus Marlbrough of course. His voice is more like the son of a Viscount or those recordings of Brian Epstein's fake posh you hear. Quite strange and a bit shocking in a way, as it's hard to join the dots between those slightly pompous (albeit self-reflective) upper public school tones and his intensely human, neutrally-pronounced song vocals.
Then again, one shouldn't expect him to be perfect anymore than one who rights a great book should be perfect. Which is confusing, because music seems a bit more personal than books. But as he said, why should we leave him hanging on a star?
cspj12 He sounds like he is making believe he's being interviewed by the BBC imagining himself as a superstar. Don't you know that you are a super star. Yes you are.
He sounds like a regular guy with a low voice. This was 1967 after a party. He's talking to himself and thinking about his favourite superstar-himself.
Not much to talk about. Either he struggled to connect with people or people struggled to connect with him. Either way, Nick Drake is a very lovely specimen to study for psychology and depression.
my personal belief after reading two biographies,and it is a topic i know a lot about,is that on top of his other problems (tendency to unhappiness,shyness,being sensitive in a world that seemed to misunderstand him) there is a good possibilty that he had Aspergers.One biographer (perhaps Trevor Dann? i forget now) suggested Nick suffered from a low grade schizophrenia,either brought on or triggered by his weed use.I dispute this;Nick had all the hallmarks of Aspergers: socially awkward,difficulty fitting in although desiring to,almost obsessive attention to things of interest (fellow room-mates at college describe Nick playing guitar for hours on end until his fingers bled) and a "loner" personality type.Of course,it is only speculation and my opinion but it sounds more likely to me than schizophrenia which texts refer to as a "thought disorder",there seems to be nothing wrong with Nicks ability to think and reason,other than he became clinically depressed,and he didn't suffer delusions etc.I like your comment and i believe both to be true: that he struggled and so did others to connect as people like Nick are difficult to connect with (i say that with the utmost respect and love for the man)..what do you think? :)
Take it from a friend of his, Colin Betts (who passed this year unfortunately) was friends and fellow musician with nick growing up and traveled with through Morocco etc.. he stated in no uncertain terms that had nick been born today he would certainly have been diagnosed with aspergers. This was posted in the nick drakeheads fb group "Great pic for cover for a while? and a change. He would have preferred to be seen smiling,close to nature. not trapped in a city with all the noise and speed. we were both autistic but Aspberger's hadn't been invented. born 10 days apart in June 1948, we had the same strengths and weaknesses. i was top or second every exam at a good grammar school,passed 11-plus aged 9 but wasn't allowed to go up until my behaviour improved. (Haha). Dropped out aged 15 and went on the road and on the run until winter 66-67. They sent me to a mental hospital for "functional nervous diseases" for several months but that didnt work. Left UK ASAP and spent most of the last 57 years abroad,mostly in Asia. Teaching English,making music, writing books,running a bit of dope. Point is our kind of autism just wasn't understood in the 1960s. Nick had to hide all signs of mental illness. we all did, like being gay. which was also still illegal. and they were criminalising acid, speed,smack and coke etc, which never happened before. it was another country and i didnt like it. live in Scotland now and will never cross the border again. England is its own disease."
I strongly think he had schizoid personality disorder rather than schizophrenia. Schizoid people do have emotions and are perceptive to other people's emotions, but they're not emotionally expressive. They tend to be dissociated and introspected floating through life aimlessly. There is a lot of overlap between Asperger's and schizoid symptoms. The term autism used to refer to the social withdrawal and introspection associated with schizophrenia/schizoid pd/schizotypal pd. What we know as autism today was called autism of childhood.
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If only the good Lord had taken Bob Dylan instead!.....just kidding I dig Dylan, but yeah God should have taken Bob instead. First heard Pink Moon when it was used for a VW car commercial. If it wasnt for the radio show "The on going history of music" that featured him on an episode. If you enjoy music history google " the ongoing History of Music" hosted by Allen Cross.. Keep on Rocking in the Free World!
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All of us nick Drake fans are crying when he said "I think I should stop talking"
I'm pretty sure he said "shall", not "should". But yeah you're right.
Nick’s music makes me feel less lonely. I have no close friends in life but I wish I could have a friend like Nick. A gentle, brilliant, self-conscious man who deserved so much more in his life.
You're going to make it my friend, hang in there.
I used to have close friends but thanks to Joe Biden and many of my friends were supporters of him and I think Joe Biden is just the biggest dip shit ever so now I really have very few close friends except for my sisters and my wife but I relate to what you’re saying and I think Nic would’ve been a great friend he sounds like such a gentle introspective person and I think he was but from everything I’ve heard he would turn off if you tried to be his friendBut his death is a tragedy of just epic proportions
Hugs to you
You still with us? x
you said exactly how i feel too
what a gentle soul.
imagine being his lover.....sigh....
Very clipped and upper class. But a lovely voice, and he finished with a chuckle, rest in peace Nick x
I love Nick Drake's sense of humor and hearing him laugh at the end. I also love it when he laughs when he messes up in the recording of Day is Done in the Family Tree album.
i love that too.
We're so lucky to be able to hear Nick speak, if only for three minutes - the length of a song - and get a fleeting glimpse into this enigmatic and supremely talented young man.
Nick had such a beautiful and charming speaking voice aswell.Bless him,too gorgeous for this world.
Yes indeed! He was too lovely to stay
@@seizurefrog yes;the world is not kind for ones too sensitive :(
Emm...good evening...
Or should I say good morning?
The time is twenty-five to five
And I've been sitting here for some time now,
Actually I
After a party which I quite enjoyed, but you know it
One has one reservations when one has quite enjoyed oneself,
But one has to make reservations because, uh,
The people were particularly interesting.
In fact, there weren't as many people there as I expected there to be,
It was, I thought...you know,
The Maynard-Mitchells have a big big do
In fact there weren't nearly as many as one might have thought,
Which was, which was a pity.
In fact, I think I must have drunk rather a lot
(Or although it seemed so at the time I felt myself quite sober)
But when I leapt into the car to drive home
After my merry abandon
I found the task extremely difficult!
And it was extremely fortunate
That, um, there was nothing else on the road because, looking back at it,
I seem to remember I had a mental brainstorm
(Well, I didn't realise at the time)
And I think I drove the whole way home on the righthand side of the road!
Which is something of course which comes from driving in France too much,
Which is what I've been doing recently,
As you probably know, driving in France, you know.
And in moments of stress such as was this journey home,
One forgets so easily- the lies, the truth and the pain.
And so I'm wavering from the point
What I was trying to say...is uhm,
When I sat here I had an extremely pleasant time on the piano, actually
I was playing the piano and sort of singing,
And I rather fear I might have kept people awake upstairs
One hopes not, but it was pleasant, and it's extremely pleasant sitting here now,
Because I think there is something extraordinarily nice
About seeing the dawn up before one goes to bed,
Because there's something uncanny about it
When it suddenly becomes light, because one connects darkness with going to bed,
Surely... um, and when one is still up when it becomes light,
And it's a new day, and you still haven't gone to bed to sleep
(Because the night equals sleep, so easily)
And when one is still up when the new day begins
It is something of an intriguing experience, I always find.
I can look out of the window now, and that tree over there is green,
Whereas before one goes to bed,
Just when one goes to bed, that tree should be black, surely!
Everything should be black before one goes to bed,
But that is surely the essence of the Romantic!
Anyway, I think I'm straying from the point.
I should probably stop talking now
Because, um, if I don't I shall start sort of relating on life histories and things,
Which will be frightfully tedious.
So it's here that I'll sort of say goodnight, you know...
Goodnight!
(laughs)
Hi Mitmusic! Thanks very much for all the work in typing every word Nick spoke because I didn't understand a lot of what he said. I saw somewhere he was once interviewed and hope to find that. It was very thoughtful of you to do this!
Thanks for this.. 🙏❤️
Its a shame he had to stop talking , forever missed .
indeed.
One shall NOT let this video disappear!
I love everything about this man! I can't get over the fact that there ain’t no single live footage of his (few) performances. I wish I could see the way he moves or know how tall he really was; these ungraspable details about him keep my mind busy. He’ll be forever missed!
There's a short clip of film of a very tall guy walking at a music festival. Some people say it is Nick. Have you seen it?
@@nodarkthings Yes, I have, but I'm not fully convinced that the guy in that clip is actually Nick... one can only hope
this is strange because i only just started listening to nick, and yesterday instead of going to sleep i was up all night listening to his music/watching documentaries. i was laying in bed but i got up at 5 to look out the window at the trees and i was thinking to myself how they looked so vibrant compared to the pitch black night. I took photos of the sunrise and listened to the birds in the trees. I love staying awake all night because when the morning comes, you're the only person who's awake in the house and it's very peaceful (i live with my family). When nick spoke about staying awake in the night it kind of scared me because it's like he's perfectly saying what i'm struggling to explain.
Came here after reading about this recording in the RMJ biography. I am so happy that this recording exists.
love his voice
every time i hear this i just feel pure sadness. it breaks me that he left us so soon. you can hear his heart and soul in his songs and its so sad that he never saw the success he pushed for. he left behind his beautiful art that i will forever cherish. wish i could meet him, or talk to him
In the new biography by Richard Morton Jack, Drake's sister is quoted as saying this is Nick parodying late-night BBC radio, and the affectations of speaking in tenses like "as one does" -- she says she can hear his mischievous tone in it.
I enjoyed what he had to say about going to bed at the start of the day. I don't doubt that he had trouble finding people to connect with on a deep level since he just comes across more as an existentialist with a more cynical view on the world while a lot of his peers were "leaving him behind" chasing the more common goals in life.
brilliantly put! :)
According to his old friend Colin, drake likely had aspergers syndrome
Existentialist? He was a severe depressive whose inability to succeed as an artist - commercially - confirmed his worst fears about life, that it was worthless, a hallmark of depression.
@@haroldsteinblatt2567 Existentialism and depression go hand in hand, I would say. But it depends on one's personality, temperament...
This is amazing. I wish there was some video footage. It sometimes feels like he never existed, and that feels incredibly sad.
He makes the royal family sound common.
yes,bless his posh,sweet heart :)
royle family is bes thahaa
Honestly, as a huge Nick Drake fan, I love listening to this. Partly because of the mystery and huge lack of just normal spoken word interviews, or recorded footage, or anything like that of him. It makes his existence almost ghostly, especially compared to so many other musicians of whom we have a ton of footage and videos etc etc to look back on.
I also love the fact that he was quite clearly totally off his face in this recording 😄 and philosophizing and drunkenly rambling like we all do, but in his very well spoken posh way.
Love it 👌
"One has quite enjoyed oneself." Yeah...posh would be an understatement.
It's a mixture of posh, being very eloquent due to being well read (and also partly to do with the time - people were more eloquent then, I think), and maybe not having a sense of being fully a part of life, so depersonalising experiences. That last comes across strongly in his songs.
beautifully put catherine1 his family was pretty darn posh though :)
it makes him more charming and gorgeous and i just want to travel back to 1974 and hug him for a long,long time :) yes,one feels one would rather enjoy that :D
One understands you well.
This is exactly as I imagined his voice. So smooth and charming, I just wish he stood longer with us, he was gifted
"After my merry abandon"
Haha I love Nick Drake. He was actually quite funny. More of a dry sense of humor but he was a very well spoken guy and I was dying when he was talking about trying to drive home without realizing he was driving on the wrong side the whole time
yeah,i loved that too :)
Yeah, he's just constantly a dreamer. The physical world just an inconvenience. Such a sweet soul.
One finds this fascinating!
😂
He went to bed when the tree was still green. (It's quite prophetic and poetic in a way isn't it? Even though I know is the typical drunk chat. He says everything should be black before someone goes to bed, and then the sound of that "when you leave me" song. No one should die that young.)
hace unos años siempre ponía este monólogo antes de dormir, porque sentía que extrañaba mucho a nick, también tuve sueños con él y lloré mucho por su pronta partida, eso fue en el 2014 maso
one rather feels Nick was utterly divine :)
that's weird - I just looked at the clock and it's 4.35. Yeah I know, I know, I know.
Thanks for this recording of Nick Drake. Really interesting to hear his spoken voice instead of the singing. A voice from an all but disappeared world.
His "posh" accent and background really has no relevance whatsoever to the music he created and the man he was. You have Paul McCartney and John Lennon, two working-class lads from inner-city Liverpool; Johnny Cash, from a poor farming family in rural Arkansas; Bob Marley, from the slums of Jamaica; and Thom Yorke of Radiohead, from a upper-class background in Oxfordshire. All brilliant musicians. Talent and creativity is blind to social class, race and gender.
Spot on!
indeed,thankyou :)
John Lennon wanted us to think he was working class. He wasn't.
hows that?
Social class is rarely chosen.
up before one goes to bed because there is something uncanny about it when it suddenly becomes light because one connects darkness with going to bed surely, and when one is still up when it becomes light and it's a new day and you still haven't gone to bed to sleep because the night equal sleep so easily, and when one is still up when the new day begins it is something of an intriguing experience I always find… (cont)
and it was extremely fortunate that um there was nothing else on the road because looking back on it I seem to remember I had a mental brain storm that I didn't realize at the time but I think I drove the whole way home on the right hand side of the road. This is something that of course comes from driving in France too much, which (stutter) I have been doing recently as you might know… Driving in France and in moments of stress such as what was this journey home what one forgets (cont)
The other time I was imaging a super group with Kevin Ayers, Syd Barrett and Nick Drake. Something like Crosby, Still and Nash but in their amazing psychedelic folk.
If there's an afterlife then you can be sure that's going on in it
Just me that has a big crush on nick ??? Hes so talented and so handsome
Definitely not! Incredibly handsome!
Nope, me too! Stunning looking and I’d loved to have known him.
Thanks Dr. Dendiol for that diagnosis. It's stunning that you are able to make diagnoses of dead people over the internet, most psychiatrists are unable or unwilling to do so.
Oh what a shame he stopped talking...stopped everything. I might be wrong but is there a very mild stammer there? I know there are many brilliant musicians and singers in particular who have stammers that disappear when singing. It doesn't matter whatsoever: he is my favourite singer of all time. I don't like to speculate about him and his state of mind etc- I just try and hold onto the image of a beautiful, gentle soul, at peace in nature, at one with nature with his ethereal voice.
The Stammer Runs in the family. If you listen to his Father Rodney ..Or his Sister Gabrielle they both speak with a mild Stammer. So I guess that the fact that Nick was rather drunk has no bearing on his Stammering
i wondered that too,if the slight stuttering was due to inebriation (even though he doesn't sound that effected to me) or if it's organic.It could even be a nervous thing,we know he was introverted and rather shy.
some people are so in their heads that they’re focused more at getting their thoughts from their brain to their tongue than from their tongue out their mouth..
Um, good evening or should I say good morning, the time now is 25 to 5. I've been sitting here for some time now actually. It's from my (inaudible) I'l have to (inaudible) which I quite enjoy, but you know, it's… one has ones reservations, one has quite enjoyed oneself but but one has to make reservations, because um, the people are particularly interesting, in fact, there weren't as many people there as I'd expected there to be, (cont)
I love him deeply ❤
he sounds like professor snape
I thought that too!
The late great Alan Rickman could’ve read the phone book and it’d have made me very happy. Same with Nick Drake…
not seen many photos of Nick but this is the first one I've seen of him smiling
To be 19 with the world at your feet and not a care in the world.
Love you Nick. I’m gonna come visit you one day and play you and molly one or two of your songs.
What a sweet boy. ❤️
1:35 "In moments of stress, such as was this journey home, one forgets so easily the lies, the truth and the pain."
2:30 Is this experience which informed the song From the Morning, I wonder?
It's surprising how normal and happy he sounds.I read about this recording in the biography. Are there any more recordings of him speaking? What albums did he have and what bands did he like? He sings similar to Joni Mitchell in 'Black Eyed Dog'. What were his activities in 1974? What were his favourite TV shows?
because I thought you know the Maynard-Mitchells have a big big do, In fact there weren't nearly as many as one might have thought. which was (stutter) a pity, I think I must have drunk rather a lot, although I didm't see it at the time I thought myself quite sober. When I lept into the car to drive home after my Mary abandoned I found the task extremely difficult, (cont)
After my merry abandon
So it's here that I shall say good night you know, good night, *laughs*
I hope that helps :) Let me know what you think of what he says
Thanks so much for uploading this!
fantastic of you, really :)
and for anyone interested, as they were on the other upload--- the song playing in the background near the end of the monologue is "You Don't Have To Be a Baby To Cry" by Frank Ifield
Thanks! I just wanted to know what the song was
Thanks! I just wanted to know what the song was
@@elecinearte772 you are most welcome🌞
Oh yes. Nick sounds very 'posh' to me, too, and I love it. I was born in Croydon, dad was a press-tool maker, and I left school at sixteen with not one GCSE, not proud of it, but it's true. And I just wanna say that the most snobbish and snooty snobs in Britain are the working-class. Always having a pop at the public-school mob, yet these same working-class people will do anything to send their kids to the best school possible no matter what it costs. Apologies for the moan. I just believe that Nick would've got a lot of hassle if he were around today because of his upper-class accent. For me Nick's voice emanates fragility and sensitivity, and I can see Nick being very insightful, and displaying great erudition when in relaxed company. Just wish we could hear more from the man.
He sounds slightly like Prince Charles! Quite a beautiful speaking voice, actually! So rare to hear a nicely-spoken person these days.
Correction: he sounds exactly like Prince Charles :D
+onepinkrose x You are describing inverted snobbery. Snobbery existed [still does] so did [and does] its bounceback - the inverted kind.
never apologise,we are all from different parts of the world and it's nice to hear others' stories :) i totally agree with you re the accent;i believe these days Nick would've copped some crap for it from bitter folk who assume that coming from a well-off,posh family means you're fair game to be treated with disrespect.Poor Nick,didn't fit in in a world that wasn't ready for him. I used to visit cousins as a child who used to say "Kate talks posh" haha,because i spoke properly (to be kind,let's just say that they DIDN'T)...then others ask if i am from Britain,but i'm actually Australian!
‘..the truth and the pain’ 😢
1:00 What an uncareful guy. Hope he doesn't make a fatal mistake in the future.
if anybody would take the time to type out the manuscript to this (or even just a part of it), it'd be much appreciated. i know im stretching here but it's really hard to hear :/
why does the one recording of him have to be drunk?
He probably wouldn't have felt uninhibited enough to record this if he hadn't had a skinful.
true.
but how wonderfully coherent does he sound? i don't sound that together when i'm shitfaced!
@@lanabanana68 bruh i dont sound that coherent when im sober
@@softeunoia4763 nope
Nick Drake's voice here reminds me of that of Kevin Ayers, another out-of-time British artist.
can look out of the window now and that tree over there is green… where as before one goes to bed just before one goes to bed trees should be black surely, everything should be black, before one goes to bed that is surely the essence of (inaudible). But anyway I think I am straying from the point… I shall probably stop talking now, because if I don't um I shall start so relating life histories and things which I think (inaudible) tedious. (cont)
i wish he had kept on talking!
Frightfully tedious
This is something like hearing Van Gogh speak.
thank you so much!
wonderful. where are you finding these recordings might i ask? thank you so much for sharing them.
What a shame :(
♥
Nick Drake drink driving home from a party on the wrong side of the road? I guess it was more socially acceptable in the 1970's...
you picked that up too? yes! one feels rather disconcerted!!!! :p
Would have been recorded in the late '60s if it was after a concert. The drink/driving laws were far, far more relaxed back then. They only started to tighten them up in the mid-'70s.
I think Buckley listened to this and modeled his speech after it.
Well nick Drake certainly sounded plastered
Does anyone know what song is playing at the end of the recording? I would like to know to look for it.
You Don’t Have to be a Baby to Cry.
@@R0n8urgundy Oh, Thank you very much!!
With Elvis belting in the background
I know it sounds like Elvis Presley, but I don't think it is, Greg. Elvis never used that type of orchestration in his songs. I think the singer is actually Ral Donner who was an Elvis impersonator (a good one) who had hits in England. One poster identified the song as "Don't Leave Me Now," which was a Ral Donner song.
Check it yourself, the song is on RUclips.
@zuperduperboi Thanks 4 that info. Bert Jansch, yes, but it seems he did'nt like rock music @ all just folk. America was recording @ Island Studios @ the same time and maybe he thought if they had so much sucess with Horse With No Name (and that whole album,too) that he should have as much success,too, but who knows. Thx.
Funilly enough my dad went to Malborough and Cambridge (but a different college), so I lent him a book I'd got about Nick, and for the rest of his life he t
i too felt ripped off by that going nowhere :\
@@lanabanana68 No kidding!
I need to know i need to know i need to know
I feel him, being insomniac as i am...hard life!
Is there really no other video like this of him talking :(
tragically,no..... to my knowledge anyhow.
one does dosent one
I'd like to believe that it's Nick speaking indeed, but how sure can one be? :) Where is this from...? Who surfaced it?
LuaBloe his family released it years ago
So wonderfully English
@zuperduperboi
Well, I am interested in all things 'Drake', I suppose!
But the song was easy, I mean I just googled the lyrics and there they were, so I had the song title. Then one day I stumbled across the artist (because of it being a popular tune its been done by so many people) but on one of the Drake forums someone mentioned Frank Ifield, so two and two :)
It was a lucky break really.
You should try the forums if you haven't already.
It sounds as if he was surprised by the smallish turnout for his gig, but had fun anyway.
Can anyone please transcribe what he is saying
What is this from?
He's well spoken because he's and ex public school boy
i am wavering from the point
He sounds like Oliver Sacks.
how do u know this??
the amount of inverse snobbery on here is ridiculous.
From Nick, or the commenters?
i assume he meant the commenters.
What!?#$%@. Did he say "surrealiating"? It would be a really good idea if this was transcribed and included here. There are lots of surrealiating lines spoken: drove on the right side of the road; extremely pleasant/extraordinary nice; merry abandonment...
He sounds much more Home Counties than one might expect from a boy from Warwickshire, but I suppose it's his father's Indian Civil Service coming through, plus Marlbrough of course. His voice is more like the son of a Viscount or those recordings of Brian Epstein's fake posh you hear. Quite strange and a bit shocking in a way, as it's hard to join the dots between those slightly pompous (albeit self-reflective) upper public school tones and his intensely human, neutrally-pronounced song vocals.
I think he sounds a bit more pompous than normal because he is drunk and about to sleep.
Then again, one shouldn't expect him to be perfect anymore than one who rights a great book should be perfect. Which is confusing, because music seems a bit more personal than books. But as he said, why should we leave him hanging on a star?
cspj12
He sounds like he is making believe he's being interviewed by the BBC imagining himself as a superstar. Don't you know that you are a super star. Yes you are.
He sounds like a regular guy with a low voice. This was 1967 after a party. He's talking to himself and thinking about his favourite superstar-himself.
i don't get pompous,i get relaxed and .......maybe a bit more confident,due to inhibition-lowering booze? :)
Not much to talk about. Either he struggled to connect with people or people struggled to connect with him. Either way, Nick Drake is a very lovely specimen to study for psychology and depression.
my personal belief after reading two biographies,and it is a topic i know a lot about,is that on top of his other problems (tendency to unhappiness,shyness,being sensitive in a world that seemed to misunderstand him) there is a good possibilty that he had Aspergers.One biographer (perhaps Trevor Dann? i forget now) suggested Nick suffered from a low grade schizophrenia,either brought on or triggered by his weed use.I dispute this;Nick had all the hallmarks of Aspergers: socially awkward,difficulty fitting in although desiring to,almost obsessive attention to things of interest (fellow room-mates at college describe Nick playing guitar for hours on end until his fingers bled) and a "loner" personality type.Of course,it is only speculation and my opinion but it sounds more likely to me than schizophrenia which texts refer to as a "thought disorder",there seems to be nothing wrong with Nicks ability to think and reason,other than he became clinically depressed,and he didn't suffer delusions etc.I like your comment and i believe both to be true: that he struggled and so did others to connect as people like Nick are difficult to connect with (i say that with the utmost respect and love for the man)..what do you think? :)
kate davenporty I think you may be perfectly correct.
@@lanabanana68 I also think he may have Asperger ..
Take it from a friend of his, Colin Betts (who passed this year unfortunately) was friends and fellow musician with nick growing up and traveled with through Morocco etc.. he stated in no uncertain terms that had nick been born today he would certainly have been diagnosed with aspergers. This was posted in the nick drakeheads fb group
"Great pic for cover for a while? and a change. He would have preferred to be seen smiling,close to nature. not trapped in a city with all the noise and speed. we were both autistic but Aspberger's hadn't been invented. born 10 days apart in June 1948, we had the same strengths and weaknesses. i was top or second every exam at a good grammar school,passed 11-plus aged 9 but wasn't allowed to go up until my behaviour improved. (Haha). Dropped out aged 15 and went on the road and on the run until winter 66-67. They sent me to a mental hospital for "functional nervous diseases" for several months but that didnt work. Left UK ASAP and spent most of the last 57 years abroad,mostly in Asia. Teaching English,making music, writing books,running a bit of dope. Point is our kind of autism just wasn't understood in the 1960s. Nick had to hide all signs of mental illness. we all did, like being gay. which was also still illegal. and they were criminalising acid, speed,smack and coke etc, which never happened before. it was another country and i didnt like it. live in Scotland now and will never cross the border again. England is its own disease."
I strongly think he had schizoid personality disorder rather than schizophrenia. Schizoid people do have emotions and are perceptive to other people's emotions, but they're not emotionally expressive. They tend to be dissociated and introspected floating through life aimlessly. There is a lot of overlap between Asperger's and schizoid symptoms. The term autism used to refer to the social withdrawal and introspection associated with schizophrenia/schizoid pd/schizotypal pd. What we know as autism today was called autism of childhood.
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He sounds very stoned...
Very posh R. P. dialect but sounds very tired and very hungover, if not totally stone.
Posh and RP are not the same thing.
I didnt follow all of that.
If only the good Lord had taken Bob Dylan instead!.....just kidding I dig Dylan, but yeah God should have taken Bob instead.
First heard Pink Moon when it was used for a VW car commercial. If it wasnt for the radio show "The on going history of music" that featured him on an episode. If you enjoy music history google " the ongoing History of Music" hosted by Allen Cross..
Keep on Rocking in the Free World!
from what I gather, Nick more or less chose to go. the family denied it, however. nobody truly knows I guess.
@@zuperduperboi Yeah you're correct, it was a Sucide I was just being a smart ass.
Keep on Rocking in the Free World!
@@zuperduperboithere's no evidence for that, it's easy to OD on amitryptaline, especially back then