A lovingly curated scrapbook biography of the late Nick Drake

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2015/01/28/a-lovingly-curated-scrapbook-b.html

None of you stand so tall
Pink Moon’s gonna get you all.

The boy was a genius.

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The BBC had a documentary of Nick Drake, which was presented by Brad Pitt. He was a great musician, but kind of annoying to play - you have to retune the guitar in a different way for most of the songs.

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Ta. I’ll certainly give that a listen.
I’ve tried to play a few of his tracks, he didn’t seem to write down what tunings he used, so there’re several different attempts to deconstruct his stuff, all different.

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