Wow! Great story.
Don’t know who he is but having spend a few years in London a little later it was easy meeting some known folk players. I remember Tim Hardin in "my pub" where we lived in those days.Oooh, very interesting! A first-hand account that Drake may have actually used a Guild M-20!!! That's pretty good evidence in my book.
Who is Phillip Tanswell?
Shoes, guitare…who minds. He left an amount of beauty and talent in just three albums. Far above his moment. No surprise he was compared to Van Gogh. Btw the shoes as the guitar seemed to belong to the photographer…so my choise would have benne the guitar. Shoes are common but not this instrumentForget the M-20. I've been searching for years for the awesome shoes on that album cover.
This."Without pictures it didn't happen," to quote the Bard.
TX! man good to see you. And what a perfect re-entrance to LTG.Just to clear up the mystery, I have been using the Nick Drake guitar for a boat paddle on my uumpa luumpa powered Willy Wonka river/tunnel boat for years now.
By "we", I meant the collective wisdom of the Internet. By adding the quote marks, I was indicating that "we" should not be taken literally (as is the modern understanding of quotes used that way). I also should have put "the Nick Drake guitar" in quotes as well, as "we" have also pretty much determined that the M20 did not belong to Nick. I am sorry if I have caused you any distress in thinking that readers might blame you for the post's content!If by "we" they mean "us", I have to admit, I didn't even know (or care) that Mr. Drake's guitar was lost, and don't take any credit for helping to look for it.
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Just to clear up the mystery, I have been using the Nick Drake guitar for a boat paddle on my uumpa luumpa powered Willy Wonka river/tunnel boat for years now.
Michael Chapman was another magician. Just brilliant and alive."Without pictures it didn't happen," to quote the Bard.
I did some shows with Michael Chapman some years ago, who had a storage locker (namely his head) of amazing stories. He was not only one of the few people to see Drake perform live but shared the stage with him -- I think at a festival. What impressed Chapman was that Drake played in the most unusual open tunings he'd ever heard (Michael invented a few himself), and was an absolute magician.
The problem -- and this may be why Drake performed so little and finally stopped altogether -- was that he was so low-key and soft-spoken that the rowdier elements of the audience paid him no attention. People were laughing and chattering and walking around. Drake played his set and left.