domingo, 14 de junio de 2009

Poor Boy (Nick Drake, 6.19.48/9.11.74)



Over easter 1967, Nick did not go home to Tanworth in Arden, Warwickshire, but south to Marrakesh in Morocco, long a destination for seakers of the exotic and forbidden. There he and his friends run into rock's outlaws as they took a break from mthe busts and travails that were pressing down on them at home.

"We saw the Stones eating in a small restaurant, and Bob, displaying once more his nerve, marched in and told them I wanted to play guitar for them," Nick wrote home. "Suprisingly enough they accepted ... so I went in and did them a few numbers. We in fact got quite chatty with them, and it was quite interesting learning all the inside stories..."

(Keith Morris, "Atumn's Child", from Mojo issue 187)



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