And afterwards, we all went for drinks at the Formosa. DE WILDE: To go back to how we met, so, I was instantly a fan and he was coming to do an in-store in L.A., a place called Middle Life Records, and I saw that. But now I feel changed around, and instead of falling down… ELLIOTT: (Singing) It's always been wait and see, a happy day and then you'll pay and feel like shit the morning after. It is that, you know, it's something that takes you a whole night to explain, he would just put in a of couple beautiful sentences and you're, like, that's actually what I need. DE WILDE: I couldn't believe and I still am so enthralled by Elliott's music. I didn't know I'd be around the morning after. ELLIOTT: (Singing) I'm in love with the world through the eyes of a girl whose still around the morning after. DE WILDE: "Say Yes" because my - I think I was famous for romantic troubles among friends. It was either or he was about to come out or had just come out.īURBANK: What was the song that she played for you? And I really was a little bit late in knowing about him.
AUTUMN DE WILDE (Photographer, "Elliott Smith"): You know I was very close friends with someone who started working for his manager, and she sat me down and said, you have to hear this song. Those photos are part of a new book she's released titled simply, "Elliott Smith." I asker her how she and Elliott got to be friends. Photographer Autumn De Wilde started out as an Elliott Smith fan, too, but she eventually became his friend, taking some of the most personal and interesting intimate photos ever captured of Elliott Smith.
His music was heartbreaking and beautiful and fragile, and you just got the sense that this guy was battling something his whole life. ELLIOTT SMITH (Singer): (Singing) Cut this picture into you and me, burn it backwards…īURBANK: The truly surprising part about Smith's death was how kind of unsurprising it seemed to fans - people like me. She said she heard a scream, she came out, and he'd stabbed himself in the chest. According to his girlfriend, they've been arguing when she locked herself in the bathroom. It's been just over four years since singer Elliott Smith was found dead in his apartment in Los Angeles.
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