Does anybody remember Janis Joplin?

[RoadRunner]

Raspy voice, wicked laugh, wild hair, great tunes, and died ever so young.

Keep on truckin'.

[Ysabel]

1. i was kicked out of a bar...

when i was about 12 - she was there that night...

ruby gulch - wild place...

[Catshrink]

Wow! What a memory!

That is really cool. Do you remember her at all?

[Ysabel]

7. yes...

love her...

[NightTrain]

2. Sorry, never heard of her.

:evilgrin:

[Catshrink]

3. You're joking, right?

[NightTrain]

5. Of course I'm joking!

Joplin has never been one of my favorites, but I damn well know who she was.

[Catshrink]

6. Whew!

I was feeling really old for a second there.

[saltpoint]

4. Fondly and fiercely.

I loved her.

[LuLu550]

8. Didn't I make you feeeeeeelll

like yoooou were mah ooonleee mah---yuhn????

[RoadRunner]

19. Oh Lawrd, won't you buy me a Mercedes Bentz,

Oh Lawrd, won't you buy me a Mercedes Bentz,
My friends all drive Proches, I must make amends.
Worked hawrdd all my lifetime, no help from my friends,
Oh Lawrd, won't you buy me a Mercedes Bentz.

[dae]

9. Favorites are: Just a Little Bit Harder, and Piece of My Heart.

She was great.

[NightTrain]

18. Both are covers of far superior soul recordings.

Lorraine Ellison did the original of "Try (Just A Little Bit Harder)."

Erma Franklin (Aretha's big sister) did the original of "Piece Of My Heart."

Unlike Joplin, Ellison and Franklin understood how to extract every last droplet of emotion from a lyric. Janis Joplin's singing was nothing more than histrionic screams.

It annoys the shit out of me that Joplin's mediocre covers are considered classics while the clearly superior originals are known only to a handful of anal-retentive collectors like me. :grr: :nuke:

[Gildor Inglorion]

10. Oh, yes!

She took a piece of my heart with her when she left us, too. My Lord, what a talent, what a woman!

[H2O Man]

11. When Janis heard....

...of Jimi Hendrix's death, her first words were, "Son of a bitch, he beat me to it." She was something else. It's too bad that Jimi, Janis, and Jim went out early.

[murielm99]

12. Dayum, yes!

Janis, my all-time favorite.

I went to her concert at Ravinia, in August, 1970. She died on October 4th that year, at age 27.

I have all three of her albums -- the original vinyl. I have the Box of Pearls CD and a Greatest Hits CD too. I listen to them often. I still have a poster of Janis on my closet door.

Did you know that Janis was bisexual?

Did you know that the room she died in at the Landmark Hotel, is haunted by her? I plan to stay there some Halloween.

Have you read Scars of Sweet Paradise? It is a much more honest book than Buried Alive, which I also own.

Her music speaks to me like no one else's. It blew me away when she died. There will never be another Janis.

Susan Tedeschi is a good white blues singer. She is not Janis, but she is good.

Thanks for bringing up Janis.

[RoadRunner]

15. There was also a book

called Going Down on Janis, I think it was, that dealt with her bisexuality and drug addiction. I remember reading it, but don't have it any more.

[jonnyblitz]

32. I read that book in the 80's.

I don't remember a thing about it just the title.

[Zomby Woof]

13. heroin addiction added a certain pain to her voice

Not pretty at all.

[Gloria]

14. Oh, wow, yes! I have that image of her with the wild hair, round

tinted glasses, and tons of beads hanging around her neck....

Piece of My Heart was my favorite.....She had performed on campus during my first or second year at school.

I remember when she died.

[peacebuzzard]

16. one of my favorites,

loved the way she sang, dressed, was so cool during such a sad era...Vietnam and all. Died way too young and too stupidly, strung out over some dude thing; smashed as usual. Right around the same time as Hendrix. Both great losses.:hippie:

[The Lone Liberal]

17. Remember Janis??

God there will never, ever be anyone like Janis.

[jpgray]

20. Witnessing a few high school talent shows has ruined her for me (nt)

[alittlelark]

21. Whenever I want to sink deep inside myself

for sadness or contemplation...I want Janis.

[NashVegas]

22. All Too Well

As great as she was at what she did, she was a horrible influence on the female vocalists who were encouraged to follow in her footsteps. A generation or two of annoying belters who never made it out of the bars.

[Lefta Dissenter]

23. Imagine my surprise

when my son had a Janice Joplin CD on his 'wish list' a couple of years ago. BOY, that brought back memories. Of course, I bought him the CD so I could borrow it! :)

Susan Tedeschi has a similar type of voice, though she obviously doesn't express the same level of pain. One can only hope that she doesn't follow a similar path.

[JCMach1]

24. Freedom's just another word for nuthin' left to lose

.... Nothin' and that's all that shrubby left me...

[BrotherBuzz]

25. Oh yeah...

and I wasn't enamored with back in the '60s. I think I only started to appreciate her in the last decade, or so. I lived in her adopted area of Marin and so her presence was not hard to feel but her music didn't send me (I was more of a New Rider of the Purple Sage kinda guy).

Bizarre thing, after her death I was taking a couple of photography courses at a local JC. One of my fellow classmates, an ex-roomate of hers, had glommed onto hundreds of negatives of her (hundreds upon hundreds of B&W negatives! Jeez, maybe a hundred rolls of film?) She spent the entire year just making prints of her. Wish I knew her name and could look at those again and start looking at the other faces in the prints; she got around. Prints of Pearl at home, at the Silver Peso (her watering hole in Larkspur), outdoor scenes, sitting in her little porsche, restaurant scenes, everything documented, mostly private social scenes - it was a virtual diary of her life, her short life on the West Coast. Yeah, I remember her.

Wow, wife just put a chunk of her vinyl on the turntable. An original copy of Big Brother and the Holding Company. No date on album, but wife has been listening to this very record since summer of 1967.

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

26. Gave a CD of "Cheap Thrills" to a teen for Christmas

and she loved it, but couldn't stop giggling when her mom and I tried to sing along with "Piece of My Heart." Can't blame her. But dag, it was good to hear Janis!

[Old and In the Way]

27. "Hesitation Blues" and "Dime for Beer" recorded in a 1964

with Jorma Koukonen (Hot Tuna) are quite interesting. Crude recordings, I think the collection is called the Typewriter Tapes because someone is typing away in the background. Single accoustic and her voice....good stuff.

[Red State Rebel]

28. They had an exhibit on her at the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame

a few years back and it was fantastic. I went upstairs and bought a cd of her music before I left just to listen to on the way home.

[dfong63]

29. i loved her version of "summertime"

[Piperay]

30. I sure do

she was TERRIFIC, seemed to be a very tormented person. It's so sad, there will never be another like her. :-(

[jonnyblitz]

31. I love her.

her vocals give me the chills. I listened to her when I was real young even though she OD'd when I was very little so I don't remember her. I listened to her during my 60's music phase when I was 15 0r 16 right before punk swept me away.

[LWolf]

33. Remember?

How could anyone who'd listened forget?