I saw her perform at the Electric Factory. She was a mess, drunk, pathetic.
Early in 1970 I was riding in my roommate’s new car which had something called an “8-track”. He pushed in a plastic thing & then this awful screeching came out of the stereo speakers.
“Who’s that!?” I asked. “Janis Joplin”, he replied, “blue eyed soul sister!”
Less than a year later I was in Vietnam & she was already dead, along with Jimi Hendrix, both age 26.
She was a real skank. I know some old guys in Texas that used to party with her. Everyone had their turn, many didn’t want one.