Janis Joplin - Ball and Chain, live in Germany 69(VIDEO)

http://www.angelfire.com/ak2/intelligencerreport/ball_chain.html ^

[navysealdad]

Janis Joplin - The Queen of rock in 69 - sings her guts out on "Ball And Chain" live in Germany 69

[Jimmy Valentine]

Agreed. "Big Brother & The Holding Co." were kind of rough as a band,but I don't think she ever sang as well after the breakup.

"Cheap Thrills" is still an all time favorite.

[Chunga]

My opinion is exactly the opposite: Aretha is an astounding talent with an astounding voice and style, while Janis is mediocre, sloppy and self-indulgent in the extreme. She is the most overrated female singer of the rock era.

She helped make a good friend of mine a lot of money, though, so I'm glad of that.

[matginzac]

You worked at Kepler’s?????? WTH are you doing on FR? I got out of CA before corruption set in - My mom was a delegate to Goldwtr’s convention at the Cow Palace - I got a Navy commission, married a RI’lnder and have pretty much stayed on the east coast - my bro is in Ventura (his SUV is strewn with anti-Obama stickers) because he’s corrupted by CA’s fine weather - too sad! Cheers to you and congrats on FR - you made me remember a lot of old times!

[djf]

Here ya go..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzNEgcqWDG4

[djf]

Not even close!!
The only true American R&B diva.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q41hCR-1Sl0

[svcw]

No way. I was in Mt View. Small world.

[svcw]

Passion. She had passion. Can you even buy Boone’s any more?

[matginzac]

She really did - and she seemed to be pretty funny in her interviews - and insecure - I liked her...
Sadly, Boone’s has gone by the wayside - it’s like going to an antique store and finding LPs of “Meet the Beatles” - yee gods!

[Big Horn]

I really like some of her music and I think the band she sang with was very to notch.

[Big Horn]

I really like that one.

[Jimmy Valentine's brother]

I was there! She did a concert and then did a taping for German TV. Got a twofer. Lots of service men in the audience.

[Mila]

"Don’t think she was lesbo..."

Neither do I. I always heard that she had a real thing for Kris Kristofferson.

[McLynnan]

I’m so excited to find another “old” person! It was great fun and we were lucky to come of age with such great music. I remember Canned Heat and Santana wowed all of us in Lewisville. I ran with a group that never missed a live concert. I think my hearing is paying the price now, but it was worth it. Wouldn’t trade those memories or all that fun for anything.

The first time I saw Elton John he was the opening act at the State Fair Music Hall in Dallas. Unfortunately there must have been something in the air that’s caused me to forget who he was opening for. Your comments sent me googling and I found this: http://www.texaspopfestival.com/

[the invisib1e hand]

What a train wreck, a shrieking train wreck.

A perfect antidote to corporate buzzwords, talking heads, and obamaspeak.

[Verbosus]

Thanks for the link.
Gosh I love that song.

You likely know this: It is from Act I Scene 1 in Porgy and Bess,
where “Clara” is singing to her crying baby.

Lyrics:
Summertime,
And the livin’ is easy
Fish are jumpin’
And the cotton is high

Oh, Your daddy’s rich
And your mamma’s good lookin’
So hush little baby
Don’t you cry

One of these mornings
You’re going to rise up singing
Then you’ll spread your wings
And you’ll take to the sky

But until that morning
There’s a’nothing can harm you
With your daddy and mammy standing by

Summertime,
And the livin’ is easy
Fish are jumpin’
And the cotton is high

Your daddy’s rich
And your mamma’s good lookin’
So hush little baby
Don’t you cry

[Verbosus]

Oops.

In reference to post #75 - she is singing to the plantation owner’s crying kid
in ‘Summertime’.

[abigkahuna]

Check out Janis at MOnterey Pop Festival. The crowd is agog, Mamma Cass is blown away by Ball and Chain. Its like she came from nowhere and exploded with sound a fury. Of Course Pete Townsend of the Who had some disparaging comments about here, but that's probably he was hanging out with the likes of Sandy Denny.

Now Sandy Denny is the least known commercial singer, but best known by musicians of the day. She sang for Fairport Convention. A beautiful voice, but only sang in that mid-tempo type song.

Janis, on the other hand sang full bore. Always a very well rehearsed and tight set.

In the end, Janis sang the Blues...and my late friend John Lee Hooker, would say..."Kix it, afor it Kix you" speaking of the drugs that killed her.

[abigkahuna]

But to all the young-uns, you just had to be there... It was all "real" back then, all "new" and all "alive". Today you have all that back history to draw upon, but then, but back then, what was there? Louis Jordan?

Being brought up in the SF Bay Area, we had it good...The music, yeah, the drugs, and the whole thing, man...The colors where the sound back then. And yeah, there was politics too---But it was the musical explosion that nothing today can even remotely compare to.

There is no "Janis" today because there can be no 2010 "Janis"...Its been done--slammered into the time capsule for the future generations. Like all the plots to all the Greek plays, they have been written and in the 60s-70s, they were sung.

Even Big Momma Thorton had to admit that Janis was cutting here on her own songs... Now that's a compliment.

[Billthedrill]

Sins of my youth. Janis was on the edge, that's where she lived, where she created, but the edge moves, it always does, and when it did it killed her. But take a look at that - no makeup, lighting, minimal sound gear, nothing but pure talent. She may be wasted and probably is, but she doesn't miss a mark and the mike is always where it's supposed to be. Underneath the passion was a musical discipline that was not, sadly, reflected in her personal life. When she lost that she was already dead. One of Joplin's many tragedies is that she was better than any band she ever played with, and yes, I do mean Full Tilt Boogie, and Big Brother And The Holding Company wasn't even close.

We get lost in romanticism a little when we suspect that she wouldn't have been any better straight, sober, and alive 20 years later. I think she would have. Drugs and alcohol didn't really give us Janis but they sure as hell took her from us. IMHO.

[BnBlFlag]

“JJ— the pride of Beaumont, Tx.”

She was actually from Port Arthur which is about 15 or so miles South.
Here’s the “pride of Beaumont:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz2aNifcy20&feature=related