Posted on 05/02/2020 5:52:16 PM PDT by DallasBiff
I know some here will disagree, but Janis Joplin was very talented. She left us to soon.
They almost got Rod Stewart to sing for Led Zeppelin
Janice Joplin’s voice always made my skin crawl. She tortured good songs to death.
I don’t know about that. I can’t say I recall any political positions from Janice from the 60s when many bands were political. And her port Arthur peers included Johnny and Edgar winter and I don’t recall their political positions from small town east Texas neither.
I know that Moe Tucker from the velvet underground Was spotted on TV at a tea party protest siding with the tea party patriots and that her Facebook wall reposts a lot of conservative articles etc. Not everyone Marched lockstep
Despite her demons and they were many...she was very talented. When she sang you can tell she did from the depths of her heart unlike today’s singers who just read some lines
Duets you did not know existed
Tom Jones with Janis Joplin and a horn section
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZmiefQ5y4U
Best of all: “..take another little piece of my of my heart now baby ... “
A true misguided icon as so many were/are.
Unexpected cover: Tina Turner “Hollywood Nights”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Vfk62vKauw
Supposedly Janice Joplin’s 1st recording from 1962. sounds like old time acoustic blues and points to her main life problem.
“What Good Can Drinking Do?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fyQ1k94boE
“What good can drinkin’ do, what good can drinkin’ do?
Lord, I drink all night but the next day I still feel blue.
There’s a glass on the table, they say it’s gonna ease all my pain,
And there’s a glass on the table, they say it’s gonna ease all my pain.
But I drink it down, an’ the next day I feel the same.
Gimme whiskey, gimme bourbon, give me gin.
Oh, gimme whiskey, give me bourbon, gimme gin.
‘Cause it don’t matter what I’m drinkin’, Lord, as long as it drown this sorrow I’m in.
I start drinking Friday, I start drinking Friday night.
Lord, I start drinking Friday, start drinking Friday night.
But then I wake up on Sunday, child, there ain’t nothin’ that’s right.
My man he left me, child, he left me here.
Yeah, my good man left me, went away and left me here.
Lord, I’m feelin’ lowdown, just give me another glass of beer.
What good can drinkin’ do, what good can drinkin’ do?
Well, I drink all night but the next day I still feel blue!!!”
Wow, that brings back memories!
Her rendition of Cry Baby, originally sung by Garnett Mims was always one of my favorites. I really believe Janice died of a broken heart. She had fame and glory, but she never could hang onto a man. And, in the end love is what makes the world go round. My 2 cents.
Beat me to it. Amazing, a good thing to surprise folks with.
If you haven’t, check out TJ cover of Burning Down the House. Not too bad.
Probably her finest moment as a performer. Thanks for posting that.
“Summertime” was always my favorite
a genius performance
I’ll drink to those verses
I was on a school bus when I heard that she had died. It was my senior year in High School.
Back then, the kids had divided themselves into ‘greasers’, ‘Preppies’, and ‘Hippies’, for years.
I never fit into any group; but I remember one kid looking at me when I heard the news and saying, “OH! You’re SAD?’
She was a brilliant blues singer.
It just seems to me that some of the most talented and interesting people in history always had some particular offsetting issue that kind of diminished them to a point and we looking back always wonder how did this great person not see what was coming
I remember my older brother crying when Jimi died, that would a pretty rough spell, losing Janis, Jimi, and then Jim Morrison, all within the span of a year.
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