Posted on 01/24/2021 5:16:41 PM PST by simpson96
Big Brother and the Holding Company's performance at the Monterey Pop Festival was so powerful, the festival organizers hastily provided a second performing slot for the band to ensure it was captured by D.A. Pennebaker's film crew. Janis Joplin's cover of Big Mama Thornton's "Ball and Chain" was a major part of helping them to get signed to Columbia Records later that year. Established artists such as Cass Elliot stared in wonder as Joplin delivered a blues-soaked performance.
Janis Joplin - "Ball & Chain" (Monterey International Pop Music Festival, 1967)
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Awesome performance.
Stinky welfare cheats took over the media, education and government.
Now they're running the country.
The very people who created the evil that is destroying our freedom.
Imagine if the Jews celebrated Nazism.
Classic bit. The shots of Mama Cass watching from the audience and being visibly impressed are classic.
What did Janis ever do to ‘create evil’?
Janis Joplin didn’t have a very good voice (in my opinion). But by golly, she sure did have a stage presence. Unforgettable.
Janis was incredible and that performance is legendary. I sure wish she could have avoided the hard drugs.
And hence the state we are in ...
Great performance of LSD-induced rambling. She was a talented vocalist. She was at least 100 years old at 27 when she died.
“Because as a matter of fact, as we discover, on the terrain ... Tomorrow never happens, man! It’s all the same @&#&ing day, man!”
Dig it! Heavy!
I have no idea what you mean.
She was a singer/performer, inspired by certain genres of very American popular music. (The only political statement I ever personally heard her make was about the Kent State shooting.
Do you have more information?)
3 years later Janice gone with a needle in her arm, Jimi with vomited his lungs and a year later Morrison with a drug-induced heart attack. Jimmy was the most intriguing to me, I was totally into his music in the 80s and I think had he lived he could have gone in so many directions and been totally amazing.
She was just amazing. My father played her Pearl album all the time.(along with Lenny Bruce’s “To is a preposition, come is a verb. I was too young, but I just knew there was something dirty going on there ; )
I thought her interpretations were unique and valuable.
(But Big Mama Thornton was a lot better; and with Hound Dog, too...)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbdUjHmCHA4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbdUjHmCHA40
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoHDrzw-RPg
D*mned if I know......
Without stage presence and that certain charisma, you can have the smoothest, most polished voice yet never have a hit song or fill a concert hall. Polished voices are a dime aa dozen.
Bob Dylan is another example of an artist not having a smooth and polished voice, yet he is one of the all-time greatest songwriter/performers.
... was gonna’ say “blues-soaked” = drug soaked. Same with Amy Winehouse. Two great blues singers whose life would have benefited from more friendships with American blues singers with Gospel roots.
That performance put her on the map, before Monterey, she was relatively unknown outside of San Fran. I haven’t read this whole tread, and heard so many down her voice. I submit to you that voice doesn’t mean squat, it’s all in stage presence and interpretation. Janis Joplin had all that in spades.
Hate to break it to people but the leftists migrated to media in the 50’s and into academia and by the end of the 60’s they were in charge of soft sciences already. Spent thirty-seven years in universities and by the mid 70’s it was becoming difficult for a non-left student to get their doctorate except in a few hard sciences. Most senior administrators did not come from hard sciences. Hollywood was leftist dominated by the mid 60’s as well.
What does that have to do with Janis and her singing and interpretations?
She seems to have been all about music and singing; as far as I can tell, she never completed any college or university degree (which was true of many of us who were primarily interested in new pathways in music, in those days.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janis_Joplin#Early_life
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