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RE: 1968: Year two for x-daysofmusic
I'm in love with Janis Joplin since I was a young girl, so I really appreciate you started with her voice!
I'm in love with Janis Joplin since I was a young girl, so I really appreciate you started with her voice!
She was sexual, rather than sexy. Incredibly strong on stage and when she felt safe, but obviously insecure at other times. And it's all there in the voice - she held nothing back.
It took me years to really truly appreciate the genius of the guys in Big Brother because of Janis. She was so incredible and powerful it was as if the music was an extension of her being. Not sure i'm making sense.
Totally :)
The band arranged the music around Janis. It's why BB&THC were better than the Kosmic Blues Band or the Pearl band, even though those bands had better players. They weren't organic bands.
I was only 9 years old when they played at Monterrey. The sixties was a wild ride that i only saw with the eyes of a kid. So much so fast. Looking back now it was all over before i even got to High School. I remember funny little bits and pieces from the older kids in the neighborhood, Life magazine, some TV shows, the news, going to record stores. Everybody had Cheap Thrills, that record was in all the cool houses!
Organic is a great word to describe them. That seems to hold true for so many singers who leave their first band. All the things people used to put Big Brother down for are all the reasons i love them even more now. I'm listening to the Live At Winterland 68 show as i'm writing this and i think i need to lie down on the floor haha. Flower in the Sun is giving me chills.