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Also to Luke, if you have netflix, queue up "Festival Express". 1970's documentary about a bunch of bands touring canada on a train. There is some good Janis footage. From what you know of her, I think you'll find it interesting to watch.
The footage of Rick Danko, Joplin, Bob Weir, and Jerry Garcia (and maybe others, I can't remember for sure) tripping on LSD and singing "Ain't No Cane In The Brazos" is worth the price of admission alone.
Janis was like an unpolished jewel of a singer. Nobody seemed to consider that polishing the jewel could destroy what was unique about her. She seemed unable to find lasting pleasures anywhere. She seemed to use her music to wallow in her pain.
We'll never know where she might have been able go, but we do know that during her time in the spotlight she changed the way the world viewed female musicians.
Hey Lukeo, I'd be willing to bet if Janis was still around she would give you a little piece of her heart.
lol wow, I posted this 3 years ago, and I mean, nothing has changed about my love for Janis Joplin,she has been with me all through the hell that was high school,and now i'm approaching my second year of college next fall. my writing skills have improved, my views on music have become a little more open to mainstream stuff, and oh yeah I guess Janis never could be my girlfriend because I'm gay, but I think I meant girlfriend in a different way even back then,when I was still trapped in the closet :P. I still listen to Janis everyday,and I still sing a lot myself, and I'm so happy that I'm, in such a better place than when I posted this 3 years ago, because man was I in a bad place.
When I was delving through old threads, how did I miss this one?! You're doing a lot of old, perhaps discouraged hearts an awful lot of good by telling us of your love and appreciation of "our" music. I put that in quotation marks because we always wanted to share it with younger generations. Many will never listen, never give it a chance, but you saw the light, as they say. You connected with the diversity, the joy and the power we want to keep alive. You won't be like Edie Brickell, who was compared to Janis Joplin then claimed she had never heard her music! Oh my...
I love when new artists give credit to those who went before.
The year I entered college, we suffered such losses: Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin. What a horrible way to end the Sixties! (Well, Altamont added a lot to the death of a decade.)
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