More than once.
Posted on 01/03/2010 5:05:10 PM PST by navysealdad
Janis Joplin - The Queen of rock in 69 - sings her guts out on "Ball And Chain" live in Germany 69
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She was bisexual.
“Those were the days”
Yup, I was a Palo Alto hippie working in a hippie bookstore about that time. Had all my hair too plus a full beard, bell bottoms and a Greek sailors hat.
Oh Geeze - those WERE the days and Boone’s WAS the bomb then! Love, J but don’t know why - maybe it was nice to see a girl who was unpopular in high school make it big - if all the stuff that ended up killing her was making it big...
I think she swung both ways - or, as they like to say, EXPERIMENTED with alternate life styles...(saw it on a doco...)
She’s great but I hate to break it to you - that is NOT the blues - and J sang the blues...
Wow - someone from Palo Alto ends up on the Free Republic? Nevah!!!! I grew up in Los Altos and hung out at Stanford all during high school - had a friend who worked at the PA movie theatre on University who’d smuggle me in - those were the Plunkett/Vataha football days of fame...dating myself...
This lady sing the blues to you?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQlehVpcAes&feature=related
The ‘blues’ comes in a spectrum of shades.
Indigo blue, deep blue, light blue, baby blue, black and blue.......
You got it - that is definitely THE BLUES!
Yeah, I met Plunkett, his frat used to throw beer kegs at the band frat down the hill. I worked at Kepler’s bookstore with Joan Baez’s mom. I wanted to date Martine Habib, a French folksinger, but she was lesbo just like the rest of that crew.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCs8uNhKREE
Martine Habib
*”No one alive comes close to Janis.”*
We all have our own tastes, but I beg to differ.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vn5QpfQLREM&feature=related
Superior, I believe, in every respect - and still alive.
In.
Your.
Dreams.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txByfXgxxMw
[the Great Ones may leave this earthly plane but they NEVER die]
I can't believe you brought that occasion back from the remote regions of my memory. I started to calculate the number of intervening years before I slapped my own wrist and swiftly moved on.
But what a great event that was, many great musicians all performing in one place. I don't think I could begin to name all the performers but it seemed like each musician hit a peak just a little higher than the preceding act. It was hot and Tony Joe White took the stage without a shirt, much to the delight of the gentle half of the audience. I remember Alvin Lee and Ten Years After tearing up the place, as well as Chicago, and Led Zepplin and on and on.
Thanks for the memories. Just one more... I caught a ride one day with Janis' sister Laura in a Mini Cooper. Sweet girl, sweet ride.
More than once.
*”No one alive comes close to Janis.”*
We all have our own tastes, but I beg to differ.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vn5QpfQLREM&feature=related
Superior, I believe, in every respect - and still alive.
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Dude - listened to the whole thing. Sorry, not even close.
Her voice was thin, and had NO texture, no character at all. The song provided ample opportunity for interesting improvisation and we got - nothing. Sorry to burst your bubble. No soul whatsoever.
Very cheap imitation of Janis. Maybe she was prettier in her day, but that’s not what Janis was about, obviously.
Her band may have been better, but the guitarist has got to go.
Sorry, dude.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVpDOIPx_sY&feature=related
A personal favorite of mine, nice little nugget from, of all places, the old “Tom Jones Show”.
Janis singing “Little Girl Blue”.
Genya Ravan - lol.
Different type of singer. Had a few hits, sure. Overrated, IMHO.
tragic-lesbian-blueswoman bump.
She was not a Lesbian but she was a nympho. She took on the entire Port Arthur Jefferson H.S. Yellow Jackets offensive line one night. I grew up about 20 miles from her but she was a little older than me. My next door neighbor went out with her a few time. She was crazy as Hell even in high school. She became a dopehead which proved to be her undoing.
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