Janis Joplin

[Acouwaila]

Summertime has gotta be one of my favorite songs...

Just starting to get into her

Theres some songs ive heard that arent the same as the style on summertime and i dont like those as much...

But mercedes benz is awesome!

any fans?

Acouwaila Reviewed by Acouwaila on 07-16-2007. Janis Joplin Summertime has gotta be one of my favorite songs... Just starting to get into her Theres some songs ive heard that arent the same as the style on summertime and i dont like those as much... But mercedes benz is awesome! any fans? Rating: 5

[Dutch Pimp]

...I'll never forget the first and only time i seen her....:hippy:...

[Acouwaila]

Awesome!

[GoldenGoblin]

Big Brother and the Holding Company Cheap Thrills
Still my favorite. Although I did pick up Live at Winterland and it is very good as well.

Shes been imitated but never really captured. In a word shes awesome, but gone to quickly.... sigh

[cannabis=freedom]

Hell yeah, I love Janis!

So sad what happened to her....

I fucking love '60s-'70s music with a passion.

[MyMARYJANE]

love herrrrrrr. i got into her last summer and enjoyed every second of it

[Breukelen advocaat]

It's been said that by the time she was with Big Brother and the Holding Company, Janis' voice had already passed it's prime. The drinking, drugs, and hard-living took it's toll. I remember hearing, after she died, a few folk songs she recorded in her early career, and the difference was apparent. The roughness in her sound hadn't set-in yet.

I liked her album Pearl best. I have it on vinyl, but the bonus live tracks on one of the CD reissues are very good.

[Weedywildwoman]

...I'll never forget the first and only time i seen her....:hippy:...

I am SO jealous! :smokin:

[Burnt Toast]

It's been said that by the time she was with Big Brother and the Holding Company, Janis' voice had already passed it's prime.

Anyone that says this clearly knows nothing of what they are talking about. For starters, Big Brother & The Holding Company was Joplins first band, having joining them in 1966 and lasting until the end of 1968. If there was any waning of her voice, it occurred during the period when she recruited The Full-Tilt Boogie Band for backup on the recording of Pearl.
While Pearl became Joplins most commercially successful effort (in which she would not live to enjoy), the vocals were much more mellow than the whiskey growls and shouts that were prevalent during the period with Big Brother, and later with the Kozmic Blues Band in 1969.

[TallCoolOne]

If you can, get BBATHC's Live at Winterland '68 cd, fucking great show!