Janis Joplin could not sing?

Perhaps;

January 21, 1966
Three-day Trips Festival at Longshoremen’s Hall, 400 North Point St. featured the Grateful Dead, Big Brother and the Holding Company, The Loading Zone, Chinese New Years’ Lion Dancers and Drum and Bugle Corps, Stroboscopic Trampoline, and Ken Kesey and His Merry Pranksters.

 

No, I think it was '67. But---long time ago, sooooo----------

 

You know what they say about the '60s & '70s, if you can tell the difference most likely you weren't there! LOL

 

Awww, that's not true brother. I remember three or four months of the 60s-70s!! And what a time it was!

 

You really do need to read posts more closely. Never said the store owner was a man (was in fact an obviously jealous woman). Yeah, she could sell albums (and bitch about the artists) till it was long after dark. She made her profit. And nobody (including myself) remembers her sorry ass name.

QP

 

I still don't see the hypocrisy. A record store owner can't sell albums of artists she doesn't like? She can't give her opinion about Joplin without allowing you buying those records from her?
You make it sound like everybody who dislikes her music has a problem.

 

No, not everybody. But she ordered several Joplin albums for me, and did not say a negative word about Janis until I gave her my cash. She was all "Janis Joplin is a legend" until I picked up and paid for the albums.

That makes her a hypocrite in my mind (why the hell tell me Janis was a person I would not have liked?). That was totally bogus. And she did not need to state it - especially after I had spent close to $50 at her store (this was in the 1970s).

QP

 

QP....typical hypocrisy...is right.....people will tell you anything to sell you whatever they are trying to sell....even it is their own bullshit....

 

I am not Janis Joplin...never lived her life...have no judement about her, nor why would I? She did nothing to me.....I appreciate her music, some of it.....and am sad she died at such a young age.....

 

Right on. The thing that pissed me off the most was that I was so happy to finally be able to hear every album Janis had recorded. And then to have to listen to this bitter record store owner tell me how messed up Janis was, and I would not have liked her?

Janis was already dead. Totally cheap shot. Also, I was trying to get to know Janis through her music. I didn't give a damn about cheap gossip and second hand accounts about what she was like when she was still alive. The music is what mattered most to me. :sunny:

QP

 

well, with dead people, of course, it is impossible to ask them questions and get to know them.....but with people who are alive....always get things from the horse's mouth, if possible. Anything else is just heresay....and doesn't hold any water......literally......

but CHEAP SHOT about someone dead already......yes, it was....ugh.....

 

I second that.

:love:

QP

 

Bottom line, she was/is family! :love:

 

I happen to love her music and the raw emotion she could infuse in her songs.

A good friend of mine could never understand why I liked her so much until I played this song one day. Her comment was wow she really could sing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klhK_4evO5c&feature=kp"]Janis Joplin - A Woman Left Lonely - YouTube

Gone too soon but thankfully her music still lives on.

 

Beautiful Thanks Heather.

 

My favorite Joplin tune. Must have listened to it 100 times. Thanks for posting it.

QP

 

Years ago, I became very interested (close to obsessed) in Janis's life since I already loved her singing and music.

She had a hard life (emotionally and mentally), not feeling she fit in anywhere...being raised in a "church going family" but not blindly accepting just every little thing thrown her way...started singing in church. At least with drugs, she did feel like she fit, but as I read more than once, it was the Southern Comfort that her friends were scared would "do her in". I also read where it was questioned whether someone meant for her to od...seeing as she had just gotten out of rehab and sold her extra potent stuff, knowing (or figuring) her body couldn't handle it, but not telling her of its strength. She knew what she was doing with the stuff and from all outside appearances it seemed she was getting herself together. I know I know...she did the shot, but still, I do not and never did think she meant to do herself in.

Anybody making judgement calls about her life needs to get one (a life, that is)...jmo

Anyway, I think anybody who thinks/judges Janis couldn't sing is either #1 - jealous or #2 a tone-deaf idiot.

I can't post songs (YouTube) but I find my fav song of her's is one I can sing and play on the piano...Me and Bobby McGee. Of course I love ALL her songs, and A Woman Left Lonely comes close to tying for 1st place in my favs of her's.

RIP Janis

 

Janis was really creative and smart. And that was a rare thing in Port Arthur, Texas. So the townspeople condemned her for not being thin enough, and suffering from really bad acne. Just goes to show you how superficial they were.

As she famously stated: "They laughed me out of class, out of town, and out of the state."

But she became much loved in San Francisco. Port Arthur still could not admit that they had fucked up big time. And there are still many folks there that do not like her.

It's their loss.

Janis is finally starting to get the respect she is due.

1. She was a rebel.
2. She could sing blues/rock better than anybody that ever took pride in living in Port Arthur, Texas (name one person from that sorry ass town that has stepped into her shoes? And it's been more than 4 decades since she passed away?)
3. She was also a gifted artist/painter. Port Arthur (of all places!) has a mini-museum where you can see her striking paintings. Nice. After all the trash they've said about Janis. Go figure.

QP

 

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