Anybody able to give me some of the memories you hold near and dear for this child of soul & the blues? Go ahead, wear your heart on your sleeve for a change, and "pour it out" in honor of our girl "too soon gone!" What if she had never overdosed? What if....
2006-09-25 15:44:26 · 11 answers · asked by cherodman4u 4 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
Your question found a piece of my heart which I'm glad to share.
Sept 15, 1968. Big Brother, Joan Baez, the Everly Brothers, The Byrds, Country Joe and the Fish, Junior Wells, Buddy Guy, the Mothers of Invention, Buffy St. Marie and Wilson Pickett
Rose Bowl, Pasadena, CA
What a lineup! You see her name wasn't even mentioned, but Janis took down the house. I was 17, just gotten my driver's license and too nervous about the carload of kids I'd brought to do any drinking or drugs. A hot and long afternoon in the sun and then Janis came on. You must remember that this was the same summer that Hair was produced.
Mimi, Sandy and I scaled the stage just as Piece of My Heart was ending, tossing bits of clothing to the audience. Janis smiled and offered us a bit of her jug and then disappeared out the back door. We followed and piled onto the limousine as it travelled across the lawn. I was splayed half naked across the windshield as she was throwing kisses to everyone through 2" thick glass. The driver was very polite when he stopped outside the Rose Bowl track and asked us to get off before he entered the Pasadena Freeway.
I was in San Jose CA when Janis died and will never forget the lowriders procession in her honor. To kids that grew up in the sixties it was just another slap in the face as to how our heroes died.
2006-09-25 16:35:24 · answer #1 · answered by ditsyquoin 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Janis Joplin was a tormented soul who truly lived the blues and was able to channel those Kozmic Blues into great music. I just finished reading Buried Alive - by Myra Friedman (great book) and have even more respect for Janis, her life and her music. She said that Kozmic Blues had to be spelled that way because it was much too heavy to be taken seriously. She cried out for help in her life and her music, but no one heard or they chose not to. Janis' depression would have gotten to her sooner or later, but da**, I wish it had been later. Another gone from us too soon.
R.I.P., Pearl
2006-09-25 16:06:14 · answer #2 · answered by hippiechick 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
She`s the only singer that can still give me goosebumps.
I saw her live on the tv a few times including her final
appearance on the Dick Cavett Show.I still have the audio tape
I recorded of it,even the interview.Don`t limit yourself to her Greatest Hits album.
2006-09-25 15:53:12 · answer #3 · answered by Rich B 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am not old enough to have been a fan when she was alive. But I am a massive fan now and even if the disco era did come she still would have been a legend. I absolutely love her
2006-09-25 15:47:44 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are WAY too many "what ifs' in the music world. What if the plane hadn't gone down in 1959? What if Elvis' doctor hadn't given him so many drugs? What if Stevie Ray was still here? It's all irrelevant.
2006-09-25 15:54:50 · answer #5 · answered by dumpling 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
She would have died deeper into the 70s, one way or another, as she could not have made the transition when we went disco/punk
2006-09-25 15:46:26 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I did like her version of Cry Baby.
2006-09-26 10:09:58 · answer #7 · answered by Valarie P 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
She probable would have married me.
2006-09-25 15:48:08 · answer #8 · answered by stephenl1950 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Honestly, she probably wouldn't have been such a legend if she hadn't died. But nonetheless, she would have made great music!!
Bye, bye, bye, baby bye bye..........
2006-09-25 15:46:56 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Janis was a big druggie.
2006-09-25 15:50:07 · answer #10 · answered by Patches 5 · 0⤊ 4⤋