Janice Joplin

[Tractorat]

Ha, I expected this thread to go mostly unnoticed with only a couple of posts at most.



BTW, does anyone find it ironic that, given today's political situation, that we are talking about Janice Joplin (Big Brother and the Holding Company)?

 

[Wayne M.]

While I didn't agree with her flamboyant, drug-culture lifestyle, I did enjoy the amount of energy and compassion she put into her singing.

Barring disco, rap, thrash, and probably a few other types, I enjoy a variety of music styles from "long-hair" classical to high energy rock - as long as it is played by talented artists. Janice was very talented in my book. Who else could combine the emotion of the blues, with a pound or two of sand, then apply with a case of TNT.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzNEgcqWDG4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEnL3FlbRko

I agree completely... She was (is?) great! The rest of her band was smokin' too. I forgot or didn't know she was from Texas.



When I think of music from Texas... ...



http://youtu. be/lKzhd5vAFu8



And..... This was the song I dedicated to my wife at our wedding...



http://youtu. be/NU0MF8pwktg

 

[JJPage]

When I think of music from Texas.....

How about David Allan Coe...
http://www.last.fm/music/David+Allan+Coe/_/If+That+Ain't+Country

 

[PBJ2500CTD]

She died so young, so we'll never know what her potential was. But for me, for the kind of music she sang, she has no peers. I have a cd in my car that I play quite a bit.

I agree. I strained my few remaining, flickering brain cells to find any peer. I thought maybe Carole King, but Janis was nowhere in the same league; Maybe along the lines of the great Blues singer Bessie Smith. It is sad that so many talented musicians like Janis, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, to mention only a small segment, departed this life too soon, due to encouragement by a corrupt industry promoting "Better Life Through Chemistry" - and I ain't talkin' about DuPont.

 

[PBJ2500CTD]

How about David Allan Coe...
http://www.last.fm/music/David+Allan+Coe/_/If+That+Ain't+Country

I agree completely... She was (is?) great! The rest of her band was smokin' too. I forgot or didn't know she was from Texas.

When I think of music from Texas... ...

http://youtu.be/lKzhd5vAFu8

And..... This was the song I dedicated to my wife at our wedding...

http://youtu.be/NU0MF8pwktg

SRV & ZZ Top

And:
Waylon Jennings
Willie Nelson
Buddy Holly
Roy Orbison
Jim Reeves
Johnny Horton
George Strait
and more...

Dang! Texas has given us a bunch of talented people in country, blues, rock and any combination thereof.

 

[B.G. Smith]

Harvey you continue to amaze me, but this time it wasn't your diesel knowledge. Did they ever put up a statue of her? I seem to remember some controversy about that.

Don't know of a statue here but The Musieum Of The Gulf Coast in Port Arthur Tx. has a lot of memorabelia and a replica of her painted Porsche. They put up a Historical Site marker at her home site but don't know if that still exists. Port Arthur really didn't claim her as their own until eighteen years after she was gone. bg

 

[JR]

Don't know of a statue here but The Musieum Of The Gulf Coast in Port Arthur Tx. has a lot of memorabelia and a replica of her painted Porsche. They put up a Historical Site marker at her home site but don't know if that still exists. Port Arthur really didn't claim her as their own until eighteen years after she was gone. bg

Are you talking about her 65 Cabriolet with the psychedelic paint job? I saw it in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Museum several years ago. I almost got lost in the paint scheme :-laf Probably the most intense paint job Ive ever seen.

 

[HBarlow]

Harvey you continue to amaze me, but this time it wasn't your diesel knowledge. Did they ever put up a statue of her? I seem to remember some controversy about that.

Sorry, I missed your post until B. G. Smith replied. Yes, there is actually a museum section donated to Janice. Several years ago the museum was located in a beautiful old granite building that, I think, was known as the Gates Memorial Library. I visited it back in the '90s but now it seems to have been moved to the Museum of the Gulf Coast.

Old classmates who have attended all the reunions told me Janice attended the 10 year high school reunion in 1970 in her "Janice Joplin" dress and persona along with a small entourage of her "friends" and was ignored or rejected. She had rejected Port Arthur when she became known and they had rejected her as well. Many years later classmates and the city apparently decided it was time to recognize her achievements.

Literally hundreds of music and sports figures have come out of Texas over the years. I could easily name a dozen popular, country, and blues musicians
just off the top of my head.