Janis Joplin: Little Girl Blue

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#1
Don't know if you've ever seen this doc...but you should.

If you could take Coltrane's sax at his "way out" best, Hendrix's searing guitar riffs and the sometimes abyssal depths of female longing, angst and despair and combine them into one voice of perfect expression...it would be Janis Joplin.

She's best known for "Me and Bobby McGee". But that song, imo, does nothing to show what she was really capable of.

I also think that none of her bands or producers were good enough to take her to the pinnacle of her talent. Big Brother & The Holding Co. always sounded cheesy to me. And later bands that she went with weren't much better.


In this doc , take a listen when she's singing at the Monterey Pop Festival.

Her voice is a vocal and an instrument at the same time absolutely nailing it.

I think I got cheated not knowing all that much about her back in the day.

At that time the media portrayal of her was different. (And we didn't have Internet etc.etc.etc)

Rock on Janis...wherever you are..

(there are options below on where it's available)

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I don’t know much about her except she had an incredible voice, and was apparently self-destructive. I wonder if she was too much personality for better bands to handle? Know what I mean? Or maybe she was the decider and liked how she fit with BB&THC.

I’m just speculating.
 
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I will check that out, sometime. I remember watching an interview with her, describing how she'd gone back to her hometown to her high school reunion after she'd hit the big time. The interviewer asked her how it went and she said they'd more or less treated her just the same as they had before, and the look on her face I could only describe as crestfallen. Then, all of a sudden she caught herself and put her happy face back on, but it was easy to tell that she carried a great deal of pain inside her.
 
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PWRL said:
I will check that out, sometime. I remember watching an interview with her, describing how she'd gone back to her hometown to her high school reunion after she'd hit the big time. The interviewer asked her how it went and she said they'd more or less treated her just the same as they had before, and the look on her face I could only describe as crestfallen. Then, all of a sudden she caught herself and put her happy face back on, but it was easy to tell that she carried a great deal of pain inside her.
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I’ve seen that interview.
She was beaten down as a kid, and remained bruised beyond repair as a young woman.
A tragic figure...with a well of both Talent and pain that just wouldn’t end.

I could take you to the spot where I was standing when I learned of her death.
I can’t say that about Jim Morrison (though I know I was in Ireland) or Jimi Hendrix.

That girl touched me from the start.
 
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