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Wednesday, November 19. 2014

True story


When I was a young lad I grabbed a beer at Max's Kansas City on Union Square during a late night ramble around the Village with some pals, and who comes in the door but Joplin and some band members (The Holding Company) after a show.


She pulls up a chair next to me at the bar and says "You're cute" then proceeds to ignore me and orders a few rounds of whiskeys for herself and the band. I do not know whether I was cute but she was not cute at all.  They were all obviously drugged on something. I always thought Janis was a stoner suburban phoney. She could screech, though, and let it rip, which is not nothing.


Vanderleun on the general topic: Barnhardt-Van der Leun Musical Awesomeness Cagematch: Round Two!

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I used to see her at the original Threadgill's here in Austin when she was first up from the Beaumont Port Arthur area. Yes, she really could sing, especially pre- Holding Company days, but Bird Dog you're not to far off with the "Janis was a stoner suburban phoney".
#1 James on 2014-11-19 19:34 (Reply)
Never could figure out what everybody saw in her. Lousy voice in my estimation. Probably made her rep on the fact that she slept around.

Steve
#2 Steve on 2014-11-19 19:57 (Reply)
Interesing story, BD! It's fun to recount brushes with fame - even if it's no more than that, and it usually is.

Mama Cass was sure impressed by Janis at Monterey Pop!

I thought she was ok, BB & the Holding Company was a pretty mediocre band and when she got better bands, her music wasn't the style I preferred. I always wondered what she would be up to if she hadn't wasted herself. Somehow, I don't think she would be any competition to Beth Hart (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fALdOkf_eCM) or Christina Aguilera (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hYi4bxaMbs).
#3 mudbug on 2014-11-19 20:26 (Reply)
Took me a long time to like her (Doors, too.) Did like The Full Tilt Boogie Band.

I was a Grace Slick guy (she was much more attractive than Janis).
#4 Sam L. on 2014-11-19 21:20 (Reply)
I never thought Janis Joplin had that good a voice. If she were black, she would have been totally ignored. IIRC, she won the Ugliest Man on Campus competition at UT Austin. Factoid: Bill Bennett once went out with her.
#5 Gringo on 2014-11-19 21:42 (Reply)
So did Jimmy Johnson (former Cowboys coach). Weird, huh?
#5.1 Mystery Meat on 2014-11-20 12:19 (Reply)
AND, I have two memories of that time in which I never participated (born before the baby boomers). I never did understand why the BBers got such a giggle out of Mick jagger wearing a sock in the wrong place!

Nor, did I ever understand why then governor (and once again governor) of California Jerry Brown saw in the Lina Ronstadt gal. She was not a great singer--BUT she was Mexican, so I suppose that accounts for his taste in music.
#6 faculty wife on 2014-11-19 21:49 (Reply)
Man, I know what Jerry Brown saw in Linda Ronstadt. So does every other guy who was older than 12 in the 1970s. As to her singing...she has said that she didn't really start learning how to sing until 1974 or so. By the 80's, when she was doing her torch song albums, she had really changed her singing style.
#6.1 Gordon on 2014-11-20 17:24 (Reply)
I played the lute for Joan Baez once.
#7 rhhardin (Link) on 2014-11-20 05:47 (Reply)
I used to shine Elvis's blue suede shoes.
#7.1 Sven Svenson on 2014-11-20 08:15 (Reply)
Janis Joplin had NO voice to speak of; she simply screeched and for her listeners, the drugs took over for that huge vacumn in talent.

IBut, if nothing else, "Take Another Little Piece of My Heart" was the national anthem for acid and meth users everywhere! Always reminds me of dirty, faded, bellbottom jeans and worn out paisley shirts.
#8 earl T on 2014-11-20 09:31 (Reply)

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