I say YES. YOU say NO....Numero Tre! Enjoy!
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Hurrah for the above recommendation. Especially since the repugnicans decided the Child Welfare act needed to be canceled and now more children live in poverty than before. Hungry children cannot learn and their brains without proper nourishment do not develop the synapses they need to be productive members of society. So you force women to bear children they don't want because they can't or won't care for them, starve the children so they become the base for the Loon and then wonder why our future as a competitor in the world is jeopardized?
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Ruth, you just posted a photo of my all time favorite singer. Great photo which I had never seen before so thanks and the message has meaning as well. Still don't feel old, lol.
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Janis Joplin was a big favorite of mine as well. Wonder of wonder my son was also quite taken with her and learned to play a few of her songs on his guitar. I still sometimes feel sad about her passing. I liked her best in her earliest days when she still had her first band. She was a marvel.
Of course, there were a few others but then I was young and that was the type of music of the very late 5o's on that appealed to me as a teen-ager. Not sure how but I was able to dance fairly well at that time and I'm sure that too helped make the music special.
I was brought up before-hand with mainly country and western which was fairly wangy-twangy in those days. I like all kinds of music now and even have a couple of tapes of show tunes, some reggae etc. If its music I'll likely be happy to listen although some of the hard rock and far out acid rock things did nothing much for me.
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I, too, am a huge Janis Joplin fan. I read a great biography of her and watched a documentary on her life. She was ahead of her time. In 1967, parts of a 3-day Monterey Bay rock festival were being filmed for a documentary. Janis gave an electrifying performance which wasn’t filmed. Realizing their grievous mistake, producers had her perform the next day to capture the whole thing, the only artist among stellar performances (Hendrix, The Byrds, The Who, etc.) to garner a second set. This introduced Janis to the world. She was 24 years old. You can find videos of it on YouTube. She’s incredible, gorgeous, elegant, powerful. She connected with her audience. It is said that Stevie Nicks was inspired by her.
Here’s an excerpt from her Wikipedia page that also indicates how amazing a singer she was:Reflecting Joplin's crossover appeal, two October 1968 performances at a roller rink in Alexandria, Virginia, were reviewed by John Segraves of the conservative Washington Evening Star at a time when the Washington metropolitan area's hard rock scene was in its infancy. An opera buff at the time, he wrote:
Miss Joplin, in her early 20s, has been for the last year or two the vocalist with Big Brother and the Holding Company, a rock quintet of superior electric expertise. Shortly she will be merely Janis Joplin, a vocalist singing folk rock on her first album as a single. Whatever she does and whatever she sings she'll do it well because her vocal talents are boundless. This is the way she came across in a huge, high-ceilinged roller skating rink without any acoustics but, thankfully a good enough sound system behind her. In a proper room, I would imagine there would be no adjectives to describe her.
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What a wonderful review of Janis, by an opera buff no less. I read her biography and it gave me a new appreciation of her, her lifestyle, and her seeming lack of confidence in her abilities.
Divine, thanks for sharing that piece and I am glad that there are other admirers of her music.
illinoislady, the fact that your son liked her as well is a living tribute to her music. I am glad you were able to share that with him.
I liked the gravel in her voice and it still strikes a chord with me over 60 years later. I have all of her albums (purchased then) which I treasure.
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I remember singing 'Me and Bobby McGee' while my boyfriend was strumming his guitar and recording us on his 8 track. Pretty sure that recording is (thankfully) is long gone! 😀
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I grew up in San Francisco and many of these groups did free concerts in Golden Gate Park and of course the Filmore and other venues. many lived in the Haight Ashbury neighborhood. one of my favorite songs of hers is "CRY" it helps me when I am sad to get out of it. So much wonderful music in the 60s- my kids like it too!
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Here's to you Janis Joplin. I wish you could have stayed a little longer in body but your soulful music is still ringing out to this day.
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I was giggling so hard when I read about Bobert, Rudy and "Fiddler on The Roof". Maybe cackling almost hysterically is more like it.
What was in Greene's purse got plenty of giggles as well.
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I'd definitely fork over.
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Thoughts.
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The way it should always have been.
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