Results for Janis JoplinJanis Joplin's may be the saddest story in rock biography. The kind of girl that parents and teachers feel compelled to buoy with "... Just you wait, you'll blossom when you turn 16... Get to college... Find a guy...", the scars of high school rejection, like those of her adolescent acne, were too-deep wounds in the soft core of her self confidence. Port Arthur, Texas might have wished for a different star, but Joplin was it, influenced by rowdy, across-the-border Louisiana blues and possessed of a gravelly voice and wishful themes encased kernel-like in grinding, shattering on-stage performances. Repel-attract did a revolving door number on Joplin and Texas until June, 1966, when she took off for San Francisco, and even death didn't bring her back home. In California and at Chet Helms urging, Joplin joined Big Brother and took a two-year ride as lead singer and rock concert regular, turning in a stupendous performance at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival. In '68, she went solo with her Kozmic Blues Band, and she was working on a second album with Full Tilt Boogie when she overdosed on heroin in her L.A. hotel room on October 4, 1970. One can't sum Joplin by saying "the good die young," for she wasn't good in the sin vs. pure sense; she was lost, searching, primal and private. One can't lump her into a triumvirate with fellow fallen Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison, for the noun implies control by three equals, and those three couldn't control themselves or their lives. Janis Joplin wore herself inside-out and finally down....more
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by Tom Cox•March 5, 2008•
Rock kills. The list of victims is too long and depressing to print here. We still raise an eyebrow when another tortured Narcissus bites the dust, but the impact has been dwindling ever since the cataclysmic nine months in the early ‘70s
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by Simon Frith•February 20, 2008•
I feel uneasy, confronting Landau. If a rock critic is a parasite, what is the critic of a rock critic? Landau is a rock critic pure and simple. He subtitles his book A Rock And Roll Journal, but it’s essentially a collection of past reviews, mostly of records, mostly from Rolling Stone and The Phoenix.
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by j. poet•January 30, 2008•
"new changes out of the venerable blues/rock cannon"
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by James Greene, Jr.•January 30, 2008•
Having spent the first 15 years of my life there, I can say with some authority that Connecticut is a state generally populated by fuddy-duds, buzzkills, and sticks-in-the-mud. No one there over the age of 35 wants anyone under the age of 25 to have any fun at all.
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by Mike Conklin•January 30, 2008•
On the last Wednesday of each month, you'll find waiting for you this column, in which I'll provide a thorough recap of the events of the previous month. Record releases, news items, notable happenings in the music media, newly announced tours, label signings and assorted industry stuff.
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5/14/2008
Have you heard of Flashback " The Classic Rock Experience" Arena Tour? It starts in August and the 2nd half of the show...
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5/11/2008
Hello Great holders of the priceless
I was reading an interview with Al Kooper who was talking about the Fillmore...
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3/21/2008
Hi,
Thank you for the Ritz's show from 1985 and the incredible cover of Janis Joplin's "Cry Baby".
I hope that...
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3/4/2008
Since the Butterfield Band was part of the musical dna of the time ('65-'67 and into the '70's) the scene (Filmore et...
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12/18/2007
The best rock and roll has always been made by rugged, and sometimes ragged, individuals—musicians so strong, willful,...
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