A report on Janis Joplin
American singer and musician.
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Big Brother and the Holding Company
26 linksAmerican rock band that formed in San Francisco in 1965 as part of the same psychedelic music scene that produced the Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service, and Jefferson Airplane.
American rock band that formed in San Francisco in 1965 as part of the same psychedelic music scene that produced the Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service, and Jefferson Airplane.
After some initial personnel changes, the band became well known with the lineup of vocalist Janis Joplin, guitarists Sam Andrew and James Gurley, bassist Peter Albin, and drummer Dave Getz.
Monterey International Pop Festival
15 linksThree-day music festival held June 16 to 18, 1967, at the Monterey County Fairgrounds in Monterey, California.
Three-day music festival held June 16 to 18, 1967, at the Monterey County Fairgrounds in Monterey, California.
The festival is remembered for the first major American appearances by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, the Who and Ravi Shankar, the first large-scale public performance of Janis Joplin and the introduction of Otis Redding to a mass American audience.
Jefferson Airplane
15 linksAmerican rock band based in San Francisco, California, that became one of the pioneering bands of psychedelic rock.
American rock band based in San Francisco, California, that became one of the pioneering bands of psychedelic rock.
Kantner, a native San Franciscan, had started out performing on the Bay Area folk circuit in the early 1960s, alongside fellow folkies Jerry Garcia, David Crosby and Janis Joplin.
Grateful Dead
16 linksAmerican rock band formed in 1965 in Palo Alto, California.
American rock band formed in 1965 in Palo Alto, California.
The Grateful Dead performed at the event along with the Hare Krishna founder Bhaktivedanta Swami, poet Allen Ginsberg, bands Moby Grape and Big Brother and the Holding Company with Janis Joplin, donating proceeds to the Krishna temple.
Festival Express
6 linksFestival Express is a 2003 documentary film about the 1970 train tour of the same name across Canada taken by some of North America's most popular rock bands, including the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, The Band, Buddy Guy, Flying Burrito Bros, Ian & Sylvia's Great Speckled Bird, and Delaney & Bonnie & Friends.
Pearl (Janis Joplin album)
6 linksPearl is the second and final solo studio album by Janis Joplin, released on January 11, 1971, three months after her death on October 4, 1970.
Ball and Chain (Big Mama Thornton song)
7 linksBlues song written and recorded by American blues artist Big Mama Thornton.
Blues song written and recorded by American blues artist Big Mama Thornton.
Although her recording did not appear on the record charts, the song has become one of Thornton's best-known, largely due to performances and recordings by Janis Joplin.
Rock music
8 linksBroad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles in the mid-1960s and later, particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom.
Broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles in the mid-1960s and later, particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom.
Key acts included Paul Butterfield (whose band acted like Mayall's Bluesbreakers in Britain as a starting point for many successful musicians), Canned Heat, the early Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin, Johnny Winter, the J. Geils Band and Jimi Hendrix with his power trios, the Jimi Hendrix Experience (which included two British members, and was founded in Britain), and Band of Gypsys, whose guitar virtuosity and showmanship would be among the most emulated of the decade.
Chet Helms
6 linksMusic promoter and a counterculture figure in San Francisco during its hippie period in the mid- to-late 1960s.
Music promoter and a counterculture figure in San Francisco during its hippie period in the mid- to-late 1960s.
Helms was the founder and manager of Big Brother and the Holding Company and recruited Janis Joplin as its lead singer.
Woodstock
12 linksMusic festival held August 15–18, 1969, on Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York, 40 mi southwest of the town of Woodstock.
Music festival held August 15–18, 1969, on Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York, 40 mi southwest of the town of Woodstock.
In June 2009, complete performances from Woodstock by Santana, Janis Joplin, Sly & the Family Stone, Jefferson Airplane, and Johnny Winter were released separately by Legacy/SME Records, and were also collected in a box set titled The Woodstock Experience.