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This documentary lacks any narration, comment or a historic timeline nor shows any development of Janis's career, but consists of lots of rare concert, on-the-road and interview material; it may be a feast for die-hard fans, but for a broader audience it's simply not that informative.
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Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars
03/31/23
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Killer documentary about the one and only Janis Joplin.
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SEE the entire film here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34F8Zth-po4
Excellent quality Pro-shot recording of "Janis: The way she was" a documentary with some live performances. DVD has a total running time is 96 minutes, and is Black & White footage, with quality about 8/10. Track listing is as follows:
Mercedez Benz
Ball and chain
Tell mama
Kosmic Blues
Cry baby
Try
Move over
Comin' home
Summertime
The good days/I can't turn you loose
Me
Maybe
Ball and chain
Piece of my heart
Me and Bobby McGee
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/JoplinHouseHaight-Ashbury.PNG/170px-JoplinHouseHaight-Ashbury.PNG[/img] Joplin's house at 122 Lyon Street in Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco, California. She lived there in the 1960s with her boyfriend Country Joe McDonald (famous for his Woodstock appearance singing his Fixin' to Die Rag which was so anti-Vietam that work was hard to find afterward).
Birth name
Janis Lyn Joplin
Also known as
Pearl
Born
January 19, 1943
Port Arthur, Texas, U.S.
Died
October 4, 1970 (aged 27)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Genres
Blues rock, soul, psychedelic rock, acid rock, country, folk, hard rock, jazz blues
Occupations
Singer-songwriter
Instruments
Vocals guitar, auto-harp, harmonica, piano, percussion,
Years active
1962-1970
Labels
Columbia
Associated acts
Big Brother and the Holding Company, Kozmic Blues Band, Full Tilt Boogie Band, Grateful Dead
Rolling Stone ranked Joplin number 46 on its list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time in 2004, and number 28 on its 2008 list of 100 Greatest Singers of All Time. She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995.
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As a teenager, she befriended a group of outcasts, one of whom had albums by blues artists Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and Lead Belly, whom Joplin later credited with influencing her decision to become a singer. She began singing in the local choir and expanded her listening to blues singers such as Odetta, Billie Holiday and Big Mama Thornton.
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During her year at Lamar University, she commuted to Austin to perform solo, accompanying herself on guitar. One of her performances was reviewed in the Austin American-Statesman. Joplin became engaged to a man who visited her, wearing a blue serge suit, to ask her father for her hand in marriage, but the man terminated plans for the marriage soon afterwards.
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Stevie Nicks considers Joplin one of her idols, saying:
You could say that being yelled at by Janis Joplin was one of the great honors of my life. Early in my career, Lindsey Buckingham and I were in a band called Fritz. There were two gigs we played in San Francisco that changed everything for me - One was opening up for Jimi Hendrix, who was completely magical. The other was the time that we opened up for Janis at the San Jose Fairgrounds, around 1970.
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Janis_Joplin_1970.JPG/170px-Janis_Joplin_1970.JPG[/img] "I'm not really thinking much, just sort of, trying to feel" -Joplin, having been asked by Dick Cavett what she thought about when she sang.
READ so much more about Janis here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janis_Joplin
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
01/19/23
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