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throwing gasoline on the fire--Janis Joplin - jazzboCR - 18-06-2014
Others and I have expressed the opinion that JJ wasn't "all that"--here's a list of songs some folks think she was the first or the best to do, with the original piece--I'm not taking a position on which was best--your call totally:
Take Another Piece of My Heart https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUM161EgKdI
Stay with Me, Baby https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pDBuPK0_DU
Get It While You Can [URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9PawalWXUk"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9PawalWXUk
Cry Baby [/URL][URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hV1ya9pv8g"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hV1ya9pv8g
[/URL]Down on Me [URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU7MMMWY_HE"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU7MMMWY_HE
[/URL]Ball and Chain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-rNX1DKuMI
Summertime https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwlTOspKNh8
Trust Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ru66IdUVkVo
Tell Mama https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bwZSEtoUVU
I've heard the argument that she exposed White folks to music they wouldn't have otherwise heard. So why didn't this drug-addled wethead ever acknowledge her sources and the debt she owed?
NB: This list was put together by a guy on another Site. Thanks, Bro El T.
throwing gasoline on the fire--Janis Joplin - Music Head - 18-06-2014
So why didn't this drug-addled wethead ever acknowledge her sources and the debt she owed?
she didn't live long enough
throwing gasoline on the fire--Janis Joplin - SteveO - 18-06-2014
Janis was/is a dynamo!!!! Her singing style was her own unique interpretation! She cites her influences as extracted from Wikipedia:
So why didn't this drug-addled wethead ever acknowledge her sources and the debt she owed?
." 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.[SUP] [/SUP]She began singing in the local choir and expanded her listening to blues singers such as Odetta, Billie Holiday and Big Mama Thornton.
[video=youtube;fkGUt4QYc08]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkGUt4QYc08[/video]
throwing gasoline on the fire--Janis Joplin - jazzboCR - 19-06-2014
I hear both of you and my challenge remains--show me any stage performance by her in which she acknowledges the sources and the debt she owed. Expressed raw emotion just isn't enough--wanna go down to a psych ward with me? I know I'm being a small-percentage-of-the-GenPop butthead, but show me I'm mistaken (I leave the word wrong for moral issues, which this isn't). As far as dying young--she sure fulfilled that part of the "dream/fantasy life".
Talk another little piece on this tart.
throwing gasoline on the fire--Janis Joplin - CRAZY-HORSE - 19-06-2014
im not a fan of Joplin,,,i have a best of set, and theres very little on it that i like...
but when you die young, you are promoted to a "legend" status whereby, if you dont die young you can sometimes fade away...my my,hey hey
throwing gasoline on the fire--Janis Joplin - Jerome - 19-06-2014
Janis don't owe nobody no debt or dues. She just do what she choose.
She was never a part of the 'let's all pat each other on the back' club. She was an enigma.
http://youtu.be/SCwzuNpnqtk
throwing gasoline on the fire--Janis Joplin - CRAZY-HORSE - 19-06-2014
enigma is a good word to describe her actually...well done Jerome
throwing gasoline on the fire--Janis Joplin - jazzboCR - 19-06-2014
CRAZY-HORSE Wrote:enigma is a good word to describe her actually...well done Jerome
You want "enigma"? Like I say, let's stroll through any large psych ward. Or look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_machine
I'm gonna stay with "drug-addled wethead" and be done with it. 2 applicable theme songs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TbfQPRgcS8 and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHDdqubE7zQ
throwing gasoline on the fire--Janis Joplin - SteveO - 19-06-2014
Back to Janis, I didn't think it was imperative for artists on stage to pay tribute to their influences! McCartney and Black Sabbath didn't do it recently!...lol