I was listening today to a Janis CD and heard the rap she does in the recorded version of this on the album Cheap Thrills.
unfortunately I couldn't find it, but this clip is a classic, and when you see Jimi and Mama cass during this, I was sitting right around them during sound check with Michelle Phillips too.
Classic Janis!
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Classic indeed! Janis was a champ.
Georgie, I don't see it. (Sigh!) Love Janis though.
why can't you see it? Go to You Tube and type in Janis Joplin and then find ball & Chain Monterey Pop 67
Georgie, I can see it now. I think my cat must have stepped on something this morning because I could not see videos on my stuff either. I rebooted and now its working. Thanks for replying, you reminded me to come back! I still love Janis (Pearl!)!
"Oh Lord, wontcha buy me a Mercedes Benz"!
I am going to try to download the Ball & Chain track from the cD, she has a speaking bit in that, well, "It's all the same God-damn day, man!" as she explains failed relationships and things, you will love it!
I have that on my CD of her's. I LOVE that!
Another gem. Have you already uploaded Patty Smith? Neil Young?
hurt heart
Patti Smith is playing the pier here in sept, to close the season on the pier. Wish Neil would!!
So you were buds with the "Mama's and Papas"?
I was 17 1/2 in June of 67. After having met and travelled with the beatles in 64 derek Taylor was doing PR for Monterey and so I went there and worked for him, a gopher, but met a lot of new musicains coming up at the time.
So, I was at the Festival with 'all access' and went out to the seats to hear the sound checks sometimes, In the film Monterey Pop I can be seen scuttling here and there. During Janis I was in the seats between Cass and Michelle, Jimi was in front of us.
Some fascinating folks! Too bad life was just too fast for many groups at the time.
=) your life is rich~rich~rich with experience and living~
Janis I do know and her voice is just like a slice of another world pulled through ours~she drowns me in a good way~ ;)
have to live it to the fullest!
Thanks for posting to GutterGirls~
I saw her at Winterland when I was 17 and it changed my life (up until then I think I was destined to be a secretary...)
One of my most loved albums is Janis Joplin 18 Essential Recordings - It has this cut and it's my favorite one. I've never understood the fuss over Bobby McGee - that was just pop. This is blues.
I saw her at 17 too! monterey and later up at the Avalon in S.F. She did the near empty lunchtime shows there!
pity she died so young! five years after this show.
I think I have the 18 Essential recordings, the one with her on the Harley on the cover?
Bobby Magee was a Kristofferson song, always liked it and Piece of My Heart!
I remember vividely the day she died - everyone was in shock.
I was in London, and it was so close to jimi dying too!
It was a bad time - Otis Redding died around then, too.
And yet the Backstreet Boys are all alive and well. (I think...)
Otis died a few years earlier, right after monterey in 67, plane crash in the georgia woods. janis and Jimi were about 2 weeks apart I think. I had just seen Otis at Monterey, then I had just seen Jimi at the Isle of Wight festival and at a party back in London the night before he died.
Oh, would it be fun to get you two around an all night campfire! There would most likely be more stories after breakfast!
I have written about these and other things, in my book "In my life, So Far..." (shameless plug!)
I can't believe you can recall the difference between 1967 and 1969... It's all just a purple haze to me...
(John - Georgiana has better stories, maybe even after breakfast!)
Always something there to remind me!
I have a wonderful long term memory still, writing it down helped too and I was in all sorts of hazes!
Far out!
Janis is one of my favorites!
I've always loved her. It's so sad when our best singers and musicians die too young.
She was one of a kind and she did her thing with such style! Her style.
Thanks for posting to Fugitives from Ignorance, Conformity, and Peer Pressure
Great really great !!!
Georgiana, did you know Janis? Wow, that's so incredible. I adore her. Love her Janis album, especially Summertime!
I remember being a young girl, and standing in front of my mirror, just doing that spiel she does before she sings Try:
"Come on back, it was about a year ago, I think it was. I had this apartment in San Francisco. I lived on the third floor of this little tiny apartment building. I had a couple pair of Levi's and a couple T-Shirts, and I thought I had my shit together pretty good man. You know I was out on the streets, talking and talking, and doing all that shit and every time I met a nice piece of talent. He went right straigth downstairs to the chick on the second floor. There was another chick on the second floor, right. And I couldn't understand it. I couldn't understand it. I kept saying Janis, what are you doing wrong. So I got up one morning, decided to hide in the stairwell across from the chick, right next to her apartment. And I watched her man, I watched her to see what she had that I didn't have. And I'll tell you what she had, man, that chick hit the streets by noon. I mean, I didn't get, get up until three man. That chick was already out on the streets hustling. So I figured out what you got do man. Every time your looking for a piece of action, and you ain't getting it man, you know what you gotta do baby, you gotta try harder man!"
lol or something like that. I made that my mantra, and I know it helped me perservere over the years. Such a shame that her talent fell victim to the leaches of the industry and society at large. :(
I knew her en passant, she was a fellow Capricorn and we respect each other distances!
She was a very unhappy chick, always looking for love and losing out, she got into heroin and was down and living in the Magic Hotel on Franklin in Hollywood, in the shadow of the Magic Castle and just took too much one day. People were cruel to her and used her up.
I also like her rap on Ball & Chain off of Cheap Thrills. "...It's all the same fuckin' day, man!"