She really sums up a lot about the difference between society in the 70’s and now in a few sentences at the end of this.

I lived at the Chelsea throughout the 1970s. A Bohemian Disneyland. Every day had the possibility of being thrill packed. All gone now. What once was once upon a time. Relegated to history.

Moral of the story.....it was happening back then. Shit is not happening now.

Sadly when Patti was invited back to The Chelsea for the show CBS Sunday Morning, the tiny SRO she shared with Mapplethorpe had already been slated for demolition. When the hotel's new owners heard she was coming, they shuffled up some random furniture from the basement to make it look lived-in. Patti commented that nothing really had changed. Architecturally, it hadn't. But within two days of her visit, plywood had the power. The entire hallway leading to it was blocked off and the room itself gutted. From a dumpster, we salvaged portions of the floor-to-ceiling mirror in which Robert is seen reflected while residing there. Check out our SiD & NanCY "Room 100" reveal video!

I missed it all thanks for the grace of history

My hero.

i was totally born in the wrong era

Love it

I wish I lived during the mid-late 60s. Except for the drugs, I like the music of the time.

She's still kinda cool After 50 odd years that's pretty cool

@Lola-AreaCode212

2 жыл бұрын

She's way cooler now. From what many people who knew her then say, she was an ego-obsessed, pretentious, scheming little thing. I like her much better now. She's more in touch with her authenticity.

June 1970, around the 15th I met Janice Joplin at the Chelsea she was at the El Coyote bar hungover. I gave her a couple of Endo 122's (percodan:1970). I was waiting for payphone call for work in St Mark's square. I remember bombs were going off all over the USA.Kent state closed many schools. A NY police station got blown up about the 12th

@M.C.P.

4 жыл бұрын

*Janis

Listen to the Buildings Walls.

Read her book Just Kids. A talented writer , singer performer. Not crazy about Robert Mapplethrope

@DDios-ih9de

5 жыл бұрын

JohnsRadios Actually Robert saved her shes owes so.much to him and Kenny Kaye and Actually owes every thing to them and Jim Carrol.R.I.P

@arricammarques1955

3 жыл бұрын

Robert wasn't crazy about 'society' either.

@Rippenhengst

2 жыл бұрын

@@arricammarques1955 Mapplethorpe was a pervert, plain and simple. Use Dr. Google and you'll find tons of material about this issue.

My Aunt Marion Sullivan worked there…

Janis had a suite? Wow. It must have cost her even back then but Joplin died in ‘71 I think. I’ve been inside the Chelsea hotel. It’s nothing to write home about.

@aavaadams3941

Жыл бұрын

Hello 😍

No surprise she left New York......

@Broatch6

3 жыл бұрын

She never did ! She still resides in New York. When she was younger she stayed just outside Detroit for a bit with her husband and 2 young children but she soon moved back. All her life she's had a very strong affinity for the City of New York. Travels a lot but always goes back .

@PAULLONDEN

3 жыл бұрын

@@Broatch6 New York "city" I meant , I thought she moved with Fred to New Jersey or something ?

@Broatch6

3 жыл бұрын

@@PAULLONDEN Wasn't she from New Jersey ? Didn't she grow up there ? And then move to New York in 1967 ? I think her family - parents and younger siblings - stayed in New Jersey and I think she often went back to visit them . Fred Sonic Smith was from Detroit . After they were married I think she moved to Detroit to start her own family . In all her books the short biographical section on the back cover always says she resides in New York City.

please empty silly world of today, remember who really matters

@rr7firefly

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your comment. Your descriptive words "empty silly world" speak volumes.

Bruhhhhhh

Not a tourist stop. Not a happening artsy bohemian place anymore since about 2005. Tenants were almost all driven off by construction and 2 sets of new owners. No El Coyote anymore. It is a sterile building now, no reason visit, but who knows, someday they will build a cheesy theme restaurant for tourists.

...Dylan Thomas, whoever he was. The man ain't got no culture.

@noname-yt7uf

4 жыл бұрын

Lol you clearly don't know who he is.

@shellymars9961

2 жыл бұрын

@@noname-yt7uf Jonnda is quoting a song lyric written by Paul Simon.

This thing has Always Been ugly, but now, it is super ugly! Is it a man or woman?

@Broatch6

3 жыл бұрын

Male or Female ? A question she asked herself all thru her life ... I think the answer she arrived at was neither ! or both ! As a child she didn't even think she was human. She was so different from every one else she thought she might actually be an alien from another world ! In the 1970s her appearance was quite striking . Not pretty and she's never been beautiful but when she was a lot younger a lotta people thought she looked great . A rock chick with boy rhythms. Had anyone asked her then are you male or female she'd proly have said something like : neither ! I'm an artist ! Not that she'd mind too much being called ugly now that she's in her 70s. She'd proly be quite pleased ! She might say : Good .... if it helps U to focus on my work and not on me then I'm glad U think I look ugly !

@deborahgalvan5367

3 жыл бұрын

she's very accomplished. she's always working and creating something. maybe you should watch the housewives of orange county to see mini skirted 55+ idiots with plastic lips and tits.

@frederick123bradlee

3 жыл бұрын

Pity that you focus on this living legends physical appearance rather than what she’s done for music and how she’s dedicated herself to art for decades, spreading negativity so unabashedly and aimlessly just because you don’t fancy the way a person looks is laughable

@frederick123bradlee

3 жыл бұрын

Its funny how you claim to preach the lords gospel on your channel while deprecating others for self gratification, just another all-American god fearin’ hypocrite

she is very over-rated

@deborahgalvan5367

3 жыл бұрын

she is very accomplished. read up.

@brendam4119

3 жыл бұрын

What would I read up on. I've seen her in concert. It's my opinion you don't have to agree. I have also read from books that she's written