I saw Janis @ Fillmore East in 1969 and my best friend and I, along with many others, rushed to the stage front and managed to be right on the edge at her feet watching in awe of her amazing talent. She had a bottle of Southern Comfort in hand while belting out, Piece of My Heart. She was swaying and rocking and suddenly fell toward us. We all caught her and raised her back up in seconds! She took a breath and stated, "You see, there are still some gentlemen in the world!" The bottle never left her hand.

@culturalcurio2858

Жыл бұрын

Cool, but a bit sad! You were very lucky to see her. She passed away before I was born!

@cravinbob

Жыл бұрын

Love it and it ain't sad! I have seen many stumble with their glass in hand not spill a drop. Janis had a painful youth and she as many others like her do we drink or get high at an early age. As long as the truth is faced up to soon it can be okay. Ignore it and it won't go away.

@charlesnash5685

Жыл бұрын

That is just too cool!! Rest in Peace Janis, we love and miss you!!

@georgeargon5113

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing. You'll take that experience with you to that great gig in the sky, man ☮

@bethlehemeisenhour5807

Жыл бұрын

Sounds to me like she was out of control. Not cool. Drugs and booze do NOTHING for people.

Great content! I was a 14 year old runaway in the Haight in the summer of '66. The music I heard in Golden Gate Park was unforgettable. Thank you for the memories.

Nicely done and really enjoyed it. I never got to see Janis unfortunately , but about 25 years ago, a mutual friend of Big Brothers and myself spent an entire night with all the guys from Big Brother except James Gurley. In between their sets they shared our little high top table and Dave Getz, Peter Albin, and Sam Andrew all sat right across from me two feet away and I was starstruck but managed to have great conversations. They had a girl singer with them called Lisa Battle who was excellent, incredibly powerful voice and I told them that she was really good because to be honest, she was being ignored and I felt sorry for her. When I complimented her, Peter Albin said to me "yeah, Janis had that scratchy voice." I think he was still pissed off at her for leaving the band all those years before. The girl I was with who had known Big Brother in San Francisco back in the day, she was actually with James Gurley the night his wife died. My old friend Pauly, who I just heard from today and who now lives up in Eureka, California, he knew Janis and all the guys back in the day, spent time with them, and he occasionally tells the story of the night he and his good friend, who was Janis's gynecologist, had to run down to the Fillmore because Janis's IUD got stuck. Pauly had to hold the flashlight while his friend fished the IUD out while Janis laid down on a piano LOL. Probably too much information but that is a true story. Pauly was also good friends and roommates with Robert Crumb, who designed the cover for Big Brothers famous album Cheap Thrills, and Pauly was at one time married to Robert's first wife Dana. In fact, about 23 years ago, Robert's son built the back steps on my then house. I have a signed note with a little drawing that Janis did framed in my house, as well as three original 1960s posters, two from the Fillmore and one from the Avalon Ballroom. I bought them many many years ago at Postermat in North Beach in San Francisco. Sam Andrew also wrote me a nice little note once and I still have his business card that he gave me. He was such a great guy. Anyway, sorry for rambling. Again this was very good and really enjoyed it. One of my favorite bands and huge Janis fan all my life

@culturalcurio2858

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! I appreciate the positive feedback & I love your stories! How very fortunate you are!

@pauladouglas9891

Жыл бұрын

Great story, only Janis would have her iud removed while lying on a piano!!

@badguitar5653

6 ай бұрын

Great stories! I knew Sam towards the end (not well, but well enough to have some cool conversations) and I suspect you're right about Peter still being bitter. He and James never really got past Janis leaving, or ever really forgave her. Sam was quite blunt about that, and it was one of the many things that caused tension among the guys. James, too, was a problem from beginning to end. Getz would later say that they should have taken Albert Grossman's advice way back when and kicked James out of the group to get a more conventional guitarist who could adapt to more types of music than the freak-rock that James was limited to. Janis might have stayed with the band if they were more adaptable to expanding their boundaries (and if they were more willing to put in the work and practice, which apparently James resisted always). But who knows. There are always "what ifs."

@cookingartguy2170

5 ай бұрын

@@badguitar5653 Hey thnx! wow great that you got to converse with him. He was a real gentleman. Oddly enough, my favorite of Janis's music is that which she did with Big Brother, but I can understand why she had to leave if she wanted to grow. I can also understand their bitterness, they were just on the brink of then making it big once Janis had joined them, and then they never really did, though they are "big" to me. But Janis said that she loved those guys more than anybody, and I believe she did.

She was one of the greatest sixties singers!!!!! For me...the greatest!

Saw Janis Labor Day weekend at the Texas International Pop Festival. Came on stage around 1am. Memorable!

@darrellhamner4608

Жыл бұрын

That would have been 1969.

@bwanna23

Жыл бұрын

Saw her a few weeks before then at Atlantic City Pop Festival. Managed to get backstage before she went on. She was definitely a wild fun-loving woman!

Interesting piece... Nice to see Jae Whitaker mentioned and her relationship with Janis acknowledged. She was a dear friend of mine and has recently passed on. Jae gave Janis love and shelter on her second trip to San Francisco. She told her she was beautiful and helped her even after their relationship had ended. Janis remained attracted and grateful to her to the end.

Hallo and a big Thank You from Berlin, I love this period and of course Janis !

Glad she went down in history because she fought hard and had a sad teen years

Having grown up in the north bay (Napa ca.) I really appreciate you sharing this..have a great summer ☮️🌎

Thank you for all of the information, and a really long leap back into a world almost lost to father time.

@randybackgammon890

11 ай бұрын

Almost lost?....It's all over the tube,written and talked about endlessly. Like when people say sex is the 'Great Taboo' and everybody talks about it😂

Excellent content, just loved the video.

Linda Gravenites was a very talented woman. She designed incredible clothes for Janis to wear on stage and a beautiful chiffon outfit Janis wore to a party that Clive Davis threw at his high class apartment. Janis was late and she blew everyone away with her chiffon ensemble until she got closer and it was obvious to all she was high on heroin. Many were aghast at the sight of her. Linda was a calming influence for Janis and one of the few true friends Janis had that could cut the crap that flunkys and hangers on which Janis attracted the more famous she became. Linda and Janis were flatmates until Janis blew it and Nancy m9ved out. She cried on the phone to Linda who hated heroin that she wouldn't be a junkie forever. Dear Linda left us in 2002. Forever laidback, true blue genuine amazing woman. RiP Linda.

@culturalcurio2858

Жыл бұрын

Wow! I did not know any of this! I am not surprised! Linda seemed very nice too! So sad that all of the ladies we are talking about are long gone:'( Thx

@cravinbob

Жыл бұрын

huh?

@TerryNails

Жыл бұрын

I knew Linda and Nancy Gurley very well. I used to baby sit Hongo for James and Nancy when I was a teenager in SF. For my 16th birthday Linda and Nancy came over to where I was living on Fell street and gave me a loaf of home made bread they had baked for me wrapped in hand died purple lace along with a ceramic skull they had picked up somewhere.. I was with James and Nancy early on the day she passed away. I caught a ride with them early that morning as I was heading up to a ranch I was living part time on in Novato and they dropped me of on their way to the Russian river...

@whanuipuru4446

Жыл бұрын

@@TerryNails It is amazing of you to relate your story of Nancy

@whanuipuru4446

Жыл бұрын

I'm so rapt that you knew both these women. I've read about them and I saw on TV a few years back on the Roseanne show, one of her guests was Linda Granvenites. I was so thrilled to see her. By then she was in her middle or late sixties. It was a hoot when Roseanne announced that she could sing as well as Janis! The look gave Roseanne was classic understatement! Then Roseanne screeched and the audience went into hysterics! Hongo would be in his middle 50's, I think. Thank you so much for your comments. I'm thrilled!!

Amazing video. Great history. I miss Janis. She was such a tortured soul who was only truly alive on stage. Every time I see a picture of her I just want to give her a hug and tell her it will be okay.

Wonderful and informative. Why are my memories of the Bay Area in the late 1960s more vivid that my memories of anywhere in the 21st century?

Been there since but alas not in the 60s.Rog.Pacific Sunset Records.Great Historic account of the happenings there.Thanks.

Super rétrospective de la plus grande blueswoman et de ses copains du Big Brother. J'avais 18 ans, je passais par là. Dommage que nous n'ayons pas plus d'infos sur Linda Gravenites et Nancy Gurley. Encore merci pour cette belle rétrospective. In memorty to you.

@KittyCarlile-490

Жыл бұрын

Nancy Gurley died of heroin od injected by James. "She couldn't hit a vein and he was just trying to help" He was tried but acquitted of murder

This is so GREAT! I have loved Janis since the minute I first heard her cry out in the wilderness. I was only 13 at the time, and yet I knew she was a force I'd be swept away with for the rest of my days. It is perpetually heartbreaking that she died SO YOUNG, and TOO SOON. Thanks for this video - it keeps them all alive. Can you tell me, please, what music is playing in this video? It's stirring! Peace be with you. 💚

@culturalcurio2858

Жыл бұрын

Hi there! Thank you so much for your appreciation. The music is from epidemic sound & it is called "Ghetto Dreamin'". I almost went with a different tune but I loved the beginning lead in so much I went with it. Glad I did people seem to really enjoy it.

I met Janis at the peoples park in SF what a delicious gal she was in a hurry to meet up with others but took the time to burn a joint with us there then she rushed off to get back where she belonged. It was a very good experience for a youngster like myself, she had a laugh that brought you into real so strong. I miss her!

@GjaP_242

Жыл бұрын

If you try a little harder, you can hear her laughing out loud to this day. We miss her too! 7:33

My grandmother lived across the street from the Dead on Ashbury and her mom lived on the corner of Haight and Clayton when i was a kid.

That was a great account of some of my faves... I am in my 80's as well.

Cheap Thrills still one of my favorite albums, purchased 1969.

wow..thank-you 4all tjis info.!!!!im-spell-bound..with d. gurleys guitar jammen in my mind..yup-at 66 years old!!!

I think "Big Brother and the Holding Company" is one of the best names for a '60's psychedelic rock n roll/blues band EVER!!!

@aarondigby5054

Жыл бұрын

Strawberry Alarm Clock.

@cathylindeboo.9598

Жыл бұрын

@@aarondigby5054 And Quicksilver Messenger Service!

@culturalcurio2858

Жыл бұрын

Heard if quicksilver but not these guys. I will have to check them out!

@garywells9478

Жыл бұрын

Grateful Dead

@culturalcurio2858

Жыл бұрын

@@garywells9478 They were the Warlocks pre-Grateful Dead. I like the name they ended up with best!

Thank you!

Last time I was on the Haight was 2014. With my father and a Canadian friend Still love this place. Jerry forever. The band that came from here are LEDGEND. Peace and joy 😊 thanks ❤️ 8888

Excellent video! Sam Andrew was a fantastic psychedelic electric guitarist.

Finally got to the Groovy area, in April 88. Still far out. Wondering what killed the movement? Have been to the motel, where she broke on thru. Great tribute to one of the best!

Excellent video! Very good summing up of the group's history. One quick correction: Janis didn't purchase the home in Larkspur until Dec. 1969 (and I don't think she fully moved in till early '70, but I could be mistaken there; but she definitely was still living in apartments in the Haight area through her fame in 1968. Also, are we sure that Nancy G was pregnant when she died? I've never heard that.

@culturalcurio2858

5 ай бұрын

I read that in Peggy Caserta's book, I believe. I am assuming it's true.

Cool . I saw them at Monterey Pop and they were good . Drunk but good. :O)

Thanks so much for posting. Incredible talent. Can anyone tell me the songs / background music of this video Peace all

@culturalcurio2858

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching! The background song is ghetto dreamin' from epidemic sound!

This is an amazingly informative story og Big Brother. First time I've Janis's Larkspur home. I wonder why Janis's family sold the house? Or was through her lawyer and financial manager, Bob Gordon? I don't know.😮

I saw Janis with Full Tilt Boogie in 1969. She was amazing. You felt as if she was singing to you, personally.

Thanks for sharing! Saw Janis at Woodstock! I am going to embarrass myself and ask what is the background music for this video?

@culturalcurio2858

11 ай бұрын

It is called Ghetto Dreamin' from epidemic sound which is a music program & not a band! Thanks for the comment!

A ton of Rock history intertwined with Bay Area history here. I heard of Janis back when she was doing gigs at that little mountain bar in the Santa Cruz mountains, but never had the chance to see her. I was a little young. Good history.

My cousin was an intamate of Janis....stories of her Porsche.

Fantástico! Janes forever. From Brasil

I do feel like belting music like her. Intense and passion doesn't cover it.

Her manager totally screwed her up; he didn’t give a crap about Janis, she was his 💰 ticket. Talked with a friend of hers back then, direct from him. He tried to get him to get her into treatment and away from the hangers on. Love anything Janis Joplin, Pearl was so special the likes of which we’ll never see again. RIP🥀🕊️

@badguitar5653

6 ай бұрын

Hmm, not sure about that. Grossman was the one who convinced her to vacation in Brazil to get clean, and even paid for her methadone treatments. Could he have done more? Yes. Everyone could have. And it likely wouldn't have made one bit of difference. Addicts can't be helped unless they want to help themselves, and she didn't.

Just to let everyone know, maybe they already do, but big brother and the holding company it means they were the ones with the stash, the "holding" company, get it. So if you needed something, they're usually holding.

Who was at Barnes Park(Monterey Park,Ca.) 4 The Janis Joplin Concert. Couple of Bucks At The Time 67 68

JANIS JOPLIN was a lead singer she wasn't a back up singer and Janis could also sing the blues she had a voice of her own yes Janis could really sing the 196OS was when some of the best music 🎶 😊 was made it was the change in the music 🎶 😊 that never look back again and all the people be 4 and during that all had a ear 👂4 music 🎶 😊 it a part of sound and the music 🎶 🎉 they made OMG 7 25 2O23

I moved from CA to NY in 1969 and made my mom stop and get Janis Joplin tickets before we even moved in to our new apt.

Ànd then, in the summer of that year of '67, into that Haight/Ashbury scene, where pimps, drug dealers and other predatory dogs came to prey on the young lambs flocking there, arrives a freshly released from prison, sexually intensed charmer known as Charles Manson. This was his hunting ground and the little girls fell easily.

@culturalcurio2858

Жыл бұрын

Yes, check out my other video which talks about his time in the Haight. Thanks for watching & commenting!

Janis briefly attended the University of Texas at Austin.

Would have been nice if somebody coached the woman doing the VO on how to pronounce "Gravenites."

Her spirit was gigantic

Read that John Cipollina was in love with Janis, so sad about her early demise.

linda

Very Nice….

Does anyone know where the classic photos of Janis and Pigpen from the Grateful Dead were taken?

@culturalcurio2858

Жыл бұрын

I thought it was in front of 710 ashbury grateful dead house but maybe not.

@rubyjames3105

Жыл бұрын

@@culturalcurio2858 i think so too,

I met Janis in 1966 when she was living with Barbara Moffet on Ashbury.street Barbara was a member of Family Dog. She had a daughter named Summer. I met and hung out with the other members of Holding Company. I moved into David Getz apartment on Ivy Alley when he moved late 1967. I was ata Barbara's when all of Big Brother and Greatful dead watched themselves for first time on local news. Does anyone remember Barbara? In the famous photo of all the Family Dog she is almost in the exact center

@culturalcurio2858

11 ай бұрын

Did she live with her on the 2nd floor of 635 ashbury? That place is for sale btw. I might try to get a look at it. Apartment buildings rarely have open houses here. I was aware of the commune but not the rock group. I will have to check it out.

I have the 1st album

How do you call something the holding company

❤

I lived in California during that time and our family would drive by the park with more hippies in one area before 😂. I lived there until 1969. Different times back then

I saw Janis in Toronto at Festival Express in 1970. Full Tilt Boogie was a tight band, but I like Big Brother a lot more. Wish she had stayed with them.

@rubyjames3105

Жыл бұрын

tell me all about it please!

@garywells9478

Жыл бұрын

@@rubyjames3105 I was 16. Of course, I was tripping. I don't really remember the songs. I just remember that Janis' performance left me overwhelmed with emotion. Tears were streaming down my face. Even now, when I listen to Janis quivers run up my spine.

@rubyjames3105

Жыл бұрын

@@garywells9478 thanks dude, I missed it by a decade. In fact, i never got to see janis at all, I was stuck in a shitty little sawmill town in northern BC and missed it all. Thanks for the memories, I guess that makes you the rock and roll OG!

@garywells9478

Жыл бұрын

@@rubyjames3105 I don't know what 'OG' means.

@rubyjames3105

Жыл бұрын

@@garywells9478 original gangster, it's something the kids say, lol. take good care of yourself and thanks again.

Is Grace Slick narrating this?

I'll never understand why they didn't sign with a Bay Area label instead of Mainstream.

Poor Peggy Caserta. She was actually beaten up by the ghost written book, "Going Down with Janis", as she stated in her memoir published in 2018 called, " I ran into some trouble". She's been accused of getting Janis hooked back on heroin. Even some say she's toxic. That's hard and tough. Is she really the orge that she made out to be. Or is because was Janis's lover and a female?

@culturalcurio2858

Жыл бұрын

She had a really tough life too. According to the book janis got her started but who knows? Both books are a worthwhile read though. The research I have done has Janis messing with h & meth as well as alcohol pretty early on. May sheRIP either way!

@whanuipuru4446

Жыл бұрын

Peggy Caserta is still alive in her 80's. One of the few of Janis's generation to still be alive. Like Peter Albin and Dave Getz.

@badguitar5653

6 ай бұрын

I know Peggy. She's wonderful. A smart, insightful person who took way too much of the blame for Janis' death. No one is responsible for an addict but the addict.

I miss the Haight

@culturalcurio2858

11 ай бұрын

I feel very fortunate to be so close to it. Too bad nothing is affordable right now in San Francisco.

You keep showing that photo of that house that isn't 1090 Page St. Why not just poach the image from Google Maps and show the actual house?

@culturalcurio2858

Жыл бұрын

That is the actual 1090 page st. It burnt down in the early 70s. I live here and put the new small condo complex which was built on part of the property in my other haight st summer of love video.

@broeheemed32

Жыл бұрын

@@culturalcurio2858 - O. Thank you for that. I'll tell you what... they sure did a good job designing the house to fit the neighborhood.

She was hooked up with a Hells Angels member too.

@culturalcurio2858

Жыл бұрын

Yes. Freewheeling Frank I think he was called. The Frisco (hate that term) hells angels emblem on the right hand bottom corner of cheap thrills was inspired by her time with Frank!

Is the Narrator Janis's sister, Laura or the amazing rock woman, Melissa Etheridge. 🎉😂

@culturalcurio2858

Жыл бұрын

Just lil ole me out in Cali!

@whanuipuru4446

Жыл бұрын

Wow, great voice for a Narrator!

@whanuipuru4446

Жыл бұрын

Don't be so modest. You bloody good.

Great video! Janis wanted horns in the band. Big brother was heavy group into experimental. I respect (big brother)the mountain king and the guitar playing on cheap thrills. I don't care for janis. I remember this lady who saw Janis in San Francisco. Said she never heard a women cuss like that on stage." Big brother was not all impressed with Janis voice. Big brother said their first impression of Janis was she dressed like their mother from Texas.

Where done

Didnt the Drummer Move To fairfax?

@culturalcurio2858

Жыл бұрын

I wouldn't be surprised. A lot of the former 60s & 80s stars seem to love Marin county. Thank you for watching!

I have always thought that Big Brother and the Holding Company was a very loose band and not really suitable for Janis Joplin.

And now look at it...San Fran is cesspool. Sad 😞

Most of Big

Too bad you kept mispronouncing Gravenites. 🤨

The chirping birds sounds are annoying.

@roquesierra-cel8430

Жыл бұрын

I love the chirping birds so cute

too bad about your bird

@roquesierra-cel8430

Жыл бұрын

Her birds are perfectly fine

@JavaJohnVideo

Жыл бұрын

@@roquesierra-cel8430 lol

@roquesierra-cel8430

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your negative comments

@JavaJohnVideo

Жыл бұрын

@@roquesierra-cel8430 lol.

@JavaJohnVideo

11 ай бұрын

@@roquesierra-cel8430 thanks for being a comment cop

I LOVE JANIS, But this soundtrack, the text, and the reporter are really bad, she has little to no enthusiasm for janis or blues or rock music 😢

Me and My Baba Ganoush!

Hey it beats yall going to hell on your own private security wagon.

Fine slideshow, terrible narrator. Flat, droning, stumbling over script-reading.

I have wondered about the demise of the band soon after Janis died.

Lucky that I saw her and Big Brother in Vancouver the back up band Was Chicago Transit Authority before they became just Chicago. The next time I saw her was with Festival Express in Calgary soooo lucky

@culturalcurio2858

Жыл бұрын

Yes, if I would be super happy if I had that chance too. Good for you.

Cheap Thrills was Janis' best. An all time great singer, she died just down the street from where I lived in the Hollywood neighborhood referred to as "the jungle.."

@culturalcurio2858

Жыл бұрын

I feel the same. I love cheap thrills. I wish she could have stayed with big brother. They would have done amazing things together.

❤