Janis Joplin (1943 to 1970)

Joplin graduated from high school in 1960. And in the summer, he attended Lamar State College of Technology in Beaumont, Texas, and later at the University of Texas at Austin (UT), although he did not graduate. The daily newspaper The Daily Texan described it in 1962. July 27 In the issue titled "She Dare to Be Different." The article began: “When she wants, she walks barefoot, wears Levi to class because it’s more comfortable for them, and wears her autoharp wherever she goes, so that in case she wants to break into a song, it will be comfortable. Her name is Janis Joplin. "While at UT, she performed with a folklore trio called the Waller Creek Boys and often interacted with staff on campus humor magazine The Texas Ranger. According to fellow Brothers cartoonist Gilbert Shelton, she previously sold the Texas Ranger on campus, which featured several early Shelton comics.

Early records Career 1963.

Joplin fostered a rebellious manner and partly styled under his blues heroes, partly under the Beat poets. Her first song, "What Good Can Drinking Do," was recorded in 1962. In December, at the University of Texas student home.

She left Texas in 1963. Month of January. (“Just to escape,” she said, “because my head was in a much different place,”) hitchhiking with her friend Chet Helms to North Beach, San Francisco. As early as 1964. In San Francisco, Joplin and future Jefferson Airplane guitarist Jorma Kaukonen recorded a number of blues standards, which, by the way, used Caucon's wife, Margareta, using a typewriter. There were seven tracks in this session: Typewriter Conversation, Trouble in Mind, Kansas City Blues, Hesitation Blues, “Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out,” “Daddy, Daddy, Daddy,” and “ Long Black Train Blues ”and was released long after Joplin’s death as the bootleg album The Typewriter Tape.

1966 Joplin's blue vocal style drew the attention of San Francisco-based psychedelic rock band Big Brother and Holding Company, which gained prominence among the emerging hippie community of Haight-Ashbury. She was hired by advertiser Chet Helms, who met her in Texas and was running Big Brother at the time. Helms sent her friend Travis Rivers to find her in Austin, Texas, where she performed with her acoustic guitar, and escort her to San Francisco.

Aware of her previous nightmare of drug addiction in San Francisco, Rivers demanded that she inform her parents face-to-face about her plans, and he drove her from Austin to Port Arthur (he waited in her car before she spoke to her surprises. parents.) before they embarked on a long journey to San Francisco. Joplin joined Big Brother in 1966. June 4 The first public appearance with them was at the Avalon Ball Ballroom in San Francisco.

In late 1969, Joplin played "This Is Tom Jones" with Tom Jones. Separated from Big Brother and Holding Company, Joplin has formed a new backup band, the Kozmic Blues Band, consisting of session musicians such as keyboardist Stephen Ryder and saxophonist Cornelius Snooky Flowers. , as well as former Big Brother and Holding Company guitarist Sam Andrew and future Full Tilt Boogie Band bassist.

Joplin's performances with the Kozmic Blues Band in Europe have been shown in cinemas and in several documentaries. Janis, reviewed by the Washington Post in 1975. On March 21, Shows Joplin arriving in Frankfurt by plane and waiting for a bus near Frankfurt Square, while an American fan visiting Germany expresses enthusiasm for the camera (no security was used in Frankfurt, so at the end of the concert the scene was so full of people whose band members couldn’t see one kito). Janis also included an interview with Joplin in Stockholm and from her visit to London for her concert at the Royal Albert Hall. The London interview was broadcast in German, which was broadcast on German television. John Byrne Cooke, road manager for Joplin and Kozmic Blues Band, wrote in 2014. Published a book discussing her knowledge of the risks of persistent drug use, especially when it was outside the United States.

It was after splitting from Big Brother and Holding Company, Joplin formed a new backup band, the Kozmic Blues Band, consisting of session musicians such as keyboardist Stephen Ryder and saxophonist Cornelius Snooky Flowers, as well as former Big Brother and Holding Company. guitarist Sam Andrew and future Full Tilt Boogie Band bassist Brad Campbell.

Before she embarking on a summer tour with Full Tilt Boogie, in 1970. April 4 She attended a meeting with Big Brother in Fillmore West, San Francisco. Recordings for this concert were included on the concert album released after his death in 1972. April 12 She reappeared with Big Brother in Winter land, where she and Big Brother were reported to be in great shape. 1970 May 21 At a Hells Angels party in San Rafael, California, she performed with a band named Main Squeeze, according to a website sponsored by Big Brother guitarist Sam Andrew. Andrew's website quotes him as saying, "This will be the first time old Janis and her new band will be in the same place, so everyone is a little better."

According to Joplin's biographer Ellis Amburn, Big Brother with lead singer Nick Gravenites had an opening ceremony attended by 2,300 people. The Angels of Hell, who have known Joplin since 1966, paid her a $ 240 performance fee. Gravenites and Sam Andrew (who played guitar again with Big Brother) differed on her performance and how drug abuse affected it. According to Amburn, the Gravenites described her singing as "amazing." Twenty years later, Amburn quoted Andrew as saying, "She was obviously getting worse and looking bloated. She was like a parody of what she's best at. I told her to drink too much and felt a sense of fear for her well-being. .

Soon after, Joplin began wearing multicolored feather shoes in his hair. (She didn't wear them at the Angels of Hell party / concert in San Rafael on May 21). By the time she started touring with Full Tilt Boogie, Joplin told people she was drug-free, but her alcohol consumption increased.

On October 3, 1970, Joplin came to the Sunset Sound studio for the last time to listen to tapes of songs she would sing in the following days. When she didn't show up at the studio the next day, they searched for her at the Landmark Motel (now Highland Gardens Hotel) where she was staying. She was found lying dead on the floor.

Officially, Janis Joplin died of a heroin overdose on October 4, 1970. Joplin's body was cremated and the ashes were buried on the California coast in Marin County's Pacific Bay.