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Worth the hype??

I'm a Boomer, not a Flower Child

No, but my friend played baseball with their sons. Both of theirs

Saw Joplin once by accident. My eyes and ears still hurt.

I had to google them

I watched Val Kilmer play Jim Morrison tripping. It seemed real, does that count.

My aunt saw Hendrix open for the phking Monkees. She said the teeny boppers didn't know what to make of him.

LOL, Flower Child. Haven't heard that term in years. I'm just a few years too young to have been one, but not by much. Hendrix and Joplin were during the Flower Child era. They both died before I was old enough go to concerts.

We went to the same High school, about 20 years apart.

Saw Joplin perform in San Francisco in 1969. She was great.

https://www.rockinhouston.com/image...ubtype=Years&typeUnid=194&page=1

Saw her in '68 at the Houston Music Hall, a relatively small venue. She was fronting "Big Brother and the Holding Company" at the time. Don't remember if it was Jack Daniels but she was drinkin' straight out of a bottle after eah song. Talk about a sweathog, but could she belt em' out!

Guy that played lead guitar had better & longer hair than Shawn Phillips in his prime.

Was hustling a trust fund chick at the time and her dad got her 2nd or 3rd row (IIRC) seats.

What was the saying, "if you remember the sixties, you weren't there"

Bout all I remember of that.

ya!

GWB

That's awesome!! LoL!!!

I saw Hendrix in Jacksonville Florida in 67’or 68’. I was just starting to play guitar and he amazed me. Lots of weed in the audience.

With Big Brother And The Holding Company?

If so, that must have been something.

Never got the opportunity to see Hendrix. But I would have. Still a big fan.

I knew Janis a little bit. She would hang out with the singer/harmonica player from the band I played with in Chicago. She was pretty nice. One night a bunch of us (including the guys in her band, Big Brother and the Holding Company) went out to the West Side to see Magic Sam. That was pretty weird. The guys in her band had long hair hanging below their butts and dressed San Francisco style, so they looked pretty out of place in inner city Chicago. The locals (black people at the club) looked at them like they were from Mars.

I heard Hendrix once at the Chicago Opera house during that same period. When he came on stage he said " Since I'm here in Chicago I'm going to play some blues", and he did just that, playing a lot of Albert King licks better than anyone else except Albert, and generally showing he could play the blues with the best of them. He was a great guitar player.

Gonehuntin: I got paid to see them both perform.
I had NO idea what icons/legends they would become.
Did serve on Ms. Joplins personal protection detail escorting her from her hotel to her performance venue.
Then guarded her in her dressing room as she waited to perform and back to her hotel.
She was very pleasant and giggly and I enjoyed her performance.
She gave me and my partner each a giant green "Canada Dry" Frisbee.
Sadly my dog later got hold of it and ate it.
Wasn't long after seeing her perform/guarding her she died.
Jimi Hendrix is buried just across the lawn from my mother.
I always go by Mr. Hendrix's beautiful gazebo like (with murals and fancy stuff) burial crypt (?)/place and pay my respects before I visit my mother (he is closer to the cemetery's entrance).
Sad that both Jimi and Janis died so young (27 IIRC) - that "heron will get'cha" - as one of my old druggie C.I.'s would often say.
Oh almost forgot to add Ms. Joplin did indeed "gargle some whiskey" as she waited to perform!
I was young and dumb and a few months later "I" tried to gargle a sip of whiskey myself - the resulting explosion in my mouth and nose caused a lack of oxygen ability to breathe that I'll never forget.
My advice don't try that.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

LOL. Maybe that’s what gave her that “sound” 😜

Saw Janis and Big Brother at the Continental Ballroom in Santa Clara CA in early 69, I think it was . Small venue, great show.

I wasn't old enough to see either of them perform, and wasn't exactly the kind of kid that would have, but Janis Joplin grew up about a half mile from me. In hindsight, watching her was a microcosm of what the world is now, at least to.me. She came from the most conservative part of the country, but hated it. and the liberals loved her for it.