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You and I are some of the few who ever saw Cream. I watched them in concert at Chastain Park in Atlanta, October 1968. What a show! Cream was one of the greatest groups ever, only existed for about 18 months.

Saw them both in Tuscaloosa. Hendrix was amazing; though did not play that long. Janis was so wasted I actually left early. Both were dead within the year.
Was fortunate to see the most amazing music ever during those days. Did not miss many of the great bands of that era.

I allegedly was at an event where Janis Joplin's band played, but I was about three years old at the time, in a stroller, and certainly can't recall a damn thing (it was an event in Golden Gate Park in the late 60s and my uncle had a store on Haight Street near the venue).

While I never saw Jimi live, his father was my grandparents' gardener in Seattle and he was a really nice guy to us kids. We had no idea who he was until much later and just knew him as "Al the gardener" at the time.

Is that how you describe Northern Lights and Acupulco Gold?

John I never would have guessed. She might have been a musician of sorts, put on a good show, but her voice was a shrill, raspy Meatloaf. Only worse.

A tragic end for both her and JH for sure.

Word is he about got booded off the stage. He was relatively unknown at that time and the fans that were there for the Monkees had no clue to he real artist opening up for them.

Glad you decided to hang around, klatchy.

Cobain not my cup o tea, lotsa people die at age 27, those 3 deaths were relatively close if I recall. Purely coincidence

I saw Hendrix at Red Rocks. Lit the amps on fire.

I saw Hendrix when I was 17 at the Seattle Coliseum on September 6, 1968.

It sounded like more than one guitar.

That would have been Southern Comfort. I wish I could have seen them both along with Grace Slick. I like the music from the 60's.

" She might have been a musician of sorts, put on a good show, but her voice was a shrill, raspy Meatloaf. Only worse."

George I agree, her voice sounded like sh*it.

I drove the Big Rig through east Texas about 800 times, from South Carolina to Beaumont, sometimes to Houston or Laredo. Every time I passed the Port Arthur exit I thought about Janis Joplin. They were proud of the home town girl. Here is a billboard that they had there on I 10. I guess, they also had a dinosaur exhibit there.

I wont go see things I'm not interested in.