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.

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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.

Chinstructor: No laughing about it that is exactly why she gargled/drank straight whiskey - its called a whiskey voice.
She probably also got some "numbness" from doing that to her vocal cords which, I am guessing, aided her singing/voice somehow?
She was short - I am 6'3" and guessing she was maybe 5' 5"?
She really brought the house down that night.
Aaahhhh.... to be able to turn back the hands of time?
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

Such a small world

Half this thread, knew her, knew the fambly, lived in same town, went to the same school, seen her perform live, sold 11 rabbits to her uncle, etc

Now I know where Happy Camper gets all his fantastic unbelievable tales.

Was anyone on that bus when Rosa Parks showed her hing end?

No...I was on the second buss sharing a BLT with Malcolm X.

I can't imagine anyone but me here claiming my hometown.

I knew an older gentleman who claimed that he was in the USARMY with Jimi Hendrix. Said that Hendrix was a very troubled young man.

Saw em both at Woodstock in Aug 69 by Sept 69 I was a US Marine and by Dec I was in Viet-Nam. All that flower-power dont help much when your trying to draw a bead on a pesky gooner. Used lots of drugs for the next 20yrs. Glad to have survived it all.

I saw Jimi Hendrix play The Star Spangled Banner at midnight on the Fourth of July at the Atlanta Pop Festival in 1970. Great show.

It was Southern Comfort that Janis drank onstage. She was a sad story. She was famous, she was rich, but she was lonely. She looked weird and had a hard time getting a date.

Hendrix, Morrison and Joplin all died at 27, would have went to Woodstock had I known. probably would still be there!
Always thought if only, Hendrix, Stevie Rae and Clapton coulda played together.....!

Johnn: You forgot young Kurt Cobain who also died at age 27.
I ran across him a few times there in Seattle where I worked but never saw him perform - reason: didn't/don't like grunge.
Perhaps slumload should get up out of his "big chair" and get out more, and see the world a bit, before he starts casting ill informed, negative and ignorant aspersions on his fellow CampFirers?
Just a thought - naw... probably WON'T happen!
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

DOUBLE SHEESH

Neither.

Obviously out of Metamucil.

Saw "Cream" play in a sleazy nightclub in Fort Worth. Supposedly the owner of "The Cellar" was connected. Would have been something to have seen Hendrix or Joplin. No one knew prior to Woodstock, it would be "THE" concert of a generation. I was of age and had several friends that would have tagged along. If we were ever allowed a "Do Over"....

Yes and yes.
Hendrix redefined what rock guitar could be and Joplin was fantastic at what she did. Both very much the real deal.

Joplin lived near my high school and I often saw her drive past. She was hard to miss driving a Porsche 356 with a psychedelic paint job.

Voted ugliest man on campus at Univ of Texas 1967!

That rascal Janice!

Saw Hendrix play in Milwaukee in early 1970 IIRC.

Went to the show with my brother who was about to graduate high school and a few of his friends. I was a sophomore in high school.

As I recall, the ticket only cost about $5

I remember Foxy Lady, Voodoo Child, Purple Haze and the Star Spangled Banner, but there were quite a few more that don't come to mind right now.

Absolutely lived up to the hype, and IMO he was the greatest guitar player ever lived. The way he could "bend" sound/tones has never been matched by anyone else.

He is rated by Rolling Stone as the greatest guitarist ever.

When Janis passed, my room mate skipped classes for two days setting in my big old
rocker, drinking Southern Comfort and playing her records.
I was not as deeply touched, but she was entertaining.

Saw Hendrix in Atlanta in maybe 68? Ted Neugent, Amboy Dukes, opened for him. Rumor was he would not let Ted open the second show!

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.