I'm 73 years old and I am still addicted to her music. Yes, I'm opinionated, I still think the late 1960s and early 70s was the greatest time for music...and I got to live it.
Cass Elliot’s reaction was the icing on the cake. Love how happy Janis looked. She knew she killed it. What a loss that those women aren’t still with us 😔
I’m 71 years old and was a teenager when Janis was on the scene. Her vocals still blow my mind and reminds me of what we lost and it still feels so damn painful.
My dad was around your age, too. He passed away a few years ago at 68. He was 20 in 67. You all were so lucky to be around when all these amazing performances were happening. I am also 27 right now so I have been thinning a lot about her and the others who died at 27 from back then.
@@therealzilch Soon 76. That sedate crowd didn't know how to take Janis. Or Jimi H. They soon learned. I brought some Hendrix from Key West to a small college in central Minnesota and the kids thought I had lost my mind.
The raw emotions and energy she puts into this performance gives me goosebumps too. Even though I've heard it plenty. Some artists can just take you to places that others cannot.
Janis was a comet. A once in a lifetime event and burned across the sky leaving us all in awe. Big respect to Big Brother and the Holding Company for wrapping her voice in a dynamic musical blanket. 💖
That day, Janis and Jimmy Hendrix became legends. The emotion that she puts into this song is palatable. Janis, is completely giving her entire self in this song! It's extraordinary how it gives you goosebumps because you can feel everything she's feeling. Nothing like it compares.
Without doubt... one of the greatest performances in rock history. Talk about a 'debut' introduction to the world. Janis knocked it out of the park - as always! 100% heart and soul. There will NEVER be another Janis Jopin - the voice of a generation. She still resonates today when we need to hear her more than ever. Rock on, Janis. You were simply the best. RIP
Couldn't agree more. With all the great music at Monterey Janis blew everything else right out of the water with this performance. I don't know how people could sit still in the audience. I am at my computer and watching this sends chills up my spine and works me into a state of mind I cannot even describe.
@@jackwalker1822 Jack, I think that they were all sitting still because they were STUNNED! No one had ever seen a performer or performance like the one Janis delivered at Monterey. They were also SHOCKED by Jimi's performance. There will never be another Janis - or Jimi.
@@jackwalker1822 That's what audiences were like back then, it was all new, rock concerts with multiple performers. People sat on the ground, sometimes on concrete. People sat and listened, there wasn't all this screaming and surging.
I am 68, but heck .... Janis is still my gal, I probably heard her in 1972..and then ..forgot about her for awhile, but in the back of my mind....she was and still is there!!
Big Mama Thornton who did write the song applauded Joplin’s version saying ‘That girls feels like I do’ And of course it‘a Joplin’s ‘feel’ that make her version so compelling. Her ‘ screech’ as you put it was always tempered by subtle and beautiful phrasing. I am sorry that you can’t appreciate that but so many more do.
I come back and watch this video every few years, and I still have not seen anything else like it. Truly, one of the greatest performances of all time.
NO IDEA? They were being TOLD every freak'n day that she was amazing on commercial radio. The only luck was that she didn't die during one of her performances. Just like the crap that people listen to today on commercial radio and THINK it's good because some commercial radio station HAS TO promote it. I would prefer hearing the Queen of the blues Etta James ANY DAY! Try Etta James - Something's Got A Hold On Me. More PROOF that BLACK music is DEVOLVING. They've gone from Etta James, Marvin Gaye, ETC, to rap-crap. From Art Blakey to a LIFELESS Casio drum machine.
People have NO CLUE how much they are being BRAINWASHED by TV and commercial radio. DIFFERENT WORLD. It REALLY is. I have a producer friend who is constantly inviting me to shows. WHO???????? I have NEVER HEARD of these people you SAY are popular and talented. REALLY??? Don't you watch TV or listen to commercial radio? NEVER!!!!!!!!!!!
Mama Cass expression when the camera found her was of almost shocked awareness...she actually looked stunned listening to Janis. It's probably the best complement considering the talent Cass had. The thing is it was so real for Janis. No well ill pose or dance or sing a certain way, and that'll get them to buy my song etc. Just uninhabited raw unique TALENT.
@Johnny Sizemore She probably was, even if she was shocked by the performace...The way her mouth is hanging open like that certainly looks like she's tripping balls and blown away by Janis at the same time.
This 5 minutes is truly historic from so many angles. I watch it dozens of times every year, and it still touches something in my soul that nothing else does.
@@Ruth-jd9vd I understand, don't grieve and enjoy the music this free soul gave with all her being and what she left us. THE ONE AND ONLY. J. L. J. Cheers. Peace.
She had a lot of good reasons to smile. It was at that festival that Clive Davis first heard her sing and ended up signing her to a label just for starters.
Yeah I hear lots of people talk about how depressed she must have been to sing the blues and drink but honestly she looked like she enjoyed singing and I think she was just young and really liked to party too that was fun for her.
@@AnnaLVajda I totally agree with you that Janice loved to sing (and party), just like Robin Williams enjoyed making people laugh (and he liked to party also), but I also suspect they both did these things at least partly as a means of fighting the demons they were battling with their entire lives. Illnesses like depression are often overpowering and certainly not easy to deal with at the best of times.
Cass Elliot at 3:29 always gets me. She's clearly in awe, and she was so amazing herself. What it would have been like to see Janis live. A 90s kid like me had no chance but goddamn what I wouldn't have given to see her perform.
If you love Janis (which, who DOESN'T love Janis? She's was a talent like no other) consider giving Donna missal a shot. She has that rasp and rawness in her voice that music has been missing since we unfortunately lost Janis. Here's a link, and yes this is also a live performance. I recommend hearing from the 1:45 min mark to the end to really hear the rasp : ua-cam.com/video/ad3qqlZThl4/v-deo.html
Same here pal....but proud to be from the 90s generation the last decade of real creation and true talent. Now day's the GARBAGE introduce in music is a disgrace.
Don't feel bad. I'm a 60's (well 70's) person. I was only seven years old when she did this. Got into her in my late teens - hooked forever more. Janis transcends in her wails and sweet tones.
We got to see some pretty good music in the 90s, too. Layne Staley, Chris Cornell, and Scott Weiland were also some all timers. Still wish we could have seen Janis, Jefferson Airplane, and Hendrix though, for real.
Agree that she is the best (my opinion) but if she hadn't changed the way that she lived, she may have burned out in a few more years anyway. I hate to say that but there's just not a long list of people who played/sang like she does (totally committed/emotion at peak) who lasted past the age of 30.
Listening to the last 20 seconds of the song, Janis has total control of the audience, absolute silence. Everyone is tuned in hanging on every note, every word. Remarkable.
I have no idea how many times I've watched this video, but it never fails to impress me how emotional was Janice's entanglement w/ her songs. She put everything she had into her singing!
What do you mean no one comes?!!!!! I know you've heard the GREAT AND AMAZING MUMBLE RAP!!!! The music that sounds like these guys have something phallic in their mouths. It's amazing bcuz they didn't choke on whatever it is they have in there that brings to my mind, a chipmunk 🐿️ holding a tiny microphone with a weeks supply of food in his cheeks .. 😂😂😂😂😅😅😅 I always have said I should have been 17yo in 1963/64. Great music, American muscle cars and hippies. I was born in the wrong time period & wrong place for real. I should've been sitting on the Dock of the Bay with Otis I'm from the hood, not projects hood, just hood neighborhood. You might find a few muscle cars, bcuz I am from the South. Lots of those wanna be Mumble rappers though. I know they would practice their craft on their knees somewhere!!! Had too of been doing it. Practice and make a couple bucks too, a win win for a hood rat any day😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
The closest I've seen is Christina Aguilera singing This is a Man's World live in 2007 for a Grammys tribute to James Brown. Christina gave it her all and her voice was amazing.
time proves the greatness of any artist. this is timeless. Janis is underappeciated in rock history. i never knew myself.....glad i can hear before i disappear. she sings my soul...
53 years ago today the late great singer Janis passed away October 4th 1970 but she will forever live on through everyone who continues to listen to her music!!
There are no vocals like Janis..however I've found one that is very similar you can search karise Eden she's pretty good as well it's too bad Janis left this planet so soon 😔
Just love her little happy skip at the end, knowing she had killed it. Revisited this performance several times on UA-cam, that became my favorite part. See you soon, Janis. 💜
Mama Cass couldn't believe her eyes and ears, me neither after all these years ! No words for Janis, just a mind blowing. I'll never stop hearing this incredible girl.
I know right! That was the coolest part of this vid for me was Janis ability to just literally blow Mama Cass away; who, at the time, was already a superstar in her own right
@4:39 that mood ring she sporting became the fashion "too die for" I was a nine year old and remembering all the girls trying to buy them and the clothing and fashion stores weren't able to keep enough in stock fast enough, they were selling out immediately. Also the polyester knit bell bottomed pant suits with the matching side split tops and the slip on pump heels. She was an icon...RIP JANIS JOPLIN.
If you Janis lovers haven't read her road manager's book, it gives you an idea of the pressure she was always under. I found out she was a great person over and above a talented preformer. John Bryne Cook did a fantastic job detailing her life. On the Road with Janis Joplin.
Every time I watch this, I weep. Truly a voice like no other. Very few can take you on such a ride to such highs and incredible emotional soulful lows in mere seconds. Like so many other of that "27 club", the world lost so much of what could have been yet to come. Janis, thank you for the gifts you gave us while here. Thank you Criterion for restoring this wonderful moment in music history where all the stars aligned perfectly to give us a glimpse of true euphoric joy.
I had the privilege of seeing Joplin, circa Kozmic Blues, '69, I think. It was every bit as amazing as you would hope! It was so tragic to lose her so soon! I sure miss her! She was my idol.
Respect to those camera operators. They perfectly captured the moment; Janice coming out of her shoes, the expression on the face of Cass Elliot, and the pure joy Janice felt when the crowd applauded her.
Janis Joplin is STILL unmatched in raw emotion and talent. In high school she was an outcast. A few years later she was a superstar. Once she gained fame many people flocked to her, not to help her, but to help themselves. Janis suffered immensely from the way she was treated. I have always wished that I could’ve helped her make sense of this crazy world.
This song hypnotizes me, it is spectacular how she works with her voice. In those years if you didn't sing you simply couldn't be an artist like Janis, she is an icon
This performance is a vocal tour de force. The first 100 times I listened I was just blown away by the glorious, raw emotion she shares with us. Sometime after that I noticed how seamlessly she shifts back and forth between clear, sweet vocals and the unbelievable raunchy dirty crescendos. Chris Cornell could do the same live - back and forth between clean and virtually screaming - but even he, wonderful as he was, never bested this incredible display of talent and raw emotion. (Have you ever tried to go back to clean after really belting it out raunchy? It ain’t easy even if you can.)
@@jayytorrez116 not trying to be edgy at all. I clicked on this video with the intention of finding out why people like her so much and I really cant see it.
I taught a class on 60's music to a group that included many people who hadn't heard of Janis, as they were in their 20's and 30'...it was a joy to see them react to her performance here. Cass, and most of the LA musicians, had no idea who Big Brother was and this was their introduction to her.
Collin Fraser Lucky you! I wish i could say that. Thank the Universe for My Mum, The Rock and Roll years.(BBC programme I grew up watching), You Tube and people like you, Col. lots of ❤️
@@shawnagrubb9958 the music was great but really, believe me, Im 67 and theres not anything about being old that I like. People expect you to have dementia, they think you would like church hymns or country music, you become invisible to others-its no fun
Poppers joppers, hey I thought Suzy quattro was bad till I seen her, please don't mention Jimi Hendrix in the same sentence as joppers, you never see posters of her at least not in good old England. By the way she slagged us off as a subdued appreciative audience, well maybe we weren't used to the shite you churned out. " get back to where you once belong "
still brings a tear. Why can't the world learn from people like Janis. They come along once in a lifetime and we never value what they make us feel. Lots of love to you Janis.
I stumbled into Janis when i was 15 in the late eighties. Her emotion came through my cheap little stereo and spilled into my soul. This song, in particular.
I met her once and she took out the time to say hello. I thanked her for coming to play in our city to sing. Such a humble woman who took time for a fan! I don't think she realized how much people loved her music!
She really seemed to just want people to love her after what she went through growing up. People really treated her like sh*t. She was in college at UV Austin in 1962 and some assh*le frat voted Janis "Ugliest Man on Campus." Can you imagine what that does to you? That's why she ended up with all these guys who treated her like garbage later in life and the craziest part is once she became known worldwide there had to be a ridiculous number of people who were totally in love with her
This is an absolutely stunning performance. If Janis had recorded nothing else in her life she would still be remembered for this performance of this song.
It is in the nature of the blues to have a musical build up that has a to complete by coming back to the beginning. That build up occurs emotionally in us and our bodies tense up. When the music resolves the tension our bodies want to release the tension.
Coming back to this video on what would have been Joplin’s 80th anniversary. I’ve been coming back for this performance for numberless times over the decades now. One of my absolute favorite live performances ever. Respect.
It's awesome when other musicians and singers set and are awestruck by this woman. Mama Cass looked like she was thinking holy shit. Janis , a true legend gone too soon.
I remember a night many years ago when i was introduced to a friend of a friend. This fellow owned a warm cosy cottage in a mountainous snowy area in Victoria, Australia. The wood heater was cranking and the booze and other "stuff" were flowing and this bloke got our attention by playing all the vinyl he owned of Janis Joplin. Man i had never heard of half the songs he played that night. Many great weekends were spent in the mountains with my mates but that was the best night ever. Just saying... an old man reminiscing. Peace.
This performance will be revered, relevant and respected for centuries to come, the singers of today will be long forgotten. The last three seconds of this where she skips off stage with arms wide open is priceless as well
Mama Cass just totally electrified and in awe of this performance was my favorite part of this. Janis Joplin will always hold a deep place in my soul. The emotions coming through her is unbelievable. Love You Janis!!
This stuff makes me happy to be 71, I've spent time on stage with her ,drinking Southern Comfort and stuff. I wish 15 people had video of but at least my head still has it stored. RIP Pearl.
A lucky man Don :-) I wasn't born til 78 so never had the opportunity to even enjoy her music until years after her death, wish I'd been born 30 years earlier like you, most mind blowing vocals I have ever heard. Hope you are still living and loving life now at 72. Respect dude
Thanks to my father I got to love her voice when I was around 4 years old. He’s turning 59 this year and I’m turning 23. Thanks to him my taste in music is fantastic.
@@karmaservas2736 I respect the fact that you just honored your father in this way. Very rare these days to hear younger adults who value what us parents try to inspire and instill in our children. And music is the #1 form of universal language that speaks to our own souls and shapes us into free thinking continuous beings that have become enlightened by the sounds of our heartstrings. I bet you will pass the torch someday if not already with your children your father has good taste and so do you friend🎶🎵🎼🎸🎷🎻🎺📽💿📀💽☯️👍
No joke! UA-cam, is pretty much the closest thing we have, to a Time Machine. Imagine, it took us back to 1967, Monterey, CA, to watch Janis Joplin, blew the mind of that audience, with her live performance. Amazing!!!
So beautiful to see the expressions on her face while singing, it's like watching an huge actor in his best performance, a true partition of different emotions, energies and moments, except it's not an character, it's a song, and she's living it, such a beauty to witness. We ARE living the moment with her, all long. Thank you so much Janis for your miraculous voice, personnality, generosity and intensity of life. THIS is living ! True artists make you really feel life, the chills of living. Janis for ever in my heart
Simply in-fuckin'-credible! She was a talent all her own. Big Brother was a great, so underappreciated, Band as well. Cass was in awe! So nice to see her just basking in Janice's talents. A truly cool moment in time.
She's underrated. Not over rated. Shit Dylan and Morrison that's overrated. She had more talent in her elbow than some of these musicians there days lol
I don’t think she was overrated. I think people back then just wanted more of her which Janice was prepared to give, however, she died having only put out two albums. We never got to see her full potential and that’s what it’s all about. I don’t care for all the screaming but I am sure she would have done some calmer songs where we could hear her lovely voice…like we heard in Bobby McGee. When she wasn’t screaming, she had a pretty decent singing voice. I miss what she would have done in the future.
@sinajdelmar4040 I don't think anyone says what made Bob Dylan great was his voice...It was his lyrics/storytelling ability. Same with Morrison, although his voice was better than Dylan's. One thing they both had over Janis was original music. Unfortunately, Janis didn't have much of a catalog of original music before she died. Not a knock on her, just a fact.
I have seen it all, as a teen i was part the counter revolution, I was a punk rocker in London in 1978 and now older looking back I have to say that this is the most riveting live performance or at least one of the top 5 ever ! She really tore herself apart on stage and gave it her all. RIP you gorgeous southern belle
I confess that I have watched this performance of Janis many times and it never fails to move me to tears. The emotion, the empathy in her voice is so real that it hurts! You can feel the pain, the heartache as she sings. And she did this time and time again. Amazing!
I have a cousin who is ten years my senior and he was a punk rocker around that time too and he told me that the most important thing in music according to the punk rockers was authenticity. SING IT LIKE YOU LIVE IT! Which is why Punks and Rastas got along, Reggae and Ska music was just as angry lyric wise as punk music was. But the strangest thing is that Punk rock also embraced the most unlikely bands, such as ABBA. And why was that the case? Well what were punk songs about? - Being angry with the government. - Being frustrated with your girlfriend - Being unemployed and totally skint - Being BORED! - Basically anything that a guy in his late teens could be angry about in Thatcher's Britain And what were ABBA doing, the same! - Songs about domestic abuse (Mama Mia) - Songs about Divorce (Knowing me knowing you, The winner takes it all, One of us) - Songs about being in fear of a nuclear war (The Visitors) - Songs about being BORED (The day before you came) And all of them sung with true authenticity, you simply can't fake that devastation of a divorce, Agnetha Faltskog sang it like she lived it. In a very weird way ABBA was a Punk Rock band.
Yeah, people don't know this now, but punk was rebelling against music like this, rebelling against blues influence in rock, rebelling against guitar solos, even rebelling against musicianship itself, all of which punk denounced as being "elitist" and from the era of "dinosaurs." People these days imagine that punk was rebelling against disco or rebelling against something political, but no, it was really just a bizarre rebellion against the really good music, particularly rock music, of the sixties and most of the seventies, "rock rebelling against itself" one journalist said. Good to hear that someone else remembers that.
@@colibri1 Or was it really? You know I sometimes wonder how many of the original Punk Rock bands were really "Punk Rock" because there were a lot of rules put up on what is Punk Rock and what isn't and those original Punk Rock bands didn't always heed to those rules themselves. So what are those rules about what is and what is not Punk Rock? 1. Lyric-wise Punk Rock should be about singing it like you lived it, songs about being angry with authoritative figures, boredom, being unemployed, being broke, being angry with the girlfriend. Ain't nothing but the truth, your honor, so help me god. 2. Punk Rock as music should be fast and loud, played by people who could barely play their instruments, the less proficient you were at playing your instrument the better. 3. Punk Rock should be played on cheap crappy instruments, you're on the dole, you simply can't afford better that's the cold truth here. 4. Punk is all about being the real deal, fakers will be found out right away. 5. Punk Rock bands will never help each other out, it's a dog-eat-dog world and a warzone at a punk rock concert. 6. Punk is all about rejecting what came before, Rock Dinosaurs were going to be extinct for a good reason. So having mentioned all those rules, let's see which ones were followed to the letter and which ones were not by the original Punk Rock bands. 1. Lyric-wise Punk Rock should be about singing it like you lived it, songs about being angry with authoritative figures, boredom, being unemployed, being broke, being angry with the girlfriend. Ain't nothing but the truth, your honor, so help me god. Very few Punk Rock bands actually sang it like they lived it. The Sex Pistols for example were art students, The Clash' Joe Strummer had his life in order, in fact the only Punk Rock song I can think off from the top of my head which told it like they lived it was "Boredom" by the Buzzcocks. 2. Punk Rock as music should be fast and loud, played by people who could barely play their instruments, the less proficient you were at playing your instrument the better. Fast and loud was a rule that all Punk Rock bands gladly complied to. But Proficiency on their instrument was more important than they proclaimed it was. Listen to "Nevermind the bollocks" and hear how tight and well rehearsed Steve Jones and Paul Cook were. Or listen to "London Calling" and hear how the Clash were evolving musically with Paul Simonon and Mick Jones having mastered their instruments and bringing in self written songs. And what about Nina Hagen, the princess of Punk Rock had a classical training as an Opera singer and her band consisted of seasoned professionals, also listen to a song like "Natur träne" and hear how intricate the music on that song was and that it is slow, dragging and intense. John Lydon (That's Johnny Rotten, mate) said that Punk Rock as the Pistols were playing it was in his opinion "Too Conventional" he envisioned Punk Rock to be dissonant, harsh, unlistenable. He manifested his true vision with PiL which again had very good musicians in their ranks. 3. Punk Rock should be played on cheap crappy instruments, you're on the dole, you simply can't afford better that's the cold truth here. Steve Shelley of the Buzzcocks' best known instrument was a crappy Japanese made guitar with the top half broken off. But as soon as he could afford to buy himself a better guitar he did just that. Ditching that cracked guitar for a Gibson Marauder. It was the same with the other Punk Rock bands, Mick Jones of the Clash and Steve Jones (No relation) of the Sex Pistols both favored Gibson Les Paul Customs and even back then that was an expensive and fancy guitar, top of the range of Gibson electrics. Punk bass players favored the Rickenbacker 4001 Bass for its biting, rattling "Clank" sound and the Fender Precision bass for its deep "Punch" (Think J.J. Burnell on The Strangles' "No More Heroes") both those basses being proven workhorses and certainly not cheap. And look at the backlines: Fender and Marshall stacks, you couldn't buy those if you were on the dole... 4. Punk is all about being the real deal, fakers will be found out right away. Ask Plastic Bertrand what it was like being a fake punk. NOBODY took him seriously Certainly not when it came out that he never even sang on his songs. "Ca plan pour moi merde" But "White Punks on dope" by the Tubes was accepted as a punk rock anthem while the song itself was meant to be a spoof on Glam Rock, making fun of bands like T-Rex and Alice Cooper. 5. Punk Rock bands will never help each other out, it's a dog-eat-dog world and a warzone at a punk rock concert.. Just with any grassroots movement, where word of mouth is the way to spread the word around on where Punk Rock bands were playing, the bands would tell other bands what a good venue was, who they should check out and they would often lend backlines to the other bands, so they didn't need to sound check in between performances, it s a Dog-eat-dog world united they stood tall. 6. Punk is all about rejecting what came before, Rock Dinosaurs were going to be extinct for a good reason. Pete Townshend once ran into John Lydon and Paul Cook and being totally into what Punk Rock was about apologized to them about having become a Rock Dinosaur. At which Lydon went "No, not at all, we really love the 'Oo." a Point proven by the fact that the Sex Pistols played "Substitute" live. Also old rockers such as "Summertime Blues" and "Come on everybody" by Eddie Cochran were firm live favorite shows that Punk not only accepted where the roots came from but also sang their praises. And I haven't even mentioned Sid Vicious' version of "My way..." So was Punk Rock really all that it claimed it was? The interesting part of the story was that the Post-punk era was much closer to what Punk Rock was setting itself up to be. I already mentioned Public Image Limited, but New wave bands like The Cure and Joy Division but also ska bands like The Specials adopted the "sing it like you live it" mantra."Message to you Rudy" and "Ghost Town" by the Specials accurately showed the bleak late seventies Britain. In the USA, Hardcore bands took the mantra of no proficiency needed at playing your instrument to heart, bands like Fear, Big Black, The Germs and Shellac had no experience and didn't even bother to tune their guitars. Again in Hardcore and new wave crappy instruments were used, Japanese made copy guitars bought in pawnshops were firm favorites because of them being affordable. Robert Smith of the Cure recorded "Three Imaginary boys" on a crappy plywood Woolworths top twenty guitar and didn't switch to playing Fender jazzmasters until the producer pushed a wad of cash in his hands and begged him to buy a better guitar. Pat Smear during the entire time that The Germs existed didn't even OWN a guitar, always relying on loaners to play shows. In true punk rock style, when Smear joined Nirvana, he sold his guitars to afford the plane ticket to Seattle, at which Kurt Cobain told him "Don't worry, we have a deal with Fender, I'll hook you up." and a few days after Joining Smear was given three brand new Fender guitars that he continues playing to this day. But being completely disillusioned by what Punk Rock became in very little time, it became a fashion, corporate firms began to run with it, the whole "Voice of the angry young man" was taken out, Malcolm McLaren brought out "the Rock N Roll" swindle" movie, And let's not forget that THE punk rock club CBGB's is now a clothing store and a restaurant in JFK airport. John Lydon made a statement at the Final Sex Pistols show which sums it all up... "Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?"
I'm 73 years old and I am still addicted to her music. Yes, I'm opinionated, I still think the late 1960s and early 70s was the greatest time for music...and I got to live it.
When modern music was being invented.
It was the best of times.
This wasn’t even her song. She just screeched on it and didn’t give credit to the actual performer. Die in you glory of lies
👍👍👍👍❤
certified geezer moment love ya m8
I’m 28 years old and I couldn’t agree with you more 👏
Cass Elliot’s reaction was the icing on the cake. Love how happy Janis looked. She knew she killed it. What a loss that those women aren’t still with us 😔
The lesson we carried was God gave us what they had.
Love that Cass could appreciate Janis so much!
Would be my reaction if I saw this live as well!
I ❤️ Cass's butterfly pinkie ring!
Also notice that Blind Owl Wilson was sitting behind Mama Cass.
I’m 71 years old and was a teenager when Janis was on the scene. Her vocals still blow my mind and reminds me of what we lost and it still feels so damn painful.
she is somewhere saying to you thankyou for the love,respect my friend.stay well to you and yours.
She still breaks my heart... 🌹
My dad was around your age, too. He passed away a few years ago at 68. He was 20 in 67. You all were so lucky to be around when all these amazing performances were happening.
I am also 27 right now so I have been thinning a lot about her and the others who died at 27 from back then.
72 years old here. Yep. Janis was one of a kind.
@@therealzilch Soon 76. That sedate crowd didn't know how to take Janis. Or Jimi H. They soon learned. I brought some Hendrix from Key West to a small college in central Minnesota and the kids thought I had lost my mind.
Here we are in April 2024- goosebumps & tears. RIP sweet Janis-
Sunday morning here and listening to her 👑 All I can say is that all these years later she still makes one hell of an impact.
The raw emotions and energy she puts into this performance gives me goosebumps too. Even though I've heard it plenty. Some artists can just take you to places that others cannot.
Me too. She does it to me. Sad and heartbreaking she was gone so early in her life
June 2024. I feel this in my bones. I always come back to this. The whole earth misses her spirit.
Here we are in July 2024, in tears and hotness.
Janis was a comet. A once in a lifetime event and burned across the sky leaving us all in awe. Big respect to Big Brother and the Holding Company for wrapping her voice in a dynamic musical blanket. 💖
well said
It’s not the duration that makes it beautiful. It is the intensity.
I wish she would have stayed away from heroin.(rehab?)what a tragic waste!
Beautifully said
truthfully spoken always from the heart!
I love that Cass Elliot is blown away. No jealousy, just respect.
@@jeanneposner6482 Yes indeed ☹
She was enjoying that voice!
I bet had they lived by the 80s Janis would have been 300 pounds and Cass probably 400....
If you are able to make Cass Elliot, one of the most beautiful singers of my lifetime, say "Wow," you are very special.
Did you hear what she said..sounded like wow that's pretty heavy man
Sensational. No faking of that performance. She poured everything out.
Tripping
Sooo true
Mama Cass' reaction always makes me cry from deepest parts of my soul
Yes ma'am!!! I love it when Janis knows she killed it, she kicked ass at everything her and her Capricorn self❤❤❤
That day, Janis and Jimmy Hendrix became legends. The emotion that she puts into this song is palatable. Janis, is completely giving her entire self in this song! It's extraordinary how it gives you goosebumps because you can feel everything she's feeling. Nothing like it compares.
"palatable" You mean "palpable"?
@dorothysboy1~~This song will always be fave~~R.I.P. Janice~~You are missed~~💖💖💖
Amén to that, this video/song makes me cry of happiness every time I watch it. Fantastic music
Don’t forget pundit Ravi Shankar the 1 who paved his way for them
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Without doubt... one of the greatest performances in rock history. Talk about a 'debut' introduction to the world. Janis knocked it out of the park - as always! 100% heart and soul. There will NEVER be another Janis Jopin - the voice of a generation. She still resonates today when we need to hear her more than ever. Rock on, Janis. You were simply the best. RIP
Couldn't agree more. With all the great music at Monterey Janis blew everything else right out of the water with this performance. I don't know how people could sit still in the audience. I am at my computer and watching this sends chills up my spine and works me into a state of mind I cannot even describe.
@@jackwalker1822
Jack,
I think that they were all sitting still because they were STUNNED!
No one had ever seen a performer or performance like the one Janis delivered at Monterey.
They were also SHOCKED by Jimi's performance.
There will never be another Janis - or Jimi.
@@jackwalker1822 That's what audiences were like back then, it was all new, rock concerts with multiple performers. People sat on the ground, sometimes on concrete. People sat and listened, there wasn't all this screaming and surging.
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Jim W., you’re on the money. Jaw dropping. Look at Momma Cass in the audience. Dropped her jaw.
What I really loved was the little girl hop and jump when she left the stage.
Those shots of Mama Cass' reaction are still among my favorite moments in really anything ever.
Indeed!
no doubt
Same - Mama Cass is all of us
im 75 this makes me happy i was born when i i was.
мне 70 и я сравнительно недавно открыла величайшую дженис
I am 68, but heck .... Janis is still my gal, I probably heard her in 1972..and then ..forgot about her for awhile, but in the back of my mind....she was and still is there!!
Seeing Mama Cass in the audience just mesmerized by Janis. Two great singing artists. WOW. What a performance by Janis.👏👏
Ikkk ndd her ring was everything fashion will never measure uppp
I didn't know that was green eggs and ham sandwich in the audience.
The look on Cass Elliots' face says it all! 🎶🎶
And Donovan !
Her pain and her voice. This performance is the highest form of music. So moving.
The pain was her trying to make it seem like it was her song
Big Mama Thornton who did write the song applauded Joplin’s version saying ‘That girls feels like I do’
And of course it‘a Joplin’s ‘feel’ that make her version so compelling.
Her ‘ screech’ as you put it was always tempered by subtle and beautiful phrasing.
I am sorry that you can’t appreciate that but so many more do.
Janis was great,...but Big Brother and the Holding Company deserves some appreciation too! They laid down an incredible blues sound!
No Big Brother No Janis!
The music was hypnotizing, her voice, raw and emotive
Yep! I think she fucked it up when she left the band... That was pure rock... Raw rock!
Absolutely. Epic
I agree
I come back and watch this video every few years, and I still have not seen anything else like it. Truly, one of the greatest performances of all time.
I do the same. It;s an amazing performance.
These folks in the audience had no idea how lucky they were to see her singing live.
How do you know?
Jeez, yes!!!
Mama Cass did!
NO IDEA? They were being TOLD every freak'n day that she was amazing on commercial radio. The only luck was that she didn't die during one of her performances. Just like the crap that people listen to today on commercial radio and THINK it's good because some commercial radio station HAS TO promote it. I would prefer hearing the Queen of the blues Etta James ANY DAY! Try Etta James - Something's Got A Hold On Me. More PROOF that BLACK music is DEVOLVING. They've gone from Etta James, Marvin Gaye, ETC, to rap-crap. From Art Blakey to a LIFELESS Casio drum machine.
People have NO CLUE how much they are being BRAINWASHED by TV and commercial radio. DIFFERENT WORLD. It REALLY is. I have a producer friend who is constantly inviting me to shows. WHO???????? I have NEVER HEARD of these people you SAY are popular and talented. REALLY??? Don't you watch TV or listen to commercial radio? NEVER!!!!!!!!!!!
One of the best live performances ever,
Mama Cass expression when the camera found her was of almost shocked awareness...she actually looked stunned listening to Janis. It's probably the best complement considering the talent Cass had. The thing is it was so real for Janis. No well ill pose or dance or sing a certain way, and that'll get them to buy my song etc. Just uninhabited raw unique TALENT.
Yes lawd, you said it.
She might have been tripping I never seen anyone play with a straw like that
@Johnny Sizemore She probably was, even if she was shocked by the performace...The way her mouth is hanging open like that certainly looks like she's tripping balls and blown away by Janis at the same time.
This 5 minutes is truly historic from so many angles. I watch it dozens of times every year, and it still touches something in my soul that nothing else does.
Must be one of the best live performances ever recorded much less of all time
I have seen it all
Ditto
100 % bro !
Hers not BB they sucked.
Absolutely
Mama Cass reaction is priceless😍😍😍😍😍😍
🥰🇸🇪
It truly is. ❤️
@@magnusholm3279 kul o se svenskar
Her expression says it all. She was one cool woman.
mama cass was speechless
The older I get, the more I love and appreciate Janis.
Me too.
The older i get the more i appreciate that people appreciate Janis Joplin. Peace.
I agree! I just recently discovered Janis. She is amazing! I am grieving for this precious person ...
@@Ruth-jd9vd I understand, don't grieve and enjoy the music this free soul gave with all her being and what she left us. THE ONE AND ONLY. J. L. J. Cheers. Peace.
Me too.❤
I'm 71 and listening to JANIS JOPLIN music and I love it ❤❤❤
at the end she smiles like a little girl... so happy
She had a lot of good reasons to smile. It was at that festival that Clive Davis first heard her sing and ended up signing her to a label just for starters.
Yeah I hear lots of people talk about how depressed she must have been to sing the blues and drink but honestly she looked like she enjoyed singing and I think she was just young and really liked to party too that was fun for her.
@@AnnaLVajda I totally agree with you that Janice loved to sing (and party), just like Robin Williams enjoyed making people laugh (and he liked to party also), but I also suspect they both did these things at least partly as a means of fighting the demons they were battling with their entire lives. Illnesses like depression are often overpowering and certainly not easy to deal with at the best of times.
Love to see Mama Cass Elliot in awe at 03:28 and 05:25. She got it. She understood this gifted artist of song.
Jim C I agree! Janis was ahead of her time!
Love it too.
The look on Mama Cass face was priceless. She looked like "Well, am I gonna lose my job now"?
Gave me goose bumps.
I was going to mention that but you beat me to it.
Cass Elliot at 3:29 always gets me. She's clearly in awe, and she was so amazing herself. What it would have been like to see Janis live. A 90s kid like me had no chance but goddamn what I wouldn't have given to see her perform.
If you love Janis (which, who DOESN'T love Janis? She's was a talent like no other) consider giving Donna missal a shot. She has that rasp and rawness in her voice that music has been missing since we unfortunately lost Janis. Here's a link, and yes this is also a live performance. I recommend hearing from the 1:45 min mark to the end to really hear the rasp : ua-cam.com/video/ad3qqlZThl4/v-deo.html
Same here pal....but proud to be from the 90s generation the last decade of real creation and true talent.
Now day's the GARBAGE introduce in music is a disgrace.
Don't feel bad. I'm a 60's (well 70's) person. I was only seven years old when she did this. Got into her in my late teens - hooked forever more. Janis transcends in her wails and sweet tones.
We got to see some pretty good music in the 90s, too. Layne Staley, Chris Cornell, and Scott Weiland were also some all timers. Still wish we could have seen Janis, Jefferson Airplane, and Hendrix though, for real.
I saw her live at Fillmore West in ‘67, and it was and still is the most electrifying concert I ever saw. She was a force of nature on stage.
Best female vocalist of all time. We were robbed of decades of incredible music. RIP Janis
Agree, totally agree!
Agree that she is the best (my opinion) but if she hadn't changed the way that she lived, she may have burned out in a few more years anyway. I hate to say that but there's just not a long list of people who played/sang like she does (totally committed/emotion at peak) who lasted past the age of 30.
Best vocalist period, male or female
She was a white Etta James . This made her a star that is for sure
She's was in a world of her own, as far as the best vocalist..
Listening to the last 20 seconds of the song, Janis has total control of the audience, absolute silence. Everyone is tuned in hanging on every note, every word. Remarkable.
This performance is still astonishing. After stunning the audience and making the earth tremble, she skipped off stage like a child. Just... wow!
flying over the earth... and after to the sky
@@alflepore❤
She literally pulls my soul up out of my body.
She makes me feel real life.
I don't think she does.
@@nigelhole4182 so get out 🌻
Spoken like a true blues lover. Lots of us out here.
Beautiful, astute comment.
Stockdog trainer. Your profile pic is adorable omg😍🐶
I have no idea how many times I've watched this video, but it never fails to impress me how emotional was Janice's entanglement w/ her songs. She put everything she had into her singing!
there will NEVER be another Janis. how beautiful is it that we still get to see her?
Roug-N-tought w ur afro-puffs
Robert Gonzales ✊🏽
What about Joss Stone?
Lzzy Hale live is up there.
@J. C. Tina never was so expressive. Aretha Franklin maybe...
Janis didn't just sing the blues; she lived them. THAT'S what made her so damn good. It wasn't her singing; it was her soul!!!
👍❤️
Amen!
Yea she was an alcoholic and drug addict and her friends watched her kill herself, they enabled it. What a great story. Feelgood?
Well, it was both. Her soul was exposed through her music. She was absolutely the top of her game.
Yes indeed
That's a real artist, no one today even comes close. The people that got to witness that performance are so incredibly blessed.
I was there in the audience. You are correct.
@@mkeltycoma coworker today asked if there was a greater masterpiece than Lynard Skynard's free bird and ball and chain came to mind.
What do you mean no one comes?!!!!! I know you've heard the GREAT AND AMAZING MUMBLE RAP!!!! The music that sounds like these guys have something phallic in their mouths. It's amazing bcuz they didn't choke on whatever it is they have in there that brings to my mind, a chipmunk 🐿️ holding a tiny microphone with a weeks supply of food in his cheeks .. 😂😂😂😂😅😅😅
I always have said I should have been 17yo in 1963/64. Great music, American muscle cars and hippies. I was born in the wrong time period & wrong place for real. I should've been sitting on the Dock of the Bay with Otis
I'm from the hood, not projects hood, just hood neighborhood.
You might find a few muscle cars, bcuz I am from the South. Lots of those wanna be Mumble rappers though. I know they would practice their craft on their knees somewhere!!! Had too of been doing it. Practice and make a couple bucks too, a win win for a hood rat any day😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
The closest I've seen is Christina Aguilera singing This is a Man's World live in 2007 for a Grammys tribute to James Brown. Christina gave it her all and her voice was amazing.
This is the best , live version of ball & Cain , that guitar 🎸 intro , incredible 🎶🎸🎤♥️
This gives me chills every time I watch it. Exceptional.
Me too!
Isn't that the truth, Avalon Ballroom, filled the room with awe! Left us breathless!
One of the most beautiful pieces of film and audio ever recorded.
Seeing her skip after singing her heart out, makes my heart smile. They shunned her for her looks but she was the most beautiful ✨💛
time proves the greatness of any artist. this is timeless. Janis is underappeciated in rock history. i never knew myself.....glad i can hear before i disappear. she sings my soul...
Has anyone ever told you you’re so corny that you should be punched in the face?
I'm glad she felt validated by her fans for her massive talent and moving performance.
People are such bastards, they did that to Judy garland too and who knows how many others
53 years ago today the late great singer Janis passed away October 4th 1970 but she will forever live on through everyone who continues to listen to her music!!
There are no vocals like Janis..however I've found one that is very similar you can search karise Eden she's pretty good as well it's too bad Janis left this planet so soon 😔
@@katiea8194 Thank you for recommending. Much respect to anyone covering her music! 🫶✌️
@katiea8194 Oh she's good!!! Love the voice ❤️ covering A Man's World Ty, ty
This is to me Janis's best performance. Love her. She poured her heart and soul into all of her music.
Agree
A point where Rock,Country Jazz & Blues, all meet on this stage this day, -and a new Superstar is born.
Potugues
Janis could knock down a brick wall with that voice.
Our hearts at least, for sure.
Her vocal coach was the legendary Big Mama Thornton. As I've always said Joss Stone is the closest thing we got to Janis Joplin.
thats why she was voted 'Ugliest Man on Campus'
Awesome comment!!
podria derribar un conjunto de personas con esa voz
Just love her little happy skip at the end, knowing she had killed it. Revisited this performance several times on UA-cam, that became my favorite part. See you soon, Janis. 💜
Janis Joplin Rocks! She left her heart & soul out on that stage, not just after that song but after each and everyone I ever saw. She is beautiful!!!
Mama Cass couldn't believe her eyes and ears, me neither after all these years ! No words for Janis, just a mind blowing. I'll never stop hearing this incredible girl.
I know right! That was the coolest part of this vid for me was Janis ability to just literally blow Mama Cass away; who, at the time, was already a superstar in her own right
@4:39 that mood ring she sporting became the fashion "too die for" I was a nine year old and remembering all the girls trying to buy them and the clothing and fashion stores weren't able to keep enough in stock fast enough, they were selling out immediately. Also the polyester knit bell bottomed pant suits with the matching side split tops and the slip on pump heels. She was an icon...RIP JANIS JOPLIN.
If you Janis lovers haven't read her road manager's book, it gives you an idea of the pressure she was always under.
I found out she was a great person over and above a talented preformer.
John Bryne Cook did a fantastic job detailing her life.
On the Road with Janis Joplin.
Thank you for this info, I Will definetly look it up ❤🙏🏻
Will have to check it out
Legend in awe of a legend. Wish Janis and Cass were still with us making music.
So cool how Cass didn’t seem to be envious of Janis; just mesmerized.
They are ♥
they are my friend, just through someone else
Every time I watch this, I weep. Truly a voice like no other. Very few can take you on such a ride to such highs and incredible emotional soulful lows in mere seconds. Like so many other of that "27 club", the world lost so much of what could have been yet to come. Janis, thank you for the gifts you gave us while here. Thank you Criterion for restoring this wonderful moment in music history where all the stars aligned perfectly to give us a glimpse of true euphoric joy.
I had the privilege of seeing Joplin, circa Kozmic Blues, '69, I think. It was every bit as amazing as you would hope! It was so tragic to lose her so soon! I sure miss her! She was my idol.
@dan west Lair is where animals live. If you are going to troll someone. At last learn how to spell words.
Wow; how cool is that! 😃 You were very fortunate to have seen this amazing gal live. One of the best female rock/blues singers EVAH!
Wowww!! So lucky, what an amazing moment in time for you. ♥️
Respect to those camera operators. They perfectly captured the moment; Janice coming out of her shoes, the expression on the face of Cass Elliot, and the pure joy Janice felt when the crowd applauded her.
Exposed raw emotion ,no autotune..this is as real as it gets...we still are mesmerized all these 50 years later..❤😎✌🎵💫
Janis Joplin is STILL unmatched in raw emotion and talent. In high school she was an outcast. A few years later she was a superstar. Once she gained fame many people flocked to her, not to help her, but to help themselves. Janis suffered immensely from the way she was treated. I have always wished that I could’ve helped her make sense of this crazy world.
You help her🤣
@@xxcrump3575
XX crap You need the help goofy!
@@richardsimons6978 I'm helping your sister 🍆real good
@@richardsimons6978 🤣 are you that exercise fairy from the 90's?
@@xxcrump3575
Nice try goofy but I don't have a sister. It's your daddy in drag again!
This song hypnotizes me, it is spectacular how she works with her voice. In those years if you didn't sing you simply couldn't be an artist like Janis, she is an icon
Their will never be another Janis, look how she brings her songs. With heart and soul.
I could cry when I listen.
🙏♥️
U're so right!
One of the judges on Britain’s got talent said Courtney Hadwin was like her. Watch her audition
Sorry americas got talent lol
This performance gives me chills. She was and always will be one of the the greatest singers to ever walk this earth.
This performance is a vocal tour de force. The first 100 times I listened I was just blown away by the glorious, raw emotion she shares with us. Sometime after that I noticed how seamlessly she shifts back and forth between clear, sweet vocals and the unbelievable raunchy dirty crescendos.
Chris Cornell could do the same live - back and forth between clean and virtually screaming - but even he, wonderful as he was, never bested this incredible display of talent and raw emotion. (Have you ever tried to go back to clean after really belting it out raunchy? It ain’t easy even if you can.)
She had that in common with Etta James. Both powerhouses in their own right.
She got it from Otis Redding.
your not human if you dont even understand how powerful this is...
Its kinda mid lol. I really dont see the appeal at all.
It's the raw emotion. Some singers show us their pain and so we know it's a human condition and we are not alone.
Is it possible to go sub zero kelvin?
@@declanrex9435 you’re sooo edgy! You’re so cooool! I bet your taste is sooo immaculate.
@@jayytorrez116 not trying to be edgy at all. I clicked on this video with the intention of finding out why people like her so much and I really cant see it.
I taught a class on 60's music to a group that included many people who hadn't heard of Janis, as they were in their 20's and 30'...it was a joy to see them react to her performance here. Cass, and most of the LA musicians, had no idea who Big Brother was and this was their introduction to her.
wow, what strength and temperament, nobody sang blues like Janis, tremendous artist, you are already eternal Janis RIP 🌹
the sheer VOLUME of this woman’s voice!!! you can hear her screaming even when the microphone is fully away from her face. i love janis so much
One good thing about being 66, was I got to see Janice, and many other authentic artists. RIP Ms. Joplin, we remember you !
Collin Begg it’s funny, we all normally wanna be younger, yet sometimes I wish I was older to of seen this, Otis, Brian Jones etc.
Here. Here. Saw her in Cleveland right after Cheap Thrills came out. Amazing.
Collin Fraser Lucky you! I wish i could say that. Thank the Universe for My Mum, The Rock and Roll years.(BBC programme I grew up watching), You Tube and people like you, Col. lots of ❤️
That's amazing. Wish I was born back then. Much better real music than today.
@@shawnagrubb9958 the music was great but really, believe me, Im 67 and theres not anything about being old that I like. People expect you to have dementia, they think you would like church hymns or country music, you become invisible to others-its no fun
Nobody will take her place.🌹❤️😇2023 It seems like yesterday her music was streaming everywhere.Missed and will always remain in her fans hearts.
I love how mama cass has her jaw on the floor she can’t believe what she is seeing
Mamas and the poppers now ya talking, probably thinking is this the support band ? Get off !!
Poppers joppers, hey I thought Suzy quattro was bad till I seen her, please don't mention Jimi Hendrix in the same sentence as joppers, you never see posters of her at least not in good old England. By the way she slagged us off as a subdued appreciative audience, well maybe we weren't used to the shite you churned out. " get back to where you once belong "
@@owenmullarkey124 Fuck England
@@owenmullarkey124 everything comes out your mouth is and w always be mullarkey
Cass Elliot really DID have talent. She was very good. Joplin was like nails on chalkboard.
still brings a tear. Why can't the world learn from people like Janis. They come along once in a lifetime and we never value what they make us feel. Lots of love to you Janis.
drinking wine and listen to Janis Joplin is the best moment of my life
@Chionophile :D iyi dinlemeler
Once try Bourbon to.
Or sg harder☮️
@Chionophile buradayız tabiki
Its like Whisky and the doors for me.
Me too
I stumbled into Janis when i was 15 in the late eighties. Her emotion came through my cheap little stereo and spilled into my soul. This song, in particular.
Este SOM é MUITO LOUCO
Kkkkkk
I met her once and she took out the time to say hello. I thanked her for coming to play in our city to sing. Such a humble woman who took time for a fan!
I don't think she realized how much people loved her music!
Lucky!
You are a special human being to live to tell such a tale
She really seemed to just want people to love her after what she went through growing up. People really treated her like sh*t. She was in college at UV Austin in 1962 and some assh*le frat voted
Janis "Ugliest Man on Campus."
Can you imagine what that does to you? That's why she ended up with all these guys who treated her like garbage later in life and the craziest part is once she became known worldwide there had to be a ridiculous number of people who were totally in love with her
Watching this for the ??? time and it STILL gets my blood pressure up! What a performance...What feeling... The best version of this song ever...
One of the best performances of all time.
One of my favorites of Janis performances. Just so full of passion. Great song.
This is an absolutely stunning performance. If Janis had recorded nothing else in her life she would still be remembered for this performance of this song.
She perform every song with greatness!
Mama Cas and Janis were the most misunderstood and tortured women in rock and roll. It’s sad their history ended so soon 😪 I love this video
Seems to be a reoccurring theme with all great rock legends.
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Preach!!! Truly powerhouses of their time whose voices carry on to this day!
The pathos in her voice sends tingles up my spine.
2:04 that high note gives me absolute chills
One of a kind, never to be duplicated
It gave me a headache, literally.
She is on another level with voice and emotion. And I don't think any other female vocalist has come along to fill her shoes.
Ummmm…anyone else watching at least several times in a row…and teary eyed? No one lays down the heartfelt soul like Janis
I love when soul singers shake their body and kick their legs like they need get everything out. It comes from the depths of their souls ❤️
Muito bom concordo com vc nos brasileiros a adoramos muinto
Classic ..well said
It was a signal too to the band.
@CJR VISIONS ,
It is in the nature of the blues to have a musical build up that has a to complete by coming back to the beginning. That build up occurs emotionally in us and our bodies tense up. When the music resolves the tension our bodies want to release the tension.
Coming back to this video on what would have been Joplin’s 80th anniversary. I’ve been coming back for this performance for numberless times over the decades now. One of my absolute favorite live performances ever. Respect.
Happy Heavenly 82nd Birthday Janis Joplin January 19 1943 - October 4 1970
Goosebumps every single damn time I watch this, just absolutely amazing
Probably her finest performance ever!
It's awesome when other musicians and singers set and are awestruck by this woman. Mama Cass looked like she was thinking holy shit. Janis , a true legend gone too soon.
I remember a night many years ago when i was introduced to a friend of a friend. This fellow owned a warm cosy cottage in a mountainous snowy area in Victoria, Australia. The wood heater was cranking and the booze and other "stuff" were flowing and this bloke got our attention by playing all the vinyl he owned of Janis Joplin. Man i had never heard of half the songs he played that night. Many great weekends were spent in the mountains with my mates but that was the best night ever. Just saying... an old man reminiscing. Peace.
This performance will be revered, relevant and respected for centuries to come, the singers of today will be long forgotten. The last three seconds of this where she skips off stage with arms wide open is priceless as well
no light show no fireworks just put yourself out there and show what you have and it was incredible show. wish I was there.
This woman sang the blues like a master because she lived it!
You hit it on the head. Janice thanks for the memories.
And you would not know that if you had not live it too
The way she sang had u wondering if she had a "tar brush" in her!lol
Only to certain people.
As I have said many times-Janis spoke to our heart and soul. If she did not-you have neither.
The expression on Cass Elliott's face, priceless.
Mama Cass just totally electrified and in awe of this performance was my favorite part of this. Janis Joplin will always hold a deep place in my soul. The emotions coming through her is unbelievable. Love You Janis!!
This stuff makes me happy to be 71, I've spent time on stage with her ,drinking Southern Comfort and stuff. I wish 15 people had video of but at least my head still has it stored. RIP Pearl.
A lucky man Don :-) I wasn't born til 78 so never had the opportunity to even enjoy her music until years after her death, wish I'd been born 30 years earlier like you, most mind blowing vocals I have ever heard. Hope you are still living and loving life now at 72. Respect dude
Don Berry those are some pretty iconic memories 😍
Don Berry Nice! I was 14 when she left.
Thanks to my father I got to love her voice when I was around 4 years old. He’s turning 59 this year and I’m turning 23. Thanks to him my taste in music is fantastic.
@@karmaservas2736 I respect the fact that you just honored your father in this way. Very rare these days to hear younger adults who value what us parents try to inspire and instill in our children. And music is the #1 form of universal language that speaks to our own souls and shapes us into free thinking continuous beings that have become enlightened by the sounds of our heartstrings. I bet you will pass the torch someday if not already with your children your father has good taste and so do you friend🎶🎵🎼🎸🎷🎻🎺📽💿📀💽☯️👍
we are so lucky that this performance was recorded its one of the great moments in rock history, nothing comes close,never will
So glad that we have this treasure preserved for future generations. And for me, mainly for me. To listen to over and over again.
No joke! UA-cam, is pretty much the closest thing we have, to a Time Machine. Imagine, it took us back to 1967, Monterey, CA, to watch Janis Joplin, blew the mind of that audience, with her live performance. Amazing!!!
So beautiful to see the expressions on her face while singing, it's like watching an huge actor in his best performance, a true partition of different emotions, energies and moments, except it's not an character, it's a song, and she's living it, such a beauty to witness. We ARE living the moment with her, all long.
Thank you so much Janis for your miraculous voice, personnality, generosity and intensity of life. THIS is living ! True artists make you really feel life, the chills of living. Janis for ever in my heart
Simply in-fuckin'-credible!
She was a talent all her own. Big Brother was a great, so underappreciated, Band as well.
Cass was in awe! So nice to see her just basking in Janice's talents. A truly cool moment in time.
She is truly the only singer that put 15 emotions in one single song she sung. A trance like state that defies description.....
the most overrated singer in American history
She's underrated. Not over rated. Shit Dylan and Morrison that's overrated. She had more talent in her elbow than some of these musicians there days lol
@@PhukIT1865 Really?
I don’t think she was overrated. I think people back then just wanted more of her which Janice was prepared to give, however, she died having only put out two albums. We never got to see her full potential and that’s what it’s all about. I don’t care for all the screaming but I am sure she would have done some calmer songs where we could hear her lovely voice…like we heard in Bobby McGee. When she wasn’t screaming, she had a pretty decent singing voice. I miss what she would have done in the future.
@sinajdelmar4040 I don't think anyone says what made Bob Dylan great was his voice...It was his lyrics/storytelling ability. Same with Morrison, although his voice was better than Dylan's. One thing they both had over Janis was original music. Unfortunately, Janis didn't have much of a catalog of original music before she died. Not a knock on her, just a fact.
In memory of her death 50 years ago, today at October 4th, 2020
The first artist Clive Davis signed up... watch his fabulous documentary on Netflix.
You can actually see Clive Davis in the last few seconds wearing a white jumper ..
Yeah i came straight here when I saw it was 50 years ago
R.I.P sweet little girl blue, you're always in my heart
She left us to early
This tiny little woman with this !massive ability and voice that captivated such a huge audience!
Analyze this woman's every move and vocal note, and you will see genius. Just fabulous. even a half a century later. Bravo Janis, we love you!
I have seen it all, as a teen i was part the counter revolution, I was a punk rocker in London in 1978 and now older looking back I have to say that this is the most riveting live performance or at least one of the top 5 ever ! She really tore herself apart on stage and gave it her all. RIP you gorgeous southern belle
Albert Pierrepoint absolutely agree, I live within your timeframe & love Janis & her music to bits.
I confess that I have watched this performance of Janis many times and it never fails to move me to tears. The emotion, the empathy in her voice is so real that it hurts! You can feel the pain, the heartache as she sings. And she did this time and time again. Amazing!
I have a cousin who is ten years my senior and he was a punk rocker around that time too and he told me that the most important thing in music according to the punk rockers was authenticity. SING IT LIKE YOU LIVE IT!
Which is why Punks and Rastas got along, Reggae and Ska music was just as angry lyric wise as punk music was. But the strangest thing is that Punk rock also embraced the most unlikely bands, such as ABBA. And why was that the case?
Well what were punk songs about?
- Being angry with the government.
- Being frustrated with your girlfriend
- Being unemployed and totally skint
- Being BORED!
- Basically anything that a guy in his late teens could be angry about in Thatcher's Britain
And what were ABBA doing, the same!
- Songs about domestic abuse (Mama Mia)
- Songs about Divorce (Knowing me knowing you, The winner takes it all, One of us)
- Songs about being in fear of a nuclear war (The Visitors)
- Songs about being BORED (The day before you came)
And all of them sung with true authenticity, you simply can't fake that devastation of a divorce, Agnetha Faltskog sang it like she lived it.
In a very weird way ABBA was a Punk Rock band.
Yeah, people don't know this now, but punk was rebelling against music like this, rebelling against blues influence in rock, rebelling against guitar solos, even rebelling against musicianship itself, all of which punk denounced as being "elitist" and from the era of "dinosaurs." People these days imagine that punk was rebelling against disco or rebelling against something political, but no, it was really just a bizarre rebellion against the really good music, particularly rock music, of the sixties and most of the seventies, "rock rebelling against itself" one journalist said. Good to hear that someone else remembers that.
@@colibri1 Or was it really?
You know I sometimes wonder how many of the original Punk Rock bands were really "Punk Rock" because there were a lot of rules put up on what is Punk Rock and what isn't and those original Punk Rock bands didn't always heed to those rules themselves.
So what are those rules about what is and what is not Punk Rock?
1. Lyric-wise Punk Rock should be about singing it like you lived it, songs about being angry with authoritative figures, boredom, being unemployed, being broke, being angry with the girlfriend. Ain't nothing but the truth, your honor, so help me god.
2. Punk Rock as music should be fast and loud, played by people who could barely play their instruments, the less proficient you were at playing your instrument the better.
3. Punk Rock should be played on cheap crappy instruments, you're on the dole, you simply can't afford better that's the cold truth here.
4. Punk is all about being the real deal, fakers will be found out right away.
5. Punk Rock bands will never help each other out, it's a dog-eat-dog world and a warzone at a punk rock concert.
6. Punk is all about rejecting what came before, Rock Dinosaurs were going to be extinct for a good reason.
So having mentioned all those rules, let's see which ones were followed to the letter and which ones were not by the original Punk Rock bands.
1. Lyric-wise Punk Rock should be about singing it like you lived it, songs about being angry with authoritative figures, boredom, being unemployed, being broke, being angry with the girlfriend. Ain't nothing but the truth, your honor, so help me god.
Very few Punk Rock bands actually sang it like they lived it. The Sex Pistols for example were art students, The Clash' Joe Strummer had his life in order, in fact the only Punk Rock song I can think off from the top of my head which told it like they lived it was "Boredom" by the Buzzcocks.
2. Punk Rock as music should be fast and loud, played by people who could barely play their instruments, the less proficient you were at playing your instrument the better.
Fast and loud was a rule that all Punk Rock bands gladly complied to. But Proficiency on their instrument was more important than they proclaimed it was. Listen to "Nevermind the bollocks" and hear how tight and well rehearsed Steve Jones and Paul Cook were. Or listen to "London Calling" and hear how the Clash were evolving musically with Paul Simonon and Mick Jones having mastered their instruments and bringing in self written songs.
And what about Nina Hagen, the princess of Punk Rock had a classical training as an Opera singer and her band consisted of seasoned professionals, also listen to a song like "Natur träne" and hear how intricate the music on that song was and that it is slow, dragging and intense. John Lydon (That's Johnny Rotten, mate) said that Punk Rock as the Pistols were playing it was in his opinion "Too Conventional" he envisioned Punk Rock to be dissonant, harsh, unlistenable. He manifested his true vision with PiL which again had very good musicians in their ranks.
3. Punk Rock should be played on cheap crappy instruments, you're on the dole, you simply can't afford better that's the cold truth here.
Steve Shelley of the Buzzcocks' best known instrument was a crappy Japanese made guitar with the top half broken off. But as soon as he could afford to buy himself a better guitar he did just that. Ditching that cracked guitar for a Gibson Marauder. It was the same with the other Punk Rock bands, Mick Jones of the Clash and Steve Jones (No relation) of the Sex Pistols both favored Gibson Les Paul Customs and even back then that was an expensive and fancy guitar, top of the range of Gibson electrics. Punk bass players favored the Rickenbacker 4001 Bass for its biting, rattling "Clank" sound and the Fender Precision bass for its deep "Punch" (Think J.J. Burnell on The Strangles' "No More Heroes") both those basses being proven workhorses and certainly not cheap. And look at the backlines: Fender and Marshall stacks, you couldn't buy those if you were on the dole...
4. Punk is all about being the real deal, fakers will be found out right away.
Ask Plastic Bertrand what it was like being a fake punk. NOBODY took him seriously Certainly not when it came out that he never even sang on his songs. "Ca plan pour moi merde" But "White Punks on dope" by the Tubes was accepted as a punk rock anthem while the song itself was meant to be a spoof on Glam Rock, making fun of bands like T-Rex and Alice Cooper.
5. Punk Rock bands will never help each other out, it's a dog-eat-dog world and a warzone at a punk rock concert..
Just with any grassroots movement, where word of mouth is the way to spread the word around on where Punk Rock bands were playing, the bands would tell other bands what a good venue was, who they should check out and they would often lend backlines to the other bands, so they didn't need to sound check in between performances, it s a Dog-eat-dog world united they stood tall.
6. Punk is all about rejecting what came before, Rock Dinosaurs were going to be extinct for a good reason.
Pete Townshend once ran into John Lydon and Paul Cook and being totally into what Punk Rock was about apologized to them about having become a Rock Dinosaur. At which Lydon went "No, not at all, we really love the 'Oo." a Point proven by the fact that the Sex Pistols played "Substitute" live. Also old rockers such as "Summertime Blues" and "Come on everybody" by Eddie Cochran were firm live favorite shows that Punk not only accepted where the roots came from but also sang their praises. And I haven't even mentioned Sid Vicious' version of "My way..."
So was Punk Rock really all that it claimed it was?
The interesting part of the story was that the Post-punk era was much closer to what Punk Rock was setting itself up to be. I already mentioned Public Image Limited, but New wave bands like The Cure and Joy Division but also ska bands like The Specials adopted the "sing it like you live it" mantra."Message to you Rudy" and "Ghost Town" by the Specials accurately showed the bleak late seventies Britain.
In the USA, Hardcore bands took the mantra of no proficiency needed at playing your instrument to heart, bands like Fear, Big Black, The Germs and Shellac had no experience and didn't even bother to tune their guitars.
Again in Hardcore and new wave crappy instruments were used, Japanese made copy guitars bought in pawnshops were firm favorites because of them being affordable. Robert Smith of the Cure recorded "Three Imaginary boys" on a crappy plywood Woolworths top twenty guitar and didn't switch to playing Fender jazzmasters until the producer pushed a wad of cash in his hands and begged him to buy a better guitar.
Pat Smear during the entire time that The Germs existed didn't even OWN a guitar, always relying on loaners to play shows. In true punk rock style, when Smear joined Nirvana, he sold his guitars to afford the plane ticket to Seattle, at which Kurt Cobain told him "Don't worry, we have a deal with Fender, I'll hook you up." and a few days after Joining Smear was given three brand new Fender guitars that he continues playing to this day.
But being completely disillusioned by what Punk Rock became in very little time, it became a fashion, corporate firms began to run with it, the whole "Voice of the angry young man" was taken out, Malcolm McLaren brought out "the Rock N Roll" swindle" movie, And let's not forget that THE punk rock club CBGB's is now a clothing store and a restaurant in JFK airport.
John Lydon made a statement at the Final Sex Pistols show which sums it all up...
"Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?"
I saw her at the Grande Ballroom Detroit, Mi 1969 - her farewell tour with Big Brother and the Holding Co. 4th row center - she was awesome.
Lucky me to have been there! I couldn't believe what I was hearing. She and Ottis redding were the top performers. lucky me!!!