Was Janis Joplin really that good?

[PartyPooper]

What do you think?

:D

:hi:

[accipiter]

1. yes

but not as good as some think she was.

[autorank]

2. You ARE a PartyPooper

She was outstanding...took the great tradition of the Delta Blues and pushed it real hard. You obviously never saw her or heard an album or this question would not have been raised, IMCorrectO

[PartyPooper]

5. Please lighten up a bit. This is a "copy cat" thread.

Of course, I've heard Janis and her music before!

:D

:hi:

[autorank]

8. Jeez...you Lounge people are so multi level...

I :dunce: need a rule book (haha)

[DBoon]

9. No, no, it just can't be!

eom

[autorank]

...and, I might add (or might not), deep and complex; a conundrum of

conviviality.

[PartyPooper]

10. Yes. A "rule book" would be helpful.

It get's very interesting in the Lounge sometimes.

:D

:hi:

[RagingInMiami]

3. all you have to do is listen to me and bobby mcgee

[PartyPooper]

12. I did.

:-)

[KitchenWitch]

4. she had SOOUUUULL baby

[GoddessOfGuinness]

6. No

She was better.

Divinity inspired her to remove the outer layers of her persona and bare her soul to the masses. She was a goddess.

[tcfrogs]

7. William "Values" Bennett thought so

Between casino runs, he reportedly dated her.

[WCGreen]

11. Good, real good, but not sustainable....

Like so many of her generation, she fizzed out before she would really have to prove herself.....

I had a few of her and Big Brother albums growing up but I would never think to put them on now, not like the Beatles or Stones or Kinks or the Doors.....

Anyway, you really have to like that kind of music. when you listened to it stoned it was so different from anything else out there that it was very heavy, almost oppresive, banging down on you, biting into your soul. You could loose yourself in the music......

Not now..........

[Freebird12004]

14. I would hardly call that a "fizzle"

[WCGreen]

17. Not her deah, but the shape her career was taking toward the end.......

Pearl was good, but nothing like her earlier stuff. I think they were trying to push her into a more accessable area of pop music....

[saltpoint]

13. She was so damned good that she made her back-up band --

-- sound listenable.

Big Brother and the Holding Company -- arguably the worst band in the history of all earth. Janis' talent buoyed even THEM.

[Freebird12004]

15. ya had to be there ~ She was good~.

[Bridget Burke]

16. She was more famous for her image & her energy than her music.

She blew her voice out with Big Brother; and they were her best backup, dreadful as they were. Later efforts with her own band were a bit flatter. Of course, it's a damn shame she died so soon; she was smart & soulful & might have done some interesting work.

She'd left for San Francisco by the time I hit Sand Mountain Coffee House in Houston, so I just missed her folkie days. Saw her & Big Brother at the Music Hall & bought their LP's. As a slightly chubby hippy chick with bad (not straight!) hair from effin' TEXAS, I empathized. But I was learning about the blues from other sources.

And I always liked Grace Slick better. Sorry.

[Feathered Fish]

18. Yes

[Misunderestimator]

19. Y E S

[kwassa]

20. I saw her in concert three times

I think the first time was her first national tour. Blood, Sweat, and Tears opened for her. This is before rock became big business, there were only 3,000 people in a 13,000 seat Cleveland Public Arena. Off-duty cops doing security, which nobody understood yet. Kids ended up dancing on the stage.

She was always a good live act. I liked her better with Big Brother than the Full Tilt Boogie Band, or whoever they were.

I went though a long phase of not wanting to hear her records anymore, then recently heard "Piece of My Heart" again and thought it was really good.

[Wat_Tyler]

21. No. Massively, massively overrated.