Hearing Janis always reminds me of a boss I had in Japan(thirty years ago!) who listened to Janis Joplin in her office. Shortly after she took over the job I was in there for whatever and remarked "If you follow that with some Allman Brothers you're gonna' make me think you're cool, Ma'am". She grinned and replied "I think we're going to get along well, Mr. Brown." 

All time classic👍

I was taught that if you have nothing nice or good say, keep you trap shut. I wish Janis did the same. Nails on a chalkboard.

Just saw members of the big brother and the holding company last night performing in San Francisco. They had a great vocalist standing in for Janis Joplin not Janice, are really great pipes. They also had a kick ass female saxophone player.

Hope life is grand for you these days, Peter_Bradshaw... love this great classic song... here's a quote from Janis Joplin which is profound considering her tragic demise—

     “I have, like, what anyone would call like, say, a loneliness, a loneliness of my own. But it’s just a private trip and probably shouldn’t be forced on other people that much, you know what I mean? God, fuck it. Who cares how lonely you feel. You just have to learn to deal with it like everybody else does. Everybody has that, I think. Everybody. Even Christians.
     I remember I used to think, God damn it, it’s because I'm a chick or it’s because I haven’t figured it out yet. It’s because I’m not twenty-one. It’s because I haven’t read this or I haven’t tried that... Well, I’ve done every fucking thing and now I know better. There is no ‘because.’ And it’s not going to get any better.
     There isn’t going to be any turning point... There isn’t going to be any next-month-it’ll-be-better, next fucking year, next fucking life. You don’t have any time to wait for. You just got to look around you and say, ‘So this is it. This is really all there is to it. This little thing.’ Everybody needing such little things and they can’t get them. Everybody needing just a little... confidence from somebody else and they can’t get it. Everybody, everybody fighting to protect their little feelings. Everybody, you know, like reaching out tentatively but drawing back. It’s so shallow and seems so... fucking... it seems like such a shame. It’s so close to being like really right and good and open and amorphous and giving and everything. But it’s not. And it ain’t gonna be.” —Janis Joplin

One of the most famous headshop posters of all time, dated 1972. I bought this at the legendary (and now defunct) Psychedelic Solution in the Village, NYC. Janis and Pigpen had a brief romantic affair. Janis died in 1970 and Pigpen followed in 1973. This was taken in the late 60s on the steps of the Grateful Dead's house in San Fran.

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