![]() ![]() She died 16 days after Hendrix in 1970Ī new book of Joplin juvenilia and paraphernalia, entitled Janis Joplin: Days & Summers – Scrapbook 1966-68, covers the peak of the years in between the singer’s departure and return to Port Arthur. A year later, Joplin would watch Hendrix close out Woodstock. In February 1968, the Jimi Hendrix Experience was booked to headline four nights and Big Brother played with them on the final night. ![]() ![]() With Hendrix at Winterland, 1968: The San Francisco ice rink and music hall, Winterland Ballroom, was converted into a concert venue by promoter Bill Graham, beginning in earnest with a Jefferson Airplane gig in 1966. Inside, she still felt like she had something to prove. When she returned, seven years later, to the town she had once described as “filled with bowling alleys, rednecks and plumbers”, boa-adorned and accompanied by a tight throng of paparazzi, Joplin was an entirely different person, at least on the surface. She eventually escaped small-town Port Arthur and hitchhiked her way to the cosmopolitan, libertine West Coast in 1963. Joplin, seen as the school beatnik in a community that was politically deeply red, had been called names, had pennies thrown at her and rumours spread about her supposed sexual promiscuity. Back then, Janis was just Janis, the daughter of a blue-collar family who stood out in a deeply conservative town for listening to opera and show tunes and debating the policies of Barry Goldwater around the dinner table. Joplin died less than four months later (though she did make it to the reunion), but the Cavett interview is a rare window into her life before stardom before the Monterey International Pop Festival, before Big Brother And The Holding Company, before Woodstock and Haight-Ashbury and all the other famous Joplin mythology. She happened to be a very deep person, very sensitive, full of feeling’ ‘It wasn’t to attract an audience or make money or become famous it was to express her energy through music. ‘Janis was so compelling because whatever she did was totally her,’ says photographer Elliott Landy, who shot her onstage. Woodstock, 1969: Joplin and The Kozmic Blues Band played Woodstock in August 1969, beginning their set at 2am on Sunday morning and playing through the early hours. ![]()
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