Damn, I would've never known. She doesn't look how I remember her looking. Thanks for letting us know, at least those of us that didn't know. That makes this even more bad ass.
Pure, raw emotion isn’t something you could ever be taught, and Janis was loaded with it. She poured her soul into every note she sang, and she completely captivated people with it. There can never be another like her.
the difference between real music and today's music is ... it was about passion .... feeling ... emotion and connection ... what i find is missing in a lot of today's music .... and the fact that people like Janis Joplin is pure raw music ... music is pretty much lost now a days ...
Exactly. Anyone who doesn't understand the majesty of raw power shouldn't be teaching vocals. Janis sang the blues with such purity. The woman who created Ball and Chain, Big Mama Thornton, loved Janis's version. If you know blues, really know blues, you know Janis was one of the greats.
Janice just tears your heart out with her singing. When a pro like Mama Cass sits there in the audience with her mouth open and says "Wow," you know you're in the presence of greatness. Listening to her still brings a tear to my eye even after all these years (I'm 73). Her life was tragic, and she never lived to see how much she was loved, but we'll always have her incredible soul with us every time we hear her sing.
More emotion per note than any singer ever; it's not just listening to Janis it's feeling her. Tragic that we didn't get so much more. She's making the angels gasp and weep now.
As soon as she started signing a chill ran down my backbone. Janice was great. So sad that so many people think they can play with fire and not get burned. Many have the scares and many lost the game. Best not to even play.
Interesting that Janis didn't need a voice coach to tell her how to sing. She just did it. Even Mama Cass, a belter herself, was blown away by Janis' performance.
@@bigfrankfraser1391 yes, she seen him in concert c. 1965/1966/1967, she subsequently wanted horns in big brother but that never flew until she went solo
@Jose Gonzalez Janis actually did work with vocal coach Judy Davis for a while in the summer of 66 by request of the band. She stopped working with the instructor. Mama Cass was intrigued by the performance but had said in interviews later that she was not a fan of Janis's singing style. The shocking thing about Janis Joplin in 1967 was that no white women had ever expressed themselves in the same way as she. That is why the imitators now sound so cheesy because they are doing the white woman rocker raspy voice blues thang'. Real blues singers don't do the screaming. They make marvelous and seductive vocal sounds but not just by outright screaming. Janis herself stopped the screaming because it would have destroyed her voice in a short time. She took up a very microphone technique of using a rasp. With excessive volume it sounded very powerful but if you heard her in a room it was actually not very loud as singing in a rasp would not be. She was in the right place at the right time to make the impression that she did.
@@DenPrice-qw5gx I think it's really interesting to hear the notes of a professional singing coach, they can tell you exactly how the person with raw, self taught talent is using their voice.
She had that rare ability to sing with all the heart and soul she could muster and leave it all out there, holding nothing back. What a talent! Thanks, enjoyed your take on the video.
Fifty-plus years on, this song still sends shivers down my spine. It is driving, aggressive, gripping, bone-shattering. It blew our minds then and still does now. With all the booze and smokes, I doubt Janis could have kept her vocal powers at this level for many more years. It broke my heart when she died but we will always have this marvelous recording to take us back to that Summer of Love. This performance opened the doors for Janis, who wasn't widely known at the time. And don't forget the band: Big Brother and the Holding Company. Joplin was actually just their lead singer, not the star! Janis was not a bombastic person on televised interviews. She could get out a hearty laugh but was often soft-spoken. Thanks for doing this one. I'm headed to the basement to put some old vinyl on the phonograph.
What's astonishing is that nobody, neither us or Mama Cass might be able to see this video because the new manager of the group actually didn't know them so well to let the filmakers tape their performance. Mind changed after the unbelievably positive reaction of the crowd, so they did a second perofrmance the next day. They were the only band to perform twice in the festival.
Monterey Pop Festival 1967. This was the very first concert I ever attended. I was 13 and this performance made me cry it it was so beautiful. First I had ever heard of her.
"The goal (of singing) is to express yourself and to be truly uniquely you." This is especially true in rock and blues. There are many intentional "inaccuracies" in blues. Blues doesn't follow all the rules. When reading blues music in 4/4 time, it is automatically assumes that the quarters are to be played as ROUGHLY 3/16 - 1/6, with the amount of that split being determined at the band's discretion. The lead melody in a song is often played slightly off beat, coming in at just a little bit past the beat. To achieve the desired effect, bent notes or minor notes are not always played to the normally expected/mathematical pitch. Blues is a very loose (and effective) art form. Blues should not be analyzed through classical eyes. It'll make you go cross-eyed! lol
The analysis by this woman would discount so many great artists like Mick Jagger and the entire punk movement. It's sad when people who profess to love art just don't get it.
God I love Janis more than anything but I really have to limit how much I can listen to her. I've become incapable of listening to her without welling up with overwhelming emotion & crying Every. Single. Time. What the hell is up with that?!? Lol
OMG same...listening to her is emotionally draining ...... There's another version of Ball and Chain where there's spoken word at the end..... I go back to Janis now and again but there need to be a cooling off period lol
I can’t listen to her song A Woman Left Lonely without getting emotional, her voice is like the tortured souls of women over the centuries bleeding through into one powerful scream. I adore her!
I love You Beth, You have a Fantastic way of putting things into perspective. I try to watch a couple videos a week when I have extra time and I'm always glad I watched another episode or two. You're the Best! Keep it Up!! Love the Accent, Grood Grief, It's Awesome! Lol, ok enough, back to the point. I dig your channel, It's a 100 times better than anyone else I've found. You're the Queen on RUclips! Two Thumbs Up!
Thank you for that. The performance at Monterrey is my favourite one of Janis Joplin's. She is incredibly young there, yet had already had a very hard life. Her voice speaks of pure emotion, frustration, anger, tenderness and unrequited love. The girl in the crowd is Cass Elliot of the Mamas and Papas.
This was the Monterey Pop Festival 1967. You can buy the film "The complete Monterey Pop Festival" by D.A.Pennebaker. Brian Jones from the Stones was there just to watch the show. Jimi Hendrix followed The Who and lit his guitar on fire. Rock. Cass Elliot looking on wonder.
The very first out door rock concert and am so glad I was lucky enough to be there in person.Three great days in my life and two months later pounding the jungles.
This performance put Janis and the band on the map. The Mamas and the Papas are the ones that put together the Monterey Pop Festival. It was shot for television, as noted by the 4:3 aspect ratio.
Janis sang from the soul. She described it in an interview once. She said you can't just sing it, you have to 'feel'' it. When she sang, it came from the depths of her being and it was felt by anyone who heard her.
I went to one singing lesson in the 90s at like a B'way song and dance style school and I told the teacher I wanted to sing just like Janis Joplin and the lady said Janis "wasn't even an actual singer, she just screeched." And "who would ever want to sing like that!?" That was my last day in her class.
Just love Janis Joplin so much. She is so amazing. Thank you for the react (even not understanding a damn about vocal techniques). Loved your channel too.
This song was written by Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton, who was an excellent vocalist in her own right. You really ought to give a listen to her original version of the song.
I have yet to find a voice like hers. I have been looking for 54 years. I have yet to find a soul like hers. I have been looking for 3,500 years. I was thirteen when she died. It took me years to get over that loss. Sing to Jesus dear Janis, so He can send someone to shake us from our fears like you did once. Love for Janis.XXXX
That was a great performance as so many were those three days.I went AWOL to be there and the 100 dollars I was fined and the article 15 I received were worth it.
"The girl" you mention is (Mama) Cass Elliott of the Mamas and the Papas (California Dreaming, Monday, Monday). She broke out on her own and is most known for her version of "Dream A Little Dream" and "Make Your Own Kind of Music" - she died in her sleep at a hotel in London after a performance in 1974. She was just 32.
@@BlasphemousVerses it's not about "Better" with Kurt Cobain singing it, it's that in 1993 Nirvana covered a sing from an artist that no one expected. The expectation would be Stooges or whatever. Sorry you totally can't understand that
@@P715R Just having a conversation with yourself huh? I'm just saying that Leadbelly is awesome and most people have never heard the original let alone know it's a cover. I get you guys love Nirvana, but christ, relax.
The woman be in the audience is one of the all time great artist as Mama Cass from the Mama's and the Papa's The reason she's so amazed is this was Janis's debut nobody knew who she was until this exact moment when we watch a star being born . Her raw honest talent is what makes her so special in rock history gone way too soon
That’s 60s, 1967 to be exact, and she was quite unique. Kind of wish she stayed with “Big Brother and the holding company”, that band really blended well with her emotional singing style.
And shortly after Janis died... Big Brother and the Holding Co. were playing college dances... like one I attended (yes, they had Dances then.) at Fresno State. But without HER... sadly... they had nothing. It was really quite sad ! And, of course they wouldnt have BEEN there if she had lived !! Duh.
Janis had many different singing voices and this popular one that she is known for is believed by many to be her worst or weakest one. I'm glad to have heard her sing when I was little. I'm a mezzo-soprano but I sang this song a lot in July 2018 and I loved doing my Janis inspired voice. It was fun!
This is actually their second performance at the same festival. They performed the day before and I forget whether they didn't have the cameras rolling or if there was some malfunctions but she and Big Brother and the Holding Company floored the audience. When they found out they didn't have catch it on film, they asked the band to perform again the following day. The Monterey Pop Festival was the coming out party for several acts that would become iconic. It turned them into national and even international stars. Besides BBATHC/Janis, It was Jimi Hendrix's coming out party as he had to go to England to start his buzz with The Experience and this was the first concert back in America since forming the Experience with the guidance of Animals bassist/ Experience manager, Chas Chandler. It was also the big audience crossover for soul great, Otis Redding who played in front of a predominantly white audience when previously he was relegated mostly to the "chittlin circuit". He brought the house down on Saturday Night. The white audience lost their mind and wouldn't let him leave the stage so he kept playing until the local authorities cut power to the stage. It was a triumph for Otis but sadly, he died several months later in a plane crash. His only #1 hit on the pop charts was released posthumously. The rest of the line up was a who's who of the best artists of the day and the ones who were on the way to being the best. An historical landmark in the timeline of modern pop music...
Great reaction to a classic by Janis. Back in the day, bands had to be really good as there was no auto-tune, if you voice was bad, you didn't make it. I saw her Atlanta in 1969 and she was amazing, she put 1000% into her performance. In the 60's there were some very talented female singers, Mama Cass (Mamas&Papas), Tracy Nelson (Mother Earth), Grace Slick (Airplane), Joan Baez, Janis Ian. If you're interested, any of these ladies would be a good followup to Janis.
Thank you Beth for reacting to Janis. Whenever I hear "Janis Joplin", "Kurt Cobain" or "Amy Winehouse" I am remembered of the "club 27" and it makes me sad sometimes.
I haven’t listened to Janis for quite a while. I’d forgotten what a smoldering Tibetan demon she was and how much energy she had. Amazing. Thanks Beth.
"That girl's face." You mean Cass Elliot, Mama Cass from the Mamas and the Papas is sitting in the audience, so the camera grabs her reaction. A big girl with a big voice. She also performed at the Monterey Festival.
At the very end 9:00 years of frustrations spred out in a second, goosebumps. For the whole stuff i've ever listened about blues singing that's second is the peak. 😮😢❤😊 ps the woman that shakes her head totally amazed at the very end is one of the singers from Mamas & Papas.
Saw Janis three times over her brief career, in San Antonio (I think), Chicago, and San Francisco. Janis left the stage with nothing left, she gave it all. I'm so sorry she found so little comfort in her private life, she was a fragile little girl really. Also wish she had been backed by a real R&B band.
The ham sandwich story isn't even true. Just a little bit of newspaper hype. But you go boys. So cool of you reliving a joke that was old 50 years ago...
America Lost So you think the joke was old four years PRIOR to Ellen's death? Interesting. Of course I'm trolling, thus the "too soon" at the end of the comment. And yes the half eaten sandwich caused a silly tale, but heart failure is a generic blanket cause of death. As one medical examiner once said: "everybody dies because their heart stops". What would be interesting is to know what factors caused a 32 y.o. heart to stop. My guess would be apnea, which is common for overweight people when sleeping.
I love how Janis digs deep. She really gets in there with her songs. It’s not about polish. She doesn’t flutter around the surface. And of course, she could REALLY sing. Janis Joplin was so one of a kind.
I was lucky to see Janis Joplin live at Ravinia outside of Chicago. WOW! ~~ Later I saw a stage production of "Love Janis" there were two vocalists alternating performances.
Janis is raw that's why even today she is popular. Mama Cass came to check her out and told her band we got competition. Love both of them Cass had an amazing voice thanks for the reactipn
holy moly that was a roler coaster of emotions... one that is uniquely herself is Beth Gibbons of Portishead! she has what i call a cameleon voice. it changes from time to time. a bit like Mike Patton with all his projects! they don't just sing in 1 kind of tone or style... keep on rocking! :)
This concert Monterey Pop was the big festival in Cali, Janis became a national figure from her performance Hendrix also broke in America at this show. Janis was all heart when she sang. She left us too soon but no one can deny that she gave all of her heart and soul in her music. The pain in her life can be felt in her songs and growing up in a small conservative Texas town her life wasn't easy but she made it out and gave us wonderful music
Janis wasn't about technique ..it was all about heart and pain.
Well... and about alcohol and drugs.
@@DerEchteBold about wildness and 70's
@@fliproleluwu5602
Kinda what I said, wasn't it?!
Btw, she didn't experience much of the 70s really.
And talent!
@@constanzaed
People always say 'talent' when it's about someone they like but what does it even mean, could you please define talent?
There's no point trying to analyse Janis. She's beyond understanding
She's not analyzing her in a judgmental way.
The woman in the sunglasses staring in disbelief is Mama Cass, of the Mamas and the Papas.
Yep, that's Mama Cass
Another GREAT.
Ty i thought that might be her
Yip, Mama Cass is another musician who died young.
Damn, I would've never known. She doesn't look how I remember her looking. Thanks for letting us know, at least those of us that didn't know. That makes this even more bad ass.
I am a 55 year old black man, and even I will admit how much sweet soul and heart this Texas white girl had! She really got me into jazzy soul music!
Ya , brother . This don’t have any color . Pure soul
You should get out more.
@@richardj9016why?
Pure, raw emotion isn’t something you could ever be taught, and Janis was loaded with it. She poured her soul into every note she sang, and she completely captivated people with it. There can never be another like her.
the difference between real music and today's music is ... it was about passion .... feeling ... emotion and connection ... what i find is missing in a lot of today's music .... and the fact that people like Janis Joplin is pure raw music ... music is pretty much lost now a days ...
@@Kanieht.L us youngins don't get much opportunity to drop acid
Exactly. Anyone who doesn't understand the majesty of raw power shouldn't be teaching vocals. Janis sang the blues with such purity. The woman who created Ball and Chain, Big Mama Thornton, loved Janis's version. If you know blues, really know blues, you know Janis was one of the greats.
@@davidjanssen894 That's blues and if you don't get that I'm really sorry for you.
Janice just tears your heart out with her singing. When a pro like Mama Cass sits there in the audience with her mouth open and says "Wow," you know you're in the presence of greatness. Listening to her still brings a tear to my eye even after all these years (I'm 73). Her life was tragic, and she never lived to see how much she was loved, but we'll always have her incredible soul with us every time we hear her sing.
I love Mama Cass' expression. She was totally carried away.
She was so absorbed, but then the mamas and papas where all about vocal excellence, she certainly would be absorbed.
Cass was bewildered, befuddled, astonished.
Check out Cass Elliot singing "Wild Women Don't Sing the Blues" with The Big Three. It's an amazing performance! This was before the Mammas and Papas.
My favorite female vocalist. Pure emotion....even Mama Cass said "wow" watching her. Janis was special...one of a kind.
More emotion per note than any singer ever; it's not just listening to Janis it's feeling her. Tragic that we didn't get so much more. She's making the angels gasp and weep now.
Hahahaha
As soon as she started signing a chill ran down my backbone. Janice was great. So sad that so many people think they can play with fire and not get burned. Many have the scares and many lost the game. Best not to even play.
Interesting that Janis didn't need a voice coach to tell her how to sing. She just did it. Even Mama Cass, a belter herself, was blown away by Janis' performance.
wasnt janis inspired by otis redding
@@bigfrankfraser1391 yes, she seen him in concert c. 1965/1966/1967, she subsequently wanted horns in big brother but that never flew until she went solo
@Jose Gonzalez Janis actually did work with vocal coach Judy Davis for a while in the summer of 66 by request of the band. She stopped working with the instructor. Mama Cass was intrigued by the performance but had said in interviews later that she was not a fan of Janis's singing style. The shocking thing about Janis Joplin in 1967 was that no white women had ever expressed themselves in the same way as she. That is why the imitators now sound so cheesy because they are doing the white woman rocker raspy voice blues thang'. Real blues singers don't do the screaming. They make marvelous and seductive vocal sounds but not just by outright screaming. Janis herself stopped the screaming because it would have destroyed her voice in a short time. She took up a very microphone technique of using a rasp. With excessive volume it sounded very powerful but if you heard her in a room it was actually not very loud as singing in a rasp would not be. She was in the right place at the right time to make the impression that she did.
I didn't like a singing coach reacting to raw talent that never needed coaching. It hurt 😢
@@DenPrice-qw5gx I think it's really interesting to hear the notes of a professional singing coach, they can tell you exactly how the person with raw, self taught talent is using their voice.
Janis wasn't a singer; Janis was pure raw pain, soul, awesomeness!
Kudos for the videographer who did such a great job and preserved this performance.
She had that rare ability to sing with all the heart and soul she could muster and leave it all out there, holding nothing back. What a talent! Thanks, enjoyed your take on the video.
"that girl" is Cass Elliot of the Mamas and Papas. You should check her out. She was fabulous but also died too young.
If Mama Cass had given her sandwich to Karen Carpenter,they might both still be alive!🤣
@@iancrombie8862 ooo dark...funny but dark
@@iancrombie8862 Damn! With the harshness.
This chick doesn't even know how to "listen" to art.
@@iancrombie8862 I'm fairly certain the sandwich choking story isn't true.
I cannot hear Janis sing without getting goosebumps. My favorite artist by far.
I was so happy when I saw she was doing this one. This is one of my favorite Janis Joplin performances.
Vocal 180 Chaos likewise
Her roots are in the blues and she is a legendary performer. Even the musicians of her time were blown away by her raw tallent.
Fifty-plus years on, this song still sends shivers down my spine. It is driving, aggressive, gripping, bone-shattering. It blew our minds then and still does now. With all the booze and smokes, I doubt Janis could have kept her vocal powers at this level for many more years. It broke my heart when she died but we will always have this marvelous recording to take us back to that Summer of Love.
This performance opened the doors for Janis, who wasn't widely known at the time. And don't forget the band: Big Brother and the Holding Company. Joplin was actually just their lead singer, not the star!
Janis was not a bombastic person on televised interviews. She could get out a hearty laugh but was often soft-spoken.
Thanks for doing this one. I'm headed to the basement to put some old vinyl on the phonograph.
She's an artist, not a singer. I love art.
And the boy ?
She is one of the greatest artists of all time.
There’s no analyzing Janis and her pure, raw, soulful genius. Those people are so lucky to be there and witness this live. RIP Janis 🖤🖤🖤🖤
Not all of her songs were like this. This is pure emotion.
What's astonishing is that nobody, neither us or Mama Cass might be able to see this video because the new manager of the group actually didn't know them so well to let the filmakers tape their performance. Mind changed after the unbelievably positive reaction of the crowd, so they did a second perofrmance the next day. They were the only band to perform twice in the festival.
This is my favourite Janis’ blues. What a pregnant concentration of genuine, aggressive feelings blowing up and down inside her truly mattered soul!
No auto tune, no computers, raw and unfiltered Janice tipping her heart out on the stage.
Janis gives me chills.
SHE IS STILL ROCKING IN 2020 . REAL TALENT NO AUTO TUNE CRAP LIKE HIP HOP AND RAP MUSIC IS SO DEPENDENT ON .
"That girl", the one with the sunglasses mesmerized by Joplin's singing, was 'Momma' Cass. One singer electrified by another.
Expressionist. Raw and heartfelt!! No auto tune or quantizer here!!!! One of the Best! 🌟🌟🌟🌟
Monterey Pop Festival 1967. This was the very first concert I ever attended. I was 13 and this performance made me cry it it was so beautiful. First I had ever heard of her.
Janis isn’t about technique but about expressing pure open emotion and the blues. When she sang you could feel what she felt.
Janice was a goddess .. Everything she sang was pure heart and soul 😊❤️
Thanks for requesting this Josh, I feel like more people need to know about this magical performance
"The goal (of singing) is to express yourself and to be truly uniquely you." This is especially true in rock and blues.
There are many intentional "inaccuracies" in blues. Blues doesn't follow all the rules. When reading blues music in 4/4 time, it is automatically assumes that the quarters are to be played as ROUGHLY 3/16 - 1/6, with the amount of that split being determined at the band's discretion. The lead melody in a song is often played slightly off beat, coming in at just a little bit past the beat. To achieve the desired effect, bent notes or minor notes are not always played to the normally expected/mathematical pitch. Blues is a very loose (and effective) art form. Blues should not be analyzed through classical eyes. It'll make you go cross-eyed! lol
The analysis by this woman would discount so many great artists like Mick Jagger and the entire punk movement. It's sad when people who profess to love art just don't get it.
It's called singing with feel......And when you sing or play instruments with feel it becomes timeless.
God I love Janis more than anything but I really have to limit how much I can listen to her. I've become incapable of listening to her without welling up with overwhelming emotion & crying Every. Single. Time.
What the hell is up with that?!? Lol
OMG same...listening to her is emotionally draining ...... There's another version of Ball and Chain where there's spoken word at the end..... I go back to Janis now and again but there need to be a cooling off period lol
@@TheCornellJunkie Agreed. Gotta take her in small doses. Otherwise, melancholy sets in. Still, I miss that voice and those times.
Gone too soon. Breaks my heart every time.
I can’t listen to her song A Woman Left Lonely without getting emotional, her voice is like the tortured souls of women over the centuries bleeding through into one powerful scream. I adore her!
same here
The Cheap Thrills's cut is the most impressive performance by a singer I’ve ever seen. Thanks from Brasil!
Your Welcome 😊
@@BethRoars , :)
Never have I clicked on a video so fast in my entire life. I love your reaction videos and I absolutely love Janis Joplin. This should be amazing.
Finally, thank you very much, to me, best female singer of all times, you can feel her passion for music, I love Janis.
I love You Beth, You have a Fantastic way of putting things into perspective. I try to watch a couple videos a week when I have extra time and I'm always glad I watched another episode or two. You're the Best! Keep it Up!! Love the Accent, Grood Grief, It's Awesome! Lol, ok enough, back to the point. I dig your channel, It's a 100 times better than anyone else I've found. You're the Queen on RUclips! Two Thumbs Up!
When you see Mama Cass Elliot say "WOW" you know it special
Thank you for that. The performance at Monterrey is my favourite one of Janis Joplin's. She is incredibly young there, yet had already had a very hard life. Her voice speaks of pure emotion, frustration, anger, tenderness and unrequited love. The girl in the crowd is Cass Elliot of the Mamas and Papas.
She lived the blues long before she sang it.
This was the Monterey Pop Festival 1967. You can buy the film "The complete Monterey Pop Festival" by D.A.Pennebaker. Brian Jones from the Stones was there just to watch the show. Jimi Hendrix followed The Who and lit his guitar on fire. Rock. Cass Elliot looking on wonder.
She looked on in wonder because Cass knew if she lived a thousand years and regardless how well she sang, she would never sing like that.
The very first out door rock concert and am so glad I was lucky enough to be there in person.Three great days in my life and two months later pounding the jungles.
This performance put Janis and the band on the map. The Mamas and the Papas are the ones that put together the Monterey Pop Festival. It was shot for television, as noted by the 4:3 aspect ratio.
That girl shocked in the audience is the one and only Momma Cass from the Mommas and Pappas
Anthony LaPenta Yes indeed. 😊
Janis sang from the soul. She described it in an interview once. She said you can't just sing it, you have to 'feel'' it. When she sang, it came from the depths of her being and it was felt by anyone who heard her.
Dang, I just love the blues! Janis was the blues in human form.
I went to one singing lesson in the 90s at like a B'way song and dance style school and I told the teacher I wanted to sing just like Janis Joplin and the lady said Janis "wasn't even an actual singer, she just screeched." And "who would ever want to sing like that!?" That was my last day in her class.
What a horrible vocal teacher.
Please do her doing Summer Time from the album Big Brother and the Holding Company.
Just love Janis Joplin so much. She is so amazing. Thank you for the react (even not understanding a damn about vocal techniques). Loved your channel too.
When I listen to any Janis Joplin song she brings out my inner spirit.
She partly adapted her style from Roky Erickson of the 13th floor Elevators; they used to hang with the same crowd back in 66/67 in Texas
More like Big Mama Thorton
This song was written by Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton, who was an excellent vocalist in her own right. You really ought to give a listen to her original version of the song.
Hey! Check out my video where I react to Big Mama Thornton singing Hound Dog here: ruclips.net/video/DURgBSu0TK8/видео.html
Definitely.
I have yet to find a voice like hers. I have been looking for 54 years. I have yet to find a soul like hers. I have been looking for 3,500 years. I was thirteen when she died. It took me years to get over that loss. Sing to Jesus dear Janis, so He can send someone to shake us from our fears like you did once. Love for Janis.XXXX
That was a great performance as so many were those three days.I went AWOL to be there and the 100 dollars I was fined and the article 15 I received were worth it.
As others have pointed out that's Mama Cass with the wow @ 9:14 if not recognized.
Your choices lately are exquisitely eclectic. Very interesting and fun.
"The girl" you mention is (Mama) Cass Elliott of the Mamas and the Papas (California Dreaming, Monday, Monday). She broke out on her own and is most known for her version of "Dream A Little Dream" and "Make Your Own Kind of Music" - she died in her sleep at a hotel in London after a performance in 1974. She was just 32.
Please look at Jefferson Airplane live at Woodstock singing White Rabbit. Grace Slick kills it.
She is amazing!
Yes!
Go ask Alice ,when she's ten feet tall!
Still gives me goosebumps after all these years
3:38 "Nasally does not tend to be sexy."
Fran Drescher: *sigh*
Soooiiiighhh, if we’re going to transcribe precisely. ;)
Can't stand Fran's voice. At all.
60s - not, "70s", darlin' 😶; the late GREAT Janis Joplin died in October 1970.
Janis and Jimi stole the show with their debut .
I love the symmetry of the guitarists and bassists all using instruments with the same body style (two SGs and an EB-3)
The girl in the crowd is Cass Elliot from the Mamas and Poppas
This woman was unique and incomparable. Had she changed one thing she wouldnt be Janice.
Theres nothing to judge just feel.
Anyone that can listen to this without getting goosebumps isn't human. I loved her so much. I was 14 when she died and it broke my freakin heart.
Please react to Nirvana Unplugged "where did you sleep last night"
Definitely!
Please let this happen😍😍
Leadbelly's original is better.
@@BlasphemousVerses it's not about "Better" with Kurt Cobain singing it, it's that in 1993 Nirvana covered a sing from an artist that no one expected. The expectation would be Stooges or whatever. Sorry you totally can't understand that
@@P715R Just having a conversation with yourself huh? I'm just saying that Leadbelly is awesome and most people have never heard the original let alone know it's a cover. I get you guys love Nirvana, but christ, relax.
The woman looking on in amazement was another fantastic and famous singer of that time. It's Mama Cass, of the Mamas and Papas.
How does Beth not know Mama Cass......🤦🏽♂️😩
Fame is fleeting........
@@surfrunnerd8457 no "time is fleeting" thank you Riff Raft.(Rocky Horror Show)
I imagine she has heard California Dreamin' or Monday Monday somewhere along the line but didn't know it was the Mamas and the Papas . ☺
Young people don’t know anything.
Because both has pumped her own ego up. Beth ain't shit.
The woman be in the audience is one of the all time great artist as Mama Cass from the Mama's and the Papa's The reason she's so amazed is this was Janis's debut nobody knew who she was until this exact moment when we watch a star being born . Her raw honest talent is what makes her so special in rock history gone way too soon
The group is called Big Brother and the Holding Company, which Janis was a part of.
First time hearing your anzlys. Good job. Been listening to Janis since the sixties. And I learned something tonight
That’s 60s, 1967 to be exact, and she was quite unique.
Kind of wish she stayed with “Big Brother and the holding company”, that band really blended well with her emotional singing style.
And shortly after Janis died... Big Brother and the Holding Co. were playing college dances... like one I attended (yes, they had Dances then.) at Fresno State. But without HER... sadly... they had nothing. It was really quite sad ! And, of course they wouldnt have BEEN there if she had lived !! Duh.
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Janice left big brother and the holding company, not long after this.
Janis had many different singing voices and this popular one that she is known for is believed by many to be her worst or weakest one. I'm glad to have heard her sing when I was little. I'm a mezzo-soprano but I sang this song a lot in July 2018 and I loved doing my Janis inspired voice. It was fun!
My favorite description of Janice Joplin singing is that it's like a cat in heat! She's always been one of my favorites since those years!
Pure and raw emotion. You can't learn that that's for sure.
This is actually their second performance at the same festival. They performed the day before and I forget whether they didn't have the cameras rolling or if there was some malfunctions but she and Big Brother and the Holding Company floored the audience. When they found out they didn't have catch it on film, they asked the band to perform again the following day.
The Monterey Pop Festival was the coming out party for several acts that would become iconic. It turned them into national and even international stars. Besides BBATHC/Janis, It was Jimi Hendrix's coming out party as he had to go to England to start his buzz with The Experience and this was the first concert back in America since forming the Experience with the guidance of Animals bassist/ Experience manager, Chas Chandler. It was also the big audience crossover for soul great, Otis Redding who played in front of a predominantly white audience when previously he was relegated mostly to the "chittlin circuit". He brought the house down on Saturday Night. The white audience lost their mind and wouldn't let him leave the stage so he kept playing until the local authorities cut power to the stage. It was a triumph for Otis but sadly, he died several months later in a plane crash. His only #1 hit on the pop charts was released posthumously. The rest of the line up was a who's who of the best artists of the day and the ones who were on the way to being the best. An historical landmark in the timeline of modern pop music...
Janis Joplin actually grew up about 2 1/2 hours from where I grew up. My older aunts used to play her all the time.
Thank you for sharing.
Vocal coach is great for a play by play because Janis used so many tones ......thank you for that play by play......amazing insight...
Great reaction to a classic by Janis. Back in the day, bands had to be really good as there was no auto-tune, if you voice was bad, you didn't make it. I saw her Atlanta in 1969 and she was amazing, she put 1000% into her performance. In the 60's there were some very talented female singers, Mama Cass (Mamas&Papas), Tracy Nelson (Mother Earth), Grace Slick (Airplane), Joan Baez, Janis Ian. If you're interested, any of these ladies would be a good followup to Janis.
Janis is the only singer that can bring a tear to my eye with her songs and her voice. She was just the best!
You need to react to Little Girl Blue to see a softer side of Janis
The live version from "This Is Tom Jones" would be my pick. Stunning.
Fantastic review girl, love you. the girl in the audience that kept staring was Cass Elliot of The Mamas & the Papas
Thank you Beth for reacting to Janis. Whenever I hear "Janis Joplin", "Kurt Cobain" or "Amy Winehouse" I am remembered of the "club 27" and it makes me sad sometimes.
.. same 😔
I haven’t listened to Janis for quite a while. I’d forgotten what a smoldering Tibetan demon she was and how much energy she had. Amazing. Thanks Beth.
"That girl's face." You mean Cass Elliot, Mama Cass from the Mamas and the Papas is sitting in the audience, so the camera grabs her reaction. A big girl with a big voice. She also performed at the Monterey Festival.
At the very end 9:00 years of frustrations spred out in a second, goosebumps. For the whole stuff i've ever listened about blues singing that's second is the peak. 😮😢❤😊 ps the woman that shakes her head totally amazed at the very end is one of the singers from Mamas & Papas.
Saw Janis three times over her brief career, in San Antonio (I think), Chicago, and San Francisco. Janis left the stage with nothing left, she gave it all. I'm so sorry she found so little comfort in her private life, she was a fragile little girl really. Also wish she had been backed by a real R&B band.
Some time after playing with BB&HC, her band was the Kozmic Blues Band. That was a real R&B Band indeed. Don't you agree?
@@ichmemyself6098 Yeah, just too brief.
Led Zeppelins Robert Plant studied Janis when he was a young developing artist. Janis developed her style studying Otis Redding.
The emotional connection, the power, I the feeling of the times .Well, Ya had to be there.
Thank you again Beth! I’m not a singer by any means, but I am learning how to listen to music and lyrics much better! You’re awesome 👊🏼
7.03 Her face... that is Mama Cass from Mamas and the Papas 🙂👍
Mama Cass dropped her ham sandwich watching Joplin. 😆
Seriously, Cass loved Janis!
Ruskut She was musing "maybe I'll try what they're having...just before bed, while eating a ham sandwich"...What?, Too soon?
The ham sandwich story isn't even true. Just a little bit of newspaper hype. But you go boys. So cool of you reliving a joke that was old 50 years ago...
America Lost So you think the joke was old four years PRIOR to Ellen's death? Interesting. Of course I'm trolling, thus the "too soon" at the end of the comment. And yes the half eaten sandwich caused a silly tale, but heart failure is a generic blanket cause of death. As one medical examiner once said: "everybody dies because their heart stops". What would be interesting is to know what factors caused a 32 y.o. heart to stop. My guess would be apnea, which is common for overweight people when sleeping.
Todd Peucker i just repeated what she said 😂
Exactly, is mama Cass (The Mamas And The Papaa) reacting Janis Joplin.
I love how Janis digs deep. She really gets in there with her songs. It’s not about polish. She doesn’t flutter around the surface. And of course, she could REALLY sing. Janis Joplin was so one of a kind.
I was lucky to see Janis Joplin live at Ravinia outside of Chicago. WOW! ~~ Later I saw a stage production of "Love Janis" there were two vocalists alternating performances.
Mama Cass was a fantastic singer, she was the one that they focused on.
What a fantastic explanation of whats going on with Janice vocal performance. So much stuff going on we never think about that you articulate so well.
Im glad you enjoyed 😊
That’s mama Cass there in the audience.
I have no words for that.
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Love this song such feelings.
Janis is raw that's why even today she is popular. Mama Cass came to check her out and told her band we got competition. Love both of them Cass had an amazing voice thanks for the reactipn
holy moly that was a roler coaster of emotions... one that is uniquely herself is Beth Gibbons of Portishead! she has what i call a cameleon voice. it changes from time to time. a bit like Mike Patton with all his projects! they don't just sing in 1 kind of tone or style... keep on rocking! :)
This concert Monterey Pop was the big festival in Cali, Janis became a national figure from her performance Hendrix also broke in America at this show. Janis was all heart when she sang. She left us too soon but no one can deny that she gave all of her heart and soul in her music. The pain in her life can be felt in her songs and growing up in a small conservative Texas town her life wasn't easy but she made it out and gave us wonderful music