Janis Joplin died 50 years ago today

[basquebromance]

“I love you, honey,” Janis Joplin told the audience, following four encores, “but I just got nothing left.”

rest in peace, honey!

Janis Joplin’s Electric Energy

She was a star, well out of everyone else’s class. And, even for a star, her ego was sizable.

www.newyorker.com

 

[Ben Thomson]

“I love you, honey,” Janis Joplin told the audience, following four encores, “but I just got nothing left.”

rest in peace, honey!

Janis Joplin’s Electric Energy

She was a star, well out of everyone else’s class. And, even for a star, her ego was sizable.

www.newyorker.com

About the only good thing to come out of Texas

 

[Ridgerunner]

About the only good thing to come out of Texas

 

[JOSweetHeart]

Y'all who are into her can have what would've been my share of her because I have never understood the fascination that other people have where she is concerned. She was pretty, but to me, she sounds too much like a fork in a garbage disposal. In my opinion, this is her best picture.

God bless you and the Joplin family always!!!

Holly

 

[basquebromance]

Little Richard said you can hear the holy spirit in Janis Joplin’s voice. She could (and did) sing clear as a bell, but it was the cracks in that bell—multiphonic cries that splintered a single note into a three-tone chord—that set loose the spirit dancers

 

[lg325]

Tried to put up a video of one of her performances it didn't work. But a performance of hers , wasn't just heard it was felt.