"I wouldn't want to say, 'Hey, if she sounded that friendly, she must have been a little hammered,'" Fong-Torres explains. The headline? 'Hey, Janis is Feeling Great.'įong-Torres has talked about that midnight phone call over the years, and there's one question that comes up periodically: as someone making a call in the middle of the night, did Joplin seem wasted? Fong-Torres says he couldn't tell, and anyway, had no radar for such things back then. "I scratched out my notes there at the office in Chinatown, and then wrote it up the next day." "It was a very short chat - very pleasant, amiable," Fong-Torres says. She talked about her trip south of the border, a tattoo she'd recently gotten of a flower around her wrist, some criticism of the police in Brazil, and nothing of Rolling Stone's past treatment of her. Instead, Joplin began talking about her new band, her new musical direction, and her plans for the future.
"I had reached out to her a couple of times hoping for comment, understanding that none might be forthcoming, because Janis and Rolling Stone had a pretty tough relationship," Fong-Torres says. Her performances were the stuff of legend, and yet Rolling Stone ran a searing review by Paul Nelson of one of her New York shows titled 'Janis: The Judy Garland of Rock?' David Getz and Janis Joplin playing live (Photo: Courtesy of © Fantality Corp.) Joplin had made groundbreaking albums, but the magazine hadn't bothered to ever give her a cover feature. Deborah Chesher - Nilsson Nilssonsson.It marked a change of heart for the magazine that had treated its hometown hero somewhat dismissively.Tony ViscontiTony Visconti's Inventory- TVPI 21977.Get It While You Can #2 (inc.) (Demo)ģ/28/70 Studio Session Outtakes with The Butterfield Blues Bandġ6. Try (Just A Little Bit Harder) (Demo) / 13.
Nobody Knows You When You're Down & Out (Demo) / 12. Kozmic Blues Outtakes & Demos - June & July 1969ġ0. (03/28/68) SummertimeĬheap Thrills Studio Session Outtakes cont.ġ. (1967) Bye, Bye BabyĬheap Thrills Studio Session Outtakes w/Big Brother & The Holding Co.ġ4. Mainstream LP Session Outtakes with Big Brother & The Holding Co.ġ2. Janis & Big Brother & The Holding Company Sessions 1967-68 San Francisco 1965 w/Dick Oxtrot Jazz BandĨ. Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out / 6. San Jose, CA 25 June 1964 Jorma's Mother's House1.
"The Typewriter Tape" w/Jorma Kaukonen & Margaretta Kaukonen (typewriter) No Reason For Living, Austin, Texas Reel #2: 1964 / 22. Black Mountain Blues, Austin, Texas Reel #1: 1963 / 16. Coffeehouse, late 1962 or early 1963 / 9. I'll Drown In My Own Tears / San Jose Coffeeshop w/Jorma Kaukonen & Steve Mann 1962 / 7. Threadgill's Bar, Austin, Texas 1962 / 2. John Riley's Home, Austin, Texas 1962 //1. Sit down by your window, put this set on, and blow all your blues away. The final CD finally unchains the urgent expression and lets it be heard in a complete Big Brother concert from 1967. Soundtrack vinyl release, this collection has 39 (!) tracks recordedīetween 1962-65 including the ubiquitous "Typewriter Tapes" made by Jorma.
JOPLIN MIDNIGHT VIDEO MOVIE
Had some of this material from the long out of print "Janis" movie The vintage recordings, in particular, are wonderful and although we Included are outtakes and unreleased songs from the 1968 "Cheap Thrills" studio sessions, demos for the 1969 Kozmic Blues album and vast improvements on all existing vintage (1962-65) live recordings. In these newly sourced pearls, we can hear as never before the birth and fast burning flame of Janis Joplin. She drew upon them to impel emotional performances as if by exposing her pain she gained power over her past and transformed it into a gift. From the earliest known performances in the small bars of Texas to the first sessions with Big Brother to her mesmerizing live shows, Janis never left behind her raw roots. This set of archival recordings lets us witness the formation of arguably the most powerful and expressive voice in rock history.
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