WhenJanis Joplinfailed to show up at Sunset Sound Studios by 6 p.m., Paul Rothschild, her producer, gave in to the strange “flashing” he had been feeling all day and sent John Cooke, a road manager for the Full Tilt Boogie Band, over to the Landmark Motor Hotel to see why she w...
A stained-glass window in San Antonio's Hard Rock Cafe pays tribute to Janis Joplin. The cover of Cheap Thrills, Big Brother's 1968 album, was designed by famed underground cartoonist R. Crumb. Death Year: 1970 Death date: October 4, 1970 Death State: California Death City: Hollywood Deat...
Self - Janis Joplin & The Full Tilt Boogie Band (archive footage), Performer ("Cry Baby", "Ain't No More Cane", "Tell Mama", "Me & Bobby McGee") $12K $1.2MM $1.3MM Janis and John (2003) Arranger ("Down On Me" (Live)), Performer ("Down On Me" (Live), "Kozmic ...
Janis Joplin. In retrospect, Port Arthur's most famous daughter both defied and defined the Texas town that raised, rejected, reviled, then ultimately rejoiced
A proper crash course in death. Like my Mom, Janis would have been celebrating her birthday today, had she lived. January 19. Yet another Janis Joplin coincidence. And there were more, being saved for possible future posts. Below, one of the few bits of television footage that captures ...
Janis Joplin is gone, by now just one more we've seen succumb in the public arena of the pop marketplace. It's not just that this kind of early death has become a fact of life that is disturbing, but that it's been accepted as a given so quickly. We're getting to the point wh...
This pool table was in Joplin's home at the time of her death and it remains in the same room of the house today. Special arrangements must be made to organize shipping this table from Larkspur, California. Also includes: wall-mounted cue rack (visible in vintage images); four mis-matche...
she became something of national phenomenon. But not everyone loved Janis Joplin. Her stage antics and whiskey-swilling, devil-may-care style put many people off. Some were convinced she had a death wish and was killing herself slowly with each performance and each day’s excesses, so that ...
A modern-day retrospective on Joplin’s turbulent life, telling a story that reveals the iconic singer’s thoughts on love, sex, fame and belonging. The show will premiere on October 4, the very night of the anniversary of Janis Joplin’s death, at the Macha Theatre—blocks away from Barn...
A down time later accounted for her death. Joplin in a hotel after a gig. Solitude, the consolation of drugs and the cruel irony, noted in the film, that a telegram from the world-travelling boyfriend she hadn’t seen for months —“the one strong man she met who wanted to ‘handle’...