“Janis Joplin launched her solo career at the Monterey International Pop Festival, giving a phenomenal performance that helped turn her into a rock and roll star.”
Beg to differ with the phrasing here…Janis was a full-on member of Big Brother and the Holding Company and did not leave that band until several years later when she became “Pearl” and went out on her own with her hand-picked band members and left Big Brother and Holding Company in her wake…I know cos I lived in the Bay Area back then and I ab-so-fukin-toot-ly loved all of her work, with Big Brother and her solo career when she left Big Brother and formed her own band and went on tour with them…
But in a sense, her appearance with Big Brother at Monterrey was her breakthrough out into the larger rock n’ roll universe cos even tho we knew how good she was back then, the wider world did not, at the time…
“Janis Joplin launched her solo career at the Monterey International Pop Festival, giving a phenomenal performance that helped turn her into a rock and roll star.”
Beg to differ with the phrasing here…Janis was a full-on member of Big Brother and the Holding Company and did not leave that band until several years later when she became “Pearl” and went out on her own with her hand-picked band members and left Big Brother and Holding Company in her wake…I know cos I lived in the Bay Area back then and I ab-so-fukin-toot-ly loved all of her work, with Big Brother and her solo career when she left Big Brother and formed her own band and went on tour with them…
jest sayin’
He could have phrased it better. Point well taken. Might have to do some editing
But in a sense, her appearance with Big Brother at Monterrey was her breakthrough out into the larger rock n’ roll universe cos even tho we knew how good she was back then, the wider world did not, at the time…