Janis

Janis Joplin - live 69

Before I got hold of this concert, I’d read somewhere (or was it told) that none of her records really truly grasped the full beauty of the way she sounded live.

Janis Joplin for whom not in the know was a late 60’s singer, which grasped the very energy of early female blues singers and took it somewhere else literally with energy and power rarely seemed elsewhere.

However, if my memory is correct, she was hooked on either drugs or alcohol or perhaps even both and sadly resulted in her all too early death tragically not that long after Jimi Hendrix, and left her band to finish off her album “Pearl”, after her death of which her reputation really lies.

This concert which dates back to March 1969 was recorded in Amerstdam, Holland is simply amazing. The review that came on the website I downloaded this from described the quality of it as simply amazing, literally saying the quality of it was such it was almost like somebody had gone back in time with a dat recorder and captured her in literally of her glory.

And it does, believe me.

The quality of it is such it sounds like it was professionally recorded - I can honestly admit I have got official live albums that are nowhere near the quality of this.

Take the first track “Instrumental” which Janis doesn’t sing on, but it is clear the band are so tight it leaves you aching for more - if the band are this good, just how good is their singer.

Janis comes in after, singing a mixture of songs from both of her albums, but with such energy and force, her voice literally does more than take over the band, the grasp of her vocals by the end of the gig literally leaves you weeping at the irony of it that such a talent died at such a early age when others with considerbale less talent lived to old age.

But perhaps that is what has half created the myth about her.

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