Well, goodbye friends, it's time to close I keep you clean and the girls will keep you fedĪnd the body can get no restin' done, that's trueĪnd wondering where them trains are rolling to It's swimming through the air above my bedĪs long as you're back in your room on time Heaven ain't bad but you don't get nothing done. If you grew up listing to this music, it's worth a rental.Īnd I was thinkin' Hang on, man, something's wrong Oh well, at any rate, I need to dig out my copy of "Janis" for viewing later on tonight and belt a shot of bourbon in my small salute to this great, sad talent that burned so bright, but so short.īTW, here's a link to the DVD. It just hit me as too weird that this happend this way just a coincidence, but kind of sad. So I listen and at the end the DJ starts talking about how she passed away from a heroin overdose this day in 1970.
I'm driving on to work and channel surfing on the radio when I hit "Cry, Baby" again. The DVD ends with her doing a great "Tell Mama" and then a "Bobby McGee" over the credits.įF to this morning. So I'm sitting here watching this 27 year old belting out all this pain and suffering as only she could, realizing that she was to leave us 4 months later. When Janis came on with "Cry, Baby", it didn't seem all that special, but it got me wondering how old she was when this was filmed, so I google her up and find out she was born in 1943 and died in October, 1970. Nice clear camera shots and shockingly good recordings, especially of some vintage Grateful Dead w/Pigpen ("Hard to Handle", "New Speedway Boogie", "Easy Wind", "Don't Ease Me In"). The bands featured in the DVD are the Dead, The Band, Buddy Guy, Janis Joplin, Ian and Sylvia, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Mashmakan, and not shown in but on board was Mountain, Ten Years After, Delaney and Bonnie and others. It seems that these promoters decided to rent an entire train, load it up with musicians and drive it west across Canada staging concerts at cities along the way.
#HARD TO HANDLE JANIS JOPLIN SERIES#
It's a concert documentary about a series of concerts staged in Canada in June/July 1970.
Last night I'm watching a DVD called "Festival Express" I snagged at the library while doing a Grateful Dead search.
Well this is just weird or coincidental, whatever.
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