MUCO 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Big Mama Thornton, Janis Joplin, Grace Slick
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Hard to pinpoint what psychedelic rock sounds like. Band: big brother and the holding company. Low self esteem about looks when young. Recorded this two weeks before a heroin overdose killed her. Rst appearance of janis was with big brother band was at the monterey pop festival during the summer of love . The experience music project - - museum there. Could resting a right hand guitar upside town to play left handed. After army he spent some time playing in sidebands. Noticed by chaz chandler a b. rock musicians (the animals) I knew this cat was going to freak out more people than jagger . Took him to london for the blues rock scene. Phones rang all the time but he ignored them b/c so stoned and high. Playing the guitar with multiple body parts. He played a lot of covers at the monterey pop festival. Opens his own recording studio in ny.
