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The Unofficial Janis Joplin Homepage

Ok, I'll admit. I've taken someone else's images and modified part of them for use on this page. If they don't like it, all they have to do is tell me. To see the original picturess at the original sites just click on the picture. For the best viewing of this page, expand your browser window (if you can) so that the three above pictures are all on the same line.

Mailing List

There is now a mailing list for fans of Janis Joplin. To subscribe to it send mail to:

[email protected]

with a blank subject line and a body of

SUBSCRIBE JANIS-L firstname lastname

Please, please use a valid return address. You should recieve confirmation of being subscribed within 24 hours, if not try again after checking that your return address is valid. If you are still having problems subscribing send mail directly to me with a note asking to be added to the list and all the information requested above.

Also, please note the address to "listserv," there is no "e" after the v.

Mystery- Solved

The mystery about the picture has been solved. It was taken by Dave Eichblatt. The whole story is quite interesting.

General Information

A What's New page.
Here's a new item from ICE that may of interest:
"Moving into 'to be scheduled' status: BIG BROTHER AND THE HOLDING COMPANY- Big Brother & The Holding Company (Janis Joplin's first album; ICE #106) (Sony Legacy)."
This seems to indicate a rerelease of that album however there has been NO release date set. (Thanks to Kevin Perkins for this bit of information).
The first bit of information is from the All Music Guide and is the entry about Janis Joplin. All the information is now displayed in tables so I am making a copy of the old version of the information available locally.
The Janis Joplin FAQ, still a work in progress as soon as a decent version is available it will be posted here. If you have any suggestions for information to include in the FAQ please e-mail me.
Here's a bibliography pertaining to Janis Joplin.
There is now a brief biography of Janis here. It was written by Lauren Leahy who has graciously given me permission to include it here.
For more detailed information see the Janis Joplin International Web Site.
I have also started a discography .
Note: This is mostly a synthesis of already available materials. I can take no "creative" credit. It is a compilation of available materials and information people have sent me.
From "Wilson & Alroy's Record Reviews," a group of people reviewing records comes this review of Janis and her work.
You can even read some of Ellis Amburn's Pearl online at Pathfinder.

Lyrics

The following song lyrics are available

These were obtained from the music ftp site at University of Wisconsin-Parkside.

The following lyrucs were made available to me by Kevin Perkins , so if you appreciate his work please tell him so.

Well, I decided to get into the transcribing act and now have new appreciation for everyone who transcribes lyrics.

Yet another donor of transcribed lyrcis. Tony Armstrong. provides the following lyrics:

Some lyrics from Pearl and Kozmic Blues transcribed by Don LaVelle.

Some guitar transcriptions sent to me by Juan Martinez.

Sounds

This is a new addition to the Janis Joplin page. All these sounds are 8 bit/22.225 kHz and were created by using the digital audio transfer of the track from the audio cd to my hard drive and then editing the high quality sample to come up with the samples, which were then converted to .wav formet All of the song clips are taken from the cd Janis Joplin 18 essential songs .

Mercedes Benz

"I'd like to do a song of great social and political import" (2.891 secs, 62.9k)
"Oh Lord, won't you buy me a mercedes benz, all my friends drive Porsches, I must make amends, worked hard all my lifetime with no help from my friends." (17.055 secs, 370.8k)
So, oh Lord, won't you buy me a color tv, oh Lord, won't you buy me a night on the town." (11.157 secs, 242.6k)
"That's it (laughter)." (1.591 secs, 34.7k)

This clip was sent to me by Kenny Unser and is from "Me and Bobby McGee"

"Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose "(4.7 secs, 50.7k, 8 bit, 11.025kHz)

From a site in Germany comes a large (2 MB) .au file of Me and Bobby McGee.
Here's a midi of Me and Bobby McGee.
Here's a site in Brazil that is selling cds. They also have some .wav files there but the links from the cd page do not match the real paths to the .wavs, so here are the direct links: Me and Bobby McGee , Summertime , and Try (Just a Little Bit Harder). Some of the sounds may have static as the first few seconds of them, so if you have some simple sound editing software you may want to use it on the sounds. Oh yeah, the page is written in Portugese.

Pictures

Note these are all stored locally on the same server as the pages.

These pictures come to me as a result of the efforts of Charles Spivey, but I am responsible for the conversion from .bmp to .gif for space considerations, so if there are errors it is my fault.