Remembering Janis Joplin (January 19, 1943 – October 4, 1970) | Don's Tunes

 

“When I sing, I feel, oh, I feel, well, like when you’re first in love.… I feel chills, weird feelings slipping all over my body, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.” 

Photo: Barry Feinstein 

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Janis sings The Bee Gees ‘ To Love Somebody’

July 18, 1969 Janis Joplin in The Dick Cavett Show

Remembering Jimi Hendrix (November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) | Don’s Tunes

 

"I don't really live on compliments. As a matter of fact, they have a way of distracting me. I know a whole lot of musicians, artists out there who hears the compliments and thinks "wow, I must have been really great" and so they get fat and satisfied and they get lost and forget about their actual talent and start living in another world.

Pretty soon I believe people will have to rely on music to get some kind of peace of mind, or satisfaction, or direction, actually. More so than politics, the big ego scene. You know it's an art of words... Meaning nothing. Therefore you will have to get an earthier substance, like music or the arts."

Dick Cavett interview (1969)

Photo: the legendary Gered Mankowitz

Remembering Jimi Hendrix (November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) - Jas Obrecht | Don’s Tunes

Photo: Bent Rej Photography

"James McKay, the grown-up son of their landlady, often sat on the porch playing blues on an acoustic guitar as Jimi listened in. When Jimi told his father he wanted to learn to play, Al purchased McKay’s guitar for five dollars. At first, Al recalls, Jimi concentrated on teaching himself easy riffs, “just like a person plunking away with one finger on the piano. One of the first things that he learned how to play was the theme song from Peter Gunn, so even when he was just starting, he could make music out of the guitar. Who knows—playing guitar could have been his way of working through some of his feelings about his mother. He just worked at it and worked at it, practicing night and day. He played the guitar every day. He carried it around with him all the time.” This habit continued until Jimi was well into his twenties, when he often fell asleep with his guitar still in his hands.

Al Hendrix: “Jimi would put my 45s on the turntable, and play along on his guitar. He’d try to copy what he’d heard, and he’d make up stuff too. He lived on blues around the house. I got a lot of records by B.B. King and Louis Jordan and some of the downhome guys like Muddy Waters. Jimi was really excited by B.B. King and Chuck Berry, and he was a fan of Albert King too, because he liked all them blues guitarists.

“Jimi also had some of his own 78s and 45s, but he never did ask me to buy him any records. He would buy his own. We also had a radio and television on Yesler. I didn’t see Jimi pay too much attention to the radio, but he liked to lay on the floor or sit on the couch and watch TV. Usually when I’d come home from work, he’d be sitting there with the TV on, and then he’d be playing along to the stereo during commercials. When the program would come on again, he would watch that again.” 

From Jimi Hendrix’s Favourite Singles and LPs / Jas Obrecht 

Not sure I totally hold with where this is going but that maybe my distrust in anything his dad said . . . . Jas we trust to report but there’s just something doesn’t ring true about this . . . . .after all it’s all just second hand info . . . . no Jimi here

This from Don’s Tunes yesterday . . .