Janis Joplin, Big Brother & The Holding Company - Summertime (Live at the Carousel Ballroom - 1968) video free download

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apparently this isn't jimmy...although they did perform this song in 68' ....that was April 7th 1968 ..this performance is with Big Brother on June 23

Honilson Santos

No jimmy Hendrix!The first entry in the Bear's Sonic Journals series is, without question, a stunner. "Bear" (Augustus Owsley Stanley III), the Grateful Dead's live soundman, built and manned the sound system at the Carousel Ballroom. He personally supervised this previously unreleased effort (items from it have appeared on the Joplin box with crummy sound) shortly before his untimely death in an automobile accident in 2011. (He even provides listening instructions via a brief liner essay -- one of a number of them -- including an excellent historical one from Jaan Uhelszki). There were no stage monitors then (something Bear would later pioneer); the band had to listen to the echo back from the room, the P.A., and amplifier sound to cue pitch. Here, vocals and drums are in the left channel, guitars and bass in the right -- no melding. The effect is electrifying; it's exactly what one would experience as an audience member. The sound is warm, immediate, raw; full of intricacies, small flaws, and rough spots that make the performance singular. This is Big Brother still very much performing as a unit, recorded on June 23, 1968 shortly after finishing sessions for Cheap Thrills, whose release occurred two months later. They're comfortable enough with one another here to trust each others' instincts. Joplin's vocals are the centerpiece, but the wild, wooly, psychedelic rock of Big Brother -- James Gurley and Sam Andrew on guitars, bassist Peter Albin, and drummer Dave Getz -- is the engine that propels that singular voice to the heights it needs to soar to. Andrew takes alternate duet and backing vocals regularly; the rest of the band chimes in on the backing ones too. The disc begins with "Combination of the Two," with Joplin and Andrew taking turns on the vocal and a truly incendiary and wildly inventive guitar solo from Gurley. The vocal play continues on "I Need a Man to Love." Joplin's reading is subtle enough to let the blues drench the tune amid the revved sonics. "Summertime" is every bit as lovely as and more soulful than the one on Cheap Thrills. "Catch Me Daddy" is a revelation of jazzy psychedelic blues. The two versions of "Call on Me" (one from Sunday night) are radically different from one another. "Piece of My Heart" features some lithe vocalizing in the verse from Joplin we haven't heard before. But the true highlights here are Albin's "Coo Coo," an acid-drenched instrumental, and "Ball and Chain," in what may be its definitive recorded performance. Live at the Carousel Ballroom 1968 is easily the finest gig from Big Brother & the Holding Company yet released, and it's a fitting tribute to Bear's inventive legacy.

tony pearman

Take it from someone who knows about this stuff. This is not Jimi Hendrix. Just because some mediocre player uses a univibe, a Hendrix it doesn't make

Vicki Shadle

O how I remember ,  Summertime , the music of days gone by and the way we were.  We were so passionate about EVERYTHING.... we protested about what we didn't like instead of just letting it be.  Youth, Love , Peace and Harmony those were things we longed for .. seems like only yesterday that I was in my car listening to this music getting out and Dancing in an open field like no one was watching but God.  

Dori Bragdon

what a combo.........Janis and jimi........so freekin awesome would loved to have been there.......feelin mello yea baby

Ian Donahue

Not Hendrix

ALGERIEN GAY

FAKE !!Have you   also a song Jimi with Elvis Presley, Jimi with Ritchie Valens or Jimi with Richard Wagner ?

Manon Sense

Jimi Hendrix chez Big Brother, on aura tout vu lol.

gábor gáspár

Joplin nem Hendrixszel játszotta ezt a dalt el, hanem a Big Brother and The Holding Companyval...

jsbrules

I'm sorry, but this is ridiculous! As others pointed out, the (great) Jimi Hendrix has nothing to do with this wonderful performance -- & it sounds nothing like him. The guitarists are Sam Andrew & James Gurley of Big Brother & the Holding Co. This is Janis live with Big Brother recorded June 23, 1968 at the Carousel Ballroom in San Francisco. It was released on her hit live album "In Concert" in 1972.

Pulsenote

There's always someone who says they never played together..... The headliner was The Chamber Brothers and the two 'other groups' were 1. Big Brother and the Holding Co. and 2. Jimmy Hendrix Experience.  playing in the Singer Bowl (small venue in Queens NY left over on the site of the Worlds Fair) it was sponsored I believe by Pepsi Summer Festival.  Summer of 68 or early summer 69

Cfrommn

Janis made all of her Music unforgettable. My mother whois 93 said she has the best "whiskey voice" she has ever heard. she was 40 when she said that and asked on many occasions to play the Woman with the Whiskey Voice.

Tomas Valenzuela

phrockblog is right! It's Big Brother and Co.

Monica Balancier

Two Legends !

Sacha Guillemette

Ororo ... Mind is like a parachute, it doesnt work unless its open... Frank zappa ... Think about it... Eminem... Warm waaam wiiink winnk... Zeds dead... From a jazz fan

phrockblog

There is a big mistake here. Jimi Hendrix never played with Janis Joplin

OR0R0

2 great legends that died within a few weeks of each other. Both gone at 27, but the legacies and greatness that was them still lives on. I'd rather listen to both of their jams all day all of my life rather than this crap out now. Young kids call what they have 'music'. They need to sit the hell down and put on the great albums of Janis and Jimi and rethink that noise they think is music. 

Janis Joplin

Janis Joplin - Summertime (Live -1969)