WKRLEM: Summertime and your mother is easy!

One of my favorite Janis songs.

WKRLEM: Raise you hand........

You might get elected!

WKRLEM: When Janis Joplin met Raquel Welch on the Dick Cavett Show (1970)

What's really interesting is that you get a glimpse of a what sweet young Texan Janis really was in real life.



What a tragedy.



And Rocky? Wowza!!!!!!!

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Overheard at Lem's:

Dust Bunny Queen said... 

If we are going to make up stupid scenarios, then go full tilt boogie!!! 

I have a vivid imagination :-D 

February 10, 2017 at 10:34 AM

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The song, recorded by the Full Tilt Boogie Band, has a spooky vibe -- sort of a like a Doors song without Jim Morrison.

"Absence is the highest form of presence"

~James Joyce

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Netflix is offering a pretty good documentary on the life and times of Janis Joplin called Janis: Little Girl Blue (2015). We watched it last night. She was never my idol nor my favorite -- but the treatment of her is very even-handed. Much like the Jimi Hendrix documentary I mentioned here, the inclusion of family letters (narrated by Cat Power) shows that there was much more than just another wastrel behind her persona. But her demons and sensitivities got the best of her, and all of her surviving family, friends, lovers and colleagues still grieve.
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[added]  Dad Bones links what would have been the perfect video to use in this post:

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