Scientists studied her voice, and found that when she belted out her songs, she had something like a 3 or 4 octave overtone. So singing 4 notes at once!
I was going to do the same but instead I'll just wrap it up a tad, the woman wearing sunglasses...(see above) at 7:09 is Mama....see above). One of my favorite bits of this clip/scene.
@@cissyiniguez ive read that Cass Elliott had said she didnt really understand janis joplins style of singing. I'm not a big fan either, but have to admit that this performance IS very passionate. BTW, how stoned was the guy in yellow??? LOL!!!
EVERY SINGLE TIME i watch this, i start balling my eyes out and i yell out "Sang it Girl!!!!!" This is one of the baddest live performances in history PERIOD!!!!!
I'm so lucky, I got to see her live. Her voice is one of a kind. She put her whole self into everything she ever sang. She could carry a note when she was belting it all out.
I'm too young to have seen her, but my parents saw her at several parties in Houston before she got big. Dad said she came on to practically every man there.
@@paigeharrison3909 that's not her fault though. The need/ seeking for attention comes from the shitty way her parents & community treated her. She was severely bullied. Even after reaching success, she went back to port arthur to still be ridiculed. I MEAN WHAT KIND OF IDIOTS RIDICULE A LEGEND!
Congratulations! I saw her too; a couple of months before she died. She was relatively sober and put on a terrific show. I've been to hundreds of shows over the years and her's is in my top five. I feel very fortunate to have seen her.
@@ornag5046 ,Little known fact that the late Great Bessie Smith was buried in an unmarked grave here near Philadelphia and Janis Joplin helped to purchase one for Bessie Smith another Empress of the blues. January 19th is Janis Joplin's Birthday, Janis and Bessie ...Earth is sending Love up!❤❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏🙏
@Backfromthedeadguy can you tell me your aunts name, i would love to interview her if I could for my Janis film. Please, thanks! luisalbernidoc@gmail.com
@@brendahunt1056 Mama Cass was part of the 1960s group Mamas and the Papas with big hits such as "Monday Monday" and "California Dreaming." She did some solo work with songs such as "Dreaming a Little Dream of Me" and "Words of Love." She had an incredible voice. It's sad she also died too young at age 32 in 1974 from a heart attack due to her constant yo-yo dieting. She had been performing two weeks of solo concerts at the London Palladium, where she died later in her hotel room after her last performance on July 28th, 1974. RIP Mama Cass, you are missed by many fans of your music and your talent.
Monterey Pop. I'm about 17 rows back. She killed it.......as usual. San Francisco was the center of the universe for a couple of years. Long gone......long gone.
One of the people Janis Joplin liked was Bessie Smith. The first time I heard Janis Joplin was the lp Cheap Thrills . The group Big Brother & The Holding Company
+NefariousPorpoise Sounds like you just don't like emotional singing where singers pour their hearts out ... But you have to admit, in terms of singers who expresses their pain in the most expressive ways possible, there is no other singer even close to her ... and I'm not talking about those who do quiet sombre type because thats a different type of singing.. you cannot compare different expressions .. What really sets her apart is that not only is she extremely expressive but also the amazing control of her great emotional pitches ... there is such textures, such highs, such lows ... she's got such a FULL repertoire of musical instruments in a single vocal chord, its a miraculous thing ..
I remember I was a kid watching tv with my parents and this came on and my parents lost it and forbid us to watch such drug crazed devil music. Thats, when I fell in love with Janis.
Richard Taylor I was born in 65 & my parents were flower people of you get my drift. My 1st memories of music is hearing Pink Floyd, The Reverend Al Green, Janis & recalling my dad not liking The Doors! Lol My parents divorced in 70 but my best memories are my dad putting head phones on me & saying you’ve gotta feel the music to appreciate what your hearing. I was fortunate enough to grow up blocks from Motown in Detroit so of corse I love that Motown sound but thank you Daddy for turning me on to everything!
@@cynthiacolbert4172 born in '64, 5 older siblings, got to hear all the songs they liked, included pop, blues, rock, samples from the west coast scene, southern rock, the whole gamet. Plus raised on classical and learned piano, trumpet, guitar. I always assumed I'd be a musician. Forester instead 😁
Watching her sing with so much intensity made me cry. Nobody sings like that!! One of the greatest performances I have ever seen. It breaks my heart that she died at age27 when she was just at the top of her game.
This version of this song snatches tears out of my face every time. Knowing that this is the first time anyone's ever seeing her really is the Monterey Pop Festival
I always suspected the Nixon administration was involved in their deaths. He hated the hippie culture and started the war on drugs to lock up as many hippies as he could. I think he wanted to take out two icons of that culture and blame it on drugs to promote his war on drugs. It would be easy for an undercover govt. agent to give them a dangerous drug and tell them that it's weak so take a double dose. Am I the only one who suspected foul play?
@@alshotrodsandratrods8780 No you are not the only one who thinks that her death and also Jimi Hendrix death was a little too much to believe and it is still going on today. If they don't conform they take them out. Just like Heath Ledger and Robin Williams and Kurt Cobain and I could go on and on.....
I was born when she got big, and my dad absolutely loved her. He always told me "Janis rocked you to sleep at night." My dad passed away many years ago now, but whenever I need to feel connected to him, I play some Janis
I call it cut your throat Blues. I was there when this was recorded and saw her again in 68. The best ever. She tears at my soul, still. Watch Momma Cass's face and at the end she just says wow.
When this song was recorded Janis was fronting Big Brother and the Holding Company. They rose during the Haight Ashbury psychedelic era in San Francisco. I would call them a psychedelic blues band.
People don't always give enough credit to the band. Even Janis left them to do something else. I always wish she'd stayed with them a while longer. Such an amazing guitar solo. Even the bass player was channeling from a different plane! Love that crazy, sloppy San Francisco out-of-tune-occasionally sound!
@@teresadebellis5315 She had a difficult life and probably listened to some people who didn't have her best interests. BUT, wow, she was phenomenal - totally fearless on stage.
Often labeled “Acid Rock” This was the moment she broke through. Story about this performance is this is actually the second time Big Brother/Janis performed at the festival. The first performance wasn’t recorded and wasn’t considered all that special. She found out the other artists were being recorded for the festival’s live documentary so she begged to let the band play again to be filmed and they let her. She really turned up for this one
I'm sitting here with tears in my eyes. I was fortunate to see Janis twice in 1969 when I was 17, once very close up. Been in love with her ever since. There is no one like Janis.
Anyone who does not love Janis is no friend of mine. She was one of a kind, a true heartfelt performer who gave 100%. Saw her in concert just once, and I feel so fortunate to have had that experience. Hers was a unique beauty that involved her entire person. Love that closing image of her smile as she realizes how she completely nailed it. I will always love her.
Jamal Have been listening to this performance over 50 years and still get goose bumps and chills every time . Miss you Janis and the late great Mama Cass! This performance at Monterey was life changing for me!. One of a kind soul, rock blues!!!
Victoria Ballard I just made the same comment on this video...incredible time for music and females bringing us to a whole new level. Can never be repeated or duplicated💜
@@remedy9648 thanks for the reply look up Beth Hart and Joe Bonamassa I'd rather go blind live in Amsterdam let me know what you think of that performance it blows me away every time
Alan Adair omg! How did I miss this woman...what soul,what a voice, infrickincredible! Thank you so much for turning me on to this. Nothing is better then discovering amazing new artists and exploring them for the first time. I’m indebted to you💜🙏💜
Im glad you didn't skip over her moving her feet and stomping. She may not be a classic definition of "blues" or "soul" but that girl was singing with her damn heart and soul and that cant be disputed. I'm really disappointed that your videos are getting taken down and that you had a strike put on you from a prior video. Your just sharing your love for these artist and there music. Your also helping others learn of these older artist. I appreciate you and I'm so glad that you dont let it stop you from what your doing Jamel. Sending positive vibes your way hun.
This was an absolutely amazing performance and your reaction (noticing the legs and feet) is by far the best I've seen of all. Thanks for the enjoyment.
I read an article several months ago where a group of audiologists analyzed Janis singing live and found that at times she was hitting 2 octaves at the same time. 👍👍
I think you may have been misled in your understanding. Every acoustic instrument (and I consider sung voice an instrument) has overtones. The maths is rather predictable with most instruments. The octave is usually the strongest harmonic and at double the root frequency still typically has lower energy than the fundamental. Many instruments can be "overblown" or damped to produce "harmonics", the easiest of which is the octave. In these circumstances more energy originates from the octave but the overtones are defined by multiples of the root note at half frequency. To me Janis was able to scream and shout (with discordant frequencies) at exactly the pitch she intended or sing anywhere between a clean chest voice and occasionally a measured slightly dirty head voice. The octaves are way insufficient to explain her tone. Please forgive my lecture on tonality, my motivation stands that simply understanding the multiples of frequencies is, as lawyers would express it, a necessary but not sufficient condition to understand that Janis Joplin sang uniquely.
@@barrydouglas6276 Have you heard Dimash Kudaibergen sing? I call him The Man With Six Octaves. Let me know what you think about his voice. I also say he is the greatest singer in the world.
@@dieseldog00 Dimash Kudaibergen is a technically superb singer. Regarding what I said in my previous post about harmonics - he controls his pitch, tone and volume extremely well at all times, especially going to the falsetto/head voice range. This is where a harmonic (typically octave) becomes dominant. I may have to disagree with you on a fundamental matter - the best singer in the world is at any given time the one who most deeply touches your heart. In my instance this includes true virtuosos but also some of the less adept.
That was pure musical expression. She sang every raw emotion of every deep meaning of that song in the most real feel amazing way. We are supposed to feel the lyrics.
Yep. Mama Cass is going "WOW" !!! High Praise coming from a Powerful singer herself ! This is Janis' 1st national exposure. Monterey Pop festival 1967. The so called Summer Of Love. Pre-dates Woodstock by 2 years. As far a genre, I would call this "Hippie Blues".
That is what a lot of today's music is missing .... the emotional connection to the story they are telling with their music .... big lack of passion and emotion ... no connection .... everything is fast tracked to make the cash that a lot are forgetting to make real music ... and one of the best things about the concerts back then.. is that it was about the music ... I prefer the old days of going to a concert ... the music ... the connection with the fans ... the focus was on the performance on stage ... not the hoopla that distracts you from what your their for ... THE SOUND OF REAL MUSIC ... but that's just me .... I'm old school..... lol
I agre just pure heart and soul no special effects no light show . That's the way musicians should play some do and some don't. Guitar players those days didn't have all the gadgets like they do now.
no one can ever top her performance, she stunned the crowd including Mama Cass. So sad she lived such a short life. Aretha Franklin's sister sang this first and its a good version
Blues Rock. She's one of the Children of both. Remember the Blues had a baby and named it Rock and Roll. Soooo many great rock songs are by great blues players and singers. And that truth. StaySafe&Blessings🦋
This was the Monterey Pop Festival where she exploded. Mama Cass Elliot was in the audience. I think her genre was more blues than pop. She had her own style. Nobody can ever replace her! Gone to soon! I still listen to her and I’m 72 . She was the greatest!
The first time I watched and left a comment on this reaction was 11 months ago. I just came back to it because it’s that good, for me personally. The part towards the end when he paused it because she did the leg lift and he said it kinda gave him goosebumps….what did it for me was a second or two before that when she is really fixing to kick it all off she did some kind of little thing with her left arm and man, you know she is going to kill it! I get amazed at how the simplest movement during a moment like this can literally cause your body to physically react to it. I hope that before she died she was able to truly know just how special she was because she spent so many years not feeling like it.
Thank you so much for covering Janis. It was my mom's favorite singer, my mom could sing just like her. She is gone now 16 years ago I lost her, these videos made me cry so hard it hurt. Thanks brother for doing this bless you.
That lady in the audience in awe of Janis was Cass Elliot aka Mama Cass from the Mamas and the Papas. I'm so glad you have the Monterey Pop Festival version of Janis singing her rendition of Big Mama Thornton’s ‘Ball and Chain’. It's when she and also Jimi Hendrix were sort of formally introduced to the world. You're right, watching he stomp those kitten heels, her whole body just pouring out all that emotion, is really something. Genre, a little prog-rock, blues, Texas roadhouse, someone said it, its just Janis.
I "Liked" this reaction video as soon as he said "Miss Janis Joplin ". That shows respect for great music before his time. Young man is humble, and thoughtful , philosophical.
I saw Janis with Big Brother and the Holding Company in Houston in 1968 ... I was only 17 at the time and it got me hook line and sinker ... another great Texas Blues singer in the band in Heaven ... Rest Easy Jani
Love the expression on Mama Cass Elliot....another great singer♥️ She was with the Mamas and the Papas. Also had a solo career and variety show on tv. She also died young.
Fun fact: This is the '67 Monterey Rock fest and shortly before this show, Mama Cass was running her mouth, throwin shade, but when the camera pans to her, you can see that she was knocked on her ass by the performance. I know every version of this song in my soul (she never sang a song the same way twice). She was a queen and now she's a legend. There will never be another Janis Joplin.
I got to see her 3 times.....Rod Stewart and the faces opened for her at Alexandria Roller Rink (Va.) in '69; saw her at the Newport Folk Festival in 1968 and saw her at the Hilton Hotel in D.C. in '67. She was fantastic.........no one else is like her....
Her genre is, "Janis", that's it. One of a kind.
Not quite “one of a kind.” Janis was reincarnated into Beth Hart, who is every bit as soulful and talented as Janis.
He is so right but I'd (if I had to categorize) say SOUL! cause she had it & put it in there!
You got that right about her genre being "Janis." Her idol was Bessie Smith, so she did love the blues.
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That's because she is the one and only....Janis. Rock and Blues. She was blowing the world's mind at half volume.
"That's singing with her soul, like she can't even control it. And why should she? Just let it all out."
This is beautifully spoken
Mama Cass, a really excellent singer In her own right. She was overwhelmed by Janis’s performance.
Michael, I hope you have been able to hear Mama Casse's rendition of Wild Women (don't get the Blues) a folk album by a group called The Big Three
She was just in love with the moment.
Cass's jaw dropped - just like the rest of us.
@@johnlstaples Yep
@@katrand5357 I just saw this. I have not, but I will. I love her performance of dream a little dream of me.
Scientists studied her voice, and found that when she belted out her songs, she had something like a 3 or 4 octave overtone. So singing 4 notes at once!
In the music world it is called multi phonics.
absolutely amazing. I believe it.
Unbeiveafuckable
The woman in the Crowd Smiling wearing Sunglasses is Mama Cass Elliot of the Mamas and the Papas
I was going to do the same but instead I'll just wrap it up a tad, the woman wearing sunglasses...(see above) at 7:09 is Mama....see above). One of my favorite bits of this clip/scene.
I've never seen this video before, instantly recognized Mama Cass though. She looks as enthralled as I felt the first time hearing Janis.
@@cissyiniguez ive read that Cass Elliott had said she didnt really understand janis joplins style of singing. I'm not a big fan either, but have to admit that this performance IS very passionate. BTW, how stoned was the guy in yellow??? LOL!!!
@@cissyiniguez You should watch the Monterey Pop film and see her reaction to Jimi Hendrix.
That's so cool
Mama Cass sitting there slack-jawed and ending up with a wow - showing respect.
Mamma's and Pappa's.
Cass was knocked off her feet with Janis. She saw someone who could sing as well as she could and was slack jawed at this performance.
It is so beautiful to watch Mama Cass watching her!
what an honor. Wonder if she ever knew
EVERY SINGLE TIME i watch this, i start balling my eyes out and i yell out "Sang it Girl!!!!!" This is one of the baddest live performances in history PERIOD!!!!!
I'm so lucky, I got to see her live. Her voice is one of a kind. She put her whole self into everything she ever sang. She could carry a note when she was belting it all out.
wish I could have seen her. what a talent, and how sad when she passed
You really want haters here don't you? Lol jealous
I'm too young to have seen her, but my parents saw her at several parties in Houston before she got big. Dad said she came on to practically every man there.
@@paigeharrison3909 that's not her fault though. The need/ seeking for attention comes from the shitty way her parents & community treated her. She was severely bullied. Even after reaching success, she went back to port arthur to still be ridiculed. I MEAN WHAT KIND OF IDIOTS RIDICULE A LEGEND!
Congratulations! I saw her too; a couple of months before she died. She was relatively sober and put on a terrific show. I've been to hundreds of shows over the years and her's is in my top five. I feel very fortunate to have seen her.
The problem is you cannot classify Janis Joplin because she is a classification.
Can't get any clearer than that! Amen!
Yes she is!
Some voices, and artist, can't be put in a box.
True. That said though, she was obsessed with Etta James and Odetta as a kid. She was on that bridge between the blues and rock and roll.
@@ornag5046 ,Little known fact that the late Great Bessie Smith was buried in an unmarked grave here near Philadelphia and Janis Joplin helped to purchase one for Bessie Smith another Empress of the blues. January 19th is Janis Joplin's Birthday, Janis and Bessie ...Earth is sending Love up!❤❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏🙏
My aunt was friends with Janis in college. Janis even introduced her to her first husband and sang at the wedding.
@Backfromthedeadguy can you tell me your aunts name, i would love to interview her if I could for my Janis film. Please, thanks! luisalbernidoc@gmail.com
Backfromthedeadguy cool!!!!
53 yrs later Janis still gives me goosebumps
I brings me so much joy watching people hear Janis for the first time. She’s a once in a lifetime singer. Gone way too soon. God bless you girl.
Mama Cass in the audience and her reaction is always priceless
Does he know who Mama Cass is?
@@brendahunt1056 Mama Cass was part of the 1960s group Mamas and the Papas with big hits such as "Monday Monday" and "California Dreaming." She did some solo work with songs such as "Dreaming a Little Dream of Me" and "Words of Love." She had an incredible voice. It's sad she also died too young at age 32 in 1974 from a heart attack due to her constant yo-yo dieting. She had been performing two weeks of solo concerts at the London Palladium, where she died later in her hotel room after her last performance on July 28th, 1974. RIP Mama Cass, you are missed by many fans of your music and your talent.
Yea like your jaw drops and your face melts because her singing transports you. Thats the reaction people get.
Monterey Pop. I'm about 17 rows back. She killed it.......as usual. San Francisco was the center of the universe for a couple of years. Long gone......long gone.
rick mack me too
Wow how amazing to have been there ♥️
One of the people Janis Joplin liked was Bessie Smith. The first time I heard Janis Joplin was the lp Cheap Thrills . The group Big Brother & The Holding Company
YES! the video of this tells it all!
@@amirokareem3535 yeah I thought Big Brother And The Holding Co.
was one of the great backing bands of the time!
The song 'Ball and Chain' was written by Big Momma Thorton, so this is pure blues, played by a rock band.
She dumped them soon after this show.
Big Brother was beyond just being a "rock band".
@@jcedwards8363 I said they were a rock band. I didn't say they were 'just' a rock band/
I didn't know that wow. I knew big mama Thornton wrote ain't nothing but a hound man and sang it. of course it was sing later by Elvis.
Pure blues... but heavy psychedelic rock influence.
Blues rock is the genre
I'll bet if we asked Janis what her genre was, she'd say "I don't have one."
Good song will blow u away! Can you try feeling good by Nina Simone?
Janis Joplin was a woman wayyy ahead of her time!!
Night Rider72 : Amen 🙏
No she wasn't, there were hundreds of amazing singers and musicians in her day. Some were arguably even better than her.
+NefariousPorpoise
Sounds like you just don't like emotional singing where singers pour their hearts out ...
But you have to admit, in terms of singers who expresses their pain in the most expressive ways possible, there is no other singer even close to her ... and I'm not talking about those who do quiet sombre type because thats a different type of singing.. you cannot compare different expressions ..
What really sets her apart is that not only is she extremely expressive but also the amazing control of her great emotional pitches ... there is such textures, such highs, such lows ... she's got such a FULL repertoire of musical instruments in a single vocal chord, its a miraculous thing ..
Your comment is ahead of its time.
Amen.
If you want to know about genre, I call this "Blues on acid".
Agreed! Acid Blues
timphd53 Right!?!
Psychedelic blues!
Bluegracid.
Mostly heroin, but yup lol
Janis always packed 100% of her emotion into every song, and her whole life too.
I get goosebumps every time I hear Janis Joplin. Nobody sang like her.
she makes me cry
I remember I was a kid watching tv with my parents and this came on and my parents lost it and forbid us to watch such drug crazed devil music. Thats, when I fell in love with Janis.
Lol! Good for you Richard Taylor. They were right though, you have to be possessed to sAng like this.
Same here, except that my parents didn't forbid us to watch it - but they strongly disagreed
Richard Taylor I was born in 65 & my parents were flower people of you get my drift. My 1st memories of music is hearing Pink Floyd, The Reverend Al Green, Janis & recalling my dad not liking The Doors! Lol My parents divorced in 70 but my best memories are my dad putting head phones on me & saying you’ve gotta feel the music to appreciate what your hearing. I was fortunate enough to grow up blocks from Motown in Detroit so of corse I love that Motown sound but thank you Daddy for turning me on to everything!
Cool, I was born in 67 😎
@@cynthiacolbert4172 born in '64, 5 older siblings, got to hear all the songs they liked, included pop, blues, rock, samples from the west coast scene, southern rock, the whole gamet.
Plus raised on classical and learned piano, trumpet, guitar.
I always assumed I'd be a musician.
Forester instead 😁
Watching her sing with so much intensity made me cry. Nobody sings like that!! One of the greatest performances I have ever seen. It breaks my heart that she died at age27 when she was just at the top of her game.
*Live at the Montery Rock festival 1967* Yes thats MAMA CASS at 7:27 in the crowd, from the Mamas and the Papas
Hendrix is in there too
Yep, I was about to say that
I think mama was tripping
She's blown away like the rest of us mere mortals.
th-cam.com/video/3kcmwXUdDCE/w-d-xo.html
This version of this song snatches tears out of my face every time. Knowing that this is the first time anyone's ever seeing her really is the Monterey Pop Festival
Janis and Jimi Hendrix died a month apart in 1970 Rest In Peace
I always suspected the Nixon administration was involved in their deaths. He hated the hippie culture and started the war on drugs to lock up as many hippies as he could. I think he wanted to take out two icons of that culture and blame it on drugs to promote his war on drugs. It would be easy for an undercover govt. agent to give them a dangerous drug and tell them that it's weak so take a double dose. Am I the only one who suspected foul play?
the al show your not the only one I believe the same thing and am sure many many others believe this ✌️
Yep, so many artists were part of the 27 club, a real thing. Artists who died at age 27, the magic number. Sad.
@@alshotrodsandratrods8780 No you are not the only one who thinks that her death and also Jimi Hendrix death was a little too much to believe and it is still going on today. If they don't conform they take them out. Just like Heath Ledger and Robin Williams and Kurt Cobain and I could go on and on.....
the al show :. Don't forget Marilyn Monroe ?🤔😪
LEGEND BB KING LOVED JANIS HE CALLED HER THE GREATEST BLUES WHITE FEMALE EVER
I agree with BB 👍
Gotta give propers to the camera person for the wisdom of catching the iconic Joplin stomp.
Yazzzzzzzz! I was thinking same. It must have been someone who loves blues/rock & feels it to their toes too.
I was born when she got big, and my dad absolutely loved her. He always told me "Janis rocked you to sleep at night." My dad passed away many years ago now, but whenever I need to feel connected to him, I play some Janis
The freeze on mama cas in the audience and her look of amazement, priceless
I like that you have open-minded curiosity and intelligent reflection.
Thank You🙏🏾
@@jamelakajamal
You should watch Janis Joplin "Get It While You Can" on the Dick Cavett Show. Its on TH-cam.
I call it cut your throat Blues. I was there when this was recorded and saw her again in 68. The best ever. She tears at my soul, still. Watch Momma Cass's face and at the end she just says wow.
I think Mama Cass needed an oxygen mask there at the end!!!
Janis Joplin once said “I make love to 40,000 people every night, and then I go home......alone.😢
If she didn’t feel so depressed she wouldn’t have been able to perform like this
@@Daniel-kx7ip the up and down of life.
I feel that so much.
She said she'd groove with the band of hot guys all day. Then they'd go home to gourgeous gfs & she'd go home....alone.
My secret dream is to go back in time and just give Janis a hug.
She got signed to a record deal on the spot from that one performance.
When this song was recorded Janis was fronting Big Brother and the Holding Company. They rose during the Haight Ashbury psychedelic era in San Francisco. I would call them a psychedelic blues band.
Janis was a genre all to herself. No one to compare her talent to! She have a live performance unlike any other.
She loved her Southern Comfort!
She sang from a place of pain, what made her GREAT took her life!! Lost way to many great artists this way.
Big brother and holding company were such a solid band. I think they fell under blues/Americana. Janis was definitely a legendary voice of her era.
People don't always give enough credit to the band. Even Janis left them to do something else. I always wish she'd stayed with them a while longer. Such an amazing guitar solo. Even the bass player was channeling from a different plane! Love that crazy, sloppy San Francisco out-of-tune-occasionally sound!
@@teresadebellis5315 She never should have left them! Together, they were so very unique.
@@marieashworth5981 I don't think she was as happy after that, which is too bad.
@@teresadebellis5315 She had a difficult life and probably listened to some people who didn't have her best interests. BUT, wow, she was phenomenal - totally fearless on stage.
Often labeled “Acid Rock”
This was the moment she broke through. Story about this performance is this is actually the second time Big Brother/Janis performed at the festival. The first performance wasn’t recorded and wasn’t considered all that special. She found out the other artists were being recorded for the festival’s live documentary so she begged to let the band play again to be filmed and they let her. She really turned up for this one
I'm sitting here with tears in my eyes. I was fortunate to see Janis twice in 1969 when I was 17, once very close up. Been in love with her ever since. There is no one like Janis.
Mike you are one blessed person!
Anyone who does not love Janis is no friend of mine. She was one of a kind, a true heartfelt performer who gave 100%. Saw her in concert just once, and I feel so fortunate to have had that experience. Hers was a unique beauty that involved her entire person. Love that closing image of her smile as she realizes how she completely nailed it. I will always love her.
When she finished, got that smile, and ran off skipping like a little girl. Lovely. I try to remember her that happy. xo
I agree, if I meet someone who does get Janis, I know they won't get me either.
Ooopps, I meant to say that if someone does not get Janis, they won't get me either. (My typing error.)
Jamal Have been listening to this performance over 50 years and still get goose bumps and chills every time . Miss you Janis and the late great Mama Cass! This performance at Monterey was life changing for me!. One of a kind soul, rock blues!!!
Victoria Ballard I just made the same comment on this video...incredible time for music and females bringing us to a whole new level. Can never be repeated or duplicated💜
@@remedy9648 have you ever listened to Beth Hart if not check her out
Alan Adair I’m on it! I’ll let you know. Thanks for the tip, looking forward to some good sounds💜
@@remedy9648 thanks for the reply look up Beth Hart and Joe Bonamassa I'd rather go blind live in Amsterdam let me know what you think of that performance it blows me away every time
Alan Adair omg! How did I miss this woman...what soul,what a voice, infrickincredible! Thank you so much for turning me on to this. Nothing is better then discovering amazing new artists and exploring them for the first time. I’m indebted to you💜🙏💜
Big Mamma Thornton wrote and performed this song.One of the old great Blues singers.
Big Momma Thornton also did Hound Dog 1st, Jamal was talking about Elvis... I love Big Mommas version better....
Janis gives me goosebumps every time I hear her singing. Gone way too soon. RIP Janis. I really hope you found it ❤️
My all time favorite clip of Janis. I love seeing Mama Cass’ reaction in the audience. Even SHE is amazed like we are
Janis was the bomb back when I was younger. Loved her. RIP Janis
Still is. No one can compare.
One of the best live performances in the history of music. ❤️
Im glad you didn't skip over her moving her feet and stomping. She may not be a classic definition of "blues" or "soul" but that girl was singing with her damn heart and soul and that cant be disputed. I'm really disappointed that your videos are getting taken down and that you had a strike put on you from a prior video. Your just sharing your love for these artist and there music. Your also helping others learn of these older artist. I appreciate you and I'm so glad that you dont let it stop you from what your doing Jamel. Sending positive vibes your way hun.
This was an absolutely amazing performance and your reaction (noticing the legs and feet) is by far the best I've seen of all. Thanks for the enjoyment.
She is in a class all of her own. There will never be another voice like her! God bless you!
7:15 - Anyone wish they were in Mama Cass' brain as she KNEW she was witnessing a change in music before her eyes?
One of the greatest Blues-Rock-Soul singers ever!
Mr.davis signed her to a contract after this performance.
I read an article several months ago where a group of audiologists analyzed Janis singing live and found that at times she was hitting 2 octaves at the same time. 👍👍
I think you may have been misled in your understanding. Every acoustic instrument (and I consider sung voice an instrument) has overtones. The maths is rather predictable with most instruments. The octave is usually the strongest harmonic and at double the root frequency still typically has lower energy than the fundamental. Many instruments can be "overblown" or damped to produce "harmonics", the easiest of which is the octave. In these circumstances more energy originates from the octave but the overtones are defined by multiples of the root note at half frequency.
To me Janis was able to scream and shout (with discordant frequencies) at exactly the pitch she intended or sing anywhere between a clean chest voice and occasionally a measured slightly dirty head voice. The octaves are way insufficient to explain her tone. Please forgive my lecture on tonality, my motivation stands that simply understanding the multiples of frequencies is, as lawyers would express it, a necessary but not sufficient condition to understand that Janis Joplin sang uniquely.
@@barrydouglas6276 Have you heard Dimash Kudaibergen sing? I call him The Man With Six Octaves. Let me know what you think about his voice. I also say he is the greatest singer in the world.
@@dieseldog00 Dimash Kudaibergen is a technically superb singer. Regarding what I said in my previous post about harmonics - he controls his pitch, tone and volume extremely well at all times, especially going to the falsetto/head voice range. This is where a harmonic (typically octave) becomes dominant.
I may have to disagree with you on a fundamental matter - the best singer in the world is at any given time the one who most deeply touches your heart. In my instance this includes true virtuosos but also some of the less adept.
That was pure musical expression. She sang every raw emotion of every deep meaning of that song in the most real feel amazing way. We are supposed to feel the lyrics.
Her genre is pure unadulterated raw rock and roll baby!!! The expression on Mama Cass Elliot's, an icon in her own right, face says it all!!!
Yep. Mama Cass is going "WOW" !!! High Praise coming from a Powerful singer herself ! This is Janis' 1st national exposure. Monterey Pop festival 1967. The so called Summer Of Love. Pre-dates Woodstock by 2 years. As far a genre, I would call this "Hippie Blues".
Janice's "genre" was, and is, "Janice". There was and never will be another like her. Only Janice could do Janice.
Melissa Etheridge sorta sounds like her?
Her name is Janis and Blues Rock is her game.
Ball & Chain... Big Brother & the Holding Company! Nobody felt the Blues like Janis!
That is what a lot of today's music is missing .... the emotional connection to the story they are telling with their music .... big lack of passion and emotion ... no connection .... everything is fast tracked to make the cash that a lot are forgetting to make real music ... and one of the best things about the concerts back then.. is that it was about the music ... I prefer the old days of going to a concert ... the music ... the connection with the fans ... the focus was on the performance on stage ... not the hoopla that distracts you from what your their for ...
THE SOUND OF REAL MUSIC ...
but that's just me .... I'm old school..... lol
I agre just pure heart and soul no special effects no light show . That's the way musicians should play some do and some don't. Guitar players those days didn't have all the gadgets like they do now.
THIS IS IN MY ESTIMATION THE BEST SONG JANIS EVER DID!
Nice to see older artists remembered.. She was a legend of her times
Jimmy Hendrix was sitting in the audience at this too..
Jeez, I didn't see him. I heard that Jimi was a fan. That's so cool.
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Check this one out it shows Jimi same year different angles and crowds
Janis was first and foremost a blues singer. She pulled style from a lot of other sources, but no one but a blues singer can sing with that passion.
I never heard this live concert version until today!!! The feet tapping gave me chills!!! 🙆🏻♀️🙆🏻♀️🙆🏻♀️👏🏼🎤🎧🎼🪕🎹👱🏼♀️💃🏽🕺🏼👯♀️ 🦶🏻
no one can ever top her performance, she stunned the crowd including Mama Cass. So sad she lived such a short life. Aretha Franklin's sister sang this first and its a good version
Didn't know Aretha had a sister that sang, wow.
Erma Franklin released it in 1967
"if my ears love it, my heart and my mind follow" well said! And if your feet love it too, you got it all!!
Blues Rock. She's one of the Children of both. Remember the Blues had a baby and named it Rock and Roll. Soooo many great rock songs are by great blues players and singers. And that truth. StaySafe&Blessings🦋
This was the Monterey Pop Festival where she exploded. Mama Cass Elliot was in the audience. I think her genre was more blues than pop. She had her own style. Nobody can ever replace her! Gone to soon! I still listen to her and I’m 72 . She was the greatest!
Nothing like her. So much pain...
She was wild and so so talented. That voice, no singer can move me like her. ❤
I once heard her referred to as the Queen of the Psychedelic Blues
The first time I watched and left a comment on this reaction was 11 months ago. I just came back to it because it’s that good, for me personally. The part towards the end when he paused it because she did the leg lift and he said it kinda gave him goosebumps….what did it for me was a second or two before that when she is really fixing to kick it all off she did some kind of little thing with her left arm and man, you know she is going to kill it! I get amazed at how the simplest movement during a moment like this can literally cause your body to physically react to it. I hope that before she died she was able to truly know just how special she was because she spent so many years not feeling like it.
I do not mind the pauses with your reactions. That is one reason I watch. Would hate to loose you, I look forward to your program
Thank you so much for covering Janis. It was my mom's favorite singer, my mom could sing just like her. She is gone now 16 years ago I lost her, these videos made me cry so hard it hurt. Thanks brother for doing this bless you.
That’s Mama Cass , one of the best singers of the day saying ‘WOW’ , impressed with Janis performing with every fiber of her being! What passion!
That lady in the audience in awe of Janis was Cass Elliot aka Mama Cass from the Mamas and the Papas. I'm so glad you have the Monterey Pop Festival version of Janis singing her rendition of Big Mama Thornton’s ‘Ball and Chain’. It's when she and also Jimi Hendrix were sort of formally introduced to the world. You're right, watching he stomp those kitten heels, her whole body just pouring out all that emotion, is really something. Genre, a little prog-rock, blues, Texas roadhouse, someone said it, its just Janis.
Song brings tears ta my eyes almost Every time
I "Liked" this reaction video as soon as he said "Miss Janis Joplin ". That shows respect for great music before his time. Young man is humble, and thoughtful , philosophical.
This is beautiful, but she put ALL her heart and soul in ‘Piece of My Heart.’
Blues for sure, this woman sang with her whole soul, she gave all of herself when she sang, never be another!
Finally, someone who appreciates Janis as mush as I do! Met one of her friends who said I remind them of her. Awesome compliment. Gone too soon, RIP.
Arguably one of the greatest performances in rock history
Absolutely.
I've been listening to her for over fifty yrs and she still gives me the shivers. She had it all.
And that sir, is why she's an icon. In her short career she covered so many genres, she WAS a genre
I love your reactions! Thank you for reacting to Janis Joplin, her song “Summertime” will give you chills.
I saw Janis with Big Brother and the Holding Company in Houston in 1968 ... I was only 17 at the time and it got me hook line and sinker ... another great Texas Blues singer in the band in Heaven ... Rest Easy Jani
That's Mama Cass!! California Dreaming? She was BLOWN AWAY, and that lady could sing!!! Jeannie
Monterey Pop this Show. Got her Signed for her First Record Deal
hardrock/blues/soul!!! and this amazing woman gave her whole being to the crowd in every song sang!!
I was lucky to see Janis sing live in Toronto at the Toronto Pop Festival 1970 and I was right up in front of the stage. Janis was phenomenal.
Her music wears me out. Roller coaster ride for your soul
Love the expression on Mama Cass Elliot....another great singer♥️ She was with the Mamas and the Papas. Also had a solo career and variety show on tv. She also died young.
Queen of Rock n Roll✌🏻
Psychedelic Blue-Eyed Blues. Janice shook up the rock and blues world like no other before or since.
Fun fact: This is the '67 Monterey Rock fest and shortly before this show, Mama Cass was running her mouth, throwin shade, but when the camera pans to her, you can see that she was knocked on her ass by the performance.
I know every version of this song in my soul (she never sang a song the same way twice). She was a queen and now she's a legend. There will never be another Janis Joplin.
Check out Summertime by her. Another classic.
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Hey jamel I think this lady did the rock blues thing and soul to kick things off😃👍 love her
I got to see her 3 times.....Rod Stewart and the faces opened for her at Alexandria Roller Rink (Va.) in '69; saw her at the Newport Folk Festival in 1968 and saw her at the Hilton Hotel in D.C. in '67. She was fantastic.........no one else is like her....
Nobody had more soul and passion than Janis. She was absolutly the greatest and she didn´t have one tought singing lesson in her life.
nice. i love that monterrey festival version. so much energy. omg i still feel her. i call it blues rock soul