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  • Is this really from '68? O_o

    This sounds like music from the '90s!

  • oh my im so fucing stone

  • Troppo semplicistico definirla solo una bella voce...lei era e rimarrà emozione,forza vitale...musica allo stato puro.

  • is that lip sync?

  • @Syzygy60 if you look real close you can see the cords coming from the instraments  they are playin

  • I think an angry parent thru out all the kids records or they're just idiots

  • I found this cheap thrills album in someones trash as me and a friend rode our bikeswe were early teens

    

  • so what ur saying is this is the best lipsync band u ever saw?

  • Big laugh ! Guitars are not even plugged ! And they do exactely the same as in the studio rec, But at least this godamn voice's not fake. She drive me crazy !

  • I see people mentioning that the band is faking it to a recording, which they obviously are, but Janis' vocals sound very different then they did on the record. Bands on tv in those days almost always lip-synced, and I've never heard of performing to a tape while the singer is live, but that seems to be the case here.

  • why isn't THIS on tv anymore?!

  • i'm not convinced this is live, they're using a fuzz pedal and yet there is no fuzz pedal to be seen, can the sound man, if there is one, be that good?

  • @userboy6 Youre right hon- theyre not actually playing- which was the norm for a lot of these cheesy ass shows. But its still so interesting to see. ...notice too...the guitars arent even plugged into anything. Why couldnt they just have the guys at least plug em in ,,,to,,,somethin? haha Cheap ass tv baby thats all i know hehehe But aint Janis just fanatasic as always?

  • I think she was the greatest female voice ever, along with Karen Carpenter, Mama Cass, Dionne Warwick, Minnie Ripperton and Grace Slick

  • T-T que grande!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Big Brother And the holding Company STILL ROCKS! They still tour... still sound AMAZING! Check out their other youtube videos. The best 60's band, Ever.

  • you gotta see the last 2 minutes when Don Adam fu(ks with Janis. What an arse

  • man...no one can ever come close to her...except one..Joon Wolfsberg one day..Indiana

  • holy shit. this is unreal

  • Did That Just Happened??? Did Don Adams Just Introduced Big Brother and The Holding Company??? If So THATS THE FUCKING SHIT!!!!!

  • janis's voice and the two guitars make this a classic

  • CHILLS ......

  • nilbog44 on Janis Joplin

    " name one good song she has. she didn't even write bobby mcgee and piece of my heart is god awful. just because she was big in the 60's doesnt mean she was good. clapton and hendrix are incredibly over rated too. there greatest hits aren't even good albums. they maybe have 3 or 4 good songs their whole career. who cares. and janis joplin sucks even more than any of those over rated clowns. thats why Amy winehouse is best" WILL SOMEBODY TEACH THIS ASS HOLE A LESSON!

  • @PikaJew1213 fuck you man!!! i believe the people like you who iverrate the FB pages of Justin Biebers & Selena Gomes!!! not your problem buddy, your assembly line is corrupted. (lmao). if you do not understand her music do not blame her!!! asshole...

  • awesome performace

  • HAHAHAHA the old blokes face at 4:10

    bless him.. obviously not his musical tastes.

  • Thanks so much for posting this video - I bought Cheap Thrills when it first came out and played it to death, and always wondered what they looked like playing live. Janis of course had an amazing voice, and I have always felt that her best work was done with Big Brother. 5 Stars!!

    And Don Adams introducing them - unbelieveable...

  • Thanks so much for posting this video - I bought Cheap Thrills when it first came out and played it to death, and always wondered what they looked like playing live. Janis of course had an amazing voice, and I have always felt that her best work was done with Big Brother. 5 Stars!!

  • Great soul great sound this is great around.....

  • OMG... This is an incredible gem!

    LOL - At the end, when Don Adams asks Janis to elaborate on the article she was quoted in, she should've said no, and told him, "Sorry about that, Chief!"

  • eminem - rock bottom

  • Wow this is a treasure!

  • I get goosebumps from this performance every time I see it. I never get goosebumps as or more intense then the goosebumps I get from this video. Rest in peace Janis I wish I could have had the fourtune of seeing you live.... Alas I wasn't alive when you were :C

  • I have a feeling the instruments are pre-recorded. Janis is singing live, but the backing track is identical to that of the record. :/

  • @fdalkjfdsalkj I agree! The band is "playing" the record version note-for-note, including the solos! It must be a backing track for them to mime over while Janis is singing live.

  • @fdalkjfdsalkj well they did a good job playing the studio version of the song, if you listen closely enough you can tell that it isnt pre-recorded

  • janis improvises so much that every live performance of this song is completely different. thanks janis....

  • orange sunshine and Pearl ultimate trip

  • Never another EVER, like Pearl

  • The one and the only. RIP janis.

  • Here is a fun fact: The Drummer, Dave Getz, he was my music teacher in High School. It was pretty awesome, and a couple times he'd guest drum and we'd jam to Piece of my Heart.

  • Rest in Peace Janis......dgw

  • Damn. That's all I have to say. Damn.

  • Like Janis Joplin once said about Southeast Texas, ' I was the only person I ever knew'. I know exactly what she means, I felt the same

  • "86 calling 99."

  • the great ones shine so brightly accross the sky, then are gone! rest in peace janis for the world is a darker place since you left us.....in the brief time you soared so many lives were touched by your presence! you will never be forgotten nor replaced!

  • the audience at 04:11 cracks me up. a bunch of grandparents who thought they were going to be seeing jimmy dorsey or the buddy rich band. hahahah i'm sure they were thinking "this is what the kids today call singing?"

  • @neilawright Right.....exactly...Biddy...Bu­ddy Rich?..... my buddy!....used to beat the band senseless with his hickory drumsticks.........4:11...as could be expected... actually entertaining!....nice comment.....made my day

  • the audience cracks me up. a bunch of grandparents who thought they were going to be seeing jimmy dorsey or the buddy rich band. hahahah

  • BEST blues singer EVER!!!!!!!!

  • Excellent , Classic!

  • Summertime.....sexy....

    

  • bluesy and cool. with a hint of jazz. great performance,great vid. very straight looking audience ha ha . CJ.

  • What a talent! The arrangement and vocals were so indicative of the freedom of the times. The boomers can look proudly on the art of their generation, so exemplified in this video. The MC just didn't get it and the audience hardly knew the genius of this performance.

  • excellent performance. Thank you for posting.

  • Janis Joplin is unique! Definitely, one of the greatest singers of all times! Unfortunately, she left us too young, died of drug overdose aged only 27 years old... Soo sad... However, certainly, she'll live on forever in our memories!

  • janis était une fille extra mais elle nous quité bien trop tot.J'adore cette parite de son programme.Salut a tous.

  • What sort of audience are they performing to? I wonder if they appreciated the genius of Janice at that time. I love her style. Funny...she does talk about that at the end of the video here..reciprocation. I guess that audience didn't "get it."

  • What sort of audience are they performing to? I wonder if they appreciated the genius of Janice at that time. I love her style. 

  • Hoy mismo!!!!!

  • Janis you always rock, even in heaven. Miss you dearly, but your songs carry on.. Melissa Etheridge & Joss Stone have done excellent renditions.

  • Janis was a rare talent.

  • Janis ALWAYS gives me goosebumps.

  • I agree with computerrage---you never heard people screaming and all that other crud, just rent woodstock, they were a few rodies but for the most part quite untill it's over , listen to Janis at the end of this video...

  • no se porq, pero me gusta :D mi alma media hippi jajajajaa

  • My favorite song of all time, and her rendition is the BEST!

  • Eminem

  • @Tomir2  Eminem's Producers "Bass Brothers"

  • Sometimes, I just misss her so much.....

  • rt

  • 29 people don't need a man to love

  • HA HA,They had her change the words....they didn't want her to say "let me hold it in"

  • The audience is rude and so was that host about the quote that made perfect sence. She is supreme.

  • Very polite clapping. ...Do you get the impression they didn't really get it?

  • @computerrage In those days people didnt clap or whistle or get out of their seats during a performance. Talking loudly during a perfomance was unthinkable. Instead people would watch attentevley,wait till the last note is played THEN begin applauding and speaking. Last concert I went to none of these social graces were observed .

  • @56BUICKRiviera You obviously haven't seen the Woodstock film

  • @computerrage O yeah I live under a rock. I've been to winterland a few times.

  • @56BUICKRiviera I'm sorry, I didn't realise you were homeless

  • @computerrage Same to you Mr.personality

  • @56BUICKRiviera How did you know my surname?

  • @56BUICKRiviera it's not a case of social graces mate, but improved amplification

  • Is the host Don Adams from Get Smart?

    Janis (L)

  • TE AME EN SECRETEO JANIS

  • @gabyncho y ella amaba a lennon, y el porro...

  • SO NICE

  • Nobody, nobody has ever, ever sung or sings like Janis Joplin. Nobody.

  • @camilanadine123 So true, its too bad she's gone :( I doubt we'll see another like her again.

  • @camilanadine123 Steve Marriot

  • @camilanadine123

    I hear ya cuz but are you forgetting Mama Cass???

  • @bjdplumbing Hi, I've never heard about her until the day I made a search on youtube. She's wonderful indeed, but Janis means a lot to me - I found out about Janis when I was 16, in 1998, sitting on the sofa of my auntie's living room in the evening. I rememeber that i was feeling a little down and i just looked at the cover of Greatest Hits...the first song I heard was Summertime.

    After that, It was impossible to resist to her music, to her singing andto her own self. :) Sorry about my English

  • her voice is....fucking amazing. gives me shivers down my spine

  • I AM AN OLE HIPPY GREW UP PARTYING WITH THESE PERFORMERS HENDRIX JANIS, I LOVE THIS WOMANS FREEDOM AND THE WAY SHE EXPRESS'S IT, THERE HAS NOT BEEN ANOTHER SINCE JANIS, IM STILL IN LOVE WITH HER OLE HIPPY ROOSTER

  • Her voice has depth and sincerity. Not like this auto-tune trash we hear on the radio.

  • To the person who wrote me about soul, yes, you are right, soul is everything (that is why I have hundreds of soul cd's). I learned from your comment to look beyond the presentation, thanks. (But I do think God cares of purity & holiness, too). Yet, we are never to judge, so, good comment, thanks. (and I looked for one of her videos because I remember as a kid, one of her guitarists, WOW what a sound / soul / love / talent).

  • To all the haters regardless of self endowed musical expertise you may claim, look to see her performance on the  Woodstock footage and notice the look on Mama Cass's face, which says it all.

  • @Sevy1973 Cont ... To claim that this woman had not talent is both ignorant and misinformed. Janis garnered the respect and awe of her peers who in my opinion have much more musical clout then the people responding here including myself! Take it from them not my this lady rocked and she sang with deep emotion and reckless abandon.

  • @Sevy1973 I agree with you she was great,and very unique. I only wish i was around in her time,but she will always be my favourite female artist

  • Hey! Why aren't they lipsyncing? :P

  • Ne rien dire ,profiter de cette très bonne musique et la partager ...C.Phil.D.

  • nasally, raspy, witch voice, and you say she is unbeatable? maybe for last place, yes. her scream voice is not talent, it is hyper-noise. maybe you are still on acid. and loose the hate, I am a 60's master rock musician, I know what I am talking about. (best male musician, Jimi). this witch screams and has a touch of jazz, but no talent, just nerve and annoyance.

  • @Brooks33snow Listen you "Master Rock Musician", learn that technique is the less important thing in music. Soul is most important.

  • @Brooks33snow i think talent recognizes talent, mama cass agrees maybe youre not really talented. and even if you dont like her voice she can hit notes just fine and sing, im sure its very hard to sing the way she does. she is the best

  • The greatest white female blues singer ever! I was blessed to hear her perform live twice!!

  • Wow that American dude lol that was so '50s XD that's hilarious... You  Yanks are crazy.

  • Why 27?

  • her voice is fucking adorable shut the fuck up

  • somebody throw a vicks blue into her, it'll clear that hoarse throat right up

  • @deeallen2 who's the hoarse bitch? and why arent they throwing her off stage?

  • @Comedian Are you seriously that ignorant.

  • That's Rock Bottom!

  • 26 Bulgarian chalga singers dislike this...

  • Don Adams as the host...Wonderin' what show this was ?

  • @phileesarah It was the variety show The Hollywood Palace.

  • Man and Woman up post Janis bitches!

  • This performance changed my life

  • @ashleystilleto how?

  • i dont think the band is playing live

  • @hammondleel94 Good for you.

  • Great vid, Janis lives on!

  • This lady was tougher and gutsie rthen Suzi Quatro !

  • This was just before Joplin's handlers got her to turn her back on BB&Holding Company, the people that put her on top, and shit on them by going off on her own solo career, which lasted less than 2 years before she killed herself in a hotel room all lonesome and friendless.

  • The bass guitarist sneezes at 2:20, poor guy i think it was his only close-up too.

  • Janis Joplin is the BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • This takes me right down memory lane...I must be telling my age...love it..

  • Don Adams makes a fool of himself, but gave her a full ten minutes. And wasn't it great! People forget how good her band was. There will NEVER be another Janis.

  • that host is a dick!!

  • Love the way she cups her ear, to get the notes...

  • man, I love the feel of that solo. Nobody really lets the notes breathe anymore.

  • what kind of pedals using the two guitarists in this song?

    in Guitars solo

  • Where are the amps? Nothing is plugged in. The onlyone preforming live is Janis

  • @Canadabob99 look at the bass player looks like wires to me.

  • @deeallen2

    with the exception of Robert Plant.

  • I'm curious to know who the crazy 26 people who disliked this video are.

  • It's the heart breaking guitar that gets you...not Janis...sorry but it's true...just those few notes on the guitar are what get you, even more so today considering that Janis' vocals now immediately make one think of Marge Simpson.

  • @tupperwararty Until Janis sings "I need a man to love"...then your heart begins to break for real...because Janis would still be alive were it not for the fact that that was missing in her life...she drugged herself because she lacked a man's love. Well, I look at her face & I think "If I had been there, I would have loved you". Too late, too late. The message is...love one another & don't be afraid to show it.

  • @tupperwararty And that stupid pathetic cunt of a tv host had no idea. Janis needed men around her that understood...alas they were not there.

  • @tupperwararty Janis was a very insecure person who needed real true reassurance- where as others can brush off little things easier. She was so easily hurt. Too much. Its a deeper pain than most people ever know. People killed Janis. People can really wear you down. Just like so many others we've loved- she died from the effects of this. Thanks for understanding. Not many do.

  • Looooooooooooooooooooooooka ! Crazy girl, love ya forever!!!!!!!!

  • I was in high school then. The first "big" concert I ever went to was to see Janis at Cobo Hall, even though it was 300 miles from the little resort town in northern Michigan where I lived. My girlfriend had a Mustang with a 425 cu in V8 and we stormed down to Detroit to see Janis. But she was with Kosmic Blues Band by then. She never should have left Big Brother. They had a unique sound that will always be Janis's trademark sound.

  • Janis & the 'Big Brother' guys made fantastic music together... LOVED this video UNTIL the idiot from Get Smart starts his insults !

  • A bunch of god damn filthy dope smokin hippys

  • @heyazzhole ...anyone who ever sang this song smoked weed !

  • She fkn nailed this song here. Its so perfect. (Summertime) I read that ....whatshisface.....the Get Smart bastard....really hurt Janis with his comments and she was in tears backstage. Hollywood is no place for tender souls.

  • @NoRosesForMe If you dont mind me asking, What are you talking about?

  • @holyise That guy in the vid....I forget his name now...he was the star of the tv series Get Smart. Remember that? Crap show. ....anyway.....I read in a very good Janis bio that his shitty comments to her on stage hurt her badly. I dunno if that is seen in this vid but it was posted a while ago on YT. He went on about hippies and made rotten comments about them and she took it very deeply and backstage she cried her eyes out. Its true. This fkr hurt her feelins. She was very sensitive.

  • @NoRosesForMe Wow I never knew that. She was such a great singer it's a shame anyone would do something like that.

  • @holyise Yea Janis was one of the best. She had her toughness but she was actually a very sensitive self-conscious person. Her feelings were hurt easily. I guess her tough bravado didnt always protect her. The et Smart guy was a real bas'tid. Scuse my language.

  • Great shit,no comparison on the crap of today 2010 second song it's called' I Need a Man To Love'

  • Great shit,no comparison on the crap of today 2010

  • another great one!

  • RIP Janis Joplin

  • The definitive, "Summertime"..from the heart and NO lip syncing. So bittersweet to see this on the 40th anniversary of her death. I still see the image of Cass Elliott with her mouth hanging open when she first heard Janis...the woman was sheer magic. Thankfully, we have these videos and recordings..the voice will live forever.

  • The second song is called, "I need a man".

  • 40 años sin la "bruja cosmica"

  • whats the name of the second she sings???

  • 4 october 1970...40 anniversary of dead...RIP

  • I've never heard her speaking voice until now. She seemed pretty articulate.

  • she was so amazing! R.I.P. Janis

  • WE LOVE JANIS. BLESS HER SWEET HEART. TERESA AND YEAMAN

  • Janis and Hendrix died within weeks of each other. A great loss to music.

  • ever heard Eminem's "Rock Bottom"???Check it out! Great track recycling another great track. The evolution of music

  • I love her!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Hell we miss you Janis. Love you lass. xx

  • that guy in the beggining looks like maxwell smart (agent 86) XD

  • Great performance. Ranks right up there with the CHEAP THRILLS album but with the added bonus of Don Adams of GET SMART [Agent 86] fame and his banter. Thanks for posting!

  • lots of hair on that stage  :)) this is nice thanks for sharing...

  • Why can't alternative music like this ever hit main stream, like it did back in the late 60's and early 70's?

    We are missing it, I know alot of it has to do with making money, but come on "man with the cigar" throw us a crumb once in a while.

  • Janis has raw pure talent

  • Wow, there was a time when people play live on the TV..

  • WOW! What a clip!! Extraordinary! Janis was everything all at once -- improviser, vocalist, and extraordinary musician.  Thank you for sharing thsi!

  • @kwyjibo990 You leave me utterly confused, sir.

  • Wow, took back to Nam in 68 or 69? Too bad I lost those cassettes. Thanks for posting.

  • Janis is amazing and I love her with all my heart!

  • the guitars absolutely scream to my soul.etheral.