I is so sad that young People are drawn to take drugs and destroy their Lives and the Lives of all the people around them! Janis made a willing Choice to die! She had been suicidal for a long time! She will live on in our Hearts!
You all have NO Idea what these Times were like! They were the best and the worst Times for my generation! You all need to fight for Peace like Janis did with her Music and her short Life!
Is seems that they have changed the story a bit - to create a little more drama!!! Joplin died of BAD herione - NOT an over dose - and 7 other people died the same day - from the same batch of bad herione that hit the street!!!!!! But I guess it sounds more "sellable" if they twist the truth a bit!!!!
Woodstock was NOT (!!) her worst performance! Not at all! She was great regardless of the heroin and booze.......but...like she said so honestly.."Who would care?"......She was great . Stupid ABC no-good-sense journalism. xx LOVE you Janis xx
I personally know the throes of addiction, not to heroin, but to alcohol, and if there ever was a gateway drug for a lonely person, ethanol is it. I feel so bad for her, the only person she hurt was herself, and she didn't feel worthy enough to think of all the others she was hurting. All around a good person she was. I miss her even though she died nearly 10 years before I was born. Poor lady, I wish I coulda gave her a hug and just tell her to slow down.
worst performance ever? i fucking love the woodstock performance. Every single artist was jacked up on something, so what? that's almost what made the music
the problem was Janis feeling too blue all the time, and it had got to be with her so much I dont think she realised how big it was and how that affects other people, because most people are happy most if not at least half the time, but Janice was down most of the time, and no one wants to be around that for too long, she had an incredible gift of singing and disregarded it instead of protecting it.
Deserves a better film ... this is regular .. .. it is far from being a woman ... and her beautiful increiblemtne you deleiata passion and people who truly appreciate good music and rock and Blus
I think she was a fighter, but she was looking for love where she would never find it, she tried to hide herself of pain and finally she preferred to disappear. Drugs are the wrong answer.
people..........sooooooooooooo busy................so full of ourselves..........soooooo wrong
take a moment to listen, take a moment to think, take a moment to care, if not for others, for what your actions do to effect others, ...........and listen.....speak slowly and from the heart, and if another shares their heart, at least honestly listen, .....all most anyone asks.........and for thsoe here who cry foul, well, eys, but think............was she the very first real emo chick?
Janis so talented was a tortured soul, lonely at best i think kris krisstopherson portrays it the best way yu can, Dick Cavett who was her freind and she loved being on his show try's to explain best he could.
I didn't like the documentry either, it's great to hear people talk about Janis, yet it just seems like they left a big gaping hole of information out and representing her as a person who had no chance in life yet managed to become famous for music and then died of drugs. Maybe for another person's eyes they may see that but to many people/fans, Janis's music spoke to them. She is admired and has inspired many people, also still inspires others. I wish she knew how much she has been loved.
I think this showed the unembellished truth about her life as a rock star. This was not ment to be offensive and it's only a scratch from her story. Of course she was and still is the greatest of all. Her life was harsh and not some sugar coated Holliwood shit. Get real!
I don't think it was that nobody loved her i think she didn't love herself enough the horrors of not being accepted in highschool can reach you to the highest point of sadness and that is what we've seen with the deaths of Janis Joplin and Kurt Cobain
They wrote great music and made love to us on stage but in the end they went home alone.
it would be nice to see something that didnt tear her down it seems like most friends were there to get all they could from her and all she ever wanted was love and respect from others .maybe oneday some one will do a first class documentary on her.
that night her b/f and g/f was suppose to meet wit her in her motel room and no one showed up she found herself alone that why she OD on heroine if only one would of showed at her motel like they said, she would be here today they could of help her, sad she died alone R.I.P. Janis a lot of fans love u here
the ones who love janis, for her voice,compashion and strength, understand that she had her deamons. People are the crulest, anamials on the planet, and use words like a hammer, not caring , or understanding the long term damage thay can do to people.Times havent changed that much.
@pokerstar56 At the time heroin was really popular, all over. The love & peace scene turned into a speed scene. Don't forget the U.S. was in Vietnam & it was working on the side of opium dealers to get their support. And, of course, they need a market. Strange? No, think: later & crack cocaine: Reagan's war in Lat. Amer and their need of help from the So. Amer. drug cartel, and the rise & fall of crack cocaine in the U.S. None of this is "new" information. It's no secret; read about it.
I don't care if it the 60's..rock n roll..PPL doing drugs aren't part of a Healthy life....Damn, I guess with all that fame..the brain is just Fumed with something!!
Her Woodstock performance was excellent. She didnt think so and its dumb asses like,,,,this narrator......who made her feel insecure. People dont understand PAIN. Real pain. The deep dark shit that makes you old before yr time and makes you want to cover it all up or give up. Its hell. Been there. Still tryin to make it thru that kinda pain.
@UnAmericanBandstand You know, I'm not sure where I read it but Janis was not happy with her performance at Woodstock, she blamed Peggy for her shooting up and drinking at Woodstock. After that, Janis and Peggy took a break and thought it would be best to not be around each other since they were both hooked on heroin and influenced each other.
anyone who shot dope can relate to the quest for the next fix.Thats the truth.NO one cares about what they look like you think your doing the greatest when actually you suck.Reality is a bitch!Its not the first time drugs screwed up a persons life.
Dramatization in this video and the "summation" of Janice Joplin's life is pathetic. She has been passed away and you are trying to make her look like a freak in the context of our own times when she lived in the context of her own. Shame.
@finn1920 So true. I am sick and tired of documentaries like this where commentaries are given by all these "experts" who write books and do TV shows and are "friends" with other people and then make all these assumptions about them, paste them together and write this person's history for them. This was a TERRIBLE example of that, media pointing out only scandalous details about someone else (who is dead and cannot set the story straight) for voyeuristic purposes and good ratings.
yeah, and i love how they always bash their 'worst' performances (which to many people are the best). they did the same bullshit with Hendrix in another doc i saw.
YOU BELIEVE WHAT MEDIA PUTS TOGETHER TO BELIEVE ABOUT JANIS JUST LIKE JIMI HENDRIX AND MORRISON?. WHAT A COVER FOR WHO WHAT REALLY HAPPENS. TO ME SHE LOOKS NORMAL IN ALL THESE CLIPS......FUCK SATAN! LOVE JESUS CHRIST THE TRUE SAVIOR...GOD BLESS
i think it's really important to support real true artists like Janis. she didn't sell her soul to the devil in the music industry........neither did anyone else in the music industry who are all DEAD now...yes something wicked is happening in hollywood please look into blood sacrifices in hollywood. you wouldn't believe what these "stars" are involved in today. GOD BLESS truthseekers
I've tried ... I've really tried. I bought the albums, watched the concert footage. I never heard her sing three notes simultaneously. All I ever heard was a screaming woman. Sold the albums and moved on.
@clouser67 - agree with you. I LOVED Janis Joplin, the funny, sad and very intelligent person. She could sing for sure, but I hated when she got to the screaming/screeching stuff. I am very glad I saw her live in Toronto. A special memory.
her girlfriend should be proud of herself being indirectly an accomplice in her death. hope she sleeps good at night. they weren't that young, not to know better!
i liked some of her songs, but definately didn't like most of em'. that screaming got kind of annoying after awhile. she enjoyed vices more than life, so no surprise of her demise. the lesson from this is DON'T BE STUPID!!! .... i don't think she was an ugly girl, she became ugly after her addictions took control of her.
her friend is a fat bitch liar...they fucked up JANIS JOPLIN----yeah the illuminati were fucking with janis joplin...fuck them... they are destroying the world. look into new world order
@floydruleman excuse me I never said fuck you to you. you obviously have hate in your heart and I feel sorry for you. You don't sound to educated. You really should stop being brainwashed and having so much hate in your heart. Hopefully you can find peace in your heart to calm down cause you are a bit unbalanced.
@saychelles26 agree with astrolifter you are totally insane,get some facts straight, the only brainwashed person on this beautiful persons song comments site is YOU,also the Russians got most of the scientist from germany,you knock someones english yet you say you don't sound to educated,it's TOO you moron,what college campus did you walk across.please tell me that your not American,talk about unbalanced that is about the biggest pile of dung I've heard before,manson wold have loved you
@floydruleman do you even know who the illuminati are and how they are shaping our society? Do you know about MK Ultra or how the government after Hilter's rule took the best scientist from hitler over to the U.S to practice more extensive mind control. Yes you can do your research if you want to seek the truth.
The story of Janis Joplin is a true life American Tragedy. She was singing the blues from her heart by the age of seventeen. So painful was her childhood that she could no longer hold it within. So that when her pain found expression. It gave her the means to escape her tormentors. It also afforded her a lifestyle and behaviors that ultimately led to her demise. There is a lesson there, somewhere.
no the real lesson is to not seek riches and FAME becuase if you don't sell you soul to the devil today you won't make it in the industry...you either have to sell your soul or stop doing music or you'll be killed. any musician who reaches a certain doller amount that's when the illuminati approach you to get your soul to spread satans evil message....
@GeneralKabul It's already been made, it's called "Janis" later changed to "Janis: The Way She Was" written by Howard Alk, Seaton Findlay. No mention of drugs or her death-just Janis on stage and in interviews. Why in the hell it has not been remastered is anyone's guess, but it can never be topped.
Nobody on this earth was good enough for Janis Joplin, and she has nothing to be ashamed of. I just wish she had more love in her life. Real love... Tell you off when you need it and hold you when you cry love.
what is this, a cautionary tale on the perils of drugs and alcohol? talk about a one dimensional story line. there's alot of BS here, paticularly about her performance at Woodstock...shame on 20/20
heroin was also used in the 1930's. Billie Holiday was an addict as were many others of her time. Sad commentary on such a gifted singer of my generation....
Yes i am sure there is more footage of Janis at Woodstock, just type in the key words and you should find some on youtube. In the 80s i had a video that i taped late one night, i think it was the documentary of her life, i can remember i think this footage was on it, I so wish i still had it! I think she had just been flown in by helicopter,
Worst documentary in the history of the world. This documentary didn't do Janis any justice or give her any credit that she deserved. They only brought her down more in death, just as they had in life. She was an amazing woman with an otherworldly ability to reach into ur very soul with her voice. Someone should make a documentary giving her the right praise and respect that she deserves. She had such a beautiful soul its a shame she had no one around her 2 love her like she deserved 2 be loved
I agree so much with what you said, it seems like all the documentaries just tear her down and disrespect her almost...she deserves so much better. Always did.
@MissMandySunshine I wasn't there to experience what it felt like to hear the new song from Janis while she was still alive and connect with her. I'm now trying to do whatever I can to connect to that feeling because listening to her songs alone is enough to strike a powerful mood. I can tell her heart was in it. Seeing your comment just makes me want to experience it MORE!
@MissMandySunshine It sounds to me like you're wishing to idolize Janice. I think this video could've highlighted more what she did for music, how she was respected dearly as a musician, but I don't agree that this documentary is the "worst in the world." It is a personal portrait more than it is a hall of fame exposé.
@MissMandySunshine This is who Janis was like it or not...an amazing woman with a powerful voice like we'll never hear again..no one here was trying to tear her down they were speaking the truth..if you're looking for sugar coated biographies this isn't it...all these people knew her first hand...I didn't hear anyone saw she wasn't talented...
them in 20 years and you'll be somebody special!" & she was right. She was the only singer whose death still affects me, like it was a death in the family.
I have the soundboard boot of Woodstock & she was brilliant. Janis NEVER did a bad show because her talent & passion pushed her. She knew what she meant to the kids out there when she sang. I still miss her. I was 12 when I heard about her & I was taunted & abused in school. After I discovered Janis I was able to endure it because it was like she said to me, "Fuck them! They'll be wearing panty girdles while their fat husbands cheat on
About 10 years ago i had a similar experience. My girlfriend and i were supposed to meet at a spot. I did not go as i was with someone else but i thought that she was also meeting her x. We had been using together for a while , i got home at about 4am and just got to sleep when the phone rang with the news that she had been found dead in a toilet cubicle at a fast food place. She was last seen standing where we had agreed to meet the day before. She had also talked of death alot. RIP Deb.
Right on. This whole segment was a plot to sell a book and exploit Janis even more. But I remember seeing this when it originally aired on ABC and it was cool to see ANYthing about her on tv...but yea youre right. God bless her.
Great art, great music is bourne out of agony. Each note an expression of pain. Janis exemplified this.
This so called documentary is sleazy, sensationalist and mostly disrespectful to her legacy. Dick Cavett, however, seems like a decent person. This Peggy woman was just another manipulative, bottom feeding junkie.
Janis' music is immortal. Unfortunately, I have only been, recently, acquainted with it. I love it, and I am sorry I didn't pay attention earlier.
Rothschild produced dozens of bands did they all die at 27? No just those two, it's a coincidence. I'd be quicker to blame the fact they were both on drugs and drank too much.
Her music is the most important legacy she has left our beloved Janis. Spend the years and continue that legacy alive illuminating to those who have and will continue to appreciate. <3
Janice dead at 27...Jim Morrison dead at 27...........how old was Jimi Hendrix when he died? if he was 27 too, then this has fishy stink to it. ive always thought these deaths were very strange.
Hendrix was born Nov. 1942, died Aug. 1970, that would indeed make him 27 when he died if my math is correct. Not only was he 27 when he died, he died on Aug. 27. Don't put anything past Nixon and his CIA goons, they had both Kennedys and King killed, started the Vietnam War, he had an "enemies" list a mile long. They killed everything we loved, our President, then they tried to kill our music, then they killed 58,000 men. They damn near destroyed this country just like Bush/Cheney.
Excuse me, but that's bullshit. 'Nixon and his CIA goons' had NOTHING to do with starting Vietnam, it began as a French intervention in a civil war in one of their colonies. The US came to the aid of their French allies and ended up footing the majority of the political and ethical bill.
As far as your other outrageous accusations, good luck proving them to any rational person. Nixon was bad enough without any of these retarded conspiracy theories being attached to his legacy.
one question. where the hell was Janice's manager?? hes the one who should have made sure no heroin dealer got within 100 miles of Janice! didnt he realize he was letting his own meal ticket rot to pieces on stage and national TV!!
Janis gave the world all the passion and love and hurt and power of her voice. She was a moth to the flame; dancing with the fire even though it will consumne her. Short, firey, intense and without peer. Rest her soul.......
I always get angry when I hear someone calling Janis ugly. She wasn't ugly at all! I think she was a really beautiful and talented woman who left a VERY important legacy to music. She's a real idol for me: a symbol of female revolution of the decade and an amazing singer. LOVE HER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i wasnt even around during woodstock or monterey but i am sure she gave a great performance and she's a idol for me even though the rainbow hair reminds me of amy winehouse lol but janis was an important symbol of women's liberation and plus she was really talented and at the end of the video i almost cried honestly cause i was wondering how could jj be so talented and die so young of something stupid like drugs
Her rendition of 'Work Me Lord' at Woodstock is one of her best performances, this commentator is bugging me. Does anyone remember seeing a documentary on Hendrix or Morrison on 20/20 where the topic of conversation is their sexuality & drug use, not their music? NO. Instead of showing her incredible performances & the way she moved people every time she sang, her vices are discussed in detail. Even in death she's slighted. Talk about jaded journalism. RIP Janis, we love you.
my god my god, what music she made and what music would have been if she were still alive today. God rest your precious soul janis, and when you do come back know that your music touched all our souls.
There are takes of her Woodstock performance on her 2nd album re-release; it does not sound like a disastrous performance. There is also footage that does not depict a disastrous performance... unless of course, one is a tight @ss news anchor, scared of anything unusual.
You wanna keep kids off heroin? Fine. But lose the manipulative moralism; this whole piece is excessively focused on negativity and so little on what ultimately stood the test of time, which was her music.
Agreed. I have a soundboard bootleg audio of the entire set of Janis' Woodstock performance and it doesn't even remotely sound disastrous. In fact, she's ON FIRE even though she's high and very drunk; and THAT'S saying something. And for the record, who among those talentless, fake, & over-produced pretty faces they glorify nowadays can emulate THAT kind of performance? None!
she was and is and will always be the most beauityful woman i've ever seen, her soul her looks and her music. Wow i could never do that. She is blessed in so many ways
DRUGS ALCOHOL TALENT DO NOT MIX
EGMAG 3 weeks ago
if i had a time machine id go to those times and love her, take care of her make her happy. she is such a queen! <3
0bong0bunny0 3 weeks ago
Okay Finn 1920, who was Janis Joplin? Is your cynicism a little extreme?
bobhedstrom 1 month ago
So sad
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I is so sad that young People are drawn to take drugs and destroy their Lives and the Lives of all the people around them! Janis made a willing Choice to die! She had been suicidal for a long time! She will live on in our Hearts!
BluesHarp60 1 month ago
You all have NO Idea what these Times were like! They were the best and the worst Times for my generation! You all need to fight for Peace like Janis did with her Music and her short Life!
BluesHarp60 1 month ago
What a shame RIP
GMGRENOS 1 month ago
what a beautiful free spirit
Pixiegnom 2 months ago
NEMESIS1JUSTICE4ALL, the song title is Ball n Chain..
a3062571 2 months ago
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FREEDOM IS JUST ANOTHER WORD FOR NOTHING LEFT TO LOSE...
..RIP
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Is seems that they have changed the story a bit - to create a little more drama!!! Joplin died of BAD herione - NOT an over dose - and 7 other people died the same day - from the same batch of bad herione that hit the street!!!!!! But I guess it sounds more "sellable" if they twist the truth a bit!!!!
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Im so sad....
shawn8547 2 months ago
Is there suppose to be a part 3?
NEMESIS1JUSTICE4ALL 2 months ago
What's the name of the song @ 1:40? I like it!
NEMESIS1JUSTICE4ALL 2 months ago
3:40 who's this actor? I mean name
arzy2008 3 months ago
@arzy2008 chris christoferson or somethin like that
brandishoogy 2 months ago
@brandishoogy a ciborg :)
arzy2008 2 months ago
Woodstock was NOT (!!) her worst performance! Not at all! She was great regardless of the heroin and booze.......but...like she said so honestly.."Who would care?"......She was great . Stupid ABC no-good-sense journalism. xx LOVE you Janis xx
NoRosesForMe 3 months ago 2
I personally know the throes of addiction, not to heroin, but to alcohol, and if there ever was a gateway drug for a lonely person, ethanol is it. I feel so bad for her, the only person she hurt was herself, and she didn't feel worthy enough to think of all the others she was hurting. All around a good person she was. I miss her even though she died nearly 10 years before I was born. Poor lady, I wish I coulda gave her a hug and just tell her to slow down.
punishedexistence 3 months ago
worst performance ever? i fucking love the woodstock performance. Every single artist was jacked up on something, so what? that's almost what made the music
cinnamonblush 3 months ago
the problem was Janis feeling too blue all the time, and it had got to be with her so much I dont think she realised how big it was and how that affects other people, because most people are happy most if not at least half the time, but Janice was down most of the time, and no one wants to be around that for too long, she had an incredible gift of singing and disregarded it instead of protecting it.
Zephyesa 3 months ago
Deserves a better film ... this is regular .. .. it is far from being a woman ... and her beautiful increiblemtne you deleiata passion and people who truly appreciate good music and rock and Blus
Mrfrankgutiz 3 months ago
they feel as a big network they have to convey a lesson abt drugs and liquor and that's all...
leslieright 3 months ago
I think she was a fighter, but she was looking for love where she would never find it, she tried to hide herself of pain and finally she preferred to disappear. Drugs are the wrong answer.
josephmarquez77 4 months ago
I love Janis for her music.
No one can tear her down to me. I'm sad about this show. Lonley unhappy depressed.
RIP Janis I know what you would say about this video F---- It
cw605 4 months ago
people..........sooooooooooooo busy................so full of ourselves..........soooooo wrong
take a moment to listen, take a moment to think, take a moment to care, if not for others, for what your actions do to effect others, ...........and listen.....speak slowly and from the heart, and if another shares their heart, at least honestly listen, .....all most anyone asks.........and for thsoe here who cry foul, well, eys, but think............was she the very first real emo chick?
THEMASTEROFYOU2000 4 months ago
She may be dead but her music will live forever....peace
LetArtsLive 5 months ago
You have a good point. You either like her or you don't.
So look at yourself sweetie
Ratsonic 6 months ago
worst preformance or not..i'd still be honored to have been there..
trueimages09 6 months ago
Janis so talented was a tortured soul, lonely at best i think kris krisstopherson portrays it the best way yu can, Dick Cavett who was her freind and she loved being on his show try's to explain best he could.
dictator54 6 months ago
@anpl94 how old are you? What lies? That she was a heroin addict? That Peggy was her lover? Janis was a tortured soul......sad but true...
mamathrasher1 6 months ago
I didn't like the documentry either, it's great to hear people talk about Janis, yet it just seems like they left a big gaping hole of information out and representing her as a person who had no chance in life yet managed to become famous for music and then died of drugs. Maybe for another person's eyes they may see that but to many people/fans, Janis's music spoke to them. She is admired and has inspired many people, also still inspires others. I wish she knew how much she has been loved.
katey03 6 months ago
I think this showed the unembellished truth about her life as a rock star. This was not ment to be offensive and it's only a scratch from her story. Of course she was and still is the greatest of all. Her life was harsh and not some sugar coated Holliwood shit. Get real!
Sutunen 6 months ago 3
I hate that people say this type of shit about Janis, she is dead and can not defend herself.
Why do they make up lies?
God you would think when you die,
people would start to care about things you had to say while you were alive.
But no these stupid critics and media bullshitters are all saleouts trying to make a buck,
When Janis actually cared, and wanted to change things for our generation.
And who is this peggy girl that no one gas heard of until she was dead?
anpl94 7 months ago
Does anybody know what´s the name of the song she sings at Woodstock?
monkeyrocky 8 months ago
@monkeyrocky ball and chain
todazed2confused 6 months ago
What crap!
Schmidhofer 8 months ago
is there any descent documentary about her? pls i would really like to see it
this is so superficial
opethgarzaMD 8 months ago
this is a bad documentary. she is female, if she was a male rocker, she woulda been immortalized. check Jimmy, Morrison, others. Shame
78702able 9 months ago
I don't think it was that nobody loved her i think she didn't love herself enough the horrors of not being accepted in highschool can reach you to the highest point of sadness and that is what we've seen with the deaths of Janis Joplin and Kurt Cobain
They wrote great music and made love to us on stage but in the end they went home alone.
skinnyminny25 9 months ago
JANIS YOU LIVE AS A ROCK STAR...
NOW ON YOU ARE A STAR FOREVER!
SEE YOU IN HEAVEN
DANY ROCKS
lumifer 9 months ago
i care
456pokemonking 9 months ago
it would be nice to see something that didnt tear her down it seems like most friends were there to get all they could from her and all she ever wanted was love and respect from others .maybe oneday some one will do a first class documentary on her.
94donnacone 10 months ago
that night her b/f and g/f was suppose to meet wit her in her motel room and no one showed up she found herself alone that why she OD on heroine if only one would of showed at her motel like they said, she would be here today they could of help her, sad she died alone R.I.P. Janis a lot of fans love u here
drummermarcel1 10 months ago
this is a piece if crap, full of inaccuracies and blatant lies...the good ol'e american media doing it's sensationalist best to get their ratings
kevidw 10 months ago
the ones who love janis, for her voice,compashion and strength, understand that she had her deamons. People are the crulest, anamials on the planet, and use words like a hammer, not caring , or understanding the long term damage thay can do to people.Times havent changed that much.
peacedragonflly1 11 months ago
These 2 video's are great!
MahaLaha27 11 months ago
Everybody's bitchin about how horrible this documentary is, but ya all sucked it up, didn't ya, assholes?!
Nerblette 11 months ago
FUCK ABC RIGHT IN THE BLOODY ASSHOLE
Newby27 11 months ago
I think it would have been something to know Janis as a person...wish i could have met her.
Don't think much of this Peggy woman who was her lover...she did not look out for Janis, or at least it looks that way.
river5300 11 months ago
looked terrible...in the woodstock performance?...that was my favorite performance!
:)
FASHIONFAITHXOXO 1 year ago
Janis made my life better, The world is a better place cause' of Janis. Simply an icon of the era, Long Live in our minds and hearts Janice.
fredschmidt100 1 year ago 3
@AwsomeUsername1 That is so true, Janis is amazing, I love her voice.
andreamprincess 1 year ago
Is there any recording with Janis and an autoharp?
CharlotteFairchild 1 year ago
what a waisted fuckin talent why couldnt she just smoke a joint and go to bed but not she had to do drugs to die fuck
pokerstar56 1 year ago
@pokerstar56 At the time heroin was really popular, all over. The love & peace scene turned into a speed scene. Don't forget the U.S. was in Vietnam & it was working on the side of opium dealers to get their support. And, of course, they need a market. Strange? No, think: later & crack cocaine: Reagan's war in Lat. Amer and their need of help from the So. Amer. drug cartel, and the rise & fall of crack cocaine in the U.S. None of this is "new" information. It's no secret; read about it.
tapolna 1 year ago
I don't care if it the 60's..rock n roll..PPL doing drugs aren't part of a Healthy life....Damn, I guess with all that fame..the brain is just Fumed with something!!
freedomland11 1 year ago
Her Woodstock performance was excellent. She didnt think so and its dumb asses like,,,,this narrator......who made her feel insecure. People dont understand PAIN. Real pain. The deep dark shit that makes you old before yr time and makes you want to cover it all up or give up. Its hell. Been there. Still tryin to make it thru that kinda pain.
UnAmericanBandstand 1 year ago 7
@UnAmericanBandstand You know, I'm not sure where I read it but Janis was not happy with her performance at Woodstock, she blamed Peggy for her shooting up and drinking at Woodstock. After that, Janis and Peggy took a break and thought it would be best to not be around each other since they were both hooked on heroin and influenced each other.
crudd505 1 week ago
@ mr vinny-fukin a man well said
vonkiser 1 year ago
anyone who shot dope can relate to the quest for the next fix.Thats the truth.NO one cares about what they look like you think your doing the greatest when actually you suck.Reality is a bitch!Its not the first time drugs screwed up a persons life.
MrVinny53 1 year ago
Dramatization in this video and the "summation" of Janice Joplin's life is pathetic. She has been passed away and you are trying to make her look like a freak in the context of our own times when she lived in the context of her own. Shame.
brahud 1 year ago
To the Chris Christofersons of yesteryear. Go fuck a duck!
levi501ism 1 year ago
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levi501ism 1 year ago
good but damn junkie man shit!!!! still pisses me off to know that that's what happened to her in the end
leosunshine1 1 year ago
good but damn junkie man shit!!!!
leosunshine1 1 year ago
I AM SICK AND TIRED OF THE MEDIA TRYING TO PINPOINT WHO JANIS WAS.
RIP SWEET ORIGINAL GIRL.
finn1920 1 year ago 11
@finn1920 So true. I am sick and tired of documentaries like this where commentaries are given by all these "experts" who write books and do TV shows and are "friends" with other people and then make all these assumptions about them, paste them together and write this person's history for them. This was a TERRIBLE example of that, media pointing out only scandalous details about someone else (who is dead and cannot set the story straight) for voyeuristic purposes and good ratings.
CloverDealman 1 year ago 7
@CloverDealman
yeah, and i love how they always bash their 'worst' performances (which to many people are the best). they did the same bullshit with Hendrix in another doc i saw.
LfunkeyA 1 year ago 3
@CloverDealman Kris Kris used to bonk her all the time so I would say he's an expert and knew alot about Janice.
nat00ben06 11 months ago
@CloverDealman
As noted in part one... if I never hear another "golly gee, holy cow" network television presentation, it will be too soon.
CurzonRoad 1 week ago
@finn1920 Yeah, only she knew who she was.
NEMESIS1JUSTICE4ALL 2 months ago
she lived a fast hard lifestyle she looked way older than 27
jebr1983 1 year ago
YOU BELIEVE WHAT MEDIA PUTS TOGETHER TO BELIEVE ABOUT JANIS JUST LIKE JIMI HENDRIX AND MORRISON?. WHAT A COVER FOR WHO WHAT REALLY HAPPENS. TO ME SHE LOOKS NORMAL IN ALL THESE CLIPS......FUCK SATAN! LOVE JESUS CHRIST THE TRUE SAVIOR...GOD BLESS
saychelles26 1 year ago
@saychelles26 You clearly are insane
astrolifter 1 year ago
i think it's really important to support real true artists like Janis. she didn't sell her soul to the devil in the music industry........neither did anyone else in the music industry who are all DEAD now...yes something wicked is happening in hollywood please look into blood sacrifices in hollywood. you wouldn't believe what these "stars" are involved in today. GOD BLESS truthseekers
saychelles26 1 year ago
we lost a great talent
Bosco208 1 year ago
I've tried ... I've really tried. I bought the albums, watched the concert footage. I never heard her sing three notes simultaneously. All I ever heard was a screaming woman. Sold the albums and moved on.
clouser67 1 year ago
@clouser67 - agree with you. I LOVED Janis Joplin, the funny, sad and very intelligent person. She could sing for sure, but I hated when she got to the screaming/screeching stuff. I am very glad I saw her live in Toronto. A special memory.
rocktenniscat 1 year ago
her girlfriend should be proud of herself being indirectly an accomplice in her death. hope she sleeps good at night. they weren't that young, not to know better!
frizzlefrap 1 year ago
i liked some of her songs, but definately didn't like most of em'. that screaming got kind of annoying after awhile. she enjoyed vices more than life, so no surprise of her demise. the lesson from this is DON'T BE STUPID!!! .... i don't think she was an ugly girl, she became ugly after her addictions took control of her.
frizzlefrap 1 year ago
@frizzlefrap
her friend is a fat bitch liar...they fucked up JANIS JOPLIN----yeah the illuminati were fucking with janis joplin...fuck them... they are destroying the world. look into new world order
saychelles26 1 year ago
@saychelles26
fuck you man. it's the lizard people who did it.
floydruleman 1 year ago
@floydruleman excuse me I never said fuck you to you. you obviously have hate in your heart and I feel sorry for you. You don't sound to educated. You really should stop being brainwashed and having so much hate in your heart. Hopefully you can find peace in your heart to calm down cause you are a bit unbalanced.
saychelles26 1 year ago
@saychelles26 agree with astrolifter you are totally insane,get some facts straight, the only brainwashed person on this beautiful persons song comments site is YOU,also the Russians got most of the scientist from germany,you knock someones english yet you say you don't sound to educated,it's TOO you moron,what college campus did you walk across.please tell me that your not American,talk about unbalanced that is about the biggest pile of dung I've heard before,manson wold have loved you
JJMFB1 1 year ago
@floydruleman do you even know who the illuminati are and how they are shaping our society? Do you know about MK Ultra or how the government after Hilter's rule took the best scientist from hitler over to the U.S to practice more extensive mind control. Yes you can do your research if you want to seek the truth.
saychelles26 1 year ago
@saychelles26
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emacification 1 year ago
helping lead someone to death by OD?
not really love. not good love.
revpgesq 1 year ago 2
The story of Janis Joplin is a true life American Tragedy. She was singing the blues from her heart by the age of seventeen. So painful was her childhood that she could no longer hold it within. So that when her pain found expression. It gave her the means to escape her tormentors. It also afforded her a lifestyle and behaviors that ultimately led to her demise. There is a lesson there, somewhere.
honypoboy 1 year ago
@honypoboy
no the real lesson is to not seek riches and FAME becuase if you don't sell you soul to the devil today you won't make it in the industry...you either have to sell your soul or stop doing music or you'll be killed. any musician who reaches a certain doller amount that's when the illuminati approach you to get your soul to spread satans evil message....
saychelles26 1 year ago
Drugs are bad blah blah blah. Someone please make a descent documentary on Janis.
GeneralKabul 1 year ago 5
@GeneralKabul It's already been made, it's called "Janis" later changed to "Janis: The Way She Was" written by Howard Alk, Seaton Findlay. No mention of drugs or her death-just Janis on stage and in interviews. Why in the hell it has not been remastered is anyone's guess, but it can never be topped.
sunfighter86 1 year ago
..lot of people in pain in the world.. we all wear such good masks....
mrbriscoe2001 1 year ago 2
Nobody on this earth was good enough for Janis Joplin, and she has nothing to be ashamed of. I just wish she had more love in her life. Real love... Tell you off when you need it and hold you when you cry love.
Fitzhugh1975 1 year ago 4
what is this, a cautionary tale on the perils of drugs and alcohol? talk about a one dimensional story line. there's alot of BS here, paticularly about her performance at Woodstock...shame on 20/20
kevidw 1 year ago 4
i didn't think her woodstock performance was bad at all.
TheRachakins 1 year ago 2
@TheRachakins .... did you enjoy drugs too?
frizzlefrap 1 year ago
@frizzlefrap only pot
saychelles26 1 year ago
Where are the rest of her history???? part 3/20 until the 20/20
oenxirtam2002 2 years ago
she was high at woodstock? it didn't look like it because she sounded and looked great.
bsbncandey 2 years ago 4
No support from friends as intervention. To be there 24/7 until she beats the addiction.
vxenon67 2 years ago 2
dirty laundry baby...
jmee1002 2 years ago
Fuck this......they just want to dwell on the ugly. She made beautiful music......leave this hollywood expo and go watch a clip of her singing!
dullsvillain 2 years ago 6
Be honest though, if her life had been happy and free of tragedy, would anyone be interested?
PeterBluth 2 years ago
heroin was also used in the 1930's. Billie Holiday was an addict as were many others of her time. Sad commentary on such a gifted singer of my generation....
suzib77 2 years ago
is there more of that footage of janis at woodstock?? wheres she saying theres so many people... I've never seen it before
alexislanexoxo 2 years ago
Yes i am sure there is more footage of Janis at Woodstock, just type in the key words and you should find some on youtube. In the 80s i had a video that i taped late one night, i think it was the documentary of her life, i can remember i think this footage was on it, I so wish i still had it! I think she had just been flown in by helicopter,
Celizamite 2 years ago
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alexislanexoxo 2 years ago
she has the most beautiful smile ever (:
SodaPopandCoke 2 years ago 7
I love Janis Joplin and will always love her as long as I live.
redroselass 2 years ago 4
Worst documentary in the history of the world. This documentary didn't do Janis any justice or give her any credit that she deserved. They only brought her down more in death, just as they had in life. She was an amazing woman with an otherworldly ability to reach into ur very soul with her voice. Someone should make a documentary giving her the right praise and respect that she deserves. She had such a beautiful soul its a shame she had no one around her 2 love her like she deserved 2 be loved
MissMandySunshine 2 years ago 76
I agree so much with what you said, it seems like all the documentaries just tear her down and disrespect her almost...she deserves so much better. Always did.
girlblue1970 2 years ago 17
@MissMandySunshine I wasn't there to experience what it felt like to hear the new song from Janis while she was still alive and connect with her. I'm now trying to do whatever I can to connect to that feeling because listening to her songs alone is enough to strike a powerful mood. I can tell her heart was in it. Seeing your comment just makes me want to experience it MORE!
CaramelCleo 9 months ago
@MissMandySunshine AGREE
smilelikeUmeanit90 6 months ago
@MissMandySunshine It sounds to me like you're wishing to idolize Janice. I think this video could've highlighted more what she did for music, how she was respected dearly as a musician, but I don't agree that this documentary is the "worst in the world." It is a personal portrait more than it is a hall of fame exposé.
JoshMan522 5 months ago 3
@MissMandySunshine This is who Janis was like it or not...an amazing woman with a powerful voice like we'll never hear again..no one here was trying to tear her down they were speaking the truth..if you're looking for sugar coated biographies this isn't it...all these people knew her first hand...I didn't hear anyone saw she wasn't talented...
Goodwith2005 4 months ago
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she would still be fucking shit up on stage
brucekirk89 2 years ago
Most importantly-she created some very beautiful music. The drugs are still there today don't kid yourselves.
pigletized 2 years ago
them in 20 years and you'll be somebody special!" & she was right. She was the only singer whose death still affects me, like it was a death in the family.
Jonnobaas 2 years ago 3
I have the soundboard boot of Woodstock & she was brilliant. Janis NEVER did a bad show because her talent & passion pushed her. She knew what she meant to the kids out there when she sang. I still miss her. I was 12 when I heard about her & I was taunted & abused in school. After I discovered Janis I was able to endure it because it was like she said to me, "Fuck them! They'll be wearing panty girdles while their fat husbands cheat on
Jonnobaas 2 years ago 3
her "worst" performance was better than these yahoos now a days best.
dasboot211221 2 years ago 7
Janis Joplin's performance on stage was one of the best performances I ever saw in my life!!
barbarabeenken 2 years ago
What was it about Heroin in the late 60's and early 70's. Fuck it killed everyone! what a godamned shame.
andy65guitar 2 years ago 2
Look at the 80s and 90s and 2000s and you'll find the same thing it killed and kills not just stars but anyone.
pigletized 2 years ago
Excellent point.
andy65guitar 2 years ago
Hey Thanks!
pigletized 2 years ago
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Janis Joplin's performance on stage sucked really bad.
jackiehallam62 2 years ago
About 10 years ago i had a similar experience. My girlfriend and i were supposed to meet at a spot. I did not go as i was with someone else but i thought that she was also meeting her x. We had been using together for a while , i got home at about 4am and just got to sleep when the phone rang with the news that she had been found dead in a toilet cubicle at a fast food place. She was last seen standing where we had agreed to meet the day before. She had also talked of death alot. RIP Deb.
Celizamite 2 years ago 3
that is so sad and so much like Janis's story...i'm sorry for your loss :(
girlblue1970 2 years ago
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Celizamite 2 years ago
i didnt like this shit......your someones friend you dont talk abou them like shit
smellysmellysmellyun 2 years ago 3
Right on. This whole segment was a plot to sell a book and exploit Janis even more. But I remember seeing this when it originally aired on ABC and it was cool to see ANYthing about her on tv...but yea youre right. God bless her.
NoRosesForMe 2 years ago
Peggy wasn't good enough for Janis
girlblue1970 2 years ago
Alice Echols is a critic.
Not a friend.
SunshinneChild 2 years ago
Great art, great music is bourne out of agony. Each note an expression of pain. Janis exemplified this.
This so called documentary is sleazy, sensationalist and mostly disrespectful to her legacy. Dick Cavett, however, seems like a decent person. This Peggy woman was just another manipulative, bottom feeding junkie.
Janis' music is immortal. Unfortunately, I have only been, recently, acquainted with it. I love it, and I am sorry I didn't pay attention earlier.
What a lady! :)
righteousdevil 2 years ago 4
Kris Kristofferson was her last boyfriend and he's know as mind control programmer.
Paul E. Rothschild was her manager and some of us know what the rothschild are about.
Paul E. Rothschild was Jim Morrisons manager too.. they both died at the age of 27.
there could be something to this!!
I don't beleive she would of killed herself.. she had to much love of life in her..
I never seen or heard anything like her.
thanks Janis.. R.I.P
malkuty 2 years ago
Her manager was Albert Grossman.
miketodd67 2 years ago
Well I know for sure that Rothschild was involved in her life and in Morrison life too... at the time did both died
malkuty 2 years ago
Rothschild produced dozens of bands did they all die at 27? No just those two, it's a coincidence. I'd be quicker to blame the fact they were both on drugs and drank too much.
miketodd67 2 years ago
I will not argue! you could be right.
Thanks
malkuty 2 years ago
What a terrible documentary. All Janis cared about was her next fix???
This is garbage!
cutis1000 2 years ago 2
Her music is the most important legacy she has left our beloved Janis. Spend the years and continue that legacy alive illuminating to those who have and will continue to appreciate. <3
TheMrPsychedelic 2 years ago
What the hell? When she sang "Work Me Lord" at Woodstock, it's AMAZING. Pure energy.
xDxRabbitx 2 years ago
Actually - it was pure heroin and a lot of Southern Comfort!!!
Earthlinked 2 years ago
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she died as a result of sin in her life. No Jeus, No peace....
Joedink1 2 years ago
No she died of a heroin overdose. Sometimes, God never shows up!!
Earthlinked 2 years ago
Check out on youtube--27s book trailer, they also include Cobain, he was 27 when he died.
JoanOfArc14 2 years ago
Janice dead at 27...Jim Morrison dead at 27...........how old was Jimi Hendrix when he died? if he was 27 too, then this has fishy stink to it. ive always thought these deaths were very strange.
acerb45666555 2 years ago
Hendrix was born Nov. 1942, died Aug. 1970, that would indeed make him 27 when he died if my math is correct. Not only was he 27 when he died, he died on Aug. 27. Don't put anything past Nixon and his CIA goons, they had both Kennedys and King killed, started the Vietnam War, he had an "enemies" list a mile long. They killed everything we loved, our President, then they tried to kill our music, then they killed 58,000 men. They damn near destroyed this country just like Bush/Cheney.
JoanOfArc14 2 years ago
Excuse me, but that's bullshit. 'Nixon and his CIA goons' had NOTHING to do with starting Vietnam, it began as a French intervention in a civil war in one of their colonies. The US came to the aid of their French allies and ended up footing the majority of the political and ethical bill.
As far as your other outrageous accusations, good luck proving them to any rational person. Nixon was bad enough without any of these retarded conspiracy theories being attached to his legacy.
anndeesavage 1 year ago 2
one question. where the hell was Janice's manager?? hes the one who should have made sure no heroin dealer got within 100 miles of Janice! didnt he realize he was letting his own meal ticket rot to pieces on stage and national TV!!
acerb45666555 2 years ago
Janis gave the world all the passion and love and hurt and power of her voice. She was a moth to the flame; dancing with the fire even though it will consumne her. Short, firey, intense and without peer. Rest her soul.......
gulfgypsy 2 years ago 6
I always get angry when I hear someone calling Janis ugly. She wasn't ugly at all! I think she was a really beautiful and talented woman who left a VERY important legacy to music. She's a real idol for me: a symbol of female revolution of the decade and an amazing singer. LOVE HER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GeorgeHarrisonLuver 2 years ago 4
she was, not only a beautiful face, but a truly beautiful soul
jonasfan45056 2 years ago 6
i totally agree with you
she was in no way ugly
in fact she was very pretty
i wasnt even around during woodstock or monterey but i am sure she gave a great performance and she's a idol for me even though the rainbow hair reminds me of amy winehouse lol but janis was an important symbol of women's liberation and plus she was really talented and at the end of the video i almost cried honestly cause i was wondering how could jj be so talented and die so young of something stupid like drugs
2cherylcxko313 2 years ago
Her rendition of 'Work Me Lord' at Woodstock is one of her best performances, this commentator is bugging me. Does anyone remember seeing a documentary on Hendrix or Morrison on 20/20 where the topic of conversation is their sexuality & drug use, not their music? NO. Instead of showing her incredible performances & the way she moved people every time she sang, her vices are discussed in detail. Even in death she's slighted. Talk about jaded journalism. RIP Janis, we love you.
SoCoPearl 2 years ago 7
WORD.
xx
alexlodda 2 years ago 2
Peggy Caserta was a bad influence. I dont care what anyone says. She helped drag Janis down. Needy greedy hangers-on. Janis needed more than she got.
UnAmericanBandstand 2 years ago 3
my god my god, what music she made and what music would have been if she were still alive today. God rest your precious soul janis, and when you do come back know that your music touched all our souls.
catensround 2 years ago 2
There are takes of her Woodstock performance on her 2nd album re-release; it does not sound like a disastrous performance. There is also footage that does not depict a disastrous performance... unless of course, one is a tight @ss news anchor, scared of anything unusual.
You wanna keep kids off heroin? Fine. But lose the manipulative moralism; this whole piece is excessively focused on negativity and so little on what ultimately stood the test of time, which was her music.
LunaSeaSane 2 years ago 6
Agreed. I have a soundboard bootleg audio of the entire set of Janis' Woodstock performance and it doesn't even remotely sound disastrous. In fact, she's ON FIRE even though she's high and very drunk; and THAT'S saying something. And for the record, who among those talentless, fake, & over-produced pretty faces they glorify nowadays can emulate THAT kind of performance? None!
The media was never fair to Janis ...
CaptiveTemptation 2 years ago 4
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LunaSeaSane 2 years ago
what's with the 27 curse!!!!
natright 2 years ago 3
she was actually very beautiful but men those days were all so into the style of Farraw Fawcett.
nervosa1969 2 years ago 36
COMPLETLY AGREE. SHE WASNT UGLY AT ALL
phoebehalliwell8989 2 years ago 42
she was and is and will always be the most beauityful woman i've ever seen, her soul her looks and her music. Wow i could never do that. She is blessed in so many ways
catensround 2 years ago 6
100% AGREE
phoebehalliwell8989 2 years ago
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mvbeckril 1 year ago
I think she sung beautifully on woodstock. full of passion.
PoetCommunity 2 years ago 3
it calls summertime!! you have to know it!
burndede2007 2 years ago 2
What song is playing @ 3:26-3:50?
sd455pontiac 3 years ago
"Summertime," Janis Joplin's cover of a Gershwin song
Carinaheartsworldluv 3 years ago 2
Thank you
sd455pontiac 3 years ago 3
u didn't recognize it coz her cover of summertime is really personal...makes it almost a new song.
Ella Fitzgerald and recently Leona Lewis sung it perfectly for example,Janis actually transformed it ...some will love it some not (i do love it)
itnow 2 years ago 2