In The Quiet Morning

[Ricco99100]

I always loved this song! I never knew it was written about Janis Joplin. What a shock! Thanks so much for the post.

[cschilli68]

She had a Porsche? Cool

[koismech]

awesome...Janis, have piece.

[deriter64]

If you think about it, who could have done a lament for Joplin better than the Barefoot Madonna? Just singers I guess but there was something mystic about those times and something doomed as well. Like trying to hold quicksilver and watching it run through your fingers.

[SH000FLY]

@deriter64 There were very few songs written about Janis, and as someone said earlier, it's surprising this one never made the charts. I think of those times as magical, maybe even ethereal, in the presence of some really outstanding work that will stand up to the test of time. Thanks for commenting deriter

[deriter64]

@SH000FLY To this day I can't listen to Bobby McGee without lapsing into reflection about my life, the mistakes I made, the decisions and their outcome. Isn't that the purpose of art, to make us look inside ourselves? They were just songs, I guess, but at that time and that place they said somerthing important. Lost now.

[SH000FLY]

@deriter64 Not lost, you still have the song :) New headbanging stuff will seem like "noise" to the older generation - just like Janis sounded to our parents. Introspection is healthy, and we all make mistakes. Don't beat yourself up too badly. There's always tomorrow...... and Janis is still here, her voice anyway.

[deriter64]

@SH000FLY Shant bother you again, as much as I appreciate your perception. As I said, songs, just songs, but enunciating a piece of our souls. The much maligned We Built This City was the Airplane saying goodbye as was Put A Candle in the Window for CCR. I don;t react in the negative to current music because I know nothing about it. My grandaughters looks at me like I have two heads when I discuss heavy metal with their father. But there was something way back when that remains hard to define.

[SH000FLY]

@deriter64 “How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.” Einstein said it, and it seems true enough. Thanks deriter :)

[deriter64]

@SH000FLY Shant bother you again, although heartfelt thanks for intelligent discourse. Music is just music but sometime it transcends. For instance I believe the much maligned We Built This City was the Airplane saying goodbye.

[peteyweestro]

As someone who has battled with my own "H" demons and growing hearing this it totally breaks my heart every time i hear it......Joan Baez rocks

[betobetin415]

Me gustò cantidades esta canciòn ....

[janisj1943]

janis was the best,even had songs written about her .....legend...never see the likes again

[hendrixzilla]

This is such a great song. I can't believe it didn't do better on the charts!

[SH000FLY]

@hendrixzilla sometimes it's the best songs that never made the charts. 

[lisaj62]

@hendrixzilla - It's an incredible ode to an incredible gal. Nobody ever played the Star SpangledBanner likeJim!

[stormwatcher59]

No idea why I thought of this song while walking with my dog... just needed to hear it. Beautiful, thanks!

[SH000FLY]

@stormwatcher59 You are welcome. Sometimes walking the dog invokes things that don't always make sense at the time, but they can lead to good things :)

[0d0v0f]

Well done!

[SH000FLY]

@0d0v0f thank you !

[issyvoo2]

This song SO spoke to me when I was a little girl. It felt like someone was looking right at my life and singing about it.

[Starshadow]

I miss you, Janis. No one could sing with your heart back when we were all young.

Straight was once used to describe someone who wasn't hip. Janis was known for her bisexuality. The most poignant look at her pain was when she went to her high school reunion and the former classmates still treated her like a freak.

[billTWINCESTtom]

is this janis joplin in the video?

she looks that normal, I always thought she was a bit more bizarre ..

(was born in 1995, so excuse my unknowledge xP)

[SH000FLY]

@billTWINCESTtom @billTWINCESTtom yes they are all photos of janis. when she was a young girl, and a teenager. before she got crazed she worked in an office and she was pretty straight (not as in heterosexual, which i don't think she was entirely). when she got looking more bizarre was when the drugs took over. but her last daytime interview with dick cavett is here on youtube but it's not letting me post it. it's poignant you should watch it!

[eeemotion]

what a sexy woman, what a performer and what a great song from Joan!!!

[nicksfantoo]

Love Joans version of this so much....

[LarryKos]

If it's not on CD, get back to me and I'll burn a disc for you...I have a vinyl-to-CD burner...listened to it Sunday, and it's worth it! LK

[LarryKos]

Original version by Mimi Farina and Tom Jans on their

album...

[SH000FLY]

Really? Would love to hear it. I'll look around and see if it's here on the Tube

[LarryKos]

Album title is "Take Heart" on A&M records, ca. 1971.

Mimi wrote the song - it's on side two (I have the vinyl, which I will play this morning!) Really a very good record, worth finding. Of course you must have read Richard Farina's novel "Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me" - if not, run out and get it....LK

[SH000FLY]

If I find vinyl then I must find a record player, right? A herculean task in this day and age, but maybe it's on CD? I'll look for the book next time at the library, too!

[collettec21]

no her sister wrote it u mean joan baez sang it

[SH000FLY]

Yes that's what it says.... Mimi wrote it and Joan sang it. Thanks for listening.

[collettec21]

@SH000FLY no at the side u wrote sung by her sister joan baez wasnt her sister

[SH000FLY]

joan baez and mimi farina are sisters. mimi's name at birth was Margarita Mimi Baez. she married richard farina.

[atfatw]

she wouldn't have survived the collapse of acid rock in favor of folk as played by the far famed Don Mclean, melanie, and Jim Croce. they gave way to those vile english imports punk and disco, and now its rap.

[SH000FLY]

i might tend to agree with you. part of the allure of a giant cut down in their prime is that they remain a giant always.

[uitblazenindepijp]

I love this song It's so sincere and from the heart.

[TheJanisJoplinfan]

so sad and yet so beautiful tribute to her I miss her

[SH000FLY]

Hard to believe that on October 4 of this year, it will be 39 years since she passed. What a loss.

[deepfast124]

Love Janis

[SH000FLY]

Yes, indeed.

[SH000FLY]

She was a fascinating, talented, yet broken person... as real as a person could be, meant to take that path and brought nothing but joy to everyone -- even those who had nothing but derision for her. No, we will never forget. Thank you for your kind words.

[Starshadow]

That's a lovely tribute video. Poor Janis. I was so devastated when she died. She had such sorrow and such a wonderful voice. She'll never be forgotten and all those people in her high school who snubbed her are all nothing today while she's still a shining star, so briefly her brilliance shone on us, yet still it remains.

Rest in peace, Janis. Gone but never forgotten.