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She can bring tears to my eyes any time she sings. God put his hand on her shoulder and gave her the gift and she knows how to use it.

The woman can bring it!! Lita, if you ever need a bass player, contact me at ypok1@aol.com and I'll bring it for you!!

This would NEVER get radio airplay today in today's sanitized plastic music industry. God, how I miss the late 60's and early 70's when the music mattered and you didn't have to have 20 costume changes, 10 back up dancers and all kinds of pyrotechnics to impress the crowd. What you played and wha...

The Airplane was totally underestimated. They wrote awesome songs and played them well. Grace had stage presence rivalled only by Janis. Jack Casady is probably the most underrated bass player that ever strapped on a bass guitar.

They could pull off all their songs live, play everything and hit t...

Say what you want, but, this is when the music mattered!!

It had something to say and wasn't afraid to say it.

Billy Cobham was known at the time as "God's Rhythm Machine" and you can see why. It's amazing to me how music has regressed instead or progressed from this time. All formulaic and plastic today. I'll take the late 60's and early 70's any damn day!!

I had the extreme pleasure of seeing these guys live in Chicago a number of times and they just blew me away each and every time. I'm a bass player and they really opened my eyes and ears to a lot more possibilities.

@PalerShadeOfWhite All I can say is that I am happy that he did get his shit together and is letting the world enjoy his talent again. God Bless David Crosby, may he live and perform for many more years and make many more people happy.

The rest of them are pretty cool, too!!

Great music from a great band. No lip synch from REAL MUSICIANS not the pretenders of today. Isn't McGuinn the best 12 string picker that ever walked the planet? I am proud of my fellow Chicagoan.

These guys worked hard and EARNED IT, they didn't get popular from a vid on UTUBE, they put in the w...

In case anyone doesn't know it, that is called "singing your heart out" and she did it every night unlike the cheap fakes out there today.

I hope that God in his mercy took her up to heaven so she can make it a better place for musicians.

I can't help it, but whenever I see or hear her, I hold back a tear and ask "why, Janis, why???". She had so much to offer and it got taken away so early.

No female singing today can sing like Janis. Susan Tedeschi comes close, but Janis can't be topped. Didn't need 20 costume changes, bullshit backup dancers or to have her chest enlarged. She'd rather die than lip-sync anything. Had the immense pleasure of hearing her a number of times and meeting...

This young lady has the gift, the Lord put his hand on her shoulder, gave her the gift and she is using it most beautifully. She may damn well be the best since Jaco.

Kids won't appreciate Leslie because he's not playing a mile a minute. This shows that it's not how fast you play, but it's what you play and how you play it. Feeling and tone will always trump speed.

None of the little twits out there today couldn't, even in their wildest dreams, come near to the honesty Janis lays out there. She didn't need 12 dancers, 20 costume changes or phony boobs to be one of the best blues singers to ever have breathed. She'd rather have stuck needles in her eyes than...

Today's music and musicians has no heart. No other way to describe it. God rest the big lady with the big voice and the even bigger heart. The music in heaven is, I am certain, much better now.

Met her years ago at a gig. Nicest lady on two legs and incredibly beautiful, too. Karen Carpenter merely sings this like some little virgin whereas Rita sings it like a woman should.

None better. When I hear her sing I look to the heavens and ask "Why Janis, why??" So talented, so witty, so bright. God how I miss her voice and talent. Saw her and met her in '68. I never saw anyone else sing who could make you feel that she was singing just to you even thought there were thous...

Someone needs to explain to me why so many guitar players think that you have to play very fast to play well? It's still about what you play no how fast you play it.