![]() ![]() They rushed this record out if I recall correctly. A lot of the "common man" social change will seem lost today if you only look at her as an immortal Rock God. In the 1960's, she was not a pretentious "rock star" but one of the people and part of the social change that was and still is going on today. I remember hearing right after she died, "don't worry she has another album coming out." So that gave us some comfort. My cousins saw her round and about in Sausalito all the time (on the other side of the Golden Gate Bridge) like it was no big deal. You would see her hanging out and doing whatever else was going on at the time. This was where she got her first big break as the singer for Big Brother & the Holding Company (which is still going strong playing live). This was especially a big blow to us music fans in the San Francisco Bay Area because we felt she was one of us. I think this album - a great must have Quad title - suffers simply from the fact she died during the making of the record. It's sort of a tricky art that can leave you with, depending on the recording, it is what it is, no matter how much tweaking you do. Having mixed many songs with loud vocals with loud rock music, it's easy to lower the vocals a bit so you can clearly hear the music. The same might be said of the vocals on some of the songs on the Aerosmith Quad records. Probably because she would sing softly to very loud in the same song. Because the author for both scripts is the same as well as directions, more or less.īut either way, you're right about Janis' vocals being mixed perhaps a bit into the mix. It gives - IMHO - results that are the same as using Adobe Audition 2.0. ![]() Album DescriptionWhat script and directions are you using for AA 1.5? Try these if you have not already: See More Your browser does not support the audio element. They would have been a better deal if served out as part of a legit collection of her Woodstock performances, or as a collection of previously unreleased live Joplin performances, if enough high-caliber stuff of the sort was available. Those songs are actually reasonably good, but aren't worth buying the whole set for. So what does the set offer to those Joplin fans who already have a lot of her material? Well, not much, but in the time-honored manner of attaching bonus tracks to oft-recycled material, this does have a couple of previously unissued live cuts ("Kozmic Blues" and the Bee Gees' "To Love Somebody") from her 1969 set at Woodstock. ![]() Including both solo recordings and highlights of her stint with Big Brother & the Holding Company, it has all the songs fans and critics would consider milestones in her career: "Ball and Chain" (a version recorded live in 1967 at the Monterey Pop Festival, not the more familiar one from Cheap Thrills), "Piece of My Heart," "Down on Me," "Summertime," "Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)," "Tell Mama" (the live 1970 performance from the expanded edition of Pearl), "Get It While You Can," "Mercedes Benz," and "Me and Bobby McGee." And there are also good tracks that aren't as overly familiar, like "Coo Coo," "Misery'n," "Maybe," "Work Me, Lord," and "A Woman Left Lonely." The substitution of the less familiar renditions of "Ball and Chain" and "Tell Mama" might rankle some consumers expecting to hear the more common ones, but that's frankly unlikely. With this two-CD set, The Essential Janis Joplin, the label's at it again, though it's a good one to get if you don't want to collect all the Joplin releases, and certainly don't want to get the expensive Joplin boxes, but want more than what fits onto a single disc. Buy the album Starting at kr179,49Ĭolumbia has managed to squeeze an impressive, perhaps excessive, number of compilations out of Janis Joplin's relatively slim body of recordings. Purchase and download this album in a wide variety of formats depending on your needs. ![]()
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