my first rock'n'roll memory: I'm 5 years old and I live on a farm with my granny and grandpa. our closest neighbors have a son, he's some 12 years older than me. he's like an older brother to me. it's sunday afternoon and I go over to his house to persuade him to take me trout fishing. instead, I find myself in a darkened room with half a dozen weird looking boys staring at the square of bright light on the far wall, slowly sipping from their beer bottles in anticipation. some of them have extremely long hair, which I find odd. some of them are also smoking, which I can't stand. I want to leave but then I see the projector. I've never been to the movies before. then my neighbor comes in with a reel of 16mm tape. he does something magical to the machine and suddenly, as the sound floods the place, I notice huge speakers nested on either side of white linen sheet that acts as a screen. the picture is bad, dark and grainy, but it's the most fascinating thing I've ever seen. I hear names whispered in the dark as the faces on the screen come and go off stage. strange, foreign names like "Jimi", "Janis" and "Joe" ...

guessed it yet? yes, it was the Woodstock tapes, and I'm addicted ever since

Growing up in a radio Station, (my mom has worked in the same station my entire life), I have just always been around rock and roll. I remember meeting everyone that came through town, even Wolfman Jack on several occasions. There were so many, and I was young, I don’t even remember names…. You just don’t care at that age when you are around it all the time.

I used to get all the demo records to bring home. I remember at one of my birthday parties (10th?) I gave out 45s as party favors. (Five to each guest.)

My mom had a collection of 5-600 albums and several hundred original 45s with songs like “Robert Mitchum-
Ballad OF Thunder Road (1958), Janie Grant-Greasy Kids Stuff (1962) 45’s by Jan & Dean, Beach Boys, Buddy Holly, Big Bopper, Little Richard, Richie Vallens, Elvis and that era. I remember putting on CCR albums as young as 6 or 7 years old.

My personal first 45s were Kiss-Beth, Jerry Doucette-Mama Let him play, Eagles-Liyin’ Eyes. My first Albums were Kiss, Rock and Roll Over and Bay City Rollers.

Into grade eight, my favorites became stuff like, Billy Idol, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Kiss, ACDC, the Ramones, The Cramps, The Moody Blues, Meatloaf, Styx and so much more. At one point I amassed over 1000 albums…

I thinned my selection down after getting married thinning down to around 50-100 albums and cassettes and have regretted it ever since. Music has been such a large part of my and there is a story to go with every song I ever remembered.

My first Rock Concert was Red Rider, opening for them was (Don’t laugh) Honeymoon Suite !!!

Long live the Music!

I think my music tastes are just thoroughly engrained via my parents. Both my mommom and daddad were into rock plenty - not to mention just about anything else. Of the ones that really stuck with me were such folks as Janis Joplin, Tracy Chapman from one side, Pink Floyd, David Bowie on the other with the Beatles, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Rolling Stones and others shared between.

Now I'll listen to anything that sounds good to me, really, shunning following groups and simply cherry picking pieces of music I like.

What a lovely gem this is. One of my favorites as well, and Janis really brings out the emotion of the song as no one else has done. She was such a talent...so sad she was so soon gone. Tragic really.

These are fixed. Thanks for the hard work.
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I love this. I loved Janis, and I've never heard anyone else do this song better (except Janis).

It's a fine line to walk, that fast-burning flames must navigate their own coping concoctions......Some do it fast, others slow, some overcome and continue to be prolific-

Amy is talented as hell, so was Janis Joplin, Ricky Lee Jones, Wendy O' Williams, Cass Elliot,....you gotta adapt and change in healthy ways....(and yeah, I know Ricky Lee is still around, she's just real burnt-out)

Thanks Janis was an incredible performer. I've always wondered what she'd sound like doing some hard rock or metal.

I wish I could put this one in Femmesift too.

like your tunes swamp girl keep them coming.janis is a

I think mine tastes are pretty apparent from my posts but here goes...

1. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
2. Rob Zombie
3. Beck
4. PJ Harvey
5. Anything the Dust Bros have worked on.

and some past favs to round this list out...
6. Bloodhound Gang
7. Enigma
8. Janis Joplin
9. Tom Petty
10 John Freakin' Denver... anyone laughs and yer ass is mine.

I really don't listen to a whole lotta music.

I absolutely LOVE Janis' version, but Waylon does a good job here.

Now, if someone with a "save" to spare would please go here if needed:

http://www.videosift.com/video/Janis-Joplin-Summertime

I know, I know, it's a selfish, shameless plug . . . but it's Janis!

Thank you! Upvoted through!!

It will just take some time... 6 days 3 hours 46 minutes...

For Stevie Ray... What great tracks were you yet to give us? We may never know. Hope you are jamming up there with Buddy, Jimi and Janis.

Hey it's not the Bible's fault. Stupid people can fuck up a wet dream, benjee. This dwerp fits that category.

Proof being in the pudding, ARE the colllective juries still out on life after death, evolution, the pyramids, all the catalysts for the beginning or end of an ice age, the Tunguska event, time travel, the Kennedy assisnation, the death by natural causes of Jimi, Jim, and Janis,..etc etc,..??? -(Oh for sure it is No. When yer dead yer dead., man came from soup, ages are predictable with linear methods, it was a meteor,it can't be done and has never been done,Oswald did it, and those Rock Stars OD'd of their own volition.).....I think so.


It does not take overwhelming evidence this way or that, to form a conviction...or a religion, club, or thinktank. Just zeal, and fervor...and an agenda.