The summer of love was a social phenomenon that occurred in the summer of 1967. Man, if it hadn't been for the music, I probably would have done myself in." like a lot of my generation, and younger, we look back at our parents and see how they gave up and compromised and wound up with very little. If I hold back, I'm no good now, and I'd rather be good sometimes than holding back all the time. Maybe I won't last as long as other singers, but I think you can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow. Now though, I've made feeling work for me. When you feel that much, you have superhorrible downs. But before getting into this band, it tore my life apart.
my mother would try to get me to be like everybody else. John Cooke said Janis had had "a few drinks" and then drove her organ player back to the motel, said goodnight, and went to bed.” Janis always seemed to be troubled whether it was love or drugs when she went to New York for the first time she said to a writer "I never seemed to be able to control my feelings, to keep them down. Saturday night and went with several members of her band to Barnie's Beanery. Sunday morning, and that she "appeared cheerful." Janis had finished a recording session at about 11 p.m. He told police he spoke to her briefly at 1 a.m. “The last person to see Janis alive was Hagy, the Landmark's manager. Joplin was heavily into heroin at this point in her life and it's said that she had taken a more potent dose of the drug which lead to her death. He official cause of death was a heroin overdose.
“Janis was a habitual drug user and heavy drinker throughout her career it was widely known that she took methamphetamine and occasionally used heroin along with other psychoactive drugs.” Her addiction ultimately leads to her death. She died at the age of 27 on October 4th 1970 making her a member of “club 27”. She did not sing them so much as struggle with them, assault them.” But she made them her own in a way few singers dare to do. “Joplin did not write many songs she mostly interpreted other peoples. Joplin started to play at music festivals at her college and recorded her first song “What Good Can Drinkin’ Do” at around the same time. When she finally reached California she realized it wasn't what she had hopped as blues wasn't such a big thing there so she left and went back to Texas trying college for a second time. When she was 17 she ran away from her home and started to sing in clubs around Texas in which she earned money to save for a trip to California. She had enrolled into college but dropped out early. Janis graduated from her high school in 1960. These artists and others inspired Joplin and her way of singing. Her friends introduced her to blues music and inspirational women like “Ma Rainey” and “Bessie Smith”. She eventually found friendship with a group of guys and became rebellious.
“Janis finally decided that if she couldn't fit in with the rest of the crowd, she was going to be a “freak” and proud of it”. She was bullied at a young age and was labeled as a “freak” and “weirdo” she ended up becoming a loner for some time. Joplin was born into a middle-class family and had an interest for blues and folk music at a young age. She was an American Singer / Songwriter who had released three albums. Janis Joplin was born January 19th, 1943 in Port Arthur, Texas, USA.
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