Janis Joplin (Second part)

Big Brother and the Holding Company

Tiring of Waiting to Leblanc and to be a good girl, She went to San Francisco with Chet Helms, a productor who She met in Texas. She joined to Big Brother and the Holding Company band on fourth july 1966, gotten a perfect mix. It was Chet Helms who brought her to San Francisco with a offert to she jouned to the band because Chet Helms was the band manager, wich she recorded her first album with a discography, Big Brother and the Holding Company, which It didn't pass unseen. Joplin Loved the creativity freedom of the San Francisco music scene. She usually acted with other psicodelic groups like The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger and The Charlatans in the famous dance halls Avalon Ballroom, Fillmore East and Fillmore West, or at outdoor festivals in the Golden Park and Haigh-Asjbury.

She acted with her band at the Monterrey Festival in 1967 with some great artist of the moment like Jimmy Hendrix, The Mamas an The Papas, Jefferson Airplane, Otis Redding and The Who among others. This first performace of the Big Brothers wasn't filmed and asked them that they played the next day, then they played Combination of the Two, and Janis left to the audience surprised with her emblematic version of the Blues of Big Mama Thorton "Ball and Chain".

Since that moment, they was contrated by the Bob Dylan's productor, Albert Grossman. Joplin overshone to the Big Brothers. In the 1968 spring, They moved to New York for recordering their first album. That mix of repetitive music, 60's psicodelic style and the amazing Joplin's voice was prodigious and Cheap Thrills went out to the market in augustus of 1968. Launching to Janiss to the succes, after of three days was a gold record and at the first month was sold over a million of copies. In 2003, Cheap Thrills was voted as the 338th best record of the all time.

The reviews about her was rather good, and newspapers begun to focus on more in Janis than the band, everybody said that She was too good for the group and there was tensions between their because of Janis' leadership and fame. Further She wanted to make blues and soul music, like those singerst that she venerated, among they was Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday or Aretha Franklin, then after a lot of pressof her manager, Albert Grossman, She left Big Brother and The Holding Company.