and the bass player kicks ass!!!
Gotcha!!! This is not the ravings of an anti-government paranoid with no paragraphs and all caps. I went and saw Big Brother and the Holding Company last night in Austin.
For those who don't follow music, Big Brother was the band Janis Joplin used to sing with before she croaked from that toke. If you don't know Janis Joplin, just give up, turn in all your cool points, then go home and put on a petticoat. (Sweater-vests optional for men.)
While obviously over thirty some-odd years, the band's changed members a little, it was still enough to give you chills when they played Turtle Blues or Summertime. The lead wasn't Janis, of course (like the Highlander, there can be only one.....) but still belted it out with amazing power and sound. This not to mention that while she wasn't exactly a small woman, she exuded so much sexuality they should have had raincoats on in front of the stage. ("ewwww, someone hand me a napkin, I just got exuded on........")
Especial kudos to the kid they had helpin' on lead gitfiddle. He was scary good. Tight-tight-tight rythm section. Wow.
The warm-up band was the Eggmen, and they weren't too bad either. I've always loved Joplin, and I love the fact I got to see the band play before they were gone. Now if I'd only got to see Johnny Cash before he died......sigh.
(P.S. Just a strange coincidence, nothing to do with the concert. If any of you ever speak to little-whip in person or on the phone, her voice sounds eerily just like Janis did. I have no idea if she sings.)