Live in San Francisco 1966

Live in San Francisco 1966 Artist: Big Brother & Holding Company
Label: Varese Sarabande
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Format: Live
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 030206634426
EAN: 0030206634426
ASIN: B000065UJK


Release Date: 2002-04-30

Live in San Francisco 1966


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Tracks:

  1. (Come On Baby) Let The Good Times Roll
  2. I Know You Rider
  3. Moanin' At Midnight
  4. Hey Baby
  5. Down On Me
  6. Whisperman
  7. Women Is Losers
  8. Blow My Mind
  9. Oh My Soul
  10. Ball And Chain
  11. Coo-Coo
  12. Gutra's Garden
  13. Harry
  14. Hall Of The Mountain King (bonus track)

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  1. Live at Winterland '68
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  3. In Concert
  4. Love, Janis
  5. Cheap Thrills

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Early Big Brother.......2003-02-03

Chronlogically this was recorded before their first album on Mainstream Records in 1967. Some of the tracks here also appeared on that first studio album. So how is it? The Monterey performance was a little more polished but this disc is a nice addition although the playing is a little more ragged. The track "Coo Coo" appeared on the "Cheap Thrills" album with new lyrics as "Oh Sweet Mary". If you have all of Janis's other discs I would pick this one up; you won't be disappointed and it is interesting to hear the band in their formative stage.

3 out of 5 stars Pre-fame live album from 1960s legends.......2002-05-29

Recorded somewhere in San Francisco (the liner notes don't say where) in the Summer of 1966, these thirteen live tracks document the bond that Joplin had formed with Big Brother after only a couple of months practice. Big Brother drummer David Getz's liner notes (written in the mid-80s, perhaps for the original vinyl issue of this material) provide an evocative description of how the band's early communal living helped forge their unity as performers.

By the time they released their second album ("Cheap Thrills") two years later, the band would have more original material, but at this point in their career they were still relying heavily on R&B and blues standards. Covers include "I Know You Rider" (a favorite of the Grateful Dead), Shirley & Lee's "Let the Good Times Roll," Howlin' Wolf's "Moanin' At Midnight," and Jimmy McCraklin's "Blow My Mind." Joplin's take on Willie Mae ("Big Mama") Thornton's "Ball and Chain" was still developing into the full-blown showstopper she'd deliver a year later at the Monterey Pop Festival, and the single "Coo Coo" is presented in early form.

The band would later be recorded in their more famous form on "Live at Winterland '68." This earlier tape shows off the band's formation, including their transition to, essentially, a backing band for Joplin. Though she's front-and-center for the lion's share of the vocals, her presence is occasionally diluted by other band members' vocals.

The tape, from a source uncredited in the liner notes, is hissy, though very listenable. A bonus track, recorded at San Francisco's KQED in April 1967, provides a higher-fidelity 7-minute instrumental freakout on "Hall of the Mountain King." Most of this material was released in 1984 on a Rhino Records LP titled, "Big Brother & the Holding Company Live," and by other labels as "Cheaper Thrills." An import CD of the latter is available from the UK on Acadia, but it costs more and offers no extra material.

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