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Big Brother and the Holding Company Featuring Janis Joplin
Glide Magazine
... her way back out West, she reverted to her hard partying ways and cemented her place as the immortal hippie blues queen of Haight-Ashbury the moment she joined the ranks of the established local psych-rock act Big Brother & The Holding Company.


 
Van Halen Cancels Most Of Tour, Including Mohegan Sun Stop
Hartford Courant
The Cowboy Junkies headline Aug. 10 at Infinity Music Hall in Norfolk; tickets are $75 and $55. Big Brother and the Holding Company is there Aug. 12; tickets are $60 and $45. Mitch Ryder and The Detroit Wheels perform Aug. 24; tickets are $80 and $60.

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Avid Collector Seeks Vintage Janis Joplin 1968 Roller Rink Concert Poster in ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Big Brother and the Holding Company joined her on the stage. This poster was designed by the famous poster artist Dail W. Beeghly who uses Joplin's great smile to produce a classic boxing style concert poster. Denver, Colorado (PRWEB) May 13, ...

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The Janks will perform May 4 at Conejo Valley Days in TO
Ventura County Star
I found that the best thing to do is to hook up with other bands, just like in the old days when Big Brother and the Holding Company, the Doors and the Grateful Dead all played together. You're too young to remember Big Brother and the Holding Company, ...


 
Washington Times
The songs of Donna Summer: A voice to a generation
Washington Times
In the late 1960s, Summer was influenced by artist Janis Joplin a member of “Big Brother and the Holding Company” rock band. LaDonna Adrian Gaines started singing in a rock band called 'The Crow,' and once the band broke she left school to appear in ...
RIP Hot Stuff: Donna Summer, the First Lady of LoveBroward-Palm Beach New Times (blog)
Music giant Donna Summer dies at 63The Nation Newspaper

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Brian Wilson is KC theaters' music man
Kansas City Star
Wilson showed up at the audition for the bio-musical about Janis Joplin and discovered that Sam Andrew, an original member of Joplin's band, Big Brother and the Holding Company, was there. Wilson worked up some of his own music as well as some of ...


 
Living History: The Doors played Lagoon, and Morrison was bewildered
Salt Lake Tribune
The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Donovan, Eric Clapton, Jefferson Airplane, Big Brother and the Holding Company (whose "I'ma pterodactyl, dying for your love" is No. 1 in my ranking of strangest rock lyrics), Country Joe and the Fish, ...

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