SUPERSOUND 1968 Press = BIG BROTHER JANIS JOPLIN CHEAP THRILLS SF ACID Psych

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                            1968 ORIGINAL

     San Francisco PSYCHEDELIC SOUND ARTIFACT

                            MINT 

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                BIG BROTHER

                     and The

         HOLDING COMPANY

           "CHEAP THRILLS"

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                                                JAPAN - SONY - SONP 50030

the Hippies "Summer Of Love"  ... 52nd year PSYCHEDELIC ROCK listings

HARD TO FIND ...super-sound audiophile like pressing ...

includes the fold-out rare printed inner sleeve with photos and lyrics

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RARE ages old '68 Japan SONY RECORDS issue with unique art sleeve to the USA copy ...the dynamic second album by BIG BROTHER with Janis Joplin at their peak ::::

But first: the members of the band – as Janis described them so many years ago in a bar in Louisville Kentucky. Dave Getz, drums: "Dave, I'd say, is the solidest guy in the group. He was an art teacher before. You could always rely on him in a kind of karma way." Peter Albin, bass: "Peter is crazier than he thinks he is. He thinks he is very middle-class and he just goes a little crazy. But he is really groovy, man. His song 'Caterpillar,' for example. 'I'm a pterodactyl for your love.' If that's not madness, what is?" Sam Andrew, guitar: "Sam is like, you know, a very intelligent cat. You wouldn't know it because he's so good-looking. One day I was on a plane, walking down the aisle, and, you know, everybody's reading Newsweek and the Kansas City Star and stuff, and Sam's reading a book in Latin!" James Gurley, guitar: "James is a beautiful, strong man. He never had any of that Indian bullshit, but he had an ethereal quality. I love him so. We had a little love affair, almost broke up our band."

And the 1968 album...Janis Joplin is known for her expressive and powerful female voice opposed to the male dominated music scene of the late 60’s. With a blues rock band backing her, she served soul-screeching psychedelic songs with a nerve so very intense. This album is an extract of a raw and flourish musical vibe; heavy psychedelic, intense and eager with massive emotional impact.

Big Brother and the Holding Company provide noisy and bombastic jams behind Janis’s stunning voice – at times sluggish but solid. The guitars are overdriven to the extreme, and they generally have a huge role in the sound of “Cheap Thrills”. Massive solos give the feeling of this peak of a musical outburst, which the band are really good at. The general sound of the band is nicely not very professional. It is more the energy and spirit living in the music than the technical skills, and this spirit is really shown when the wide guitar solos sing along with Janis’s beautifully screaming voice. This proves the fact that the band wouldn’t be anything big without Janis, because she is the perfect missing link in the edgy and heavy sound of Big Brother and the Holding Company.

The classic “Summertime” is interpreted in a beautiful but melancholic manner. The moody melody exhausted by Joplin shows how much she used herself, giving everything to the music which perhaps was too much. Her early death by the age of 27 proved how she sacrificed too much to the scene, which is visible in her recordings. Her voice is so devoted and connected to the music that you can almost sense it through the songs, like in the song “Ball and Chain”, a powerful and emotional minor blues, which is almost tragic as it presents a broken love story so immense that it almost cries. This is the blues, and Joplin’s rich voice is in fact the essence of “the blues”: sad, melancholic yet strong and convincing. Her roots in the blues are likely wise visible in the soul-searching “Turtle Blues”, where she states that she’s “a mean, mean woman” and that she “just treats ‘em like I wants to”, concluding that she’s really just a turtle hiding underneath its shell. This is another example of how her charismatic and appealing voice makes a simple blues much more interesting.

Cheap Thrills does certainly give thrills, but they’re perhaps cheap because they don’t require a huge and professional band, just a killer garage-psych outfit, with a fantastic and iconic singer named Janis Joplin.

CONDITION: The Cover: rated: single-sleeve is nice, colorful, stiff and clean: M- TOP COPY and here's the thing, the back cover is completely different to the USA copy with eye-popping group & light-show ....this copy hardly ever turns up. Altogether no split seams, no bends and no writing...keeper collectible from many many years ago. NO ISSUES!

The Vinyl: all glossy both sides; rated:M- full of shine, BEAUTIFUL CLEAN  = totally excellent audio  ....a collectible copy ... clean Sony labels

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