Janis Joplin would be 70 today -

[LiberalElite]

[In_The_Wind]

1. Happy Birthday, Janis. May you rest in peace.

Kozmic Blues

[Lydia Leftcoast]

7. That song was one of my favorites

In 1970, I was a student at a Lutheran college where most of the students were very conventional. It wasn't strait-laced, and we had our "freaks," but most students were more Seventeen magazine than Woodstock types.

When the news came that Janis Joplin was dead, I felt terrible. But what surprised me was how many of the seemingly super-conventional students felt the same way. We knew that she abused alcohol and heroin, but I think she represented a kind of countercultural attitude that none of us had the courage to express.

[In_The_Wind]

8. That is interesting.

[LeftofObama]

2. Happy Birthday, Janis! You are definitely one of the greats!

[Tuesday Afternoon]

3. Happy Birthday, Janis, RIP

[Brother Buzz]

4. Seems like just yesterday, I would she her tooling around Marin in her Porsche

For Marin, back in those days, her car wasn't that outrageous, but the young woman behind the wheel was definitely special.

[kwassa]

5. I saw her in concert three times.

Twice with the Holding Company, once with the Full-Tilt Boogie band, or whatever it was called. The last was one of the loudest concerts I ever heard. She always put on a good show.

I rarely hear her music on the radio now, and she was so huge at the time.

That entire generation of musicians is approaching or at 70 now, those that are still with us.

[femmocrat]

6. R.I.P., Pearl.

We still miss you.