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- Reference NumberARC-0401
- Level of descriptioncollection
- TitleInvitation to Janis Joplin's Wake
- Date1970
- Size0.07 (Linear feet)
- Scope and ContentsThe Invitation to Janis Joplin's Wake was sent to donor Charles Pattie, who attended the event on October 26, 1970 at the Lion's Share, 60 Red Hill Road, San Anselmo, California. Pattie was a friend of Joplin and manager of the Haight Ashbury Free Medical Clinic in San Francisco, of which Joplin was a supporter. He remembers the wake as invitation-only and that the bulk of the attendees were Hell's Angels, Haight Clinic staff, and band members from the Grateful Dead, Big Brother and the Holding Company, and Quicksilver, among others.
- Biography / Administrative HistoryOne of the greatest white female rock singers of the 1960s, Janis Joplin was also a great blues singer, making her material her own with her wailing, raspy, supercharged emotional delivery. First rising to stardom as the frontwoman for San Francisco psychedelic band Big Brother and the Holding Company, she left the group in the late 1960s for a brief and uneven (though commercially successful) career as a solo artist. Although she wasn't always supplied with the best material or most sympathetic musicians, her best recordings, with both Big Brother and on her own, are some of the most exciting performances of her era. She also did much to redefine the role of women in rock with her assertive, forthright persona and electrifying on-stage presence.
- NotesAcquisition Note: The Invitation to Janis Joplin's Wake was received by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Inc. as a gift from Charles Pattie on March 17, 2003.
Citation: Invitation to Janis Joplin's Wake, Library and Archives, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum.
Processing Information: Processed by Jennie Thomas, Head Archivist. Completed November 29, 2012. Descriptive sources and standards used to create this inventory: DACS and local processing manual.
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