MINT SHRINK 1968 ORIG = BIG BROTHER JANIS JOPLIN ~ CHEAP THRILLS ~ SF ACID Psych
Sold Date:
June 14, 2020
Start Date:
June 9, 2020
Final Price:
$193.50
(USD)
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31
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TREMENDOUS MINT MUSEUM ARTIFACT
1968 ORIGINAL
San Francisco PSYCHEDELIC SOUND ARTIFACT ..|/\|...............................................|/\|..
BIG BROTHER
and The
HOLDING COMPANY
CHEAP THRILLS ..|/\|...............................................|/\|.. USA - 360 Sound Columbia - KCS 9700
CHEAP THRILLS ~ BIG BROTHER & JANIS
FANTASTIC MUSEUM QUALITY ARTIFACT
STONE MINT EVERYWHERE with 4 SHARP CORNERS,
LOOKS BRAND NEW YET 51 YEARS OF AGE!
Original 1968 first pressing in thick gatefold cover on the highly collected 360 Sound COLUMBIA label of the sixties....first pressing of the dynamic second album by BIG BROTHER with Janis Joplin at their peak... for whatever reason finding CLEAN first pressings of this album is not easy, we don't list it but rarely, as clean copies don't seem to be around.
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 went a little goony. But he is really goony, 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 loved 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 and made Janis a legendary STAR!
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.
ACombination of the Two5:48 I Need a Man to Love4:55 Summertime4:01 Piece of My Heart4:16 ..............................
BTurtle Blues4:23 Oh, Sweet Mary4:16 Ball and Chain9:30
CONDITION:
The cover: rated: Stone MINT still in original factory cellophane, the nicest copy you may EVER see, it's over 50 years old and rates as a museum artifact everywhere, 4 sharp corners , full dynamic colors and the hippie/heads album that made Janis Joplin a *STAR* and here's the thing, the dark back cover is notoriously wear prone, hardly ANY original survivors are without shelf wear...this copy rates the BEST ever as it is stone mint meaning no flaws, best copy we've had the pleasure to run across. Altogether no split seams, no bends and no writing...keeper collectible from 51 years ago,
TOP San Francisco psych relic
The vinyl: Rated: stone MINT all glossy both sides and highly enjoyable ....a collectible copy ...both 360 Sound Columbia labels are clean
A cool addition to anyone's music library!
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GRADING SCALE: M, M-, EX, VG++,VG+, VG, VG- M Completely clean, no marks, plays clean
M- Carefully used, looks clean, plays clean, shiny gloss, plays clean
EX Faint scuff or superficial mark, near M-, high gloss, plays clean VG++ Glossy with minimal scuffing or light mark playing very nice, enjoyable
VG+ a bit more scuff or marks still plays well with very minimal surface at worse VG more marks/scratches only minor, nothing deep, no loud clicks or pops this grade is abused by many, VG here does not mean "trashed" VG- surface noise present, will not have skips or jumps ALL PAYMENTS SHOULD BE MADE WITHIN 5 DAYS Of AUCTIONS END BIDDERS PLEASE = Do Not Bid If You Are Not Serious About Following Through The Transaction! ALL ITEMS GUARANTEED FOR WINNING BID - LESS SHIPPING!
