Big Brother And The Holding Company
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At the end of the summer of 1968, just after the release of Cheap Thrills, Joplin announced that she was leaving Big Brother in the fall of that year. The official reason given was her desire to go solo and form a soul music band. Andrew also planned to leave the band to join Joplin in her new project.[19] Joplin played with Big Brother on a nationwide tour throughout October and November 1968.[28] It included an October 20 concert at a roller rink in Alexandria, Virginia.[29] Their final concert was in San Francisco on December 1, 1968. It was a benefit for the production company known as the Family Dog whose members included Chet Helms, the band's manager from two years earlier. Three weeks after this benefit concert, Joplin and Andrew played in Memphis for the first time with her new band, later called Kozmic Blues Band.[30]
Thanks to the continuing interest in Joplin's work, occasional reissues and archival releases such as Cheaper Thrills (drawn from a live recording of one of Joplin's first shows with the band) kept the legacy of Big Brother & the Holding Company alive. In 1987, 20 years after the release of their first album, Albin, Andrew, Getz, and Gurley re-formed Big Brother for live work, with a succession of guest vocalists standing in for Janis. In 1997, BBHC named Lisa Battle as their official lead vocalist; the decision did not please Gurley, who left the group, while Tom Finch took his place. 1998 saw the release of Do What You Love, Big Brother's first studio album since How Hard It Is in 1971. In 2006, they dropped a live album, Hold Me, which documented a 2005 performance at Germany's Burg Herzberg Festival. By this time, Chad Quist had taken over for Tom Finch, and Sophia Ramos replaced Lisa Battle. In 2008, Ben Nieves took the spot left by departing Chad Quist, and Sophia Ramos dropped out, with the combo going back to using a rotating series of guest singers. From this point on, Big Brother & the Holding Company experienced frequent personnel changes, but Peter Albin and Dave Getz remained constants, holding the group together and providing the link to their earliest days. In December 2009, James Gurley lost his life after a heart attack, only two days before he was to turn 70 years old, while Sam Andrew died during open heart surgery in February 2015. In November 2018, Columbia/Legacy Records celebrated the 50th anniversary of the release of Cheap Thrills with Sex, Dope & Cheap Thrills, a 30-track collection that included 29 outtakes from the Cheap Thrills recording sessions (25 of them previously unreleased), along with a version of "Ball and Chain" recorded during a concert in San Francisco in April 1968.
Be a Brother [Columbia, 1970]With the obvious exception, all the original members are here, plus third guitarist David Schallock, good for both a funk-not-feedback feel and occasional psychedelic overload. Nick Gravenites is singer and auteur, and this is his message to the weary, wary, but steadfast hippies of the world--watch out for "heartache people" and "funkie Jim," but "be a brother." Bonus: Sister Janis does a bit of backup. A- 2b1af7f3a8