This is just a couple we found
on Janis that,

is kinda nice just to get a chance
to see who she was a little bit.

(Video) >> One the west coast,
San Francisco gave rise to new groups of -

(Speaker) >> Haight-Ashbury, that's the
district of San Francisco where the

hippies were. Haight-Ashbury.

(Video)>> -whose lead singer, Janis Joplin,
is one of the most celebrated stars in

modern history.

Here's her only (inaudible)

>> Now here's a popular rock star,
Janis Joplin. (cheering)

>>The baddest big brother on the
whole damn continent.

Janis went on to Texas and
went to UT.

♪ ("Maybe" by Janis Joplin) ♪

By the way, this wasn't her
last band,

she went onto another band before
she died.

The song is called Maybe.

♪ Maybe ♪

♪ Oh, if I could pray and I try, dear
You might come back home, home to me ♪

♪ Whoa, if I could ever hold your little hand
Oh you might understand ♪

♪ Maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, yeah ♪

♪ Maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe dear ♪

♪ I guess I might have done
something wrong ♪

♪ Honey, I'd be glad to admit it ♪

♪ Oh come home, home back to me ♪

♪ Maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, yeah ♪

♪ Well I know that it just doesn't
ever seem to matter, baby ♪

♪ Oh honey, when I go out or
what I'm trying to do ♪

♪ Can't you see I'm still left here
And I'm holding on in needing you ♪

♪ Please, please, please, please
Oh won't you reconsider babe ♪

♪ Now come on, I said come back
Won't you come back to me ♪

♪ Maybe dear, oh maybe, maybe, maybe ♪

♪ I might be able to help you
show me how ♪

♪ Honey, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe ♪

♪ Maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe ♪

♪ Maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe ♪

(applause)

>> To the end, Ed Sullivan was
an unlikely champion

of rock and roll.

>> How about that Janis Joplin.

You like that?

>> Mhmm. It's pretty cool.

>> Talking about-- I was telling you how
she liked the thing like he did,

That was her number one hero,
was Otis Redding.

But she emulated all the latest singers
that we've talked about,

Ruth Brown, LaVern Baker,

some of these more obscure
than the ones that we've been playing.

That's where, and of course, that
song is an old blues song,

"Maybe, Maybe" is an old blues song too.

It once again, shows that all of this
music that we've heard in the '50s

here you go into the '60s and people
are using it to change the world.

Once again, I can't tell you what it was
like to be a woman in the '60s.

How different it is today.

But the world had never seen
anything like this.

Women had never seen--
they never had...

Y'all been in school for a long time,
but back then it came out looking like

Leave It to Beaver's mother.

Mrs. Cleaver you know--
to acting like this.

You know, she caught a lot
of hell for the way she was.

It just wasn't accepted
at those times.

The point being that this music,
this blues and then this rock and roll,

this psychedelic music,
it changed the world.

And man, it changed the world.

There again, because it's been cool
for 30 years it's been hard for maybe

y'all to understand what I'm saying,

the young ladies to understand that you
didn't get away with doing so many

of these things that you are--

I don't know how to put in words,

you know, but it was so different.

Janis, more than probably anyone,
like, when Elvis hit TV,

that made people want to play
blues music and it awoke

something in people.

She did the same thing with
the women's movement,

because once, there wasn't a
movement, you know.

Just like the anti-war movement
and some of the other ones

that were started in the
hippie generation.

Her and Grace Slick of the
Jefferson Airplanes--

they started the movement.
And, uh--

Maybe there's a debt owed to her
that you don't even know about yet.

That's why we're just trying to show
you these people and give you

some examples and through your life
to at least know who they are and

you can form your own opinions
as you learn about history and stuff.

This is straight history now, I mean
this is straight American history.

The music affected it more than anything.
So that's Janis.

Any questions about any of this?
Yes sir?

>> (inaudible)

>> Who were some other artists
that we don't assume for?

>> Yes.

>> What else?

You know, I told you my opinion
and a lot of people agree with it,

you know, maybe James Brown
was the greatest thing

in the early and mid '60s.

By the late '60s, there were a lot of
people that believed Otis Redding

was the greatest entertainer alive
so, therefore, you know he influenced

a lot of people right there.

Some people even think he was the
greatest entertainer who ever lived.

But it's so hard to say because he
had such a short life.

If you got to see him perform and
he took this music and made it--

he made it cool. He made it acceptable
for all people where some of it,

of this music back then, it couldn't
cross over and reach everyone,

but he was so genius and so intelligent

and so loving of a person that
it came through.

and that Monterey Pop was
really what did it right there.

When people got to see that...

The movie Monterey Pop,
we have it but we've only showed

Otis out of it-- it's really great,
a great thing to know because

this was the first pop festival ever,
Monterey Pop.

It's got everybody on it from the
psychedelic music.

It has Janis, Big Brother and the
Holding Company-- they were great.

Credence Clearwater,
the Mamas and the Papas,

Jefferson Airplane with Gracie Slick,
I was talking about as the other lady.

But when Otis and that band Booker T
hit that Monterey, then they made a movie.

Now I also have the cuts that are
just Otis from the movie,

but the movie has a different person
on it in every song.

And when it showed in the theatres,
people really got to see who

Otis Redding really was.

You know, it set the standard for
the soul singers of that date.

There was a lot of white soul bands.

One from Louisiana called Boogie Kings

was just about the best band I'd ever
heard, but they all emulated Otis Redding

so to say who he influenced, just about
everyone from the mid '60s on

that ever played music was influenced
by Otis Redding.

If you ever get to see this,
it's really cool.

We could sit here and show the
whole thing and you'd love it all,

but Monterey Pop.

Y'all heard of Woodstock I know,
but this was before Woodstock

so no one had ever seen a pop festival

and it just got so big all of sudden
and people just started coming.

All the Rolling Stones showed up to
see it and people like that were

in the audience and

it gave people an idea of how to
do a pop festival.

The year of Woodstock, they had one
before that in Atlanta--

this is '69-- 1969.

I quit here at UT to go to this
pop festival, that's how I know.

(laughter)

Bad move, but it was great.

It was the same summer before
Woodstock but there was a pop festival

in Atlanta, two, 300,000.

And the first American performance of
an unknown band from England

named Led Zepplin.
They showed up there.

It just completely
blew people by surprise.

It was just so unbelievable,
then Janis, then the Credence Clearwater,

then Hendrix-- It was like, three days,
you know, and it was before Woodstock.

Then Woodstock happened and you
know they recorded all that and they

show it and it made a lot of news.

Then the same summer after Woodstock
right up in Dallas...

towards Denton. Anyone up from
that way? There's a race track up there.

Is it Lewisville?

>> I'm from Lewisville.
>> Well, okay.

You weren't even around then,
but it was wild.

Now, people knew about Woodstock
now, and it was the third big festival

that summer and it was in the
Dallas area--

is that where the race track is? In
Lewisville?

I went to that one too, I don't
know how I got there but I got there.

(laughter)

All these same artists were on it.

It was just one after the next,

and that was really the summer of
the pop festivals.

But this Monterey Pop is really what
influenced the whole pop festival scene.

It also made Jimi Hendrix very big,
because of Wild Thing.

Let's see, is it here?
No, it's not over here.

Ah man, I don't have it on DVD.

We'll show it...sometime.

Have y'all seen Jimi Hendrix do
Wild Thing?

>> Mhmm.

>> Yes ma'am?

>> Was Janis the first girl
to break the music barrier

for white women to do rock and roll?

>> I'd have to think about that,
but I'd say yes, Janis is the first

woman to break the barrier for
rock and roll. I guess she...

I don't wanna say yes, because I'm
not totally sure, I'd have to think about

it for just a minute, but I would
say probably so.

Because that was like, '68 when she...

she was already big in
San Francisco in '67.

I guess she was here around
'65 in Austin.

I can't think of anyone else that did.
She was wild,

and broke down all these barriers
that, before, women were just not allowed

to do and if they did you know it was...

They would be in a lot of trouble
with a lot of people,

and were ostracized and, you know--
the parents were having nervous

breakdowns and stuff, but now
it's all cool so y'all can just cruise.

But there was a time when it wasn't.

I moved here in the late '60s.

I was 18 and my girlfriend was 16.

And we moved to Austin and
we hitch-hiked.

People back home were really talking
bad about it, like we murdered someone.

We were living together not married
that just wasn't-- you didn't do it.

You just didn't do it, so you can
see now everyone is living

because it's nothing, it's just
how it's done.

But back then, and this is what I keep
trying to point out,

is that there was a time
when there was no rock and roll,

and there was no women's rights and all,

but music brought all that to us.

That's kind of what this whole
class is about

really is pointing all those things out.

So I think Janis probably was the first
big star in that sense,

but what she did to awake the women's
movement was just unimaginable.

But if you don't know that it exists
then it's hard to give her the credit

that she deserves. If you find out about
it, then, you know,

they might build a statue to her
someday because, you know--

She did drink and use drugs
and that's bad to that extent.

Not just drink I mean she'd drink
that Southern Comfort by the bottle

and did a lot of drugs.

That's bad, and that's not what
I'm talking about that far,

but she showed that a woman could
be strong in a lot of ways

that had never been seen before.

She broke down the wall.

Yes sir?

>> Since we're looking at how
she influenced a lot of rock and roll

and the social changes, do you see
any other situations of the world

where a form of music had such an impact
on social (inaudible)

>> Music, or did something else change
because of it? What's the question?

>> (inaudible)

>> Any side of the world where a
form of music is then impacted like

the blues being brought to mainstream
America-- you know what that did?

But Doc, do you know anything?

>> I can't think of anything.

>> In the world...
>> Reggae?

>> Reggae.

>> Reggae? Did someone say reggae?

See, I don't know about reggae so
someone who knows tell me.

>> (inaudible)

>> Yeah, the only thing I know
about is the blues.

I don't know jazz and I don't
know reggae.

But I do know the blues now.

But I do bet reggae did have a big
influence on a lot of things.

I'll tell you the other thing that did
have an impact is we had sports.

You know, sports had a big impact
on knocking that wall down.

The great, great Jackie Robinson--

you know they had what was called
the Negro Leagues and they had

some of the best players in the world.

And that, finally, today is getting
some recognition.

When Jackie Robinson got on the
Brooklyn Dodgers, he was so great.

Of course he had a big price to pay,
you know, and he paid it,

but he was just so great he was like
a kind of Michael Jordan type of guy.

He was so great.
He played football in college in USC,

then he went on to play baseball in--

Boy, he went through some hard times,
and all those great baseball players like

Willie Mays and Hank Aaron,

Guys in the '50s, they all went through
the same thing that musicians went through

you know, the same kinda travelling
problems and they're so horrible

that you hate to even talk about them.

They did exist, you know, there is
the fact that they did exist.

It's just ignorance and stupidity
but it still existed.

Sports did a lot to break that
barrier down.

>> (inaudible)

We don't have much time...

Oh, I'll tell y'all that on the 11th,
next Thursday, one of the truly

great musicians that came from Austin
named Kim Wilson and the fabulous

Thunderbirds and some other musicians
are going to come to play and on that day

we're going into the Chicago blues,
we'll talk about Muddy Waters

and we'll play some of that.
Howlin' Wolf.

We can play some of that.

He's a harmonica player.

As far as the younger generation
he's the best in the world.

He's gonna come here and
he's gonna play at our show this weekend

but he changed his ticket, so he's
gonna come here

and play for this class on the 11th, so
it's gonna be real cool and you really

get to see it-- a great blues musician,
and that will be on the 11th.

Whoops.

Got y'all all the way out in the rain.
Be careful. (inaudible)

Soothing your soul on the way out.

Got a lot of musicians that are gonna
come play, just trying to line it up.

Get it in there.

We might even find some (inaudible).

♪ (music) ♪

That's a good song, that's Otis (inaudible).

♪ Mustang Sally ♪

>> Wilson picked it.
(inaudible)

♪ guess you better slow your
mustang down ♪

>> Yeah that's Booker T
and back in the box

♪ Mustang Sally , baby ♪

One of the biggest songs
on the record.

♪ I guess you better slow your
Mustang down ♪

♪ Oh yeah ♪

♪ You been a-runnin' all over town ♪

♪ I guess I'll have to put your
flat feet on the ground, oh ♪