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 ♪
(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 ♪