Early Pictures of Big Brother and The Holding Company

Early Pictures of Big Brother and The Holding Company - Anything Goes https://allmanbrothersband.com/community/general-chat-anything-goes/early-pictures-of-big-brother-and-the-holding-company/ Allman Brothers Band Discussion Board en-US Sun, 05 Apr 2026 03:42:18 +0000 wpForo 60 RE: Early Pictures of Big Brother and The Holding Company https://allmanbrothersband.com/community/general-chat-anything-goes/early-pictures-of-big-brother-and-the-holding-company/#post-68335 Sun, 22 May 2016 18:09:58 +0000

The key and timing issues were pretty much the norm and not the exception regarding Big Brother & The Holding Company. I still dig them :P
Same here as I liked the power and some of the songs are classic. As musicians, they were sloppy which is part of the appeal in a bizarre way. As lead players, some of those guitar lines make me cringe and laugh. Their music theory knowledge and understanding of keys was non-existent. Lots of things sound great to a player when they are high. The Ramones were terrible and have their appeal. Neil Young will play one note over and over and call it a solo. I never got it and still don't but Neil seems to have done alright without my approval. ;)

They are the great American Garage band....A Garage band that made it.....When I was a kid there was band that played around the corner in their garage....I use to sit on the sidewalk and listen to them...one day they opened the door and saw me sitting there and invited me in to listen. I knew all of them they were just the older Neighborhood kids....they actually sounded good and had a real cute girl singer....I use to tag along with these guys and play softball then go sit out front of the house and listen to them play... They played all the AM hits of the time.... Big Brother sounds just like a classic Garage band X2 The funny part is when I was playing in the garage I used to copy their solos. :P Later found out why some notes seemed off whether they played it or I did. It worked for Janis in the beginning but obviously ran its' course. But a garage band sound for sure.]]> Anything Goes CanadianMule https://allmanbrothersband.com/community/general-chat-anything-goes/early-pictures-of-big-brother-and-the-holding-company/#post-68335 RE: Early Pictures of Big Brother and The Holding Company https://allmanbrothersband.com/community/general-chat-anything-goes/early-pictures-of-big-brother-and-the-holding-company/#post-68334 Sun, 22 May 2016 18:05:51 +0000

The key and timing issues were pretty much the norm and not the exception regarding Big Brother & The Holding Company. I still dig them :P

Same here as I liked the power and some of the songs are classic. As musicians, they were sloppy which is part of the appeal in a bizarre way. As lead players, some of those guitar lines make me cringe and laugh. Their music theory knowledge and understanding of keys was non-existent. Lots of things sound great to a player when they are high. The Ramones were terrible and have their appeal. Neil Young will play one note over and over and call it a solo. I never got it and still don't but Neil seems to have done alright without my approval. ;) They are the great American Garage band....A Garage band that made it.....When I was a kid there was band that played around the corner in their garage....I use to sit on the sidewalk and listen to them...one day they opened the door and saw me sitting there and invited me in to listen. I knew all of them they were just the older Neighborhood kids....they actually sounded good and had a real cute girl singer....I use to tag along with these guys and play softball then go sit out front of the house and listen to them play... They played all the AM hits of the time.... Big Brother sounds just like a classic Garage band]]> Anything Goes goldtop https://allmanbrothersband.com/community/general-chat-anything-goes/early-pictures-of-big-brother-and-the-holding-company/#post-68334 RE: Early Pictures of Big Brother and The Holding Company https://allmanbrothersband.com/community/general-chat-anything-goes/early-pictures-of-big-brother-and-the-holding-company/#post-68321 Sun, 22 May 2016 14:42:16 +0000 The key and timing issues were pretty much the norm and not the exception regarding Big Brother & The Holding Company. I still dig them :P Same here as I liked the power and some of the songs are classic. As musicians, they were sloppy which is part of the appeal in a bizarre way. As lead players, some of those guitar lines make me cringe and laugh. Their music theory knowledge and understanding of keys was non-existent. Lots of things sound great to a player when they are high. The Ramones were terrible and have their appeal. Neil Young will play one note over and over and call it a solo. I never got it and still don't but Neil seems to have done alright without my approval. ;)]]> Anything Goes CanadianMule https://allmanbrothersband.com/community/general-chat-anything-goes/early-pictures-of-big-brother-and-the-holding-company/#post-68321 RE: Early Pictures of Big Brother and The Holding Company https://allmanbrothersband.com/community/general-chat-anything-goes/early-pictures-of-big-brother-and-the-holding-company/#post-68314 Sun, 22 May 2016 12:36:29 +0000 Anything Goes gotdrumz https://allmanbrothersband.com/community/general-chat-anything-goes/early-pictures-of-big-brother-and-the-holding-company/#post-68314 RE: Early Pictures of Big Brother and The Holding Company https://allmanbrothersband.com/community/general-chat-anything-goes/early-pictures-of-big-brother-and-the-holding-company/#post-68310 Sun, 22 May 2016 11:39:47 +0000 Some great tunes obviously but the guitars were out of tune and often playing in different keys. Maybe cool when you are high but after you get straight? Not so much.

Cheap Thrills had some fun tunes....The Full Tilt Boogie Band simply had a better grade of musicians....Big Brother....bless their hearts... ...were at best raw.....

I love Cheap Thrills, and it certainly is RAW. It's also pretty psychedelic at times. That's what Big Brother was, for sure...........RAW.........PSYCHEDELIC. But Janis fit in perfectly with that.............raw playing with raw emotional vocals that cut right to the heart. Big Brother may not have been polished but with Janis they were a very special band. Their place in rock history is certainly secure, and they're the band that broke Janis Joplin. Drummer David Getz said, "Monterey Pop changed everything. After that we started to be known on the East Coast. Before that we were an underground band." In the documentary someone who knew Janis well said that the biggest problem with Janis leaving Big Brother was that she was not cut out to be a bandleader, and she was thrust into that role after she left. Peter Albin was the leader of Big Brother. I can see where Janis' sound became more polished after she left............it's evident on "I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama" (my favorite Janis record) and on "Pearl". Think of the places she could have gone..............if she just could have stayed away from the needle and the spoon. ]]> Anything Goes robslob https://allmanbrothersband.com/community/general-chat-anything-goes/early-pictures-of-big-brother-and-the-holding-company/#post-68310 RE: Early Pictures of Big Brother and The Holding Company https://allmanbrothersband.com/community/general-chat-anything-goes/early-pictures-of-big-brother-and-the-holding-company/#post-68309 Sun, 22 May 2016 11:05:15 +0000 Anything Goes spoonbelly https://allmanbrothersband.com/community/general-chat-anything-goes/early-pictures-of-big-brother-and-the-holding-company/#post-68309 RE: Early Pictures of Big Brother and The Holding Company https://allmanbrothersband.com/community/general-chat-anything-goes/early-pictures-of-big-brother-and-the-holding-company/#post-68307 Sun, 22 May 2016 10:53:44 +0000 Anything Goes spoonbelly https://allmanbrothersband.com/community/general-chat-anything-goes/early-pictures-of-big-brother-and-the-holding-company/#post-68307 RE: Early Pictures of Big Brother and The Holding Company https://allmanbrothersband.com/community/general-chat-anything-goes/early-pictures-of-big-brother-and-the-holding-company/#post-68306 Sun, 22 May 2016 10:40:59 +0000 Anything Goes goldtop https://allmanbrothersband.com/community/general-chat-anything-goes/early-pictures-of-big-brother-and-the-holding-company/#post-68306 RE: Early Pictures of Big Brother and The Holding Company https://allmanbrothersband.com/community/general-chat-anything-goes/early-pictures-of-big-brother-and-the-holding-company/#post-68281 Sat, 21 May 2016 20:48:59 +0000

]]> Anything Goes robslob https://allmanbrothersband.com/community/general-chat-anything-goes/early-pictures-of-big-brother-and-the-holding-company/#post-68281 RE: Early Pictures of Big Brother and The Holding Company https://allmanbrothersband.com/community/general-chat-anything-goes/early-pictures-of-big-brother-and-the-holding-company/#post-68280 Sat, 21 May 2016 20:46:38 +0000

From the recent PBS Janis documentary, a lot of people thought dumping Big Brother was a terrible career move by Janis. But while they were together, the press did nothing but terrorize the band, saying they were below Janis level.

I agree with that statement. Some great tunes obviously but the guitars were out of tune and often playing in different keys. Maybe cool when you are high but after you get straight? Not so much. The musical level on Pearl is high above what came before it. Would have only gotten better. I think Janis' best work was still to come. I saws a Big Brother a few years ago with a substitute Janis. They were just as bad then as they were back in the day.]]> Anything Goes absnj https://allmanbrothersband.com/community/general-chat-anything-goes/early-pictures-of-big-brother-and-the-holding-company/#post-68280