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It has righteously ranked my ass to see the shabby treatment accorded Big Brother and the Holding Company over the course of the past four years. In the days when the name of Janis Joplin was fastened to every lip, Big Brother were referred to as "the boys in the band" (that is, if they were referre...
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While Big Brother and the Holding Company are remembered as Janis
Joplin's band, they were active before Joplin joined them and after
she left. Leader Peter Albin (a country-blues guitarist who had
played with future founders of the Grateful Dead Jerry Garcia and
Ron McKernan) met Sam Andrew, Big Brother's musical director, who
had a jazz and classical background and had played rock & roll
profess...
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