Janisjoplin.net was founded in 1998 out of boredom, curiosity about the web, and an insatiable need to know all there is to know about Janis Joplin. My name is Anna and I started this website at sixteen. Len, my co-conspirator, joined me a few months later. He is a graphic designer who lives in Vancouver, and I am a web developer that resides in Chicago. Although a constant work in progress, we are proud of the massive amount of information that we've gathered here. Hopefully, we can preserve the memory of a figure that is slowly being forgotten. This website is for fans by fans and a non-profit passion project. Enjoy.
Update 11.5.2007
To celebrate our 10 year anniversary, we will be adding a lot more information to the site and hopefully improving it by our new relaunch date of 6/17/2008.
Update 11.5.2007
To celebrate our 10 year anniversary, we will be adding a lot more information to the site and hopefully improving it by our new relaunch date of 6/17/2008.
Bandmate recalls Janis Joplin's 'big appetite' in TV doc
11.6.2007
It's been 37 years since Janis Joplin's death in a Hollywood hotel room, and her former bandmate Sam Andrew still can't explain it. Not the "how" -- that was clearly a lethal mixture of whiskey and heroin -- but the why.
"We all did drugs back then, lots of them, all the time," says Andrew, a guitarist in two of Joplin's groups, the Holding Company and the Kozmic Blues Band. "Janis and I in particular did a lot. It seems crazy now, and looking back on it, I don't understand it all."
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11.6.2007
It's been 37 years since Janis Joplin's death in a Hollywood hotel room, and her former bandmate Sam Andrew still can't explain it. Not the "how" -- that was clearly a lethal mixture of whiskey and heroin -- but the why.
"We all did drugs back then, lots of them, all the time," says Andrew, a guitarist in two of Joplin's groups, the Holding Company and the Kozmic Blues Band. "Janis and I in particular did a lot. It seems crazy now, and looking back on it, I don't understand it all."
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