March 11, 2020 - bestclassicbands.com ‘Snooky’ Flowers, Janis Joplin Band Member, Dies “Snooky” Flowers, a saxophonist who most notably organized the Kozmic Blues Band for Janis Joplin in the late 1960s, and...
January 12, 2016 - Ultimate Classic Rock 45 Years Ago: Janis Joplin’s Second Solo Album, ‘Pearl’, Released Three Months After Her Death Janis Joplin wasn’t around when her second solo album, Pearl, was released in January 1971. She wasn’t around a few...
February 14, 2015 - Rolling Stone Big Brother and the Holding Company’s Sam Andrew Dead at 73 Sam Andrew, the guitarist and founding member of Big Brother and the Holding Company who also helped launch the career...
March 25, 2010 - The Associated Press Rock photographer Jim Marshall dies at 74 Music photographer Jim Marshall, who spent more than a half-century capturing rock ‘n’ roll legends including the Beatles, Bob Dylan...
December 24, 2009 - The Associated Press James Gurley, innovative guitarist for Joplin’s Big Brother band, dead at 69 LOS ANGELES – James Gurley, the innovative guitarist who helped shape psychedelic rock’s multilayered, sometimes thundering sounds as a member...
December 03, 2008 - Associated Press Odetta, Voice Of Civil Rights Movement, Dies At 77 NEW YORK — Odetta, the folk singer with the powerful voice who moved audiences and influenced fellow musicians for a...
June 27, 2005 Chet Helms, proponent of Summer of Love dies at 62 SAN FRANSISCO: Chet Helms, the man who gave Janis Joplin to San Francisco, has died. The Summer of Love legend...
June 26, 2005 - The Associated Press Music Promoter Who Launched Joplin Dies SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Chet Helms, the revered father of the 1967 Summer of Love and a music promoter who...
February 01, 1991 - Esquire Seth Morgan’s Last Ride The tale of salvation begins as all good ones do, with high birth and great promise. Seth Morgan was born...
February 15, 1971 - Time Magazine Janis and Jimi, Op. Posth. It was a mere coincidence of time and happenstance. But it seemed to sum up an era with cruel finality....