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...
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...
October 10, 2009 - allaboutjazz.com Janis: Memphis Meltdown I’d been hustling a meager living in the coffee houses and psychedelic joints of Greenwich Village in lower Manhattan when...
February 10, 2007 - The Desert Sun Joplin bandmate inducted to Grammy Hall of Fame James Gurley has been dragging a ball and chain around for almost 40 years. He was a guitarist, arranger and...
January 05, 2007 - Jewish News Weekly Joplin’s drummer remembers the ‘turn on, tune in’ days The first time drummer Dave Getz jammed with a young Texas singer named Janis Joplin, he was impressed. But not...
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...
May 21, 1999 - San Francisco Chronicle Oops! Turns Out Janis Joplin Lived Next Door Haight’s hippie history proves to be a bit fuzzy on details The story is legendary, the rehabilitation center is nice, but just one thing is wrong: The new home for drug-addicted...
September 17, 1998 - Rolling Stone Big Brother and The Holding Company BIG BROTHER AND THE HOLDING COMPANY were exhausted when they crashed into their hometown of San Francisco to play a...
October 01, 1992 - Relix Big Brother Speaks: An Interview With Peter Albin Janis is back! With the current release of Love, Janis, an in-depth look at Janis’s life by sister Laura Joplin,...
November 28, 1991 - Rolling Stone Hall Gets Joplin Haul The Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame and Museum doesn’t have walls yet, but it now has its first major...
January 01, 1985 - St. Martins Press San Francisco Nights: The Psychedelic Music Trip 1965-1968 “Scoping Out Baghdad”: Chet Helms was another one of those whose experiences classified them as “outside the norm.” A child...