Sam Andrew, the guitarist and founding member of Big Brother and the Holding Company who also helped launch the career...

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I’d been hustling a meager living in the coffee houses and psychedelic joints of Greenwich Village in lower Manhattan when...

James Gurley has been dragging a ball and chain around for almost 40 years. He was a guitarist, arranger and...

The first time drummer Dave Getz jammed with a young Texas singer named Janis Joplin, he was impressed. But not...

SAN FRANSISCO: Chet Helms, the man who gave Janis Joplin to San Francisco, has died. The Summer of Love legend...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Chet Helms, the revered father of the 1967 Summer of Love and a music promoter who...

The story is legendary, the rehabilitation center is nice, but just one thing is wrong: The new home for drug-addicted...

BIG BROTHER AND THE HOLDING COMPANY were exhausted when they crashed into their hometown of San Francisco to play a...

Janis is back! With the current release of Love, Janis, an in-depth look at Janis’s life by sister Laura Joplin,...

The Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame and Museum doesn’t have walls yet, but it now has its first major...

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