Big· Brother & Co. Tbe Dally Utah Chronicle, July 19, 1968 Coming To Lagoon By BRUCE ROBERTS Janis Joplin gets into the music and lets her voice go, the audience It is amazing to note that al· is in for an experience it won't tho11gh Big Brother & The Holding soon forget. The voice of Miss Jop. Company has been together for lin has been the subject of many almost two years, the nation is a reviewer, where every adjective only now starting t? turn OTt to its from "effervescent," to "roof rais. sound. While freaking west coast ing," has been used in description. audiences every time the group There is no other singer in the played, Big Brother remained as world quite lilro Janis Joplin. AJ. only a part of the new San 'F:riln though she is backed by four ex cisco sound until recent times. But cellent musicians, she becomes a Big Brother is, and always has show in hei:self, using her entire been much more than just another body and voice to set the audience band to come out of San Francisco. into a frenzie. And when the audi· They will prove that tomorrow ence responds to Big Brother's night when Lyme Inc., brings Big music, the group responds to the Brother and Blue Cheer to Lagoon response with continually heavier for two dance concerts at 7:30 and sounds and actions. Get up and 10:30 p.m. dance tomorrow night and you'll Big Brother got its first major see fot· yow:"Self why Big Brother engagement at the Avalon, and was & The Holding Company is cur quite well-received, particularly rently in the limelight of pop music. Janis Joplin, who sang like no one Along with Big Brother tomor· ever heard before. The group con row night will be Blue Cheer, tinued to play west coast engage which has another very unusual ments to enthusiastic crowds, and success ,story. Who in the world quickly became one of the more ever thought t!!at three mu.Dickie Peterson, Letpa Stepbells, aad Paul Whaley, better known as Chocolate George's funeral m~e loudest and strangest noises con Blue Cheer, will be rocldn' Lal-•s Patio Gal'deos Saalrday wtlh than a year ago, the group 'l1'liS ceivable from guitars, drums and BJ&' Brether aad Cbe Boldlu« Compauy. widely acclaimed as the finest band :voices, and rise to national fame to come out of San Francisco. A so quickly? That is more or. less short time later, the group signed what Blue Cheer has done, and its a cmtract with Mainstream Rec· uniqueness has made it a very pop· ords, and recorded Its first album. u1ar group, both in record sales The record contract did vezy and perfonnances. little for Big Brother's national Salt Lakers got a real taste of image however, u the first album Blue · Cheer music some three was one of the poorest produced months ago in the Coliseum, and records ever put on the market. most everyone left the place with Big Brother immediately sought to their ears ringing in delight. Only cancel the contract, but not until three members, Dickie Peterson, early this year did Joplin and Paul Wbaley and Leigh Stephens companyfiruilly~~e~~ compose Blue Cheer, but the sounds and sign with Columbia . Records. . these three create make the Mor· Hoping to start over with a clean mon Tabernacle Choir sound like slate, Big Brother went back east the Lennon Sisters. for the first time early this year It is often impossible for mem· for several engagements. And sud bers of Blue Cheer to remain in denly on the east coast - Big front of their twelve Marshall amp. Brother is phenomenaL Reviewers lifiers and countless gpeakers, from the New York Times to the which emit all that Blue Cheer New York Free PreSs could do no music. Blue Cheer also has a sec· more than rave about Janis Joplin, ond album soon to be released on who was rapidly earning the title the Phillips label, and their per· as the outstanding female singer formance tomorrow night sh®ld in the nation. amply prepare people's heads for Loaded down with praise, Big Big Brother. Brother returned· to the coast to S'llt Lake's Holden Caulfield will record its first album with Colum also be appearing at both sho-.vs, bia. Now, fresh from the recording and should be equally as much a studios, Big Brother is heading hit as Blue Cheer and Big Brother. back east again after three sellout Holden Caulfield has gone through performimces at the Fillmore West r.everal stages of music in its near in San Francisco, and, as mention t.vo-year existenee, but the group ed earli:r, Salt LaRe is most for has really come around with its tunate to be a stopover tomorrow own material. Recent Holden Caul· before the east coast. field sets have been very profes Big Brother and the Holding sional, and this grou!' ~Yell deservE's Company ~ a group of performers the honor of playing with the two in every sense of the> word. When headline bands.
