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Big Brother& the Holding Company Janis Joplin’s original band : BIG BROTHER& THE HOLDING COMPANY Feat original members : Peter Albin, Sam Andrew, David Getz Au milieu des Sixties, sur la Côte Ouest, et plus particulièrement dans la baie de San Francisco, les futurs grands groupes du rock américain sont en train de naître : le Grateful Dead, le Jefferson Airplane, Country Joe & The Fish, Quicksilver Messenger Service, ainsi que Big Brother & The Holding Company. Big Brother & The Holding Company est le groupe attitré de l’Avalon Ballroom, une des salles de concert les plus réputées de San Francisco. Il comprend à cette époque Sam Andrew et James Gurley aux guitares, Peter Albin à la basse et David Getz à la batterie A la recherche d’une chanteuse pour compléter le quatuor, leur manager, Chet Helms, se souvient de Janis Joplin et la retrouve à Austin où elle exerçait son talent dans un groupe de country & western. Il la ramène à San Francisco en auto-stop ! L’intégration est très rapide : Big Brother & The Holding Company se structure et réorganise son répertoire en fonction de sa nouvelle chanteuse. Quant à Janis, elle trouve avec Big Brother le support musical qui lui permet enfin de se révéler. Après plusieurs années de doute et d'errance, Janis Joplin a rencontré le groupe au sein duquel elle va pouvoir s'épanouir et donner la pleine mesure de son immense talent. Le 12 juin 1966, Janis donne son premier concert avec Big Brother & The Holding Company dans leur salle fétiche de l’Avalon Ballroom. Le groupe devient un habitué des clubs de la baie de San Francisco et son succès naissant lui permet de signer sur un petit label basé à Chicago, Mainstream. Un premier album, en fait une bande de démonstration très mal produite, paraît dans l'indifférence générale. En juin 1967, le festival de Monterey sert de vitrine aux meilleurs groupes de la baie et le concert de Big Brother rejoint dans la légende les prestations des Who et de Jimi Hendrix. Ce coup d’éclat attire l’attention du manager de Bob Dylan, Albert Grossmann, qui les signe chez Columbia en janvier 68. Un deuxième album, “CHEAP THRILLS” paraît en août. Sous une pochette légendaire dessinée par Robert Crumb, Big Brother & The Holding Company livre ici un des meilleurs albums de toute l’histoire de la rock-music. Sommet de l’acid-rock, “Cheap thrills” est dominé par la voix chauffée à blanc de Janis, qui hurle, râle et se déchaîne dans un ouragan de guitares saturées, souvent brouillonnes, mais toujours inspirées. Sur les sept titres qui composent “Cheap thrills”, cinq ont été enregistrés en public, notamment au Fillmore West, et deux seulement proviennent d’un travail en studio : “Piece of my heart”, créé par Erma Franklin (la sœur d’Aretha), et “Summertime”, le classique de George Gershwin, transfiguré par l'interprétation de Janis Joplin. “Cheap thrills” se classe n°1 du hit-parade américa in et y reste pendant huit semaines consécutives. Big Brother & The Holding Company est le groupe du moment, et sa chanteuse qui fait la une des médias. Le magazine Cashbox, par exemple, voit en elle “un mélange de Leadbelly, de Calamity Jane sous pression, de Bessie Smith, d'un derrick à pétrole et d'un vieux bourbon de derrière les fagots, le tout concocté au 20ème siècle, quelque part entre El Paso et San Francisco !" Novembre 1968, les premières rumeurs de séparation commencent à circuler. Janis Joplin est encouragée dans cette voie par un véritable tir de barrage de critiques qui fustigent le caractère non-professionnel de ceux qui ne sont plus déjà que ses accompagnateurs. Le 1er décembre, à l’issue d’un ultime concert, le divorce est consommé entre Big Brother & The Holding Company et sa chanteuse. Après avoir quitté Big Brother & The Holding Company, Janis Joplin ne perd pas de temps et, toujours avec le guitariste de Big Brother Sam Andrew, elle met sur pied un nouveau groupe plutôt soul, avec saxophone et trompette, appelé tantôt Main Squeeze, tantôt The Janis Joplin Revue. Cette formation donne son premier concert dès le 18 décembre 1968 à Memphis, et au terme de plusieurs changements de personnel, elle se stabilise sous le nom de Kozmik Blues Band. L’album “I GOT DEM OL’ KOZMIK BLUES AGAIN, MAMA” paraît en septembre 1969 et c'est une relative déception. A son écoute, il paraît évident que Janis Joplin est une chanteuse qui s’exprime beaucoup mieux sur scène que dans un studio. Le Kozmik Blues Band est dissous après un dernier concert au Madison Square Garden, le 29 décembre 1969. En fait, cette formation n’avait été qu’un support sans âme pour le talent de Janis, ce qui avait d’ailleurs inspiré cette phrase à Ralph Gleason, un journaliste du San Francisco Chronicle : “Ce qu’elle a de mieux à faire, c’est se débarrasser de ce groupe et redevenir un membre de Big Brother, s’ils veulent encore bien d’elle”. En avril 1970, Janis Joplin retrouve effectivement Big Brother & The Holding Company, mais pour un seul concert au Fillmore West. Elle décèdera quelques mois plus tard ; 3 semaines après Jimi Hendrix. Big Brother & The Holding Company recrute Kathi Mc Donald, elle aussi chanteuse d’exception. Le groupe sort 2 albums : Be A Brother (1970) and How Hard It Is (1971). Après 2 ans de tournée, le groupe fait un long break. En Octobre 1978, Big Brother & the Holding Company remonte sur scène pour leur vieil ami Chet Helms au Greek Theatre de Berkeley ; mais ce n’est qu’en 1987 qu’ils se reforment vraiment avec Michel Bastian au chant. Depuis, Big Brother & The Holding Company ne cesse de tourner autour du monde avec toujours des chanteuses hors normes comme Lisa Battle, Lisa Mills ou Sophia Ramos. L’intérêt du public pour Big Brother & the Holding Company est toujours là. En témoignent les nombreuses rééditions des albums du groupe, ainsi que les sorties de raretés et d’inédits retrouvés dans les archives des studios d’enregistrement où travaillait le groupe. Le combo a également sorti un album live en 2006, et un nouveau CD d’inédits sort à l’occasion du 40ème anniversaire de l’album Cheap Thrills. Pour la toute première fois et 40 ans après le Summer Of Love de Woodstock, le groupe sera en France pour 3 concerts exceptionnels : 21 octobre 2010– Paris - Trabendo 22 octobre 2010– St. Dié-des-Vosges (88) - Espace Carnot 23 octobre 2010 – Compiegne (60), Ziquodrome Contact France : [email protected] Tél : 06.61.50.79.95 .
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