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...Janis Joplin's " Pearl, " for example, a $5.98 list is going for $2.96. The wholesale cost of " Pearl " is $3.35; a lightning mental calculation reveals that the sale price represents a 49.5 per cent markdown off list. The Coop loses 39 cents on each copy it sells...
...removed from the sugary days of Phil Spitalny and his all-girl orchestra. There is nothing particularly feminine about strumming a deafening electric guitar, flailing with feet and hands at an electric keyboard, or stomping the stage shouting overamplified sex lyrics. The few females to succeed in rock (Janis Joplin, Grace Slick, Genya Ravan) have usually been singers in all-male bands...
...compete with top-level male band quality is Joy of Cooking, and it is only partly female. The group is owned and led by two 32-year-old women. Terry Garthwaite, a tough rock singer, plays electric guitar and sings with a scratchy authority that can suggest Janis Joplin. Her partner, Toni Brown, a pretty Bennington graduate, sings, stomps around the stage, plays electric piano and organ, and writes songs about what it is like to be a woman ("Time goes, and the baby keeps growin', and I can't help knowin', baby I love...
...Janis Joplin was a twinkling star, James Taylor is the cool moon in the sky of rock music...
...subculture itself has been on that same trip, suicide. It has gone from Haight-Ashbury and Woodstock to Altamont, Hendrix, and Joplin. The music of the middle-and late-sixties is not being made any more. The concept of being brothers with the Panthers and the Vietnamese dragged people into having to care about politics, or not caring at all. And neither option was compatible with the carefree days of mind-expansion...