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TalkAwhile => Swarb => Topic started by: Sam on February 27, 2008, 10:48:34 PM



Title: Janis Joplin
Post by: Sam on February 27, 2008, 10:48:34 PM
Hi Swarb

It is a long shot but did you ever meet the great goddess of the sexy gravelly tonsils?
If so I am very jealous.


Title: Re: Janis Joplin
Post by: Swarb on February 27, 2008, 10:53:11 PM
no I never did, peggy did though, in a place in l.a. called barneys beanery


Title: Re: Janis Joplin
Post by: Sam on February 27, 2008, 10:54:13 PM
Ah yes that was her fav hangout... He is a lucky man that peggy. damn


Title: Re: Janis Joplin
Post by: Jamie73 on February 28, 2008, 04:12:33 PM
It gets better...Richard Thompson has quoted that Pegg, Janis & John Bonham had a drinking contest at Barney's...and Peggy won!


Title: Re: Janis Joplin
Post by: Swarb on February 28, 2008, 04:16:14 PM
i never saw him lose one,mind you we were all pretty god back then, paying for it now though! you always do I reckon, no one gets away with it.


Title: Re: Janis Joplin
Post by: Hurricane (Dan) on February 28, 2008, 05:28:45 PM
If you read the extended history section of the Barneys Beanery website it states a memorable event took place in 1970 when Led Zepplin and Fairport Convention turned up together after playing the Troubadour for a "wild night" in the bar!


Title: Re: Janis Joplin
Post by: Swarb on February 28, 2008, 06:52:06 PM
some of both bands were there i think not all,I wasnt there, niethee was plant and page