WHEN YOU SEE A HAND
THAT'S HELD OUT TOWARDS YOU
GIVE IT SOME LOVE,
SOMEDAY IT MAY BE YOU..
Big Brother & the Holding Company
is the debut
studio album
by American
Rock band
Big Brother and the Holding Company,
with
their lead singer.
Recorded during
three days
in December 1966
for Mainstream Records,
it was released on
August 23, 1967,
shortly after the band's
major success
at the
Monterey Pop Festival.
Columbia Records
took over the
band's contract
and
re-released the album,
adding
two extra tracks,
and putting
Joplin's
name on the cover.
Several tracks
on the album
were released
as singles,
the most successful
being
"Down on Me"
on its
second release,
in 1968.
Recording
The band signed to
Bob Shad's
local record label
Mainstream Records
while stranded in
Chicago
after a promoter
ran out of money
when their concerts
did not attract
the expected attendance.
Initial recordings
took place in
Chicago
in September 1966,
but these were
not satisfactory,
and the band returned
to San Francisco.
The band recorded
the tracks
"Blindman"
and
"All Is Loneliness"
in Los Angeles,
and these were
released by
Mainstream
as a single
that October,
which did not
sell well.
After playing at a
"happening"
at Stanford in
Early December 1966,
the band again
traveled to Los Angeles
to record
10 tracks between
12th and 14th of
December 1966,
produced by Bob Shad.
The band were dissatisfied
in the album's sound,
with the guitars
sounding very clean
instead of the raw
acid-rock
distortion the group
would use on stage,
and none of the
improvisational jamming
that was characteristic
of the Haight scene.
As Sam Andrew later noted,
"We were quite disappointed
at the time that we
could not make the
engineer understand
what we wanted.
He was afraid of the
needle going into
the red and
that is where
we wanted the needle
to be all the time
." Songs like
"All Is Loneliness"
and
"Light Is Faster Than Sound"
which were
under 3 minutes
on the album
were often stretched
to 10 or more minutes
in live performance.
Nonetheless,
the band were
pleased with
Janis's
double tracked
vocals
TRACK LIST
Bye, Bye Baby
Easy Rider
Intruder
Light Is Faster Than Sound
Call On Me
Women Is Losers
Blindman
Down On Me
Caterpillar
All Is Loneliness
BONUS TRACKS
Coo Coo
(Single)
The Last Time
(Single)
Call On Me
(Alternate Take)
Bye, Bye Baby
(Alternate Take)
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