Janis joplin mercedes benz12/17/2023 ![]() ![]() Hecuba, It might not make sense to you, but it does to me :-) I just happened to live in California at the time, and was not only a Janis Joplin fan (not to mention Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Cat Stevens, on and on), but also a so-called "Jesus freak" :-)) Was even baptised in the ocean make amends = wiedergutmachen trying to find me = Have you found Jesus? (many services started off with that question) Play on words with "Delivery" - deliver my color TV + deliver me from my sins I'm counting on you: to answer my prayers Prove that you love me - by answering my prayers. Jack Sparks and some other members of Campus Crusade decided to begin a countercultural outreach program called the Christian Liberation World Front (CWLF) directed towards reaching campus radicals. At the University of California at Berkeley, Dr. In Seattle, the Jesus People Army was born in response to a vision experienced by evangelist Linda Meissner, who had seen an "army of teenagers marching for Jesus." On the Sunset Strip, evangelist Arthur Blessitt opened the His Place nightclub and coffeehouse as a 24 hour way station for youth. Within a short time of these first stirrings a number of independent Christian communities sprang up all across North America. Though other missionary type organizations had preceded them in the area, this was the first one run solely by street Christians. Janis Joplin sings about the show in the song "Mercedes Benz": By most accounts, the Jesus People Movement began in 1967 with the opening of a small storefront evangelical mission called the Living Room in San Francisco's Haight Ashbury district. The hippie icon who sang, “My friends all drive Porsches,” was herself well aware of the real-if fleeting-pleasures to be found behind the wheel. “It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.” Here's the REAL Janis Joplin :-) edit: Excerpt from the article - my link shows her car - didn't know that until just now Outside the hotel on the night of her death sat Joplin’s car: not a Mercedes, but a Porsche she had bought in 1968 and paid friend Dave Richards $500 to paint in psychedelic colors. “It’s the want of something that gives you the blues,” she once said. When Joplin sang, in the second and third verses of “Mercedes Benz,” for “a color TV” and “a night on the town,” she knew all too well that neither would bring her peace. She had come to California in the early ’60s and quickly earned a place as one of the leading musical lights in a generation that shared her utopian anti-materialism. ![]() ![]() It goes like this." Then she begins to sing, exercising soulful control over her enormous, whiskey-soaked voice: “Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes-Benz? / My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends …” “Mercedes Benz” is a lonely blues tune about the illusory happiness promised (but rarely delivered) by the pursuit of worldly goods, a hippie-era rejection of the consumerist ideals that Joplin saw growing up as a self-described “middle-class white chick” in Port Arthur, Texas. “I’d like to do a song of great social and political import,” she says, a twinkle in her eye. Joplin steps to the microphone and makes a declaration. These tracks – including blues standards like “Trouble in Mind” and “Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out” – would later surface as the infamous “Typewriter Tapes” bootleg.Harald, Clicked onto your link, but that is NOT Janis singing - here's the background to her song, but unfortunately, GEMA strikes again, and won't show the video : -((( On my LP, she starts the song off with the bold-faced quote, and ends it with a giggle, or two (like in the video) :-). She met up with guitarist Jorma Kaukonen (later of the legendary San Francisco rock outfit Jefferson Airplane) and the pair recorded a suite of songs with his wife, Margareta, providing the beat on her typewriter. She briefly attended college in Beaumont and Austin but was more drawn to blues legends and beat poetry than her studies soon she dropped out and, in 1963, headed for San Francisco, eventually finding herself in the notoriously drug-fueled Haight Ashbury neighborhood. A self-described “misfit” in high school, she suffered virtual ostracism, but dabbled in folk music with her friends and painted. Born in Port Arthur, Texas, in 1943, Joplin fell under the sway of Leadbelly, Bessie Smith and Big Mama Thornton in her teens, and the authenticity of these voices strongly influenced her decision to become a singer. ![]()
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