But honestly I was always captivated by the two guitars of James Gurley and Sam Andrew's. I think the sound that they achieved with lots of guitar echo and reverb really nailed the entire album sounding as it does. For me having grown up on these tunes via SF radio KSAN and KMPX it was hard to not appreciate it. Performance: Iconic, Rolling Stones 338 of 500 top albums of all time. 2002 this multichannel disc was released. Quick Facts: Part live, only last song Ball and Chain, and the remainder all studio album, added audience was to give impression of an all live album. This disc and Quicksilvers Happy Trails are two of the same flavor. Having seen Big Brother with Janis Joplin twice at Speedway Meadows, Golden Gate Park, being all of 13 years old all this music was the seeds of my love for rock music. As a San Francisco person certain bands will forever remain part of my youth. What a treat for me to add this to my library. Review by Marpow J(4 of 6 found this review helpful)īig Brother & the Holding Company: Cheap Thrills, SACD Stereo/MCH. One of my most treasured SACD's.of course I am of that certain age. The fidelity is fine, too, and as I mentioned at the start with a really high-resolutions system such as mine you can actual hear/feel the "air" change when the recording starts. I'm not sure what the other two reveiwers were listening on, but on my system the sound quality is s just that it is capturing an experimental blues-base band in live performance and is not a studio-perfect album. On the final bonus cut one can hear the house announcer intoning that next week they will be hosting The Grateful Dead, and urging the attendees to drive safely.then the house pa system puts on church music (it was apparently early on a Sunday morning when the set ended). There is also sheer fun on this CD arising from the live venues it was recorded in. This is classic blues, transformed by Janis's raspy voice into a poignant lament probably lost on most of the kids listening. And the classic Turtle Blues is a reminder, if one is needed, of how much the blues influenced Rock 'n Roll. If you can listen to Janis's classic, sweet, soaring "summertime" without sensing what the sixties where all about, then you are missing an experience. This is *the* classic Big Brother album.even more so than Joplin's Pearl. I find the effect electrifying.Īnd what can you say about the album. Janis to the front, of course, but guitars right and left, piano off the the left, and the audience out front. The recroding itself is from the quad area, and whether deliberately or accidentally, the surround perspective is pretty much right in the middle of the band itself. When the disk opens, my room suddenly becomes electric with the subtle ambient cues of the live locations where most of this dis was recorded. Have got to disagree with the gentlemen above, for on my system (five full range thiels and a SONY c333es in bypass mode, going straight into analog this disk is one of the most revealing 'surround" disks out there.
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