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March 1, 2012 Volume 3, Number 2

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COLUMBIA/LEGACY RECORDINGS RELEASING

THE FIRST OF “BEAR’S SONIC JOURNALS”:

BIG BROTHER & THE HOLDING COMPANY FEATURING JANIS JOPLIN

LIVE AT THE CAROUSEL BALLROOM 1968,

RECORDED & PRODUCED BY OWSLEY STANLEY (“BEAR”)

 

Long Awaited Release of Seminal Concert Recording

from Mythic Soundman’s “Sonic Journals”

Available Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Click on CD Cover below to pre-order for shipping on the actual release date. Order now and receive this great new CD prior to the March 13th release date!!!

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Columbia/Legacy Recordings is proud to announce the release of Live at the Carousel Ballroom 1968, a previously unavailable live concert recording of Big Brother and the Holding Company featuring Janis Joplin, recorded June 23, 1968 by legendary soundman Owsley Stanley, a/k/a “Bear,” who supervised the mastering of this release before his fatal car accident on March 12, 2011, in his adopted homeland of Australia.  The release of the album marks the one-year anniversary of his passing and is dedicated to Bear.

 

“Care was taken to preserve and ensure the integrity of the music as well as to present an accurate snapshot of the masterful talent of one of the greatest singers of her generation and one of the hottest live bands in the San Francisco scene,” wrote Bear’s widow, Sheilah Stanley, in her dedication to Live at the Carousel Ballroom 1968.  “This is Bear’s vision – how he heard the band live, and how he wanted to transmit that to you… this truly is Bear’s presentation of this phenomenal band and inspirational music.”

 

Cited by San Francisco rock scribe Joel Selvin as “truly one of the fathers of today’s concert sound systems,” Owsley Bear Stanley “supervised the sound at the Carousel Ballroom, a former big band dance palace at the corner of Market and Van Ness in downtown San Francisco that, for a few brief, glorious months in 1968 was operated by a collective formed by the Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service and Big Brother and the Holding Company, a social/musical laboratory experiment akin to inmates running asylums, whose six-month run may well have corresponded with the height of the whole ’60s Haight-Ashbury/San Francisco thing….”

 

An essential and pivotal figure in the San Francisco counter-cultural scene, from beatniks to hippies to beyond, Bear began mixing live sound with the Grateful Dead in 1966 and ran the sound system for the Carousel until Bill Graham took over and rechristened it the Fillmore West in the autumn of 1968.  From his first days with the Dead, Bear would record the shows he was involved with as way to improve his live system set-ups.  Bear’s “sonic journals” are generally regarded as the gold standard for live concerts from the psychedelic era.

 

“What is key about these moments captured by Owsley is that they’re a true representation of what this mythic band really sounded like live,” notes rock scribe Jaan Uhelszki in her essay on Janis and Big Brother’s enduring ability to astound and surprise, “the rough magic, the explosive synergy, the dangerous frisson of boundaries being demolished between artist and audience….these 14 songs are a testament to what a force of nature Janis Joplin and Big Brother and the Holding Company was during these two nights at the Carousel Ballroom. Showing them at the zenith of their considerable power, it so fortunate that this recording was ever made—only two months before their break up. This is one of the few living documents of that propitious and monumental pairing.”

 

“He viewed these recordings as windows into the past,” wrote Bear’s son, Starfinder Stanley, in his notes for Live at the Carousel Ballroom 1968. “So this is not just a live recording of Janis Joplin singing with Big Brother and the Holding Company.  This is an auditory portal that…can transport you back to the short-lived but incredible world of the Carousel Ballroom in 1968.”

 

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BIG BROTHER AND THE HOLDING COMPANY FEATURING JANIS JOPLIN –

LIVE AT THE CAROUSEL BALLROOM 1968

 

tracklisting

 

1. Combination Of The Two

2. I Need A Man To Love

3. Flower In The Sun

4. Light Is Faster Than Sound

5. Summertime

6. Catch Me Daddy

7. It’s A Deal

8. Call On Me

9. Jam – I’m Mad

10. Piece Of My Heart

11. Coo Coo

12. Ball & Chain

13. Down On Me

 

Bonus Track:

 

14. Call On Me (Saturday Show—June 22, 1968)

2012 Tour Dates

March 3 – Oroville, CA

Feather Falls Casino – 530-533-3885

Feather Falls Casino Website

Doors:  8:00 PM   Showtime: 9:30 & 10:45 PM

March 8 – San Francisco, CA

Yoshi’s – 415-655-5600

International Women’s Day Concert to Benefit Earth Day

Link To International Women’s Day Concert

Doors:  8:00 PM   Showtime:10:00 PM

April 22 – San Francisco, CA

Earth Day Celebration

Earth Day Official Website

Showtime:  Approx. 5:00 PM

June 8 – Kasiserslautern, Germany

The Irish House – 49-177-407-61 74

The Irish House Website

Doors:  3:00 PM   Showtime:  10:00 PM

4 Bands total plus DJ after BBHC Show

With our dear friends Elena and Frank <3

June 9 – Dornstadt, Germany

Woodstock Open Air Festival

Website link to show

Showtime:  TBA

June 11 – Brescia, Italy

Jazzonlive Club – 34 779 86 100

Jazz Onlive Club Website

Doors:  8:00 PM    Showtime:  10:00 PM

June 12 – Milano, Italy

TBA

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June 14 – Livorno, Italy

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June 15 – Biella, Italy

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June 16 –  Italy

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June 17 – Treviso, Italy

25th Annual Festa D’Estate Vascon – 0038-328-4920448

Festival website

Showtime:  9:00 PM

June 29 –  San Rafael, CA

TBA

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July 6 – Pembroke, Ontario, Canada

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July 13 – London, Ontario, Canada

BluesFest International – 519-474-7706

London BluesFest International Website

Showtime:  TBA

 

July 14 – Windsor, Ontario, Canada

BluesFest International – 866-934-6889

Windsor BluesFest International Website

Showtime:  TBA

November 1 –  Hawaii

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November 2 –  Hawaii

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November 3 – Hawaii

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