Dick Cavett Tv Interview by Janis Joplin
Janis it's a shame you couldn't do an up tune for us
but I liked that one.
Later in the show.
Yeah, maybe later we'll be talking too. You're really
shot after, after a number, let alone a whole evening
I would think.
Yeah, yeah.
You tell me you kind of collapse after a show?
Well, I'm used to it because I'm so turned on by doing
one that it's hard to do, it's hard to stop after one
to tell you the truth, because it just makes you wanna
do more.
Your engine is revved up?
Yeah, sort of!
I know all the hip expressions, you see. Your engine
is revved up.
You're a real swinger, I can tell by your shoes, man!
Wait a minute, Janis, Janis. These were good enough
for my grand-father, they're good enough for me.
I had a lot of trouble, last week I, er, it wasn't
that tune, we opened with another tune and I tore a
muscle.
I heard about this. You tore a mussel somewhere near
Maryland. Er ...
It was closer to home than that!
Well, er ...
But I played forty minutes, man! I did forty minutes!
Yeah, but how do you, how do you tear a muscle
singing, was it from the exhaustion or ...
No, I went ... like that.
You actually, literally tore a muscle ... I mean like
that ...
Every time, it hurt.
Could you feel it go?
Yeah.
Phew!
Yeah.
What do they do, do they set a muscle or do they tape
you up or something?
They told me to keep still.
Janis you wrote that tune that you were just singing
like we just agreed to ask about. You er, you wrote
the first tune, right?
I wrote the first tune. It's, er, yes I did, it's
about men.
It's about men. It's a little hard to tell what it was
about 'cause I was standing over there where the sound
is a little distorted.
Well in my story that's what it is anyway.
Yeah.
D'you ever see those mule carts?
Yeah.
They, er, there's a dumb mule on there right and a
long stick with a string and a carrot, and it hangs
over the mule's nose, and it runs after it all day
|
