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Leading off and playing Centerfield on Sunday at the Baseball Hall of Fame: John Fogerty

Seattle Hempfest started out as a humble little gathering of stoners and has grown into one of the most sophisticated cannabis policy reform events in the world. Originally billed in 1991 as the "Washington Hemp Expo",

The fallout from Jack Herer's groundbreaking publication, "The Emperor Wears No Clothes", was just beginning to build and the time was right for a new wave of marijuana activists to emerge on the political scene.

R.I.P Jack

STOP PLAYING OUR MUSIC !

If stereotypes held true, you would think that the Republicans would be the ones telling folks to turn that blasted music down. But this year — and indeed in many past election cycles — it’s the GOP that has been attracting cease-and-desist letters for pilfering music against the artists’ wishes. So let’s take a look at some of the more notable GOP music fails from this cycle, and cycles past.

Senate candidate Chuck DeVore (R-CA) got burned for using for using

altered-lyric version of Don Henley’s “The Boys of Summer” and “All She Wants To Do Is Dance” for his campaign’s Web ads. David Byrne is suing Gov. Charlie Crist (I-FL) for using “Road To Nowhere” in a Web ad during his previous Republican Senate primary fight, and of course, as we reported yesterday, Rush cut to the chase and told Senate nominee Rand Paul (R-KY) to stop playing “Tom Sawyer” and “The Spirit of Radio.”

Rep. John Hall

The Orleans song “Still The One” has a special place in politics as it has been used not once without the band’s permission, but twice — and the first instance contributed to its author’s entrance into national politics. In 2004, the Bush campaign used the song at a rally. As the song’s main author, John Hall, told MSNBC in 2008: “George Bush was busy campaigning on an ‘ownership society,’ yet never asked me, the band, or the publishers for permission.” Hall and other stakeholders in the song quickly sent a cease-and-desist letter, and the Bush campaign dropped the song.

In 2006, Hall went on to be elected to Congress as a Democrat, defeating an incumbent Republican — an event that was spurred in part by his experience from 2004. “It was one of the things that got him even madder,” Hall press secretary Tom Staudter told TPMDC. And then in 2008, the Republicans used the song yet again, this time the ill-fated John McCain campaign. “This is yet another example of John McCain not learning anything from George Bush’s mistakes,” Hall told MSNBC, also adding: “The only one John McCain is Still the One for is George Bush.”

But that was only the tip of the iceberg for the McCain campaign — which was

practically a walking Limewire setup. Jackson Browne also sued it for using his song “Running On Empty” in an ad, for which the two sides later reached an out-of-court settlement. Van Halen objected to McCain’s use of their song “Right Now” at a rally. The Wilson sisters from Heart strenuously objected to his campaign’s use of “Barracuda” to promote Sarah Palin. And finally, the McCain campaign used “Pink Houses” and “Our Country” by John Mellencamp, who sent a letter demanding that they stop.

Source : Los Angeles Free Press

Rock legend Gregg Allman gets new liver...

Rock and roll legend, Gregg Allman, is recovering after successfully undergoing liver transplant surgery in Florida. The 62 year-old picker and crooner was said to be "groggy but awake" following the Wednesday morning surgery. Gregg Allman, who was diagnosed with Hepatitis C in 2007, received his liver transplant operation at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Fla. He had been on a waitiing list for several years.

7/6 UPDATE: GREGG OUT OF THE HOSPITAL!

Gregory was released from the hospital Friday (7/2) and is now staying nearby with friends for follow-up care. “I got up early and watched the sunrise on the beach this morning, which was amazing” he says. “I’m feeling pretty good and moving around well and we’re going to start talking soon about getting back out on the road, later this year.” Gregg continues to thank all of the hospital staff and fans for their continued support and well wishes--and will keep the updates coming.

Man Fights To Prove Marijuana
As A Holy Sacrament

Every religion has sacred materials that make up many of their rituals, but one churches use of marijuana had a Colorado man before a judge monday.

Jason Wimler had pulled over to fix a broken windshield wiper on I-25 on Rev. Jason Wimler

December 22, 2009. He and his girlfriend were on their way to her parents home for a Christmas celebration. When a state trooper, who pulled over to see if he needed assistance, smelled fresh marijuana coming from the car they searched the vehicle. They found less than an ounce of the controlled substance.

Wimler, 22, is an ordained minister for The Hawaii Cannabis Ministry, and told the trooper the marijuana was a religious sacrament to be used during the Christmas holiday. He was cited for possession and sent on his way.

Monday, Wimler, his girlfriend, attorney, and two representatives of THC Ministry were back in Pueblo for a final court hearing prior to his trial. His attorney out of Denver, Danyel Joffe, has taken his case pro bono because it touches on subject she feels strongly about. The freedom to practice religion without discrimination.

Joffe says, the state allows for peyote to be used as part of religious rituals and that cannabis should be afforded the same exception.

The Hawaii Cannabis Ministry founder Roger Christie attended the hearing, and explained one way in which the controlled substance is used during church services. The cannabis is added as an ingredient in a topical oil used to anoint parishioners. "We think it's the old testament recipe that God gave to Moses, and that it was to be used throughout all the generations.

Three hebrew dictionaries that I own say that the fragrant cane, in that recipe is actually cannabis," says Christie.

Meanwhile, Wimler's bid to have a special jury instruction that could have acquitted him was denied by Judge Steven Fieldman.

And instead of paying the $100 dollar fine, Wimler and his attorney decided to move forward with the trial so that an appeal on the matter could be made to a higher court. Wimler's trail is scheduled for July 8th.

“Last living slut” and author Roxana Shirazi
on her Iranian roots, groupies and the boring
musicians she’s slept with
~Interview With The Montreal Mirror~

M: You don’t consider yourself a groupie in the Pamela Des Barres sense of the word,

right?

RS: I’m too wild to be a groupie. I’m the rock star, the one who calls the shots. When I got into the rock ’n’ roll world, I was expecting it to be some wild, crazy utopian playground, but then I found there were all these rules for women. Pamela Des Barres was meek and subservient to the needs of the rock stars and I don’t play that role. I choose what I do and how I have fun. If a band’s boring, I get them to go find me another band who’s fun. I never felt I had to be of service to these people. I’m simply too wild, I’m more of a free spirit.

M: I assume you’re trying to own the word “slut” here, like homosexuals have tried to do with the word “queer,” right?

RS: Yeah, I actually looked “slut” up in the dictionary and it says it’s somebody, especially a woman, who has many partners and does a lot of sexual experimentation. And this makes you a bad human being? Why? Surely you’re a bad human being if you’re cruel, mean or selfish, but what does your sexuality have to do with that?
Sexually promiscuous women are still vilified in society, so when I say I’m the last living slut, I mean of the negative kind, in the negative sense of the word. You see the way some men are regarded as man-whores, male sluts, and it’s all done with this sort of slap on the back of, “Yeah, you’re a man, sticking to your role as a guy.” Where with women, you’re vilified. There’s such a difference between how sexually promiscuous men and women are viewed. It’s the same even in rock ’n’ roll, where I’d always romanticized that you could be anything you want, do anything you want, do whoever you want and not be judged for it. But I guess I was thinking of the way it was in the ’60s and ’70s. There are so many backward people in rock ’n’ roll. I was so surprised to see how pervasive these attitudes were.

M: You write about your disappointment with these bands, that they weren’t as “wild” as you’d wanted them to be.

RS: Well, I always had to initiate the fun. I was the one who’d hang out with Buckcherry, going, “Please, come on guys, I’m horny, let’s all have sex, with me.” Like Mötley Crüe, those guys have already been there, done it, lived the life....FULL INTERVIEW

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- Rolling Stones' Greatest Hits Inspired By Drugs ?

Mick Jagger has rejected the suggestion drugs had a negative impact on the Rolling Stones, insisting the band wrote some of their biggest hits while under the influence.

The legendary group famously indulged in narcotics during their 1960s and 70s heyday - particularly chief songwriters Jagger and Keith Richards.

But the frontman insists the "party atmosphere" helped to inspire much of their music, particularly iconic 1972 album Exile on Main Street.

Jagger tells Absolute Radio, "That was a period of time when everyone took loads of drugs, it was very fashionable, but I mean, we did a lot of hard work as well, so it was a bit of a party atmosphere, loads of visitors, you know, there was a lot of drugs floating around, but not everyone was completely out of it all the time and we did a lot of good tracks, you know."

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Hippie Radical Generosity

By Dr. Charley Wininger

I might as well be honest with you about who I am and where I'm coming from.

I've been a psychotherapist for over 20 years now, but I have hippie roots.

I recall sitting on a stoop on E. 10th Street in New York's East Village in 1969 with my hippie buddies (we called each other "freaks" then; an affectionate term we gave ourselves which stemmed from the derogatory way the straights referred to us). The big wave of hippiedom had come and gone from the city by then. Suddenly a freak comes by, takes one look at us, and opens up his leather satchel.

A handful of Panama Red

"Just scored some Panama Red! Can you use some?" Just as I was about to explain we were broke, he handed us each a handful, and walked off! And I - as you see, over 40 years later- never forgot it.

Hippiedom, no matter what you might have been told about it, or (if you were alive at the time) no matter what you might think of it now, was surely a radical idea. We could all argue about whether it was ultimately a good or bad thing, but one thing's for sure: It shook things up! And one reason was that at its essence was the ideal of what I call Radical Generosity.

Radical Generosity means giving beyond the norm of what is considered reasonable. Why Woodstock worked was because of this spirit. It wasn't just because there was good music and lots of weed and acid and people got laid. (Ok, I guess that's what did it for many who were there.) But if you think that was all it was about you miss the point.

What made this event was the rain, the togetherness, the spirit of giving - the management opening the gates and letting the concert become free; the staff throwing beers from the stage; the sense that you would share your food and your vibes and whatever else you had. The blurring of where "I" ended and "you" began. Giving it all away because, the feeling was, we don't got much anyway except for each other. Giving because there is no "them" at all, but only us here. My brothers helping me out because I'm one of them. My sisters loving me because we're of the same tribe. And me helping and loving them back in return.

Today, living for me over here, and you living for you over there, is a pain-inducing illusion. It's a lie that has become life-threatening and dangerous. It's the kind of illusion that posits that you can pollute your world way over there, or I can hate you over here, and we won't effect each other. But in the past month or so, we've learned - here where I live in New York City near Times Square; and down in the Gulf of Mexico where some British company decided to drill for oil - that there is no "there" there. It's all right here in our faces, in gasoline canisters left in cars; in miles of black water washing up on our beaches.

The idea that I'll be ok just so long as you pea over there in your end of the pool just doesn't work anymore.

Hippidom (at its best) was an alternative to this dillusional pathology of separation that has been forced upon us, and to re-imagine we're one people again like it was in the beginning. Because we are.

This isn't "radical generosity" so much as life as it's supposed to be lived. This is building heaven from the earth up.

And hippies - instinctively knew a few things about living together that might serve us now

Source: Psychology Today
By: Charley Wininger, (also known as “The Love Doctor,” is a New York City-based psychotherapist with 20 years experience helping singles and couples find joy in their lives)

Ronnie Wood has new radio gig

Ronnie Wood, the Rolling Stones guitarist, is to present a weekly show on rock music station Absolute Radio and its digital sibling, Absolute Leif busted again

Classic Rock.

The Ronnie Wood Show, which will be produced by independent production company Somethin' Else, will broadcast first on the digital station on Friday evening and be repeated on Absolute Radio on Saturday night.

Absolute Classic Rock relaunched this week, branding itself the home of the "Great British Guarantee" with a playlist featuring the Who, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Queen and the Rolling Stones.

"Ronnie will deliver a playlist that comes straight from his heart, playing music that he loves and is passionate about, all accompanied by his uniquely fascinating stories, experiences and memories and using his trusted guitar to illustrate elements of the tunes played and to accompany him," said Absolute.

The Friday show will launch at 6pm on April 9. The Saturday repeat will air at 10pm.

Tony Moorey, the Absolute Radio content director, said: "Think fantastic music, and one man and his guitar in your living room, but that man being one of rock's gods, Ronnie Wood. It's not often that we have a genuine opportunity to strike a radio relationship with a rock legend ... The Ronnie Wood Show is that opportunity."

It is the latest Absolute Radio show to be awarded to an independent production company, after Frank Skinner's Saturday morning show and Dave Gorman's Sunday morning slot, which are both made by Avalon.

"The World's Largest Music Festival"
Summerfest in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Summerfest (also known as "The Big Gig") is a yearly music festival held at the 75-acre Henry Maier Festival Park along the lakefront in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The festival lasts for 11 days, is made up of 11 stages with performances from over 700 bands, and since the mid-1970s has run from late June through early July, always including the 4th of July holiday. Summerfest attracts between 800,000 and 1,000,000 people each year, promoting itself as "The World's Largest Music Festival," a title certified by the Guinness World Records in 1999.

Live musical acts are offered on 11 stages throughout the grounds from noon to midnight, including the 23,000-capacity Marcus Amphitheater. All shows are free with an admission ticket, with the exception of headlining acts at the Marcus Amphitheater. Admission is between $8.00 and $15.00, depending on the time of day. There are numerous promotions for discounted or free tickets.

Summerfest has been most famous for its music, ever since the first festival in 1968, when acts such as Ronnie Dove, The New Colony Six, and Up With People performed. In 1969, Led Zeppelin performed (see Midwest Rock Festival). Since then, musical acts from Bob Dylan, Tina Turner, and James Taylor to Christina Aguilera, Mary J. Blige, and Nine Inch Nails have graced the Summerfest stages. Acts with Milwaukee and Wisconsin connections have had a prominent history at Summerfest, most notably the BoDeans, The Gufs and Violent Femmes.

The concerts have been mostly civil events, with two notable exceptions. In 1970, a performance by the late-arriving Sly & the Family Stone nearly resulted in a riot, and in 1973 a performance by Humble Pie & the Blackberries did result in a riot, along with a bonfire and about 300 arrests. As a result of the latter concert, organizers shied away from rock bands for several years, and established guidelines for "family-friendly" acts and a ban on alcohol brought in by patrons.

Other Summerfest attractions include comedy acts, shopping vendors, fireworks (including "The Big Bang" on opening night), other special attractions, family activities and more.

If you're seeking proof that all American music leads to rock, look no further than this year's headliner lineup for Summerfest's M&I Classic Rock Stage. SEE LINEUP

The blues? Doesn't get bluesier than B.B. King. Album rock? The Moody Blues and Yes have their pictures next to that definition in the dictionary. Disco? Check - Average White Band. Metal? Blue Oyster Cult will make sure there's sufficient cowbell. New Wave? The B-52's have the whole skinny-tie thing covered.

And if in case there's anything missing, parody master Weird Al Yankovic probably has an app, and a song, for that.
Summerfest 2010 runs June 24 to July 4. For details on the rest of the fest, go to www.summerfest.com.

Dennis Hopper Dies,a Counterculture Hero
Hopper was catapulted into the pantheon of countercultural celebrities that included John Lennon, Abbie Hoffman and Timothy Leary

Dennis Hopper, the maverick director and costar of the landmark 1969 Dennis Hopper in "Easy Rider"

counterculture film classic "Easy Rider" whose drug- and alcohol-fueled reputation as a Hollywood bad boy preceded his return to sobriety and a career resurgence in the films "Hoosiers" and "Blue Velvet,".

A frail-looking Hopper, whose battle with prostate cancer was revealed in October, was able to attend a ceremony for the unveiling of his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in late March.

In a more than five-decade acting career that was influenced early on by working with James Dean and studying at the Actors Studio, he made his film debut as one of the high school gang members who menace Dean in the 1955 classic "Rebel Without a Cause."

Hopper went on to appear in more than 115 films, including "Apocalypse Now," "Cool Hand Luke," "Giant," "Hang 'Em High," "Rivers Edge," "Rumble Fish," "Speed," "The American Friend," "True Grit" and "True Romance."

But it's his role as the long-haired, pot-smoking biker Billy opposite Peter Fonda's Wyatt (Captain America) in the hit movie "Easy Rider" that gave Hopper his most enduring claim to fame.

The low-budget tale of two bikers on an ultimately tragic cross-country odyssey after scoring a big cocaine sale, "Easy Rider" became a generational touchstone.

The movie, which boasted a star-making performance from a little-known Jack Nicholson as a boozy small-town lawyer who goes along for the ride and gets his first taste of marijuana, set old-guard Hollywood back on its heels.

"The impact of 'Easy Rider,' both on the filmmakers and the industry as a whole, was no less than seismic," Peter Biskind wrote in his 1998 book "Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-And-Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood."

Hopper died Saturday May 29, 2010. He was born May 17, 1936 Hopper died at his home in California Saturday morning after a long battle with cancer. His publicist said he was surrounded with family and friends at the time.

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Cindy Sheehan Talks About War, Peace, the Environment, and Oil Spills
Planet Green interviews Cindy

Planet Green: The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is, of course, Cindy Sheenhan

a horrific assault on the eco-system but it just may be a window through which the anti-war movement can better link up with the green movement. What connections do you see between these two movements?

Cindy Sheehan: We are waging two big wars for oil, and many smaller wars throughout the world (South America, Africa) and to me, it has always been a no-brainer that the U.S's addiction to war can be linked to our addiction to oil. Even in 1933, Major General Smedley Butler wrote in War is a Racket: "I made Mexico, especially Tampico safe for U.S. oil interests...In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested." Now President Obama has called out SWAT teams to the recent catastrophe in the Gulf—it seems like oil companies drive our foreign policy more than any real or perceived physical threat.

PG: You suggested we "boycott BP into bankruptcy" but the U.S. consumes about 21 million barrels of oil per day and10,000 gallons of gasoline are burned in the U.S. every second. How do we inspire Americans to kick the oil habit?

CS: Also, BP gave Obama 71,000 for his presidential campaign and Senator Mary Landrieu of Lousiana is the Queen of Big Oil—that's why we down here in our stratosphere need to be more responsible non-consumers of petroleum products. I hope the environmental movement and anti-war movement can work together to educate people about the insidiousness of this cancer that is destroying or severely compromising our existence on this planet. If one must use gas, I would suggest shopping at CITGO if possible, because Chavez does do some good with the money, but to me, that's even a bad solution. Just reduce personal oil consumption as much as possible.

PG: The U.S. Department of Defense is the largest polluter on the planet—producing more hazardous waste than the five largest U.S. chemical companies combined—and this country's military is also top gas guzzler in the world. With such a growing awareness of all things "green," how can we better spread the word that war (and the preparation for war) is a major assault on our eco-system?

CS: I think one of the best things that we can do is look into economic conversion of the defense industry into green industries working on sustainable and renewable forms of energy—and/or connect with indigenous people who are trying to reclaim their lands from the pollution of the military industrial complex. There's also a Superfund site in San Francisco called Bayview/Hunter's Point where the Navy gave toxic land to the city of San Francisco, which then sold it to Lennar Corp for a dollar. The best thing to do would be to start on a very local level to reclaim a planet healthy for life.

PG: In the time since your son's death, you have been on a journey that I'd guess you could've never seen coming. What has been the biggest surprise over the past six years?

CS: Democrats and Republicans are equally corrupt and are both working against our interests.

PG: Did you have any advice or inspiration you'd like to share with Planet Green readers seeking to create change?

CS: Don't think change has to be made in huge increments—start in your own life and home—then spread around peace and green as far and wide as you can!

Cindy's world changed forever when, on a mission on April 4, 2004 to help other troops in Sadr City, Spc. Casey Sheehan was tragically killed. She and other military families met with President George W. Bush in June of 2004. By October, Cindy decided her son's death would spur her into action. She wrote, "I was ashamed that I hadn't tried to stop the war before Casey died...Well, I now felt that if I couldn't make a difference, I would at least try." Her quest to end the war, bring soldiers home,

and hold politicians responsible for the decisions that sent the troops to Iraq initially, has been indefatigable.

Steppenwolf's John Kay
On ...
Britney Spears and
other pop stars:
''You may have problems with the way they dress or with other things they do, but I'll tell you, they work hard to learn those dumb choreography steps. That's hard work.''

We ended the Viet Nam war...with Uncle Walters help

Legendary CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite allegedly collaborated with anti-Vietnam War activists in the 1960s, going so far as to offer advice on how to raise the public profile of protests and even pledging CBS News resources to help pull off events, according to FBI documents obtained by Yahoo! News.

The documents, obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, say that in November 1969, Cronkite encouraged students at Rollins College in Winter Park, Fla., to invite Maine Sen. Edmund Muskie to address a protest they were planning near Cape Kennedy (now known as Cape Canaveral). Cronkite told the group's leader that Muskie would be nearby for a fundraiser on the day of the protest, and said that "CBS would rent [a] helicopter to take Muskie to and from site of rally," according to the documents.

The claims are contained in an FBI memo recounting a confidential informant's report on a November 1969 meeting of a Rollins College protest group called Youth for New America. The group was planning rallies near Cape Kennedy on Nov. 13 and 14 — the latter being day of the Apollo 12 launch from Cape Kennedy, which President Nixon would be attending — as part of a nationwide Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam. That protest action culminated in a huge march on Washington on Nov. 15.

According to the informant, the group's leader (whose name is redacted in the documents) told the attendees that during a visit to a local CBS News station to drum up publicity for the protests, he ended up in a 45-minute phone conversation with Cronkite.

"[Redacted] told group he had been to CBS Channel Six in Orlando prior to meeting to speak to newsmen about Vietnam moratorium activities. [Redacted] related that while at TV station, Walter Cronkite, nationally known radio and television commentator, spoke to him by telephone for approximately forty five minutes and that Cronkite reportedly told [redacted] that CBS would have thirty six hours of coverage on Vietnam moratorium with 'open mike' to give demonstrators a chance to be heard. Cronkite noted, according to [redacted], that Senator Edmund Muskie would be in Orlando, Fla., November 13 instant for Democratic fund raising dinner. According to [redacted], Cronkite suggested that [redacted] attempt to Muskie to come [sic] to Cape Kennedy to speak at Kelly Park rally to be held November thirteen instant. Cronkite allegedly told [redacted] that CBS would rent helicopter to take Muskie to and from site of rally at Kelly Park."

Just nine months before, Cronkite had delivered his famous on-air judgment that the "bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate." Even so, such tight collaboration between a news organization and the anti-war movement — particularly the offer of CBS News resources to help ferry a sitting senator and future presidential candidate around in opposition to the war — was highly unusual and would presumably have been explosive if known widely at the time. It's unclear whether Muskie ever actually attended the event.

Chip Cronkite, Walter Cronkite's son, told Yahoo! News it's highly unlikely that his father would ever have made such an offer. "It doesn't have the ring of a reliable story to me," he said. "Particularly at a time when FBI informants often told the FBI what they wanted to hear. I think it would be outside of what we know about Walter Cronkite and CBS News' practices."

A CBS News spokesman declined to comment.

The memo is included in 72 pages of FBI files pertaining to Cronkite that were recently released by the bureau. The FBI claimed late last year, two months after Cronkite's death in July 2009, that all its records on the newsman had been destroyed in 2007 — which raised suspicions that the FBI may have deliberately shredded embarrassing files on its surveillance of journalists during the Cold War. The new records appear to be from files that didn't focus specifically on Cronkite's activities but that included mentions of the newsman. Among the other incidents in the newly released documents are a 1966 criminal investigation into CBS News for allegedly airing obscene language during coverage of civil-rights unrest in Mississippi; applications for Cronkite and others to travel to Cuba and China; and surveillance files on subjects who met with or were interviewed by Cronkite.

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Kathi McDonald solidifies her legacy as rock 'n' roll survivor

Singer Kathi McDonald, set to make a rare appearance in Marin next

week, is a little-known but fascinating figure in rock 'n' roll history. After decades of denial, she's learned to accept that she will forever be inextricably linked to one of rock's most tragic characters - Janis Joplin.
The 60-year-old singer makes her home near Seattle now, but during the '70s and '80s, she was among the extraordinary collection of rock musicians who settled in Marin.
"I lived in every single town in Marin," she said in a husky, lived-in voice. "Mill Valley, San Rafael, San Anselmo, Lagunitas, Forest Knolls. You name it, I lived there."
The way she tells her story, San Francisco promoter Chet Helms invited her to audition for Big Brother and the
Holding Company at the same time in 1966 that he'd recruited Joplin. Joplin was in Austin, Texas, 18-year-old McDonald in Seattle.
"Chet Helms called me and I hitch-
hiked down, but I got there a little later than Janis did," McDonald told me the other day, speaking by cell phone from the Skagit Valley in Washington, where she was visiting a childhood friend. "She beat me to the punch."
When Joplin left Big Brother to form the Kosmic Blues Band, McDonald replaced her, recording three albums: "Can't Go Home Again," "How Hard It Is" and "Be a Brother." In 1974, she also released a solo album, "Insane Asylum."
"I used to hate it when people would say, 'You sound like Janis Joplin,'" she recalled. "I'd say, 'No, she sounds like me" ... READ MORE

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