At 09:34 AM 2/9/02, you wrote: >Ron Greer posted: > > > all this talk about melissa/janis. so i had to go & pull out my cd with > melissa singing "me & bobby mcgee" a very nice, solo acoustic guitar > version. <clip> melissa comes across as *trying* to be janis. some > forced emotion etc. but janis is just plain brilliant. theres an edge and > a depth to her singing that melissa just cant do.
Well, that's 'cause Janis was * * Janis * * and ME is only ME. Sorry. >Absolutely. God has not spared me from many things but may God spare me >from a movie soundtrack with Melissa Etheridge singing Janis' ouevre. Funny! >I have been told that in real life Janis was very tiny. She comes across >so powerfully when she sang that I can't imagine her as being as short as >she evidently was,. She was also very skinny. In a lot of the pictures she came across as beefy, but when I met her she was wearing skin-tight purple velvet bell-bottoms and 'tiny' really described her then... Warmest regards, Nick N/P: Bruce Springsteen / Cleveland 6/3/74 Trade Stuff: http://www.boootlegs.com/ Text Only Pages: http://www.boootlegs.com/bootxt01.htm
