JANIS SINGING HER COMPLETE
WOODSTOCK SET
At Woodstock 1969 a genius was
presenting herself already as a fading spirit. Her pain had already begun
to overcome her genius and the cause of her early downfall was her unmet
needs. When we listen to her I say we feel our unmet needs.
Her songs were not just ornaments
for the stage-of-privilege, otherwise known as the “good life” in our sad
world. Her songs were a cry for all our unmet needs and her own personal
cry for love. A crying out of all the senseless pain people have to
endure in the mad, spirit-wrenching search for meaning and love.
She was all glitter
and caricature and gypsy feathers and an
astonishing combination of Delta-Black blues and brassy Chicago blues
and pre-feminist thirties & forties abused-female
disempowerment-angst blues…only MUCH more soulful and gutsy. Primal
screaming musical Janovian (ie: Arthur Janov) blues. But underneath was her
pathetic tragic unmet heaving gaping black-hole of a need for love.
Her whole
public persona howled out this truth. From what I read of her
story Janis was aloof and artistic and she was savagely bullied in
school for the usual reasons: unconventionality, intelligence and
creativity, and looks which did not flatter the opposite sex,
but apparently challenged it in a no-fooling kind of way.
Today I say she would have
been a staunch feminist, contributing much with her music towards
liberating other lonely creative women…and creative people.
But instead of confronting hers and
our unmet needs, she succumbed to her addictions, alcohol and heroin. What
an incalculable loss to the music world and humanity.
So please enjoy her Woodstock Full
Concert, presented at the original Woodstock 1969 Festival in Bethel NY.
And when you hear Janis, please
tune your ear to the everpresent overbearing cry for love, which comes out in
everything she sang, and everything she did.
It’s trendy to disparage people with flaws as great as Janis’.
But I say we shouldn’t yield to the
temptation to offer negative judgment, as comfortable as that makes some people…It’s
also not nice to beat someone when they are down especially when they already
died from it.
Lets take a new look at Janis… a
tragic genius who SHOWED us with her musical strains and almost over-the-top
disturbing cries and histrionic overtones ….that pain we all conceal
too well inside our polished- and-polite exteriors. The pain that SCREAMS out
to be noticed.
The same screams coming from John
Lennon when he sang the last lines from his song “Mother”:
“Mother, you had me
But I never had you
I wanted you
But you didn’t want me
So
I, I just got to tell you
Goodbye
Goodbye
Father, you left me
But I never left you
I needed you
But you didn’t need me
So
I, I just got to tell you
Goodbye
Goodbye
Children, don’t do
What I have done
I couldn’t walk
And I tried to run
So
I, I just got to tell you
Goodbye
Goodbye
Mama don’t go
Daddy come home
Mama don’t go
Daddy come home
Mama don’t go
Daddy come home
Mama don’t go
Daddy come home
Mama don’t go
Daddy come home
Mama don’t go
Daddy come home
Mama don’t go
Daddy come home
Mama don’t go
Daddy come home
Mama don’t go
Daddy come home”
Songwriters
SWAN, SIERRA
Published by
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Read more: John Lennon –
Mother Lyrics | MetroLyrics
http://www.metrolyrics.com/mother-lyrics-john-lennon.html
1.
Jasonsays:
Hi Avera,
Another great post. I loved Janis
and her music, which as you say was unconventional, challenged the norms and
spoke of tragic pain.
It is a shame that people don’t see
through these barriers we try to defend ourselves with. Anyone that resorts to
drugs, while they will never admit it, is making a plea for help or just trying
to block severe pain from their life. The issue is as much as we block, we
don’t heal and we begin a further downward spiral of self loathing and
negativity.
A great post which will open many
eyes!
Jason
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Avera Yugensays:
Hi Jason and thank you for the
heads-up about this post. I still get misty when I hear that diva Janis, and
you are right in my opinion about the connection between shutting out pain and
a pseudo-normality which will always break down in the face of enough stress…..
I hope you are right about how much attention this site will get now ;=)
Warmly,
Avera
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Avera Yugensays:
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Warmly,
Avera
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Avera
1.
Lawrencesays:
Hey there
I like the lyrics of this song!
Always been a fan of Lennon as well.
i can see that a lot of passion and energy was put into this record.
Thanks
Lawrence
1.
Avera Yugensays:
Hi Lawrence,
I recently saw a film about John Lennon, and he never really had anyone to care
about him although his childhood was filled with bright promise. The adults
were too busy with their own agenda and John constantly felt betrayed or used.
And if anything he soft peddled that true history in his music. When it does
come out it is startling and explosive. That album was filled with passion and
tragedy, and I believe he was helped along the road to self-understanding by
the therapist Janov. Unfortunately he needed much more help than what Janov
could offer, but anyone could see in his music he was beginning to “get it”.
Warmly,
Avera
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