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Big Brother and The Holding Company, featuring Janis Joplin, record Combination Of The Two, It's A Deal and Crazy Once You Know How, during sessions at Columbia Studio E, New York City, USA, for their first Columbia album, Cheap Thrills.Full article:
Sam Andrews (Big Brother and the Holding Company) : After Janis joined, it took us about a year of performing to find out what we really were about. For Cheap Thrills, we had time to practice the songs on the road. That made a big difference.
Sam Andrews : It was going to be totally live, but then it turned out we couldn't play anything decently enough to go on the track. We had to go into the studio. It was pretty funny. We went to Detroit and played at the Grandee Ballroom. We brought the tapes back to New York and we all listened to them in (manager) Albert (Grossman)'s office. I came in and I said, "Does anyone have a joint? I just want to get high." Albert went, "You don't need to get high. You need to listen to this!" I went, "Oh shit." I know it is going to sound like shit.
Really they said, "Sam you shouldn't play guitar. Peter you shouldn't play bass. Sam you should be the bass player." It was on and on. It was really serious heavy stuff. The moment of truth! In Albert's office... So then we went into the studio and started recording in there. We kind of cobbled it together in there. It is a total artifact. It is not like this live album, like it is presented.
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Sam Andrews : It was going to be totally live, but then it turned out we couldn't play anything decently enough to go on the track. We had to go into the studio. It was pretty funny. We went to Detroit and played at the Grandee Ballroom. We brought the tapes back to New York and we all listened to them in (manager) Albert (Grossman)'s office. I came in and I said, "Does anyone have a joint? I just want to get high." Albert went, "You don't need to get high. You need to listen to this!" I went, "Oh shit." I know it is going to sound like shit.
Really they said, "Sam you shouldn't play guitar. Peter you shouldn't play bass. Sam you should be the bass player." It was on and on. It was really serious heavy stuff. The moment of truth! In Albert's office... So then we went into the studio and started recording in there. We kind of cobbled it together in there. It is a total artifact. It is not like this live album, like it is presented.