Fact #92292
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The Festival Express tour, featuring Janis Joplin, The Grateful Dead, Buddy Guy, The Band and others, plays in Winnipeg, Canada. The tour is unusual in that the artists all travel together on a train.
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Sylvia Tyson (Great Speckled Bird) : It was Delaney Bramlett's birthday, and the Grateful Dead had made him this enormous cake. And I remember this young woman saying to me, 'Which side of the cake do you want?' And I laughingly said, 'One side of the cake makes you smaller and the other side makes you larger, right?' and she said 'Yes.'
Graydon McCrea (journalist) : She (Janis Joplin) came out like she was shot out of a cannon. She strutted. She almost bellowed. She had the most incredible voice. You knew you were in the presence of a performance that you would remember for the rest of your life.
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Graydon McCrea (journalist) : She (Janis Joplin) came out like she was shot out of a cannon. She strutted. She almost bellowed. She had the most incredible voice. You knew you were in the presence of a performance that you would remember for the rest of your life.