On The Road With Janis Joplin by John Byrne Cooke

On The Road With Janis Joplin by John Byrne Cooke

One of Parade's Top Ten Rock n' Roll Reads

As a road manager and filmmaker, he helped run the Janis Joplin show--and record it for posterity. Now he reveals the never-before-told story of his years with the young woman from Port Arthur who would become the first female rock and roll superstar--and depart the stage too soon.

In 1967, as the new sound of rock and roll was taking over popular music, John Byrne Cooke was at the center of it all. As a member of D.A. Pennebaker's film crew, he witnessed the astonishing breakout performances of Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix at the Monterey Pop Festival that June. Less than six months later, he was on a plane to San Francisco, taking a job as road manager for Janis and her band, Big Brother and the Holding Company. From then on, Cooke was Joplin's road manager amid a rotating cast of musicians and personnel, a constant presence behind the scenes as the woman called Pearl took the world by storm.

Cooke was there when Janis made the difficult decision to leave Big Brother and form a new band. He was with her when the Kozmic Blues Band toured Europe in the spring of 1969, when they performed at Woodstock in August, and when Janis and Full Tilt Boogie took their famous Festival Express train trip across Canada. He accompanied Janis to her friend and mentor Ken Threadgill's 70th birthday party, and was at her side when she attended her tenth high school reunion in Port Arthur, Texas.

This intimate memoir spans the years he spent with Janis, from her legendary rise to her tragic last days. Cooke tells the whole incredible story as only someone who lived it could.

INCLUDES PERSONAL PHOTOGRAPHS

John Byrne, who was born in England and reared in Canada, first became aware of superheroes while watching The Adventures of Superman on television. He began his career in comics with Skywald and then Charlton, where he created the character Rog-2000, after graduating from the Alberta College of Art and Design. Following his time at Charlton, Byrne joined Marvel, where his critically praised runs on The Uncanny X-Men and The Fantastic Four quickly established him as one of the industry's most popular artists. He joined DC in 1986 to completely reimagine SUPERMAN, and since then he has drawn and/or written every major character at both DC and Marvel.

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ISBN 13	9780425274118
ISBN 10	042527411X
Title	On The Road With Janis Joplin
Author	John Byrne Cooke
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Book
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	2014-10-28
Number of pages	432
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.