Which Big Giver Stole The Chopped Liver?

"Big Brother & the Holding Company," is an early recording by Big Brother and the Holding Company, a psychedelic blues rock San Francisco-based band during the late 1960's. The record survives largely because of their great, great chick singer, Janis Joplin, of course, who joined them on a Chicago gig. Although Joplin fans will know that she did not, unfortunately, survive the 1970's, as she passed on October 4, 1970 (aged 27), in Los Angeles, California. But in her brief career, despite her troubled life, she left behind a stunning, gutsy repertory of work that has long since floated free of, and outlived, Big Brother. This record, however, was laid down about six months before she (and they) achieved lasting blazing stardom at the 1967 Monterrey Pop Festival.

At the finale of the "Musikfest Berlin" 2022, the musicians of the Deutsche Oper Berlin and their BigBand performed “Epitaph” as a tribute to the 100th birthday of Charles Mingus.

At the finale of the "Musikfest Berlin" 2022, the musicians of the Deutsche Oper Berlin and their BigBand performed “Epitaph” as a tribute to the 100th birthday of Charles Mingus.

At the finale of the "Musikfest Berlin" 2022, the musicians of the Deutsche Oper Berlin and their BigBand performed “Epitaph” as a tribute to the 100th birthday of Charles Mingus.

Big Boy Pete has toured with the Beatles and Rolling Stones and released one of the first English psychedelic songs 'Cold Turkey' which is included in The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Museum, Ohio's list of Psychedelic Classics. Guitarist and vocalist Peter Miller joined the Offbeats in the late 50's but was lured away to join the Peter Jay & The Jaywalkers in 1961 who up until 1965 enjoyed immense popularity in the UK. He then went 'solo' and in 1968 he released the classic 'Cold Turkey'. In the early 70's he moved to San Francisco where he continued to record and establish a very successful studio and The Audio Institute of America (an educational school for recording engineers) where thousands of students from more than 100 countries have been blissfully unaware that their Principal is Big Boy Pete! This album was recorded in the early 70's and is released for the first time on Angel Air.