![]() ![]() ![]() Pearl emerged as the alchemical result of these two opposite forces. Describing her as “a woman in the throes of shredding her inhibitions by displaying her pain,” Maurice Isserman and Michael Kazin explain in America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s that not even fan adoration managed to shake off this sadness: “On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone” would remain one of her most famous quotes. “I’m lonely,” she would often say, voicing a sentiment that seemed to have been present throughout most of her life. It was literally too much pressure.” Adding to the downward spiral-or, one could argue, precipitating it-was Janis’s own emotional unfulfillment. “She drank more, did more drugs, acted out & got arrested. “This period really was Janis’ undoing,” an entry on this website confirms. Unfortunately, this realization also coincided with an acceleration of Janis’s descent into the abyss, her self-destruction becoming more and more visible not only to people around her but also to the public in general. After various attempts at finding a competent backing ensemble she truly related to-she had left Big Brother & the Holding Company in 1968, and the subsequent Kozmic Blues Band only lasted throughout 1969-Janis was ecstatic to have finally gathered a group of musicians that adequately understood her: “I can tell those cats what to do and they’ll do it!,” Alice Echols quotes her saying in the Scars of Sweet Paradise biography. In the summer of 1970, Janis Joplin went on the Festival Express tour with her newly assembled band Full Tilt Boogie, with which she would record her final studio album Pearl. He’s interested in what they might have about Joplin but he remains convinced that no one does Janis Joplin better than Port Arthur’s museum.Fifty years on, Janis Joplin‘s posthumous album remains a striking testimony of her ability to create beautiful things out of the pain the outside world inflicted on her He’s never made the pilgrimage - well, not yet - to Cleveland’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame but it’s on his bucket list. It’s all in my mind - what I have, what I don’t have,” he said. He’ll collect as long as he lives, he said, and likely donate it to Port Arthur’s museum when he dies. Steinberg also shops for Joplin memorabilia and merchandise on ebay and in antique or book stores.Īs expansive as his collection may be, he said he’s got room for more. “She doesn’t encourage me to come here and buy it.” He said his wife Jennifer is a “good sport” about his Joplin interest, and “puts up with her.” They’ve been a couple for a decade, so it was no surprise when they married in April 2018 in Tomball that her husband hired a Joplin impersonator to entertain or that they danced to a wedding song “To Love Somebody” by Joplin.īut she’s not the fan that her husband is. As much as he’s collected, he lost memorabilia, too, during an April 2016 flood in Houston. In fact, he set up his own exhibit from his collection at the museum for Joplin’s 75 th birthday, celebrated last year. 19 - that’s Joplin’s birthday, from 1943 - and on Oct. Steinberg didn’t cry when he saw the exhibit for the first time but he was moved, he said. The bill ran into the high hundreds of dollars. Last year, a couple from Australia visited and wanted “one of everything” related to Joplin that was sold in the gift shop. Two weeks ago, she shipped a memorial brick from the former Joplin home on Procter Street to the Netherlands. She’s met visitors from Germany and Spain and Mexico. People come from around the globe to see the Joplin exhibit some cry when they see it, she said. Their interstate billboards bear her image and so do their print ads. Guidry said Joplin remains the museum’s top draw. Steinberg holds a display sign at the museum. (Ken Stickney/The News) Joplin gave him the bag to display in his nightclub. She gave the handbag to Mickey Deans, Judy Garland’s fifth and final husband and a Manhattan nightclub owner. There was a wool crochet handbag, too, on display. Was there one for sale? He wanted to know. ![]() On Friday, Steinberg took quick joy when he spied a Joplin cut-out positioned in front of the exhibit. There’s a new one due out and he’s ready to buy it. He owns about six Joplin T-shirts - the museum keeps a full stock of T-shirts on display - and biographies. He did collect some dirt from the lawn of her Procter Street home. He readily accepts being called “that crazy Janis fan.” Asked what’s the craziest Joplin relic he ever bought he responds quickly, “It’s all normal to me.” That was her plate number on her Porsche, he said, though few people would know that. How much of a fan is he? Well, he used her license plate number, “Van 990,” on his own Texas vanity plate. A T-shirt depicts Joplin in her final months. (Ken Stickney/The News) ![]()
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