![]() Until recently they languished in a vast collection of binders in several closets at McElroy’s residence in Boston’s South End. The Liverpool-born Warrack died in 2008, but nearly his entire collection of photographs-around 15,000-remained unpublished during his lifetime. Peter Warrack's photo of Janis Joplin performing at Harvard Stadium, Aug. Concerts weren’t documented as thoroughly back then as they are now, thanks to Instagram and Twitter and a camera on every smartphone, so those 24 black-and-white close-ups are, seemingly, some of the few existing relics of the historic concert. An amateur photographer who liked to photograph celebrities and collect autographs, he shot almost a whole roll of film from down in the front, a telephoto lens aimed upward at the star as she threw herself across the stage. It was a special night for Warrack as well. That near-disaster concert at Harvard Stadium, it turned out, was her last public performance. After another hour-and-a-half or so-it was really quite a delay-she literally burst onto the stage. She just was doing what she wanted to do in the moment. And she had a bottle of Southern Comfort, and she was just in a world of her own there. “Oddly, while we were sitting there-and the crowd was getting into something, it became very smoky and sweet there, let’s put it that way-we could see, straight ahead, the open-scaffolding stage,” says Kevin McElroy, who was seated near the front with his boyfriend, Peter Warrack. According to several accounts, the crowd was restless, near rioting. After it was discovered that some sound equipment had been stolen, the show was delayed. ![]() An estimated 40,000 spectators were crammed inside. Harvard Stadium had been transformed into a concert arena with the addition of rows upon rows of seats onto the field. The evening of Aug. 12, 1970, was a warm one. We are not sure of the dates of Ike & Tina’s stand at ‘The Hungry i’, but on October 4, 1970, Janis passed away in Los Angeles, aged just 27.Facebook Email Amateur photographer Peter Warrack shot photos of Janis Joplin performing at Harvard Stadium, August 12, 1970. ![]() When asked if she ever performed with Janis, she answered: “No, but Janis came and spent the last week with me before she passed.” In the interview, Tina mentions that Janis spent the last week of her life watching the revue’s shows at ‘The Hungry i’ in San Francisco.Īpparently, Janis would come to see the show several times during the week. In a 2000 Canadian radio interview on channel CHUM FM, Tina however didn’t seem to recall their duet. In 2009, this album was re-released with the opening sets of Ike & Tina and BB King, but the duet of Tina and Janis was not featured! These shows were also released as the live album ‘Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out’ in 1970. Some footage of the show appears for example in the 1970 Rolling Stones documentary ‘Gimme Shelter’. This is very strange, since these shows were taped by the Stones. While many photos of that appearance exist, no recording has surfaced as of yet. The duet apparently wasn’t planned – during Land of 1,000 Dances, Janis simply couldn’t contain herself anymore, and jumped on stage (maybe also influenced by the ‘treats’ that the Stones had for their guests backstage). Ike & Tina were one of the opening acts for the Rolling Stones, Janis was watching them from the wings. The moment that Janis had been waiting for finally came on Novem(the day after Tina’s 30th birthday), when Janis joined Ike & Tina on stage at Madison Square Garden. They did finally appear on his show in 1972. Asked who she goes to see when she wants to see a really good concert, she answers: “Tina Turner – she’s the best chick ever!” Cavett replies that he doesn’t know who Tina is, another example to illustrate the obscurity of Ike & Tina at that time. On July 18, 1969, Janis appeared on the Dick Cavett TV-show. “I was with Tina Turner when she first saw Janis Joplin, and she said to Janis, ‘Honey, you can’t continue to sing like that or you’ll have no voice ”
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