On this day in 1967 Janis Joplin appeared at the Monterey Pop Festival and blew our collective minds. I didn’t see that concert but in 1970 the Festival Express rolled across Canada. My girlfriend Sandy McNutt and I didn’t have tickets but we went down to Exhibition Place in Toronto and stood by the cops backstage and had a limited view of the concert. When Janis finally came on the cops took pity on us and let us through and we got to see her from the front row. I’ll never forget it.
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