
BIG BROTHER: STARKER ABGANG MIT HOW HARD IT IS
Jens-Uwe BerndtTeilen
Vor 50 Jahren veröffentlichten Big Brother & The Holding Company ihr viertes und letztes Studio-Album. Zu Unrecht ging es völlig unter (US-LP-Charts #157). Aber die Zeit mit Janis Joplin, mit der die Band immer noch in Verbindung gebracht wurde, wirkte weiter nach. Dabei war HOW HARD IT IS ein wirklich starkes Album, auf dem Big Brother sehr selbstbewusst aufspielten, Quicksilver Messenger Service (Titelsong) streiften, The Band zuwinkten (“Black Widow Spider“), Blues, Funk und Soul verarbeiteten und sich mit “Promise Her Anything But Give Her Arpeggio“ einen vierminütigen Instrumental-Gag erlaubten und damit irgendwo zischen dem Balkan und Moskau herauskamen. Es sei hier an dieses Stück Vinyl erinnert und zur Wiederentdeckung empfohlen.
50 years ago Big Brother & The Holding Company released their fourth and last studio album. Unjustly, it went completely under (US LP chart #157). But the time with Janis Joplin, with whom the band was still associated, continued to have an effect. HOW HARD IT IS was a really strong album, on which Big Brother played very self-confidently, touched on Quicksilver Messenger Service (title song), waved at The Band ("Black Widow Spider"), processed Blues, Funk and Soul and allowed themselves a four-minute instrumental gag with "Promise Her Anything But Give Her Arpeggio" and thus came out somewhere between the Balkans and Moscow. It is here that this piece of vinyl is remembered and recommended for rediscovery.
50 years ago Big Brother & The Holding Company released their fourth and last studio album. Unjustly, it went completely under (US LP chart #157). But the time with Janis Joplin, with whom the band was still associated, continued to have an effect. HOW HARD IT IS was a really strong album, on which Big Brother played very self-confidently, touched on Quicksilver Messenger Service (title song), waved at The Band ("Black Widow Spider"), processed Blues, Funk and Soul and allowed themselves a four-minute instrumental gag with "Promise Her Anything But Give Her Arpeggio" and thus came out somewhere between the Balkans and Moscow. It is here that this piece of vinyl is remembered and recommended for rediscovery.