"Janis Joplin Was Such A Pig..."

It's 1987. At a gay bar in Chicago. About 10 P.M. (Early by Windy City standards.) A somewhat attractive straight dude (he made it a point to announce his "true" sexual identity) suddenly started to brag about a gang bang he had with the great Janis Joplin in 1970:

"Dude, she had pimples on her face and ass, and she loved to fuck and suck three pretty young boys at a time."

I asked him how he knew this.

"Because I screwed her twice, " he said. "She was a total pig." Then he started to flirt with a fiftysomething dude at the end of the bar, and got a screwdriver for his efforts. Around two minutes after, he followed the gay dude out to the patio.

Ten minutes later: "So, I take it you think Janis was the bomb, right?" he said, as he sat down beside me. The bartender asked him if he was ready for another hit. "Sure, my buddy will buy me whatever I want," he said. He smiled and gave me a death grin.

The bartender gave me a look. I shook my head.

"What's your fuckin' problem?" the so-called stud said. "I can get a free drink from any of these faggots in this place."

"Then why did you even bother to fuck Janis Joplin?" I asked.

"Because she was a famous dyke," he said. "She knew she was supposed to pay for being screwed by young dudes."

"That really makes a lot of sense," I said. "Tell me something: will anybody remember your name a hundred years from today?"

He gave me a practiced dazed and confused look.

"Beauty is only skin deep, dude," I said. "Janis might have had a lot of pimples, but you have zero talent. She puts you to shame. Big time. Fuck off."

Then the bartender told the crazy dude it was time for him to go, as I got up and searched for "Me and Bobby McGee" on the Juke Box: Janis started to sing, and the world was suddenly a more beautiful place.

--QP

 

Good job telling that asshole to fuck off. That's a good story. You think he was tellin the truth?

 

I just saw her psychedelic porsche... man is that far out. She had such style. So sad how things like drugs take anyones life away with no remorse. RIP Janis.

 

It's hard to say (no pun intended). But I think he was a total liar. I mean, if he was into screwing famous chicks, then what was he doing in a gay bar? And why was he coming on to older gay men?

--QP

 

Amen to that. I plan on visiting Port Arthur, Texas (her hometown) before I die. I hear a few folks are now claiming her as their very own: Too bad they didn't show her some respect while she was still alive.

--QP

 

Janis was no dyke, I knew her..she loved men, she loved them way too much. She may have experimented but she was more or less straight. It was men that hurt her to the point that she didnt care anymore. She wasnt a pig, she was a hurt and lost little angel, looking for love, like we all were.
RIP Janis.

 

This thread is stupid.

 

Nice,MS Heifer.I saw her many times in SF and SJ.She was a good one ---and the only one that could make the hair on my neck stand up when her voice went into that "double note" mode.

 

Who didn't experiment back then?

My first guy was sort of a "why not" moment when he propositioned me. Then I was soon propositioning guys or we just mutually fell into bed together. No one cared that a guy screwed guys or was being screwed by them. We even did it in groups.

Unfortunately, I never met any of the icons of the day, but by the accounts here they were the real ppl that they portrayed and were accessible.

As for the male prostitute, he sounds like a real piece of work.

 

i am sure janis joplin was blowin guys at a bar in the 10 months before she died...strangers at that

i call bullshit on the dickhead in the bar

 

janis did love men, she just had so many problems with them. who cares about her sex life, some people are just totally pitiful.

 

That just infuriates me!! Janis Joplin could have had sex with slothes in Ichicoo Park and it wouldn't change my opinion of her. She was awesome - magnificent - mind altering. God bless you Janis for the exclamation point you put on the 60's. And anyone who would take the time to share that kind of story is a coc* sucking bastard!!

 

I never met her, but I've liked her music since I was 15. I wish I could have made it to one of her concerts: her live performances were awesome. Despite all her fame, she seemed like a sad and lonely soul. Pearl is a great album.

--QP

 

Yeah, there was a lot more experimenting in the 1960s. And people weren't so much into labels. The dude in the bar was a trip and a half. I didn't believe his story about Janis, and I thought it was pathetic the way he trashed her. It was a relief when he finally left.

--QP

 

You pretty much summed it up. I think she was awesome, and a major part of the 1960s. She had such a great spirit. I think it's sad that she was only 27 when she died. Plus she died alone. Life was not kind to Janis.

--QP

 

He was obnoxious as hell. I still don't get why he thought it was cool to trash Janis. It's true he was very drunk. But that's no excuse. I guess he thought people would be impressed that he had slept with Janis. I was more disgusted than anything else, and I got the sense he wasn't telling the truth. That's why I told him to fuck off.

--QP

 

I was watching interviews of Janis today. I can't get over asshole dude. What a straight up duesh bag, that beligerent piece of shit drunk. Janis was such a good soul. I smiled today when I was watching an interview and the question was did she ever go back to Port Author, Texas. She said yeah I went back one time, and it was bummer! She smiles an adds "yeah I went back once and aint never goin back!". God Bless her

 

I'm not trying to start an argument here, but I'm actually just curious why so many people here feel that they 'know' someone like Janis Joplin. It's pretty hard to know someone from watching TV interviews and reading biographies. You're only ever getting, at best, the authorized version, so I don't really understand all the 'fuck that guy, Janis wasn't like that' comments. Sure, maybe she wasn't, and the guy at the bar was probably full of shit, but the fact remains: none of you actually knew her.

 

I only saw one person SAY they knew her. No one is telling stories they had with her. Their standing up for Janis, as it should be. She never did anything to anyone but bring good music to this earth. I mean what we can't stick up for her because we never met her? It's not like dude was saying she was a snob or anything, he said something stupid about her appearance and how she was a whore. No one needs to know anyone to speak kindly of them.

 

No, as stated earlier I didn't know Janis. But she was a contemporary of mine - she lived in the day when things were diff than they are now. Our values were more liberal in some circles and I was applying a 'zietgeist' to the asshole's take on a woman of that time.

If she fucked every guy she met and half-way liked, and gave blowjobs anonymously to the rest - that was an accepted norm of the time. Ppl by today's standards would call her a slut, but she was just doin' what a lot of us were doing in those days. I fucked girls whose name I didn't know - not a necessity to have fun sex with someone.

Perhaps the trajedy of her needs caused her to look for love in all the wrong places and she may have gotten it on with a couple of assholes in the midst of doing appreciative brothers and sisters. So, these specific portrayals are all assumptions on my part but they fit within the canvas of the times.