For the teenaged Joplin fan, the whole experience had been somewhat overwhelming. “We didn’t stick around for the concert,” Harris admits. He felt she was getting in the way of his performance.”Īlmost unbelievably, Harris and Vega left the Swing before Joplin and her band took the stage. “She did her scream and everybody laughed,” Harris says. The audience couldn’t see Joplin, but they soon heard her. That must have gone over well, because the pair talked at some length - “she was very nice and soft-spoken” - and later walked out to the side of the stage as Michaels performed. Harris told Joplin she was thinner than she looked in photos.
“I’m better than that, aren’t I?” Joplin asked her friends, who assured the famously insecure singer that she was. Opening act Lee Michaels could be heard from the backstage area. Harris didn’t normally drink but took a sip to be polite. Joplin sat down and passed around a bottle of her favorite liqueur, Southern Comfort.
“We never thought we’d get to meet her,” Harris recalls, still a little awestruck. Harris and Vega joined them and were struck by their friendliness. They were shown to a lounge, where the singer was nowhere in evidence but eight or so of her friends were seated in a circle on the floor, talking. He knew the good-looking Vega and, perhaps to impress her, asked the two if they’d like to go backstage.
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