Janis itâs a shame you couldnât do an up tune for us but I liked that one.
Later in the show.
Yeah, maybe later weâll be talking too. youâre really shot after, after a number, let alone a whole evening I would think.
Yeah, yeah.
You tell me you kind of collapse after a show ?
Well, Iâm used to it because Iâm so turned on by doing one that itâs hard to do, itâs hard to stop after one to tell you the truth, because it just makes you wanna do more.
Your engine is revved up ?
Yeah, sort of!
I know all the hip expressions, you see. your engine is revved up.
Youâre a real swinger, I can tell by your shoes, man!
Wait a minute, janis, janis. these were good enough for my grand-father, theyâre good enough for me.
I had a lot of trouble, last week i, er, it wasnât that tune, we opened with another tune and I tore a muscle.
I heard about this. you tore a mussel somewhere near maryland. er ...
It was closer to home than that!
Well, er ...
But I played forty minutes, man! I did forty minutes!
Yeah, but how do you, how do you tear a muscle singing, was it from the exhaustion or ...
No, I went ... like that.
You actually, literally tore a muscle ... I mean like that ...
Every time, it hurt.
Could you feel it go ?
Yeah.
Phew!
Yeah.
What do they do, do they set a muscle or do they tape you up or something ?
They told me to keep still.
Janis you wrote that tune that you were just singing like we just agreed to ask about. you er, you wrote the first tune, right ?
I wrote the first tune. itâs, er, yes I did, itâs about men.
Itâs about men. itâs a little hard to tell what it was about âcause I was standing over there where the sound is a little distorted.
Well in my story thatâs what it is anyway.
Yeah.
Dâyou ever see those mule carts ?
Yeah.
They, er, thereâs a dumb mule on there right and a long stick with a string and a carrot, and it hangs over the muleâs nose, and it runs after it all day long. some ...
Who is the man in this, in this parable, the mule, or the person holding the carrot ?
No, the woman is the, is the mule. chasing something that somebodyâs holds her way.
Constantly chasing her man ...
Yeah.
... who always eludes her.
Well, they always hold something more than theyâre prepared to give.
I have to defend my entire sex, ladies and gentlemen! the burden of the defense.
Go right ahead!
Well, one-arm wrestling I can take you two out of three.
I hope so.
Do you, er, do you actually sit down when you get up in the morning and, and write out a song, or do you . . . when you say you write it, you compose it you write it on a paper.
You just make it up, I donât write songs, I make them up.
They donât exist on paper your songs, donât they ?
Sometimes I just write down the words so I donât forget âem, but I mean I donât write songs, thatâs a whole different concept. I just make âem up.
Yeah. did you ever get back to port arthur, texas ?
No, but Iâm going back next in august, man. and guess what Iâm doinâ ?
I donât know.
Iâm going to my 10th annual high school reunion.
Oh! oh! take movies and bring âem back to show us, will you ?
Hey would you like to go ?
Well, I donât remember, I donât have any friends in your high school class.
I donât either. I donât either, believe me.
You donât either ?
Itâs hard going, man!
Werenât you a kind of a, werenât you kind of a business administration major or something in high school. no, itâs something in your past. you were ...
No, I worked.
Yeah.
But a high school major in art does have plenty of time.
Yeah. and do you think youâll have a lot to say to your old high-school classmates ?
I donât have a lot, man.
You were not surrounded by friends in high school ?
They laughed me out of class, out of town, and out of state, man.
Hmm ...
Somethinâ goinâ on.
Thank you.
Thank you.