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Yeah. Yeah. Mhm. Mhm. Yeah. Yeah. Mhm. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Thinking around me. Mhm. Yes. And on me I gotta go,

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okay, everybody come and sit down, sit down boys. Here we are, sitting down almost honey. Yes. Fantastic. Mhm. Uh huh. Who thought of and where did you get the name? Big Brother and the holding company? Well it came from a whole list of names. Uh One

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name was uh Town Swift and his electric grandmother uh naked lunch. And uh so we picked the name called the holding company. And then we had a manager who later selected Big Brother and the holding company and then we fired the manager right came up separately.

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Uh We just pieced them together and everyone has told us you know the name has been so good and groovy yet. It really doesn't mean accept anything to us except for a name Janice. You have broken it up at uh every place from the synonym street

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fair to the Avalon ballroom. But you particularly seemed to far more related when the people at the Monterey Jazz Festival jumped to their feet and started dancing and climbed on top of their chairs. Why there what was the difference? Well, it's of course it's a group,

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you play in every one of those places and every one of us to turn on in his own your own way. But we played the Avalon a lot of times and those are like really are people. And playing the jazz festival is really the first time

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that we've ever played for that kind of an audience like those are grown ups, you know, those aren't, those aren't teenyboppers, those are really growing up people, they're like thirties, forties, you know, they're really growing up and when they stood up and started dancing it was

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like everybody in the world could dig us. It was really a thrilling thing. Like, you know, like kids can dig us and I can understand them, I can relate to them. I know where they're at, you know what I mean? But I don't understand those people

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and I didn't really expect that enthusiastic response from them and when they gave it to it was just, well, the most fantastic thing ever. I just, I was dancing on the stage. I just couldn't stand still. It was fine. The new thing today is all called

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rock music, but within that category there are a lot of differences. We have your thoughts about music today. You just can't classify the music anymore because it's absorbing from so many different things and it's what's called rock music now has become a very broad thing. It's

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just the rock music itself is just two words. But the music itself is a very big thing now, especially with the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and groups like that when Peter and I were together was we started playing blues and hard rock sort of Rolling

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Stones kind of a thing. Played traditional blues, down on me was one of the first songs we had and uh just very, very ordinary chord changes, 12 bar blues very hard and up tempo as opposed to like country joe is more into a very thought out,

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kind of almost almost symphonic, very cerebral music moves and it's got a lot of soul, it's also got a lot of sex to it. Furthermore. We feel that sometimes we're like, like a lot of stars have been told they were sex symbols and we try to

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like do our thing, playing music is part of like going through and and being sensual and it's essential. Most essential. We get more movement, we get, we feel like we're hitting an audience that really digs it. Is there a san Francisco sound? And if so what

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is it? And how did it start? The thing that makes this, what they call the san Francisco music scene as far as I'm concerned is like first of all, the freedom to create here. You know, for some reason, like a lot of musicians ended up here

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and ended up together and we had complete freedom to do whatever they wanted to until they came up with their own kind of music. What do you think? Sam? Uh huh Hey, that's what we call love music beaver