Online Auction: Janice Joplin’s 1920s-Era Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co. 9’ Table

[Korsakoff]

A pool table once owned by rocker Janis Joplin is now up for auction.

Coinciding with what would have been Joplin’s 81st birthday on Friday, January 19, Julien’s Auctions announced the launch of an auction of the rocker’s personally owned 9’ pool table, made by Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co. in the 1920s.

That pool table has been in Joplin’s home in Larkspur, California, since 1969 and was featured in an August 1970 issue of Rolling Stone that accompanied a review of her January 1970 concert at Freedom Hall in Louisville, Kentucky.

Whoever purchases the pool table will be getting it directly from Joplin’s former home, where it currently resides in the same room it did when the rocker was alive.

The auction is happening online through Monday, January 29, with the pool table estimated to sell for between $10,000 and $20,000.

Pictures of the table (and a couple good ones of Janice) can be found here:

https://www.julienslive.com/lot-det...05/janis-joplin-personally-owned-pool-table-1

 

[garczar]

If only table stains could talk.

 

[Benelli]

Clearly she did not care about her game or it would have Simonis 860HR in tournament blue already...

Just saying.

 

[Benelli]

If only table stains could talk.

that cloth is probably one big blotter sheet...

 

[garczar]

Clearly she did not care about her game or it would have Simonis 860HR in tournament blue already...

Just saying.

Hers would be paisley with big marijuana leaves.

 

[Jedco]

Janis Joplin's 1920's pool table expect to sell for $20,000 in auction

Janis Joplin's vintage 1920 pool table she played in her CA home goes up for auction and is expected to sell for up to $20,000.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[Brookeland Bill]

Her and Bobby Magee. My wife went to school with her sister Laura In Pt. Arthur Texas. Pt Arthur was and still is an oil refining town. Blue collar. Janice just didn’t fit in with the crowd. Rather obvious.

 

[ibuycues]

If she were still with us she would be 81. She died in 1970 when she was 27.
Will Prout

 

[3kushn]

If she were still with us she would be 81. She died in 1970 when she was 27.
Will Prout

Wonder why folks are so eager to disparage her and other Masters of music of her time.
Jimi Hendrix comes to mind.

Yep, They did Drugs
So What
Also a shame for sure.

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[garczar]

Damn, 27 was one unlucky age for the music biz: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/27_Club

 

[garczar]

Wonder why folks are so eager to disparage her and other Masters of music of her time.
Jimi Hendrix comes to mind.

Yep, They did Drugs
So What
Also a shame for sure.

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Don't disparage her just can't stand her singing. Great band tho. The 'Mercedes-Benz song' to me is like someone raking their nails on a chalkboard.

 

[Korsakoff]

Wonder why folks are so eager to disparage her and other Masters of music of her time.
Jimi Hendrix comes to mind.

Yep, They did Drugs
So What
Also a shame for sure.

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Speaking of Jimi Hendrix...

On January 17th, 1967, The Jimi Hendrix Experience ran up a bar tab of $6.21 which they were unable to pay. How did they get out of the tab? No idea!

I do know the band wouldn't have any problem paying that tab just a few months later when they released their debut album, Are You Experienced. Crazy what a few months can do.

 

[g0ds gReeN]

Very cool.

 

[GoldCrown]

Rather have a Diamond or GC.
Saw her in Phila at the Electric Factory when she was new. Could not wait to leave. She was screaming her brains out... I mean singing.

 

[tomatoshooter]

Don't disparage her just can't stand her singing. Great band tho. The 'Mercedes-Benz song' to me is like someone raking their nails on a chalkboard.

I like her stuff but wholeheartedly agree that Mercedes Benz song is awful.

10-20K seems like a decent deal. You get to own a piece of history for (maybe) the price of a new table.

 

[Brookeland Bill]

She like drinking Boones Farm or Annie Greensprings rot-gut wine in the 60’s-70’s. An acquired taste.

 

[Quesports]

Janis is one of a long line of rockers that left us at the age of 27.

Twenty Seven, what is it about 27?

My best friend died at 27 from shooting heroin in 79. Two months before he passed I told him he would die if he kept on doing what he was doing. He got angry at me and we never spoke again. After his funeral I went to pay his tab at the bar we used to hang out in. Johnny the owner refused my money and shook my hand and told me, " I always knew you were his only true friend." Our mutual friend Jack Flaherty was with me and we had a shot and a beer to his passing. I got married at 27 and left that town for good after that event! It was time to move on...

The 27 Club: A Brief History

From Robert Johnson to Anton Yeltsin, 20 members of the 27 Club, stars who passed away at 27.

www.rollingstone.com

 

[tomatoshooter]

Twenty Seven, what is it about 27?

I think it's because by 27 these artists have got the money and people around them to indulge in increasingly destructive habits. If they don't get a handle on themselves, it's when the habits get the best of them. If you make it past that, you have probably figured out how to manage your habits. Still weird how often it seems to strike at 27, not 25 or 28. Wikipedia says there is no statistical spike so maybe we don't remember the people who died at 26. If you make it to 30, I think you're out of the woods.

 

[bbb]

Janis is one of a long line of rockers that left us at the age of 27.

Twenty Seven, what is it about 27?

My best friend died at 27 from shooting heroin in 79. Two months before he passed I told him he would die if he kept on doing what he was doing. He got angry at me and we never spoke again. After his funeral I went to pay his tab at the bar we used to hang out in. Johnny the owner refused my money and shook my hand and told me, " I always knew you were his only true friend." Our mutual friend Jack Flaherty was with me and we had a shot and a beer to his passing. I got married at 27 and left that town for good after that event! It was time to move on...

The 27 Club: A Brief History

From Robert Johnson to Anton Yeltsin, 20 members of the 27 Club, stars who passed away at 27.

www.rollingstone.com

Condolences on the loss of your friend

 

[Quesports]

Condolences on the lost of your friend

Thank you sir. We met when we were 10 year olds

His older brother Todd was a bad boy type. Car theif, junkie all around bad guy but the gals loved him. He got beat to death in San Francisco after stealing heroin from a dealer. They dumped him in the bay.

Russy emulated his brother and wanted to be just like him. I saw Russy the last time we spoke and his pupils were pinned. I knew he was using and warned him if he kept it up he’d end up just as dead as Todd. Two months later he od’d and drowned in his own vomit.

He could have had it all. His Dad was one of the most successful fishermen in Gloucester. He tried everything to help him but all he wanted was to get drunk and high..

Such a waste!