Big Brother and the Holding Company

Big Brother and the Holding Company was a garage rock band from the San Francisco Bay Area best known for being the starting point for blues legend Janis Joplin. They were also a part of the Haight-Ashbury sound going on at the time. Being from the Bay Area, they performed at the Monterey Pop Festival of 1967. It was with Big Brother that Joplin had most of her well-known hits, which would become classic rock staples later on. Unfortunately, most are often credited to just her. After leaving Big Brother, Joplin would have some success before her death at the age of 27, most notably a famous performance at the Woodstock Festival of 1969. She is a member of the "27 Club", a group that also includes Buddy Holly, Jimi Hendrix, and Jim Morrison of The Doors. This would later become an obsession of Kurt Cobain of Nirvana, leading to his ultimate suicide at the same age. Only Janis Joplin has been inducted into the actual Hall of Fame, although Big Brother has been considered in the past.