There are lots of exciting things happening for Big Brother & the Holding Company

·        SONY Records has recently released Box of Pearls, featuring the band's Mainstream and Cheap Thrills albums with bonus recordings, with liner notes by Sam Andrew. Live at Winterland 1968 was released by SONY last year. Legend Records in France has released a CD documenting rehearsal sessions of the band from the early 70's.

·        There are at least three films in the works about Janis Joplin and one or all of them will reach the theaters this year. John Cooke and Alice Echols have written books center on Janis, Big Brother and those wild years they had together. Jeanne-Martine Vacher has published Sur La Route de Janis Joplin, probably the best writing on Janis' career thus far.

·        Big Brother's latest studio album "Do What You Love" is being distributed nationally and selling well at shows

·        Big Brother tunes "Combination of the Two" and "Ball and Chain" were featured prominently in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, starring Johnny Depp. Bringing Out the Dead, a Martin Scorsese-Nicholas Cage film also features "Combination of the Two"

·        There are numerous television shows currently running about Janis and Big Brother, including BBC, VH-1 and E-Channel.

·        Big Brother was the feature cover story in both Goldmine and Discoveries Magazines in l998.

·        Big Brother has entered the school and art cinema market with a series of videos and lecture/question sessions. This has been presented at Columbia University in New York, Marquette University in Milwaukee and at the Lark and Roxie Theaters in the San Francisco Bay Area.

·        Sam Andrew is the music director of Love, Janis, a play based on Janis' letters home. The play has been mounted in Denver, Austin, Cleveland, Chicago and it will soon go on to New York and London.

·        The band is actively touring the States as well as Internationally - Russia, Japan, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Mexico and Canada. Big Brother was featured at Rockin in the Rockies and MagnoliaFest Music Festivals in 1999 and are planning European Festival dates for the summer of 2000.

The current lineup consists of original band members Peter Albin, Sam Andrew, and David Getz. The band has been actively touring since reforming back in l987. The backbone of Big Brother & the Holding Company remains its solid rhythm section and signature psychedelic blues guitar.Bay Area guitarist Tom Finch has been with the band for the last three years and vocals have been shared by some very talented ladies, including Lisa Mills, Halley Devestern, Lisa Battle, Cathy Richardson, and Andra Mitrovich, the latter two starring in the play Love, Janis.

Big Brother & the Holding Company were pioneers of the music scene in the San Francisco bay area before Janis joined the band and had two successful albums after she left - "Be A Brother" and "How Hard It Is". Reviews of SONY releases finally credit the band's contribution to launching Joplin's career and acknowledge they were probably the best band she ever sang with. Sam, David and Peter are all involved with promotion for shows and have conducted hundreds of telephone and television interviews.