We wanted to let you all know about a great experience we had yesterday afternoon in a little studio in Sausalito .  

At the world famous Studio D, owned by Joel Jaffe, we were lucky enough to meet Japanese pop sensation "Superfly".  Now for those of you who don't know of her - let me tell you - one word - SOULFUL!    Superfly has already found huge success in Japan and in doing so has been able to try a lot of different projects.  She has performed with the Australian band JET with a great single called "I Spy, I Spy".  Check it out on YouTube.

Music On!, the Japanese version of VH1 & MTV was doing a documentary on Superfly and contacted us because Janis was a big influence on her music.  They wanted to know if Superfly could come to San Francisco and meet us as part of this documentary being filmed.  We agreed because "Hey we all like pretty girls".  No really we heard some of her new music and it was very good and we thought why not.  Sam started out meeting Superfly at a few old haunts that we all used to hang out at with Janis.  Sam took her around town to art galleries that feature Janis' works as well as the last home in Larkspur that Janis lived at.  We even got to go inside and film as the house is currently up for sale and vacant.  

After spending the whole morning showing our new friend around Marin county it was time to have some real fun.  Keep in mind that our Japanese is very limited and Superfly's English is also limited but with the help of some great go betweens we managed to convince her to go to the studio with us and play live for a few hours.  This little girl can sing!  You don't expect this big voice to come out of a tiny 24 year old girl - but boy did she bring it.  We played "Piece Of My Heart", "Summertime" and "Down On Me" with her and did multiple takes in different keys and arrangements just so we could keep playing with her.  She's a real trooper hanging in there until after 8:00 PM last night and singing her ass off!

While we can't say if anything will ever become of the tracks we recorded, at some point down the road we'd love to let you all hear them.  Perhaps after the television special airs in Japan we can release them here on MySpace so you can have a listen.  It was a very magical 5+ hours in the studio with Superfly and we hope she had as much fun as we did.  

We've invited her to come back over to the US next summer and sing with us live again at a future festival show.  We'd love to go to Japan and perform with her as well but we'll see what happens.  All in all it was just a great day with a bunch of great people.

Special thanks to Kaz and Natsuko for approaching us with the idea and to Endo, Kikuchi, Aki and Tabata and all the rest of the crew for helping to make a great day for us.  

And for sure a very special thank you to Superfly!  We had a great time and would welcome you back to our town any time to sing again.  Your a very special singer with a very soulful, powerful, energetic voice.  You have a great hippie vibe and your a beautiful person to be around.  We wish you nothing but great success in the future and we hope our roads will meet again one day.

Sam, Peter & Dave
Big Brother & The Holding Co.

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