James Gurley was on my first real rock record I bought as a kid in '69 - Cheap Thrills. I played that one to total destruction. May he pass and rest in peace and join that ever growing band of musical giants in the sky.
Guitarist for Janis Joplin's Big Brother band dies
James Gurley, the innovative guitarist who helped shape psychedelic rock's multilayered, sometimes thundering sounds as a member of Big Brother and the Holding Company, the band that propelled Janis Joplin to fame, has died of a heart attack. He was 69.
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