You're cherry-picking quotes. The whole point of him saying what he liked about Janis was that he didn't like Big Brother & the Holding Company, both as a style

You're cherry-picking quotes. The whole point of him saying what he liked about Janis was that he didn't like Big Brother & the Holding Company, both as a style/concept and as musicians. The article is also full of quotes from Crumb himself saying how he didn't really like the hippie movement overall, even though he liked certain things about it, and the general impression is that no, he did not really feel connected with many of his own fans and fans of Big Brother.