On the Road with Janis Joplin (40 page)

On the day we’re filming, Janis arrives after the others
:
Studio scene and dialogue:
Comin’ Home
(video), by Chris Hegedus and D. A. Pennebaker, 1991.

“It was very hard to work with John Simon”
:
Author interview with David Getz, July 24, 1997.

“I always felt that the studio recording was stifling”
:
Author interview with Peter Albin, July 19, 1997.

A few people in New York who care about rock music
:
Graham and Greenfield,
Bill Graham Presents
, 229.

Together, Graham and Monck have pulled off a miracle
:
Graham and Greenfield, 230–234.

Big Brother headlines the opening night, with Albert King
:
Albert King was not related to the better-known B. B. King, but the two legendary blues guitarists came from the same part of Mississippi, where they were born two and a half years apart, Albert in 1923 and B.B. (Riley B. King) in 1925. B.B. wrote of Albert in his autobiography, “He wasn’t my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues” (cascadeblues.org).

The manager of the Anderson prints counterfeit tickets
:
Graham and Greenfield,
Bill Graham Presents
, 235.

Among Graham’s ushers, clad in an orange jumpsuit, is Robert Mapplethorpe
:
Patti Smith,
Just Kids
, New York: Ecco, 2010.

Myra’s greatest coup is arranging
:
Laura Joplin,
Love, Janis
, 221, letter dated April 4, 1968.

For a guarantee of $6,000 against 50 percent of the gross over $12,000
:
Author’s copy of Electric Factory contract.

The next day, they’re back in Columbia’s Studio E
:
These titles, recorded in Studio E on April 1, 1968, are on Janis’s posthumous CD
Farewell Song
. Columbia CK 37569.

Backstage on opening night
:
Jazz & Pop
magazine, May 1968, 34.

CHAPTER 11

“We don’t want to be connected with anti-anydamnthing”
:
Scully and Dalton,
Living with the Dead
, 147.

On Saturday, U.S. troops guard the Capitol Building
:
Theodore White,
The Making of the President 1968
, New York: Atheneum, 1969, 209.

On Sunday, April 21, the New York Times publishes an article
:
Nat Hentoff,
The New York Times
, April 21, 1968, section II, 17, 19.

“Janis was as together in the studio as anyone”
:
Elliot Mazer, quoted in Laura Joplin,
Love, Janis
, 223–224.

Howard Hesseman and Carl Gottlieb have made the acquaintance
:
Author interview with Howard Hesseman, August 8, 1997.

By Howard’s account, Jim took hold of Janis by the hair
:
Author interview with Howard Hesseman, August 8, 1997.

Garry Goodrow’s old lady, Annie
:
Author interview with Garry Goodrow, October 17, 1973, at which Annie was present.

David Crosby, of the Byrds, has hung out with the drunk Morrison
:
David Crosby and Carl Gottlieb,
Long Time Gone: The Autobiography of David Crosby
, New York: Doubleday, 1988, 124–125.

As Howard and Carl beat their retreat
:
Author interview with Howard Hesseman, August 8, 1997.

At one point, Janis and Linda were lifted off their feet
:
Author interview with Linda Gravenites, May 9, 1986.

South Dakota holds its primary
:
White,
The Making of the President 1968
, 182.

In the piece that’s new to me, the actors take a question
:
Author interview with Alan Myerson, September 27, 1997.

His weekly Letter from America for the BBC this week
:
Alistair Cooke,
Letter from America
, June 7, 1968.

He counseled Bobby against challenging Gene McCarthy
:
White,
The Making of the President 1968
, 163–164.

CHAPTER 12

“John Simon and I talked in the last few years”
:
Author interview with David Getz, July 24, 1997.

Where Warner Brothers mogul Jack Warner used to eat in anonymity
:
Jean Stein, “West of Eden,”
The New Yorker
, February 23/March 2, 1998 (double issue), 166–167.

“dope, sex, and cheap thrills”
:
It is my belief that the now better-known phrase “Drugs, sex, and rock and roll” did not come into use in the sixties. To accept that I am wrong, I will need to see the phrase in print, with a sixties dateline.

“I couldn’t possibly do that”
:
Author interview with Bob Gordon, May 10, 1986.

Threadgill and Wein have a friend
:
Author interview with Robert L. Jones, of George Wein’s Festival Productions, June 3, 1997.

Two years ago, the festival board almost rejected
:
Author interview with Robert L. Jones, June 3, 1997.

This year’s Newport program booklet
:
1968 Newport Folk Festival program booklet, 17.

This year, B. B. King is getting $1,000
:
Author’s notes made at the time on Newport festival program; author interview with Robert L. Jones, June 3, 1997.

At Newport, Janis and Geoff fall in together
:
Author interviews with Geoff Muldaur, May 5, 1997, and January 3, 1998.

He responded positively to a suggestion by Grossman
:
Author conversation with Sally Grossman, July 2, 2014.

He invited Joan to appear at the Gate of Horn
:
Joan Baez,
And a Voice to Sing With
, New York: Summit/Simon & Schuster, 1987, 58–61.

Albert held out the lure of a recording contract
:
Baez,
And a Voice to Sing With
, 58, 61–62.

Soon after Big Brother comes offstage
:
Author interview with Peter Albin, May 8, 1986.

Albert says, “Something’s just not happening”
:
Author interview with Peter Albin, May 8, 1986.

CHAPTER 13

“I love those guys more than anybody else in the whole world”
:
Janis Joplin, quoted in David Dalton,
Piece of My Heart: A Portrait of Janis Joplin
, New York: Da Capo, 134–135.

“I think from Monterey on”
:
Author interview with David Getz, July 24, 1997.

When the others leave, Sam stays behind
:
Author interview with Sam Andrew, October 18, 1973.

As we travel from city to city he helps her think
:
Author interview with Sam Andrew, October 7, 1973.

It goes gold in three days
:
Laura Joplin,
Love, Janis
, 237, letter dated September 28, 1968. Based on time and event references in the letter, much of it was written at least four to five days earlier.

“See, Albert deals in sensible things”
:
Author interview with Nick Gravenites, December 7, 1973.

“[Albert] doesn’t direct me”
:
Janis Joplin, quoted in Laura Joplin,
Love, Janis
, 276.

Lip-readers interpret Daley’s response
:
Todd Gitlin,
The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage
, Toronto: Bantam Books, 1987, 334.

Three weeks earlier, in Miami Beach
:
Norman Mailer,
Miami and the Siege of Chicago
, New York: Primus, 80.

“I always have a sense of history”
:
E-mail from Sam Andrew, April 2, 2011.

On an expedition to Beverly Hills
:
Laura Joplin,
Love, Janis
, 227, undated letter.

In a letter home, Janis alerts her family
:
Laura Joplin,
Love, Janis
, 238, letter dated September 28, 1968.

Where everyone in the band but Peter Albin
:
Author interview with David Getz, July 24, 1997.

After the concert, the Joplins experience firsthand
:
Laura Joplin,
Love, Janis
, 240–241.

CHAPTER 14

“It has to do with a certain self-abnegation”
:
Author interview with Nick Gravenites, December 7, 1973.

“I actually found Janis’s Porsche for her”
:
Author interviews with Bob Gordon, May 10, 1986, and September 10, 1997.

We fly to Memphis two days ahead of the Stax-Volt gig
:
Details of the Memphis rehearsal, party, and concert from Bill King, “Janis: Memphis Meltdown,” 1995, unpublished; posted to allaboutjazz.com, October 2009; and Stanley Booth, “The Memphis Debut of the Janis Joplin Revue,”
Rolling Stone
, February 1, 1969, 1, 4.

We considered names for the new band
:
Laura Joplin,
Love, Janis
, 246.

When Janis sees a poster for the Stax-Volt show
:
King, “Janis: Memphis Meltdown.”

Mark Braunstein and George Ostrow have worked with the equipment
:
Author interview with Mark Braunstein, September 7, 1997.

Inferior men are rising to positions of power
:
Richard Wilhelm,
The I Ching, or Book of Changes
, English translation by Cary F. Baynes, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1967, 93–96.

To everything there is a season
:
Book of Ecclesiastes; adaptation and music by Pete Seeger.

CHAPTER 15

“I had never even heard of Janis Joplin”
:
Author interview with Richard Kermode, January 25, 1974.

Sam Andrew comes off the stage unsure
:
E-mail from Sam Andrew, January 3, 1999.

“Miss Joplin has never been better”
:
Michael Lydon,
The New York Times Magazine
, Sunday, February 23, 1969, section VI. The
Times
review of Janis’s February 11 debut at Fillmore East is quoted in a sidebar to this piece.

The writer is Michael Lydon, a Bay Area freelancer
:
The New York Times Magazine
, February 23, 1969, 39.

“Rumors had come from New York, where she debuted”
:
Robb Baker,
Chicago Tribune
, March 9, 1969, A6.

He shook my hand!
:
Laura Joplin,
Love, Janis
, 250.

The latest edition of Rolling Stone
:
Laura Joplin,
Love, Janis
, 246.

“Lots of people don’t want their stars to change”
:
Author interview with Jon McIntire, May 8, 1986.

CHAPTER 16

“Don’t you know how happy we must be?”
:
Tape recording by Bob Neuwirth, Albert Hall, April 21, 1969.

I figure if you take an audience
:
Janis Joplin, quoted in Dalton,
Piece of My Heart
, 162–164.

“Do you prefer it?”
:
Tape recording by Bob Neuwirth, Albert Hall, April 21, 1969.

“I’m so excited!”
:
Tape recording by Bob Neuwirth, April 21, 1969.

In Janis’s suite, the presence of old friends
:
Account of events in Janis’s room from author interview with Bob Seidemann, August 12, 1997.

CHAPTER 17

Janis and Sam get word that Nancy Gurley
:
Author interviews with David Getz, July 24, 1997, and Sam Andrew, April 23, 1997.

She will contribute to the legal fees
:
Author interview with Bob Gordon, May 10, 1986.

“I felt the [new band] was constantly trying too hard”
:
Author interview with Mark Braunstein, September 9, 1997.

“Every now and then a guitarist will still come up to me”
:
Author interview with Sam Andrew, July 27, 1997.

Sam has known Albert longest
:
Author interview with Sam Andrew, October 18, 1973.

Not long after this confrontation, on another evening at the Landmark
:
Paul Liberatore,
Marin Independent Journal
, July 14, 2006, interview with Sam Andrew.

Walking across the patio by the pool
:
Author interview with Richard Kermode, January 25, 1974.

“Janis was like this complete person”
:
Author interview with Linda Gravenites, May 9, 1986.

John Till is a Canadian who shares musical credentials
:
E-mail from John Till, March 26, 2004.