CHAPTER 1
“I remember Janis took to you right away, man”: Author interview with Sam Andrew, October 18, 1973.
CHAPTER 2
“I eat a persimmon”: Robert Penn Warren, All the King’s Men, Boston: Mariner Books, 1996, 331.
When whisperings of the Monterey Pop Festival reached Gleason’s ears: Author interview with Ralph J. Gleason, October 2, 1973.
“Big Brother and the Holding Company and Janis were on the Pop Festival because”: Author interview with Ralph J. Gleason, October 2, 1973.
Five days before the festival began: Ralph J. Gleason, San Francisco Chronicle, Sunday, June 11, 1967, This World magazine, 34.
Altschuler said thanks but no thanks: Author interview with D. A. Pennebaker, June 3, 1997.
“Oh, groovy. A nice sound system at last”: Monterey Pop, Monterey International Pop Festival, Inc., 1968, D. A. Pennebaker, director.
Denny, still nursing his wounds, has not yet arrived in Monterey: The Mamas & the Papas: Straight Shooter (video), Rhino Home Video, 1988.
“It’s a Mexican standoff, typical of the yawning gulf between L.A. and San Francisco”: Rock Scully and David Dalton, Living with the Dead, Boston: Little, Brown, 1996, 102–103.
CHAPTER 3
The evening performances are sold out: Ralph J. Gleason, San Francisco Chronicle, June 11, 1967, This World magazine, 34.
One girl has hitchhiked from Champaign, Illinois: Monterey Pop, D. A. Pennebaker, director.
Over the course of the weekend: Ralph J. Gleason, San Francisco Chronicle, June 19, 1967, “On the Town” column.
“So much of Monterey had nothing to do with logistics or planning”: Bill Graham and Robert Greenfield, Bill Graham Presents, New York: Dell, 1992, 189, 193–194.
“Sittin’ down by my window / Just lookin’ out at the rain”: Willie Mae Thornton, “Ball and Chain.”
“Wow. Wow! That’s really heavy!”: Mama Cass, in Monterey Pop, D. A. Pennebaker, director.
By the account of one insider, Julius refuses to discuss business: Author interview with San Francisco photographer Bob Seidemann, August 12, 1997.
John L. Wasserman, film critic for the San Francisco Chronicle, said in his review of Dont Look Back: John L. Wasserman, San Francisco Chronicle, May 17, 1967.
“Don’t worry,” Albert said: Author interview with D. A. Pennebaker, June 3, 1997.
On Sunday morning, Chief Marinello sends home half the officers: Ralph J. Gleason, San Francisco Chronicle, June 21, 1967, “On the Town” column.
A plan to have bagsful of the festival’s signature pink orchids: Author interview with Peter Pilafian, September 16, 1997.
Finally Shankar holds up his arms and the audience quiets: Ralph J. Gleason, San Francisco Chronicle, June 21, 1967, “On the Town” column.
“The best time of all was Monterey”: Janis Joplin, quoted in Laura Joplin, Love, Janis, New York: Villard, 1992, 241.
They trash the same amp at every show: Ralph J. Gleason, San Francisco Chronicle, June 21, 1967, “On the Town” column.
“I saw Owsley give him two of his little purple tabs”: Author interview with Peter Pilafian, September 16, 1997.
“I saw him take, literally, a handful of Owsley tabs”: Author interview with Bob Seidemann, August 12, 1997.
“I thought that [Monterey] just cut the whole scene wide open”: Author interview with Peter Pilafian, September 16, 1997.
“My idea of a good festival, the best festival of all time, was Monterey”: Grace Slick, quoted in Graham and Greenfield, Bill Graham Presents, 189.
“The first annual Monterey International Pop Festival this weekend was a beautiful, warm, groovy affair”: Ralph J. Gleason, San Francisco Chronicle, June 19, 1967, “On the Town” column.
“I thought [Joe Val] was a really good steady guy, and a good musician”: Author interview with Peter Berg, December 7, 1997.
CHAPTER 5
Chet’s out-of-hand dismissal of Shad’s interest: Author interview with Sam Andrew, December 3, 1997.
“I have a problem,” she wrote: Janis Joplin, quoted in Laura Joplin, Love, Janis, 161–162, letter dated August 22, 1966. In this letter, and in others Laura quotes in her book, there is evidence that Janis would write a letter over several days and date it when she mailed it. In this case, Janis evidently began the letter at least a week before Big Brother left California for Chicago, where their gig at Mother Blues began on Tuesday, August 23.
Paul gathered several musicians in a living room in Berkeley: Author interviews with Paul Rothchild, March 19, 1974, and Sam Andrew, July 27, 1997.
In San Francisco, Paul Rothchild and I tried to recruit Janis Joplin for Elektra: Jac Holzman and Gavan Daws, Follow the Music: The Life and High Times of Elektra Records in the Great Years of American Pop Music, Santa Monica, Calif.: First Media, 1998, 157.
In the letter to her parents, Janis expressed another doubt: Janis Joplin, quoted in Laura Joplin, Love, Janis, 162.
Janis told the boys about Paul Rothchild’s offer through Taken aback by Peter’s onslaught, Janis gave in: Author interviews with David Getz, July 24, 1997, and Sam Andrew, December 3, 1997.
At her next meeting with Paul Rothchild: Author interview with Paul Rothchild, March 19, 1974.
She wrote her parents: Laura Joplin, Love, Janis, 162.
Janis comes offstage, skipping and happy: Author interview with Ralph J. Gleason, October 2, 1973.
“Big Brother was really a delight and Miss Joplin is a gas”: Ralph J. Gleason, San Francisco Chronicle, Monday, September 18, 1967, “On the Town” column.
Graham knows that realizing Big Brother’s full potential: Graham and Greenfield, Bill Graham Presents, 205. In this book, Graham gave his reasons for passing Janis to Grossman: “I knew who Janis was. I knew she was not a sometime thing. She needed full-time management or she would go astray. . . . And I couldn’t give my life over to her. Because I felt that what I was doing was bigger and more important than dealing with one single artist.”
“At that period, there were only two people that Albert really wanted to work with”: Author interview with Sally Grossman and Barry Feinstein, September 4, 1997.
Linda was one of a few creative women: Author interview with Linda Gravenites, May 9, 1986.
“If you want to stay in San Francisco and play around”: Author interview with Linda Gravenites, May 9, 1986. Linda offered an additional reason why Janis, for her part, was willing to fire Julius: “Julius was such a prick sometimes. And Janis, of course, gets her back up very easily. So they were just bitching at each other constantly. And I think what happened was, Julius freaked out after the Monterey Pop Festival. It got too big for him to cope.”
More recently, Columbia has expressed interest: Author interview with Peter Albin, July 19, 1997.
“I wouldn’t say that either Jerry or Herb are really nasty people”: Author interview with Bob Gordon, May 10, 1986.
Bob represented Big Brother when they were asked to appear: Author interview with Bob Gordon, May 10, 1986.
They ask Albert to guarantee that he will make them: Author interview with David Getz, July 24, 1997.
CHAPTER 6
Invited to sit in with Junior Wells at the Blue Flame Lounge: Author interview with Nick Gravenites, December 7, 1973.
CHAPTER 7
She and Dave Getz had been to a party in the city: Author interview with David Getz, July 24, 1997.
“She was very compassionate”: Author interview with Sam Andrew, July 27, 1997.
“One day Nancy [later James’s wife] and I took LSD together”: Author interview with Bob Seidemann, August 12, 1997.
One of the actors, Howard Hesseman, emigrated from Oregon to San Francisco for the jazz: Author interview with Howard Hesseman, August 8, 1997.
“I would let her sing at the Coffee Gallery”: Author interview with Howard Hesseman, August 8, 1997.
“I just remember that when I actually heard her”: Author interview with Howard Hesseman, August 8, 1997.
CHAPTER 8
He met Janis in the Haight, on the street: Author interview with Mark Braunstein, September 10, 1997.
“Before I was working with the band”: Author interview with Mark Braunstein, September 10, 1997.
“She could play the roles that men were playing really well”: Author interview with Nick Gravenites, December 14, 1973.
Except for Janis, who says it makes her think too much: Author interview with Linda Gravenites, May 9, 1986.
With her boyfriend at the time: Author interview with Milan Melvin, October 5, 1997.
Sam is a former speed freak as well: Author interview with Sam Andrew, July 19, 1997.
At the Golden Bear: Author interviews with Sam Andrew, April 23, 1997, and David Getz, July 24, 1997.
It rattles the band’s confidence when: Laura Joplin, Love, Janis, 211.
CHAPTER 9
“You were very distant”: Author interview with Mark Braunstein, September 9, 1997.
“There were women who turned her on”: Author interview with Linda Gravenites, May 9, 1986.
It was Debbie who received Janis through Debbie tried to follow up on the idea: Author interview with Debbie Green, April 3, 1998.
On January 19, 1968, which is Janis’s twenty-fifth birthday: Laura Joplin, Love, Janis, 214, letter dated January 31, 1968.
After the gig, Janis doesn’t fly back: Laura Joplin, Love, Janis, 215.
The reason for Janis’s restraint at Kaleidoscope: Author interview with Linda Gravenites, May 9, 1986.
“Janis Joplin Is Climbing Fast in the Heady Rock Firmament”: Robert Shelton, New York Times, February 19, 1968.
We grab a couple of cabs and head uptown to the Black Rock: Laura Joplin, Love, Janis, 219, letter dated February 20, 1968, confirms the date of the signing.
Meet Big Brother and the Holding Company: Albert B. Grossman Management press release pages.
CHAPTER 10
“At first, [New York] seemed to have made us all crazy”: Janis Joplin, quoted in Nat Hentoff, The New York Times, April 21, 1968, Sec. II.
The other act on the bill is a new band: Author interview with Al Kooper, June 11, 1998.
The Grande’s manager, Russ Gibb: Goodman, The Mansion on the Hill, 160.
When Albert listens to the recordings: Author interview with Sam Andrew, July 27, 1997.
“For years, it was our particular lot not to rise to a given occasion”: Author interview with Sam Andrew, July 27, 1997.
The only conclusion that comes out of the meeting: Author interview with Sam Andrew, July 27, 1997.
“I think fundamentally he didn’t like Janis”: Author interview with Sam Andrew, July 27, 1997.
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.
“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.
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.
Janis sings “To Love Somebody” and joins Cavett on the set: Video of talk segment from The Dick Cavett Show, July 18, 1969.
From audience suggestions, an emotion is assigned: Author interviews with Garry Goodrow, October 17, 1973, and Howard Hesseman, August 8, 1997.
Janis is assigned frustration, and Cavett love: Laura Joplin, Love, Janis, 256, is the source for the specific emotions.
CHAPTER 18
“Here comes Peter Cottontail”: Words and music by Steve Nelson and Jack Rollins, who also wrote “Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer.”
“The important thing that you’ve proven to the world”: Max Yazgur, in Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace & Music (film), Warner Bros. Inc., 1970, Michael Wadleigh, director.
“Woodstock, in all its mud and glory”: Baez, And a Voice to Sing With, 165.
“There was a vast relief today”: Alistair Cooke, The Guardian, August 19, 1969.
“Notwithstanding the personality”: Quoted by Barnard L. Collier, “Tired Rock Fans Begin Exodus,” New York Times, August 18, 1969.
“But it was very East Coast, Woodstock”: Graham and Greenfield, Bill Graham Presents, 282.
CHAPTER 19
Somehow this bizarre exchange banishes John’s doubts: Author interview with John Till, Clark Pierson, and Richard Bell, October 16, 1973.
Carl keeps us amused in the green room: Author interview with Carl Gottlieb, August 7, 1997.
We have got to get ourselves back to the Garden: “Woodstock,” words and music by Joni Mitchell.
“Tom Jones could’ve been a real heavyweight in the music biz”: Janis Joplin, quoted in Dalton, Piece of My Heart, 64.
Bobby connected with Michael the same day: Author interview with Bob Neuwirth, September 28, 1997.
“Oh honey, I know how you feel, I know you feel that you’re through”: “Little Girl Blue,” music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Lorenz Hart.
“It was like a concentration camp for a day”: Graham and Greenfield, Bill Graham Presents, 300.
“With the Kozmic Blues Band, nobody gave it a chance”: Author interview with Cornelius “Snooky” Flowers, October 20, 1997.
“an excellent performance”: Mike Jahn, “Janis Joplin Gives a Rousing Display of Blues and Rock,” New York Times, December 20, 1969.
“Heroin has some payoffs”: Author interview with David Getz, July 24, 1997.
BRAZILIAN INTERLUDE
Before she went to Carnival: Events in this paragraph from Laura Joplin, Love, Janis, 269–275, and author interview with Linda Gravenites, May 9, 1986.
“When I came back from England”: Author interview with Linda Gravenites, May 9, 1986.
CHAPTER 20
Bobby goes to the Village to hear Ramblin’ Jack Elliott through newspaper headlines announcing the Kent State massacre: Author interview with Bob Neuwirth, September 28, 1997.
We hear Judy Collins sing “If I Had a Golden Thread,” and a voice that may be David Dellinger exhorting us: Author’s recording of the demonstration on the National Mall, May 10, 1969.
In the final days of the Kozmic Blues Band: Author interview with John Till, Clark Pierson, and Richard Bell, October 16, 1973.
Clark is from Albert Lea, Minnesota: Author interview with Clark Pierson, John Till, and Richard Bell, October 16, 1973.
Bennett Glotzer, who has been Albert’s partner since: Author interview with Bennett Glotzer, August 11, 1997.
During her set, a naked couple tried to make it onstage: Author interview with Peter Albin, September 15, 2011.
Afterward, when Janis was leaving the hall: Author interview with Bennett Glotzer, August 11, 1997.
As Jack tells the story: Author interview with Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, July 25, 1997.
CHAPTER 21
Janis has warned Dalton at the outset: Dalton, Piece of My Heart, 21–22, 24.
“Something happened last year and I became a grownup”: Dalton, Piece of My Heart, 185.
“She knew what she wanted”: Author interview with John Till, Clark Pierson, and Richard Bell, October 16, 1973.
CHAPTER 22
It turns out that when Bill arrived in New York: Bill King, “Janis: Memphis Meltdown,” 1995, unpublished; posted to allaboutjazz.com, October 2009, and e-mails to author, April 14 and 17, 2011.
“Full Tilt Boogie, from what Janis was telling us”: Author interview with Rock Scully, October 2, 1973.
“The singer is only as good as the band”: Dalton, Piece of My Heart, 233.
“Everybody was just wiped, and pale”: Author interview with Clark Pierson, Richard Bell, and John Till, October 16, 1973.
“I’ve never seen Jerry drunk like he got drunk on that train”: Scully and Dalton, Living with the Dead, Boston: Little, Brown, 1996, 197.
“I had a corner room on the twenty-eighth floor”: Author interview with John Till, Oct. 16, 1973.
“The times that I went out with Full Tilt”: Author interview with Lyndall Erb, October 18, 1997.
For Janis, Threadgill was a mentor and an inspiration: Laura Joplin, Love, Janis, 101–102.
On a small stage in one corner of the lounge: Author interview with Margaret Moore, October 7, 1997.
“Kenneth was as big a ham as Janis”: Author interview with Margaret Moore, October 7, 1997.
When the applause dies down: Author interview with Margaret Moore, October 7, 1997.
“I just remember that she was just awesome”: Author interview with Margaret Moore, October 7, 1997.
I learn from Margaret that Janis told Julie she had to promise me: E-mail from Margaret Moore, July 15, 2011.
CHAPTER 24
“I haven’t had so much fun since the first year with Big Brother!”: Janis Joplin, quoted in John Wasserman, San Francisco Chronicle, July 15, 1970, 47.
“Grossman not only said his clients were artists, he believed it”: Fred Goodman, The Mansion on the Hill: Dylan, Young, Geffen, Springsteen, and the Head-on Collision of Rock and Commerce, New York: Times Books, 1997, 273.
When Janis shows an interest in the technical aspects: Laura Joplin, Love, Janis, 292.
“That was when I first realized”: Author interview with Margaret Moore, October 7, 1997.
“Man, those people hurt me”: Janis Joplin, quoted in Michael Lydon, New York Times Magazine, Sunday, February 23, 1969, section VI.
Q: What do you remember most about Port Arthur?: Janis, Crawley Films/MCA Home Video, 1974, F. R. Crawley, executive producer.
“That name was not supposed to reach the press”: Janis Joplin, quoted in Laura Joplin, Love, Janis, 300.
As Bob Neuwirth makes his way back to our table: Author interview with Bob Neuwirth, September 28, 1997.
It’s meant to be funny, but: Laura Joplin, Love, Janis, 296–297.
On Saturday, Janis and Clark Pierson and David Dalton went to see: Dalton, Piece of My Heart, 136–139.
Bound to continue her quest tonight: Author interview with Margaret Moore, October 7, 1997; Laura Joplin, Love, Janis, 301–302.
“And I remember Janis was kind of tinkly and giggly”: Author interview with Margaret Moore, October 7, 1997.
“And she was foul-mouthin’ him”: Author interview with Bob Neuwirth, September 28, 1997.
CHAPTER 25
Songs arrive by the bucketload, through a manageable signal to work with: Author interview with Fritz Richmond, November 27, 1997.
In the first week, Janis and Paul Rothchild settle into a routine: Information on music submissions and Janis-Paul routine: author interview with Fritz Richmond, November 27, 1997.
“Rothchild is . . . a little bit above the musicians”: Author interview with Brad Campbell, October 11, 1973.
Seth is surprised to learn that: Author interview with Seth Morgan, February 10, 1974.
“I felt very out of place”: Author interview with Seth Morgan, February 10, 1974.
CHAPTER 26
Bennett Glotzer is here: Author interview with Bennett Glotzer, August 11, 1997.
“Everybody continued to make that record with just a little bit more love”: Author interview with Paul Rothchild, March 19, 1974.
“It was amazing to watch Paul operate”: E-mail from John Till, March 26, 2004.
“That album’s a miracle”: Author interview with Bob Neuwirth, September 10, 2012.
When I later learned from Laura Joplin’s Love, Janis: pages 310–311.
MEMORIES
“And Janis, I think with all of her blustering and shows of strength”: Author interview with Paul Rothchild, March 19, 1974.
“I think most people go through what Janis had to deal with”: Author interview with Margaret Moore, October 7, 1997.
“She was a very decent person, a very vulnerable person”: Author interview with Bennett Glotzer, August 11, 1997.
“In the last year of her life, I saw her two times”: Author interview with Milan Melvin, October 5, 1997.
“A great singer, a really great singer”: Author interview with David Getz, July 24, 1997.
“She overcame so much”: Author interview with Nick Gravenites, December 14, 1973.
“Of all the lead singers that I know”: Author interview with Paul Rothchild, March 19, 1974.
“I feel that she was coming into her own”: Author interview with Seth Morgan, February 10, 1974.
“That’s the last time I ever saw her”: Author interview with Howard Hesseman, August 8, 1997.
“Let’s just say that Janis was a great performer”: Author interview with Bob Neuwirth, August 13, 1997.
“She was a force of nature”: Author interview with Alan Myerson, September 27, 1997.
“And she also liked being the center of attention”: Author interview with Lyndall Erb, October 18, 1997.
“She was smart, funny, intelligent, warm, caring”: Author interview with Mark Braunstein, September 9, 1997.
“Many people have asked me the question”: Author interview with Milan Melvin, October 5, 1997. Milan’s guess was right that the heroin Janis took was unusually strong. Laura Joplin, in her biography of her sister, Love, Janis, was the first to report this fact (pages 310–311).
“I was just devastated”: Author interview with John Fisher, November 15, 1997.
“Albert wasn’t the kind of guy who cried a lot”: Author interview with Bennett Glotzer, August 11, 1997.
“[Albert’s] energy and spirit were severely damaged when Janis died”: Peter Yarrow, quoted in Goodman, The Mansion on the Hill, 108.
“All my life, I just wanted to be a beatnik”: Janis Joplin, quoted in Dalton, Piece of My Heart, 240–241, from a conversation he taped between Janis and Bonnie Bramlett aboard the Festival Express.