*In an interview early the following year, Janis explained to a reporter her reasons for drinking: “The reason I drink is that it loosens me up while the guys are tuning their instruments. I close my eyes and feel things. If I were a musician, it might be a lot harder to get all that feeling out, but I’m really fortunate because my gig is just feeling things. . . .” (Nat Hentoff, New York Times, April 21, 1968, section II, 19.)