1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,520 Speaker 1: The twenty seven Club is a production of I Heart 2 00:00:02,600 --> 00:00:08,840 Speaker 1: Radio and Double Elvis. Janice Joplin died at the age 3 00:00:08,840 --> 00:00:12,000 Speaker 1: of and she lived the life that often did not 4 00:00:12,119 --> 00:00:15,280 Speaker 1: go as she had planned. I can give you twenty 5 00:00:15,280 --> 00:00:18,959 Speaker 1: seven reasons why that statement is true. One would be 6 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:21,120 Speaker 1: the number of coke dealers who showed up on her 7 00:00:21,120 --> 00:00:24,239 Speaker 1: doorstep at her house in Larkspur, seemingly out of a 8 00:00:24,360 --> 00:00:27,520 Speaker 1: dream and altered the course of her life. Another one 9 00:00:27,560 --> 00:00:30,600 Speaker 1: would be the number of roadhouses in Beaumont, Texas, where 10 00:00:30,680 --> 00:00:32,760 Speaker 1: she would go to let off steam and get down 11 00:00:32,800 --> 00:00:35,559 Speaker 1: to the sound of some boogie wilkie piano, only to 12 00:00:35,600 --> 00:00:38,440 Speaker 1: find an ordinary rock and roll legend looking to rumble. 13 00:00:39,440 --> 00:00:42,120 Speaker 1: One more would be the number of psychedelic Porsches that 14 00:00:42,200 --> 00:00:44,640 Speaker 1: she owned and that was stolen from her by a 15 00:00:44,680 --> 00:00:48,200 Speaker 1: disgruntled fan in San Francisco while she played a show 16 00:00:48,240 --> 00:00:51,440 Speaker 1: at the winter Land in twenty four would be the 17 00:00:51,520 --> 00:00:54,240 Speaker 1: number of hours she had left to live after she 18 00:00:54,360 --> 00:00:57,840 Speaker 1: left Sunset Sounds Studio on a Saturday evening with something 19 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:02,280 Speaker 1: entirely more dangerous and self instructive undermine the making music 20 00:01:03,160 --> 00:01:08,880 Speaker 1: all totally on. This are eleventh episode of season three, 21 00:01:09,280 --> 00:01:14,039 Speaker 1: Coke Dealers roadhouse Rumbles, Psychedelic Porsches, and Janice Joplin walking 22 00:01:14,040 --> 00:01:19,559 Speaker 1: a Winding Path to Liberation um Jake Brennan in This 23 00:01:19,880 --> 00:02:06,080 Speaker 1: is the twenty seven o'clock m The cowboy boots seemed 24 00:02:06,120 --> 00:02:09,520 Speaker 1: like a smart place to hide the cocaine. The boots 25 00:02:09,560 --> 00:02:12,919 Speaker 1: were tall, dark, So tall and so dark that he 26 00:02:13,040 --> 00:02:15,639 Speaker 1: needed a flashlight to see if there was anything hiding 27 00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:18,720 Speaker 1: on the inside. But no one did that. No one 28 00:02:18,760 --> 00:02:21,120 Speaker 1: looked into a pair of cowboy boots with a flashlight. 29 00:02:21,840 --> 00:02:24,640 Speaker 1: He figured it was cool. He needed to stash the 30 00:02:24,680 --> 00:02:27,200 Speaker 1: coke for a day or two until he found a buyer. 31 00:02:27,800 --> 00:02:29,679 Speaker 1: One of his regulars was out of town. I know 32 00:02:29,800 --> 00:02:32,200 Speaker 1: there wasn't moving through the product as quickly as usual, 33 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:35,280 Speaker 1: no worries. He'd just sit on it for a few days, 34 00:02:36,320 --> 00:02:38,680 Speaker 1: deep in the boot, and none of the random strangers 35 00:02:38,760 --> 00:02:41,480 Speaker 1: or roommates passing through his place would be the wiser 36 00:02:41,880 --> 00:02:47,160 Speaker 1: strangers roommates would tell the difference anymore. It was, and 37 00:02:47,240 --> 00:02:51,400 Speaker 1: this was California life for Seth Morgan. The wayfaring drug 38 00:02:51,480 --> 00:02:56,200 Speaker 1: dealer was fast and loose. Strangers became friends, and friends 39 00:02:56,240 --> 00:02:59,839 Speaker 1: became strangers, and sometimes the two became roommates and off 40 00:02:59,840 --> 00:03:03,160 Speaker 1: in time, Seth would sleep with them, whether they'd still 41 00:03:03,200 --> 00:03:05,959 Speaker 1: be there the next morning, whether they lived there or not. 42 00:03:06,840 --> 00:03:10,160 Speaker 1: He just couldn't have anyone rifling through the goods. He 43 00:03:10,240 --> 00:03:12,720 Speaker 1: had to unload the stuff real soon in order to 44 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:14,840 Speaker 1: make sure that people above him got their pay day 45 00:03:14,919 --> 00:03:17,400 Speaker 1: so that he could keep the whole pipeline running smoothly. 46 00:03:17,880 --> 00:03:19,760 Speaker 1: It's not that he didn't have the cash to deal 47 00:03:19,840 --> 00:03:22,520 Speaker 1: with a clog pipeline, so to speak. He just didn't 48 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:25,359 Speaker 1: have the patients. But now the whole high the coke 49 00:03:25,400 --> 00:03:27,880 Speaker 1: in the cowboy boots game was looking like a bad plan. 50 00:03:28,680 --> 00:03:31,280 Speaker 1: He came to that realization as he fished the baggy 51 00:03:31,360 --> 00:03:34,400 Speaker 1: from the insole of his left boot. Was saky. It 52 00:03:34,480 --> 00:03:36,720 Speaker 1: had taken on the properties of the damp environment it 53 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:39,240 Speaker 1: had been hidden in for days. It was now a 54 00:03:39,440 --> 00:03:42,920 Speaker 1: they have plastic bag with a pinkish white powder stuck inside, 55 00:03:42,960 --> 00:03:45,400 Speaker 1: if he could call it powder. This stuff was so 56 00:03:45,480 --> 00:03:47,640 Speaker 1: full of moisture at this point that it looked like 57 00:03:47,680 --> 00:03:51,000 Speaker 1: baking so at a laced with food coloring. Who the 58 00:03:51,160 --> 00:03:53,400 Speaker 1: funk was going to buy damp, pinkish coke and a 59 00:03:53,480 --> 00:03:58,600 Speaker 1: saky plastic bag. Seth Morgan had been running drugs coast 60 00:03:58,600 --> 00:04:01,800 Speaker 1: to coast. He'd upon his harley and transport the West 61 00:04:01,840 --> 00:04:03,920 Speaker 1: Coast grass all the way out to the Big Apple. 62 00:04:04,240 --> 00:04:06,520 Speaker 1: And then he had returned to San Francisco a fresh 63 00:04:06,560 --> 00:04:09,280 Speaker 1: batch of East Coast coke loaded in his saddle bags. 64 00:04:09,720 --> 00:04:12,400 Speaker 1: He was doing his part to keep both coasts turned on, 65 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:15,760 Speaker 1: but he didn't do it for the money. He had money, 66 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:18,719 Speaker 1: His trust fund was too large a month. He was 67 00:04:18,720 --> 00:04:20,600 Speaker 1: an heir to a soap fortune, the son of a 68 00:04:20,680 --> 00:04:25,560 Speaker 1: park avenue poet, a dabbler and anti authoritarian boondoggles. He drank, 69 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:28,080 Speaker 1: He slept around. The more women at one time, the 70 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:31,640 Speaker 1: better he pulled pranks. He rode with the angels. He 71 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:35,720 Speaker 1: had emotions to suppress, holes to fill. After his parents 72 00:04:35,760 --> 00:04:38,760 Speaker 1: divorced when he was young, his mother drank herself to death. 73 00:04:39,080 --> 00:04:41,400 Speaker 1: He was kicked out of prep schools in the US 74 00:04:41,480 --> 00:04:45,440 Speaker 1: and abroad for behavioral problems, and then years later, his 75 00:04:45,520 --> 00:04:48,040 Speaker 1: twenty one year old brother jumped off the Bay Bridge 76 00:04:48,040 --> 00:04:51,680 Speaker 1: in San Francisco. Running dope coast to coast gave him 77 00:04:51,720 --> 00:04:53,720 Speaker 1: a thrill and put the wind in his hair and 78 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:56,159 Speaker 1: the past at his back. It kept his mind off 79 00:04:56,160 --> 00:04:58,240 Speaker 1: the things he didn't want to think about because from 80 00:04:58,279 --> 00:05:00,360 Speaker 1: a very young age. He didn't really have to think 81 00:05:00,360 --> 00:05:04,000 Speaker 1: about anything. He was determined to keep it that way. Typically, 82 00:05:04,279 --> 00:05:07,480 Speaker 1: running dope was a pretty chill gig. The East Coasters 83 00:05:07,560 --> 00:05:09,279 Speaker 1: might be a n A N A S for some 84 00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:12,200 Speaker 1: of that California green, and all the hippies in the 85 00:05:12,200 --> 00:05:14,320 Speaker 1: Bay Area and down in the canyons of l A 86 00:05:14,400 --> 00:05:17,320 Speaker 1: were discovering the high octane thrill of New York's finest 87 00:05:17,360 --> 00:05:20,880 Speaker 1: white waffle dust. But as Seth looked down at the sloppy, 88 00:05:20,880 --> 00:05:23,440 Speaker 1: pink goo at the bottom of his cowboy boom, he 89 00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:27,039 Speaker 1: stressed stressed out to the max. It had been a 90 00:05:27,040 --> 00:05:29,039 Speaker 1: while since he was stressed out to the max, and 91 00:05:29,080 --> 00:05:31,440 Speaker 1: he wasn't a big fan of the feeling. It was 92 00:05:31,440 --> 00:05:33,880 Speaker 1: a lot of blow, but his regulars weren't going to 93 00:05:33,920 --> 00:05:35,760 Speaker 1: buy blow that looked like it had been sat on 94 00:05:35,839 --> 00:05:39,080 Speaker 1: in the middle of a rainstorm. Janis Joplin'll buy it, 95 00:05:39,240 --> 00:05:41,479 Speaker 1: he was told. All he had to do was tool 96 00:05:41,520 --> 00:05:43,880 Speaker 1: over to Marine County on his Harley. Show up at 97 00:05:43,880 --> 00:05:46,520 Speaker 1: the front door of Janis Joplin's house, tucked away on 98 00:05:46,560 --> 00:05:49,360 Speaker 1: a cul de sac, surrounded by redwood trees and larkspur. 99 00:05:49,880 --> 00:05:53,239 Speaker 1: She wasn't snooty when he came to trucks entitled Hardly 100 00:05:53,440 --> 00:05:56,600 Speaker 1: Discerning Not janis she'll buy it. They all told him 101 00:05:56,640 --> 00:05:59,920 Speaker 1: she'll try anything. So Seth tooled up the one old 102 00:06:00,040 --> 00:06:02,280 Speaker 1: on from the Bay to lark Spur, over the Golden 103 00:06:02,279 --> 00:06:05,120 Speaker 1: Gate through saw Salito, and that's how he found himself 104 00:06:05,200 --> 00:06:07,040 Speaker 1: at the end of a cul de sac, surrounded by 105 00:06:07,080 --> 00:06:11,240 Speaker 1: redwood trees in the Baltimore Canyon section of Larkspur, knocking 106 00:06:11,600 --> 00:06:17,720 Speaker 1: on Janice Joplin's front door. It was May seventy when 107 00:06:17,760 --> 00:06:21,400 Speaker 1: Janice answered. Seth cut right to the point, you, Janice Choplin, 108 00:06:21,560 --> 00:06:25,320 Speaker 1: he asked. Janice laughed, Obviously, I heard you were always 109 00:06:25,320 --> 00:06:27,640 Speaker 1: in search of a good time, Seth said, reaching into 110 00:06:27,720 --> 00:06:30,320 Speaker 1: his pocket and pulling out the bag of soggy pinkish coke. 111 00:06:30,880 --> 00:06:32,839 Speaker 1: He hoped that she wouldn't look at it too hard. 112 00:06:33,360 --> 00:06:35,200 Speaker 1: Even better when I don't have to go searching for 113 00:06:35,240 --> 00:06:38,240 Speaker 1: a good time and it just finds me instead, Janice replied. 114 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:42,080 Speaker 1: Seth smiled, and something in his face rang Janice spell. 115 00:06:42,600 --> 00:06:45,720 Speaker 1: The look on her face changed. Suddenly, she was no 116 00:06:45,760 --> 00:06:49,320 Speaker 1: longer pleasantly surprised by the appearance of a drug tooting stranger, 117 00:06:49,680 --> 00:06:52,080 Speaker 1: but actively trying to figure out where she had seen 118 00:06:52,160 --> 00:06:55,800 Speaker 1: him before. He was so familiar she just couldn't put 119 00:06:55,800 --> 00:06:59,520 Speaker 1: her finger on it. His thick mutton chops, sharp harry 120 00:06:59,560 --> 00:07:02,880 Speaker 1: slab that cut dangerous ankles on the sides of his face, 121 00:07:03,560 --> 00:07:06,800 Speaker 1: the Jeene jackets les bunched up to exposed tattoos on 122 00:07:06,880 --> 00:07:10,480 Speaker 1: his arms on one arm, a son, on the other arm, 123 00:07:10,600 --> 00:07:14,160 Speaker 1: a scorpion. Hey Man, Jenni said, look on her face, 124 00:07:14,280 --> 00:07:17,520 Speaker 1: changing from one of bewilderment to one of slow motion recognition. 125 00:07:18,160 --> 00:07:21,760 Speaker 1: Haven't I seen you before? Seth knew who she was, 126 00:07:21,840 --> 00:07:23,680 Speaker 1: of course, had known about her all the way back 127 00:07:23,680 --> 00:07:25,560 Speaker 1: to the Summer of Love when Big Brother and the 128 00:07:25,560 --> 00:07:28,200 Speaker 1: Holding Company ruled the land like the Kings and Queen 129 00:07:28,280 --> 00:07:31,160 Speaker 1: of the freaky West Coast scene. But he never met her, 130 00:07:31,440 --> 00:07:34,200 Speaker 1: never been within a few feet, never exchanged glances or 131 00:07:34,280 --> 00:07:37,920 Speaker 1: locked eyes. He told her. This was the first Jennie 132 00:07:37,960 --> 00:07:40,640 Speaker 1: looked over his shoulder and saw his Harley parked just 133 00:07:40,680 --> 00:07:44,480 Speaker 1: a few feet away. It was painted gold, orange flames 134 00:07:44,480 --> 00:07:48,880 Speaker 1: on the sides. Nah Man, Jenna said, hesitating, where have 135 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:52,480 Speaker 1: we met before? I'm having the weirdest deja vous right now. 136 00:07:53,040 --> 00:07:55,160 Speaker 1: I know this isn't the first time I've seen you. 137 00:07:56,160 --> 00:07:59,280 Speaker 1: Seth just shrugged his shoulders and hoped that she wouldn't 138 00:07:59,320 --> 00:08:03,720 Speaker 1: notice the instellar quality of the sodden coke. Jannis stood 139 00:08:03,760 --> 00:08:06,960 Speaker 1: in the doorway, her mind flipping through months and years 140 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:10,040 Speaker 1: of memories, the memories that weren't yet worn down by 141 00:08:10,040 --> 00:08:12,360 Speaker 1: all the handles of soco and all the shots of 142 00:08:12,400 --> 00:08:15,760 Speaker 1: heavy she put in her arm. She squinted her eyes tight, 143 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:19,040 Speaker 1: took incests entire body as he stood there waiting for 144 00:08:19,080 --> 00:08:20,840 Speaker 1: her to hand off the cash, so that then he 145 00:08:20,920 --> 00:08:23,360 Speaker 1: can make a move on her and maybe just maybe 146 00:08:23,360 --> 00:08:27,600 Speaker 1: get themselves immediately. Ensconced in the sack, she rattled through 147 00:08:27,600 --> 00:08:30,440 Speaker 1: more memories through the highways of Texas and the forest 148 00:08:30,480 --> 00:08:33,840 Speaker 1: of California. Through late nights, crawling through the urban sprawl 149 00:08:33,880 --> 00:08:36,760 Speaker 1: of Chicago and New York City to the canyons of 150 00:08:36,800 --> 00:08:40,360 Speaker 1: Los Angeles. She dug so deep that her eyes slightly 151 00:08:40,440 --> 00:08:43,200 Speaker 1: rolled towards the back of her head. She ducked deeper, 152 00:08:43,480 --> 00:08:45,720 Speaker 1: and later that night, when these two are out at 153 00:08:45,760 --> 00:08:48,200 Speaker 1: a Mexican restaurant in town getting to know each other, 154 00:08:48,600 --> 00:08:52,440 Speaker 1: her digging through her mind paid off. She would remember 155 00:08:52,559 --> 00:08:56,280 Speaker 1: Seth market right where she left him. In the recesses 156 00:08:56,960 --> 00:09:30,240 Speaker 1: of her dreams. The slap to the face hurt like hell. 157 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:33,600 Speaker 1: But even more wounded than his sore red cheek was 158 00:09:33,679 --> 00:09:37,280 Speaker 1: his pride. He'd just been slapped by a woman in 159 00:09:37,559 --> 00:09:40,880 Speaker 1: his dressing room, backstage at his show, in front of 160 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:44,480 Speaker 1: his people. And who the hell was she? Janis Joplin, 161 00:09:44,800 --> 00:09:48,200 Speaker 1: some tubit Bessie Smith want to be. The muscle heads 162 00:09:48,240 --> 00:09:51,120 Speaker 1: counting cash on the dressing room table stopped flipping bills 163 00:09:51,160 --> 00:09:53,439 Speaker 1: so that they wouldn't miss what their boss would do next. 164 00:09:54,040 --> 00:09:57,440 Speaker 1: And they didn't call Jerry Lee Lewis the Killer for nothing, 165 00:09:57,920 --> 00:10:00,440 Speaker 1: and the killer didn't take flap pom bitch laps from 166 00:10:00,440 --> 00:10:04,079 Speaker 1: a twenty seven year old so called singer. Jerry Lee 167 00:10:04,160 --> 00:10:07,640 Speaker 1: already didn't like Janice Choplin. He saw her coming that night, 168 00:10:07,880 --> 00:10:10,000 Speaker 1: using her star power to push her way past the 169 00:10:10,080 --> 00:10:13,120 Speaker 1: riff raff at the Pelican Club in Beaumont, Texas, in 170 00:10:13,200 --> 00:10:15,319 Speaker 1: order to pay some respect to the real king of 171 00:10:15,440 --> 00:10:18,760 Speaker 1: rock and roll, the faraday phenom, the Killer himself in 172 00:10:18,800 --> 00:10:22,000 Speaker 1: the flesh. Janis had her kids sister with her, and 173 00:10:22,040 --> 00:10:24,720 Speaker 1: her sister wanted to meet the Killer, and so here 174 00:10:24,760 --> 00:10:27,079 Speaker 1: they came, nudging past the two muscle heads in the 175 00:10:27,160 --> 00:10:30,240 Speaker 1: dressing room for a handshaker, an autograph, or maybe even 176 00:10:30,240 --> 00:10:33,400 Speaker 1: a kiss on the cheek. Jerry Lee muttered a collection 177 00:10:33,440 --> 00:10:36,120 Speaker 1: of poorly strung together curse words under his breath when 178 00:10:36,120 --> 00:10:38,720 Speaker 1: he saw her coming. He had first met her that 179 00:10:38,800 --> 00:10:42,000 Speaker 1: past summer at a show in Louisville, Kentucky. He was 180 00:10:42,040 --> 00:10:46,280 Speaker 1: co headlining with the possum George Jones. Jerry Lee was 181 00:10:46,320 --> 00:10:48,600 Speaker 1: playing shows with one of the biggest names in country 182 00:10:48,679 --> 00:10:51,920 Speaker 1: music because he had been reinvented as a country singer himself. 183 00:10:52,400 --> 00:10:56,160 Speaker 1: This is seventy, which was well after Jerry Lee scandalized 184 00:10:56,200 --> 00:10:59,360 Speaker 1: the world by marrying his thirteen year old cousin, a 185 00:10:59,480 --> 00:11:02,719 Speaker 1: defiant move that excommunicated him from the world of rock 186 00:11:02,760 --> 00:11:05,960 Speaker 1: and roll, the very world he'd helped a manufacture in 187 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:09,920 Speaker 1: a tiny room in Memphis. He was lost, seemingly without 188 00:11:09,960 --> 00:11:13,120 Speaker 1: a career or an audience, while the Charlottean Elvis Pressley, 189 00:11:13,160 --> 00:11:15,439 Speaker 1: served in the Army and returned to become a bona 190 00:11:15,480 --> 00:11:19,120 Speaker 1: fide movie star. So Smash Records fired off a Hail 191 00:11:19,160 --> 00:11:22,480 Speaker 1: Mary and recast Jerry Lee Lewis as a country corooner. 192 00:11:23,160 --> 00:11:25,720 Speaker 1: He entered into a world dominated by the likes of 193 00:11:25,760 --> 00:11:29,520 Speaker 1: Merle Haggard and Glenn Campbell. His repertoire shifted from signature 194 00:11:29,559 --> 00:11:31,719 Speaker 1: songs like Great Balls of Fire and a whole lot 195 00:11:31,760 --> 00:11:34,520 Speaker 1: of shaking going on too. She who woke me up 196 00:11:34,559 --> 00:11:37,960 Speaker 1: to say goodbye and what made Milwaukee famous has made 197 00:11:37,960 --> 00:11:41,600 Speaker 1: a loser out of me. Janice happened to be passing 198 00:11:41,640 --> 00:11:43,880 Speaker 1: through Louis VLL that night on tour with the Full 199 00:11:43,960 --> 00:11:46,360 Speaker 1: Tilt Boogie Band, and they had a night off, so 200 00:11:46,400 --> 00:11:48,480 Speaker 1: she got tickets and went to the show. But she 201 00:11:48,559 --> 00:11:51,720 Speaker 1: discovered that someone else, besides the killer or the possums 202 00:11:51,800 --> 00:11:55,640 Speaker 1: holding her attention throughout the whole show, Janice had her 203 00:11:55,640 --> 00:11:58,720 Speaker 1: eyes on Jerry Lee's bass player. She thought the boy 204 00:11:58,800 --> 00:12:01,000 Speaker 1: was f I and he five, and when she made 205 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:03,680 Speaker 1: a pass at him after the show, she discovered that 206 00:12:03,720 --> 00:12:07,040 Speaker 1: not only was he only seventeen, he was also Jerry 207 00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:10,320 Speaker 1: Lee's son. You could have cut a big old Huncle 208 00:12:10,320 --> 00:12:13,800 Speaker 1: Louisiana Brisket would look The killer flung in Janie's general 209 00:12:13,840 --> 00:12:17,240 Speaker 1: direction that night. Now you can call bullshit on the killer, 210 00:12:17,320 --> 00:12:19,640 Speaker 1: since here's a man who would happily marry his thirteen 211 00:12:19,679 --> 00:12:22,360 Speaker 1: year old cousin, and then he goes the double standard route. 212 00:12:22,360 --> 00:12:25,040 Speaker 1: When the tables are turned about the idea of Janis 213 00:12:25,080 --> 00:12:27,560 Speaker 1: Joplin making eyes at his son just didn't sit right 214 00:12:27,600 --> 00:12:30,080 Speaker 1: with him. And even though she apologized and then made 215 00:12:30,080 --> 00:12:33,079 Speaker 1: a joke about it, Jerry Lee's mind was already made up. 216 00:12:33,440 --> 00:12:38,760 Speaker 1: Janis Joplin could go and fuck right off. So later, 217 00:12:38,920 --> 00:12:41,520 Speaker 1: backstage at the Pelican Club on a hot night in 218 00:12:41,640 --> 00:12:44,079 Speaker 1: late summer, he was ready to tell her that same 219 00:12:44,120 --> 00:12:46,920 Speaker 1: thing again. He went for a low blow and made 220 00:12:46,920 --> 00:12:49,880 Speaker 1: some snarky, macho comment about how Janie and her sister 221 00:12:49,960 --> 00:12:53,839 Speaker 1: Laura were dressed and smelled and whatever. The killer said. 222 00:12:54,200 --> 00:12:58,520 Speaker 1: It's set Janie off, you motherfucker. She and that's when 223 00:12:58,559 --> 00:13:01,280 Speaker 1: she wound up and planted a in size slap across 224 00:13:01,400 --> 00:13:05,079 Speaker 1: Jerry Lee's face. Janni wasn't above slapping the ship out 225 00:13:05,080 --> 00:13:09,000 Speaker 1: of a man, just ask Jim Morrison. Jerry Lee massage 226 00:13:09,120 --> 00:13:12,160 Speaker 1: his face while his posse stood by, shocked into silence. 227 00:13:13,120 --> 00:13:16,000 Speaker 1: You won't act like a man, Jerry leass, nodding his 228 00:13:16,080 --> 00:13:19,720 Speaker 1: head and adjusting his jaw. You're gonna act like a man. 229 00:13:20,240 --> 00:13:25,040 Speaker 1: I'll treat you like one. Then Jerry Lewis punched Janice 230 00:13:25,080 --> 00:13:27,960 Speaker 1: Choplin in the mouth. Then that wasn't at all, how 231 00:13:28,040 --> 00:13:30,800 Speaker 1: Janice had imagined the evening would go. They had come 232 00:13:30,840 --> 00:13:33,600 Speaker 1: to the Pelican Club. To escape this kind of bullshit, 233 00:13:34,240 --> 00:13:37,240 Speaker 1: she needed the release of a hot, raucous roadhouse, a 234 00:13:37,320 --> 00:13:40,360 Speaker 1: beer joint with some bollywoogie piano, or she could yell 235 00:13:40,480 --> 00:13:43,480 Speaker 1: and sweat and dance until she had forgotten about everything else. 236 00:13:44,280 --> 00:13:46,800 Speaker 1: It was the end of the summer in nineteen seventy 237 00:13:46,840 --> 00:13:49,680 Speaker 1: and Janice needed the therapy of the roadhouse to sweep 238 00:13:49,720 --> 00:13:52,760 Speaker 1: port Arthur under the carpet. She had returned to her 239 00:13:52,800 --> 00:13:57,040 Speaker 1: Texas hometown for a specific reason, her tenth high school reunion. 240 00:13:58,640 --> 00:14:01,120 Speaker 1: Janis didn't think about high go all that much, but 241 00:14:01,200 --> 00:14:04,400 Speaker 1: when she did, all the old feelings of rejection came 242 00:14:04,440 --> 00:14:07,719 Speaker 1: flooding back. She thought about the squares who called her 243 00:14:07,720 --> 00:14:10,079 Speaker 1: a freak, about the jocks who called her a slut. 244 00:14:10,320 --> 00:14:12,719 Speaker 1: She thought about the strict confines of life in an 245 00:14:12,720 --> 00:14:16,240 Speaker 1: oil town with her parents, Seth and Dorothy. Port Arthur 246 00:14:16,360 --> 00:14:19,600 Speaker 1: was stifling. It was suffocating. Janice was never able to 247 00:14:19,600 --> 00:14:22,240 Speaker 1: be herself in that Texas town, and it wasn't until 248 00:14:22,280 --> 00:14:24,640 Speaker 1: she moved away, hit the road running and barely looked 249 00:14:24,640 --> 00:14:27,120 Speaker 1: back that she caught a glimpse of what liberation looked. 250 00:14:27,120 --> 00:14:31,640 Speaker 1: Like Liberation looked like San Francisco. Liberation looked like Golden 251 00:14:31,640 --> 00:14:35,000 Speaker 1: Gate Park and the Diggers rallying through the streets. Liberation 252 00:14:35,040 --> 00:14:37,240 Speaker 1: looked like Jay Whittaker leaning up against the bar of 253 00:14:37,280 --> 00:14:40,640 Speaker 1: the anxious asp. And Liberation looked like Bill Graham eating 254 00:14:40,680 --> 00:14:43,000 Speaker 1: crow and welcoming her with open arms. And she played 255 00:14:43,040 --> 00:14:46,280 Speaker 1: to a capacity crowd at the film Wore. Liberation looked 256 00:14:46,280 --> 00:14:48,600 Speaker 1: like Big Brother in the Holding Company and the Cosmic 257 00:14:48,640 --> 00:14:51,760 Speaker 1: Blues Band and the Full Tilt Boogie Band. Liberation looked 258 00:14:51,760 --> 00:14:54,400 Speaker 1: like Sam Andrew and Albert Grossman and Bob Newworth and 259 00:14:54,480 --> 00:14:57,360 Speaker 1: Chris Christofferson. It looked like pig Pen the Soul of 260 00:14:57,360 --> 00:15:00,400 Speaker 1: the Dead, And just like Janice, it also always in 261 00:15:00,440 --> 00:15:04,040 Speaker 1: search of a good time and a liberating release. Life 262 00:15:04,040 --> 00:15:07,040 Speaker 1: outside Port Arthur wasn't without its challenges, and that was 263 00:15:07,080 --> 00:15:10,200 Speaker 1: for damn sure, whether it was speed, or math or heroin. 264 00:15:10,680 --> 00:15:13,680 Speaker 1: But those were janiss choices, not the choices of the 265 00:15:13,720 --> 00:15:15,920 Speaker 1: people back home who told her what to do or 266 00:15:15,920 --> 00:15:19,120 Speaker 1: who to be. She never hesitated to tell anyone how 267 00:15:19,160 --> 00:15:21,600 Speaker 1: she felt about where she came from. She would say 268 00:15:21,600 --> 00:15:24,560 Speaker 1: that her classmates at Jefferson High School laughter out of class, 269 00:15:24,600 --> 00:15:27,440 Speaker 1: out of town, and right out of Texas. She said 270 00:15:27,480 --> 00:15:30,600 Speaker 1: exactly that to Dig Cavitt in the entire country by default, 271 00:15:30,760 --> 00:15:33,080 Speaker 1: when she was a guest on his television talk show 272 00:15:33,160 --> 00:15:36,840 Speaker 1: just months before her high school reunion. When Cavitt asked 273 00:15:36,840 --> 00:15:38,960 Speaker 1: her if she had been back home to Port Arthur, 274 00:15:39,320 --> 00:15:41,440 Speaker 1: she announced that she was headed back for the first 275 00:15:41,480 --> 00:15:44,720 Speaker 1: time in a long time later that summer. This time 276 00:15:44,840 --> 00:15:47,960 Speaker 1: was different from the rest. This time she couldn't wait 277 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:50,720 Speaker 1: to get back. She would turn the tables on everyone 278 00:15:50,760 --> 00:15:53,560 Speaker 1: back home. This time, she wouldn't be the rejected one. 279 00:15:53,680 --> 00:15:55,840 Speaker 1: She would cross the city line into Port Arthur and 280 00:15:55,880 --> 00:15:58,320 Speaker 1: stroll through the front doors of Jefferson High as one 281 00:15:58,360 --> 00:16:00,520 Speaker 1: of the biggest rock and roll singers on the planet, 282 00:16:00,760 --> 00:16:02,840 Speaker 1: and the whole damn school would see how wrong they 283 00:16:02,880 --> 00:16:07,120 Speaker 1: were about her. It didn't exactly go as planned at 284 00:16:07,120 --> 00:16:10,200 Speaker 1: the reunion. Janice stuck out like a blues riff in 285 00:16:10,240 --> 00:16:13,520 Speaker 1: a hiding symphony. But it wasn't just the feather boas 286 00:16:13,560 --> 00:16:16,720 Speaker 1: in her hair colored purple and magenta and green, or 287 00:16:16,760 --> 00:16:19,320 Speaker 1: the legion of bracelets that ran up her right arm, 288 00:16:19,680 --> 00:16:22,440 Speaker 1: or the local TV reporters with the cameras and lights 289 00:16:22,440 --> 00:16:25,400 Speaker 1: who followed her around. She worked the room like it 290 00:16:25,480 --> 00:16:28,240 Speaker 1: was a pool party at Peter Talks Laurel Canyon House, 291 00:16:28,600 --> 00:16:32,360 Speaker 1: but the room just didn't want to be worked. Janice's 292 00:16:32,440 --> 00:16:35,000 Speaker 1: classmates didn't like her back in high school, and they 293 00:16:35,040 --> 00:16:39,280 Speaker 1: didn't like her now either, especially rocking that dismissive Holiers 294 00:16:39,320 --> 00:16:43,560 Speaker 1: and now rock and Roller post No, her triumphant returned 295 00:16:43,560 --> 00:16:46,120 Speaker 1: to high school did not go at all how she 296 00:16:46,240 --> 00:16:48,960 Speaker 1: had planned, and neither did the night at the Pelican 297 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:52,960 Speaker 1: Club with Jerry Lee Lewis. Some days it seemed like 298 00:16:53,120 --> 00:17:01,400 Speaker 1: absolutely nothing was going her way. We'll be right back 299 00:17:01,640 --> 00:17:12,520 Speaker 1: after this word word. The Porsche tore up the Pacific 300 00:17:12,560 --> 00:17:16,800 Speaker 1: Coast Highway. It headed north away from Los Angeles to 301 00:17:16,920 --> 00:17:19,800 Speaker 1: the right, the hills above Malibu to the left, a 302 00:17:19,880 --> 00:17:23,200 Speaker 1: straight drop into the Big Blue. The sky was dark 303 00:17:23,240 --> 00:17:25,960 Speaker 1: and the stars were out, and being this far outside 304 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:27,919 Speaker 1: the city meant you could actually make out some of 305 00:17:27,960 --> 00:17:31,800 Speaker 1: the constellations of the Conditions were favorable and the road 306 00:17:31,960 --> 00:17:35,119 Speaker 1: was mostly deserted at such a late hour, and the 307 00:17:35,160 --> 00:17:39,000 Speaker 1: Porsche's headlights illuminated the upcoming twists and turns, the ones 308 00:17:39,040 --> 00:17:41,760 Speaker 1: that made the PC famous and made driving on the 309 00:17:41,840 --> 00:17:46,080 Speaker 1: PC such a roller coaster thrill ride as it came 310 00:17:46,119 --> 00:17:49,040 Speaker 1: to a dramatic corner. The Porsche slowed down to hug 311 00:17:49,119 --> 00:17:51,320 Speaker 1: the edge of the road, and then the engine opened 312 00:17:51,400 --> 00:17:53,399 Speaker 1: up to take on the long stretch of pavement on 313 00:17:53,440 --> 00:17:58,040 Speaker 1: the flip side thirty five miles per hour per hour 314 00:17:58,640 --> 00:18:03,119 Speaker 1: sixty seven. As the next turn came in hot, the 315 00:18:03,160 --> 00:18:06,879 Speaker 1: Porsches driver Janice jobling and cackled with a daredevil's glee 316 00:18:06,920 --> 00:18:10,280 Speaker 1: and down shifted heart One foot hit the clutch and 317 00:18:10,280 --> 00:18:12,720 Speaker 1: the other hit the brake, and she was safely around 318 00:18:12,720 --> 00:18:16,080 Speaker 1: the corner and on to the next straight away. She 319 00:18:16,200 --> 00:18:18,640 Speaker 1: looked in her rear view mirror and didn't see anything, 320 00:18:18,920 --> 00:18:21,879 Speaker 1: and the salt there was cold and wet on her face. 321 00:18:22,320 --> 00:18:24,600 Speaker 1: The long feather bow was tied to her hair flat 322 00:18:24,680 --> 00:18:28,000 Speaker 1: behind her, like exhaust from the tailpipe. Then she saw 323 00:18:28,040 --> 00:18:30,120 Speaker 1: the high beam flash on and off in her rear 324 00:18:30,200 --> 00:18:33,280 Speaker 1: view mirror. She heard the other car's engine rev from behind, 325 00:18:33,560 --> 00:18:35,720 Speaker 1: and then suddenly it was right next to her in 326 00:18:35,760 --> 00:18:38,280 Speaker 1: the opposite lane, but going in the same direction she 327 00:18:38,400 --> 00:18:42,000 Speaker 1: was going in. Paul Rothschild had finally caught up to her. 328 00:18:42,280 --> 00:18:45,119 Speaker 1: He told her he would. Janice looked over to her 329 00:18:45,200 --> 00:18:47,920 Speaker 1: left and Rothschild was in the driver's seat of his Porsche. 330 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:50,560 Speaker 1: Running up the straight away with Janice neck and neck, 331 00:18:50,920 --> 00:18:55,840 Speaker 1: He laughed and waved up the road. An oncoming car 332 00:18:56,160 --> 00:18:59,119 Speaker 1: not running nearly as fast as Janice and Rothschild, but 333 00:18:59,320 --> 00:19:02,640 Speaker 1: nonetheless Rothschild had to move. He slammed his foot down 334 00:19:02,760 --> 00:19:06,199 Speaker 1: the clutch and down shifted his Porsche, falling in behind Janesis. 335 00:19:07,400 --> 00:19:10,520 Speaker 1: It was a game they played after hours, after a 336 00:19:10,560 --> 00:19:13,920 Speaker 1: solid day of recording Janice's new album Pearl, at Sunset 337 00:19:13,960 --> 00:19:18,480 Speaker 1: Sounds Studio, Janis and Rothschild would take their respective Porsches 338 00:19:18,520 --> 00:19:22,359 Speaker 1: and raise them up and down the PC. Janesis Porsche 339 00:19:22,359 --> 00:19:25,880 Speaker 1: was a car unlike any other, truly. When she bought 340 00:19:25,960 --> 00:19:30,639 Speaker 1: the three fifty six cabriolet it was used, it was 341 00:19:30,720 --> 00:19:34,159 Speaker 1: already three years old. For a cool thirty bucks. It 342 00:19:34,320 --> 00:19:36,760 Speaker 1: was a lot cheaper than the fancier cars other rock 343 00:19:36,840 --> 00:19:40,240 Speaker 1: stars and celebrities were slapping down money for. But it 344 00:19:40,359 --> 00:19:43,639 Speaker 1: was playing gray Dolphin Gray, to be precise, was the 345 00:19:43,720 --> 00:19:47,560 Speaker 1: factory color. It was boring. It didn't scream Janice, and 346 00:19:47,640 --> 00:19:50,480 Speaker 1: it needed to scream Janice. The convertible had to be 347 00:19:50,520 --> 00:19:54,160 Speaker 1: a visual representation of Janesis style, so she threw five 348 00:19:54,240 --> 00:19:56,760 Speaker 1: hundred bucks at one of her roadies, Dave Richards, and 349 00:19:56,880 --> 00:19:59,160 Speaker 1: told him to give the car a psychedelic paint job. 350 00:19:59,760 --> 00:20:02,240 Speaker 1: It took Richards a month to complete it, and the 351 00:20:02,320 --> 00:20:05,320 Speaker 1: finished product was a murea that Roberts called the History 352 00:20:05,359 --> 00:20:08,240 Speaker 1: of the Universe and which covered the entire body of 353 00:20:08,320 --> 00:20:11,840 Speaker 1: the Porsche and eye popping day glow glory. The mural 354 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:17,480 Speaker 1: used every color in Richard's arsenal and included butterflies, California landscape, skulls, 355 00:20:17,600 --> 00:20:20,440 Speaker 1: mush from stars, the moon that I have got, Janie's 356 00:20:20,480 --> 00:20:24,120 Speaker 1: astrological simple Capricorn, and even a portrait of big brother 357 00:20:24,200 --> 00:20:26,879 Speaker 1: in the holding company thrown in for good measure. He 358 00:20:27,040 --> 00:20:29,359 Speaker 1: topped it all off with a layer of clear coke. 359 00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:33,720 Speaker 1: He couldn't miss the Porsche Around San Francisco and Los Angeles. 360 00:20:34,160 --> 00:20:37,119 Speaker 1: Everyone knew it was Janice coming or going. It was 361 00:20:37,240 --> 00:20:39,919 Speaker 1: so well known that Janice would find letters from fans, 362 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:42,880 Speaker 1: bottles of Soco and Scotch whiskey left on the hood 363 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:46,399 Speaker 1: or windshield while it was parked. The thief who stole 364 00:20:46,440 --> 00:20:48,920 Speaker 1: her poor shof the street outside the winter Land in 365 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:53,080 Speaker 1: San Francisco in nine knew exactly who would belonged to. 366 00:20:53,840 --> 00:20:57,239 Speaker 1: It was Janice's car. Be cool, his friends told him. 367 00:20:57,280 --> 00:20:59,840 Speaker 1: Be cool and don't steal Janis Joplins fucking car man. 368 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:03,840 Speaker 1: Come on, the thief thought otherwise. Janice was the one 369 00:21:03,920 --> 00:21:06,680 Speaker 1: time siren of the hate Ashbury scene. But now the 370 00:21:06,800 --> 00:21:09,800 Speaker 1: thief thought she had compromised the values that she had 371 00:21:09,840 --> 00:21:12,320 Speaker 1: once stood for. She was all about the money and 372 00:21:12,400 --> 00:21:15,760 Speaker 1: the fame. She was about Los Angeles. She'd forgotten about 373 00:21:15,800 --> 00:21:18,280 Speaker 1: San Francisco. She bought a Porsche with her money. She 374 00:21:18,359 --> 00:21:20,440 Speaker 1: didn't care about the people. She didn't sing for the 375 00:21:20,520 --> 00:21:25,439 Speaker 1: people anymore. So he hopped inside the psychedelic convertible, popped 376 00:21:25,480 --> 00:21:28,120 Speaker 1: off the panel under the steering column, and pulled out 377 00:21:28,200 --> 00:21:31,360 Speaker 1: the wiring. I caught here a strip. There bring these 378 00:21:31,400 --> 00:21:34,639 Speaker 1: two wires together, A spark, a rumble, and that the 379 00:21:34,760 --> 00:21:38,399 Speaker 1: Porsche purred to life. As he drove through the streets 380 00:21:38,440 --> 00:21:41,639 Speaker 1: of San Francisco, people on the sidewalk pointed at the Porsche. 381 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:45,159 Speaker 1: Looks of recognition turned into faces of confusion. It was 382 00:21:45,280 --> 00:21:48,879 Speaker 1: Janie's car, though that most certainly wasn't Janie driving it. 383 00:21:49,440 --> 00:21:53,119 Speaker 1: Who the funk was driving Janis three around town? And 384 00:21:53,240 --> 00:21:54,879 Speaker 1: why did he not look like he belonged to the 385 00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:58,560 Speaker 1: driver's scene, The thief quickly realized that his spur of 386 00:21:58,680 --> 00:22:01,120 Speaker 1: the moment grand theft thought was a little more high 387 00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:04,919 Speaker 1: profile than he initially thought. Janis reported the car missing 388 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:07,040 Speaker 1: after her show at the winter Land, and the heat 389 00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:10,120 Speaker 1: was on. It was the most recognizable car in town. 390 00:22:10,520 --> 00:22:12,840 Speaker 1: The thief's stomach leapt into his throat when he realized 391 00:22:12,840 --> 00:22:14,520 Speaker 1: it would only be a matter of time before the 392 00:22:14,560 --> 00:22:18,200 Speaker 1: San Francisco Police Department was all over him. When the 393 00:22:18,280 --> 00:22:21,119 Speaker 1: Porsche was found not long after it was stolen, the 394 00:22:21,200 --> 00:22:23,560 Speaker 1: thief had begun to spray painted gray in order to 395 00:22:23,640 --> 00:22:27,440 Speaker 1: mask its unique mural. Luckily, the clear coat that Dave 396 00:22:27,560 --> 00:22:29,879 Speaker 1: Richards had applied over the mural made for an easy 397 00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:35,960 Speaker 1: cleanup and restoration. Janis didn't press charges. Back in Los Angeles, 398 00:22:37,280 --> 00:22:39,520 Speaker 1: Jannis pressed on the gas pedal to put a little 399 00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:43,359 Speaker 1: pep in the step of her Porsche three. She rolled 400 00:22:43,440 --> 00:22:47,600 Speaker 1: into the parking lot of Sunset Sounds, sheltered by palm trees. Inside, 401 00:22:47,840 --> 00:22:51,200 Speaker 1: she found Paul Rothschild alone. She had Porsches on the 402 00:22:51,240 --> 00:22:53,879 Speaker 1: brain and a melody she'd been humming to herself on 403 00:22:53,960 --> 00:22:56,800 Speaker 1: the drive over. She didn't need the band, She'd do 404 00:22:56,880 --> 00:22:59,440 Speaker 1: it alone. I'd like to do a song of great 405 00:22:59,520 --> 00:23:02,560 Speaker 1: social and political import she said to the microphone, and 406 00:23:02,680 --> 00:23:06,440 Speaker 1: then tape rolling began to sing. She ended her acapella 407 00:23:06,560 --> 00:23:11,160 Speaker 1: take of Mercedes Benz and said that's it. Rothschild killed 408 00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:13,960 Speaker 1: the tape. Her voice, ravaged by years of drinking and 409 00:23:14,040 --> 00:23:17,680 Speaker 1: drugging and touring, was electrifying the naked and perfectly fit 410 00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:21,680 Speaker 1: the winking bluesy lyric. Rothchild asked Janice if she wanted 411 00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:25,200 Speaker 1: to go raise porsches Ap. There was no rain that 412 00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:28,359 Speaker 1: night and the conditions were perfect. You could raise me 413 00:23:28,440 --> 00:23:31,080 Speaker 1: if you can catch me, she responded, and she was off. 414 00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:34,639 Speaker 1: Rothchild had to hustle. He gunned his Porsche to the 415 00:23:34,720 --> 00:23:38,680 Speaker 1: winding coast of Highway, turned on his high beams, only 416 00:23:38,800 --> 00:24:05,560 Speaker 1: to realize that Janice had disappeared into the night. Sunday, 417 00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:10,840 Speaker 1: October four, Paul Rothschild checked the clock on the wall 418 00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:15,119 Speaker 1: Let's Sunset Studio again. It read quarter to six in 419 00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:20,840 Speaker 1: the evening Pacific Standard time. Still no Janice. He looked 420 00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:23,520 Speaker 1: through the window of the studios control booth and the 421 00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:26,600 Speaker 1: full tailed Boogie band were locked and loaded and running 422 00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:29,920 Speaker 1: through some rudimentary jams just to kill time. When their 423 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:32,840 Speaker 1: singer and leader decided to show up and they'd get 424 00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:36,520 Speaker 1: down to business and keep making this new record. The 425 00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:39,080 Speaker 1: new record was going to be called Pearl. It was 426 00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:41,879 Speaker 1: named after the nickname that Janice had given herself, the 427 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:43,879 Speaker 1: name she wanted to be called by those who were 428 00:24:43,960 --> 00:24:47,440 Speaker 1: really close to her, her friends and bandmates. Pearl would 429 00:24:47,440 --> 00:24:51,640 Speaker 1: be the real Janice, not the stage Janice. Rothschild looked 430 00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:53,800 Speaker 1: at the clock on the wall another time. It was 431 00:24:53,880 --> 00:24:57,639 Speaker 1: like watching water boil. The Longhand had moved ahead one minute, 432 00:24:57,880 --> 00:25:00,639 Speaker 1: but it felt like an hour. No one wanted to 433 00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:03,320 Speaker 1: get down to business more than Rothschild. That had I'll 434 00:25:03,359 --> 00:25:06,200 Speaker 1: been waiting for so long for Janice all Sunday afternoon. 435 00:25:06,280 --> 00:25:09,480 Speaker 1: In fact, that at this point Rothschild's frustration had evolved 436 00:25:09,520 --> 00:25:13,600 Speaker 1: into true concern, concern for Pearl, for the real Janice. 437 00:25:15,560 --> 00:25:18,399 Speaker 1: During the Pearl sessions, Janie was a creature of habit. 438 00:25:18,880 --> 00:25:20,840 Speaker 1: She could either be found at one of three places 439 00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:24,840 Speaker 1: Sunset Sound, Barney's Beanery, or her hotel room Room one 440 00:25:24,920 --> 00:25:28,640 Speaker 1: oh five at the Landmark Motor Hotel. She typically didn't 441 00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:31,440 Speaker 1: slide onto a stool at Barney's until late night, so 442 00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:35,119 Speaker 1: by process of elimination, Rothschild assumed she was in her 443 00:25:35,160 --> 00:25:39,000 Speaker 1: hotel room, probably still sleeping off the night before ship 444 00:25:39,160 --> 00:25:42,680 Speaker 1: She was probably still sleeping off that morning. Rothschild told 445 00:25:42,720 --> 00:25:44,520 Speaker 1: the band to take five and picked up the phone 446 00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:48,200 Speaker 1: near the studio's custom built tube console. He called John Cook. 447 00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:53,520 Speaker 1: Cook was Janiss road manager in Albert Grossman High, former 448 00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:55,920 Speaker 1: roommate of Bob new Earth, part of the team. Since 449 00:25:57,240 --> 00:26:00,920 Speaker 1: if anyone knew where Janice was, it was Cook. Rothschild 450 00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:03,040 Speaker 1: got him on the phone, told him Janice was late 451 00:26:03,119 --> 00:26:06,119 Speaker 1: to the session. Not just a little late, but lately. 452 00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:09,720 Speaker 1: Rothschild said he'd been calling her hotel room all afternoon 453 00:26:09,880 --> 00:26:13,960 Speaker 1: with no luck, no dice, No Janice. Cook was on it. 454 00:26:14,359 --> 00:26:17,200 Speaker 1: He told Rothschild not to worry. Cook hung up and 455 00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:19,720 Speaker 1: then dialed the number for the Landmark. He asked for 456 00:26:19,880 --> 00:26:22,080 Speaker 1: room one oh five. He listened to the phone on 457 00:26:22,119 --> 00:26:23,879 Speaker 1: the other end of the line, ring and ring and 458 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:27,120 Speaker 1: ring some more, but no One'm ticked up. Cook hung 459 00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:29,520 Speaker 1: up the receiver. He grabbed the keys to his vovo. 460 00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:32,159 Speaker 1: He just head over to the Landmark and wake Janie up. 461 00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:34,800 Speaker 1: It was the kind of responsibility that came with a gig. 462 00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:37,639 Speaker 1: He'd done his fair share of shaking Janice dropping awake. 463 00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:40,080 Speaker 1: As he was about to head out the door, the 464 00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:44,200 Speaker 1: phone rang again. This time he was Seth Morgan, the 465 00:26:44,320 --> 00:26:47,200 Speaker 1: hog riding dealer who Janis had been getting real intimate with. 466 00:26:48,119 --> 00:26:49,880 Speaker 1: Cook didn't know the guy from a hole in the wall. 467 00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:52,639 Speaker 1: In fact, no one did, but he seemed all right. 468 00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:55,760 Speaker 1: If Janice was cool with him, then everyone else would 469 00:26:55,800 --> 00:26:58,840 Speaker 1: be too. Seth told Cook that Janice was supposed to 470 00:26:58,880 --> 00:27:00,960 Speaker 1: pick him up at the airport later that night, but 471 00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:04,239 Speaker 1: that she wasn't answering her phone. A shutter one up 472 00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:08,080 Speaker 1: Cooks back. He hadn't felt any unusual concern over Rothschild's 473 00:27:08,080 --> 00:27:10,840 Speaker 1: in the show call, but now the anxiety was setting in. 474 00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:14,280 Speaker 1: Something was wrong. Cook couldn't say what it was, but 475 00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:17,320 Speaker 1: it kept running up his back like an uncontrollable spasm. 476 00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:20,000 Speaker 1: He told Seth he was on his way over to 477 00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:23,600 Speaker 1: the Landmark and The Landmark Motor Hotel was a crazy 478 00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:27,119 Speaker 1: little joint on Franklin Avenue just north of Hollywood Boulevard, 479 00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:30,960 Speaker 1: near the Magic Castle has since been rebranded as the 480 00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:34,560 Speaker 1: Highland Gardens Hotel and Janison. The entire band had taken 481 00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:37,359 Speaker 1: advantage of its cheap weekly rates and moved into separate 482 00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:41,080 Speaker 1: rooms while they're in town making pearl parties at the 483 00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:44,640 Speaker 1: Landmark weren't the exception, they were the role. It wasn't 484 00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:46,560 Speaker 1: out of the ordinary to come back to the hotel 485 00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:49,240 Speaker 1: late night and find Jimmie Hendrick, so the chamber's brother 486 00:27:49,359 --> 00:27:51,879 Speaker 1: was taking a dip in the swimming pool. A guest 487 00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:54,320 Speaker 1: once called the front desk to complain about the members 488 00:27:54,359 --> 00:27:57,480 Speaker 1: of Jefferson Airplane partying too loud in the room, and 489 00:27:57,560 --> 00:27:59,760 Speaker 1: the guests who called the complaint was the one who 490 00:27:59,840 --> 00:28:02,920 Speaker 1: get kicked out of the hotel, and the airplane partied on, 491 00:28:04,040 --> 00:28:06,240 Speaker 1: but there was no party in going on. When Cook 492 00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:10,119 Speaker 1: pulled up to the hotel, he noticed Jenesis Porsche parked 493 00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:12,520 Speaker 1: outside and saw a light on in the window of 494 00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:16,200 Speaker 1: her room. First, he knocked at her door. Nothing. He 495 00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:19,960 Speaker 1: knocked again, still nothing. Cook put his hand on the 496 00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:21,800 Speaker 1: door knob and opened the door of the room one 497 00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:26,679 Speaker 1: oh five. At first he didn't see anything amiss, was quiet, 498 00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:30,000 Speaker 1: and the only noise was the din of NonStop traffic 499 00:28:30,080 --> 00:28:32,960 Speaker 1: out on Franklin. And then he noticed that the sheets 500 00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:35,240 Speaker 1: from the bed had been pulled down to one side. 501 00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:38,640 Speaker 1: His eyes traced the sheets to the floor. A pair 502 00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:40,520 Speaker 1: of feet stuck out from the end of the bed 503 00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:44,480 Speaker 1: on the floor. It was a body, face down, lifeless, 504 00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:48,560 Speaker 1: sandwiched in between the bed and the nightstand. Cook's eyes 505 00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:51,480 Speaker 1: opened up and there was blood on the nightstand, blood 506 00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:53,080 Speaker 1: on some of the sheets that had been pulled to 507 00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:57,080 Speaker 1: the floor. Cook stood and silence shocked, his hands still 508 00:28:57,120 --> 00:28:59,440 Speaker 1: on the door knob, his throat knotted up. He didn't 509 00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:01,240 Speaker 1: want to believe that it was her. He knew it 510 00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:03,240 Speaker 1: was her, but he wasn't ready to believe it. He 511 00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:06,160 Speaker 1: stood in the doorway, his breathing so heavy and so 512 00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:08,600 Speaker 1: labored now that he felt like his lungs were balloons 513 00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:11,360 Speaker 1: that could pop at any minute. And suddenly the phone 514 00:29:11,400 --> 00:29:14,400 Speaker 1: and the nightstand rang. It was shrill, it called out 515 00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:17,440 Speaker 1: to Cook. Cook snapped out of his shock and took 516 00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:20,280 Speaker 1: a few steps inside the room, and the phone kept ringing. 517 00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:23,200 Speaker 1: He walked towards the body on the floor, stuck between 518 00:29:23,240 --> 00:29:25,320 Speaker 1: the bed and the nightstand, and got a good look. 519 00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:28,520 Speaker 1: He confirmed that it was a woman. 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