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Speaker 1: Radio and Double Elvis. Janice Joplin died at the age

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Speaker 1: of and she died under mysterious circumstances. I can give

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Speaker 1: you twenty seven reasons why that statement is true. One

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Speaker 1: her life as an unknown and an outsider, got closer

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Speaker 1: to her than anyone, and then exited just as strangely

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Speaker 1: as he had arrived. Six would be the hour in

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Speaker 1: the evening that someone would finally go looking for Janice

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Speaker 1: Joplin after she failed the show at that day's recording

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Speaker 1: session for her new album, Pearl. Another one would be

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Speaker 1: the number of baggies of heroine she had hidden in

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Speaker 1: her hotel room stress or drawer, a deadly strain imported

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Speaker 1: to the States by the jet setting Angel of Death himself,

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Speaker 1: Jean de Breutu. Four more would be the number of

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Speaker 1: dollars she had on her person, still clenched tight in

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Speaker 1: her hand when she was found some eighteen hours after

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Speaker 1: her body would hit the floor. In Fifty would be

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Speaker 1: the number of minutes she'd have left to live after

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Speaker 1: she got high one last time and then found a

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Speaker 1: forgotten letter that had been waiting for her for months,

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Speaker 1: all totally on this our final episode of season three,

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Speaker 1: Harley writing men, China White, forgotten letters in Janice Joplin,

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Speaker 1: walking a winding path for liberation. I'm Jake Grennan and

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Speaker 1: this is the twenty seven cloth. Yeah h. The Harley

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Speaker 1: jumped the curb with ease in the air seth. Morgan

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Speaker 1: felt a warm California breeze rattle through the gaps in

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Speaker 1: the bike's scream with absolute blood curdling terror. Morgan ceased

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Speaker 1: to experience time at all. He couldn't tell if time

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Speaker 1: forward with maniacal speed, just like the Harley was barrowing

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Speaker 1: recklessly forward. In the middle of the year, Morgan was drunk.

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Speaker 1: If someone had asked him, someone in a position of authority,

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Speaker 1: he was high too, he denied it, so he probably

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Speaker 1: was high. He just couldn't remember if he was high

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Speaker 1: and then the smell of fuel so ripe and seared

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Speaker 1: but the impact of the crash had obviously rattled his

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Speaker 1: and Morgan breathed heavy sigh of relief. It was another

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Speaker 1: he had asked the girl to marry him, not because

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Speaker 1: Some said that Seth Morgan could have been a literary giant.

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Speaker 1: His father, Frederick Morgan, was a noted poet and founder

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Speaker 1: of the Hudson Review Quarterly. It was in his family

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Speaker 1: Those ruins near the house he fucking ran into fire,

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Speaker 1: or some bullshit. The first cop piped up, do you

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Speaker 1: own heart. That maybe Jack London would have forgiven seth

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Speaker 1: seth Morgan had been engaged to Janice Joplin not even

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Speaker 1: the closest person on earth to Janis Joplin when she

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Speaker 1: And they wanted to know everything he knew about that

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Speaker 1: When did he talk with her last? Ye her last?

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Speaker 1: Why did you want to marry Janis Joplin? What exactly

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Speaker 1: He knew his rights. Plus, he had already talked to

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Speaker 1: the cops in Los Angeles when it first happened. He

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Speaker 1: these Saucelito cops at her seth Morgan might be a

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Speaker 1: lot of things drug dealer poet funk up, but he

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Speaker 1: Did you hear Janis Joplin was killed by a jealous guy?

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Speaker 1: Now I heard it was a jealous girl. You know

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Speaker 1: Hold up, it was a c I a man. The FBI.

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Speaker 1: They'd been watching her ever since the ghetto. She was

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Speaker 1: It was the mafia. You don't think Jannics had connections

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Speaker 1: to made men come on, capable men, qualified men. They

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Speaker 1: iced it for some old drug debt. Man. Don't kid

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Speaker 1: yourself well, to be honest, I heard from a friend

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Speaker 1: a conversation at Barney's Beenery in Los Angeles, and it's

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Speaker 1: all part of some rock and roll hit. It was

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Speaker 1: the same people who did Jimmy Hendricks last month in London. Man,

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Speaker 1: you just watched jack More rock and rollers are gonna

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Speaker 1: Morgan was suddenly thinking about her again. He hadn't thought

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Speaker 1: its own. But the reality didn't just go away. Janice

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Speaker 1: Joplin was dead and Seth Morgan her final flame. I

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Speaker 1: from it. Seth Morgan wasn't unknown and outsider. It wasn't

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Speaker 1: When he first knocked on her front door at her

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Speaker 1: it was like he stepped out of a dream, and

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Speaker 1: He didn't know her music, and he didn't particularly like

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Speaker 1: It had to be an open marriage. Janie knew that

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Speaker 1: Morgan couldn't be faithful. Every time she left Larksburg to

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Speaker 1: Perhaps it was the mystery man in her dreams that

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Speaker 1: still doomed to the very end. On Saturday, October three,

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Speaker 1: Morgan called Janice from the Larkspur House to tell her

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Speaker 1: letter read and David's swashbuckling handwriting sherwood dig that you

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Speaker 1: Brian Jones and Jimmie Hendricks, they were just the beginning.

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Speaker 1: Rothschild could feel it. He could easily imagine Jim Morrison

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Speaker 1: first pair of eyes on the unthinkable. Janice Joplin dead

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Speaker 1: had been three days since she had been found on

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Speaker 1: Arthur for a traditional funeral, but Janice had made her

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Speaker 1: wishes clear to her attorneys shortly before her death, who

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Speaker 1: updated her living will accordingly. She refused to spend eternity

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Speaker 1: running away from it. In life, she caught glimpses of

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Speaker 1: liberation and death. She wanted a symbolic gesture of liberation

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Speaker 1: to be the last thing she ever did. Only days later,

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Speaker 1: inviting them to an all night party at the Lion's

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Speaker 1: Share in Mariam County. The drinks are on Pearl, the

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Speaker 1: invitations are at. One of the stipulations in Janice's will

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Speaker 1: for her friends. Partygoers still in mourning packed the tiny

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Speaker 1: San Ensembo Club on October, where the beer and wine

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Speaker 1: No word on whether the hash brownies were provided courtesy

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Speaker 1: of one of the evening's musical acts, The Grateful Dead,

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Speaker 1: who were perhaps cramming in one last dosing prank on

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Speaker 1: their beloved Pearl, just months after she had returned the

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Speaker 1: favor on the Festival Express when she got them all

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Speaker 1: ship faced on Booze. Paul Rothschild and the Full Tilt

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Speaker 1: Boogie Band spent the few weeks immediately following Janice's death

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Speaker 1: finishing up her last album Pearl was released in January nine,

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Speaker 1: three months after Janice's death. Almost immediately, it became the

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Speaker 1: biggest record of her career. Her cover of Chris Christofferson's

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Speaker 1: Me and Bobby McGee was a number one single for

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Speaker 1: two weeks. Paul Rothschild knew he'd never make another album

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Speaker 1: like it. In the night Janice died, Phil Graham shut

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Speaker 1: out the house lights at the Film or West when

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Speaker 1: he heard the news. It felt like he was shutting

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Speaker 1: the lights out on an era. In nineteen sixty eight,

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Speaker 1: Filmore and Geary to the corner of Market in van

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Speaker 1: Ness in order to meet the demand of more and

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Speaker 1: more concert cars. In the summer of nineteen seventy one,

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Speaker 1: he shut the lights off at the film Wore for

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Speaker 1: the last time. In Graham died when the helicopter he

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Speaker 1: was in encountered rough weather near Vallejo, California, and crashed

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Speaker 1: into a high voltage tower. He was sixty When Clyde

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Speaker 1: Davis first heard about Janice's death, he already had Janis

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Speaker 1: on the brain. Columbia's offices had just received a new

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Speaker 1: batch of Janie's previous lp. I got them Cosmic Blues again, Mama.

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Speaker 1: It was selling so well that he needed a rehab.

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Speaker 1: He probably still had Janis on the brain for years

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Speaker 1: and years after the fact, when he signed a who's

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Speaker 1: who of strong female artists, including a Wreatha Franklin, Dion Warwick,

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Speaker 1: Patti Smith, Taylor Dane, Alicia Keys, and Whitney Houston. He

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Speaker 1: is eight years old and currently holds the title of

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Speaker 1: Chief Creative Officer at Sony Music Entertainment. When Albert Grossman

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Speaker 1: first heard about Janie's death, he felt like he had

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Speaker 1: lost a daughter. The loss of Janis shook him to

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Speaker 1: his core, and he never really recovered. Soon after, Bob

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Speaker 1: Dylan fired Grossman following an especially tenuous stretch. The two

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Speaker 1: Grossman turned his focus to the recording studio and record

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Speaker 1: label Bearsville that he started in the Woodstock neck of

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Speaker 1: the New York Woods. He died of a heart attack

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Speaker 1: in six When Chris Christofferson first heard about Janie's death,

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Speaker 1: he was at Joan Bias Place in Carmel, the place

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Speaker 1: he had originally intended to visit that fateful day with

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Speaker 1: Bob Neworth when the Great Tequila Booge came knocking on

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Speaker 1: jan as a store. The next night, he joined a

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Speaker 1: crowd of Janiss friends at the Landmark Motor Hotel, where

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Speaker 1: someone played on Janie's recorded version of Me and Bobby

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Speaker 1: McGee for the first time in that moment. On every

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Speaker 1: time Christofferson played the song and sang the lines somewhere

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Speaker 1: near Selina's, he couldn't help but think of Janice. When

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Speaker 1: David Nihaus heard about Janis's death, it wasn't that night.

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Speaker 1: It was weeks after, possibly even months, and he heard

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Speaker 1: its second hand in a back issue of Time magazine

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Speaker 1: that he just happened to stumble upon while traveling through Afghanistan.

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Speaker 1: Seth Morgan, of course heard the news right away. He

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Speaker 1: went looking for liberation in his own twisted way, and

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Speaker 1: instead fell on increasingly harder times. He became addicted to

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Speaker 1: heroin and then became a pimp to support his addiction.

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Speaker 1: When that wasn't enough, he turned to armed robberies. He

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Speaker 1: did thirty months in the joint. He got sober and

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Speaker 1: wrote a novel called Homeboy. He took the book money

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Speaker 1: and started shooting cocaine and then on October nine, loaded

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Speaker 1: up on blow perkadan of a blood alcohol content three

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Speaker 1: times the legal limit, seth Morgan drove a motorcycle at

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Speaker 1: high speed into the Median Strip on a New Orleans bridge.

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Speaker 1: Both Morgan and his current girlfriend, who rode on the

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Speaker 1: back seat, were killed instantly. Janice Joplin's body was cremated

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Speaker 1: at her request and following a very private and very

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Speaker 1: intimate service attended only by immediate family. Just days after

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Speaker 1: her death, her ashes were scattered into the sea off

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Speaker 1: the coast of Marin County. The spot is one of

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Speaker 1: the windiest in the entire state of California, and the

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Speaker 1: single dramatic gusts her ashes were carried off by the wind,

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Speaker 1: flung from the edge of the world and into the

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Speaker 1: Grape Beyond with nothing holding them back. Janice Droplin spun

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Speaker 1: out in the California ether and into the consciousness of America.

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Speaker 1: She didn't so much adhere to the model live fast,

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Speaker 1: die young as she did live fast, die free, even

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Speaker 1: if she did die the tender age of and even

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Speaker 1: if it was only in death that she real it's

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