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 --> 00:00:07,920 Speaker 1: Radio and Double Elvis. Janice Joplin died at the age 3 00:00:07,920 --> 00:00:12,200 Speaker 1: of and she lived the life of constant change, for 4 00:00:12,320 --> 00:00:16,160 Speaker 1: both good and bad. I can give you twenty seven 5 00:00:16,200 --> 00:00:19,759 Speaker 1: reasons why that statement is true. Five would be the 6 00:00:19,800 --> 00:00:23,239 Speaker 1: number of musicians that comprised Big Brother in the Holding Company, 7 00:00:23,400 --> 00:00:26,159 Speaker 1: the band that put Janice in San Francisco at the 8 00:00:26,200 --> 00:00:29,800 Speaker 1: forefront of the rock and roll scene. Another four would 9 00:00:29,800 --> 00:00:32,840 Speaker 1: be the number of musicians that manager Albert Grossman would 10 00:00:32,840 --> 00:00:36,239 Speaker 1: soon find redundant when he became interested in taking on 11 00:00:36,400 --> 00:00:40,280 Speaker 1: Big Brother in the Holding Company as a client. Thirteen 12 00:00:40,360 --> 00:00:42,760 Speaker 1: more would be the age Janice was when she snuck 13 00:00:42,800 --> 00:00:45,479 Speaker 1: out of her house to see blues legend Etta James 14 00:00:45,560 --> 00:00:49,040 Speaker 1: perform in an adult venue, an experience that would shape 15 00:00:49,040 --> 00:00:52,600 Speaker 1: the way she would approach music performing an addiction years later. 16 00:00:53,560 --> 00:00:55,960 Speaker 1: Another two would be the number of hippie bands busted 17 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:58,600 Speaker 1: by the cops in just four days in San Francisco 18 00:00:58,680 --> 00:01:02,200 Speaker 1: in October nine six seven, the same week that street 19 00:01:02,240 --> 00:01:06,120 Speaker 1: activists declared the hippie movement dead in the water. And 20 00:01:06,319 --> 00:01:08,880 Speaker 1: three would be the number of years she had left 21 00:01:08,959 --> 00:01:12,400 Speaker 1: to live after she was introduced to the darkest, deadliest 22 00:01:12,400 --> 00:01:16,240 Speaker 1: addiction she would come to know heroin a k a. 23 00:01:16,800 --> 00:01:22,240 Speaker 1: The Awful and Mighty Schmiz. On this our sixth episode 24 00:01:22,280 --> 00:01:26,520 Speaker 1: of season three, Albert Gross death to hippies, schmis In, 25 00:01:26,640 --> 00:01:31,640 Speaker 1: Janice Joplin walking a winding path to liberation. I'm Jake 26 00:01:31,720 --> 00:02:15,120 Speaker 1: Brennan and this is the club. Edda James had no 27 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:18,240 Speaker 1: time to react. Within the blink of an eye, Etta 28 00:02:18,360 --> 00:02:22,040 Speaker 1: In her husband, Artist Mills, were surrounded on all sides 29 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:26,440 Speaker 1: by men with their fingers on triggers. San Antonio's finest 30 00:02:26,800 --> 00:02:29,600 Speaker 1: narcotics cops. Step out of the car. Up with your 31 00:02:29,600 --> 00:02:32,480 Speaker 1: hands where we can see them. Who did the cops 32 00:02:32,480 --> 00:02:35,760 Speaker 1: think that they were? Frank Lucas bringing in the swat 33 00:02:35,880 --> 00:02:38,320 Speaker 1: style heat for a blue singer and her main man. 34 00:02:39,320 --> 00:02:41,640 Speaker 1: Edda fought the glare of the setting sun and looked 35 00:02:41,639 --> 00:02:44,360 Speaker 1: through the sedan's front windshield to make the leader of 36 00:02:44,360 --> 00:02:49,320 Speaker 1: the drug squad, wild Bill, the notorious narcotics officer. They 37 00:02:49,360 --> 00:02:52,200 Speaker 1: called him wild Bill because his man hunts frequently ended 38 00:02:52,200 --> 00:02:56,200 Speaker 1: in dramatic shootouts. Eda and Artists had nowhere to run. 39 00:02:57,040 --> 00:03:00,000 Speaker 1: They were in a San Antonio alleyway they'd been cruising 40 00:03:00,160 --> 00:03:02,120 Speaker 1: looking for the man and there was a hook up 41 00:03:02,160 --> 00:03:04,880 Speaker 1: along these back alleys, a guy with a short sleeve 42 00:03:04,919 --> 00:03:08,600 Speaker 1: button up pasty shirt and while lapel a crucifix around 43 00:03:08,639 --> 00:03:11,520 Speaker 1: his neck ox blood shoes. He knew it was him 44 00:03:11,560 --> 00:03:14,240 Speaker 1: because he was always flipping a plane card in his hands. 45 00:03:15,080 --> 00:03:18,000 Speaker 1: And then the cops came out of nowhere. Patrol cars 46 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:20,160 Speaker 1: at either end of the alley. Eda an Artist were 47 00:03:20,200 --> 00:03:25,120 Speaker 1: tried sirens, lights, angry voices through standard tissue megaphones. Step 48 00:03:25,120 --> 00:03:29,520 Speaker 1: out of the car. Now Edda looked down at her 49 00:03:29,520 --> 00:03:32,480 Speaker 1: hands from where she sat in the passenger seat. She 50 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:36,480 Speaker 1: was holding two balloons of heroin her hands shook. How 51 00:03:36,480 --> 00:03:38,960 Speaker 1: the funk were they getting rid of this ship? And 52 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:41,000 Speaker 1: why the hell were they cruising for more dope? And 53 00:03:41,040 --> 00:03:42,920 Speaker 1: they had enough to get them by right here in 54 00:03:42,960 --> 00:03:47,080 Speaker 1: her hands. Her hands shook more rapidly. Now Artists kept 55 00:03:47,080 --> 00:03:49,320 Speaker 1: his right foot on the brake and massaged the steering 56 00:03:49,360 --> 00:03:52,960 Speaker 1: wheel compulsively with sweaty hands, something to keep his mind 57 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:55,520 Speaker 1: off of what was happening, what was about to happen, 58 00:03:55,640 --> 00:03:58,880 Speaker 1: and what he was about to do. The cops started 59 00:03:58,880 --> 00:04:02,280 Speaker 1: an inch closer, now crouched in their action positions, and 60 00:04:02,320 --> 00:04:04,200 Speaker 1: there were at least five guns pointed at the car. 61 00:04:04,280 --> 00:04:07,280 Speaker 1: When Artists made the decision, his knuckles went white. He 62 00:04:07,400 --> 00:04:11,040 Speaker 1: inhaled deeply, held it for about five seconds, and then exhale. 63 00:04:11,320 --> 00:04:14,119 Speaker 1: He turned to Eda and said under his breath, give 64 00:04:14,120 --> 00:04:17,320 Speaker 1: me the ship. At A stared at him in disbelief. 65 00:04:17,320 --> 00:04:19,880 Speaker 1: Her hands were vibrating now, and the cops drew in 66 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:23,560 Speaker 1: tighter the ship, Give me the ship now. At Eda 67 00:04:23,600 --> 00:04:26,520 Speaker 1: held onto the balloons even tighter. Now she knew what 68 00:04:26,680 --> 00:04:28,880 Speaker 1: Artist was thinking, and she wasn't going to just hand 69 00:04:28,880 --> 00:04:31,240 Speaker 1: it over to him without thinking it through. But she 70 00:04:31,279 --> 00:04:33,720 Speaker 1: had no time. She turned her head to the front 71 00:04:33,720 --> 00:04:36,160 Speaker 1: of the car again, saw a wild Bill's finger go 72 00:04:36,200 --> 00:04:40,120 Speaker 1: all itchy on his pistols trigger, and then Artists reached 73 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:42,479 Speaker 1: over to grab the balloons of dope from his wife's 74 00:04:42,520 --> 00:04:46,000 Speaker 1: hands and stuck them deep into his jeans pockets. He 75 00:04:46,120 --> 00:04:48,960 Speaker 1: put the Sitan in park, opened the driver's side door, 76 00:04:49,279 --> 00:04:51,719 Speaker 1: stepped out with his hands up, and felt the front 77 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:54,240 Speaker 1: end of the car eat his abdomen when wild Bill 78 00:04:54,279 --> 00:04:59,719 Speaker 1: shoved him mercilessly onto the hood. Artists would take the fall, 79 00:05:00,160 --> 00:05:02,760 Speaker 1: He said, the heroine was his and his alone, and 80 00:05:02,760 --> 00:05:05,200 Speaker 1: they sent him to prison for ten years. It was 81 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:09,320 Speaker 1: nineteen seventy two, Etta James was thirty two years old. 82 00:05:09,920 --> 00:05:12,919 Speaker 1: She would wind up in the Tarzana Psychiatric Hospital for 83 00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:16,760 Speaker 1: seventeen months back in California, and then to court ordered 84 00:05:16,800 --> 00:05:20,400 Speaker 1: rehab for Etta James, one of the greatest and also 85 00:05:20,480 --> 00:05:22,839 Speaker 1: one of the most troubled blues singers of all time. 86 00:05:23,240 --> 00:05:26,400 Speaker 1: The bust in San Antonio was just the latest twist 87 00:05:26,440 --> 00:05:30,440 Speaker 1: in a turbulent life of ups and downs. She was 88 00:05:30,480 --> 00:05:34,880 Speaker 1: born James Etta Hawkins in Los Angeles in to a 89 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:38,239 Speaker 1: mother who was only fourteen years old. She was told 90 00:05:38,279 --> 00:05:41,599 Speaker 1: that her father was Minnesota Fats, the legendary pool hustler, 91 00:05:41,680 --> 00:05:45,000 Speaker 1: but she could never confirm it. As a kid, Edta 92 00:05:45,080 --> 00:05:48,240 Speaker 1: was a great singer and a juvenile delinquent, though not 93 00:05:48,320 --> 00:05:51,600 Speaker 1: always in that order. At fifteen, she was discovered by 94 00:05:51,640 --> 00:05:54,920 Speaker 1: band leader Johnny Otis, who flip flopped her first name 95 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:58,560 Speaker 1: to give her her stage name, James Etta Etta James, 96 00:05:59,279 --> 00:06:01,080 Speaker 1: and by the time she was twenty one she was 97 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:04,240 Speaker 1: recording for Chess Records. She had also developed a heroin 98 00:06:04,360 --> 00:06:07,599 Speaker 1: habit to threaten to derail her entire career. She fought 99 00:06:07,640 --> 00:06:10,600 Speaker 1: back from heroin briefly and from her professional slump. In 100 00:06:10,720 --> 00:06:14,640 Speaker 1: ninety seven, when Chess center to Muscle Shoals, Alabama to 101 00:06:14,680 --> 00:06:18,960 Speaker 1: record with Rick Hall at the Seminal Fame Studios, Leonard 102 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:21,760 Speaker 1: Chess hoped the change in scenery would help keep Eda's 103 00:06:21,760 --> 00:06:24,839 Speaker 1: mind off junk and focus on making the label some money. 104 00:06:25,279 --> 00:06:28,359 Speaker 1: One of the songs from those sessions, Tell Mama, was 105 00:06:28,440 --> 00:06:32,880 Speaker 1: exactly what the doctor ordered along with at Last. Tell 106 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:36,160 Speaker 1: Mama would become one of Eda's signature tunes, peaking at 107 00:06:36,240 --> 00:06:38,279 Speaker 1: number ten on the R and B Chart and at 108 00:06:38,360 --> 00:06:41,679 Speaker 1: number twenty three on the Billboard Hot One, the highest 109 00:06:41,680 --> 00:06:43,960 Speaker 1: she'd ever make it on the pop charts. Though it 110 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:47,800 Speaker 1: provided her temporary reprieve from her addictions, the hit wasn't 111 00:06:47,839 --> 00:06:52,279 Speaker 1: able to deliver her entirely from her demons. Janice Joplin 112 00:06:52,320 --> 00:06:54,760 Speaker 1: had more than a few things in common with Edda James. 113 00:06:55,120 --> 00:06:58,760 Speaker 1: They were both hard headed, both fought addictions throughout their lifetime. 114 00:06:58,960 --> 00:07:02,839 Speaker 1: Both sang the Blue was like Nobody's business. One of 115 00:07:02,920 --> 00:07:06,400 Speaker 1: Janice's earliest memories of a woman commanding a stage, in fact, 116 00:07:06,480 --> 00:07:08,240 Speaker 1: was a show at a played at the Big Tin 117 00:07:08,360 --> 00:07:13,280 Speaker 1: Ballroom in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in the mid fifties. Edda, as usual, 118 00:07:13,440 --> 00:07:16,120 Speaker 1: was in charge every set of ears and eyes there 119 00:07:16,160 --> 00:07:19,000 Speaker 1: were under her spell. Janice was out on another of 120 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:21,880 Speaker 1: her late night under the radar sneaks, soaking up the 121 00:07:21,960 --> 00:07:26,120 Speaker 1: sights and sounds of destinations that were decidedly not for kids. 122 00:07:27,200 --> 00:07:30,200 Speaker 1: The big tin was all cigarette smoke and spilled booze, 123 00:07:30,440 --> 00:07:32,760 Speaker 1: the smell of an undercut by the odor refer that 124 00:07:32,920 --> 00:07:37,320 Speaker 1: wafted from inside the bathrooms and backstage dressing rooms. Janice 125 00:07:37,360 --> 00:07:39,640 Speaker 1: podded through the crowd like a dogwood flower that had 126 00:07:39,640 --> 00:07:42,440 Speaker 1: fallen into a river and was passed from current to current, 127 00:07:42,760 --> 00:07:45,920 Speaker 1: shore to shore, Eddie to Eddie, its pedals pulled in 128 00:07:45,960 --> 00:07:49,239 Speaker 1: every direction. She went right to the source that night. 129 00:07:49,720 --> 00:07:52,200 Speaker 1: First she passed by a couple making out against the 130 00:07:52,320 --> 00:07:54,560 Speaker 1: edge of the bar. She bumped into a fight that 131 00:07:54,600 --> 00:07:56,559 Speaker 1: had broken out at one of the tables, and nearly 132 00:07:56,560 --> 00:07:59,080 Speaker 1: took an empty bottle of bourbon into the face. The 133 00:07:59,160 --> 00:08:02,560 Speaker 1: room rollicked, the shouts and murmurs, curse words and cat calls, 134 00:08:02,720 --> 00:08:07,120 Speaker 1: hustles and proposals. She asserted herself all the way backstage 135 00:08:07,360 --> 00:08:09,480 Speaker 1: and straight to the dressing room door that would get 136 00:08:09,480 --> 00:08:12,320 Speaker 1: her a few minutes of FaceTime with Miss James herself. 137 00:08:13,280 --> 00:08:15,800 Speaker 1: She would tell Mama all about it, and she wanted 138 00:08:15,840 --> 00:08:20,320 Speaker 1: Mama to tell her to. Years later, in nineteen sixty nine, 139 00:08:20,600 --> 00:08:23,600 Speaker 1: Janice Choplin once again found herself in the same room 140 00:08:23,640 --> 00:08:26,480 Speaker 1: as one of her idols, Etta James, again and this 141 00:08:26,520 --> 00:08:28,800 Speaker 1: time as a fly on the wall and Ata's latest 142 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:32,160 Speaker 1: recording session. It was one of Edda's first sessions after 143 00:08:32,200 --> 00:08:34,920 Speaker 1: the famed studio states that had yelled and tell Mama 144 00:08:35,280 --> 00:08:38,440 Speaker 1: that After one particularly gritty take, Edda looked into the 145 00:08:38,440 --> 00:08:40,840 Speaker 1: control room and saw a white woman sitting next to 146 00:08:40,840 --> 00:08:43,520 Speaker 1: the console. She wore a puffy fur coat and some 147 00:08:43,559 --> 00:08:45,679 Speaker 1: sort of hat that looked like a dead animal draped 148 00:08:45,720 --> 00:08:48,040 Speaker 1: across the top of her head. I thought this is 149 00:08:48,080 --> 00:08:51,040 Speaker 1: a private session, she said to the piano player standing 150 00:08:51,080 --> 00:08:54,120 Speaker 1: next to her, Who the funk is this? Jame? She 151 00:08:54,160 --> 00:08:56,800 Speaker 1: didn't remember Janice Choplin, the teen who came to her 152 00:08:56,880 --> 00:08:59,800 Speaker 1: dressing room and Tulsa to pay homage all those years before, 153 00:09:00,440 --> 00:09:03,079 Speaker 1: And she didn't know Janice Joplin, the hippie rock goddess, 154 00:09:03,120 --> 00:09:05,240 Speaker 1: because she didn't pay attention to that sort of thing. 155 00:09:07,280 --> 00:09:10,959 Speaker 1: The following year, Janice who dig deep, real deep all 156 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:13,800 Speaker 1: the way back to that night in Tulsa to perform 157 00:09:13,840 --> 00:09:16,600 Speaker 1: one of the most indelible versions of Telling Mama delivered 158 00:09:16,600 --> 00:09:19,280 Speaker 1: by Edda James or anyone during a date on the 159 00:09:19,320 --> 00:09:22,600 Speaker 1: Festival Express tour of Canada with The Grateful Dead. She 160 00:09:22,720 --> 00:09:25,080 Speaker 1: delivered the song at the peak of her powers, in 161 00:09:25,120 --> 00:09:27,760 Speaker 1: the height of her fame. She was transcending Edda and 162 00:09:27,800 --> 00:09:30,559 Speaker 1: Bessie Smith and Big Mama Thornton and all the female 163 00:09:30,600 --> 00:09:33,439 Speaker 1: singers she had been inspired by. And that moment was 164 00:09:33,480 --> 00:09:36,120 Speaker 1: all made possible by a manager who saw her talent 165 00:09:36,320 --> 00:09:39,199 Speaker 1: and her potential. It made her a deal, but there 166 00:09:39,240 --> 00:09:42,319 Speaker 1: were a few caveats. She had to uphold her into 167 00:09:42,320 --> 00:09:45,080 Speaker 1: the bargain if she wanted to reach the top. So 168 00:09:45,160 --> 00:10:15,719 Speaker 1: she promised that she would. There's no such thing as 169 00:10:15,760 --> 00:10:20,120 Speaker 1: an honest man. That was Albert Grossman talking. He was 170 00:10:20,160 --> 00:10:22,880 Speaker 1: in her head. He'd been in her head since Monterey Pop, 171 00:10:23,240 --> 00:10:26,000 Speaker 1: probably even before that. He'd been in her head since 172 00:10:26,040 --> 00:10:28,160 Speaker 1: the time she first took notice of the Big Man, 173 00:10:28,480 --> 00:10:31,680 Speaker 1: the older man who stood in Bob Dylan's shadow. He 174 00:10:31,800 --> 00:10:35,520 Speaker 1: wasn't just in Dylan's shadow. He filled the square footage 175 00:10:35,520 --> 00:10:38,760 Speaker 1: of that shadow. And then some they called him the Bear. 176 00:10:38,840 --> 00:10:42,880 Speaker 1: And this was why he ate shadows. When she panicked 177 00:10:42,880 --> 00:10:45,240 Speaker 1: at Monterey in sixty seven because she found out that 178 00:10:45,280 --> 00:10:47,240 Speaker 1: she wasn't going to be included in d A. Penna 179 00:10:47,240 --> 00:10:51,080 Speaker 1: Baker's documentary thanks to her deluded money hungry manager. Janice 180 00:10:51,160 --> 00:10:55,600 Speaker 1: Joplin found Grossman backstage and asked for his help. Grossman 181 00:10:55,800 --> 00:10:59,079 Speaker 1: was Gotham slick, Metropolis slick. The guy was a fucking 182 00:10:59,080 --> 00:11:02,800 Speaker 1: superhero and a decidedly on hip suit. He was part 183 00:11:02,840 --> 00:11:04,880 Speaker 1: of the machine, not too far off from one of 184 00:11:04,880 --> 00:11:07,880 Speaker 1: the shady Los Angelenos running the show, and the San 185 00:11:07,920 --> 00:11:11,320 Speaker 1: Franciscans had been instructed to always be skeptical of that type. 186 00:11:11,720 --> 00:11:14,679 Speaker 1: And that type was a buck making type, nothing else. 187 00:11:15,360 --> 00:11:18,400 Speaker 1: Grossman made the bucks because he was ruthless, and Janice 188 00:11:18,480 --> 00:11:21,400 Speaker 1: needed to bend the year of a ruthless man. Teach me, 189 00:11:21,600 --> 00:11:23,640 Speaker 1: she seemed to say to him with her desperate eyes. 190 00:11:24,040 --> 00:11:28,440 Speaker 1: Teach me to be ruthless. There's no such thing as 191 00:11:28,480 --> 00:11:31,559 Speaker 1: an honest man, he told Janice. She assumed he was 192 00:11:31,600 --> 00:11:34,480 Speaker 1: including himself in that statement. He told her how to 193 00:11:34,520 --> 00:11:38,240 Speaker 1: handle Big Brothers manager Julius Carpet, and so she did. 194 00:11:38,480 --> 00:11:40,160 Speaker 1: He told her to hit the guy where it hurt, 195 00:11:40,240 --> 00:11:42,679 Speaker 1: in the back pocket, and that's where he kept his wallet, 196 00:11:42,840 --> 00:11:44,880 Speaker 1: And so she did, and she wound up one of 197 00:11:44,880 --> 00:11:47,840 Speaker 1: the most talked about performers in Penna Baker's film. She 198 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:51,000 Speaker 1: carried Grossman's fatherly advice around with her, kept it in 199 00:11:51,080 --> 00:11:53,480 Speaker 1: her back pocket, and she used it again when it 200 00:11:53,520 --> 00:11:57,600 Speaker 1: was absolutely necessary. Julius's next bush lead move was to 201 00:11:57,640 --> 00:12:00,080 Speaker 1: pull Big brother out of a Bill Graham produced bill 202 00:12:00,120 --> 00:12:03,040 Speaker 1: at the Hollywood Bowl, a show called Bill Graham Presents 203 00:12:03,080 --> 00:12:06,800 Speaker 1: the San Francisco Sound with the Dead and the Airplane headlining, 204 00:12:07,160 --> 00:12:10,360 Speaker 1: and Julius pulled them days before the show. Bill Graham 205 00:12:10,400 --> 00:12:13,000 Speaker 1: had made nice with Janice, put the whole local ragship 206 00:12:13,040 --> 00:12:15,800 Speaker 1: talk thing behind them, because he realized Janice would make 207 00:12:15,840 --> 00:12:18,040 Speaker 1: him more money by playing his venue than not playing 208 00:12:18,120 --> 00:12:21,120 Speaker 1: his venue. And this Hollywood Bowl thing was a getman, 209 00:12:21,240 --> 00:12:24,720 Speaker 1: a big get. But Julius, his infinite wisdom, outdone only 210 00:12:24,760 --> 00:12:27,440 Speaker 1: by his short sighted woe is Me game. Fuck that 211 00:12:27,559 --> 00:12:31,360 Speaker 1: up real good, and Julius blamed Graham said. Graham cut 212 00:12:31,400 --> 00:12:33,560 Speaker 1: Big Brothers set time in half at the last minute, 213 00:12:33,720 --> 00:12:36,360 Speaker 1: so Julius countered by pulling the band at the last minute, 214 00:12:36,440 --> 00:12:39,480 Speaker 1: and Julius thought he had the upper hand. Graham laughed 215 00:12:39,520 --> 00:12:41,800 Speaker 1: him off. He didn't have time for the bush league 216 00:12:42,559 --> 00:12:45,440 Speaker 1: Julius saved face by throwing the band under the bus. 217 00:12:45,679 --> 00:12:48,760 Speaker 1: The press, in turn placed the blame squarely on Janis 218 00:12:48,760 --> 00:12:52,200 Speaker 1: and Big Brother, and then the public eight or alive. 219 00:12:53,040 --> 00:12:55,640 Speaker 1: It was typical Janie, they said, this is exactly what 220 00:12:55,760 --> 00:12:57,960 Speaker 1: she did. A coffee and confusion and all those joints. 221 00:12:58,040 --> 00:13:01,160 Speaker 1: Years ago, Janice was to be high and asbian bars somewhere. 222 00:13:01,840 --> 00:13:04,679 Speaker 1: Janice was livid. First of all, who give a ship 223 00:13:04,800 --> 00:13:07,040 Speaker 1: where she went or who she hung out with? Women? 224 00:13:07,120 --> 00:13:09,720 Speaker 1: Men men women? Why was that anyone's business? It was 225 00:13:09,800 --> 00:13:13,520 Speaker 1: nine sixty seven, the funk up. Second of all, Julius, 226 00:13:13,640 --> 00:13:16,800 Speaker 1: That motherfucker had to go. Third, she had just the 227 00:13:16,800 --> 00:13:19,440 Speaker 1: guy who could take over as a Big Brother's proper manager, 228 00:13:19,880 --> 00:13:22,360 Speaker 1: the bear. She could make it happen, she was sure. 229 00:13:22,800 --> 00:13:25,120 Speaker 1: And fourth, fun those people who said she was blowing 230 00:13:25,120 --> 00:13:27,080 Speaker 1: off a show to go get lifted. Not that she 231 00:13:27,200 --> 00:13:29,280 Speaker 1: wasn't getting high, but she was learning how to balance 232 00:13:29,360 --> 00:13:31,560 Speaker 1: one thing so that it didn't totally interfere with the 233 00:13:31,600 --> 00:13:35,400 Speaker 1: other thing. She could do both. All these thoughts bounced 234 00:13:35,400 --> 00:13:37,320 Speaker 1: around in her head as she closed her eyes to 235 00:13:37,360 --> 00:13:40,160 Speaker 1: pull the needle from her arm, relaxed the belt, and 236 00:13:40,320 --> 00:13:44,160 Speaker 1: slunk back in her chair. I think positive, she told herself. 237 00:13:44,559 --> 00:13:46,640 Speaker 1: The rush of the junk hitting her now like a 238 00:13:46,679 --> 00:13:49,920 Speaker 1: giant Persian rug enveloping her from the ceiling on down. 239 00:13:50,520 --> 00:13:52,680 Speaker 1: She kept her eyes closed so that she could see 240 00:13:52,720 --> 00:13:55,400 Speaker 1: this rug and not just feel it. It felt so real. 241 00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:59,520 Speaker 1: And then something changed and she felt shame. She felt 242 00:13:59,520 --> 00:14:01,920 Speaker 1: like she was doing something wrong. She felt like she 243 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:05,040 Speaker 1: was hiding something, like she was living alive. And she 244 00:14:05,200 --> 00:14:07,960 Speaker 1: was back to thinking about Albert Grossman. He was in 245 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:12,200 Speaker 1: her head again. There's no such thing as an honest man. 246 00:14:12,840 --> 00:14:15,120 Speaker 1: You want to talk about honest men, like how long 247 00:14:15,160 --> 00:14:18,680 Speaker 1: had Girlely been holding out on her? James Gurley, big 248 00:14:18,720 --> 00:14:21,640 Speaker 1: Brother's lead guitarist, had taken the dive into the deep 249 00:14:21,760 --> 00:14:24,120 Speaker 1: end at some point and started to funk around with heroin. 250 00:14:24,720 --> 00:14:26,800 Speaker 1: First he did it alone, and then he did it 251 00:14:26,840 --> 00:14:29,680 Speaker 1: with some friends, friends who weren't in the band, and 252 00:14:29,720 --> 00:14:32,720 Speaker 1: then girle and Janice, who were backstage in Huntington Beach 253 00:14:32,760 --> 00:14:35,200 Speaker 1: after a show with Big Mama Thornton of all people 254 00:14:35,360 --> 00:14:38,560 Speaker 1: that Blues Godess herself and Girly teased out of bagging 255 00:14:38,720 --> 00:14:41,880 Speaker 1: between his thumb and his forefinger. It dangled, and he 256 00:14:41,920 --> 00:14:44,360 Speaker 1: asked Janice if she wanted to go higher than speed, 257 00:14:44,640 --> 00:14:48,000 Speaker 1: higher than meth. She thought about Julius throwing her under 258 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:50,120 Speaker 1: the bus, about what the public said about her, about 259 00:14:50,120 --> 00:14:52,880 Speaker 1: Peter to Blank and Port Arthur, and her parents, what 260 00:14:52,960 --> 00:14:54,680 Speaker 1: everyone had said about her from time to time as 261 00:14:54,680 --> 00:14:57,080 Speaker 1: she struggled to escape what she once was and become 262 00:14:57,120 --> 00:14:59,880 Speaker 1: when she was meant to be. Fuck yeah, she wanted 263 00:14:59,880 --> 00:15:03,320 Speaker 1: to go higher, So she took the bat. Now she 264 00:15:03,400 --> 00:15:06,560 Speaker 1: was thinking about Grossman again, and about his rule, his 265 00:15:06,720 --> 00:15:08,600 Speaker 1: one rule that he had if he was going to 266 00:15:08,640 --> 00:15:11,440 Speaker 1: become their manager, he would take them places they've never 267 00:15:11,520 --> 00:15:14,760 Speaker 1: been before, make them more famous than their wildest dreams. 268 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:17,480 Speaker 1: He even thought that Janie had a standalone career that 269 00:15:17,560 --> 00:15:19,960 Speaker 1: didn't involve the guys in the band, to be quite honest, 270 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:22,600 Speaker 1: but he and Janice were keeping that hush hush for now. 271 00:15:22,960 --> 00:15:27,800 Speaker 1: He had one rule, No schmis, He had to elaborate 272 00:15:27,840 --> 00:15:31,840 Speaker 1: what he told them. Schmis, you know, dope jump heroine. 273 00:15:32,800 --> 00:15:36,040 Speaker 1: Grossman insisted he had his reasons. He saw the toll 274 00:15:36,120 --> 00:15:39,280 Speaker 1: it took on brilliant musicians. His first wife died of 275 00:15:39,320 --> 00:15:42,920 Speaker 1: an overdose. He took it personally, and the band said yes, 276 00:15:43,240 --> 00:15:45,800 Speaker 1: and they agreed. They said they wouldn't touch the stuff. 277 00:15:46,280 --> 00:15:49,880 Speaker 1: Janis and Girly shot conspiratorial glances at one another behind 278 00:15:49,880 --> 00:15:53,840 Speaker 1: Grossman's back. Grossman doubled all their salaries two hundred a week. 279 00:15:54,120 --> 00:15:56,680 Speaker 1: He told them he was close with Clive Davis at Columbia. 280 00:15:56,800 --> 00:15:58,520 Speaker 1: He told him he was gonna work on Clive to 281 00:15:58,600 --> 00:16:00,480 Speaker 1: buy the band out of their shitty can tracked with 282 00:16:00,480 --> 00:16:04,080 Speaker 1: Bob shadd and mainstream records. He just needed time. But 283 00:16:04,160 --> 00:16:07,080 Speaker 1: if anyone could do it, it was Albert Grossman. It 284 00:16:07,200 --> 00:16:10,280 Speaker 1: was the bear. Grossman was twenty years older than the 285 00:16:10,320 --> 00:16:13,720 Speaker 1: bands he managed. He wore sweater vests and tweeted coats, 286 00:16:13,920 --> 00:16:16,760 Speaker 1: salt and pepper hair. Dylan said he was like Sydney 287 00:16:16,760 --> 00:16:19,480 Speaker 1: green Street in the Maltese Falcon. He looked like the 288 00:16:19,560 --> 00:16:21,760 Speaker 1: hip uncle of the rock scene, the one who had 289 00:16:21,800 --> 00:16:25,080 Speaker 1: good taste, deep pockets, and two distinct sides, the one 290 00:16:25,120 --> 00:16:27,000 Speaker 1: he wanted to be on and the one you wouldn't 291 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:29,520 Speaker 1: want to be caught dead on. He didn't funk around, 292 00:16:29,800 --> 00:16:32,360 Speaker 1: not with his clients, not even with his ex clients. 293 00:16:32,600 --> 00:16:34,480 Speaker 1: He would spend the better part of the late seventies 294 00:16:34,480 --> 00:16:36,640 Speaker 1: and early eighties tied up in a legal battle with Dylan. 295 00:16:36,640 --> 00:16:39,160 Speaker 1: When Dylan decided that he wasn't gonna work on Grossman's 296 00:16:39,160 --> 00:16:43,640 Speaker 1: farm no more. Grossman was from Chicago. He opened one 297 00:16:43,680 --> 00:16:46,280 Speaker 1: of the first folk clubs in the country. He launched 298 00:16:46,320 --> 00:16:50,000 Speaker 1: the Newport Folk Festival. He made Woodstock, New York, the 299 00:16:50,200 --> 00:16:52,560 Speaker 1: place to see and be seen as a musician in 300 00:16:52,600 --> 00:16:57,200 Speaker 1: the late sixties, specifically Bearsville, a hamlet where he established 301 00:16:57,200 --> 00:17:00,720 Speaker 1: a recording studio and a record label. Grossman reinvented what 302 00:17:00,760 --> 00:17:03,120 Speaker 1: it meant to manage a performing artist, and he did 303 00:17:03,160 --> 00:17:06,679 Speaker 1: so while spearheading the careers of Odetta, Peter, Paul and Mary, 304 00:17:06,680 --> 00:17:10,080 Speaker 1: and the artist formerly known as Robert Zimmerman. In late 305 00:17:10,160 --> 00:17:13,000 Speaker 1: nineteen sixty seven, he followed in the steps of his 306 00:17:13,119 --> 00:17:16,200 Speaker 1: number one client and went electric. He turned his attention 307 00:17:16,240 --> 00:17:19,000 Speaker 1: from the folk east to the rockers, Paul Butterfield, the 308 00:17:19,040 --> 00:17:22,320 Speaker 1: Electric Flag the band. He didn't have anyone from San 309 00:17:22,359 --> 00:17:26,120 Speaker 1: Francisco on his roster. Janie and Big Brother changed that. 310 00:17:26,640 --> 00:17:29,640 Speaker 1: But Grossman didn't really want Big Brother in the holding company. 311 00:17:29,840 --> 00:17:32,439 Speaker 1: He wasn't much interested in Girl, or in Sam Andrew 312 00:17:32,520 --> 00:17:35,960 Speaker 1: or Peter Alban or Dave gets. Grossmand wanted Janice, and 313 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:38,840 Speaker 1: Grossman thought that Janice's true success was out on her 314 00:17:38,840 --> 00:17:41,919 Speaker 1: own and that Big Brother was holding her back. He 315 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:44,919 Speaker 1: thought his biggest challenge would be extracted Janice from her band, 316 00:17:45,320 --> 00:17:47,800 Speaker 1: but it turned out to keeping her head above water 317 00:17:48,040 --> 00:17:50,640 Speaker 1: and out of the schmis would be the biggest challenge 318 00:17:50,640 --> 00:17:59,040 Speaker 1: of all. We'll be right back after this word word word. 319 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:09,520 Speaker 1: Janice was the first one to spot the cops from 320 00:18:09,520 --> 00:18:13,440 Speaker 1: the stage. They weren't even trying to be incognito. Their 321 00:18:13,440 --> 00:18:16,800 Speaker 1: heads were held high and their posture was rock solid. 322 00:18:17,040 --> 00:18:20,400 Speaker 1: They were looking for trouble. They wanted trouble to notice them. 323 00:18:20,440 --> 00:18:22,120 Speaker 1: Walk up to them and ask them what the funk 324 00:18:22,200 --> 00:18:24,520 Speaker 1: they were doing there? Give them a reason to show 325 00:18:24,560 --> 00:18:27,120 Speaker 1: them what the funk they were doing there. Janie could 326 00:18:27,119 --> 00:18:30,080 Speaker 1: see it in their eyes. One of the cops looked 327 00:18:30,080 --> 00:18:32,800 Speaker 1: straight at her and made eye contact. He kept his 328 00:18:32,840 --> 00:18:35,240 Speaker 1: eyes on her and leaned into The shorter cop next 329 00:18:35,240 --> 00:18:37,960 Speaker 1: to him, shouted into his ear and pointed at Janie. 330 00:18:38,720 --> 00:18:41,200 Speaker 1: She didn't know what exactly was about to happen next, 331 00:18:41,240 --> 00:18:47,119 Speaker 1: but she didn't like it. October nine, San Francisco, the 332 00:18:47,200 --> 00:18:51,200 Speaker 1: Matrix nightclub, Janis and Big Brother were in the middle 333 00:18:51,200 --> 00:18:54,000 Speaker 1: of combination of the two the frenetic rocker that they 334 00:18:54,080 --> 00:18:56,320 Speaker 1: used to kick a show off in high gear, or 335 00:18:56,400 --> 00:18:59,480 Speaker 1: to jump start a crowd that was dragging. Janis and 336 00:18:59,520 --> 00:19:02,240 Speaker 1: Sam Andrew stood next to each other and both hollered 337 00:19:02,280 --> 00:19:06,880 Speaker 1: into one microphone. Janison Sam's voice were a siren call. 338 00:19:07,240 --> 00:19:12,040 Speaker 1: The audience responded hips shimmying and long hair flailing around wildly. 339 00:19:12,560 --> 00:19:14,960 Speaker 1: Those that were truly lost in the music didn't even 340 00:19:14,960 --> 00:19:19,000 Speaker 1: notice the blue Shirts. Cops didn't just come, especially an 341 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:21,760 Speaker 1: indoor rock show, especially show at the Matrix out on 342 00:19:21,800 --> 00:19:26,200 Speaker 1: Fillmore Stream. That place was crawling with countercultural revolutionaries, beat 343 00:19:26,280 --> 00:19:29,439 Speaker 1: nix and hippies and burnouts and dropouts reigned supreme. The 344 00:19:29,520 --> 00:19:33,639 Speaker 1: police were not welcome. The Matrix was owned and operated 345 00:19:33,640 --> 00:19:37,040 Speaker 1: by musicians. Marty Ballin of Jefferson Airplane had a stake. 346 00:19:37,400 --> 00:19:39,919 Speaker 1: It was small, and the ceilings were low, and there 347 00:19:39,960 --> 00:19:42,640 Speaker 1: was a giant mural the four Horsemen of the Apocalypse 348 00:19:42,640 --> 00:19:45,440 Speaker 1: on the wall. Hunter rest Thompson sculpt around the joint 349 00:19:45,480 --> 00:19:49,600 Speaker 1: after consulting his briefcase of illicit substances. Like the other 350 00:19:49,640 --> 00:19:52,399 Speaker 1: live music venues in San Francisco, it felt like a 351 00:19:52,480 --> 00:19:55,159 Speaker 1: place where the freaks could gather with like minded freaks 352 00:19:55,160 --> 00:19:58,560 Speaker 1: and freaked. The funk Out was a refuge a safe house, 353 00:19:58,760 --> 00:20:01,240 Speaker 1: a place where they could all be free. All it 354 00:20:01,280 --> 00:20:04,040 Speaker 1: took was a couple of officers of the law started 355 00:20:04,040 --> 00:20:07,080 Speaker 1: blue shirts and thumbs resting on their basic black belts 356 00:20:07,119 --> 00:20:09,639 Speaker 1: just a little too close to their loaded standard issue 357 00:20:09,680 --> 00:20:13,000 Speaker 1: weapon to ruin the entire vibe, and the cop kept 358 00:20:13,040 --> 00:20:16,160 Speaker 1: his eyes locked on Janice. He motioned to the shorter cop, 359 00:20:16,280 --> 00:20:18,200 Speaker 1: who went over to the wall and turned on all 360 00:20:18,240 --> 00:20:21,800 Speaker 1: the house slights and the oblivious dancers and the crowd paused. 361 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:24,720 Speaker 1: They knew something was up now, and the cop raised 362 00:20:24,720 --> 00:20:27,760 Speaker 1: his hand, flattened out like a knife, in motioned nearest throat, 363 00:20:28,080 --> 00:20:32,439 Speaker 1: and then Janice knew they were shutting them down. The 364 00:20:32,520 --> 00:20:34,760 Speaker 1: sun had barely said on the Summer of Love when 365 00:20:34,800 --> 00:20:38,199 Speaker 1: the Hippie dream began to draw its final breaths. First 366 00:20:38,400 --> 00:20:41,000 Speaker 1: George Harrison sounded the alarm when he came to town. 367 00:20:41,560 --> 00:20:44,760 Speaker 1: The scene was turning grass and LSD and quickly given 368 00:20:44,800 --> 00:20:48,240 Speaker 1: way to heroin, math and barbiturates. The scene was curdling 369 00:20:48,320 --> 00:20:51,040 Speaker 1: right in front of the quiet Beetle. The Diggers, that 370 00:20:51,160 --> 00:20:54,040 Speaker 1: ragtag group of social street warriors so central to the 371 00:20:54,080 --> 00:20:58,440 Speaker 1: San Francithos, posted a parade that they called Death of hippie. 372 00:20:58,680 --> 00:21:01,480 Speaker 1: It happened on the afternoon into Big Brothers Matrix show. 373 00:21:01,800 --> 00:21:04,880 Speaker 1: They carried a symbolic casket through the hate. The casket 374 00:21:04,920 --> 00:21:07,640 Speaker 1: was filled with beads and sense flowers, even long hair 375 00:21:07,720 --> 00:21:10,240 Speaker 1: that some of the group had cut donated. And they 376 00:21:10,320 --> 00:21:12,800 Speaker 1: ended the march at the Psychedelic Shop, where they gave 377 00:21:12,840 --> 00:21:15,480 Speaker 1: everything away for free and closed it up for good. 378 00:21:17,920 --> 00:21:20,560 Speaker 1: And then the authorities started to crack down on the 379 00:21:20,560 --> 00:21:24,160 Speaker 1: hate scene. The police haunted Hate Street and they put 380 00:21:24,200 --> 00:21:27,840 Speaker 1: over thirty people in cuffs for truancy just days before 381 00:21:27,880 --> 00:21:32,120 Speaker 1: Big Brother's Faithful Matrix show. On October two, n San 382 00:21:32,160 --> 00:21:36,560 Speaker 1: Francisco's finest rated the Grateful Dead's thirteen room Ashbury Street path. 383 00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:40,200 Speaker 1: Inside they found some of the band, along with their 384 00:21:40,200 --> 00:21:43,200 Speaker 1: business managers and some groupies, and the Dead never saw 385 00:21:43,200 --> 00:21:45,280 Speaker 1: it coming, and they were putting cuffs and marched down 386 00:21:45,320 --> 00:21:47,960 Speaker 1: the front steps like there was some prized trophy. And 387 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:50,479 Speaker 1: the police paused for good measures so that the press, 388 00:21:50,480 --> 00:21:52,760 Speaker 1: who the cops had tipped off, could get some juicy 389 00:21:52,800 --> 00:21:55,960 Speaker 1: photos to run with their front page expossse and the 390 00:21:56,040 --> 00:21:59,080 Speaker 1: reason a little grass and a big chip on the 391 00:21:59,119 --> 00:22:02,520 Speaker 1: shoulder of Johnny Law and then the cops decided to 392 00:22:02,560 --> 00:22:06,440 Speaker 1: diversify their bus beyond the immediate circle of the grateful dead, 393 00:22:06,680 --> 00:22:09,359 Speaker 1: and what about other news associates, what about Big brother 394 00:22:09,440 --> 00:22:12,280 Speaker 1: in the holding company Big Brothers m O was to 395 00:22:12,320 --> 00:22:15,240 Speaker 1: play as loud as they possibly could, and they thrashed 396 00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:18,000 Speaker 1: and pounded, and the twin guitars of Sam Andrew and 397 00:22:18,080 --> 00:22:21,640 Speaker 1: James Gurley twisting and nodding around the smashing rhythm. San 398 00:22:21,680 --> 00:22:26,720 Speaker 1: Franciscan's found it invigorating, transcendent. Really. Albert Grossman found her remedial, 399 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:30,600 Speaker 1: and newer Janice could do better. The sheer intensity of 400 00:22:30,640 --> 00:22:33,520 Speaker 1: the sound would push Janice further. She'd have to ratchet 401 00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:35,960 Speaker 1: her voice up to ear splitting levels just to compete 402 00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:37,879 Speaker 1: with the instruments, and then she'd had to shrud her 403 00:22:37,920 --> 00:22:40,359 Speaker 1: voice raw to be heard above them. It was the 404 00:22:40,480 --> 00:22:43,440 Speaker 1: endearing part of their sound, but it was also unsustainable 405 00:22:44,119 --> 00:22:46,520 Speaker 1: if the police had any say. The band had already 406 00:22:46,560 --> 00:22:49,320 Speaker 1: gone on too long. Ever, once again playing too loud, 407 00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:51,480 Speaker 1: and they had their reason for walking through the doors 408 00:22:51,520 --> 00:22:54,600 Speaker 1: that night. The band was already nervous with them, Everyone 409 00:22:54,680 --> 00:22:57,359 Speaker 1: was nervous. The police rate in the deads Place was 410 00:22:57,400 --> 00:23:00,560 Speaker 1: all and one was talking about it made people parento frightened. 411 00:23:00,720 --> 00:23:02,280 Speaker 1: If it happened to the dead, it could happen to 412 00:23:02,320 --> 00:23:04,800 Speaker 1: any of them. No band was safe, big brother, the 413 00:23:04,800 --> 00:23:07,320 Speaker 1: airplane won't be great Blue Cheer. Any one of them 414 00:23:07,359 --> 00:23:09,840 Speaker 1: could be taken down for any reason. The cops deemed fit, 415 00:23:10,359 --> 00:23:13,359 Speaker 1: and the paranoia extended beyond the safety and well being 416 00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:16,359 Speaker 1: of the bands themselves. But what about the movement, the 417 00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:20,320 Speaker 1: idyllic San Francisco scene. It was a vital, progressive, expressive 418 00:23:20,320 --> 00:23:23,520 Speaker 1: locomotive of a thing. But if the bands were all silence, 419 00:23:23,560 --> 00:23:26,480 Speaker 1: then the thing was silenced. You could hear how nervous 420 00:23:26,520 --> 00:23:30,240 Speaker 1: the band was that night by how they play, chopping fast, unsure. 421 00:23:30,560 --> 00:23:32,639 Speaker 1: The cops could sense it too, and they were ready 422 00:23:32,680 --> 00:23:35,000 Speaker 1: to feed off. The cop with the eagle eye was 423 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:37,120 Speaker 1: still making the gesture with his hand to his neck. 424 00:23:37,400 --> 00:23:40,800 Speaker 1: The matrix was small and closed, too tiny to risk anything. 425 00:23:40,920 --> 00:23:44,520 Speaker 1: Stupid Janice stopped singing. The rest of the band caught 426 00:23:44,560 --> 00:23:48,200 Speaker 1: onto the situation at hand and stopped playing. The cops 427 00:23:48,200 --> 00:23:50,720 Speaker 1: are on the stage now they stunk of the authority 428 00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:52,920 Speaker 1: of an agency that had arrested members of a dope 429 00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:55,840 Speaker 1: smoking rock band only days earlier, and now this was 430 00:23:55,880 --> 00:23:57,920 Speaker 1: a new day, a new band, and they figured they'd 431 00:23:57,960 --> 00:24:00,760 Speaker 1: have a new reason. Did you goddamn loud? The cop 432 00:24:00,840 --> 00:24:02,879 Speaker 1: told the band, as the din of the confused crowd 433 00:24:02,960 --> 00:24:05,359 Speaker 1: behind him grew. You can try to be quieter, but 434 00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:07,520 Speaker 1: if you keep playing this loud, we're gonna have to 435 00:24:07,520 --> 00:24:10,760 Speaker 1: take you downtown for disturbing the peace. Maybe best just 436 00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:12,640 Speaker 1: to quit while you're ahead and call it a night. 437 00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:17,359 Speaker 1: Maybe San Francisco didn't want them anymore, didn't want any 438 00:24:17,359 --> 00:24:20,119 Speaker 1: of them. You. They all came to San Francisco in 439 00:24:20,160 --> 00:24:22,160 Speaker 1: search of a way out, in search of something new 440 00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:24,959 Speaker 1: and liberating, and they didn't find it. So they made it. 441 00:24:25,280 --> 00:24:27,239 Speaker 1: And now that they made it and they had it, 442 00:24:27,440 --> 00:24:30,000 Speaker 1: others didn't want it. There there was a world outside 443 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:33,000 Speaker 1: of San Francisco, and they'd have to go there, find 444 00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:36,679 Speaker 1: the sympathizers, find the like minded freaks, find liberation in 445 00:24:36,720 --> 00:24:41,600 Speaker 1: different area codes, in different time zones. First stop, Los Angeles, 446 00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:44,920 Speaker 1: where rock music's elite would welcome them with open arms 447 00:24:44,960 --> 00:24:48,080 Speaker 1: and a smile, even if they weren't wearing much more 448 00:24:48,640 --> 00:25:12,680 Speaker 1: than their birthday suits. The pool of Peter Tork's home 449 00:25:12,680 --> 00:25:15,919 Speaker 1: and Laurel Canyon and was full of naked bodies on 450 00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:18,680 Speaker 1: the edge of the pool. Flesh jiggled and jostled as 451 00:25:18,680 --> 00:25:21,200 Speaker 1: partygoers made their way in and out of the water. 452 00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:24,400 Speaker 1: In the pool, the water glistened in the late day sun. 453 00:25:25,280 --> 00:25:27,520 Speaker 1: A guy with a thick beard and long wet hair 454 00:25:27,680 --> 00:25:30,080 Speaker 1: held a hash pipe as far above the water as 455 00:25:30,080 --> 00:25:32,600 Speaker 1: he could while he held a tope deep in his lungs. 456 00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:36,280 Speaker 1: He made eye contact with a naked guy nearby it 457 00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:39,320 Speaker 1: with his blazed eyes made a gesture that said, you 458 00:25:39,359 --> 00:25:42,679 Speaker 1: want to hit man. Another man and a woman nestled 459 00:25:42,680 --> 00:25:45,440 Speaker 1: into one of the pool's corners and sucked face. A 460 00:25:45,520 --> 00:25:48,080 Speaker 1: half empty wine jug bobbed in the water, passed on 461 00:25:48,119 --> 00:25:50,840 Speaker 1: a way from person to person. Every now and then 462 00:25:50,920 --> 00:25:53,280 Speaker 1: someone would grab it and take a swing, and the 463 00:25:53,359 --> 00:25:56,240 Speaker 1: cap wasn't even on it anymore. It floated elsewhere on 464 00:25:56,280 --> 00:25:59,320 Speaker 1: its own. The jug was definitely tainted with some rogue 465 00:25:59,359 --> 00:26:04,000 Speaker 1: pool water. Hippie Miss Janice wasn't approved, and neither were 466 00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:06,520 Speaker 1: the guys and Big Brother. But this was a scene 467 00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:10,040 Speaker 1: unlike any that they had experienced in San Francisco. That 468 00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:13,080 Speaker 1: was for sure, high above Los Angeles and the hills 469 00:26:13,119 --> 00:26:16,000 Speaker 1: and the canyons, and there were just as many clothes 470 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:19,240 Speaker 1: attendees as there were nude ones, and they were everywhere. 471 00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:22,040 Speaker 1: And there was Mama Cass talking with Johnny Echols of 472 00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:25,000 Speaker 1: Love and Mickey Dolan's were galing Joni Mitchell with the 473 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:27,480 Speaker 1: story about his bat ship neighbor, this guy who called 474 00:26:27,520 --> 00:26:30,600 Speaker 1: himselves at Alice Cooper. And then there was David Crosby 475 00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:33,080 Speaker 1: and Stephen Stills who used to live at the house, 476 00:26:33,119 --> 00:26:35,920 Speaker 1: so they were just always there and they were passing 477 00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:39,119 Speaker 1: this eternal joint back and forth. That motherfucker was like 478 00:26:39,160 --> 00:26:40,960 Speaker 1: the number of hive man. It just went on and 479 00:26:41,119 --> 00:26:45,520 Speaker 1: on forever. Crosby and Stills had magical powers. That was 480 00:26:45,560 --> 00:26:47,720 Speaker 1: the word going around the place. They touched a joint, 481 00:26:47,800 --> 00:26:49,800 Speaker 1: that thing would be good for a lifetime of tokes. 482 00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:52,720 Speaker 1: You think, Sweet Judy blue eyes, long chick up. This 483 00:26:52,760 --> 00:26:56,359 Speaker 1: fucking marijuana cigarette man across and the best smoke. And 484 00:26:56,440 --> 00:27:00,440 Speaker 1: everybody knew that, everybody but Roger mcgwinn gwyn tended to 485 00:27:00,520 --> 00:27:03,119 Speaker 1: cross his grass was dogshit to make a point or 486 00:27:03,119 --> 00:27:05,359 Speaker 1: to hold his little grudge for as long as he could. 487 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:08,359 Speaker 1: He stood inside the house, gazing out through the floor 488 00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:11,760 Speaker 1: to ceiling window, his eyes full of anger and jealousy. 489 00:27:12,119 --> 00:27:14,400 Speaker 1: What the fund is his deal? Janis as cast. When 490 00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:17,000 Speaker 1: the Mama's and Papa singer was finally free for a moment, 491 00:27:17,359 --> 00:27:20,560 Speaker 1: mcgwen he fired Crosbie from the Birds. Crosby wrote a 492 00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:23,600 Speaker 1: song about a threesome and it defended mcgwyn's finer sensibilities. 493 00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:25,880 Speaker 1: Then he replaced Crosbie with a horse and the cover 494 00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:28,240 Speaker 1: of their new album Nobody Got It. He probably should 495 00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:30,320 Speaker 1: have made it a donkey, or at least a horse's ass, 496 00:27:30,359 --> 00:27:33,800 Speaker 1: you know. And they were suddenly interrupted by a loud shout, 497 00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:36,800 Speaker 1: a shout that was celebratory and show stopping and attention 498 00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:40,240 Speaker 1: commanding all at once. Janice turned around and there was 499 00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:43,760 Speaker 1: their host, Peter Tork, walking outside from his home. Mcgwenn 500 00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:47,160 Speaker 1: scowled in the background. Welcome to l A, Peter said, 501 00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:50,080 Speaker 1: and he extended his arms wide for hugs. He was 502 00:27:50,119 --> 00:27:53,160 Speaker 1: wearing a bathroom which wasn't tied shut, and not much else. 503 00:27:54,960 --> 00:27:58,040 Speaker 1: If San Francisco was liberated minds and Ideals, then l 504 00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:01,520 Speaker 1: A was liberation with a budget. Janison big Brother were 505 00:28:01,560 --> 00:28:04,959 Speaker 1: suddenly guests of this big budget liberation, guests because they 506 00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:07,320 Speaker 1: were on their way up in the world, newly signed 507 00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:09,800 Speaker 1: with the legendary Albert Grossman, and we're making moves to 508 00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:13,760 Speaker 1: get themselves on Columbia. Then, their first self titled album, Rush, 509 00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:17,280 Speaker 1: released by Mainstream Records in the summer of nineteen sixty seven, 510 00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:21,600 Speaker 1: was meant to capitalize on their growing success. Janice distanced 511 00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:24,080 Speaker 1: herself from it. The band didn't sign off on it, 512 00:28:24,080 --> 00:28:26,520 Speaker 1: it didn't represent their sound well, and it certainly didn't 513 00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:30,760 Speaker 1: represent Janezue. Peter understood the struggle. The Monkeys had just 514 00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:33,280 Speaker 1: come off a tour with the Jimi Hendrix Experience, which 515 00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:35,920 Speaker 1: is like a sandwich of mayonnaise and peanut butter. They 516 00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:38,960 Speaker 1: had just released Headquarters, their third album, but only the 517 00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:41,320 Speaker 1: first where they were writing their own songs and playing 518 00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:44,120 Speaker 1: their own instruments. He got it when it came to 519 00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:47,080 Speaker 1: expectations and disappointments in the sort of ship you had 520 00:28:47,120 --> 00:28:49,720 Speaker 1: to outrun and lived down. That was part of the 521 00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:51,960 Speaker 1: reason he invited them out to his place. After all, 522 00:28:52,280 --> 00:28:55,000 Speaker 1: he sensed a fellow outcast, a fellow artists trying to 523 00:28:55,040 --> 00:28:59,120 Speaker 1: prove herself against all odds. But before too long, whatever 524 00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:01,200 Speaker 1: Torque was trying to say, it was drowned out by 525 00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:03,840 Speaker 1: the naked woman playing the drum set inside the house. 526 00:29:04,440 --> 00:29:07,640 Speaker 1: That's Renee, my girlfriend. He shouted over the noise at 527 00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:10,440 Speaker 1: Janis and the boys. He looked back towards the house. 528 00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:13,960 Speaker 1: Say Hi Renee. Renee raised her hand during one of 529 00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:17,640 Speaker 1: her drum fills in acknowledgement, but she really couldn't be bothered, 530 00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:20,800 Speaker 1: her long black hair barely obscuring a small portion of 531 00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:24,959 Speaker 1: her exposed body. If this was the big time, Janis 532 00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:27,480 Speaker 1: was going to need a moment to acclimate. They all were. 533 00:29:28,880 --> 00:29:31,760 Speaker 1: The big time would soon involve so many others, like 534 00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:34,640 Speaker 1: the m C five in Detroit, Leonard Cohen in New 535 00:29:34,720 --> 00:29:37,640 Speaker 1: York City, Country Joe and pig Pen vying to tell 536 00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:39,960 Speaker 1: Mama all about it, and in the middle of it, 537 00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:42,360 Speaker 1: the bandit to put together the album they would think 538 00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:46,200 Speaker 1: of as their first true LP. Trouble was, it would 539 00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:49,040 Speaker 1: take a miracle bigger than Albert Grossman and bigger than 540 00:29:49,080 --> 00:29:52,160 Speaker 1: a Peter tork Pool party to keep Big Brother in 541 00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:57,160 Speaker 1: the Holding Company in one piece, Um, Jake Brennan, And 542 00:29:57,440 --> 00:30:11,720 Speaker 1: this is the Seven Club, all right. 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