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 --> 00:00:08,280 Speaker 1: Radio and Double Elvis. Janice Joplin died at the age 3 00:00:08,280 --> 00:00:11,320 Speaker 1: of seven, and she lived a life that often put 4 00:00:11,320 --> 00:00:13,880 Speaker 1: her in the right place at the right time. I 5 00:00:13,880 --> 00:00:16,880 Speaker 1: can give you twenty seven reasons why that statement is true. 6 00:00:17,920 --> 00:00:22,400 Speaker 1: One would be the Motley family of Outsiders, consisting of bikers, musicians, hippies, 7 00:00:22,440 --> 00:00:24,520 Speaker 1: and beat nix that she assembled in and out of 8 00:00:24,560 --> 00:00:27,800 Speaker 1: San Francisco. Twenty more would be the number of feet 9 00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:30,360 Speaker 1: into the air she found herself ascending the nights she 10 00:00:30,400 --> 00:00:34,200 Speaker 1: bore witness to the one and only Otis reading. Another 11 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:36,560 Speaker 1: two would be the number of Hell's Angels out on Bail, 12 00:00:36,640 --> 00:00:39,240 Speaker 1: who received a hero's welcome in the Panhandle with a 13 00:00:39,320 --> 00:00:43,520 Speaker 1: soundtrack courtesy of Big Brother in the Holding Company. One 14 00:00:43,560 --> 00:00:45,960 Speaker 1: more would be the number of second chances she would 15 00:00:45,960 --> 00:00:48,840 Speaker 1: get to Wawa, Crowd and Monterey and have her performance 16 00:00:48,840 --> 00:00:52,760 Speaker 1: immortalized on film for the entire world to see. And 17 00:00:52,840 --> 00:00:54,959 Speaker 1: three other would be the number of years she had 18 00:00:55,040 --> 00:00:58,080 Speaker 1: left to live after George Harrison paid a visit to 19 00:00:58,160 --> 00:01:00,760 Speaker 1: her city by the Bay, only to find the sun 20 00:01:00,880 --> 00:01:04,520 Speaker 1: setting on the so called Summer of Love. On this 21 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:09,160 Speaker 1: our third episode of season Three Fateful Nights, Hell's Angels, 22 00:01:09,160 --> 00:01:13,280 Speaker 1: Second Chances, The Quiet Beetle, and Janice Joplin Walking a 23 00:01:13,400 --> 00:01:18,800 Speaker 1: Winding Path to Liberation. I'm Jake Brennan and this is 24 00:01:18,840 --> 00:02:02,760 Speaker 1: the twenty seventh COH December the six, San Francisco. Janice 25 00:02:02,800 --> 00:02:05,840 Speaker 1: Joplin didn't feel like herself. She felt like she was 26 00:02:05,880 --> 00:02:08,760 Speaker 1: outside of her own body, like she was observing her 27 00:02:08,800 --> 00:02:11,880 Speaker 1: own existence. She wasn't even sure if she was Janis 28 00:02:11,960 --> 00:02:14,720 Speaker 1: Joplin anymore. Then, on the one hand, it was a 29 00:02:14,760 --> 00:02:17,360 Speaker 1: good thing that she didn't feel like herself, didn't sound 30 00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:20,080 Speaker 1: like herself when she spoke that, maybe she didn't even 31 00:02:20,120 --> 00:02:23,000 Speaker 1: look like herself anymore. Because she was back at the 32 00:02:23,040 --> 00:02:25,840 Speaker 1: film or auditorium, the place she'd been tossed out of 33 00:02:25,919 --> 00:02:28,840 Speaker 1: not so long ago. She felt like she was betraying 34 00:02:28,919 --> 00:02:33,000 Speaker 1: some unspoken rule by being there in the first place. Okay, 35 00:02:33,040 --> 00:02:35,960 Speaker 1: so the rule was admittedly spoken. Bill Graham had practically 36 00:02:35,960 --> 00:02:38,120 Speaker 1: screamed at her loud enough for the whole fucking block 37 00:02:38,240 --> 00:02:40,160 Speaker 1: to hear when he wouldn't let her pass the front door. 38 00:02:41,040 --> 00:02:44,320 Speaker 1: So this whole incognito trip, maybe it was for the best, 39 00:02:45,040 --> 00:02:47,160 Speaker 1: But it was a trip all the same, a trip 40 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:49,960 Speaker 1: that she hadn't intended to take, and that's what was 41 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:52,400 Speaker 1: On the other hand, that was the flip side of 42 00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:55,680 Speaker 1: the whole situation. She found herself in fumbling her way 43 00:02:55,680 --> 00:02:57,720 Speaker 1: to a seat near the front of the auditorium, while 44 00:02:57,800 --> 00:03:00,560 Speaker 1: keeping a lookout in every direction for the bitable hands 45 00:03:00,560 --> 00:03:03,960 Speaker 1: of Bill Graham screeching in towards her like eagle talents. 46 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:09,040 Speaker 1: An unexpected LSD trip. She had knocked back vigorous swiggs 47 00:03:09,040 --> 00:03:12,560 Speaker 1: of cold duck earlier that evening. The fizzy fruit wine 48 00:03:12,600 --> 00:03:16,919 Speaker 1: tasted cheap. Janie wasn't above cheap, quite the contrary, but 49 00:03:17,080 --> 00:03:19,600 Speaker 1: each swigg was another she'd come to regret when the 50 00:03:19,639 --> 00:03:22,120 Speaker 1: sugar and alcohol had their way with her head the 51 00:03:22,160 --> 00:03:25,959 Speaker 1: following morning. Little did she know, a hangover will be 52 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:29,400 Speaker 1: the least of her concerns. This magnum bottle of cold 53 00:03:29,480 --> 00:03:32,240 Speaker 1: duck passed around the apartment room from hand to hand, 54 00:03:32,560 --> 00:03:35,320 Speaker 1: musician to musician, beat nick to beat nick. This motherfucker 55 00:03:35,360 --> 00:03:38,920 Speaker 1: had been straight up dosed. Jannis didn't know it at first. 56 00:03:39,200 --> 00:03:41,360 Speaker 1: She didn't know it until after the first few halls, 57 00:03:41,400 --> 00:03:44,120 Speaker 1: when someone in the room said, ship, it doesn't taste 58 00:03:44,120 --> 00:03:47,960 Speaker 1: like sixty eight doses man. Someone else responded I counted 59 00:03:47,960 --> 00:03:49,760 Speaker 1: a man, every single one that we dropped in. There 60 00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:56,240 Speaker 1: sixty eight doses of Augustus Houseley, Stanley's finest, sixty eight doses. 61 00:03:56,640 --> 00:03:59,840 Speaker 1: The cold duck was spiked with sixty eight doses of LSD. 62 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:04,080 Speaker 1: She's fucking hippies, Janice thought, running to the bathroom to 63 00:04:04,080 --> 00:04:06,520 Speaker 1: see if she could puke up what she had just consumed. 64 00:04:06,880 --> 00:04:09,840 Speaker 1: Not tonight. They weren't bringing her down tonight, these fucking hippies, 65 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:13,960 Speaker 1: in their surprise doses. That's how it was done. Acid 66 00:04:14,040 --> 00:04:17,240 Speaker 1: was sprung on the unsuspecting. That's how the CIA did 67 00:04:17,240 --> 00:04:20,400 Speaker 1: it in nineteen fifty three when they handed military scientist 68 00:04:20,520 --> 00:04:23,880 Speaker 1: Frank Olsen a glass of orange liqueur, he jumped out 69 00:04:23,880 --> 00:04:26,840 Speaker 1: the window. And that's how the dentist John Riley did 70 00:04:26,839 --> 00:04:29,440 Speaker 1: it in nineteen sixty five when he handed John Lennon 71 00:04:29,480 --> 00:04:32,480 Speaker 1: and George Harrison some cups of coffee. They wrote a 72 00:04:32,520 --> 00:04:35,560 Speaker 1: song about it, but they called him Dr Robert. And 73 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:38,080 Speaker 1: that's how the Grateful Dead did it. In nineteen sixty nine, 74 00:04:38,120 --> 00:04:40,680 Speaker 1: when they visited the Playboy Mansion and the swingers all 75 00:04:40,720 --> 00:04:44,000 Speaker 1: swung a little bit harder. Janice fell down to her 76 00:04:44,040 --> 00:04:46,280 Speaker 1: knees in front of the toilet and stuck two fingers 77 00:04:46,279 --> 00:04:48,640 Speaker 1: down the back of her throat. She wretched, and some 78 00:04:48,720 --> 00:04:51,520 Speaker 1: of the cold duck came roaring back and splattered inside 79 00:04:51,560 --> 00:04:54,960 Speaker 1: the toilet bowl. Her mouth tasted bitter, her head spun. 80 00:04:55,400 --> 00:04:57,400 Speaker 1: She flushed it down and washed her face and hoped 81 00:04:57,440 --> 00:05:00,320 Speaker 1: that she had purged the LSD from her system. She 82 00:05:00,400 --> 00:05:03,240 Speaker 1: had no control on LSC and on a night like 83 00:05:03,360 --> 00:05:05,240 Speaker 1: this night, a night when she planned to go back 84 00:05:05,279 --> 00:05:08,040 Speaker 1: to the fillmore and see Otis writing performed yet again, 85 00:05:08,520 --> 00:05:12,560 Speaker 1: she needed control, clarity, She needed to be present. She 86 00:05:12,640 --> 00:05:15,760 Speaker 1: got there early every night during Otis's run. She staked 87 00:05:15,760 --> 00:05:18,640 Speaker 1: her claim up front. She was a student. She soaked 88 00:05:18,720 --> 00:05:21,080 Speaker 1: up every shake, every shimmy, every note, every time Otis 89 00:05:21,080 --> 00:05:23,800 Speaker 1: would go from quiet, allowed to quiet again. And she 90 00:05:23,880 --> 00:05:27,320 Speaker 1: did it incognito. She did it with control. She dreaded 91 00:05:27,400 --> 00:05:30,160 Speaker 1: running into Bill Graham again. She was hopeful the time 92 00:05:30,200 --> 00:05:32,400 Speaker 1: it healed all wounds that Bill was no longer pissed 93 00:05:32,400 --> 00:05:34,240 Speaker 1: about the lack of love she gave his venue. In 94 00:05:34,240 --> 00:05:37,800 Speaker 1: that interview, she knew Bill was all talk. He liked 95 00:05:37,800 --> 00:05:40,320 Speaker 1: to puff his chest out do the manly thing, remind 96 00:05:40,360 --> 00:05:42,120 Speaker 1: her that she was a woman in a man's world. 97 00:05:42,120 --> 00:05:45,680 Speaker 1: That she didn't call the shots. Please. She knew all 98 00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:48,520 Speaker 1: about a man's world, and she knew how to navigate it. 99 00:05:48,760 --> 00:05:50,520 Speaker 1: She knew how to get back into the venue she'd 100 00:05:50,520 --> 00:05:53,400 Speaker 1: been possed from. Plus, Bill had better things to do 101 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:57,200 Speaker 1: than nna century post just a peeper. Her plan once 102 00:05:57,240 --> 00:05:59,280 Speaker 1: she was inside was to be a sponge for a 103 00:05:59,320 --> 00:06:01,760 Speaker 1: few nights in a row, get down the otis thing, 104 00:06:01,880 --> 00:06:05,840 Speaker 1: learn no to speak otis b otis, and then she'd 105 00:06:05,839 --> 00:06:08,280 Speaker 1: be back. She'd be back at Bill Graham's film more 106 00:06:08,320 --> 00:06:10,360 Speaker 1: as the star of the show, because she would show 107 00:06:10,480 --> 00:06:12,480 Speaker 1: him what a woman could do. She would make him 108 00:06:12,520 --> 00:06:14,600 Speaker 1: regret the way he treated her, and he would be 109 00:06:14,680 --> 00:06:16,800 Speaker 1: so embarrassed that he wouldn't even mention that day to 110 00:06:16,880 --> 00:06:19,800 Speaker 1: be yelled at her. Janice would turn the tables on him, 111 00:06:19,839 --> 00:06:21,479 Speaker 1: and she'd be one of the people who defined that 112 00:06:21,640 --> 00:06:25,240 Speaker 1: rickety old auditorium. Bill Graham would be lucky to have her. 113 00:06:25,839 --> 00:06:28,360 Speaker 1: But she needed to do the sponge thing first, learn 114 00:06:28,440 --> 00:06:32,200 Speaker 1: from the master, and that required her attention and her control. 115 00:06:33,640 --> 00:06:36,160 Speaker 1: On this night, she hadn't either, and by the time 116 00:06:36,200 --> 00:06:38,560 Speaker 1: she got to the venue again she was early. The 117 00:06:38,760 --> 00:06:41,800 Speaker 1: LSD was kicking in. She hadn't been able to throw 118 00:06:41,800 --> 00:06:44,159 Speaker 1: it all up. After all, it was taking control of 119 00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:46,800 Speaker 1: her now. Each step she made towards the door of 120 00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:50,440 Speaker 1: the film were resounded through her body, vibrations that ricocheted 121 00:06:50,480 --> 00:06:53,040 Speaker 1: up from her heels, her thighs, her waist. They made 122 00:06:53,040 --> 00:06:55,120 Speaker 1: her want to move, to twist and bounce and shake 123 00:06:55,160 --> 00:06:57,680 Speaker 1: them all out of her body. She stepped inside the 124 00:06:57,720 --> 00:07:00,680 Speaker 1: venue and felt another seizement vibration up her legs and 125 00:07:00,720 --> 00:07:03,400 Speaker 1: her arms, and that's what she realized. She was no 126 00:07:03,520 --> 00:07:07,239 Speaker 1: longer inside her own body. She was hovering above herself, 127 00:07:07,279 --> 00:07:09,880 Speaker 1: above the crowd that was still small but starting to 128 00:07:09,920 --> 00:07:12,800 Speaker 1: grow larger, and she was so far up she nearly 129 00:07:12,840 --> 00:07:16,320 Speaker 1: touched the ceiling. Who's a total loss of control. She 130 00:07:16,400 --> 00:07:18,640 Speaker 1: knew what would happen, not how it would happen, but 131 00:07:18,680 --> 00:07:21,160 Speaker 1: she knew the acid would funk with her somehow. She 132 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:24,000 Speaker 1: had lost total control over her physical body, and the 133 00:07:24,120 --> 00:07:26,360 Speaker 1: vibrations had been just at the beginning. Now she was 134 00:07:26,400 --> 00:07:30,080 Speaker 1: up above, floating in place unseeable, unknowable, and her body 135 00:07:30,080 --> 00:07:32,000 Speaker 1: did what it was going to do down below, whether 136 00:07:32,080 --> 00:07:35,360 Speaker 1: she liked it or not. The out of body situation 137 00:07:35,440 --> 00:07:38,880 Speaker 1: did have its perks. However, from her vantage point, she 138 00:07:38,920 --> 00:07:41,680 Speaker 1: could search the room for Bill, she could spy him 139 00:07:41,720 --> 00:07:44,600 Speaker 1: from afar and then somehow warned her physical body below. 140 00:07:45,440 --> 00:07:47,760 Speaker 1: She tried to make contact with her physical body with 141 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:50,760 Speaker 1: her mind. She thought to herself, hey you hey, heyy me. 142 00:07:51,480 --> 00:07:53,559 Speaker 1: She thought it real loud, real loud in her mind. 143 00:07:53,800 --> 00:07:55,760 Speaker 1: She hoped her physical body would look to her left 144 00:07:55,760 --> 00:07:58,040 Speaker 1: and her right, trying to figure out where the telepathy 145 00:07:58,120 --> 00:08:00,880 Speaker 1: was coming from, and then Hovering Janis would think real 146 00:08:00,920 --> 00:08:04,200 Speaker 1: hard again, no dummy up here, I'm up here. But 147 00:08:04,320 --> 00:08:06,920 Speaker 1: physical Janis never looked around to indicate that she was 148 00:08:06,960 --> 00:08:11,000 Speaker 1: receiving the drug induced esp She just quietly made her 149 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:14,080 Speaker 1: way to her usual seat a few rows from the front, 150 00:08:14,440 --> 00:08:16,240 Speaker 1: so that she was close enough to the stage but 151 00:08:16,360 --> 00:08:19,680 Speaker 1: didn't stand out like a sitting duck for Bill Graham's crosshairs. 152 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:23,680 Speaker 1: When Otis came on stage with BOOKA t E mg S, 153 00:08:23,760 --> 00:08:27,840 Speaker 1: Janice received the swampy Memphis sole communion with psychedelic eyes. 154 00:08:28,560 --> 00:08:30,880 Speaker 1: She watched him from below in her seat and watched 155 00:08:30,920 --> 00:08:34,040 Speaker 1: him from above hovery she felt the base below in 156 00:08:34,080 --> 00:08:37,800 Speaker 1: the highs up top, Physical Janis heard the music Otis's way, 157 00:08:37,800 --> 00:08:41,280 Speaker 1: and Hovering Janis heard the music her way outside of 158 00:08:41,280 --> 00:08:43,280 Speaker 1: her own body. She heard R and B run through 159 00:08:43,320 --> 00:08:46,520 Speaker 1: her San Francisco filter by way of Texas R and 160 00:08:46,520 --> 00:08:48,439 Speaker 1: B that had been soaked in a bottle of cold 161 00:08:48,520 --> 00:08:51,920 Speaker 1: duck with sixty eight doses of LSD, and that's what 162 00:08:52,080 --> 00:08:54,800 Speaker 1: she would deliver. She would perfect her own brand of 163 00:08:54,840 --> 00:08:57,720 Speaker 1: psychedelic R and B. But first she had to come 164 00:08:57,720 --> 00:09:01,560 Speaker 1: down from this trip, become whole at again, regain control. 165 00:09:01,640 --> 00:09:05,400 Speaker 1: While she had the chance create the musical persona, she 166 00:09:05,440 --> 00:09:09,080 Speaker 1: would lose control again. It was inevitable, and next time 167 00:09:09,400 --> 00:09:12,439 Speaker 1: it would be darker and a lot more dangerous than 168 00:09:12,480 --> 00:09:43,200 Speaker 1: an out of body acid true chocolate. George Hendricks grabbed 169 00:09:43,240 --> 00:09:45,199 Speaker 1: hold of the throttle with his right hand to give 170 00:09:45,200 --> 00:09:49,800 Speaker 1: his bike a goose. Harley opened right up the unmistakable 171 00:09:49,840 --> 00:09:54,240 Speaker 1: sound of metallic flatulence. George felt the bike vibrate between 172 00:09:54,280 --> 00:09:57,400 Speaker 1: his legs and the winnie of an iron horse, and 173 00:09:57,440 --> 00:10:00,360 Speaker 1: the horse backfired and the sound ricocheted through the years 174 00:10:00,400 --> 00:10:05,280 Speaker 1: of every unsuspecting bystander. George's long beard was swept back 175 00:10:05,360 --> 00:10:07,880 Speaker 1: by the wind when the bike quickly shot forward before 176 00:10:07,920 --> 00:10:11,920 Speaker 1: resuming its leisurely pace. The pins and buttons are fixed 177 00:10:11,920 --> 00:10:15,480 Speaker 1: to his sleeveless jean jacket rattled he was flanked on 178 00:10:15,520 --> 00:10:19,079 Speaker 1: either side by other Hell's Angels, other outlaws on bikes. 179 00:10:19,559 --> 00:10:21,760 Speaker 1: It was a sea of bikes, a symphony of engine 180 00:10:21,840 --> 00:10:25,959 Speaker 1: rows and backfires and sputtering. His helmet looked like something 181 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:28,760 Speaker 1: from the shores of Normandy, like he was ready for battle, 182 00:10:29,120 --> 00:10:33,079 Speaker 1: flanked by this battalion of MC brothers. But he was 183 00:10:33,120 --> 00:10:36,720 Speaker 1: returning from a battle, not marching into it. This was 184 00:10:36,760 --> 00:10:40,760 Speaker 1: their victory march, a parade of solidarity. He'd been taken 185 00:10:40,840 --> 00:10:44,840 Speaker 1: hostage by the other side, the state sanctioned side, the cops. 186 00:10:45,400 --> 00:10:48,280 Speaker 1: He had been taking hostage with his brother Harry Henry Cott, 187 00:10:48,360 --> 00:10:50,880 Speaker 1: and spent a night in the other sides Chromie jail cell, 188 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:52,880 Speaker 1: where they were leered at by a bunch of crew 189 00:10:52,960 --> 00:10:57,000 Speaker 1: cut wearing jocko fucos. But now they were free, and 190 00:10:57,120 --> 00:11:02,520 Speaker 1: now they'd celebrate as the dawn rose on the longest 191 00:11:02,520 --> 00:11:05,199 Speaker 1: stating summer of love. The hippies weren't the only ones 192 00:11:05,240 --> 00:11:08,600 Speaker 1: that the cops were after. In San Francisco, a sfp 193 00:11:08,800 --> 00:11:12,160 Speaker 1: D wasn't just busting up acid test parties. They were 194 00:11:12,200 --> 00:11:15,000 Speaker 1: on the prowl for anyone who looked, sounded, smelled, or 195 00:11:15,120 --> 00:11:19,079 Speaker 1: thought differently. They arrested Ron theland for reading the poetry 196 00:11:19,160 --> 00:11:22,400 Speaker 1: or Jacques Prevay on the steps of city Hall. And 197 00:11:22,440 --> 00:11:25,640 Speaker 1: they arrested Ama Jester Fleming for wearing an American flag, 198 00:11:26,160 --> 00:11:28,360 Speaker 1: and they arrested puppeteers in the middle of a show 199 00:11:28,360 --> 00:11:31,200 Speaker 1: on a street corner. They arrested Phillis Wilner for standing 200 00:11:31,240 --> 00:11:34,320 Speaker 1: up on the back of Harry Henry Cott's motorcycle. And 201 00:11:34,360 --> 00:11:37,559 Speaker 1: then they arrested Chocolate George when he came running to help. 202 00:11:38,720 --> 00:11:42,960 Speaker 1: It was December ninety six. Hate Street. Phillis was a 203 00:11:42,960 --> 00:11:46,359 Speaker 1: team runaway from Jamaica Queen's. She got the San Francisco 204 00:11:46,440 --> 00:11:49,360 Speaker 1: on the back of a motorcycle. The Diggers handed out 205 00:11:49,400 --> 00:11:53,440 Speaker 1: free food in the Panhandle. They called money an unnecessary evil. 206 00:11:53,720 --> 00:11:57,080 Speaker 1: They distributed flyers encouraging the citizens of San Francisco to 207 00:11:57,160 --> 00:11:59,920 Speaker 1: surrender their money, which would then be distributed all chair 208 00:12:00,040 --> 00:12:03,400 Speaker 1: and MoU like. And now the Diggers who were organizing 209 00:12:03,400 --> 00:12:05,400 Speaker 1: a parade that would ring in the new year, but 210 00:12:05,480 --> 00:12:08,240 Speaker 1: it also signaled the death of money in the rebirth 211 00:12:08,280 --> 00:12:11,600 Speaker 1: of the Hate. Phyllis arrived with a snow white cape 212 00:12:11,679 --> 00:12:14,679 Speaker 1: draped around her shoulders. She jumped on the back of 213 00:12:14,720 --> 00:12:17,520 Speaker 1: Harry Henry's Harley dug her left hand into his shoulder 214 00:12:17,600 --> 00:12:21,120 Speaker 1: and extended her right hand straight into the air. Free 215 00:12:21,280 --> 00:12:23,520 Speaker 1: she yield into the wind. As Harry Henry made his 216 00:12:23,559 --> 00:12:28,280 Speaker 1: Harley hum and his free the cops threw on their lights. 217 00:12:28,320 --> 00:12:30,800 Speaker 1: They pulled Harry Henry over. They said they were charging 218 00:12:30,840 --> 00:12:33,400 Speaker 1: him for allowing a person to stand up while driving 219 00:12:33,400 --> 00:12:36,360 Speaker 1: a motor vehicle. They didn't have time for the angel's 220 00:12:36,360 --> 00:12:40,679 Speaker 1: bullshit or the hippies bullshit either. Harry Henry was in trouble, 221 00:12:41,520 --> 00:12:43,920 Speaker 1: a bigger kind of troubled, and simply letting a girl 222 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:46,120 Speaker 1: in a flowing white cape drive on the back of 223 00:12:46,160 --> 00:12:49,640 Speaker 1: his bike, he was in violation of his parole from 224 00:12:49,679 --> 00:12:52,680 Speaker 1: Sam Quentin. He'd go downtown, get real cozy with the 225 00:12:52,720 --> 00:12:55,640 Speaker 1: inside of a jail cell, trade a sparkling chrome for 226 00:12:55,720 --> 00:12:59,840 Speaker 1: some rusty steel chocolate. George saw a brother in peril, 227 00:13:00,200 --> 00:13:02,840 Speaker 1: he jumped into action. He swung his bike around and 228 00:13:02,880 --> 00:13:06,560 Speaker 1: went to Harry Henry's rescue. But even though like most angels, 229 00:13:06,600 --> 00:13:09,760 Speaker 1: he had a soft side chocolate, George went full crazy 230 00:13:09,840 --> 00:13:12,440 Speaker 1: bat ship biker on the pigs, and the pigs offered 231 00:13:12,480 --> 00:13:14,160 Speaker 1: him a seat next to his good pal on the 232 00:13:14,200 --> 00:13:17,880 Speaker 1: inside of the San Francisco Police Department headquarters. It was 233 00:13:17,920 --> 00:13:21,720 Speaker 1: the Diggers that bailed the boys out. The activist group 234 00:13:21,760 --> 00:13:24,360 Speaker 1: took a break from handing out free food in the Panhandle, 235 00:13:24,520 --> 00:13:27,199 Speaker 1: pass the hat for some of that evil US currency 236 00:13:27,240 --> 00:13:29,480 Speaker 1: and then put it to good use. Like the good 237 00:13:29,480 --> 00:13:33,360 Speaker 1: old merry Men. They were not Mary Prankster's. They bailed 238 00:13:33,360 --> 00:13:37,120 Speaker 1: out Chocolate George and Harry Henry from jail. Pete Nell, 239 00:13:37,280 --> 00:13:39,960 Speaker 1: president of the San Francisco chapter of the Hell's Angels, 240 00:13:39,960 --> 00:13:43,040 Speaker 1: said the motorcycle club would never forget the gesture, never 241 00:13:43,080 --> 00:13:45,319 Speaker 1: forget what the Diggers and the hippies did for them 242 00:13:45,360 --> 00:13:48,959 Speaker 1: that day. The Angels would show their appreciation the way 243 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:52,240 Speaker 1: they knew how they'd throw a party, and that was 244 00:13:52,280 --> 00:13:54,679 Speaker 1: where Chocolate George and the rest of the Angels were 245 00:13:54,720 --> 00:13:58,439 Speaker 1: on their way to that day, New Year's Day seven, 246 00:13:58,800 --> 00:14:01,680 Speaker 1: as they rode their bikes outfhantly through the city the 247 00:14:01,800 --> 00:14:05,440 Speaker 1: Panhandle near the Golden Gate Park. They were free and 248 00:14:05,480 --> 00:14:08,480 Speaker 1: their incarcerated Iron Horse brothers had been set free, and 249 00:14:08,520 --> 00:14:11,960 Speaker 1: the ensuing party was heavy on bike's boos. Recently criminalized 250 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:15,640 Speaker 1: the lists of substances in music. They called it the 251 00:14:15,679 --> 00:14:19,120 Speaker 1: New Year's Whale. That's w A I L A real 252 00:14:19,200 --> 00:14:22,480 Speaker 1: Wang Dang doul affair, and who better? The angels thopped 253 00:14:22,480 --> 00:14:25,760 Speaker 1: to provide the soundtrack to their freedom and the ongoing revolution. 254 00:14:25,880 --> 00:14:29,160 Speaker 1: Then big brother in the holding company, Who better Chocolate 255 00:14:29,200 --> 00:14:31,320 Speaker 1: Church had said, as he took a hulk size sip 256 00:14:31,360 --> 00:14:34,280 Speaker 1: for vodka spike chocolate milk to sing out loud for 257 00:14:34,360 --> 00:14:38,000 Speaker 1: the whole city to hear. Than jazz Chopolin the hell's 258 00:14:38,040 --> 00:14:41,000 Speaker 1: Angel's little sister, the one who accepted them for who 259 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:45,360 Speaker 1: they were. Outsiders, rule breakers, law venders, pig provokers. She 260 00:14:45,480 --> 00:14:48,520 Speaker 1: was all of those things herself, a Port Arthur, Texas 261 00:14:48,520 --> 00:14:52,080 Speaker 1: girl who railed against Port Arthur, Texas things. She wasn't 262 00:14:52,080 --> 00:14:54,560 Speaker 1: a biker, She didn't worth leave this Denno jackets or 263 00:14:54,600 --> 00:14:57,360 Speaker 1: crank the throttle of a steel hog. But she rebelled 264 00:14:57,400 --> 00:14:59,680 Speaker 1: the way the angels rebelled, and she wanted to live 265 00:14:59,680 --> 00:15:02,160 Speaker 1: her life if when they lived there is wild, untethered 266 00:15:02,200 --> 00:15:07,600 Speaker 1: from the past. Out in the opening free the angels 267 00:15:07,640 --> 00:15:10,280 Speaker 1: were above the law. They were against the law. They 268 00:15:10,280 --> 00:15:13,280 Speaker 1: would make some questionable choices in their time. Their freedom 269 00:15:13,280 --> 00:15:16,000 Speaker 1: would run a little too rampant. Their choices would sometimes 270 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:18,680 Speaker 1: result in destruction, even death, even the death of a fan, 271 00:15:18,760 --> 00:15:21,520 Speaker 1: a fan of the music at a speedway sixty miles 272 00:15:21,560 --> 00:15:25,560 Speaker 1: east of the Bay. But Janie always forgave. Janice stuck 273 00:15:25,600 --> 00:15:28,760 Speaker 1: by their side, a fellow outsider trying to get free. 274 00:15:29,480 --> 00:15:32,400 Speaker 1: In return, the Angels didn't just offer her banned gigs 275 00:15:32,440 --> 00:15:34,600 Speaker 1: poniful gigs for that matter. When the big wigs in 276 00:15:34,680 --> 00:15:37,240 Speaker 1: town like Bill Graham, threw her ass out on the street, 277 00:15:37,280 --> 00:15:40,720 Speaker 1: but the Angels offered her protection, Janie was looked after, 278 00:15:41,120 --> 00:15:44,840 Speaker 1: taking care of sheltered. It was like a family, really, 279 00:15:44,880 --> 00:15:47,240 Speaker 1: a family that was handmade by those who were part 280 00:15:47,280 --> 00:15:49,920 Speaker 1: of it. A motley crew of musicians and beat nis 281 00:15:49,960 --> 00:15:53,800 Speaker 1: and bikers and Big Brother took the ragtag family maximum 282 00:15:53,840 --> 00:15:56,640 Speaker 1: to the extreme and following the lead of the Grateful Dead, 283 00:15:57,000 --> 00:16:00,600 Speaker 1: moved into a cottage together outside Lagnitas and Maray In County. 284 00:16:01,680 --> 00:16:04,000 Speaker 1: It was tucked away in a redwood forest, almost an 285 00:16:04,040 --> 00:16:06,560 Speaker 1: hour outside of the city, and they read the place 286 00:16:06,600 --> 00:16:09,360 Speaker 1: from the ex wife of a forest ranger. They called 287 00:16:09,360 --> 00:16:13,680 Speaker 1: it Argentina because a pro Paine tank nearby bor graffiti 288 00:16:13,680 --> 00:16:17,200 Speaker 1: that read quote Carlos is alive and well in Argentina. 289 00:16:17,720 --> 00:16:20,320 Speaker 1: Whatever the hell that meant. Janis and Big Brother found 290 00:16:20,320 --> 00:16:22,640 Speaker 1: the kind of resistance from the locals and lagnitas that 291 00:16:22,680 --> 00:16:26,280 Speaker 1: they had previously found in Chicago and Nebraska. Up north, 292 00:16:26,320 --> 00:16:29,640 Speaker 1: there were just some more wayfaring, druggy dropouts. The farther 293 00:16:29,720 --> 00:16:32,000 Speaker 1: they went from San Francisco, the harder it was to 294 00:16:32,080 --> 00:16:35,600 Speaker 1: live that liberation lifestyle, and so they spent their time 295 00:16:35,680 --> 00:16:38,960 Speaker 1: making their family of freaks and outsiders bigger, hanging with 296 00:16:39,040 --> 00:16:41,440 Speaker 1: the Angels and with other bands who lived communally, like 297 00:16:41,520 --> 00:16:44,680 Speaker 1: The Dead and Quicksilver Messenger Service, who shacked up together 298 00:16:44,720 --> 00:16:48,840 Speaker 1: in a lima at the Dead's compound. Janice gravitated towards 299 00:16:48,920 --> 00:16:52,000 Speaker 1: Ron McKernan, the guy they called pig Pen, a nickname 300 00:16:52,080 --> 00:16:54,520 Speaker 1: given to him due to his funky approach to life 301 00:16:54,560 --> 00:16:58,120 Speaker 1: and sanitation. Pig Pen was the badass member of the 302 00:16:58,120 --> 00:17:00,880 Speaker 1: Grateful Dead, the one who started drinking round aage twelve 303 00:17:00,920 --> 00:17:03,120 Speaker 1: when he bought whiskey off of a bootlegger for a 304 00:17:03,160 --> 00:17:06,680 Speaker 1: buck fifty a gallon. Like Janie, he was knee deep 305 00:17:06,680 --> 00:17:09,040 Speaker 1: in whatever blues music he could get his hands on. 306 00:17:09,359 --> 00:17:11,719 Speaker 1: He watched old blues players in the clubs of Paula 307 00:17:11,960 --> 00:17:13,800 Speaker 1: I was a kid, and then picked up a harp 308 00:17:13,840 --> 00:17:16,840 Speaker 1: and a guitar and tried to do it himself. He 309 00:17:16,960 --> 00:17:18,520 Speaker 1: was the only member of the Dead that you can 310 00:17:18,560 --> 00:17:21,440 Speaker 1: mistakenly peg for a member of the Hell's Angels. The 311 00:17:21,480 --> 00:17:25,199 Speaker 1: devilish facial hair, the corduroy cowboy hat, the jean jacket 312 00:17:25,240 --> 00:17:27,840 Speaker 1: adorned with pins and buttons, and the long dark hair 313 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:32,040 Speaker 1: kept it babe by a thick patterned headpand but beneath 314 00:17:32,080 --> 00:17:35,720 Speaker 1: the gruff exterior, pig Pen, it was a softy and 315 00:17:35,800 --> 00:17:41,600 Speaker 1: a sweetheart. Janice fell for Hart. She loved the gruff exterior, 316 00:17:41,720 --> 00:17:44,159 Speaker 1: she loved the sweet interior. She wanted the good and 317 00:17:44,240 --> 00:17:47,280 Speaker 1: the bad, the musician and the Hell's Angel. Pig Pen 318 00:17:47,720 --> 00:17:50,600 Speaker 1: was all of that. Big Brother and the Dead would 319 00:17:50,600 --> 00:17:53,280 Speaker 1: engage in another of their communal life. Hank Sessions and 320 00:17:53,400 --> 00:17:55,800 Speaker 1: Janis and pig Pen would make their way into the 321 00:17:55,800 --> 00:17:58,200 Speaker 1: corner of the room like there was no one else there, 322 00:17:58,720 --> 00:18:01,439 Speaker 1: and they passed the bottle of other comfort back and forth, 323 00:18:02,119 --> 00:18:04,439 Speaker 1: and then they'd sneak off to pig Pen's room. And 324 00:18:04,440 --> 00:18:06,600 Speaker 1: there was a much privacy in a communal home shared 325 00:18:06,640 --> 00:18:09,520 Speaker 1: by a large band with an even larger entourage. And 326 00:18:09,600 --> 00:18:12,840 Speaker 1: Bob were immortalized. They're not so secret romance and looks 327 00:18:12,880 --> 00:18:16,639 Speaker 1: like rain and from the Angels to Argentina. Janice was 328 00:18:16,680 --> 00:18:20,520 Speaker 1: expanding her world, branching out beyond the confines of the hate. 329 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:24,600 Speaker 1: The family that she was cultivating was expanding too. And then, 330 00:18:24,720 --> 00:18:28,240 Speaker 1: on a weekend in June seven and the seaside town 331 00:18:28,280 --> 00:18:32,000 Speaker 1: of Monterey, a serpentine shot down coastal Route one from 332 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:36,480 Speaker 1: the Bay in Janice's reach, went viral worldwide. Soon everyone 333 00:18:36,520 --> 00:18:39,399 Speaker 1: would see in janeee exact things that chocolate George and 334 00:18:39,440 --> 00:18:43,479 Speaker 1: pig pensaw. That's psychedelic R and B she gleaned from Otis. 335 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:46,760 Speaker 1: Even those snobs from way over yonder in Los Angeles 336 00:18:46,800 --> 00:18:49,399 Speaker 1: who want to be a member of her, outside her party. 337 00:18:53,640 --> 00:19:03,080 Speaker 1: We'll be right back after this word were Mama Cass 338 00:19:03,119 --> 00:19:07,080 Speaker 1: Elliott wasn't a stranger to revelation, the moments that came 339 00:19:07,119 --> 00:19:10,480 Speaker 1: out of nowhere from a stage from the sky, the 340 00:19:10,560 --> 00:19:15,080 Speaker 1: moments that literally changed everything forever. She had one of 341 00:19:15,080 --> 00:19:19,440 Speaker 1: those moments in the summer somewhere in the Virgin Islands. 342 00:19:20,359 --> 00:19:23,840 Speaker 1: Cass was just standing there singing when the pipe fell 343 00:19:23,960 --> 00:19:28,040 Speaker 1: from the ceiling. It came loose some thin metal piece 344 00:19:28,080 --> 00:19:32,639 Speaker 1: of plumbing and went straight down direct hit. Cass was 345 00:19:32,720 --> 00:19:35,000 Speaker 1: the fourth and newest member of the Mammas and the 346 00:19:35,040 --> 00:19:37,960 Speaker 1: papas a vocal group built from the ashes of the 347 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:41,840 Speaker 1: new Journeyman and the mugwumps. Real folk die are types. 348 00:19:42,520 --> 00:19:44,879 Speaker 1: She decamped to a little slice of Paradise with her 349 00:19:44,920 --> 00:19:48,400 Speaker 1: bandmates John and Michelle Phillips and Denny Doherty to work 350 00:19:48,440 --> 00:19:51,320 Speaker 1: out their harmonies, give the new songs a spin, get 351 00:19:51,320 --> 00:19:54,159 Speaker 1: their ship together before they left the East Coast for California. 352 00:19:55,720 --> 00:19:58,000 Speaker 1: And they wanted to shed their old folk music skin, 353 00:19:58,320 --> 00:20:01,800 Speaker 1: go electric, jump on Ellen's one eighty train while seats 354 00:20:01,840 --> 00:20:05,480 Speaker 1: were still available, and be a part of history. John 355 00:20:05,560 --> 00:20:09,040 Speaker 1: had just the song. It was a call and response cast. 356 00:20:09,080 --> 00:20:12,560 Speaker 1: As parts echoed the main lyric, it sounded prophetic, like 357 00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:15,560 Speaker 1: the song itself was a crystal ball. It wasn't just 358 00:20:15,600 --> 00:20:18,240 Speaker 1: about California. It was about a new day, a new sound, 359 00:20:18,320 --> 00:20:21,480 Speaker 1: a new coast and new reality. And the forceome delivered 360 00:20:21,480 --> 00:20:25,040 Speaker 1: the refrain and chilling minor key harmonies, who was downright 361 00:20:25,119 --> 00:20:28,639 Speaker 1: spooky in its beauty cast felt a chill run up 362 00:20:28,640 --> 00:20:31,520 Speaker 1: her back as their voices locked in. She knew she 363 00:20:31,560 --> 00:20:35,240 Speaker 1: had the strongest voice in the group, and despite John's reservations, 364 00:20:35,680 --> 00:20:37,639 Speaker 1: she knew that the real reason that John gave her 365 00:20:37,680 --> 00:20:40,480 Speaker 1: so much shit about her weight and her oversized personality 366 00:20:40,640 --> 00:20:42,879 Speaker 1: was really just because he was jealous of her voice. 367 00:20:43,359 --> 00:20:45,879 Speaker 1: He was scared of her voice. So she let it 368 00:20:45,960 --> 00:20:49,359 Speaker 1: ring out loud and clear during the song's final repeated line, 369 00:20:49,720 --> 00:20:52,600 Speaker 1: to impress John, but also to scare him some more. 370 00:20:53,359 --> 00:20:57,080 Speaker 1: And then the pipe came down on her head. They 371 00:20:57,119 --> 00:21:00,200 Speaker 1: were rehearsing in a club which was under renovation. I'll 372 00:21:00,200 --> 00:21:02,359 Speaker 1: plumber in the rafters above and knocked a piece of 373 00:21:02,359 --> 00:21:05,320 Speaker 1: piping blues. It fell hard and fast as soon as 374 00:21:05,320 --> 00:21:08,240 Speaker 1: it landed on her head, Cast at the floor song 375 00:21:08,359 --> 00:21:12,400 Speaker 1: over Castover. She was down, she was out. But when 376 00:21:12,440 --> 00:21:14,680 Speaker 1: she woke up in the hospital, she discovered that she 377 00:21:14,720 --> 00:21:17,480 Speaker 1: had suffered a concussion. But she discovered something else too. 378 00:21:18,119 --> 00:21:22,040 Speaker 1: Her voice. It went higher, suddenly, her range was increased 379 00:21:22,040 --> 00:21:24,720 Speaker 1: by a few notes. The very thing that it knocked 380 00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:27,320 Speaker 1: her to the ground had in fact made her stronger. 381 00:21:28,400 --> 00:21:31,199 Speaker 1: Cast His life was like that, full of happy accidents. 382 00:21:31,640 --> 00:21:34,720 Speaker 1: She learned to cultivate those revelatory moments. She made a 383 00:21:34,760 --> 00:21:37,240 Speaker 1: place for them to happen, opened her door and let 384 00:21:37,280 --> 00:21:40,159 Speaker 1: them in her house in the Laurel Canyon neighborhood of 385 00:21:40,240 --> 00:21:43,000 Speaker 1: Los Angeles. Became a regular hangout for the droves of 386 00:21:43,080 --> 00:21:46,640 Speaker 1: musicians who were making the mountainous terrain their own creative sandpit. 387 00:21:47,480 --> 00:21:51,320 Speaker 1: Joni Mitchell, David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Mickey Dolan's, Eric Clapton. 388 00:21:51,400 --> 00:21:54,560 Speaker 1: They came from all over, filled ash trays, past bottles, 389 00:21:54,560 --> 00:21:57,360 Speaker 1: pasted joints, swam in the pool, worked out new songs. 390 00:21:57,440 --> 00:22:01,640 Speaker 1: Laurel Canyon was an entire culture built around creating those moments. 391 00:22:03,040 --> 00:22:06,000 Speaker 1: And then at the Monterey International Pop Festival in Monterey, 392 00:22:06,040 --> 00:22:11,280 Speaker 1: California in June, Cass had another moment. It wasn't a 393 00:22:11,320 --> 00:22:13,520 Speaker 1: pipe from a ceiling, but it knocked her out just 394 00:22:13,560 --> 00:22:18,360 Speaker 1: the same. It was Janice Job. Cass's jaw dropped when 395 00:22:18,440 --> 00:22:21,000 Speaker 1: Janie and Big Brother took the stage and squeezed the 396 00:22:21,040 --> 00:22:24,240 Speaker 1: blues out of Big Mama Thornton's ball and Chain. It 397 00:22:24,280 --> 00:22:26,840 Speaker 1: wasn't just Big Brother's raw treatment of the blues or 398 00:22:26,880 --> 00:22:29,000 Speaker 1: the way their brand of R and B was drenched 399 00:22:29,040 --> 00:22:32,920 Speaker 1: in Bay Areas psych It was Janice. She was electrified, 400 00:22:32,960 --> 00:22:36,280 Speaker 1: she was possessed. She shouted Hollard, stopped her heel down 401 00:22:36,320 --> 00:22:38,560 Speaker 1: on the stage, let her throat just ripped apart with 402 00:22:38,640 --> 00:22:41,960 Speaker 1: anguish and pain, and the band unspoiled behind her, the 403 00:22:42,040 --> 00:22:45,919 Speaker 1: guitars flowing like unruly hippy hair, and then without notice, 404 00:22:46,080 --> 00:22:51,040 Speaker 1: the whole stage tightened up, got quiet real quick. Janie's 405 00:22:51,119 --> 00:22:53,840 Speaker 1: voice was no longer ravaged, it was tame and intimate, 406 00:22:54,240 --> 00:22:58,520 Speaker 1: and then the unraveling happened again. Janie's body was taken over. 407 00:22:58,840 --> 00:23:00,760 Speaker 1: She shook, she got them like she was using it 408 00:23:00,840 --> 00:23:04,120 Speaker 1: to stabilize yourself, and stuttered loudly, turning the stutter into 409 00:23:04,119 --> 00:23:07,160 Speaker 1: a hook, turning it into a baby. She had taken 410 00:23:07,160 --> 00:23:09,800 Speaker 1: Otis writing his own moves, the dynamics of his performance, 411 00:23:09,800 --> 00:23:12,160 Speaker 1: and made them her own. She was trying to out 412 00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:14,440 Speaker 1: Otis Otis who just happened to be one of the 413 00:23:14,480 --> 00:23:17,000 Speaker 1: more than thirty performers at the three day festival that 414 00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:20,359 Speaker 1: weekend in June, and cast his jaw didn't leave the ground. 415 00:23:20,680 --> 00:23:23,560 Speaker 1: The song ended, and she was still in shock. She 416 00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:27,160 Speaker 1: had witnessed something, one of those moments the whole audience 417 00:23:27,280 --> 00:23:30,280 Speaker 1: was shook. Then it was a moment that was nearly 418 00:23:30,320 --> 00:23:37,320 Speaker 1: lost to history. The Monterey International Pop Festival is best 419 00:23:37,359 --> 00:23:40,520 Speaker 1: known as the place where Americans were first introduced to 420 00:23:40,560 --> 00:23:43,919 Speaker 1: the Jimi Hendrix experience. The Who and Ravi Shankar but 421 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:47,000 Speaker 1: it was also the first time that artists like Janison 422 00:23:47,040 --> 00:23:51,879 Speaker 1: Otis became household names. Organizers hired Da Penna Baker, the 423 00:23:51,960 --> 00:23:56,639 Speaker 1: documentary filmmaker behind the Dylan flick Don't Look Back, to 424 00:23:56,720 --> 00:23:59,879 Speaker 1: make a movie of the Weekend. Janis and Big Brother 425 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:02,680 Speaker 1: were there as part of the San Francisco contingent, which 426 00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:06,520 Speaker 1: included the Dead and Jefferson Airplane, but the Los Angeles 427 00:24:06,560 --> 00:24:10,880 Speaker 1: contingent ran the show. John Phillips helped organize Monterey Pop 428 00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:13,560 Speaker 1: from his office in l A. L A was another 429 00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:18,000 Speaker 1: galaxy as far as San Franciscans were concerned. Buffalo Springfield, 430 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:21,280 Speaker 1: the Doors loved. They were all sunset strip bands. They 431 00:24:21,320 --> 00:24:24,399 Speaker 1: said they were hippies, but they had that neon city glow. 432 00:24:25,280 --> 00:24:27,679 Speaker 1: The San Francisco contingent it was so weary of the 433 00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:30,399 Speaker 1: l A scensters that they refused to allow Penna Baker's 434 00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:33,800 Speaker 1: crew to film them in Monterey Pop. Penna Baker had 435 00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:36,600 Speaker 1: cred Monterey Pop would get the raw, unfiltered pen of 436 00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:39,320 Speaker 1: Baker treatment. That no one had beef with Penna Baker. 437 00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:42,720 Speaker 1: It was the Los Angelenos, a shifty eyed motherfucker's running 438 00:24:42,760 --> 00:24:46,160 Speaker 1: the show. They weren't hippies. They were rich hippies. They 439 00:24:46,200 --> 00:24:48,800 Speaker 1: were the establishment now, but they were still playing the 440 00:24:48,840 --> 00:24:52,560 Speaker 1: part of the anti establishment to the San Franciscans. John 441 00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:54,840 Speaker 1: Phillips and his l A crew were fast talk or 442 00:24:54,880 --> 00:24:57,400 Speaker 1: city slickers, hucksters. They weren't going to let themselves get 443 00:24:57,400 --> 00:25:01,199 Speaker 1: greased by the fucking mamas and the papas. Julius Carpin 444 00:25:01,560 --> 00:25:04,320 Speaker 1: said no. He told d. A. Pennebaker to shut the 445 00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:06,920 Speaker 1: cameras off. He said that Janice was off limits. He 446 00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:09,480 Speaker 1: wouldn't sign the release for him unless John Phillips wanted 447 00:25:09,520 --> 00:25:11,800 Speaker 1: to cough up some dough or give the band creative 448 00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:14,159 Speaker 1: control over the footage. He said that he'd sue if 449 00:25:14,160 --> 00:25:16,120 Speaker 1: they didn't do as he asked, or maybe he'd break 450 00:25:16,160 --> 00:25:20,080 Speaker 1: all the fucking cameras altogether. Maybe he'd do both. Julius 451 00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:23,880 Speaker 1: was ex Mary Prankster former Ken Kesey. Crony Big Brother 452 00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:26,560 Speaker 1: hired him in early sixty seven as their new manager, 453 00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:30,680 Speaker 1: a long time coming replacement for Chet Helms. Inspired by 454 00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:33,600 Speaker 1: the Pranksters and their further bus, they got a nineteen 455 00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:37,240 Speaker 1: fifty two Cadillac Hurst to haul their gear. Julius made 456 00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:39,880 Speaker 1: sure the band had wheels a few roadies to throw 457 00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:43,840 Speaker 1: equipment around, expertly rolled joints to toke. But at Monterey, 458 00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:47,600 Speaker 1: Janice wasn't smoking with Julius was smoking. When she found 459 00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:50,600 Speaker 1: out that the cameras weren't rolling during Big Brother's performance, 460 00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:53,840 Speaker 1: she was bullshit. She got in Julius's face and asked 461 00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:56,960 Speaker 1: what the fucking problem was, and Julius wouldn't budge. The 462 00:25:57,040 --> 00:26:00,000 Speaker 1: festival's promoters, John Phillips and his l A cronies, made 463 00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:02,560 Speaker 1: nearly a half a million dollar deal with the filmmakers. 464 00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:05,480 Speaker 1: Big Brother wasn't seeing one set. It was a non 465 00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:09,359 Speaker 1: starter for Julius. John Phillips offered Big Brother a second 466 00:26:09,359 --> 00:26:11,800 Speaker 1: slot on Sunday, the final night of the festival, if 467 00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:15,240 Speaker 1: they would agree to be filmed. Janice ran into Albert Grossman, 468 00:26:15,320 --> 00:26:18,879 Speaker 1: Bob Dylan's manager, and asked for his advice. The band 469 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:22,399 Speaker 1: was nervous. Janice talking to Grossman reminded them of Janice 470 00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:25,479 Speaker 1: talking to the Lectura records that were terrified that Janice 471 00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:28,199 Speaker 1: would big time them. But all she wanted was for 472 00:26:28,280 --> 00:26:32,920 Speaker 1: Grossman to tell Julius to funk off. Instead, Grossman gave 473 00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:36,159 Speaker 1: her the confidence to tell Julius herself. She got in 474 00:26:36,240 --> 00:26:39,280 Speaker 1: Julius's face again, threatened his employment, told him she would 475 00:26:39,280 --> 00:26:41,080 Speaker 1: fire his ass right there and then if he didn't 476 00:26:41,119 --> 00:26:45,720 Speaker 1: agree to John Phillips's offer. Julius was rattled. Janice was 477 00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:49,160 Speaker 1: making a scene. Julius relented, He allowed it, and Big 478 00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:51,760 Speaker 1: Brother played a second set on Sunday night, and from 479 00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:55,680 Speaker 1: that set, Ball and Chaine became a starmaking show stopper 480 00:26:55,680 --> 00:26:59,119 Speaker 1: in Penna Baker's film. But the damage had been done. 481 00:26:59,520 --> 00:27:02,359 Speaker 1: Tensions who were once again high in the Big Brother camp. 482 00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:05,640 Speaker 1: The tension between Janie and Julius was palpable, and now 483 00:27:05,680 --> 00:27:07,640 Speaker 1: it was starting to affect the band as a whole. 484 00:27:08,119 --> 00:27:12,760 Speaker 1: Everyone was nervous, suspicious, paranoid, unhappy. It was an uneasy 485 00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:16,160 Speaker 1: feeling that was about to ripple through San Francisco, despite 486 00:27:16,240 --> 00:27:19,960 Speaker 1: its idyllic summer of love, and hit Janice where it 487 00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:50,840 Speaker 1: hurt Auguste. Word traveled fast, and they hate store front 488 00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:53,399 Speaker 1: the store front from the doorway of the Psychedelic Shop 489 00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:55,720 Speaker 1: to the wild west of the Panhandle where the diggers 490 00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:58,240 Speaker 1: handed out food. From the corner of the film War 491 00:27:58,280 --> 00:28:00,720 Speaker 1: to the middle of the Golden Gate Park. There's a 492 00:28:00,760 --> 00:28:04,639 Speaker 1: beetle and they hate no ship. Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts 493 00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:07,560 Speaker 1: club band was still brand new, a British take on 494 00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:11,159 Speaker 1: the psychedelic sounds coming from America. It was a perfect 495 00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:13,760 Speaker 1: compliment to the now official Summer of Love, as she 496 00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:16,320 Speaker 1: had Helms and others had crowned the Summer of nineteen 497 00:28:16,359 --> 00:28:19,560 Speaker 1: sixty seven in a press conference in May, and now 498 00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:22,720 Speaker 1: one of its authors, the man behind the transcendental Within 499 00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:25,880 Speaker 1: You Without You, was just taking a leisurely stroll through 500 00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:29,280 Speaker 1: the streets of San Francisco. People on the street made 501 00:28:29,280 --> 00:28:32,640 Speaker 1: eye contact and then made their voice heard that's George Harrison. 502 00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:36,000 Speaker 1: There was no denying it. It was the quiet beatle 503 00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:40,040 Speaker 1: in the flesh. His mob top gone tropo Lonely Hearts mustache. 504 00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:43,800 Speaker 1: Below even more breathtaking was Patty Boyd, George's wife, who 505 00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:47,239 Speaker 1: walked by his side. A group of locals assembled as 506 00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:50,160 Speaker 1: they walked. They wanted autographs, hugs, advice, they wanted to 507 00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:52,920 Speaker 1: hear a song, and the group of people became large 508 00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:55,240 Speaker 1: enough that at some point it crossed over to a mob. 509 00:28:55,560 --> 00:28:57,440 Speaker 1: And then the mob became large enough that it could 510 00:28:57,480 --> 00:29:00,240 Speaker 1: no longer move down the street as one, so it 511 00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:02,600 Speaker 1: had to stop, and then it began to close in 512 00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:06,000 Speaker 1: on George. George was stuck in the middle, watching eyes 513 00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:08,960 Speaker 1: expand and contract and bug out in his general direction. 514 00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:12,160 Speaker 1: Hands reached out to touch him, to glean some sort 515 00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:15,040 Speaker 1: of wisdom through physical contact, to hand him a book, 516 00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:17,720 Speaker 1: pass on some insects, give him a joint or a dose. 517 00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:20,360 Speaker 1: He was weary of it all, and the dose was 518 00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:23,400 Speaker 1: the dropouts, the hippies. The whole scene was curdling right 519 00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:26,560 Speaker 1: before his eyes. The kids started to grab form lunge 520 00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:28,959 Speaker 1: at him. Hands holding out books and joints and doses 521 00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:32,400 Speaker 1: became claus and swung and missed. Voices that made requests 522 00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:35,440 Speaker 1: for songs became accusatory insults, and he wouldn't swallow their 523 00:29:35,480 --> 00:29:39,840 Speaker 1: particular pill. This self medicated land of life affirming, creative liberation, 524 00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:42,360 Speaker 1: one that George and the boys that admired from Afar 525 00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:45,480 Speaker 1: and felt an emotional and creative connection with, crumbled all 526 00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:47,840 Speaker 1: around him. All that was left was a bunch of 527 00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:51,440 Speaker 1: needy kids, stoned and baked and fried, grasping and groaning 528 00:29:51,560 --> 00:29:56,480 Speaker 1: like zombies. It was all too much. George needed to escape. 529 00:29:56,760 --> 00:29:58,840 Speaker 1: He needed to find a way out before they turned 530 00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:01,560 Speaker 1: on him. He feared whatever was happening in the hate 531 00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:07,160 Speaker 1: had already happened, and that he was too late. That 532 00:30:07,360 --> 00:30:11,120 Speaker 1: same summer, the Summer of Love, Janis Joplin's parents, Seth 533 00:30:11,280 --> 00:30:14,440 Speaker 1: and Dorothy Joplin, flew from Texas to San Francisco to 534 00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:17,320 Speaker 1: visit their daughter. They wanted to see where she lived, 535 00:30:17,560 --> 00:30:19,600 Speaker 1: who she was hanging out with, the band she was 536 00:30:19,680 --> 00:30:23,000 Speaker 1: playing with, and they were far from thrilled. The life 537 00:30:23,040 --> 00:30:27,040 Speaker 1: she was leading was too free to unstructured. Like George Harrison, 538 00:30:27,120 --> 00:30:29,840 Speaker 1: they too feared that they had arrived in San Francisco 539 00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:35,080 Speaker 1: too late. For different reasons. They disapproved of Janice's cheap apartment, 540 00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:38,000 Speaker 1: the pictures on her wall. Every picture was the same 541 00:30:38,120 --> 00:30:41,120 Speaker 1: picture won the photographer Bob Siderman had taken of her 542 00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:44,440 Speaker 1: that year. In it, she wore only beads, most of 543 00:30:44,520 --> 00:30:47,960 Speaker 1: which covered her breasts. Her hands were strategically placed directly 544 00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:51,840 Speaker 1: below her waist. The shot didn't bother. She loved it. 545 00:30:52,080 --> 00:30:55,160 Speaker 1: It empowered her. In fact, she had been the one 546 00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:58,120 Speaker 1: to suggested Bob that she not wear any clothes. She 547 00:30:58,200 --> 00:31:01,480 Speaker 1: didn't tell her parents that fact. Seeing the naked picture 548 00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:05,040 Speaker 1: of their daughter was shocking enough. Seth turned his head 549 00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:07,760 Speaker 1: while Dorothy put her hands over her eyes of Janice's 550 00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:10,080 Speaker 1: fourteen year old brother, Michael, who had joined them on 551 00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:13,360 Speaker 1: the trip along with Janice's eighteen year old sister Laura. 552 00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:17,080 Speaker 1: Sensing the disapproval in the apartment room, Janice took them 553 00:31:17,080 --> 00:31:19,200 Speaker 1: all to the avalon, where she asked the guys and 554 00:31:19,320 --> 00:31:22,120 Speaker 1: Moby Grape if big brother could slip in during their 555 00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:25,560 Speaker 1: set to play a few tunes for her folks. Laura 556 00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:27,760 Speaker 1: and Michael were in awe of their big sister on 557 00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:31,360 Speaker 1: stage with that larger than life voice giving directions to 558 00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:35,000 Speaker 1: an entirely male band. She was their sister, but in 559 00:31:35,080 --> 00:31:39,120 Speaker 1: that moment she was also their idol. Seth and Dorothy 560 00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:42,680 Speaker 1: weren't as impressed. Janice could tell. It was the same 561 00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:45,000 Speaker 1: moment with her parents, the one where she tried to 562 00:31:45,080 --> 00:31:47,200 Speaker 1: impress them, tried to please them, try to show them 563 00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:49,200 Speaker 1: that she was free now she was going to be 564 00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:53,000 Speaker 1: just fine. But he didn't believe her, and the Joplins 565 00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:55,920 Speaker 1: cut out for Texas, and Janice was left feeling dejected. 566 00:31:56,440 --> 00:31:59,280 Speaker 1: She had failed them again, just like the last time 567 00:31:59,360 --> 00:32:03,000 Speaker 1: and the time for she was always failing them, and 568 00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:05,240 Speaker 1: so she dealt with the sting of rejection the way 569 00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:08,240 Speaker 1: she had in the past, her past haunted her. Her 570 00:32:08,280 --> 00:32:11,600 Speaker 1: past was always there, waiting until she lost control one 571 00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:14,280 Speaker 1: more time, and she turned herself into one of those 572 00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:17,120 Speaker 1: San Francisco zombies. If only for a day or a night, 573 00:32:17,240 --> 00:32:19,520 Speaker 1: or a week or a month, she'd numb herself with 574 00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:21,640 Speaker 1: what she could get her hands on. The darker the better, 575 00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:24,000 Speaker 1: the more cavern is dwelling, the high was the better. 576 00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:27,000 Speaker 1: And after all, it was summertime and the living was 577 00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:30,320 Speaker 1: supposed to be easy. So and she'd find that cavern 578 00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:33,000 Speaker 1: in her mind and she'd get there straight with a 579 00:32:33,040 --> 00:32:35,640 Speaker 1: shot of junk that was darker and harder than any 580 00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:38,680 Speaker 1: of the petrol tainted stp acid that was going around. 581 00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:41,920 Speaker 1: She would think about her parents leaving San Francisco for 582 00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:45,400 Speaker 1: Port Arthur, and then she started to nod off as 583 00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:48,800 Speaker 1: she drifted into a thick, gooey heroin I. She couldn't 584 00:32:48,840 --> 00:32:50,600 Speaker 1: help but think about the last time she was a 585 00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:53,960 Speaker 1: disappointment to her parents, a time when she first came 586 00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:57,440 Speaker 1: to San Francisco discovered that she couldn't handle it, couldn't hang. 587 00:32:58,040 --> 00:33:01,280 Speaker 1: That time she liberated herself all on that time she 588 00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:05,680 Speaker 1: ran back to Port Arthur, pounds soaking, wet, strong, out 589 00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:08,080 Speaker 1: on meth wondering what the hell she was gonna do 590 00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:11,960 Speaker 1: with her life, wondering if she would ever be free. 591 00:33:13,280 --> 00:33:17,280 Speaker 1: I'm Jake Brennan, and this is the twenty seven Club, 592 00:33:28,360 --> 00:33:30,600 Speaker 1: all right. 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