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Speaker 1: The twenty seven Club is a production of I Heart

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

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Speaker 1: of and she lived the life that, much like her

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

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Speaker 1: Five would be the number of times she'd sometimes repeat

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Speaker 1: device of anticipation that would lead to Catharctic release something

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Speaker 1: like come On, come On, come On, come On, come On,

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Speaker 1: and cry baby. One more would be the number of

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Speaker 1: her years of solidarity and friendship when she didn't play

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Speaker 1: by their rules. Another twelve would be the number of

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Speaker 1: hours it took her to recover from a transcontinental train

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Speaker 1: trip across the prairies of Canada, where she continued to

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Speaker 1: evolve as an artist as an amalgamation of musical influences.

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Speaker 1: Another one would be the number of love Struck record

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Speaker 1: producers she convinced to work with her, despite the fact

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Speaker 1: that her continued addiction and increasingly erratic behavior was indicative

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Speaker 1: of darker days ahead. And eight would be the number

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Speaker 1: August twelve and played the last set she'd ever play

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Speaker 1: in front of an audience. On This our tenth episode

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Speaker 1: of season three, Cathartic Release, Love Struck Producers, Vindictive, Hell's Angels,

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Speaker 1: and Janice Joplin Walking a Winding Path to Liberation. I'm

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Speaker 1: Jake Brennant in This Is the Seven Cosm. Garnett Mims

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Speaker 1: heard all the rumors about Bert Burns. He heard that

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Speaker 1: Janice gave a cry baby performance for the ages, larynx

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Speaker 1: Joplin was dead like any Hell's Angels party. The concert

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Speaker 1: In December of sixty nine, the peace and love ethos

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Speaker 1: William gave the club a good name. It wasn't just

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Speaker 1: That's what Bobby kept repeating to himself silently, over and

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Speaker 1: over in his head. It can't happen here. Bobby looked

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Speaker 1: outlooked to could dive his throat down to a pit

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Speaker 1: somewhere at the bottom of his stomach. He pondered in

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Speaker 1: early toke from the contraband choint he had been handed

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Speaker 1: through the gate that night, just to take the edge off.

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Speaker 1: And then around ten thirty that night, Janice walked on

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Speaker 1: stage a bottle of JM B Scotch in her hand.

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Speaker 1: Where the Southern Comfort usually was, it was impossible to

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Speaker 1: tell where her long strands of hair ended and the

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Speaker 1: long stringy feathers she wore began. Moments later, the guys

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Speaker 1: in the full tiled boogie band followed, and they plugged in,

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Speaker 1: counted off, and roared to life. Bobby gradually settled down

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Speaker 1: as all was forgiven by the audience, and Cambridge defaulted

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Speaker 1: to having a good time, the best time, and the

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Speaker 1: last time too. That night would be the last time

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Speaker 1: Janice Joplin would ever play Cambridge, the last time Janice

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Speaker 1: Joplin would ever play anywhere. Two months later, people will

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Speaker 1: be waiting for Janice to show up again like they

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Speaker 1: often did, only this time she'd never show m Paul

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Speaker 1: Rothschild was in love with Janice Choplin, her laugh, her smile,

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Speaker 1: her easy, breezy, funk at all attitude towards life, how

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Speaker 1: she took zero ships from no one, the way she dressed,

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Speaker 1: with all those countless feathers and beads and bengals, hanging

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Speaker 1: and flowing and flowering in every direction. He had known

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Speaker 1: that he was in love with her for quite some time,

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Speaker 1: all the way back to when she fronted Big Brother

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Speaker 1: and he tried to woo away with a solo deal

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Speaker 1: on Elektra. Now in the middle of at to making

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Speaker 1: a name as the unofficial fifth member of The Doors,

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Speaker 1: he had signed on to produce Janice's second solo album

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Speaker 1: and her first with the Full Till Boogie Band as

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Speaker 1: her backup. Even though Rothschild was in love with Janice.

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Speaker 1: He was also a professional first and the love struck

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Speaker 1: puppy second look Janice. He told her one day, I

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Speaker 1: really love you very very much, and I'd like to

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Speaker 1: be with you, but let's funk on tape. He was

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Speaker 1: worried just about as much as he was smitten. He

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Speaker 1: had spent some time with Janice while she was making

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Speaker 1: her last record, I got them old Cosmic Blues again, Mama,

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Speaker 1: and he knew she was fighting some demons. He knew

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Speaker 1: she was holding onto addictions. He saw the marks on

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Speaker 1: her arms, the bags under her eyes. He knew where

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Speaker 1: she went when she disappeared for a few minutes or

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Speaker 1: a few hours at a time. His moments, like those

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Speaker 1: that the colorful, expressive Janice he loved would find herself

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Speaker 1: consumed by a dark cloud and he would lose sight

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Speaker 1: of her temporarily, he wouldn't recognize it. When Rothschild his

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Speaker 1: first approach to produce janice new record in he initially

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Speaker 1: refused because he was worried. He was ready to write

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Speaker 1: her office and once talented junkie assumed to be has

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Speaker 1: been to consume with bullshit to be worth his time.

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Speaker 1: He loved her, and because he loved her. He couldn't

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Speaker 1: bear to be a party to what was surely her

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Speaker 1: downhill slide. Her voice was shot. All the touring, the smoking,

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Speaker 1: the drinking, and the drunking had just ravaged the sound

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Speaker 1: of her voice. She even asked Rothschild to accompany her

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Speaker 1: in her shows and stand on the side of the

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Speaker 1: stage with a stopwatch. Tired, she said, I'm tired of

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Speaker 1: my voice hurts and my body aches, and I know

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Speaker 1: that every night I only have thirty five good minutes

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Speaker 1: in me thirty five minutes flat. After that, I turned

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Speaker 1: into a pumpkin. She placed the stopwatch in his hand

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Speaker 1: and folded his fingers on top of it. I want

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Speaker 1: you to stand over there on the other side of

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Speaker 1: the curtain. In the minute the show starts, I want

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Speaker 1: you to start to stop watch, she told him. When

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Speaker 1: I turn around to look at you, I want you

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Speaker 1: to flash me how many minutes I've got left. Rothschild

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Speaker 1: was kept up at night wondering what would happen if

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Speaker 1: Janice went over thirty five minutes. Janice convinced Rothschild to

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Speaker 1: sit in the producer's chair for her latest sessions, and

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Speaker 1: Janice appealed to the part of Rothschild that was in

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Speaker 1: love with her. She told him not to worry. She

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Speaker 1: told him she was turning things around, that she was

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Speaker 1: pulling herself together, that she needed the support of people

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Speaker 1: like him to help her over the next hill, to

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Speaker 1: walk that next mile. Rothschild couldn't resist. Just being around

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Speaker 1: her was intoxicating. It was everything he wanted a recording

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Speaker 1: session to be. That would get the chance to funk

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Speaker 1: on tape after all. But as good as the sessions were,

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Speaker 1: Rothschild couldn't help but remain worried. He knew there was

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Speaker 1: another shoe out there somewhere, ready to drop. He'd seen

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Speaker 1: it before with friends who were lost or addicted, friends

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Speaker 1: who had sworn up and down that they had gotten clean,

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Speaker 1: that there was nothing to worry about. Because there was

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Speaker 1: than just produce. He had to step in to intervene.

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Speaker 1: He had to give a ship. But that just led

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Speaker 1: to a new thing to worry about, and that despite

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00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:11,760
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