1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,960 Speaker 1: The Seven Club is a production of I Heart Radio 2 00:00:03,320 --> 00:00:07,640 Speaker 1: and Double Elvis. Janis Joplin died at the age of 3 00:00:08,880 --> 00:00:11,320 Speaker 1: and she lived a life that was as auspicious as 4 00:00:11,320 --> 00:00:14,680 Speaker 1: it was tragic. I can give you twenty seven reasons 5 00:00:14,720 --> 00:00:18,480 Speaker 1: why that statement is true. Seven would be the number 6 00:00:18,480 --> 00:00:21,280 Speaker 1: of months her debut solo LP would remain on the 7 00:00:21,360 --> 00:00:24,079 Speaker 1: charts as it ushered her into the upper echelons of 8 00:00:24,079 --> 00:00:27,200 Speaker 1: the booming rock and roll world. One would be the 9 00:00:27,280 --> 00:00:30,200 Speaker 1: number of her signature songs that was hand delivered under 10 00:00:30,320 --> 00:00:33,800 Speaker 1: very illegal circumstances to the man in Black no less 11 00:00:34,159 --> 00:00:37,280 Speaker 1: before it would work its way third hand to her ears. 12 00:00:38,479 --> 00:00:40,559 Speaker 1: Two more would be the number of people close to 13 00:00:40,600 --> 00:00:43,559 Speaker 1: her who would odon junk in quick succession, and who 14 00:00:43,640 --> 00:00:46,360 Speaker 1: left pretty clear writing on the wall that she would 15 00:00:46,360 --> 00:00:50,600 Speaker 1: either choose to read or ignore. Another one would be 16 00:00:50,640 --> 00:00:53,239 Speaker 1: the number of hours she'd spend behind bars after the 17 00:00:53,280 --> 00:00:56,120 Speaker 1: police finally found a reason to put her rabble rousing 18 00:00:56,200 --> 00:01:00,520 Speaker 1: law defying ass and cuffs. And sixteen would be the 19 00:01:00,600 --> 00:01:02,800 Speaker 1: number of months she had left to live when her 20 00:01:02,840 --> 00:01:06,080 Speaker 1: band began to wear disguises to word off the watchful 21 00:01:06,160 --> 00:01:10,559 Speaker 1: eye of hoover raor g men. On this our eighth 22 00:01:10,560 --> 00:01:14,360 Speaker 1: episode of season three, The Man in Black, O D S. 23 00:01:14,720 --> 00:01:18,720 Speaker 1: Rabble Rousing, Hoover's g Men, and Janice Joplin walking a 24 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:24,360 Speaker 1: Winding Path to Liberation um Jake Brennan in This Is 25 00:01:24,400 --> 00:02:07,080 Speaker 1: the Seven Club h Johnny Cash watched from the back 26 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:10,240 Speaker 1: porch of his Henderson, Tennessee estate as the helicopter set 27 00:02:10,240 --> 00:02:13,320 Speaker 1: down between his mansion and Old Hickory Lake. It was 28 00:02:13,360 --> 00:02:16,640 Speaker 1: an uninvited helicopter, which was the only kind of helicopter 29 00:02:16,720 --> 00:02:20,200 Speaker 1: that ever landed in Johnny cash his backyard. His first 30 00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:23,679 Speaker 1: reaction was to panic. That m coopter landed with its 31 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:26,480 Speaker 1: nose pointed at the mansion, so Johnny wasn't able to 32 00:02:26,480 --> 00:02:29,160 Speaker 1: read what was written on the side. What if it 33 00:02:29,240 --> 00:02:32,480 Speaker 1: was the cause? He had pills stashed inside every guitar 34 00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:35,600 Speaker 1: case and every sock drawer inside the house. But there 35 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:39,040 Speaker 1: were prescription pills, so they'd have no grounds to bust him, 36 00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:42,000 Speaker 1: at least not to arrest him. He played that game before. 37 00:02:42,720 --> 00:02:45,200 Speaker 1: He'd also played the game where he was arrested and 38 00:02:45,320 --> 00:02:49,920 Speaker 1: let off in handcuffs. The bust in Walker, County, Georgia 39 00:02:50,040 --> 00:02:53,120 Speaker 1: was still fresh in his mind. He was high as 40 00:02:53,120 --> 00:02:55,200 Speaker 1: a kite that day and decided he wanted to see 41 00:02:55,200 --> 00:02:58,200 Speaker 1: some Civil War relics. Johnny got into his head that 42 00:02:58,320 --> 00:03:00,560 Speaker 1: the best way to accomplish that miss and was to 43 00:03:00,560 --> 00:03:04,480 Speaker 1: start ringing doorbells of houses in the neighborhood. Walker County 44 00:03:04,520 --> 00:03:07,520 Speaker 1: residents opened their doors on that fine afternoon, only to 45 00:03:07,560 --> 00:03:10,519 Speaker 1: find the men in black stoned out of his gourd eyes, 46 00:03:10,560 --> 00:03:12,919 Speaker 1: half masked, drool running down the left side of his chin, 47 00:03:13,360 --> 00:03:17,200 Speaker 1: babbling about the Battle of Chickamauga. He tried to bribe 48 00:03:17,240 --> 00:03:19,840 Speaker 1: the arresting deputy with a water damp hundred dollar bills 49 00:03:19,880 --> 00:03:25,080 Speaker 1: from his pocket. That was a mistake. Now in ninety seven, 50 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:28,079 Speaker 1: Johnny Cash listened to the coptors blades as they made 51 00:03:28,120 --> 00:03:31,000 Speaker 1: that high pitched grinding noise they make once the engine 52 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:33,880 Speaker 1: has been cut, and wondered if he had made another mistake. 53 00:03:34,480 --> 00:03:37,960 Speaker 1: It was possible I couldn't remember them all. And then 54 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:39,600 Speaker 1: he wondered if there was a different reason that he 55 00:03:39,640 --> 00:03:42,360 Speaker 1: should be nervous. Perhaps he should run inside to fetch 56 00:03:42,440 --> 00:03:45,280 Speaker 1: his shotgun. Maybe this full pilot had no clue whose 57 00:03:45,320 --> 00:03:48,320 Speaker 1: backyard he just landed him. Johnny thought about grabbing a 58 00:03:48,360 --> 00:03:52,680 Speaker 1: shotgun and then giving this full pilot the ultimate introduction, Hello, 59 00:03:53,600 --> 00:03:58,240 Speaker 1: I'm Johnny Cash. The copters door opened, and Johnny breathed 60 00:03:58,280 --> 00:04:01,080 Speaker 1: a sigh of relief. The pilot was alone. He wasn't 61 00:04:01,120 --> 00:04:02,920 Speaker 1: there to make trouble, and he certainly wasn't there to 62 00:04:02,960 --> 00:04:06,480 Speaker 1: call out Johnny Cash on another mistake. The man's shoulder 63 00:04:06,520 --> 00:04:08,280 Speaker 1: length hair was whipped around in the air by the 64 00:04:08,320 --> 00:04:12,160 Speaker 1: copts blade's residual motion. A lit cigarette stuck out from 65 00:04:12,160 --> 00:04:14,800 Speaker 1: his bushy beard. In one hand, he held a pull 66 00:04:14,840 --> 00:04:17,400 Speaker 1: top can of beer in the other, a quarter inch 67 00:04:17,480 --> 00:04:20,960 Speaker 1: demo reel. The man was also carrying a huge grin, 68 00:04:21,040 --> 00:04:23,280 Speaker 1: a dumb grin if you asked Johnny, and the closer 69 00:04:23,360 --> 00:04:26,200 Speaker 1: he got to the mansion's porch, the more Johnny found 70 00:04:26,200 --> 00:04:31,000 Speaker 1: that dumb grin familiar. And then it hit him. This 71 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:33,480 Speaker 1: was the guy who pushed the broom at Columbia Records 72 00:04:33,560 --> 00:04:36,600 Speaker 1: Nashville office. This was the guy who had given Johnny 73 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:40,000 Speaker 1: a demo take weeks ago while he was cleaning the bathroom. 74 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:41,640 Speaker 1: He was the one of the same fellow with the 75 00:04:41,680 --> 00:04:43,799 Speaker 1: same grin, who at least a year or two earlier, 76 00:04:43,960 --> 00:04:47,599 Speaker 1: had introduced himself to Johnny backstage after a show. At 77 00:04:47,640 --> 00:04:50,280 Speaker 1: that point, he wasn't wearing a janitor's uniform, but an 78 00:04:50,360 --> 00:04:53,479 Speaker 1: army uniform. And you remember that guy had two first 79 00:04:53,560 --> 00:04:56,320 Speaker 1: names for his first and last name, Bob Roberts or 80 00:04:56,400 --> 00:05:00,080 Speaker 1: Jim James or Dick Richards or something, Chris Christophers. And 81 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:02,120 Speaker 1: that was a kid had a set of balls on 82 00:05:02,200 --> 00:05:05,280 Speaker 1: him landing that bird and Johnny Cash's goddamn lawng He 83 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:07,360 Speaker 1: was real close to the porch now, and he raised 84 00:05:07,360 --> 00:05:09,280 Speaker 1: a hand with the reel in the air as a greeting. 85 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:14,000 Speaker 1: You're the janitor at the office, Johnny yelled from the porch, Christofferson, 86 00:05:14,760 --> 00:05:18,760 Speaker 1: I'm afraid I am misplaced the tape he gave me son. Actually, 87 00:05:18,880 --> 00:05:21,840 Speaker 1: Cash had politely taken the tape and then eventually tossed 88 00:05:21,839 --> 00:05:23,760 Speaker 1: it into the middle of Old Hickory Lake when he 89 00:05:23,800 --> 00:05:26,840 Speaker 1: got home that night, and that was fine. Chris replied, 90 00:05:26,920 --> 00:05:30,360 Speaker 1: that was just fine. He had another one. Chris acknowledged 91 00:05:30,360 --> 00:05:32,279 Speaker 1: the set of balls he had on him. He figured 92 00:05:32,360 --> 00:05:34,960 Speaker 1: Johnny Cash was thinking about that. He was thankful that 93 00:05:35,040 --> 00:05:37,400 Speaker 1: Johnny Cash wasn't holding a shotgun in his hand. But 94 00:05:37,480 --> 00:05:39,680 Speaker 1: now now was the time for a set of balls. 95 00:05:40,080 --> 00:05:42,000 Speaker 1: Because see here the reason he knew how to land 96 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:46,200 Speaker 1: a helicopter in Johnny Cash's backyard Chris Christofferson flew copters 97 00:05:46,200 --> 00:05:48,560 Speaker 1: in Germany for the Army for three years, and then 98 00:05:48,560 --> 00:05:50,919 Speaker 1: he flew copters to offshore oil rigs in the Gulf 99 00:05:50,920 --> 00:05:53,360 Speaker 1: of Mexico after he left the Army. He could put 100 00:05:53,360 --> 00:05:55,400 Speaker 1: a bird down in a man's lawn with a road 101 00:05:55,440 --> 00:05:57,720 Speaker 1: soda in one hand and his fucking eyes closed if 102 00:05:57,720 --> 00:06:00,000 Speaker 1: you wanted to. That's just the sort of man Chris 103 00:06:00,080 --> 00:06:06,480 Speaker 1: Christofferson was. His father and grandfather's before him were military men, 104 00:06:06,839 --> 00:06:09,200 Speaker 1: and they all wanted Chris to be a military man. 105 00:06:09,320 --> 00:06:12,760 Speaker 1: They groomed him forward in Brownville, Texas, and the first 106 00:06:12,760 --> 00:06:14,800 Speaker 1: time he put the Army on hold was to attend 107 00:06:14,839 --> 00:06:17,560 Speaker 1: Oxford as a Rhodes scholar. He wrote a novel in 108 00:06:17,640 --> 00:06:21,080 Speaker 1: a dissertation on William Blake. But the second time, the 109 00:06:21,160 --> 00:06:23,119 Speaker 1: second time he left the Army was when he turned 110 00:06:23,160 --> 00:06:26,400 Speaker 1: down and offered to teach English at West Point. Instead, 111 00:06:26,440 --> 00:06:28,760 Speaker 1: he moved his family to Nashville and took a bottom 112 00:06:28,760 --> 00:06:32,080 Speaker 1: wrong day job pushing a broom across Columbia records, dirty 113 00:06:32,160 --> 00:06:36,520 Speaker 1: Nashville floors, just so he could increase the chances that 114 00:06:36,600 --> 00:06:39,560 Speaker 1: he'd someday pass someone just like Johnny Cash in the 115 00:06:39,640 --> 00:06:43,599 Speaker 1: hallway and slip him his demo reel. As Johnny Cash knew, 116 00:06:44,040 --> 00:06:49,120 Speaker 1: Nashville came with its own set of vices and fetamines, tranquilizers, whiskey, bourbon, 117 00:06:49,200 --> 00:06:53,159 Speaker 1: and lots of beer. Chris Christofferson played the part, lived 118 00:06:53,200 --> 00:06:56,960 Speaker 1: the life hard, and Johnny Cash could relate. Johnny Cash 119 00:06:57,000 --> 00:06:59,599 Speaker 1: could see it in the wrinkles and Chris Christofferson's face 120 00:06:59,640 --> 00:07:02,320 Speaker 1: and the worn down eyes that hid behind that big 121 00:07:02,400 --> 00:07:06,599 Speaker 1: dumb grint. Chris's wife had left him, She took the kids. 122 00:07:06,960 --> 00:07:09,480 Speaker 1: Chris was about thirty years old, just a few years 123 00:07:09,560 --> 00:07:12,560 Speaker 1: Johnny's Jr. He told himself that he hadn't made his 124 00:07:12,600 --> 00:07:15,520 Speaker 1: life choices in vain. He hadn't left behind the army 125 00:07:15,520 --> 00:07:17,960 Speaker 1: in West Point, in the Gulf of Mexico and Oxford 126 00:07:17,960 --> 00:07:20,840 Speaker 1: in his marriage, hadn't left it all behind for nothing. 127 00:07:21,400 --> 00:07:24,400 Speaker 1: Johnny Cash was gonna listen to his goddamn demo reel, 128 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:26,320 Speaker 1: even if he had to go up in a helicopter 129 00:07:26,440 --> 00:07:29,520 Speaker 1: and landed on the lawn of Johnny Cash's Henderson mansion. 130 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:33,600 Speaker 1: And so that's what he goddamn did. He said this 131 00:07:33,640 --> 00:07:35,920 Speaker 1: to Johnny Cash took a haul off a pull top 132 00:07:35,960 --> 00:07:39,120 Speaker 1: beer can that was now offering diminishing returns and made 133 00:07:39,120 --> 00:07:42,200 Speaker 1: a smile even bigger now that he had done it, 134 00:07:42,440 --> 00:07:44,720 Speaker 1: now that he was standing there in Johnny Cash's yard 135 00:07:44,760 --> 00:07:47,320 Speaker 1: with that beer and that demo reel with Johnny Cash 136 00:07:47,360 --> 00:07:50,280 Speaker 1: looking stand off and is potentially contemplating a few rounds 137 00:07:50,280 --> 00:07:53,840 Speaker 1: of buckshot to scare the stocker janitor office property. Chris 138 00:07:53,880 --> 00:07:56,480 Speaker 1: Christofferson wondered if it had been a good idea after all, 139 00:07:57,120 --> 00:08:00,320 Speaker 1: or just some crazy active career suicide before his career 140 00:08:00,360 --> 00:08:03,200 Speaker 1: even had a new life. But Johnny Cash thought it 141 00:08:03,200 --> 00:08:05,239 Speaker 1: was a hell of an entrance and the most goddamn 142 00:08:05,280 --> 00:08:08,000 Speaker 1: persistent in pig headed thing he'd seen in years, So 143 00:08:08,040 --> 00:08:11,000 Speaker 1: he put Chris Christofferson's tape on the High five, liked 144 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:14,200 Speaker 1: what he heard, and soon Johnny Cash was covering Chris 145 00:08:14,280 --> 00:08:18,840 Speaker 1: Christofferson's songs on his weekly television show. Soon Chriss demos 146 00:08:18,840 --> 00:08:21,160 Speaker 1: were grabbing the attention of not just Nashville casts, but 147 00:08:21,200 --> 00:08:24,520 Speaker 1: Hollywood's counterculture too, from Sam Peck and Pot to Dennis 148 00:08:24,520 --> 00:08:27,080 Speaker 1: Hawber and every Dusty Harley ride and urban cow poke 149 00:08:27,160 --> 00:08:30,200 Speaker 1: in between. But one of those songs was Me and 150 00:08:30,240 --> 00:08:34,160 Speaker 1: Bobby McGee. Its lyrics were picked up by Nashville outlaws, 151 00:08:34,240 --> 00:08:37,320 Speaker 1: California hippies and pretty much everyone in between is a 152 00:08:37,400 --> 00:08:41,520 Speaker 1: battle cry for their underdog causes. Bob Kneworth heard it 153 00:08:41,640 --> 00:08:44,400 Speaker 1: somewhere the way Bob Neworth heard things. He was there. 154 00:08:44,440 --> 00:08:46,760 Speaker 1: He was everywhere. He was always on the scene or 155 00:08:46,800 --> 00:08:50,760 Speaker 1: making the scene or somewhere scene at Jason A songwriter, singer, 156 00:08:50,800 --> 00:08:53,600 Speaker 1: and producer, new Worth was also an aide de camp, 157 00:08:53,600 --> 00:08:56,440 Speaker 1: a confidet, and a fixer when needed, and he had 158 00:08:56,480 --> 00:08:59,240 Speaker 1: recently spent some time fixing for Jim Morrison at the 159 00:08:59,320 --> 00:09:01,440 Speaker 1: Doors and Key, picking him on the street and narrow. 160 00:09:02,280 --> 00:09:05,240 Speaker 1: Now the insistence of Albert Grossman, who had his own 161 00:09:05,280 --> 00:09:08,760 Speaker 1: concerns about Janice Joplin, new Worth was spending time with 162 00:09:08,840 --> 00:09:12,440 Speaker 1: Janie in her new band. Nw Worth was in Grossman's 163 00:09:12,440 --> 00:09:14,480 Speaker 1: office when he heard Me and Bobby McGee for the 164 00:09:14,520 --> 00:09:18,680 Speaker 1: first time played by Canadian singer songwriter Gordon Lightfoot. He 165 00:09:18,760 --> 00:09:22,640 Speaker 1: knew exactly who the song was meant for. He closed 166 00:09:22,640 --> 00:09:26,320 Speaker 1: his eyes and he could picture Janis Joplin singing. Teach 167 00:09:26,400 --> 00:09:29,400 Speaker 1: me that song, man, new Worth insisted, and Gordon played 168 00:09:29,440 --> 00:09:32,800 Speaker 1: it again real slow. Knworth grabbed the pencil and paper. 169 00:09:32,840 --> 00:09:35,600 Speaker 1: He wrote it down fast, learned it quick and then 170 00:09:35,600 --> 00:09:38,280 Speaker 1: did his own impression of a helicopter landing on Janis 171 00:09:38,360 --> 00:09:42,160 Speaker 1: Joplin's front steps to deliver something that she just had 172 00:09:42,360 --> 00:10:17,080 Speaker 1: to hear. Jaeder Hoover's desk was all memos, an ecosystem 173 00:10:17,120 --> 00:10:20,840 Speaker 1: of memos, piles of paper on high ranking officials stacked 174 00:10:20,880 --> 00:10:24,000 Speaker 1: high next to piles of paper on low ranking degenerates. 175 00:10:24,600 --> 00:10:28,000 Speaker 1: Reports for the director's eyes only, reports on good guys 176 00:10:28,040 --> 00:10:31,800 Speaker 1: breaking bad and bad guys getting worse. Recommendations on who 177 00:10:31,800 --> 00:10:33,480 Speaker 1: should be watched like a hawk and who could be 178 00:10:33,520 --> 00:10:36,240 Speaker 1: left alone to mind their own damn business. Who was 179 00:10:36,960 --> 00:10:40,600 Speaker 1: seventy j Edgar Hoover was seventy five years old. He'd 180 00:10:40,640 --> 00:10:43,360 Speaker 1: seen it all for nearly half a century, and in 181 00:10:43,440 --> 00:10:46,320 Speaker 1: the service of seven U S presidents. As Director the 182 00:10:46,360 --> 00:10:50,200 Speaker 1: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Jaedger Hoover had a memo on 183 00:10:50,280 --> 00:10:54,640 Speaker 1: every subversive, every comic sympathizer, every fascist organizer, every civil 184 00:10:54,760 --> 00:10:58,200 Speaker 1: rights empathizer. No memo was unimportant, no threat to the 185 00:10:58,280 --> 00:11:01,480 Speaker 1: United States was too small. And the coffee maker on 186 00:11:01,559 --> 00:11:03,640 Speaker 1: the table near the desk in his office gurgled and 187 00:11:03,679 --> 00:11:06,600 Speaker 1: spat steep and that universal sound that meant that the 188 00:11:06,679 --> 00:11:09,640 Speaker 1: Java was nearly finished with its orderly perk in warm 189 00:11:09,720 --> 00:11:13,160 Speaker 1: caffe Nation was nine. Hoover inhaled the smell of the 190 00:11:13,240 --> 00:11:15,160 Speaker 1: light rose and picked up a memo that lay on 191 00:11:15,240 --> 00:11:17,400 Speaker 1: top of a short stack of papers in the corner 192 00:11:17,440 --> 00:11:20,720 Speaker 1: of his desk, urgent teletype. It read, at the top 193 00:11:21,080 --> 00:11:26,000 Speaker 1: possible Violence Ravinia Park Concert, Highland Park, Illinois, August nine. 194 00:11:27,240 --> 00:11:30,200 Speaker 1: This wasn't the first confidential rock and roll memo he'd read, 195 00:11:30,280 --> 00:11:33,280 Speaker 1: and it wouldn't be the last. In fact, memos on 196 00:11:33,400 --> 00:11:37,400 Speaker 1: rock stars had become increasingly commonplace in Hoover's world. Rock 197 00:11:37,440 --> 00:11:40,120 Speaker 1: and roll was proving itself to be a very clear 198 00:11:40,200 --> 00:11:44,400 Speaker 1: and very present danger to decency and good morals. In 199 00:11:44,440 --> 00:11:47,040 Speaker 1: the fifties, the memos were about the various death threats 200 00:11:47,040 --> 00:11:50,480 Speaker 1: and extortion attempts on Elvis Presley. In the sixties, the 201 00:11:50,520 --> 00:11:53,960 Speaker 1: memos were about the Kingsman's filthy song Louis Louis, which 202 00:11:53,960 --> 00:11:56,199 Speaker 1: Hoover new was a piece of trash, even if their 203 00:11:56,240 --> 00:11:59,679 Speaker 1: investigation hadn't conclusively proved it was a piece of trash 204 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:03,320 Speaker 1: and now is. The sixties became the seventies. With Richard 205 00:12:03,440 --> 00:12:05,720 Speaker 1: Nixon at the Holm, the memos were on the rock 206 00:12:05,760 --> 00:12:10,280 Speaker 1: and roll subversives in street fighting types, Jimmy Hendricks, Jim Morrison, 207 00:12:10,600 --> 00:12:15,120 Speaker 1: Janice Joplin. Hoover read on reliable source advised that rock 208 00:12:15,160 --> 00:12:18,000 Speaker 1: concert is to be held at Ravinia Park beginning approximately 209 00:12:18,040 --> 00:12:21,840 Speaker 1: a PM, featuring rock singer Janis Joplin. Source crowd estimated 210 00:12:21,840 --> 00:12:25,640 Speaker 1: to be in neighborhood of twenty persons. Hoover walked over 211 00:12:25,640 --> 00:12:28,440 Speaker 1: to the coffeemaker, pulled the caraffe from the drip, and 212 00:12:28,520 --> 00:12:31,440 Speaker 1: started to pour himself a director sized couple of joe. 213 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:34,000 Speaker 1: He kept one eye on the poor and one eye 214 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:37,280 Speaker 1: on the memo he kept reading. Source further advises on 215 00:12:37,360 --> 00:12:40,319 Speaker 1: confirmed reports have been received I possible attempts to disrupt 216 00:12:40,360 --> 00:12:43,800 Speaker 1: concert and cause violence an area by unknown persons, possibly 217 00:12:43,840 --> 00:12:46,360 Speaker 1: by some of those involved in disruption of Chicago Grant 218 00:12:46,360 --> 00:12:51,720 Speaker 1: Park concert July. Source further advised that Ravinia Park area 219 00:12:51,800 --> 00:12:53,960 Speaker 1: was to be heavily patrolled by some two hundred police 220 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:58,520 Speaker 1: officers from nearby communities. God damn Grant Park, Hoover thought 221 00:12:58,559 --> 00:13:00,720 Speaker 1: to himself as he blew on the hot liquid and 222 00:13:00,760 --> 00:13:03,520 Speaker 1: attempted to take a first sip that wouldn't burn his lips. 223 00:13:03,559 --> 00:13:08,559 Speaker 1: To hell Grant Park and then a ship show It 224 00:13:08,600 --> 00:13:10,839 Speaker 1: was pitched as a free show by Sly and the 225 00:13:10,920 --> 00:13:13,440 Speaker 1: family Stone and you better believe the Bureau had some 226 00:13:13,559 --> 00:13:16,120 Speaker 1: memos on that bunch of Left Coast ship show starters. 227 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:19,600 Speaker 1: The free show was both an apology and a peace 228 00:13:19,640 --> 00:13:23,120 Speaker 1: offering to Chicago after Slide bailed on playing some shows 229 00:13:23,160 --> 00:13:26,040 Speaker 1: in town, and not just bailing, but bailing after making 230 00:13:26,080 --> 00:13:30,240 Speaker 1: audiences wait for hours. But at Grand Park, Chicago was 231 00:13:30,280 --> 00:13:32,839 Speaker 1: still pisted it Sly when he showed up, only to 232 00:13:32,920 --> 00:13:35,920 Speaker 1: be made to wait again. The crowd grew throughout the day, 233 00:13:35,920 --> 00:13:38,439 Speaker 1: and so did the temperature. Soon the crowd was around 234 00:13:38,520 --> 00:13:41,880 Speaker 1: fifty strong and the mercury was topping out at ninety something. 235 00:13:42,280 --> 00:13:44,960 Speaker 1: Rumors started to spread throughout the audience that Sly was 236 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:48,200 Speaker 1: standing them up once more when Chicago was tired of 237 00:13:48,240 --> 00:13:51,520 Speaker 1: waiting again. That's when the rocks started flying in the 238 00:13:51,600 --> 00:13:55,319 Speaker 1: bottles whatever people can get their hands on, mud, cloth, sticks, stones, 239 00:13:55,760 --> 00:13:57,920 Speaker 1: The thrones of cops on hand that day took the 240 00:13:57,920 --> 00:14:00,680 Speaker 1: burnt of the hurl projectiles, bottle us to the face, 241 00:14:00,840 --> 00:14:03,600 Speaker 1: rocks to the balls. They picked up their attackers, weapons 242 00:14:03,600 --> 00:14:08,120 Speaker 1: and retaliating. Cops jumped kids, kids jump cops, storefront windows busted, 243 00:14:08,160 --> 00:14:10,839 Speaker 1: shots fired, into the air to scare the mob into submission. 244 00:14:11,040 --> 00:14:13,800 Speaker 1: They only made the mob go harder. Hundreds of people, 245 00:14:13,840 --> 00:14:17,480 Speaker 1: including Chicago police officers, were injured. Thirty cops run into 246 00:14:17,520 --> 00:14:21,720 Speaker 1: the hospital. That day. Hoover sat down at his desk 247 00:14:21,760 --> 00:14:24,840 Speaker 1: and read over the Ravinia Park memo again. His coffee 248 00:14:24,840 --> 00:14:27,680 Speaker 1: cups started to make its inevitable staying on another stack 249 00:14:27,720 --> 00:14:31,840 Speaker 1: of memos nearby. As shitty as Grant Park was, this 250 00:14:31,960 --> 00:14:34,720 Speaker 1: Janice Joplin show had the potential to be even worse. 251 00:14:35,840 --> 00:14:39,240 Speaker 1: Jaeger Hoover didn't like Janice Choplin. She was a loose 252 00:14:39,280 --> 00:14:41,960 Speaker 1: lipped hippie succubiss with a voice like a strangled cat 253 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:46,160 Speaker 1: and heat. But worse, she was a troublemaker, a rabble rouser. 254 00:14:46,560 --> 00:14:50,120 Speaker 1: She hailed from San Francisco, the land of rabble rousers. 255 00:14:50,120 --> 00:14:52,560 Speaker 1: She was a drunk, She was loud, she had a 256 00:14:52,560 --> 00:14:55,360 Speaker 1: filthy mouth. She wasn't a lady. She was too masculine 257 00:14:55,680 --> 00:14:58,640 Speaker 1: for Jaeger Hoover, not masculine enough. But that's a whole 258 00:14:58,640 --> 00:15:01,440 Speaker 1: other story. Who knew that Janis Joplin had a long 259 00:15:01,560 --> 00:15:04,600 Speaker 1: history of disturbing the piece. The first memo on Janis 260 00:15:04,640 --> 00:15:06,840 Speaker 1: Joplin that Hoover remembered seeing was when she was a 261 00:15:06,880 --> 00:15:10,040 Speaker 1: student at the University of Texas at Austin, living with 262 00:15:10,080 --> 00:15:12,920 Speaker 1: that group of commie and civil rights synthazers at the Ghetto, 263 00:15:13,360 --> 00:15:15,920 Speaker 1: and then her first group, Big Brother in the Holding Company, 264 00:15:15,960 --> 00:15:18,640 Speaker 1: were nearly arrested for disturbing the piece at the Matrix 265 00:15:18,640 --> 00:15:21,960 Speaker 1: in San Francisco. Worst of all, however, was her show 266 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:25,400 Speaker 1: at the Curtis Hickson Holland Tampa, Florida. This was the 267 00:15:25,480 --> 00:15:29,760 Speaker 1: year before ninety nine, just a few months after Jim 268 00:15:29,800 --> 00:15:33,040 Speaker 1: Morrison un zipped his pants to let his crawling kingsnake 269 00:15:33,120 --> 00:15:36,920 Speaker 1: out while on stage in Miami. What the hell is 270 00:15:36,960 --> 00:15:39,600 Speaker 1: it about Florida, Hoover thought, as he took another gentle 271 00:15:39,640 --> 00:15:43,640 Speaker 1: sip of his steaming hot coffee. Janiss new band, the 272 00:15:43,680 --> 00:15:46,600 Speaker 1: one assembled by Skip pro Cop was calling themselves the 273 00:15:46,640 --> 00:15:49,720 Speaker 1: Cosmic Blues Band and touring behind a new record. I 274 00:15:49,800 --> 00:15:53,280 Speaker 1: got them old Cosmic Blues again, Mama. But Skip was 275 00:15:53,280 --> 00:15:56,120 Speaker 1: out of the picture, having jumped Ship when Janice wouldn't 276 00:15:56,120 --> 00:15:59,120 Speaker 1: give Sam Andrew the boot, who followed her from Big Brother. 277 00:15:59,440 --> 00:16:02,440 Speaker 1: Skip didn't think Sam was good enough, so Skip was 278 00:16:02,480 --> 00:16:05,720 Speaker 1: out and Sam was in, as was Bill King On keyboards, 279 00:16:05,760 --> 00:16:08,600 Speaker 1: John Till on guitar, Brad Campbell on bass, and Mary 280 00:16:08,640 --> 00:16:11,600 Speaker 1: Baker on drums, along with the horn section. At least 281 00:16:11,640 --> 00:16:14,600 Speaker 1: at that particular moment, if Big Brother had maintained a 282 00:16:14,600 --> 00:16:17,200 Speaker 1: steady lineup of players and the Cosmic Blues Band was 283 00:16:17,280 --> 00:16:21,560 Speaker 1: practically a revolving door of musicians, it was unsteady. And 284 00:16:21,640 --> 00:16:24,560 Speaker 1: the unsteadiness was in full display on that November night 285 00:16:24,600 --> 00:16:27,960 Speaker 1: in Tampa at the Curtis Hixon Hall. So was Janice's 286 00:16:28,080 --> 00:16:31,640 Speaker 1: infamous rabble rousing temper, the one that Hoover count on 287 00:16:31,720 --> 00:16:35,240 Speaker 1: like a well maintained wristwatch. But when she started the 288 00:16:35,280 --> 00:16:39,240 Speaker 1: slow simmer of summertime, the crowd of nearly thirty people 289 00:16:39,320 --> 00:16:42,440 Speaker 1: bum rushed the stage. They pressed their bodies closer to 290 00:16:42,560 --> 00:16:45,560 Speaker 1: here every nuance in her voice. They stood on chairs 291 00:16:45,600 --> 00:16:48,000 Speaker 1: to see every move she made with the microphone clenched 292 00:16:48,040 --> 00:16:50,840 Speaker 1: tightly in her fist. And the cops on duty saw 293 00:16:50,840 --> 00:16:53,240 Speaker 1: the crowd's behavior as the early warning sign of an 294 00:16:53,280 --> 00:16:56,040 Speaker 1: impending riot, the same kind of thing that cops had 295 00:16:56,080 --> 00:16:57,960 Speaker 1: seen at the door show in Miami and the door 296 00:16:58,040 --> 00:17:01,000 Speaker 1: show at the Singer Bowl and Queen's. The cops didn't 297 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:03,720 Speaker 1: wait to spring into action. They yanked people down off 298 00:17:03,720 --> 00:17:05,959 Speaker 1: their chairs. They grabbed kids standing in the aisles by 299 00:17:05,960 --> 00:17:08,840 Speaker 1: the shoulders and pushed them towards their seats. One officer 300 00:17:08,880 --> 00:17:11,040 Speaker 1: even at a bullhorn and was screaming with an inches 301 00:17:11,080 --> 00:17:16,280 Speaker 1: of petrified kids faces nuts when Janice lost him. Don't 302 00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:19,680 Speaker 1: funk with those people, She yelled into her microphone, yelling 303 00:17:19,720 --> 00:17:21,320 Speaker 1: as loud as she could so that she could be 304 00:17:21,359 --> 00:17:25,040 Speaker 1: heard over the bullhorns, and nasily why the bullhorn became 305 00:17:25,080 --> 00:17:28,080 Speaker 1: a weapon? The cop waved at her heads and faces, 306 00:17:28,520 --> 00:17:31,560 Speaker 1: his free hand firmly caressing his billy club. He just 307 00:17:31,680 --> 00:17:33,800 Speaker 1: wanted someone to give him a reason to use it, 308 00:17:34,400 --> 00:17:37,280 Speaker 1: and Janice was happy to be that someone. Hey, Mr 309 00:17:37,359 --> 00:17:39,919 Speaker 1: Janice yelled again, this time looking the cop right in 310 00:17:39,960 --> 00:17:42,560 Speaker 1: his eyes. Why the fund are you so uptight? Man? 311 00:17:42,760 --> 00:17:44,960 Speaker 1: Did you buy a five dollar ticket to the show? 312 00:17:45,520 --> 00:17:47,840 Speaker 1: And that was all the cop needed. Just as the 313 00:17:47,920 --> 00:17:51,840 Speaker 1: GEMA had suspected for some time, obscene Janice went blue. 314 00:17:52,119 --> 00:17:55,479 Speaker 1: She cursed on stage numerous times, each time directed at 315 00:17:55,520 --> 00:17:58,119 Speaker 1: an officer of the law. Even then, they arrested her 316 00:17:58,160 --> 00:18:00,960 Speaker 1: in her dressing room right after the band finished their set. 317 00:18:01,480 --> 00:18:04,160 Speaker 1: She was let out of the Curtis Hixon Hall and handcuffs, 318 00:18:04,440 --> 00:18:07,200 Speaker 1: passed the thousands of kids who had pressed themselves close 319 00:18:07,280 --> 00:18:10,080 Speaker 1: to be near her, past BB King, the Chicago blues 320 00:18:10,160 --> 00:18:13,080 Speaker 1: legend who had opened the show. An hour later, Janice 321 00:18:13,119 --> 00:18:15,879 Speaker 1: posted a five four dollar bond and walked out of 322 00:18:15,880 --> 00:18:19,520 Speaker 1: the Tampa police station. She walked out wearing a fur 323 00:18:19,640 --> 00:18:25,120 Speaker 1: coat and a fur hat. When Jaeger Hoover read about 324 00:18:25,200 --> 00:18:29,560 Speaker 1: Janice Joplin's Tampa arrest in ninety nine, that was the 325 00:18:29,640 --> 00:18:32,639 Speaker 1: detail that pissed him off the most. The fur coat 326 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:36,040 Speaker 1: in the fur hat, walking out of the police station 327 00:18:36,080 --> 00:18:38,520 Speaker 1: like she was victorious. It's like she was anything but 328 00:18:38,760 --> 00:18:42,320 Speaker 1: what Hoover knew her to be. A subversive, a rabble rouser, 329 00:18:42,600 --> 00:18:45,000 Speaker 1: a threat to the decency and good morals of the 330 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:48,560 Speaker 1: American people. Jack or Hoover would keep his eye on her, 331 00:18:48,720 --> 00:18:51,080 Speaker 1: and the FBI would maintain a file on her, and 332 00:18:51,080 --> 00:18:54,560 Speaker 1: they've keep their nerves caffeiniated in their teletypes urgent, and 333 00:18:54,600 --> 00:18:57,720 Speaker 1: they would get her. They'd get to Janice Joplin by 334 00:18:57,720 --> 00:19:03,600 Speaker 1: getting to someone close to her first. We'll be right 335 00:19:03,640 --> 00:19:10,760 Speaker 1: back after this. We were the g mens staking out 336 00:19:10,840 --> 00:19:14,080 Speaker 1: Bill King's parents place, were waiting for him. When he arrived. 337 00:19:14,720 --> 00:19:17,920 Speaker 1: They sat in sedans had idled in the darkness. The 338 00:19:18,040 --> 00:19:21,040 Speaker 1: air outside was cold, and the wind kicked up, and 339 00:19:21,080 --> 00:19:28,520 Speaker 1: the hemlock trees creaked Indiana. December, the twenty two year 340 00:19:28,520 --> 00:19:31,240 Speaker 1: old had traveled home for the holidays. High off his 341 00:19:31,280 --> 00:19:35,199 Speaker 1: new role as Janice Joplin's keyboardist and musical director. He 342 00:19:35,280 --> 00:19:37,359 Speaker 1: had no idea that someone would step out of an 343 00:19:37,400 --> 00:19:40,639 Speaker 1: idolnk sedan, toss a half smoked marlbro to the frigid 344 00:19:40,680 --> 00:19:43,720 Speaker 1: asphalt and stopped him from ever reaching his parents front door. 345 00:19:44,680 --> 00:19:47,520 Speaker 1: Just days before, the Cosmic Blues Band had been guests 346 00:19:47,560 --> 00:19:50,400 Speaker 1: of honor at Stax Records this holiday show in Memphis. 347 00:19:50,800 --> 00:19:53,880 Speaker 1: One of Janie's idols, Otis Redding, had been dead a year, 348 00:19:54,320 --> 00:19:58,560 Speaker 1: but Stax Otis's record label soldiered on. The homegrown town 349 00:19:58,640 --> 00:20:01,080 Speaker 1: on display was on denied have a book of Tea 350 00:20:01,080 --> 00:20:04,440 Speaker 1: in the MG's Carlo and Rufus, Thomas, Johnny Taylor, Eddie 351 00:20:04,440 --> 00:20:07,760 Speaker 1: Floyd in the shadow of Otis loom large, as did 352 00:20:07,760 --> 00:20:09,919 Speaker 1: the shadow of Martin Luther King Jr. Who had been 353 00:20:09,960 --> 00:20:12,960 Speaker 1: shot dead only eight months earlier at the Lorraine Motel, 354 00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:16,160 Speaker 1: the same hotel where Bill Janis and the band were 355 00:20:16,200 --> 00:20:18,920 Speaker 1: staying while they were in town. The band had gone 356 00:20:18,920 --> 00:20:21,800 Speaker 1: through many personnel changes, but they were finding their footing, 357 00:20:22,119 --> 00:20:24,240 Speaker 1: and Bill was hopeful that a stern role on the 358 00:20:24,320 --> 00:20:27,040 Speaker 1: Stack Show with the high octane R and B icons 359 00:20:27,080 --> 00:20:30,480 Speaker 1: that Janice love, would help raise their game. It appealed 360 00:20:30,480 --> 00:20:33,280 Speaker 1: to the shadow of Otis writing to guide them, but 361 00:20:33,359 --> 00:20:35,879 Speaker 1: the Shadow of Otis wasn't in a guiding kind of mood. 362 00:20:37,359 --> 00:20:41,440 Speaker 1: Despite her newfound popularity, Janis Joplin was still an acolyte 363 00:20:41,440 --> 00:20:45,000 Speaker 1: in the hallowed Temple of Soul. The mostly black audience 364 00:20:45,040 --> 00:20:47,720 Speaker 1: saw the Cosmic blues band as a xerox of the 365 00:20:47,760 --> 00:20:51,160 Speaker 1: real thing. Janice was either brave or stupid to follow 366 00:20:51,240 --> 00:20:54,120 Speaker 1: Eddie Floyd to open with a cover of Eddie Floyd's 367 00:20:54,119 --> 00:20:57,960 Speaker 1: song Raise Your Hand. Then Janis sang the bgs to 368 00:20:58,080 --> 00:21:01,919 Speaker 1: love Somebody like Otis would have it searching, pleading a 369 00:21:02,040 --> 00:21:04,720 Speaker 1: raw nerve that only got raw as the band went 370 00:21:04,760 --> 00:21:07,680 Speaker 1: from soft to loud. She thought back to Oh this 371 00:21:07,840 --> 00:21:09,560 Speaker 1: is Show at the film war that she had seen 372 00:21:09,560 --> 00:21:12,720 Speaker 1: the ones she attended, high on LSD spiked Cold Duck, 373 00:21:13,040 --> 00:21:15,879 Speaker 1: and thought of how that music made her feel. She 374 00:21:15,960 --> 00:21:18,399 Speaker 1: closed her eyes, held out her hand in agony, and 375 00:21:18,480 --> 00:21:21,560 Speaker 1: waited for Otis's spirit to grab it and pull her higher. 376 00:21:22,119 --> 00:21:25,160 Speaker 1: She never left the ground and for the soul crowd 377 00:21:25,200 --> 00:21:28,320 Speaker 1: in Memphis, something was missing. Bill wish that they were 378 00:21:28,400 --> 00:21:30,960 Speaker 1: hiding that something and ace in their back pocket, but 379 00:21:31,520 --> 00:21:35,280 Speaker 1: no dice. And now back in Indiana at his parents 380 00:21:35,400 --> 00:21:39,080 Speaker 1: place for some spiced fruitcake and holiday cheer, Bill King 381 00:21:39,160 --> 00:21:43,119 Speaker 1: found something else hiding. Hiding in plain sight. Bill was 382 00:21:43,160 --> 00:21:45,439 Speaker 1: met on the sidewalk by a man in glasses with 383 00:21:45,520 --> 00:21:49,040 Speaker 1: comb black hair and a nondescript gray suit. Mr King. 384 00:21:49,320 --> 00:21:52,439 Speaker 1: The man in glass zest Bill was caught off guard, 385 00:21:52,880 --> 00:21:55,240 Speaker 1: someone says Mr. King, and Bill steps looking around for 386 00:21:55,280 --> 00:21:57,840 Speaker 1: his father, and Bill pointed out himself and cocked his 387 00:21:57,880 --> 00:22:00,680 Speaker 1: head to the side and the universal nonverbal signed for 388 00:22:00,760 --> 00:22:05,440 Speaker 1: Whomi Mr Bill King. The man in glasses clarified. Bill 389 00:22:05,520 --> 00:22:08,720 Speaker 1: nodded his head slowly that Mr Bill King, him and 390 00:22:08,760 --> 00:22:12,520 Speaker 1: b three organists musical director from Miss Janis Joplin. The 391 00:22:12,600 --> 00:22:15,040 Speaker 1: man in glasses confirmed that he was a fed and 392 00:22:15,080 --> 00:22:17,119 Speaker 1: he was there to add another title to Bill Kink's 393 00:22:17,160 --> 00:22:22,240 Speaker 1: growing list of superlatives. Vietnam War draft dodger. Bill King 394 00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:26,160 Speaker 1: was under arrest to Janice and the rest of the band. 395 00:22:26,280 --> 00:22:29,080 Speaker 1: Bill had simply disappeared. He had gone home to visit 396 00:22:29,119 --> 00:22:31,880 Speaker 1: his family for Christmas and never returned, and they had 397 00:22:31,880 --> 00:22:34,160 Speaker 1: no way to get in touch with them. Janice didn't 398 00:22:34,160 --> 00:22:36,920 Speaker 1: even know what town in Indiana he'd gone home too, 399 00:22:37,240 --> 00:22:38,960 Speaker 1: and if he had told her, it was possible that 400 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:41,560 Speaker 1: she was too fucked up to hear him. Booze and 401 00:22:41,640 --> 00:22:44,800 Speaker 1: Smack had a hold on Janice. They gripped tight. They 402 00:22:44,800 --> 00:22:48,480 Speaker 1: didn't want to let go. Gabriel Meckler, the producer hired 403 00:22:48,480 --> 00:22:51,000 Speaker 1: to hom I got them all cosmic music, and Mama 404 00:22:51,080 --> 00:22:53,440 Speaker 1: knew it as soon as he heard Janice Choplin sing 405 00:22:53,440 --> 00:22:56,000 Speaker 1: in the studio that her voice was shot from all 406 00:22:56,040 --> 00:22:58,480 Speaker 1: the drinking, the drunk and the smoking the late nights 407 00:22:58,520 --> 00:23:01,880 Speaker 1: in the later mornings. Here they were supposedly making janiss 408 00:23:01,960 --> 00:23:04,719 Speaker 1: big solo debut after her Big Brother departure, and her 409 00:23:04,840 --> 00:23:08,640 Speaker 1: voice was shit. If Janis didn't make some sweeping changes, 410 00:23:08,720 --> 00:23:10,960 Speaker 1: her voice wouldn't be the only thing that would be lost. 411 00:23:11,600 --> 00:23:17,040 Speaker 1: She could be lost as quickly as Nancy Gurley was lost. Nancy, 412 00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:20,080 Speaker 1: the wife of Big Brother guitarist James Gurley, didn't know 413 00:23:20,160 --> 00:23:24,040 Speaker 1: the fix would be your last. In July sixty nine, 414 00:23:24,119 --> 00:23:26,840 Speaker 1: Nancy and James hopped in their Toyota jeep with their 415 00:23:26,840 --> 00:23:29,920 Speaker 1: three year old son, Hongo, and went camping along the 416 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:35,080 Speaker 1: Russian River near Cloverdale, California. James packed the essentials, a tent, 417 00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:38,920 Speaker 1: sleeping bags, a canoe, and a hundred dollar baggy of heroin. 418 00:23:40,040 --> 00:23:43,040 Speaker 1: They spent the day on the river. They voted, they swam, 419 00:23:43,320 --> 00:23:46,639 Speaker 1: they fished. That night, James walked to the Toyota for 420 00:23:46,720 --> 00:23:49,720 Speaker 1: a different catch. He fished the heroin baggy out of 421 00:23:49,720 --> 00:23:52,200 Speaker 1: the glove box. He had been drinking wine all night, 422 00:23:52,280 --> 00:23:54,359 Speaker 1: so when he shot up, he missed his own vein. 423 00:23:55,280 --> 00:23:57,880 Speaker 1: Nancy watched as James pulled the needle from his arm. 424 00:23:58,240 --> 00:24:01,280 Speaker 1: She spoke up. She'd been trying quit dope again, but 425 00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:04,320 Speaker 1: as she watched, her husband methodically pressed the syringe into 426 00:24:04,359 --> 00:24:06,840 Speaker 1: his body. She fancied her own head out in the 427 00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:10,600 Speaker 1: middle of the California wilderness, so James shot her up. 428 00:24:11,600 --> 00:24:15,399 Speaker 1: This time he didn't miss. Minutes later, Nancy took her 429 00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:20,880 Speaker 1: last breath. She was thirty years old. James was charged 430 00:24:20,880 --> 00:24:23,639 Speaker 1: with second degree murder for giving his wife the deadly dose. 431 00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:27,560 Speaker 1: When Janie learned of Nancy's death, she frantically searched for 432 00:24:27,600 --> 00:24:30,480 Speaker 1: her own stash or junk brang up Sam Andrew, and 433 00:24:30,520 --> 00:24:33,320 Speaker 1: the two got as high as they could. Janis and 434 00:24:33,359 --> 00:24:35,920 Speaker 1: Sam got high again in the hotel suite after a 435 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:38,719 Speaker 1: sold out show at the Royal Albert Hall in London, 436 00:24:39,080 --> 00:24:42,360 Speaker 1: only this time it was too much for Sam. When 437 00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:45,560 Speaker 1: Janice realized that he wasn't breathing, she knew something was 438 00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:48,919 Speaker 1: horribly wrong. She could feel her heart beat in her ears. 439 00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:52,000 Speaker 1: Her heart thudded in her ears. Burned, she ran into 440 00:24:52,040 --> 00:24:54,920 Speaker 1: the bathroom and turned the bathtub fasten on as cold 441 00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:56,880 Speaker 1: as it would go. She felt the rhythm in her 442 00:24:56,880 --> 00:24:59,040 Speaker 1: ears connect to the rhythm in her chest, now a 443 00:24:59,119 --> 00:25:02,280 Speaker 1: sensation like something was going to pound straight through her body. 444 00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:06,159 Speaker 1: She ran back into the sweet's main room and stripped Sam, naked, 445 00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:09,720 Speaker 1: every limb, slack and going cold. Someone else was in 446 00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:12,720 Speaker 1: the room now. Janice's vision was blurred from the throbbing 447 00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:15,199 Speaker 1: in her ears and in her chest. She couldn't make 448 00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:18,280 Speaker 1: out a face, but she gestured wildly that she needed help, 449 00:25:18,520 --> 00:25:20,640 Speaker 1: and the two of them carried Sam into the bathroom 450 00:25:20,680 --> 00:25:24,679 Speaker 1: and dropped him into the cold water. Minutes later, Sam 451 00:25:24,720 --> 00:25:27,600 Speaker 1: snapped back to life. Janice would feel the heartbeat in 452 00:25:27,600 --> 00:25:30,080 Speaker 1: her ears again. Months later, when after a show on 453 00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:33,400 Speaker 1: winter Land in San Francisco, the hits she gave herself 454 00:25:33,480 --> 00:25:36,160 Speaker 1: proved to be too much. She felt that as soon 455 00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:38,600 Speaker 1: as she pushed the plunger towards her arm and the 456 00:25:38,680 --> 00:25:41,800 Speaker 1: pounding continued, she shut her eyes and saw the man 457 00:25:41,920 --> 00:25:44,200 Speaker 1: from her dreams, the one on the gold Harley with 458 00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:49,919 Speaker 1: the orange flames, and then she was out. Her friends 459 00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:53,359 Speaker 1: found her in her room, unconscious, her skin cold and blue. 460 00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:55,439 Speaker 1: They were able to revive her, just like she had 461 00:25:55,480 --> 00:25:58,720 Speaker 1: revived Sam, and this time she was luckier than Nancy Girly. 462 00:25:59,280 --> 00:26:04,600 Speaker 1: This time she hadn't completely disappeared. Nancy Gurley had disappeared. 463 00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:08,920 Speaker 1: Bill King had disappeared, and where the fuck was Bill King? 464 00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:13,160 Speaker 1: In fact, it was Bill King's father, a World War 465 00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:16,159 Speaker 1: Two vette who landed at Normandy, who helped broker a 466 00:26:16,160 --> 00:26:18,760 Speaker 1: deal with the Feds on that December evening, when Bill 467 00:26:18,800 --> 00:26:21,920 Speaker 1: returned home for the holidays. If Bill would agree to 468 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:24,359 Speaker 1: join the army, then he could avoid jail time for 469 00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:28,240 Speaker 1: his egregious draft dodging, and so he did. And then 470 00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:31,399 Speaker 1: as a grunt in basic training, Bill watched the Ed 471 00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:34,760 Speaker 1: Sullivan Show from his barracks, only to see Janis Joplin 472 00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:37,359 Speaker 1: and the Boys performing Eddie Floyd to Raise Your Hand, 473 00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:40,440 Speaker 1: the cover version that he had arranged prior to his 474 00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:45,760 Speaker 1: FBI intervention, Bill was Crestfallen. Months later, on the night 475 00:26:45,800 --> 00:26:48,520 Speaker 1: before he was to be shipped off to Vietnam, Bill 476 00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:51,240 Speaker 1: went a wall. He stood out in the side of 477 00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:53,800 Speaker 1: some backstreet, stuck his thumb into the air, and hitched 478 00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:56,760 Speaker 1: all the way to Canada. Word got back to Janison 479 00:26:56,800 --> 00:27:00,800 Speaker 1: the bed Bill King was starting over. It was becoming 480 00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:02,800 Speaker 1: clear every day that he wasn't the only one who 481 00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:05,639 Speaker 1: would need to put out a disguise and become a 482 00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:31,639 Speaker 1: different person. Bob knew Earth was in the middle of 483 00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:35,240 Speaker 1: telling Brad Campbell that his name was no longer Brad Campbell. 484 00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:39,080 Speaker 1: As he was speaking, Knworth ran a dark brown eyebrow 485 00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:43,240 Speaker 1: pencil along the hairs of Campbell's blonde mustache. It was 486 00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:45,720 Speaker 1: going to take a minute, he warned Campbell. This was 487 00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:48,480 Speaker 1: a lot of mustache, a lot of blonde, and yes, 488 00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:50,760 Speaker 1: this eyebrow pencil was really the only thing they had 489 00:27:50,840 --> 00:27:53,600 Speaker 1: that would get the job done. K new Worth traced 490 00:27:53,600 --> 00:27:56,840 Speaker 1: the pencil along more blonde hairs, quick downward strokes from 491 00:27:56,880 --> 00:28:00,840 Speaker 1: Campbell's nose to his lips. Sometimes a clusters would require 492 00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:03,440 Speaker 1: more than a single pass. Like new Worth had said, 493 00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:06,359 Speaker 1: it was a lot of mustache. Now tell me again 494 00:28:06,359 --> 00:28:09,200 Speaker 1: what your name is, new Worth ask Campbell. Campbell, bass 495 00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:12,560 Speaker 1: player for Janis Joplin's Cosmic Blues Band, clenched his eyes 496 00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:15,040 Speaker 1: shut and twisted up his face like he was running 497 00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:18,560 Speaker 1: through filing cabinets inside his head. Then he opened his eyes. 498 00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:22,840 Speaker 1: Keith Cherry, he responded, good, Neworth said, and continued to 499 00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:27,120 Speaker 1: darken Campbell's blonde mustache. And where are you from? Campbell, 500 00:28:27,119 --> 00:28:29,320 Speaker 1: a Canadian since the day he was born, didn't have 501 00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:32,640 Speaker 1: to think about that answer. The United States, he answered. 502 00:28:33,080 --> 00:28:36,320 Speaker 1: New Worth nodded his head and approval. That's right, that's good. 503 00:28:36,359 --> 00:28:39,320 Speaker 1: That's very good, Keith Cherry from the United States, new 504 00:28:39,320 --> 00:28:41,800 Speaker 1: Worth said, and placed his hand on Campbell's chin to 505 00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:44,280 Speaker 1: turn his head this way and that and expect his 506 00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:47,680 Speaker 1: final pencil strokes. Now it's time to do your sideburns. 507 00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:52,360 Speaker 1: Word of Bill King's FBI Bust had made its way 508 00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:55,120 Speaker 1: back to Janis and the Cosmic Blues Band. The band's 509 00:28:55,120 --> 00:28:58,440 Speaker 1: bass player, Brad Campbell, had a recently expired visa, and 510 00:28:58,440 --> 00:29:00,480 Speaker 1: the band had a big show in New York City, 511 00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:04,560 Speaker 1: that they couldn't miss. Their collective paranoia was off the charts. 512 00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:07,360 Speaker 1: What if the FEDS were targeting the whole band? What 513 00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:09,680 Speaker 1: if Bill King was just the first to go down 514 00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:11,800 Speaker 1: and the rest of them were just sitting ducks waiting 515 00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:15,560 Speaker 1: unknowingly to fall like ponds and Jay ger Hoover's diabolical game. 516 00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:19,200 Speaker 1: The easiest target surely would be Brad Campbell and his 517 00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:23,040 Speaker 1: expired visa. They wouldn't arrest Campbell, but they sure ships 518 00:29:23,080 --> 00:29:26,440 Speaker 1: send him packing back to the Great White North. Janice 519 00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:29,840 Speaker 1: couldn't handle losing two players in such quick succession, not 520 00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:32,400 Speaker 1: with things going the way things were going. So they 521 00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:36,280 Speaker 1: need to disguise Campbell. New look, new name, knew everything. 522 00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:40,240 Speaker 1: Enter Bob new Worth, rock and roll fixer. There was 523 00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:42,680 Speaker 1: a reason why Neworth made the rounds, why it was 524 00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:45,160 Speaker 1: found everywhere rock and roll was found blossoming in the 525 00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:49,120 Speaker 1: nineteen sixties. New Worth could see into people. He could 526 00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:51,520 Speaker 1: see what made them tick, what got them going, get 527 00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:54,320 Speaker 1: them ryle cut them off. He saw what was happening 528 00:29:54,320 --> 00:29:57,280 Speaker 1: in Cambridge, in Nashville, in Austin, in New York. He 529 00:29:57,320 --> 00:30:00,479 Speaker 1: saw what was happening at Newport, at Monterey, at stock. 530 00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:03,600 Speaker 1: New Worth decided he was happy with Campbell's formerly blonde 531 00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:06,200 Speaker 1: mutton chops. He told the bass player to put on 532 00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:09,760 Speaker 1: a pair of dark sunglasses and then strategically placed Janiss 533 00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:12,640 Speaker 1: for hat on top of his head, with his tongue 534 00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:16,200 Speaker 1: unconsciously mashed between his teeth. Knworth adjusted the hat just 535 00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:18,400 Speaker 1: so and said, out of the side of his mouth, 536 00:30:18,960 --> 00:30:21,520 Speaker 1: if you wear the mask long enough, sooner or later 537 00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:25,280 Speaker 1: you become the mask. Campbell figured, k new Earth was 538 00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:27,760 Speaker 1: just talking about the quick and dirty disguise job on 539 00:30:27,840 --> 00:30:30,880 Speaker 1: his face, but new Worth was really thinking about Janice, 540 00:30:31,440 --> 00:30:33,760 Speaker 1: thinking about how, at some point in her quest for 541 00:30:33,840 --> 00:30:36,520 Speaker 1: liberation from her past, and from her hometown and from 542 00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:40,560 Speaker 1: buzz harshing squares in general, she had gotten lost, lost 543 00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:43,480 Speaker 1: in the toughest nail stage persona which wasn't really her 544 00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:47,040 Speaker 1: lost in heroin addiction, which had replaced the one time 545 00:30:47,040 --> 00:30:50,600 Speaker 1: meth addiction that she swore she wouldn't repeat. The least 546 00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:53,160 Speaker 1: he could do, new Worth figured was to put Janice 547 00:30:53,160 --> 00:30:55,800 Speaker 1: at ease about the basis with the expired visa thing 548 00:30:56,280 --> 00:30:58,360 Speaker 1: and then as a cherry on top of the Keith 549 00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:01,840 Speaker 1: Cherry disguise share of the song that Gordon Lightfoot had 550 00:31:01,840 --> 00:31:04,400 Speaker 1: shown him. It was like it was written for her. 551 00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:08,040 Speaker 1: Nworth looked into Janice's eyes as you played the song 552 00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:11,959 Speaker 1: for me and Bobby McGee and saw that she recognized 553 00:31:11,960 --> 00:31:15,280 Speaker 1: it too. She'd never heard it before, but she recognized it. 554 00:31:15,760 --> 00:31:18,680 Speaker 1: The new Wis impact on Janice wouldn't end there. 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