On the Road with Janis Joplin (41 page)

Janis sings “To Love Somebody” and joins Cavett on the set
:
Video of talk segment from
The Dick Cavett Show
, July 18, 1969.

From audience suggestions, an emotion is assigned
:
Author interviews with Garry Goodrow, October 17, 1973, and Howard Hesseman, August 8, 1997.

Janis is assigned frustration, and Cavett love
:
Laura Joplin,
Love, Janis
, 256, is the source for the specific emotions.

CHAPTER 18

“Here comes Peter Cottontail”
:
Words and music by Steve Nelson and Jack Rollins, who also wrote “Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer.”

“The important thing that you’ve proven to the world”
:
Max Yazgur, in
Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace & Music
(film), Warner Bros. Inc., 1970, Michael Wadleigh, director.

“Woodstock, in all its mud and glory”
:
Baez,
And a Voice to Sing With
, 165.

“There was a vast relief today”
:
Alistair Cooke,
The Guardian
, August 19, 1969.

“Notwithstanding the personality”
:
Quoted by Barnard L. Collier, “Tired Rock Fans Begin Exodus,”
New York Times
, August 18, 1969.

“But it was very East Coast, Woodstock”
:
Graham and Greenfield,
Bill Graham Presents
, 282.

CHAPTER 19

Somehow this bizarre exchange banishes John’s doubts
:
Author interview with John Till, Clark Pierson, and Richard Bell, October 16, 1973.

Carl keeps us amused in the green room
:
Author interview with Carl Gottlieb, August 7, 1997.

We have got to get ourselves back to the Garden
:
“Woodstock,” words and music by Joni Mitchell.

“Tom Jones could’ve been a real heavyweight in the music biz”
:
Janis Joplin, quoted in Dalton,
Piece of My Heart
, 64.

Bobby connected with Michael the same day
:
Author interview with Bob Neuwirth, September 28, 1997.

“Oh honey, I know how you feel, I know you feel that you’re through”
:
“Little Girl Blue,” music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Lorenz Hart.

“It was like a concentration camp for a day”
:
Graham and Greenfield,
Bill Graham Presents
, 300.

“With the Kozmic Blues Band, nobody gave it a chance”
:
Author interview with Cornelius “Snooky” Flowers, October 20, 1997.

“an excellent performance”
:
Mike Jahn, “Janis Joplin Gives a Rousing Display of Blues and Rock,”
New York Times
, December 20, 1969.

“Heroin has some payoffs”
:
Author interview with David Getz, July 24, 1997.

BRAZILIAN INTERLUDE

Before she went to Carnival
:
Events in this paragraph from Laura Joplin,
Love, Janis
, 269–275, and author interview with Linda Gravenites, May 9, 1986.

“When I came back from England”
:
Author interview with Linda Gravenites, May 9, 1986.

CHAPTER 20

Bobby goes to the Village to hear Ramblin’ Jack Elliott
through
newspaper headlines announcing the Kent State massacre
:
Author interview with Bob Neuwirth, September 28, 1997.

We hear Judy Collins sing “If I Had a Golden Thread,” and a voice that may
be David Dellinger exhorting us
:
Author’s recording of the demonstration on the National Mall, May 10, 1969.

In the final days of the Kozmic Blues Band
:
Author interview with John Till, Clark Pierson, and Richard Bell, October 16, 1973.

Clark is from Albert Lea, Minnesota
:
Author interview with Clark Pierson, John Till, and Richard Bell, October 16, 1973.

Bennett Glotzer, who has been Albert’s partner since
:
Author interview with Bennett Glotzer, August 11, 1997.

During her set, a naked couple tried to make it onstage
:
Author interview with Peter Albin, September 15, 2011.

Afterward, when Janis was leaving the hall
:
Author interview with Bennett Glotzer, August 11, 1997.

As Jack tells the
story
:
Author interview with Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, July 25, 1997.

CHAPTER 21

Janis has warned Dalton at the outset
:
Dalton,
Piece of My Heart
, 21–22, 24.

“Something happened last year and I became a grownup”
:
Dalton,
Piece of My Heart
, 185.

“She knew what she wanted”
:
Author interview with John Till, Clark Pierson, and Richard Bell, October 16, 1973.

CHAPTER 22

It turns out that when Bill arrived in New York
:
Bill King, “Janis: Memphis Meltdown,” 1995, unpublished; posted to allaboutjazz.com, October 2009, and e-mails to author, April 14 and 17, 2011.

“Full Tilt Boogie, from what Janis was telling us”
:
Author interview with Rock Scully, October 2, 1973.

“The singer is only as good as the band”
:
Dalton,
Piece of My Heart
, 233.

“Everybody was just wiped, and pale”
:
Author interview with Clark Pierson, Richard Bell, and John Till, October 16, 1973.

“I’ve never seen Jerry drunk like he got drunk on that train”
:
Scully and Dalton,
Living with the Dead
, Boston: Little, Brown, 1996, 197.

“I had a corner room on the twenty-eighth floor”
:
Author interview with John Till, Oct. 16, 1973.

“The times that I went out with Full Tilt”
:
Author interview with Lyndall Erb, October 18, 1997.

CHAPTER 23

For Janis, Threadgill was a mentor and an inspiration
:
Laura Joplin,
Love, Janis
, 101–102.

On a small stage in one corner of the lounge
:
Author interview with Margaret Moore, October 7, 1997.

“Kenneth was as big a ham as Janis”
:
Author interview with Margaret Moore, October 7, 1997.

When the applause dies down
:
Author interview with Margaret Moore, October 7, 1997.

“I just remember that she was just awesome”
:
Author interview with Margaret Moore, October 7, 1997.

I learn from Margaret that Janis told Julie she had to promise me
:
E-mail from Margaret Moore, July 15, 2011.

CHAPTER 24

“I haven’t had so much fun since the first year with Big Brother!”
:
Janis Joplin, quoted in John Wasserman,
San Francisco Chronicle
, July 15, 1970, 47.

“Grossman not only said his clients were artists, he believed it”
:
Fred Goodman,
The Mansion on the Hill: Dylan, Young, Geffen, Springsteen, and the Head-on Collision of Rock and Commerce
, New York: Times Books, 1997, 273.

When Janis shows an interest in the technical aspects
:
Laura Joplin,
Love, Janis
, 292.

“That was when I first realized”
:
Author interview with Margaret Moore, October 7, 1997.

“Man, those people hurt me”
:
Janis Joplin, quoted in Michael Lydon,
New York Times Magazine
, Sunday, February 23, 1969, section VI.

Q: What do you remember most about Port Arthur?
:
Janis
, Crawley Films/MCA Home Video, 1974, F. R. Crawley, executive producer.

“That name was not supposed to reach the press”
:
Janis Joplin, quoted in Laura Joplin,
Love, Janis
, 300.

As Bob Neuwirth makes his way back to our table
:
Author interview with Bob Neuwirth, September 28, 1997.

It’s meant to be funny, but
:
Laura Joplin,
Love, Janis
, 296–297.

On Saturday, Janis and Clark Pierson and David Dalton went to see
:
Dalton,
Piece of My Heart
, 136–139.

Bound to continue her quest tonight
:
Author interview with Margaret Moore, October 7, 1997; Laura Joplin,
Love, Janis
, 301–302.

“And I remember Janis was kind of tinkly and giggly”
:
Author interview with Margaret Moore, October 7, 1997.

“And she was foul-mouthin’ him”
:
Author interview with Bob Neuwirth, September 28, 1997.

CHAPTER 25

Songs arrive by the bucketload,
through
a manageable signal to work with
:
Author interview with Fritz Richmond, November 27, 1997.

In the first week, Janis and Paul Rothchild settle into a routine
:
Information on music submissions and Janis-Paul routine: author interview with Fritz Richmond, November 27, 1997.

“Rothchild is . . . a little bit above the musicians”
:
Author interview with Brad Campbell, October 11, 1973.

Seth is surprised to learn that
:
Author interview with Seth Morgan, February 10, 1974.

“I felt very out of place”
:
Author interview with Seth Morgan, February 10, 1974.

CHAPTER 26

Bennett Glotzer is here
:
Author interview with Bennett Glotzer, August 11, 1997.

“Everybody continued to make that record with just a little bit more love”
:
Author interview with Paul Rothchild, March 19, 1974.

“It was amazing to watch
Paul operate”
:
E-mail from John Till, March 26, 2004.

“That album’s a miracle”
:
Author interview with Bob Neuwirth, September 10, 2012.

When I later learned from Laura Joplin’s Love, Janis
:
pages 310–311.

MEMORIES

“And Janis, I think with all of her blustering and shows of strength”
:
Author interview with Paul Rothchild, March 19, 1974.

“I think most people go through what Janis had to deal with”
:
Author interview with Margaret Moore, October 7, 1997.

“She was a very decent person, a very vulnerable person”
:
Author interview with Bennett Glotzer, August 11, 1997.

“In the last year of her life, I saw her two times”
:
Author interview with Milan Melvin, October 5, 1997.

“A great singer, a really great singer”
:
Author interview with David Getz, July 24, 1997.

“She overcame so much”
:
Author interview with Nick Gravenites, December 14, 1973.

“Of all the lead singers that I know”
:
Author interview with Paul Rothchild, March 19, 1974.

“I feel that she was coming into her own”
:
Author interview with Seth Morgan, February 10, 1974.

“That’s the last time I ever saw her”
:
Author interview with Howard Hesseman, August 8, 1997.

“Let’s just say that Janis was a great performer”
:
Author interview with Bob Neuwirth, August 13, 1997.

“She was a force of nature”
:
Author interview with Alan Myerson, September 27, 1997.

“And she also liked being the center of attention”
:
Author interview with Lyndall Erb, October 18, 1997.

“She was smart, funny, intelligent, warm, caring”
:
Author interview with Mark Braunstein, September 9, 1997.

“Many people have asked me the question”
:
Author interview with Milan Melvin, October 5, 1997. Milan’s guess was right that the heroin Janis took was unusually strong. Laura Joplin, in her biography of her sister,
Love, Janis
, was the first to report this fact (pages 310–311).

“I was just devastated”
:
Author interview with John Fisher, November 15, 1997.

“Albert wasn’t the kind of guy who cried a lot”
:
Author interview with Bennett Glotzer, August 11, 1997.

“[Albert’s] energy and spirit were severely damaged when Janis died”
:
Peter Yarrow, quoted in Goodman,
The Mansion on the Hill
, 108.

“All my life, I just wanted to be a beatnik”
:
Janis Joplin, quoted in Dalton,
Piece of My Heart
, 240–241, from a conversation he taped between Janis and Bonnie Bramlett aboard the Festival Express.