![]() "Someone offered me a brownie, and I was eager for some food, having eaten little at dinner. "I sat amid people trying to force themselves to be jovial, but they naturally turned to quiet conversations about who was doing what," remembered Joplin's sister Laura in Love, Janis. Her absence creates a gap, a void that prevents this gathering of friends from achieving critical mass." Yet despite the music and the open bar that Janis has funded, and other intoxicants privately ingested, the party never achieves the energy level or the buoyant feeling of a ripping good time that Janis wanted it to be, for the simple reason that she isn't here. In his memoir On the Road With Janis Joplin, Cooke wrote that "the wake attended by her old San Francisco friends, by new friends from the tours and the music world beyond the Bay, by all the members of Big Brother and Full Tilt Boogie and most of Kozmic Blues. The music continues into the night, members of Quicksilver and the Dead and Big Brother and other musicians forming onstage combinations that are unique to this time and place. The invitations read, "Drinks are on Pearl," Joplin's nickname among friends. The Lion's Share, a music club in San Anselmo, Calif., was booked for Joplin's wake. It was just a beautiful thing, all the hippies and Angels were just stoned out of their heads … You couldn't imagine a better funeral. In The Age of Rock, Joplin told writer Michael Thomas, "We got lots of beer, and the got the Dead and us. After his funeral, bikers and hippies converged in the park to eat, drink and listen to music by the Grateful Dead and Big Brother. Hendricks was killed in a motorcycle accident in the Haight-Ashbury district. Watch Janis Joplin Perform 'Piece of My Heart' Joplin, who would later front the Kozmic Blues and Full Tilt Boogie bands, performed with Big Brother and the Holding Company that summer in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park to celebrate the life of Hells Angel "Chocolate George" Hendricks. The inspiration for a party-style wake came to the singer in August 1967. "It was not an event of mourning, it was an event of enjoying life." But it hipped me to a relationship that was going on during her lifetime, and I thought to myself, 'Phe"We were there to celebrate," says Erb. Hell, I know she would have given the stuff away. People came over and took things, people I thought would be above that. "People were coming over to that house and walking around and taking shit!" actor Peter Coyote, Joplin's friend, said in Buried Alive: The Biography of Janis Joplin. I was back east for a while, and came back and found that a lot of my personal stuff had been distributed in my absence. "They just decided what they were gonna take. ![]() "A lot of friends came in and took stuff," she recalls. We were young and enjoying life."Įven though Erb was supposed to distribute the singer's belongings to friends according to the closeness of their relationship with Joplin, Erb says the process became chaotic. She was doing a lot of rehearsing in the garage and friends coming over. "I was looking for a place to live, and it just worked out that I moved in and she had a roommate." Erb, who became Joplin's roommate in late 1969, says "it was a lot of fun. "When she moved to Marin County, she needed somebody to be in the house with her," Erb tells Ultimate Classic Rock.
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