Janis Joplin saucer, according to biographer Ellis Amburn, the concrete foundation for which was poured the day before she died. Peggy Caserta claimed in her book, "Going Down With Janis" (1973), that she and Joplin had decided mutually in April 1970 to stay away from each other to avoid enabling each other's drug use. Caserta, a former Delta Air Lines stewardess and owner of one of the first clothing boutiques in the Haight Ashbury, said that by September 1970, she was smuggling cannabis throughout California and had checked into the Landmark Motor Hotel because it attracted drug users. For approximately the first
Howard Alk edited several of the group's films, including "American Revolution 2" (1969) and "The Murder of Fred Hampton" (1971). Alk was a longtime friend and collaborator of Bob Dylan, whom he met in 1963. The two worked together on the films "Eat the Document", "Hard Rain", and "Renaldo and Clara". Alk also worked on "Janis", "Festival", "Luxman Baul's Movie" and other films. Alk was a heroin user. In January 1982, Alk was found dead at Rundown Studios, Dylan's studio in Santa Monica, California. Although the coroner ruled his death an accidental heroin overdose, various sources report his death to be a