Janis Joplin album features the first and only take that Joplin recorded. A cover of Nick Gravenites's "Buried Alive in the Blues", to which Joplin had been scheduled to add her vocals on the day she was found dead, was included as an instrumental. Joplin checked into the Landmark Motor Hotel in Hollywood on August 24, 1970, near Sunset Sound Recorders, where she began rehearsing and recording her album. During the sessions, Joplin continued a relationship with Seth Morgan, a 21-year-old UC Berkeley student, cocaine dealer, and future novelist who had visited her new home in Larkspur in July and August. She
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