Janis Joplin afternoon, October 4, 1970, producer Paul Rothchild became concerned when Joplin failed to show up at Sunset Sound Recorders for a recording session in which she was scheduled to provide the vocal track for the already-existing instrumental track of the song "Buried Alive in the Blues." In the evening, Full Tilt Boogie's road manager, John Cooke, drove to the Landmark Motor Hotel in Hollywood where Joplin was staying. He saw Joplin's psychedelically painted Porsche 356 C Cabriolet in the parking lot, and upon entering Joplin's room (#105), he found her dead on the floor beside her bed. The official cause
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