Janis Joplin Joplin introduced her to Seth Morgan in Joplin's room at the Landmark Motor Hotel on Tuesday evening, September 29, 1970. Caserta "had seen him around" San Francisco but had not met him before. All three of them agreed to reunite three nights later, on Friday night, for a ménage à trois in Joplin's room. Caserta saw Joplin briefly the next day, Wednesday, again in Joplin's room, when Caserta accommodated her new Los Angeles friend Debbie Nuciforo, age 19, an aspiring hard rock drummer who wanted to meet Joplin. Nuciforo was stoned on heroin at the time, and the three women's
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