30, 2018 celebrated the 50th anniversary of Big Brother & The Holding Company’s major label debut with the premiere edition of Sex, Dope & Cheap Thrills. Kalinich, John Van HamersveldĬolumbia/Legacy Recordings, a division of Sony Music Entertainment, on Nov. Pennebaker, Al Kooper, John Simon, Fred Catero, Keith Altham, Rodney Bingenheimer, Ram Dass, Kim Fowley, Peter Lewis, Skip Prokop, Roger Steffens, Andrew Solt, Carol Schofield, Stephen J. Sam Andrew, Jerry Garcia, Bobby Womack, Clive Davis, Allen Ginsberg, Marty Balin, Tina Turner, Lou Adler, Grace Slick, Paul Kantner, Pete Townshend, Ravi Shankar, Andrew Loog Oldham, Bill Graham, D.A. Though the coroner's report found otherwise, Caserta still believes her friend died not of a heroin overdose, but a fatal trip.50 TH Anniversary of Big Brother & The Holding Company’s Cheap Thrills Celebrated With New Collection of Recordings Less than 24 hours later, Joplin would be dead. "That started her thinking about it, and she came up to my room to get high." ![]() "She just happened to walk out to get cigarettes and ran into George in the Landmark lobby," Caserta recalled. That is, until she ran into a drug dealer delivering dope to Caserta in the hotel lobby where she later died. "It has to be the gay thing."Ĭaserta admits to Vulture that Joplin had been clean in the time leading up to her death. "Sam certainly shot as much dope with her as I did," she said. She thinks her openly gay identity "tipped the scale" when it came to assigning blame for Joplin's death. "Janis and James Gurley and Sam Andrew were shooting heroin from the beginning of Big Brother and the Holding Company, the three of them," Caserta said of Joplin's former bandmates. In the interview, Caserta said she didn't turn Joplin onto heroin, though admits to being her "dope-shooting pal." ![]() It took this many years to write a correction, she said, due to her drug addiction and a decade spent caring for her ailing mother. ![]() "I didn't write that trash," she said of "Going Down with Janis." "I sold out for drug money, and I've lived in the shadow of it for 40-some-odd years." Caserta, in a new interview with Vulture, said she sees "I Ran Into Some Trouble" (co-written by Maggie Falcon) as a correction to her earlier memoir. Nearly five decades after Joplin's death, Caserta, now 77, has written another memoir that recounts her experiences hanging out in Haight-Ashbury, her longtime heroin addiction and her efforts to get clean later in life. ![]() Ghostwritten by Dan Knapp, the book tells of Caserta shooting heroin with Joplin innumerable times, and recounts the 24 hours leading up to her death, when Caserta and Joplin's fiance, Seth Morgan, stood up the singer for a planned threesome. After the publication of her ghostwritten memoir, "Going Down with Janis," 45 years ago, Caserta became better known, in some people's minds, as the catalyst of Joplin's death.
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