Janis: Little Girl Blue Page #3

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and I went to California

because it's a lot freer.

You can do what you want

to do, and nobody bugs you.

15,000 San

Franciscans protest segregation

in Birmingham, negro

and white citizens

marching in unity for

equality in San Francisco.

We used to all hang out at

a bar called the Anxious Asp

on Green Street in North Beach.

We went to a party one

night, and, you know,

with a little of wine and

a little bit of, you know,

whatever, We kind

of got to talking.

And two weeks later,

she moved in with me.

Sometimes, we went

down to Monterrey,

and she would sing

in the hootenannies.

And she would win tickets for

us to get to the main arena.

One time, we went there, and

there was Bob Dylan, her idol.

And she walks up to him, and she

said, oh, Bob, I just love you.

You know, I'm gonna

be famous one day.

He said, yeah, we're

all gonna be famous.

I'll never forget

that, you know?

She definitely felt the blues.

Bessie Smith and all

the blues singers,

she loved those people.

And I think she emulated

them in the sense of wanting

to be like them, you

know, to have the pain,

and I guess that's

why she drank like she

did and took drugs

because that's

all part of the whole picture.

She definitely needed people

to tell her how great she was,

and she needed that

stroking all the time.

I don't think she was with

girls to shock people.

I think she was with

girls because that's

what she felt at the moment.

And I think she was

totally in a conflict

all the time with

herself, constantly,

and she was unhappy.

She was quite

unhappy, and I think

on the stage it made her feel

that she was somebody, that she

had something to offer.

And I said, I just think this

is not working for both of us.

You know, you want to go off

and do things with other people,

and I'm not strong

enough to handle that.

She got with this

English fellow,

and they were into shooting

up and stuff like that.

And that was never my style.

You know, I just never

could get into that.

Janis was in North

Beach, and she

developed an

intense relationship

with Peter de Blanc.

Then Janis got into methadrine.

Janis told me that

they were living

in that building

behind Tommy's joint

and had not a

stick of furniture.

And Peter was just sitting

there for hours on end

throwing a Super Ball against

the wall and catching it.

And she was skin and bones.

She used, overused, lost weight,

got so strung out that her

group of friends held a party,

and they passed the

hat to get enough money

to put her on a Greyhound

bus and send her back home.

She and Peter decided

that they both needed

to get their lives cleaned up

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