Editing Janis Joplin (section)

====September–October 1970====
[[File:Janis Joplin seated 1970.JPG|thumb|Joplin photographed by [[Jim Marshall (photographer)|Jim Marshall]] in 1969,<ref name="dalton" /> one year before her death]]
Joplin's manager [[Albert Grossman]] and his assistant/publicist Friedman had staged an [[intervention (counseling)|intervention]] with Joplin the previous winter while Joplin was in New York.<ref name="buried" /> Grossman and Friedman knew during Joplin's lifetime that her friend Caserta, whom Friedman met during the New York sessions for ''Cheap Thrills''<ref name="caserta" /> and on later occasions, used heroin.<ref name="buried" /> Friedman assumed Caserta had been out of Joplin's life for a while<ref name="buried" /> and never visited California.<ref name="buried" /> When Joplin was not at Sunset Sound Recorders, she liked to drive her Porsche over the speed limit "on the winding part of Sunset Blvd.", according to a statement made by her attorney Robert Gordon in 1995 at the [[Rock and Roll Hall of Fame]] induction ceremony.<ref>{{YouTube|VJyQ-nxo-LY|Robert Gordon can be heard saying at the 1995 ceremony that at the end of Joplin's life she enjoyed driving her Porsche over the speed limit "on the winding part of Sunset Blvd."}}</ref> Friedman wrote that the only Full Tilt Boogie member who rode as her passenger, Ken Pearson, often hesitated to join her,<ref name="buried" /> though he did on the night she died.<ref name="buried" /> He was not interested in using hard drugs.<ref name="buried" /> On September 26, 1970, Joplin recorded vocals for "Half Moon" and "[[Cry Baby (Garnet Mimms song)|Cry Baby]]".<ref name="smironne.free.fr">{{cite web |url=http://smironne.free.fr/JANIS/JOPLIN/session.html |title=Janis Joplin Sessionography |website=smironne.free.fr |access-date=May 17, 2012 |archive-date=November 15, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121115045807/http://smironne.free.fr/JANIS/JOPLIN/session.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The session ended with Joplin, organist Ken Pearson, and drummer Clark Pierson making a special one-minute recording as a birthday gift to [[John Lennon]]<ref name="smironne.free.fr" /><ref name="youtube.com">{{YouTube|4nM65_ut05s|Segment in which Dick Cavett, John Lennon, and Yoko Ono discuss Janis Joplin starts at 1 minute 35 seconds}}</ref> with the [[Dale Evans]] composition "[[Happy Trails (song)|Happy Trails]]" as part of the greeting.<ref name="youtube.com" />

On October 1, 1970, Joplin completed her last recording, "Mercedes Benz", which was recorded in a single take.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.superseventies.com/joplinjanis.html |title=''Pearl'' album by Janis Joplin |website=SuperSeventies.com |access-date=December 18, 2021 |archive-date=June 17, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220617065426/https://www.superseventies.com/joplinjanis.html |url-status=live }}</ref> On Saturday, October 3, Joplin visited Sunset Sound Recorders<ref name="amburn" /> to listen to the instrumental track for [[Nick Gravenites]]'s song "Buried Alive in the Blues", which the band had recorded earlier that day.<ref name="on the road" /> She and Paul Rothchild agreed she would record the vocal the following day.<ref name="dalton" /><ref name="Joplin, Laura" /><ref name="on the road" /> Sometime on Saturday, she learned that her boyfriend Seth Morgan had met other women at a [[Marin County, California]], restaurant, and invited them to her home.<ref name="buried" /> People at Sunset Sound Recorders overheard Joplin expressing anger about Morgan,<ref name="buried" /> as well as joy about the progress of the sessions.<ref name="buried" /> Joplin and Ken Pearson later left the studio together and she drove him in her Porsche<ref name="buried" /> to the West Hollywood venue called [[Barney's Beanery]] where they met Bennett Glotzer, a business partner of Joplin's manager Albert Grossman.<ref name="on the road" /> After midnight, she drove Ken Pearson and the male fan to the Landmark where she and Pearson were staying in separate rooms<ref name="buried" /> and prepared to part in the lobby of the Landmark, when she expressed a fear, possibly in jest, that he and the other Full Tilt Boogie musicians might decide to stop making music with her; they then separated and went to their rooms.<ref name="buried" />