Over the years he would come down to SF from Wyoming where he lived and we would have dinner, go out drinking and remember stuff and also catch up with who we’d become. He was something of a Boston Brahman when we in Big Brother first met him and knew that he’d been sent out by Albert Grossman to take over our daily affairs, but after a short time we saw that he was the real deal and we accepted each other. He was royalty in a way son of the great writer, TV host and journalist, Allister Cook (sic), a graduate of places like Putney school and Harvard, a friend-as well as fellow musician-of all the heavies in the early NY/Cambridge folk music scene Dylan, Baez, Farina, etc. He was incredible as a road manager for a lot of reasons but the main one was just his attitude that was like someone who was royalty. He wrote a book about that whole time called On the Road with Janis Joplin that was pretty good. He was the guy who found her body in her room at the Landmark.
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He was Big Brother’s road manager in 1968 and then he stayed with Janis for the rest of the time she was alive.
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