Uploaded June 2017 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

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Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin are connected for changing rock n' roll history and American culture in the 1960s. They also all died when they were just 27 years old. Who knows what could have been. Or maybe it was fate. What do you think?

These lost tapes from the Blank on Blank archive were recorded between 1969 and 1970 thanks to Howard Smith and Keith Altham.

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EXECUTIVE PRODUCER David Gerlach
ANIMATOR/DIRECTOR Pat Smith
AUDIO PRODUCER Amy Drozdowska
COLORIST Jennifer Yoo

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