".Gabriel Mekler, who produced "Kozmic Blues", told publicist-turned-biographer Myra Friedman after Joplin's death that she had lived in his Los Angeles house during the June 1969 recording sessions at his insistence so he could keep her away from drugs and her drug-using friends.Joplin's appearances with the Kozmic Blues Band in Europe were released in cinemas, in multiple documentaries.