Excerpt from Decaying Orbits and Death Spirals: An Oral History of the L.A. Psychedelic Underground, 1966-1971, pg 214:

Bryce Dobler, singer and guitarist for L.A. band Cinnamon Threat, a late 60's fixture at the Whisky A Go-Go who released such albums as Choke the Unicorn and My Sister Satan:

"We were recording at this little studio in Topanga Canyon, it wasn't going well. Our engineer was coming off a bad trip, the whole thing just felt sick. Our manager came by one day with this depressed looking chick, she was real skinny, even for L.A. She sat there chain-smoking with these big dark glasses on while we tried to get this track into shape. At one point I go over to this woman and I ask her if I can get her something, like a glass of water maybe, or a Coke, and there's this pause and then she whips her sunglasses off and glares at me, I mean she's seething, and she goes, 'Richard do you have any idea where that water comes from? Do you have the tiniest clue about the history of exploitation that a glass of water in this town represents? Do you Richard? Do you?' And then she started weeping, totally silent, just tears rolling down her cheeks. She put her giant sunglasses back on and smoked about ten more cigarettes.

"Well, later I found out she was Joan Didion. What a crazy broad. Later she tried to run over Jackie DeShannon with a car, who knows what that was about. And for weeks I kept asking people, Who the fuck is Richard?"