Unfortunately the term “groupie” has been maligned, distorted and completely misunderstood. Originally coined by a Brit journalist meaning ‘a follower of groups,’ it quickly became a negative jeer by envious people who couldn’t get backstage. By those NOT in the know, groupies are perceived as loose women, star fuckers, and to use an old-fashioned term, gold diggers. Wrong. A true blue groupie is someone who loves the music so damn much that they feel the need to get close to the person who makes it. Pamela Des Barres (via riot-house)
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ps it’s a pretty good day when the goddess that is Miss Pamela retweets and tweets you in one fell swoop! FEELIN’ GROOVY

ps it’s a pretty good day when the goddess that is Miss Pamela retweets and tweets you in one fell swoop! FEELIN’ GROOVY

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rockrp: Pamela Des Barres | available | Groupie/Actress/Artist

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Pamela Des Barres | available | Groupie/Actress/Artist

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I developed a series of rituals that I had to perform every night, or I would never meet Paul: 1) Write “I Love Paul” at the top of my diary in my most perfect handwriting; 2) Listen to a Beatles record before sleep. No other sound could assault my eardrums after the sacred sound. If the dog barked, I had to climb out of bed and start over; 3) Put a Sweet Tart under my tongue as my head hit the pillow, and let it dissolve as I pictured myself in his arms. In addition to these rituals, I had to write HIS name down every time I farted, and I carried the list around with me until it reached well into the thousands before I became embarrassed and hid it beneath the clothes hamper. Pamela Des Barres, I’m With the Band  (via pinball-lizard)
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There was always somebody to pose with on Portobello Road. He came in handy.

There was always somebody to pose with on Portobello Road. He came in handy.

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According to Rolling Stone, Frank Zappa saw groupies as “freedom fighters at the avant garde of the sexual revolution.”

You don’t hear the term “movie gods” very often. There aren’t many football gods or political gods either. And television stars are never referred to as “TV gods.” But there are rock gods roaming the earth. Perhaps by embracing their cherished rock gods, groupies tap into their own divinity.

“The altar was rock ‘n roll,” Gail Zappa once said, “the guys were the gods, and the women were the high priestesses.”

They still are. Let’s Spend the Night Together: Backstage Secrets of Rock Muses and Supergroupies by Pamela Des Barres (via fuckyeahrockgroupies)
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More from the Cameron epilogue of Let’s Spend the Night Together.

When I flounced into his suite, Robert was winding up a rare interview with a sweet-faced kid who seemed particularly thrilled to meet me. Actually, Cameron Crowe has much better recall about that afternoon than I do. Perhaps because it was his first gig writing for Rolling Stone, and he was interviewing Led Zeppelin. Apparently Robert had been enlightening Cameron about the significance of the GTO’s and the other girls on the scene. Here’s what actually made it into the article that day:

“It’s a shame to see these young chicks bungle their lives away in a flurry and rush to compete with what was in the old days the good-time relationships we had with the GTO’s and people like that. When it came to looning, they could give us as much of a looning as we could give them.”

(Cameron:)

“When I first met you at the Continental Hyatt, Robert and Jimmy had been talking about you and how important the GTO’s were. So when you showed up and were so nice and appreciative of the same things I loved as a fan, it was like, ‘Here’s royalty.’ You were a rock star in your own way, but so approachable and so much about loving the music. And you cannot discount the fact that they set the tone about how to view you.”

[[I love how similar this all seems to scenes in Almost Famous with William trying to interview Stillwater, Penny generally being fabulous, etc]]

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“And that’s the spirit of Penny Lane. She’s not in a crumpled heap by the side of the road. She’s more rock than the band, and that was always the point. There’s a scene in the director’s cut of Almost Famous where Billy Crudup talks about, ‘When you get a little bit of success, your career becomes about maintaining the lifestyle.’ So many of those guys trail off into the world of lifestyle maintenance. And who’s left knowing what it’s truly about?”

I know the answer: “The girl on the side of the stage!” Cameron smiles, “Exactly. That girl. She is still there. And she’ll always be there. I wanted the whole movie to be about that feeling, and the celebration of that feeling. The girl off to the side of the stage is the keeper of the flame.”

(from Let’s Spend the Night Together by Pamela Des Barres)

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