2008 Woodie Awards
Promiscuous Rock Groupie Comes' Clean'
Pamela Des Barnes gets intimate with Rock Stars during the '60s and '70s.
Summer Rogers
Issue date: 9/13/06 Section: Arts & Entertainment
No one can describe the music scene of the 60s and 70s like famous groupie Pamela Des Barres. In the book, "I'm With the Band: Confessions of a Groupie," Pamela divulges her life story. She includes her stint as member of the all-girl G.T.O.s, which were managed by Frank Zappa. She
also romped with the drug-addled drummer Keith Moon, dated guitar-god Jimmy Page, and bedded sex icon Mick Jagger.
The dirty details are all here in these confessions, complete with explicit excerpts from Des Barres' personal diary.
The newest edition of the book has a foreword
by Jane's Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro, in which he applauds Pamela for her well-told story.
Navarro calls her "one of the most unique and important rock historians of our time." The line in Navarro's foreword which holds true for me is, "Women, try to keep your deep feelings of jealousy…at bay…you know you wish this was your story."
Des Barres' childhood was nothing out of the ordinary, without a hint she would follow such a strange type of lifestyle. Well, maybe except
for her obsession with The Beatles, but what girl of that time didn't love The Beatles? She had a knack for musicians ever since her youth, eyeing
every garage band member, and even pursuing a couple of band boys.
Des Barres' first use of the phrase, "I'm with the band," comes into play after she discusses her time with The Jimi Hendrix Experience's bassist Noel Redding. "(Noel) took me to the Hollywood Bowl," she said, "…where I reveled in being by his side. I was with the band."
This is where her story begins to get interesting. She met The Doors, upstarts at the time, and briefly hung out with Jim Morrison. The imfamous drug-addict threw her pills away, saying that drugs are bad.
She divulges her relationship with Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page, who ultimately broke her heart by leaving her for another woman (and another, and another…). She recalls seriously
strange sack sessions with The Who drummer, Keith Moon.
Pam even lasciviously describes her romps with Mick "those lips" Jagger. The book concludes
when she meets rock star Michael Des Barres.
"He was a degenerate drug-taking sex-dog,"
Des Barres said, "toting two bottles of Southern Comfort, wearing two dozen silver bracelets
on each arm…He even wore his sunglasses at night." He would become her husband, and the father of her son.
If you're a music fan, or a woman in love with musicians, then this book is certainly for you. You'll dig the music view from another perspective. It is interesting seeing iconic rock stars like you've never seen them before: between the sheets.
also romped with the drug-addled drummer Keith Moon, dated guitar-god Jimmy Page, and bedded sex icon Mick Jagger.
The dirty details are all here in these confessions, complete with explicit excerpts from Des Barres' personal diary.
The newest edition of the book has a foreword
by Jane's Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro, in which he applauds Pamela for her well-told story.
Navarro calls her "one of the most unique and important rock historians of our time." The line in Navarro's foreword which holds true for me is, "Women, try to keep your deep feelings of jealousy…at bay…you know you wish this was your story."
Des Barres' childhood was nothing out of the ordinary, without a hint she would follow such a strange type of lifestyle. Well, maybe except
for her obsession with The Beatles, but what girl of that time didn't love The Beatles? She had a knack for musicians ever since her youth, eyeing
every garage band member, and even pursuing a couple of band boys.
Des Barres' first use of the phrase, "I'm with the band," comes into play after she discusses her time with The Jimi Hendrix Experience's bassist Noel Redding. "(Noel) took me to the Hollywood Bowl," she said, "…where I reveled in being by his side. I was with the band."
This is where her story begins to get interesting. She met The Doors, upstarts at the time, and briefly hung out with Jim Morrison. The imfamous drug-addict threw her pills away, saying that drugs are bad.
She divulges her relationship with Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page, who ultimately broke her heart by leaving her for another woman (and another, and another…). She recalls seriously
strange sack sessions with The Who drummer, Keith Moon.
Pam even lasciviously describes her romps with Mick "those lips" Jagger. The book concludes
when she meets rock star Michael Des Barres.
"He was a degenerate drug-taking sex-dog,"
Des Barres said, "toting two bottles of Southern Comfort, wearing two dozen silver bracelets
on each arm…He even wore his sunglasses at night." He would become her husband, and the father of her son.
If you're a music fan, or a woman in love with musicians, then this book is certainly for you. You'll dig the music view from another perspective. It is interesting seeing iconic rock stars like you've never seen them before: between the sheets.
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