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]]> Review7454062349 Tue, 08 Apr 2025 10:52:12 -0700 /review/show/7454062349 Dana gave 4 stars to I'm with the Band: Confessions of a Groupie (Paperback) by Pamela Des Barres
The kind of book you'll like strictly if you're into that thing. This was out of my wheelhouse, but in my opinion, the only reason it works is because des Barres writes with such distinctive style and doesn't take herself or her story too seriously at all. The sixties was an iconic era with iconic music - and a whole lot of flakiness, especially when it came to rock and groupie culture. It wasn't just the women who were flaky either. In my opinion, that was an all-around syndrome that pretty much everyone on that scene suffered from, but it made for good stories and good music.

As someone who was born and raised in the digital age, it seems pretty absurd to me that you could stalk rockstars and actually gain success from it - the Marlon Brando story had me laughing out loud. But Pamela des Barres captures the hedonism, excitement, and general newness of that era really well. It's engaging, silly, funny, and very sensual. Half the men she mentions should be locked away (and Dave Navarro as well for that weird, sexist introduction), but it's pretty fun romp, and the diary entries are a great touch. It only works because she's a good writer, and she writes without any inhibitions or need to seem above-it-all. She knows that a true groupie isn't. I like that she points out (in her 2005 addition) the new groupie culture has shifted into actresses and models pretending they're not groupies. There's something to be said for a culture of adoration that doesn't pretend they're not fawning and swooning. In this irony-poisoned, cynical age, while I might not yearn to be part of this drugged-out, blissful scene, there's definitely something to be said for the sheer earnestness of the rock world back then. ]]> ReadStatus9270831512 Fri, 04 Apr 2025 12:11:14 -0700 /review/show/7462334628 Dana is currently reading Popshot Quarterly Magazine, Issue 37, Autumn 2022: The Hauting Issue by Matilda Battersby
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