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A review by vikingwolf
I'm with the Band: Confessions of a Groupie by Pamela Des Barres
2.0
Pamela was growing up in the era where everyone at school loved the Beatles and she was obsessed with marrying Paul McCartney. Her first attempt to sneak into his hotel seemed to inspire her life as a groupie as she started to hang around clubs and knock on house and hotel room doors to meet all her new idols. She is blunt about her flings with men like Mick Jagger, Keith Moon, Jimmy Page and many others, her lust for Jim Morrison(drool!) and how young Melanie Griffiths stole Don Johnson from her.
Her stories about the concerts and the men that she met or was involved with were fascinating and fun to read. I don't think I would have turned down the chance to meet Elvis though! Her early diary entries about Paul are hilarious! It was the rambling, boring crap that she was writing about the voyage of self discovery she was on and her 'enlightenment' and all the incomprehensible crap of her Frank Zappa period that bored the arse off me. And her terrible poetry! I ended up skipping all this stuff to just read the bits I found interesting, hence my 2 star review.
Her stories about the concerts and the men that she met or was involved with were fascinating and fun to read. I don't think I would have turned down the chance to meet Elvis though! Her early diary entries about Paul are hilarious! It was the rambling, boring crap that she was writing about the voyage of self discovery she was on and her 'enlightenment' and all the incomprehensible crap of her Frank Zappa period that bored the arse off me. And her terrible poetry! I ended up skipping all this stuff to just read the bits I found interesting, hence my 2 star review.