Hi, just a heads-up slash content warning that this episode contains a depiction of self-harm and suicidal expressions.

The following lore included in Lost Nodes Groupies is based on personal histories of sex, drugs, and rock and roll from the previous century.

Any stories, as told to us, belong solely to the speakers and their memories.

In the early 1970s, rock and roll mythology was being built on the Sunset Strip.

And at age 14, one girl found herself in the very middle of it all.

That girl was Laurie Maddox.

Or as she was known back then, Lori Lightning.

We walk into the rainbow and Richard and Peter come up to me and they say, I need you right now and he takes me by there and he goes, I want you to get in this fucking car. And if you move, I'll have your fucking head.

And I was like, what?

That's Lori.

On this particular night in 1973, she was hanging out, eating pizza with her friends at the Rainbow Bar and Grill, a legendary bar on the sunset strip.

And Richard and Peter, she's referring to Richard Cole and Peter Grant, Led Zeppelin's

managers.

Now, you have to understand, Peter Grant is like 500 pounds.

I don't know if you've ever seen him.

And Richard Cole is like scary.

You don't fuck around with him.

Lori Lightning

wasn't just a random

14-year-old. She and her

clique were the reigning teen queens

of the Hollywood scene.

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