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🗓️ 16 October 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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The origin story of Miss Pamela Des Barres, the original queen of the groupies, author of the iconic memoir, I’m With the Band. From her mid-Sixties teenage bop room Beatlemania, to in a few short and sexy years, having Mick Jagger on the prowl looking for her – Pamela learned quickly, through friendships with Captain Beefhart and Frank Zappa, that she was something special.
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0:00.0 | The following lore included in Lost Notes Groupies is based on personal histories of sex, drugs, and rock and roll from the previous century. |
0:08.3 | Any stories, as told to us, belong solely to the speakers and their memories. |
0:14.6 | Previously, on Lost Notes, Groupies. |
0:17.8 | Why would Jimmy be interested in me? Who am I? |
0:20.5 | And he's on a date with Pamela and my girlfriend |
0:22.9 | Sable wants him. I was in Hollywood and we were having a blast. And I just decided to go with it |
0:30.6 | because what else was I going to do? You expect when out and about in Los Angeles to sometimes see a celebrity. |
0:40.6 | But there's another level of magic when you spot, not a movie star, but a cult icon. |
0:48.4 | Seeing one of those local LA legends is like seeing a shooting star. |
0:53.2 | This happened to me on the night of my 30th birthday, |
0:56.6 | when I got a bunch of friends into a show at the Trubidor. So I got ready in an outfit I based |
1:01.8 | on literally no joke, a picture of Pamela DeBar from 1968, and then I took a group of friends |
1:08.9 | to Dantanas, where I had a redacted number of martinis, |
1:12.9 | and then we went to the troubadour and after we would walk up the hills for the rainbow for drinks, |
1:17.6 | because at that point, why not? |
1:20.7 | So I was relieving the troubadour, starting our walk up to the strip. |
1:24.7 | I looked behind me over my right shoulder just to make sure a couple of my |
1:28.0 | friends were straggling behind. And there, right behind me on Santa Monica and Ohini was Pamela |
1:35.1 | DeVar, the legend, the icon, the groupy queen of Los Angeles. I had an out-of-body experience, which thankfully, 18 months later, Pamela told me she did not recall. |
1:50.2 | I'm sure she's used to that shit, but for me it was a relief that I got being starstruck |
1:54.0 | out of my system before we actually met, which was when I went over to her house one spring |
1:58.9 | morning in her hometown of Reseda, |
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