3: Girls Together Outrageously

Lost Notes: Groupies

KCRW

Music History, Documentary, Society & Culture, Music

4.7 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Venice Beach teen Dee Dee Keel was desperate to find out what was happening behind the scenes, in the clubs and hotel rooms of Hollywood: so she tracked an intriguing local rocker, Jim Morrison, on his way to the Strip. That’s where she first saw Miss Pamela in all her groupie glamour.

By 1969, Pamela Des Barres was no longer a Valley teenybopper; she had transformed into a rock icon-in-the-making. Her freaky clique of Laurel Canyon sprites were ordained by Frank Zappa to become the world’s first all-girl band of all-girl groupies, the GTOs. Soon, they had the likes of the Flying Burrito Brothers, the Who, and Led Zeppelin taking notice, just as Rolling Stone dedicated an entire issue to the groupie phenomenon and made the GTOs its centerfold.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	The following lore included in Lost Nodes 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.
0:13.9	Previously, on Groupies.
0:16.7	So, I decided I wanted to meet Nick.
0:19.6	I went to his bungalow, and he opened the door naked.
0:23.8	I was so startled.
0:25.7	I just ran.
0:27.1	I yelped and ran into the night.
0:30.9	I wasn't ready for Mick yet.
0:34.3	Frank got a label, and he thought that our dance troupe should be a group.
0:39.8	All of a sudden I was like, oh, my God, I could be somebody. I have potential.
0:43.9	I am in the middle of this incredible scene. Anything could happen.
0:49.0	From KCRW and Golden Teapot. This is Lost Notes Groupies.
0:54.1	And I'm Dylan Tupper Rupert.
0:56.3	This season, I'm taking you into the world of the legendary rock and roll groupies of the
1:00.5	Sunset Strip, from the pill to the dawn of punk. And this is the story of girls together outrageously.
1:10.7	I've had people come to me and say,'re like the forest gump of the music industry.
1:15.6	We can say something and you got a story.
1:17.9	And I realized it's true.
1:19.3	I do.
1:20.6	Which is kind of fun.
1:22.1	This is D.D. Kiel.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from KCRW, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of KCRW and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.