4: Hollywood Encounters

Lost Notes: Groupies

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Music History, Documentary, Society & Culture, Music

4.7 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

As a girl, Dee Dee Keel ditched the doldrums of Venice for the thrills of Hollywood. Just a few years later, she would soon become the woman behind the world-famous Whisky A Go-Go... as well as an infamously active groupie. Meanwhile, Morgana Welch, a scene-savvy Beverly Hills High Schooler, gets in with Rodney Bingenheimer, Led Zeppelin, and other powerful party boys and scene insiders, as she tries to chart her own path into the rock n roll lifestyle—Hollywood encounter by Hollywood encounter.

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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.
0:13.6	Previously, on Groupies.
0:17.3	Being in the GTOs gave me a platform.
0:22.1	I felt like now I could live my life the way I wanted to.
0:26.3	I was part of something that was even bigger than me.
0:30.7	I just wanted to get in that hotel room because I figured all the good stuff was happening in there.
0:35.7	So we wrote these songs about our crazy lives, and we recorded them.
0:43.0	I wished it had gone further.
0:50.0	By the end of the 1960s, rock and roll was no longer counterculture.
0:55.1	It was simply the culture.
0:58.2	Rock bands weren't just stars.
1:00.2	They were gods.
1:01.6	Young ones.
1:02.9	The Beatles, the stones, Zeppelin, these deified musicians were then just dudes in their 20s.
1:09.4	And to paraphrase, drone linen,
1:11.7	they were more popular than Jesus.
1:14.7	So in basements and bedrooms and bopp rooms everywhere,
1:18.9	there were young girls desperately trying to,
1:21.9	well, come to Jesus.
1:24.6	Or the next best thing.
1:27.4	I wanted to know, beyond saving the money, Jesus, or the next best thing.
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