6: From the Slutmobile to the Starship

Lost Notes: Groupies

KCRW

Music History, Documentary, Society & Culture, Music

4.7 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Rodney Bingenheimer’s English Disco. The Continental Hyatt House. The Rainbow Bar & Grill. Glam rock was the genre du jour and there was no more convenient or welcoming a circuit for an intrepid teenage groupie to land in than the Strip in the early 1970s. As for Led Zeppelin, LA became their spiritual home-away-from-home (read: wives). From flying in on their private jet, the Starship, to cruising down Sunset picking up groupies in their white stretch limo, the Slutmobile, Led Zeppelin’s superstardom marked a new era, and level, to groupiedom.

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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.
0:10.0	Any stories, as told to us, belong solely to the speakers and their memories.
0:15.0	Previously on Groupies.
0:19.0	The star was entertainment.
0:22.2	It was provocative and seductive.
0:24.7	It pushed the envelope.
0:26.5	Well, I wasn't a groupie yet.
0:28.3	I was brought in from junior high
0:29.8	and thrown into the scene with Sable and Lynn.
0:33.5	It started at Star magazine.
0:43.3	Music It started at Star Magazine. Before the sledmobile, before the starship, before the motherfucking stairway to heaven,
0:53.0	back in 1969, Led Zepp heaven. Back in 1969,
0:55.2	Led Zeppelin first landed in America,
0:57.7	and a young Jan Hewellski was a witness.
1:01.0	They were like warlords dressed in fripery
1:04.7	and beautiful hair and really could play.
1:09.3	It was showy.
1:10.6	It was, it was, it was hot. It was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, you know, it just sent
1:15.3	ripples of excitement through this rock community. In a few years, Jan Uelsky would become a senior
1:22.1	editor of Cream Magazine, where she works as an editorial director today. And is speaking of her own
1:27.4	personal memories as her opinions and stories do not and is speaking of her own personal memories,
1:28.2	as her opinions and stories do not reflect the opinions of her employer.
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