I'm Dylan Tupper Rupert.

On the new season of Lost Notes, I take you deep into the groupie scene of the Sunset Strip.

I was hanging out with the stones, the doors, the who?

I was everywhere.

I just wanted to get in that hotel room because I figured all the good stuff was happening in there.

We were kind of the now girls, and we were treated like royalty.

In the early 1970s, LA's Sunset Strip

was the epicenter of the rock and roll universe.

Drugs, sex, private planes, limos, destroying hotel rooms.

It wasn't a myth.

She's on a date with Jimmy Page

and next thing you know is with me.

I never had anybody turn me down.

It was a sexual revolution

and I was right there. It's a story we all know, but it's never been told from this perspective.

Whoopies were the stars? These are women that are talented in ways that are maybe not being told.

They were fashion icons and they were doing whatever they wanted.

This season on Lost Notes, we bring you groupies, the women of the sunset strip, from the pill to punk,

and hear the real riotous rock and roll stories of the girls who lived it all.

From KCRW, part of the NPR Podcast Network.