PAMELA DES BARRES
Pamela Des Barres like the Summer of Love and the Sunset Strip was born in California. She fell in love with rock ’n’ roll as a little girl in sunny Reseda swooning along to the dreamy sounds of Elvis and Dion spinning on her turntable.
Pamela spent the rest of the 1960s in rock’s cradle of civilization meeting befriending or dating all of her (and your) musical heroes—The Byrds the Doors Buffalo Springfield The Rolling Stones Led Zeppelin Gram Parsons The Who and countless others.
Throughout her time opening for The Mothers of Invention with the GTOs doing handstands in Jim Morrison’s living room sitting in at protests accompanying Mick Jagger to Altamont and nannying for the Zappas Pamela kept detailed diaries. These priceless primary sources about the birth of Los Angeles as we know it formed the basis for Pamela’s legendary memoir I’m With the Band: Confessions of a Groupie.
Pamela Des Barres finally put the unbelievable true story of her life down on paper in 1987 and the rest is rock ’n’ roll history. Her bestselling first book was followed by a series of nonfiction page-turners including Take Another Little Piece of My Heart: A Groupie Grows Up Let’s Spend the Night Together: Backstage Secrets of Rock Muses and Supergroupies and Let It Bleed: How to Write a Rockin’ Memoir. Today Pamela Des Barres is respected as an author journalist creative writing instructor podcaster and rock historian and is perhaps the most famous standard-bearer of a term she wears proudly: Groupie.
