Let's Spend the Night Together by Pamela Des Barres

I knocked on Mick’s door and he opened the door naked just to scare a little fan, and it worked. No one would have believed us in high school the next day. You know, Don already knew Charlie and Bill, so we were in Charlie and Bill’s room listening to jazz and blues. The Stones in ’65, Victor and I went, and Don actually went to the Ambassador Hotel so I could meet them. I just decided to do those kind of those things. And I leaned up against the stage and watched the show gazing up at him you know, from one foot away. In those days, I was the only person walking down to the front. I saw Dylan in ’65 at the Santa Monica Civic and I just walked out in front. When did you first start seeing lots of live shows? People would say, “Why did you want to meet these guys?” Why not? Why not? Why not want to be a part of something so important? We wanted to be a part of this incredible musical brilliance that was lighting up the world. We wanted to be around The Who and The Kinks and The Doors and The Byrds and Love and Buffalo Springfield and Zeppelin. They’re just girls, mainly who just want to be near the music. There’s a term for what I’m doing.” And it quickly became a jeer because it’s a misunderstood concept.īecause the girls are viewed as basically sluts - one-hour stands down on their knees in a bus. It was, you know, “Wow, someone called me something. Tura Santana - she was with Elvis way before the word “groupie” existed. All of the girls in the documentary are “classic groupies” from the Sixties and early Seventies. People are still fascinated with that era.

He is a certified rock god in my opinion. Jack has actually risen to that occasion in the hearts and minds of millions of people. Can you tell me of a Mick Jagger today? Are there any rock gods of that level? I take that back. Isn’t that funny? The guys making the most money are over 60! Paul McCartney, The Stones, Bruce Springsteen, The Eagles, Leonard Cohen, Dylan. Barres, 62, who still lives in California, stars in the new VH1 documentary Let’s Spend the Night Together: Confessions of Rock’s Greatest Groupies (adapted from her 2007 book Let’s Spend the Night Together: Backstage Secrets of Rock Muses and Supergroupies), which follows Des Barres on a cross-country road trip sharing stories with other former groupies. In the Sixties and early Seventies, Pamela Des Barres was known as “Miss Pamela,” a scene girl who later claimed to have had intimate relationships with Mick Jagger, Keith Moon, Jimmy Page and Jim Morrison - stories chronicled in her 1987 tell-all I’m With the Band: Confessions of a Groupie.

Let's Spend the Night Together by Pamela Des Barres