She passed on a few years back but always looked back fondly on her groupie days and never had any regrets. She also was proud to have been featured in that iconic Grand Funk Railroad song.
Posted on 12/29/2022 11:03:55 PM PST by dennisw
It was the 70s! Who remembers the Plaster Casters?
So true. It was indeed a different time.
She passed on a few years back but always looked back fondly on her groupie days and never had any regrets. She also was proud to have been featured in that iconic Grand Funk Railroad song.
Funny stuff. I have a similar story. My sister in law, back in college in the mid '80s, was a food service major and had a job at a local eatery near the college. One day a group of young gents with an odd look...not the norm in that area...came in to get some lunch. As they strolled up to the head of the line, my sister in law stood in front of them and said, "I'm sorry gents but you'll have to move to the back of the line and wait to be seated."
The 'leader' of the group spoke up and said..."Don't you know who we are?"
She replied, "No".
He retorted, Why...we're the Kinks!"
Her reply was classic.
"Oh. Ok. What's a Kink?"
Apparently they were doing a show at the college and their popularity had faded a bit by the mid '80s.
I could not agree more with your post. Most people do not realize how much the world will change once all the Baby Boomers are done retiring. There are not nearly enough people being born in the subsequent generations to sustain society as we know it today. We are about to reap the consequences of decades of everybody having 1.2 kids so they can focus on the material things.
When I hear women proudly say they are going to delay having children until they are in their 30s, I just want to weep for our future. They are giving themselves an almost impossibly small window for bringing children into the world. Many of them are condeming themselves to being childless by not taking advantage of their prime childbearing years.
I believe the age of consent should be 16. Some kids will go at it no matter how good the parenting is, and marriage at 16 is an out for them, so they won’t completely screw up their lives.
As for me, at age 55, if I get into a sexual relationships, I’ll probably get a vasectomy. At 55, my sperm are just as old as I am, and they’re probably drunk and unfit to carry my luggage.
I don't see anybody on this thread "approving" of the behavior. I do see a lot of people correctly pointing out that the young woman was of the age of consent so this should not be considered a crime. Immoral? Sure. That's fair game. No responsible parent should be allowing their 16-year-old daughter to take up a sexual relationship with a rock star. I think it's the mother of the girl that comes off the worst in this story.
I think most here take issue with this woman coming forward a half century later in what is an obvious money grab.
That t shirt is from Creem magazine and the beer can was Boy Howdy. I was a teenager in the early 1970s too!
Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll isn’t just some cute saying.
.......”I think most here take issue with this woman coming forward a half century later in what is an obvious money grab”.......
Yes.
Death of the west…
“At 55, my sperm are just as old as I am, and they’re probably drunk and unfit to carry my luggage.”
Post of the day! Coffee, keyboard, etc.
The lady was also a resident of Oregon when she started her groupie excursion with Aerosmith. I would imagine she would have to prove to the court that crimes occurred within California, not just that crimes occurred.
Aeosmith's tour dates shouldn't be hard to track down, but finding testimony to declare that Tyler was absoloutely schtupping or drugging this once young lady while they were on the California legs of the tour or wherever they were residing in between gigs (presumably California).
But this is clown world, so maybe the strength of the allegations is more important than legal precedent or demonstrable proof.
I feel obligated to also note that I absolutely believe her allegations, Tyler basically admitted the whole thing in interviews and in a biography, and the lady has had a consistent story about the events for decades. Whether that gets a judgement, a settlement, or a conviction, that's all up to whatever the whims of the legal system happen to be these days in clown world.
Hahahahahahahahaha! I can only imagine the crestfallen looks on their faces to realize their shield of celebrity was a bit fallen...
I saw Steven Tyler in person (and every-day life context) one time, and did not know it was him (I saw him from behind) but he was with some people I knew.
The long gray hair, very tiny and frail looking frame wearing a jogging suit of some such thing that had kind of flood-water pants that exposed his bare ankles and casual shoes.
The funny thing was-from behind, he appeared to me as my frail, 73 year old mother had before she passed from cancer. That was my first thought.
I couldn’t believe how small and frail he had physically appeared. Now, for all I know, he might still be able to perform fine on the stage, but initially, not knowing who he was, that was my first impression.
Then someone whispered to me “Do you know who that is?”
I am personally NOT a celebrity fan, though if I had ever met Admiral Stockdale, or seen Thomas Sowell in person, I would undoubtedly have approached them and asked to shake their hand. More often, when I see famous people, I am inclined to withdraw so as not to impinge on their personal life.
I sat next to the peerless Ray Bourque in a airline terminal one time (in Miami, I think, as he was there with his family going to/from the Carribean) and while I very much admired him as a player, I wouldn’t even deign to speak with him. I do remember looking down at his thighs in amazement. He and I were just about the same height, but wearing shorts as he was, his thighs looked at least twice the size of mine, and I was pretty happy with the fitness of my own legs! He looked like he had tree trunks there.
agree and a New Years lolzzzz. Republicans need to learn how to cheat elections, the way Dems do.
It was the same in the mid-80s when I turned 16.
There were a group of girls in my high school who came to school each day dressed like Kelly Bundy with those tight bodycon miniskirts, black leather jackets, and a whole can of Aqua Net in their hair.
They all dated local rock musicians, men much older than they were and they'd brag about the big names they got to hang out with when these bands came to town.
Nobody thought anything wrong with it. They were girls having fun.
I run across these girls on Facebook from time to time, now grown women and each one a 50-something conservative Republican.
"Failure to launch" is a term that didn't exist a few decades ago, because by and large, parents raised their children with an end goal of having them ready to "leave the nest" when they attained adulthood.
Parents did not wait with their children at the bus stop unless they were maybe Kindergarten or 1st grade. Parents definitely did not idle their cars at the bus stops like they do today. Children were expected to get off the bus and walk to their homes on their own, even if a few blocks away.
When my own children were growing up, I remember some of my relatives being horrified when I informed them we had no intention whatseover of paying for college for our children. For them we encouraged military service or obtaining scholarships if they wanted to go to college. We intuitively knew that they would get a much better education if it was on their own dime and their own initiative. If they ended up in the trades, all the better, as they would have a comfortable income for life with no worries of unemployment.
Today both my 30-something children have their own homes, careers and families and have been on their own since they were maybe 20 or 21. Both of them have zero college debt (in addition to ourselves).
Many of their peers still live at home and can't even run a dishwasher or prepare a simple meal on their stove. They still have their moms doing that for them.
Steven Tyler is a douche nozzle by most accounts I’ve heard. He supposedly screwed lots of his friend’s wives and girlfriends because he could. I like the music though.
It’s an issue me and my wife don’t always see eye-to-eye on.
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