I'm with the band: Rock's most famous groupies tell all for VH1 documentary 'Let’s Spend the Night..

LA Times ^ | December 15, 2010 | Gerrick D. Kennedy

[a fool in paradise]

...Adapted from Pamela Des Barres' bestselling book... the doc follows Des Barres... as she travels across the country reconnecting and reminiscing with the women who lived up to their reputations.

...“Rock 'n’ roll is art, but it also means sex, so it’s just the perfect combination -- especially for the young teenage girl. I remember when Mick Jagger lit me up when I was 15, and I thought, 'OK, I want some of that.' [But] our relationship was purely sexual.” Des Barres was motivated to log her experiences, and those of her pals, because she felt the word "groupie" had become something tawdry, especially as reality shows featuring rock stars looking for love in a house full of women looking for fame became the norm.

...Her cross-country journey took her to Utah to see Tura Satana, the woman who taught Elvis a few tricks in the boudoir; Seattle, where Robert Plant's muse Michele Overman resides; Chicago, the home of iconic groupie Cynthia Plaster Caster; California to meet Cassandra Peterson, who was a well-known groupie before becoming Elvira; and Arkansas, to visit the famous Connie Hamzy, known solely as “Sweet Connie.”

...“Look, we’re not hookers, we loved the glamour,” she clarifies in the film when pressed about her conquests. “We’re getting to hang with celebrities. I’m 55 years old, so I don’t do the things I used to. I don’t look the way I used to. There aren’t women who could do what me or Pamela does. How many songs on the radio have a gal's name in it?”

Sweet Connie never minces her words -- ever. She boasts that she’s bedded -- or serviced -- anywhere from 700 to 1,000 musicians and their crew guys. She says she still gets requests from bands, which she is happy to oblige...

[tutstar]

Lol

[Georgia Girl 2]

Thats just nasty!!!

[La Lydia]

Sounds just disgusting.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

I read Des Barres’ book. She recounts how she was a member of the female group “The GTO’s” but Frank Zappa threw her out of the band for doing drugs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_GTOs

[Las Vegas Ron]

FR is getting worse. People posting gay pictures and other filth. It is getting tedious.

Then leave.

Word is we've been bought out by the Saudis.

[TSgt]

FR is getting worse. People posting gay pictures and other filth. It is getting tedious.

Say's FR's most notorious pro-Gay FReeper. Remember the rampage you went on after the gay college student killed himself? I do...

[jazminerose]

Geeeez those unions really are out of control.

[Frantzie]

LOL! The loser from loser town Las Vegas. Lose you Social Security money for this month on the nickel slots?

Nice job how you re-elected Hairy Reid. He could not have done it without the scum in Las Vegas. Go report me - little man.

[a fool in paradise]

Just wait until California legalizes pot and the unions take all of the profit out of it!

[NorCoGOP]

...she felt the word "groupie" had become something tawdry

NEWSFLASH

[Las Vegas Ron]

Go play with your self Frantzie.

[afraidfortherepublic]

What a waste of band width.

[rollo tomasi]

[AppyPappy]

Ya’ll keep it up while I pop the corn.

[Las Vegas Ron]

He’s a poofter too??

Never would have guessed...

[skyman]

Sad to think you need to let yourself become a piece of meat to feel important.

[peteyd]

More like a garbage can.

[woofie]

[irishtenor]

A blow-up doll has more morals.

[Judges Gone Wild]

Pamela Des Barres has certainly gotten a lot of mileage out of ‘groupie memoirs’. She released I’m With the Band in 1987!