Groupie Culture is not what it seems...

This week, we’re reading one of Ella’s favorite books, which is filled with diary entries, sex with rockstars, and lots of drugs and alcohol…just quintessential L.A. in the ’70s. 

I’m With the Band by Pamela Des Barres

I'm With the Band is a stylish, exuberant, and remarkably sweet confession of one of the most famous groupies of the 1960s and 70s: Pamela Des Barres. She had affairs with Mick Jagger, Jimmy Page, Keith Moon, Waylon Jennings, Chris Hillman, Noel Redding, and Jim Morrison, among others.

Our LA Rock Culture expert, Ella Kopeikin, joins me today to talk about all things groupie culture and the movie we keep coming back to, Almost Famous. 

In this episode we cover: 

• How groupie culture has been given a bad rap lately
• Where the inspiration for Penny Lane really came from
• Why we miss the old school answering machines 

Open your book and press play on a podcast episode that will leave you wanting to journal every aspect of your life because it may make its way into a best-selling memoir one day. 

Mentioned in the Pairings section of the podcast:

• We Are Lady Parts (TV Show)
• Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (Movie)
• Shampoo (Movie)
• Gimme Shelter (1970) (Movie)
• Just Kids (Book)
• Twenty Thousand Roads (Book)
• LOL (Movie)
• Daisy Jones & The Six (Book)

Wine Pairings: any scotch, because I feel like that’s what all the rockstars were drinking in this book. 

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