I'm with the Band: Confessions of a Groupie by Pamela Des Barres Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of I'm with the Band: Confessions of a Groupie
Book Review: I'm with the Band: Confessions of a Groupie
Summary: 1 Stars
This was a gift for my best friend. She said this book was not very good. The stories were not thought out very well it seemed. She liked the concept but it should've been written by someone besides the author who did write it.Book Review: Sad
Summary: 2 Stars
I'm with the Band: Confessions of a Groupie
Mostly a "grottie" story of a woman whose ambitions to star-doom focused more on the availability of her genetalia than on her talent. Name f'ing for the sole sake of name dropping. This review may not be published but it is true. I mostly felt so heart broken about her choices that the addition of the proximity of the famous was not enough to make those choices worthy.
Book Review: An engaging memoir with a dark undercurrent
Summary: 5 Stars
First things first. This book is autobiographical. The author, Pamela Des Barres, was a groupie who had sex with a lot of men, most of them musicians, some of them quite famous. She is totally unapologetic for having been a free-spirited, morally unencumbered teenager and young adult in the Sixties and Seventies. (Based on the content of many of the reviews here, these facts seem to be misunderstood by many, so I thought I'd better clear it up first.)
I found this book a very interesting read. The author is very lighthearted about most of her exploits, and some of them seem to have been a great deal of fun. It's all drugs, sex, and rock and roll.
There is, however, a very dark undercurrent in this book. There are some very sombre, even mournful moments in the book. Some of the stories do highlight the grim side of the whole rock and roll lifestyle, and the author's apparent oblivion to that (or her denial of it) only serves to create greater contrast. If she intended this, this book is a brilliant piece of writing and Pamela Des Barres is an enormously talented and subtle writer. I'm pretty sure, though, that she didn't do it on purpose. I think she really is (or was) shallow and unaware, because the almost artificially cheerful-to-the-point-of-giddy light she shines on her adventures has the quality of one who wants to view the past through rose coloured spectacles.
I found this book a very good read, and the picture it gave me of a time and place was very clear. Coming of age in the Sixties, drugs, sex, and rock and roll, irresponsibility and no-holds-barred promiscuity involving famous people, and one rather shallow young woman's adventures in an era now long gone... This could have been fiction. Although if it were, it would probably have had tighter editing and more coherence as a narrative.
Book Review: Well-written exciting memoir
Summary: 5 Stars
Pamela's fresh witty writing style brings a gorgeous time in the late 60s sparklingly to life. You'll be consumed with jealousy reading this book, but it is a trip well worth taking as you get an intimate insightful backstage look at the great legends of music. This book inspires you to live life to the fullest and strive for your dreams, whatever those dreams may be, just like Pamela Des Barres. I could not put this book down, it's exciting, stimulating, and beautiful. Book Review: Very entertaining !
Summary: 4 Stars
Miss Pamela's account of those great 60's in terms of music, sex & drugs is very entertaining. More pic's and an index at the end would improve it, though.