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: Ever sunny...
Summary: 5 Stars
The fun in Pamela Des Barres rock-gossip fest is her ability to convey more than dry anecdotes. She has a wit, and an appealing style of honesty and self-deprecation - one senses even she is bemused by her former ever-sunny, ever-hopeful, latching-on self.
There is no dearth of 'meat' in this book. I love it most for her observations - evocative of a time and attitude, and naked honesty about herself.
I've re-read "I'm With the Band" so many times over several years that it should be on my 'Guilty Pleasures' list...but I don't feel guilty! I think her book will appeal to anyone who lives or has lived in L.A. and is interested in music and/or pop culture of that time period. (60's/70's).
Book Review: what's wrong with me!
Summary: 4 Stars
God help me; i found this book compulsive reading. this is the kind of gossipy work that i know i should look down on. i should feel sorry for the author that she seems to draw her sense of meaning in life from the fact that she KNEW celebrities. I know, i know i should. but i don't. i admit it. i really liked this book. it was fun. all fans of late 60's and early 70's rock and roll should find this a great read, in fact. it's one of the most entertaining books on the music world that i've read. God help me.
Book Review: what's wrong with me!
Summary: 4 Stars
God help me; i found this book compulsive reading. this is the kind of gossipy work that i know i should look down on. i should feel sorry for the author that she seems to draw her sense of meaning in life from the fact that she KNEW celebrities. I know, i know i should. but i don't. i admit it. i really liked this book. it was fun. all fans of late 60's and early 70's rock and roll should find this a great read, in fact. it's one of the most entertaining books on the music world that i've read. God help me.Book Review: Once Upon A Time...
Summary: 4 Stars
...there was a glorious art form known as rock and roll, and it changed the world. Not to be confused with what passes for the same these days, rock and roll was at the crest of a tidal wave of social experimentation that for better or for worse shoved the culture of the young into prominence and re-made America from the inside out. Pamela Des Barres defies all preconceived notions in this memoir of her years as friend/lover/muse and so much else to some of the biggest names in late-twentieth-century music. Surprisingly discreet as well as good-natured, Des Barres gives her reader the ultimate backstage pass with stories of Jim Morrison, Mick Jagger, Led Zeppelin, Frank Zappa, and even the titular King of Rock and Roll, himself! This is a one of a kind sort of book, and it's a heck of a fun read!Book Review: I wish it had been me!
Summary: 4 Stars
Great read, though she is a bit of a name dropper. Sounds like she had a ball and deep down, I wish it would have been me. Much more innocent time, though.