Let's Spend the Night Together: Backstage Secrets of Rock Muses and Supergroupies by Pamela Des Barres Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Let's Spend the Night Together: Backstage Secrets of Rock Muses and Supergroupies
Book Review: Response to Eulogia
Summary: 4 Stars
It's exactly that attitude - that women are to be used as Kleenex and tossed aside, as well as that insulting diminutive, "Darlin" that this book is attempting to address. If everyone could open their minds and allow themselves to see the world through their eyes, we all just might learn something. It is not only rock stars that sometimes use and abuse others. From your tone, Eulogia, I bet you've tossed a few aside yourself. Kleenex? Ugh. Book Review: Can I be with the band, too?
Summary: 5 Stars
Yet another amazing read from Pamela Des Barres. My interest in Rock's boudoir was first piqued with "I'm With The Band", after which I was forced to accept that she set the bar impossibly high for everyone else - not just for content, but also for writing skill. In "Let's Spend..." she simply provides a forum for others to speak in, while she creates a series of vivid 3-D mental images of the most inner of inner sanctums. The result feels like a girls-night-out or a great party that you somehow got accidentally invited to. Once again, her style is as detailed as it is easy to read. I literally couldn't put this book down and went to work without sleep the next day.
Of course, with Pamela the price of voyeurism (for me) is jealousy (again). This time I was jealous of not only her amazing life, but also the lives of these fabulous, unique women, that have lived so much in such a short time. I just wish I could understand why the whole "groupie" thing is so controversial, I see comparable scoop in the checkout lines every week.
Speaking of jealousy, if you aren't completely sold on Pamela's guileless skill at telling secrets, read a couple of the less glowing reviews here. Talk about fiction! I'm thinking she may have hit a nerve or two. Of course, independent, out-spoken and confident women tend to do that. And we're not sorry.
Book Review: True Feminists
Summary: 5 Stars
Do you want to read stories of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll? Well, there are here in this book. But that is not all that is here in this book. I don't see this book as just a sexy rock 'n' roll tome. I also see it as an important social document. I think the book could be titled Let's Spend the Night Together: Sagas from True Feminists. That is exactly who these women are. True feminists. They did exactly what they wanted to do when they wanted to do it. Anyone who dismisses groupies as simply sluts, has blinders on and needs to start taking a look at and giving a listen to the tales of these bold women. A wonderful, thought-provoking and endlessly fun book!!
Book Review: Riding the tidal wave as the Queen of the Groupies with a collection of 24 confessions
Summary: 4 Stars
Let's Spend the Night Together is your armchair backstage pass to some of the biggest names in rock n' roll, from Elvis to Jimi Hendrix to Kurt Cobain. The book consists of two dozen first-person confessions from the girls who romanced the stars. These aren't cheap women looking for a thrill; women like Gail Zappa (wife of Frank) and Tura Satana (one-time fiancée of Elvis Presley) reveal the man behind the stage persona. Satura gave Elvis dancing lessons early in his career, and Zappa loved Frank despite his repeated dalliances with groupies. More legendary groupies like Cynthia Plaster Caster and Sweet Connie (of "We're An American Band" fame) also contributed chapters on their long lists of personal conquests.
Pamela Des Barres is the natural choice for editing this collection--she wrote the groupie gold-standard tell-all I'm With the Band in 1987. The 24 confessions are scandalously entertaining, but the quality of the writers' perspective varies. Some women truly loved their paramours, others were out to carve notches in the belts, and still others manage to take an intellectual look at their experience. Des Barres appears to be riding the wave of groupie fame, but to cover that up, she waxes poetic about how groupies were muses and no longer suffer the negative connotations they used to. It's an up and down collection, and the reader can't help but notice that some women where just used by the bands (and not for artistic inspiration). Any rock fan will find some gems in the anthology, however.
Book Review: Could have been good but...
Summary: 1 Stars
This could have been a much better book. The reasons it isn't are obvious.
I have nothing bad to say about the author. I love "I'm With The Band". Pamela Des Barres can pen a tome. She is also very pretty.
The book is just meaningless.