What Life As A Groupie Was Actually Like In The 1970s

The life of a groupie might sound super exciting and romantic. It often was, but there was a definite dark side to groupiedom. So what's the real truth? It's complicated.
#Groupies #Music #1970s
Never too young | 0:00
It's complicated | 1:02
He said / She said | 2:01
Danger danger | 2:59
Plaster caster | 3:58
The groupie mindset | 5:03
Rock star trauma | 5:51
The curiosity factor | 7:02
Thrift store fashion | 7:59
The real deal | 8:51
Planes, trains, and tour buses | 9:34
Free labor | 10:33
Groupies, girlfriends, and wives | 11:46
The dark side | 12:59
Voiceover By: Tim Bensch
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[@GrungeHQ]

Were you aware that this is how things were back then?

[@markgeorge5536]

Then? It was the same in the 80s, 90s and is still the same now. Doesn't even have to be a national or international musician. Women looking for love, validation, self worth, a sense of importance together with having been brought up with few boundaries. He [the person on stage] wants to be with me so it makes ME important, worth something and it's fun, party time. Sadly they just get used, thrown away and forgotten.

[@hereforit2347]

Then? What’s changed?

[@hereforit2347]

There’s nothing “exciting” or “glamorous” about groupie-dom. 😢

[@hereforit2347]

@@markgeorge5536: Exactly.

[@mikehoncho3130]

@@hereforit2347 it is if that's what floats your boat!

[@gertstronkhorst2343]

Are you kidding? Superexciting and romantic? Jimmy Page had a 13 year old girl stashed in a hotel room, behind a guard, so he could have her in between concerts. There's a word for that.

[@marineandairforcemom]

Exactly!! Statutory Rape

[@Sketchcook81]

A lot of rock stars should have been arrested for sleeping with minors. The laws were the same in the 70's.

[@dawnywarthog6642]

31 states in this country have the age of consent at 16.

[@hereforit2347]

@@dawnywarthog6642: Some of these girls were 14 and 15. 😐

[@dawnywarthog6642]

@@hereforit2347 I'm aware. However the age of consent at 16 by law is disturbing, no?

[@hereforit2347]

@@dawnywarthog6642: YES!! 😣

[@adwaye]

​@dawnywarthog6642 it's 16 if you are within a few years like 17/18. Not old like these rock stars.

[@TheOriginalFILIBUSTA]

Those photos of 14 year old girls, looking terrible in "grown up" makeup, are just disturbing. If there were boys their age around, that might be another thing, but for these men to look at those children and actually find them desirable...that's why the images are disturbing.

[@mtaylor7307]

What we are willing to accept culturally matters. In the 1970s men began the backlash if women wanted equal pay their daughters would accept less. This lead to Brooke Shields in the 1980s as a nude 10 year old in a Playboy companion magazine. It required activist to stop this culturally accepted behavior.

[@alchemicalsoul]

In some circles they start them even sooner.

[@PATRICKoxoEthafulm]

You don’t think there were teenage boys at the show? You don’t think these girls preferred screwing literal rockstars over learning geography? Come on lol

[@barbarajloriordan2697]

I am so grateful that I had strict parents who cared about me.

[@SMGAPR8]

I am though it made me rebel to a degree, I still feared the wrath🤣👍

[@kamanama3671]

My mom was cool. My dad was strict.

[@scottaldridge3991]

Same

[@s.b.sieber2007]

If a girl has to spend hours alone in a hotel room waiting for a guy while he's performing for a concert, she's not "doing it for the music."

[@d00dl3s.d1d0pe]

Yeah, it's called being groomed. We have words for this type of behavior.

[@Glaiket]

It's amazing what people will tell themselves in terms of lies to protect their child selves.

[@lesleygraham5927]

But may be they had to, because if they faced the truth it may be way too much.

[@Rampart.X]

What are you talking about? What lies?

[@Lola-AreaCode212]

😂

[@Zara-pt5xq]

They were raped. Groomed and raped. Left in the ditches by these filthbag men. Who found their wives and ruin/ED their lives too. The devil/s poked them and they became one flesh with the devil. Thus doing crazy shit like making casts of their dicks. Ho embarrasing

[@jibicusmaximus4827]

how do they protect something they no longer are? what? oh i see.. you just on some wok3 flex is it?

[@kamanama3671]

in the early 80s, I dated rock musicians for 10 years and I had the coolest wardrobe you’ve ever seen in my life. I was wearing cat suits with short crop jackets and over the knee suede boots. And the biggest fluffiest curliest most beautiful black long hair you’ve ever seen. God I miss those times. 10 best wasted years of my life.

[@jemmajames6719]

Dated? Or just put yourself around as a play thing? If it was the latter you can’t deep down look back with happiness unless your self respect is in the toilet.

[@Duhclay]

How sad

[@rockandfashion7207]

You gotta upload some fashion pictures in a videos for us

[@ladysnowsu10]

i cant tell if you think fondly of those times or if you regret it 😅

[@l.l.storrie3851]

Ok humblebrag 🤨

[@Fonoyb]

The Bands that were disgusted by their groupies NEED TO LOOK IN THE MIRROR. Children have an excuse. These adult men have NO excuse. They are Filthy and the nerve they have to act like they are superior. And to the Media; this was NOT NORMAL BEHAVIOR except in Band and Groupie corners of the World. I've never known anyone who has a groupie

[@SMGAPR8]

True.....

[@Ggggg1gggg]

Nah I don’t think anybody mentally mature would ever think being groupies was exciting and even “romantic”💀💀 Though things like this still happen today, I’m glad it’s being brought into the light and is becoming more looked down upon. I listen to a lot of rock bands from the 70s to the 2000s and eventually found out that most of them engaged in groupies. I’m most definitely disgusted and horrified, but their music still hits😭 This is where I learned to separate the art from the artists. I wish all the victims well (yes they are all victims even if they deny it) because nobody deserves to go through what they went through🙏

[@melvinatkins998]

That awkward moment when you see a picture of your mom in a KZbin video!…. 😂

[@pamavery9352]

Who is now a grand ma at the age of 70!!!!!!

[@ihatekiann_]

timestamp?

[@marianat1393]

really??

[@tod3msn]

Groupies were used. God rest her soul but “Sweet Connie” as Grand Funk sang about recently passed as an older person with not much to show for all the time she spent with rockers. Staying away from rockers would have been wiser but people make mistakes.

[@markchapman1699]

I don't know life is life. I messed up plenty as a crazy teen as did my wife (now). And we wouldn't change anything we did back in the late seventies and eighties. It was rockin and we did it. I met my wife in 2007.

[@William1866]

Groupies wanted to be used. Many were the aggressive ones. They had lists of who they wanted to sleep with. Those were different times. Today America is obsessed with age. You will find many other countries are not. They have different taboos.

[@jimdep6542]

​@@William1866 Hooking up with a performing musician was a real trophy for them, and they seemed to love competing with other girls to get one.

[@colleen113]

Those were her choices, she didn't seem to regret it.

[@jvdixie]

I was attending concerts in Little Rock when Connie was active . She stayed busy. She became a teacher but that’s about all I know.

[@RodFleming-World]

The phrase 'Sex and drugs and rock and roll' is amazingly accurate.

[@SarahWells777]

This is rape! If a person is under age,then they are under the age of consent,thus it is rape!

[@quercus8833]

rocknroll, drugs and children.

[@SMGAPR8]

​@@quercus8833many children

[@d00dl3s.d1d0pe]

Statutory rape, drugs, and rock and roll. So cool.

[@nepeta_cataria_007]

All the people that don’t see anything wrong in adults having intercourse with minors are honestly disturbing individuals. The rethoric that “but she wanted it” is absurd to me. Teenagers are full of hormones, of course they are horny all the time, but it doesn’t mean that adults should take advantage of it. Many of those girls were abused, because they didn’t know any better and that’s no wonder, because we grow and mature biologically way faster than mentally. Adults really should know better.

[@vickiroman189]

I'm not judging, just wondering: If it was "never about sex but always about the music," why was there sex 99% of the time?

[@gmarie701]

Well there was always music playing in the background...so of course.

[@stephensimon5013]

Cuz it feels good try it sometime

[@vickiroman189]

@@stephensimon5013 Really? Guess I'll have to ask my son 🙂

[@jhaeck1]

yeah music my ass...thats just a cover story.........they were sluts

[@SMGAPR8]

Revolution of hippies , Pot and free will sounded nice, but was it? For a moment, now look everyone is a stoner?

[@rangerwhite5165]

Some of our favourite musicians were P D O files.

[@Lola-AreaCode212]

😂 These days everyone's a pe do to the ŰBER-woke. Nothing wrong with being woke at all, but too many people take it too friggin far.

[@killenashlee]

​@@Lola-AreaCode212When an adult dates a 14 year old, you don't consider that pedophilia?

[@Zara-pt5xq]

Pete Townsend had a huge skit about it all back when. My dad worked with him and my dad molested me. My dad still roams free and so does Pete Townsend. Got away with it 😩

[@ig7024]

@@Lola-AreaCode212i hate woke ppl but u can’t lie these old grown ass dinosaurs were pe0ods, ur telling me u have ur choice of ALL women but only choose 13-17 while ur 29-30? What do u think they did Lola? Share opinions about economic state of the world? No it was grown men doing hard core drugs and having seggs with 14-17 yo girls, I’m sorry if u were groomed as a kid Lola and ik in ur time it was normalized and u grew up thinking that but its not normal get therapy and heal im not even being mean im being genuine it hurts me seeing women ur big age or younger not understanding the severity of this even tho im still a kid myself i lost hope in men so im not shocked when they have this mentality but it sad when it comes from another women

[@Ivanzzy99]

@@Lola-AreaCode212 they are pedos idiot

[@sharong9558]

Knew Lori, lived with her Mom and sister for a few weeks at 18. Met Lori when I was in high school. My bf was friends with Lori’s sister’s boyfriend. I use to go to the Rainbow and would run into Lori in the 70’s. She was always nice to me when we saw each other. Introduced me to Zepplin while she was sitting with them at the Rainbow. They all shook my hand as I was introduced to each member. She introduced me to Keith Moon at the Rainbow too. Took me backstage at a Yes concert and invited me to a party for Bad Co in the Hollywood Hills. We never hung out. Worlds apart as far as lifestyles go and she is much younger, but because I was friends with her sister, she was cordial towards me. FYI… Lori is alive, happily married, and has an adult son from another relationship. Groupie days were a long time ago. She moved on and created a life for herself. Why can’t everyone else?

[@jamesftoland]

Are you one of Lori's herpes scars? Or one of the many crabs still nesting in her crotch ?

[@jamespohl-md2eq]

You really lack self awareness.

[@bridgittetirman2645]

I have pretty much the same history but in the 80s. Jeff Beck was sitting at the table across from me at the Rainbow the night I graduated from high school. Remember when guys had to be 21 to get in but girls only had to be 18? Those were the days…

[@Rockawaysiren]

"backstage at a Yes concert" sigh-my favourite band!

[@ryaneijkholt4220]

What did Lori say about Robert Plant

[@robertknight5429]

When I was working as a concert rigger in the early 2000s.. Some American rock bands (like Korn) were still doing this.. with youngsters.

[@oBabybbyuuuu]

Youngsters like 20 or youngsters like 13?

[@robertknight5429]

@@oBabybbyuuuu like, 13

[@d00dl3s.d1d0pe]

Wow, and Jonathan Davis makes such a big deal about his abuse... guess it's OK if he does it...

[@robertknight5429]

@@d00dl3s.d1d0pe who is Jonathan Davis?

[@01denese]

I've seen some interviews where the bands talk about these ladies, and it's not very nice. These women gave up their chance to get an education, career or a family of their own and their ex-lovers don't want to acknowledge them at all.

[@Christy.1]

It's called personal responsibility. They chose their path. They were basically gold diggers, searching for "true love"(sarcasm) with a rock band member, hoping to snag a husband and live a glamorous life. They did whatever they had to do to try to get that. Instead, it involved into them basically whoring themselves for free, or whatever freebie they got by sleeping around. Let's face it, most men don't think or speak too highly of women that spread their legs so easily.

[@noellarash367]

She was 14 years old.. still a child.. where were her parents? That’s “Child Abuse”.. If charged.. you could go to jail for years

[@MichelleB022]

It is not wise to idolize people for this reason … you get taken advantage of, and the rockstars are only some guys at the end of the day … that’s why literal children were doing it because they not mature enough to know that unfortunately

[@frankenfurter58]

Those girls wanted to marry a rock star. In their minds it was an easy ticket to living a life of luxury.

[@jencrecelius3565]

Almost Famous was still a great movie with an awesome cast. Maybe not completely accurate, but it is still just a movie after all.

[@zeus6793]

It wasn't meant to duplicate history exactly, but the people involved and the atmosphere of the time, the clothes, the behavior, the attitudes....all very accurate.

[@basher5107]

I’m a man and most of what I learned came from the streets and the school of hard knocks and as a kid I started living in the fast lane with substances,girls,fights all of what Kids dealt with in that era,I don’t recommend that kids learn that way but I always knew that someday I was going to have to stand up and do something so once I was old enough I joined the military and it was the best thing for me

[@ARIZJOE]

I can tell you that the scenes of Jim Swingos' Celebrity Hotel in Cleveland were accurate, because I was one of the kids in that scene. It was a pretty fair movie. I would have contrived the music better - but that's like doing sports in a movie - difficult to stage.

[@Ruth78620]

Its one if my favourite films i love that whole era and its done really well and like you say its just a film

[@KennedyCopy]

Cameron Crowe lived many of those experiences with the Allman Bros Band but had to change the names to protect the not very innocent

[@CalopsitaVanderbilt1911]

No one thinks it‘s romantic 🥴

[@user-ln4zr4pz4f]

I recall touring years ago and we had a saying; "Wow, you're really pretty...do you have a washing machine?"

[@ammasdtr19]

you were not touring in the jet i guess

[@user-ln4zr4pz4f]

@@ammasdtr19 No, I was fixing the truck.

[@nancyracies8824]

All I can think about is all the VD that must have been passed around. How any woman can enjoy that lifestyle is beyond me.

[@gayfield420]

how any grown ass man taking advantage of young underage girls is beyond me.

[@stacycoon3612]

Omg me too!

[@oBabybbyuuuu]

Simple: it's fun

[@nancyracies8824]

@@oBabybbyuuuu Sad.

[@KittyGrizGriz]

Pamela Des Barres 1987 memoir “I’m with the Band: Confessions of a Groupie” was a very interesting read, there’s always two sides to every story and women, were definitely a huge part of rock “n” roll. She speaks very highly of Robert Plant and they’ve remained lifelong friends.

[@ryaneijkholt4220]

What did she say about Robert Plant?

[@KittyGrizGriz]

@@ryaneijkholt4220 It’s been too long ago since I read it to properly quote her, read it and see it’s very eye opening. Wink wink.

[@KittyGrizGriz]

@@ryaneijkholt4220 I guess you’ll have to read the book and find out. It was years ago when I read it and don’t want to misquote Pamela, here.

[@ryaneijkholt4220]

@@KittyGrizGriz but it was very positive? Did she describe him as different than other rockstars?

[@KittyGrizGriz]

@@ryaneijkholt4220 Read It.

[@wplants9793]

My friend was a groupie in the mid 90’s and got knocked up by a 35 year old musician. She gave the baby up for adoption, never told the guy. She was 16 when the baby was born. Years later the teen daughter wanted to meet her, I was honored to be there!

[@anapuscau2236]

Good for her for choosing life for her baby!

[@Frankybroadcast]

You mean she was a hoe.

[@rockandfashion7207]

Did the guy ever find out?

[@RockDove5212]

She never told the man. That's terrible. Men have the right to know they have a child ffs

[@wplants9793]

@@RockDove5212 I asked her why and she said she felt ashamed to be a groupie and intimidated, she was 15 and he was in his late 30's? I don't think she ever told her parents who the dad was either because they'd try to get him in jail. But she did say if the daughter ever wanted to know she'd point her in the right direction.

[@ttllymxico]

I grew up around people tied to rock stars groupie have always creeped me out a bit

[@FranBihary-kh1vf]

While everyone idolizes thier favorite male entertainer be it film or music, these individuals are more likely frought with arrested development. It makes sense they would gravitate towards an age group that is on the level with their mentality. Entertainers should not be placed on pedestals in the first place.

[@frankenfurter58]

Brilliantly said.

[@mariainman3618]

this is the BEST story you've done on your page❤ thank you..... wil be saving this video 😁

[@smallhouseinthemeadow6131]

In the 90's I was brutally attacked by a famous band member and I wasn't even a groupie. I was a singer and trying to make it in a man's World. We were recording at a mutual "friends" house and he bent down and viciously bit me on the breast, leaving teeth marks. I went home and was in shock over it, because my "friends" could clearly hear me over the mic and didn't save me. I guess because they were trying to be cool in front of this SNAKE (that's a hint for who he was-without me being sued for defamation). I suppose that he might have been insulted that I wasn't aware of who he was. I had always listened to different music than what he played. I have no idea why he attacked me ,but to this day, I wish that I had him arrested. He is on Instagram, pretending to be this great, spiritual guy now, but I know the truth. Sure, people can change, but I saw pure evil in this toothy, big haired 6"4 or so guy.

[@minervamclitchie3667]

😢

[@NC-ij9rb]

Who is it?

[@md-ps2hx]

Not that idiot David Coverdale I hope?! ... He's white & a snake ...

[@l.l.storrie3851]

Whitesnake, perhaps?🤔

[@Julia-LArt]

@@l.l.storrie3851Adrian, fits the description 😖

[@richatlarge462]

"The life of a groupie might sound super exciting and romantic." Uh no.

[@colleen113]

Were you a groupie?

[@richatlarge462]

@@colleen113No, I'm someone to whom that life does not sound super exciting and romantic.

[@Lisabug2659]

The one thing I will say is a pretty young girl with a nice body has power in a way they don’t realize until they venture into territory such as groupiedom. I was a prude, never participated in such behavior but I sure as hell got called (I had a car) by a couple school friends who found themselves used and abruptly discarded by these “artists”. They felt validated, special and bragged about conquests they themselves made-most determinedly. It extended to any kind of celebrity including motocross riders. I thought they were nuts. Well, to each their own I guess. I will say that my story had to do with running into a dude and his buddies one night when I was 16. Apparently they found it hilarious that when I was asked do you know who this is” I said NO. Greatest guitar player ever they said. Jeff Beck. My reply was “who”? That was 1976 and it WAS Jeff Beck, on tour for “Wired” album. I was clueless. I would have never been a good groupie….. I have run into random rockers in weird places….like ACE hardware in Atlanta where I met Kerry Livgren from Kansas. I was picking up 20 bags of mulch and he helped a guy from the store get them into the back of my SUV. I asked my husband if he ever heard of Livgren (husband plays guitar) when I got home. His comment “are you really clueless’? Apparently so.

[@moaningpheromones]

Did he say hi I'm Kerry Livgren, can I help with those sacks? How would you know it was him? Someone had to have told you.

[@mariebussinger6565]

The "Do you know who I am?' crowd.....um...no. Your friends had zero conquests they were doormats.

[@harmoniabalanza]

I'd rather be you than they.

[@lesleylesley5821]

Where were the parents of these underaged girls? most kids that age have to be home at 8PM, not flying on planes with adult men, staying in hotels, why weren't they in school, under 16, you can't just leave school. This was a parenting failure, this isn't feminism or independence. The whole thing is so grubby and sordid. It taints the music, too.

[@Iazzaboyce]

Rock and roll (and feminism) was/is all about destroying marriage and family.

[@jhall1893]

Level headed and well done documentary. I also like the fact that you provide contact info at the end of your vids for people that need some help.

[@notreallydavid]

Hard to reconcile present-day Robert Plant's amiable, reflective persona and stately roots-ish musical work with what we know Led Zeppelin were doing offstage in the seventies.

[@ammasdtr19]

Actually, Pamela Des Barres memoirs records him as gentlmanly and not a womanizer like Page and Bonham.

[@notreallydavid]

@@ammasdtr19 Ah! Thanks a. Pleased to learn that I can like the guy completely. I had a quick look at PdB's memoir once, but as a lifelong stiff I found what I read too clueless and abject to continue. All best - and thanks again.

[@ryaneijkholt4220]

@@ammasdtr19could you elaborate on how Plant was different from Page in that book? What about underage stuff? And what about Bonham, did he do anything?

[@calken546]

@@ammasdtr19 Jimmy was the only member of the greatest band ever Led Zeppelin that wasn't married. I'm surprised Bonzo cheated on Pat.

[@williamthurmond4940]

I guess the “Me Too” thing never made it backstage.

[@notreallydavid]

Well done on placing the notice at the end.

[@drewgeraci8434]

This is why I hated the movie Almost Famous. Kate Hudson's 'groupie' character was suger-coated. Bands like Funkadelic members talk about how no women were part of the entourage unless they put out. And that was (unfortunately) the way it was with famous musicians/bands/etc in the 1970s

[@lightsone2159]

I'm so very damned glad I never got to the Big Time in music. I loved playing and thought I wanted to be famous but had absolutely NO idea about how badly bands got screwed over back then. The girls would've been an afterthought.

[@kitkat186]

Older guys coming onto me started at 13, they creeped me out and I made sure to hang around guys my own age. One time a guy offered me $3000 to sleep with him, he showed me the money stashed in a brown paper bag. This was at work there were other adults egging me on, I was 17 and kept saying no in the end they let me go. There was a lot of this in the 70s I was innocent and pretty, the creeps were everywhere I could see it in their eyes even when they were trying to be nice. I rejected all jnvitations and made sure never to be alone with any of them.

[@DollGirlie]

Jesus. Glad you got through that without being assaulted or abused. Hopefully.

[@calken546]

Now guys hook up with young girls on the internet as young as 11. Father's limit your daughter's and son's internet use. They'll hate you for 15 minutes than love you again.

[@thisismyaltaccount85]

I'll take things that never happened for 400

[@tallspicy]

This is so sad. Where were their parents? Not sure how this is feminism if the men did not respect them.

[@DavidHaney1]

Why is it sad ?

[@tallspicy]

@@DavidHaney1 because it is unlikely that 14 year old girls who were out all night had sleepinh with rockstars very good parenting. Besides the gross disrespect and rapeyness of adult men being with young girls. And for every one that was famous, there were hundreds more who were cannon fodder.

[@gregsayles9253]

​​@@tallspicyI dated one of the "Groupies" from this group from back then (she passed a few years-ago)--I won't mention her name out of respect for her family, though at one point she wanted me to help her write a book, or at least a memoir/She dated & otherwise hung-out with some of the Biggest-names, & had started cutting-school at 15 to do so/Her sister told me that her mother had found-out & went to the club's & hotels in search of her but had trouble "finding her"/My-girl told me it was her choice, & by design from day-1 to go into this "lifestyle"--& basically had no-regrets, except becoming addicted to alcohol/However, before she died, she admitted she probably would have preferred to have just been a mother herself with a family...

[@tallspicy]

@@gregsayles9253 how old were you? Do you think this was a good thing? As adult dating a child? What was that like?

[@mariebussinger6565]

This was opposite of feminism, this was objectifying themselves and the boys having a free for all, that they'd never have had were they regular workers.

[@presence5426]

Debauchery usually leads to bad results.

[@user-uw1er9fg7p]

Answer: Very Sad.

[@BetterWokeThanAsleep]

Nice to post the number at the end! It’s the responsible thing to do.

[@minsterhill]

Fun ep! Thanks!

[@kleek9581]

It doesn't sound exciting or romantic at all

[@arthurwatts1680]

I'm not sure that Ozzy has the best recollection of everything that happened in the 70s (or any decade since) but his recollection of groupies isn't terribly flattering.

[@GiGi-Gigi408]

Adults having sex with minors just discusting I don't care what year it was it's criminal acts.

[@mtaylor7307]

In the 1970s women experienced a backlash. When they begin demanding equal pay men responded by showing their girls would be sexualized instead.

[@GiGi-Gigi408]

😭

[@michaeldalessandro3020]

Another awesome video

[@FeatnikSF]

4:30 Behind Frank is Roy Estrada (bass player in the original Mothers) who is serving time in prison for having sex with a female relative who was a minor.

[@notreallydavid]

Well spotted. At eighty he's serving twenty-five years without parole - he was a persistent offender. I love Zappa's music but I hope to God that none of his groupie-chasing was coercive or otherwise criminal We'll never know, but I do hope that stuff was lower than he'd go.

[@wendiwonderly1419]

I’m sure there are just a few rock stars scratching their collective asses watching how the Steven Tyler case plays out

[@gregsayles9253]

Have to Agree with some people here saying the groupies knew what they were doing & loved it--I dated one from back then years later & that's exactly how she felt & she knew some of the biggest rock stars (@ 15) and groupie girls in this video.

[@jones2277]

Sexually servicing them and cooking for them without pay. Yeah, that’s a great life

[@nativevirginian8344]

Yes, some of these women were just whores plain & simple, and enjoyed this lifestyle.

[@maaripoim9049]

Oh please. CHILDREN knew what they were doing? :D They went in for the male attention and feeling chosen one bc they lacked that due to family background probably.

[@GaZonk100]

and the parents were. . . where?

[@LS-ot4ho]

Hahahah Good one, we didn't have helicopter parents back then, no cell phones

[@malectric]

My first experience was with a groupie - and it was great! I was touring with a band as their sound and lighting man at the time. It was also my first brush with a STD which spoiled it. I wish the second part had never happened; I might still be with her.

[@lesleylesley5821]

Anyone giving it away to anyone, is sure to be packing some sort of bacteria or virus. Something like herpes is with you for LIFE.

[@Mistydawn1]

Was the std painful ? I never had an std I always curious how painful

[@malectric]

@@Mistydawn1 It was crabs. Not painful and disappeared after a few days and some good washing. But it made me feel unclean and put me off big time.

[@malectric]

@@Mistydawn1 Case of the crabs. Not painful, itchy but cleaning got rid of it after several days. More embarrasing than anything. Very upsetting.

[@sburris65]

I was a groupie the following decade and in the 90s. I have no regrets about it. Its something i wanted to do. I wasn't a baby groupie. I was 19 when I had my first encounter with a musician. Metal musicians were my choice of musicians. I didn't do drugs or even drink alcohol. I didn't hook up with anyone other than the band members. Except one roadie who was a former Chippendales dancer and one who I met not at a concert. I also never despite several conversations and offers, wrote about my exploits or named names. It did make you feel special when this guy who could have his choice of any woman, chose you. It made you feel even more special when they called you when they were in town, or sent for you to join them. I routinely spent time on the road when I wasn't in college. As far as the wives or girlfriends, I think you have to know that comes along with being with one of these guys. Because there are some deeply devoted musicians out there. Thats why I never aspired to be the wife or girlfriend of one. Today I live a normal life with a good husband who is an engineer, not a musician. We spend our time enjoying our Jeep adventures. I have plenty of wonderful memories from my time as a groupie though.

[@timorthelame1]

Ew.

[@sburris65]

@@timorthelame1 ..oh..guess what? Don't want to be a groupie, then don't be one dipshit.

[@embededfabrication4482]

Special to catch his VD maybe, does your engineer husband know you used to be a kum dumpster for drug addicts?

[@SJ-ku7hk]

Sounds like you were an exception not the rule. Most of these now women admitted to copious amounts of drug abuse at very young ages and it messed them up for a long time.

[@keithsurdyke2535]

Did your husband know about your past when he decided to marry you?

[@pakababy3710]

Well done!

[@thaneknight]

It's always going to be a mix of experiences and situations whenever humans are involved. I know a lot of people today that lost their virginity and got pregnant by much older guys who were nobodys. Ask around you might be surprised. It wasn't just the rock scene. Two of my friends got pregnant in high school. It still happens today although I think it's less common. Hormones are a powerful thing.

[@user-ek4dr9wu5h]

I loved Pamela's first book I'm with the band, her escapades with Keith Moon were hilarious! Mick Jagger would meet up with her when in town. But why Jimmy Page left her for a 14 yr old Lori was just stupid. Pam was gorgeous and had it all over those pre teen groupies that started hanging around the clubs and screwing anyone and anything. Even Robert Plant said Pam and the GTO's were fun to hang out with, inspired many songs and the groupies that came after them were too young dumb and couldn't hold a conversation cause how immature they were.

[@ryaneijkholt4220]

So Robert wasn’t into those young girls the way Page was? What about JPJ and Bonham

[@JohnGaltGurgi]

Lori had the allure of forbidden fruit. Nothing so exciting as banging a kid who cant get in to see a R rated movie or buy beer (most states back then were age 18). Having to push dollars under their pillows when their baby teeth fall out and act like the tooth fairy had made a visit. Priceless.

[@IrishChola7]

According to "Rebel Heart", Jimmy Page ended up dumping Lori for Bebe Buell.

[@maryroberts2099]

I read her book. Loved it

[@stuartsiglain3972]

The fil ‘Almost Ramos’ was the best movie on the 60’s life.

[@stevensica5918]

And now the ones who are still alive, are grandmothers in March 2024.

[@karmaandkerosene2885]

The statute of limitations does not run out on sexual abuse of minors in most states. Regular people would be arrested today for admitting to these things in the 1970's. Not rich people.

[@calken546]

That's not true the only crime that has no Statute of Limitations is Murder. For most other criminal offences, the statute of limitations is set by Section 78(3) of the Criminal Code (Strafgesetzbuch) as follows: 30 years for offences which are punishable by a maximum term of imprisonment for life; 20 years for offences which are punishable by a maximum term of imprisonment of over 10 years but not by imprisonment for life; 10 years for offences which are punishable by a maximum term of imprisonment of over 5 years but no more than 10 years; 5 years for offences which are punishable by a maximum term of imprisonment of over 1 year but no more than 5 years; 3 years for all other offences.

[@sararadusinovic7078]

Wow this Paula is a definition of delulu

[@jdo333]

AWESOME 😎

[@tormentors]

People only wanted to be a groupie just to be popular and say : I slept with this and that,most of them were underage that's horrible 😢

[@hereforit2347]

Right.

[@hereforit2347]

People really think it’s a flex if a famous or talented person sticks his penis in one of their orifices. How sad.

[@tormentors]

@Austrian-Painter14 What does that had to do with being an underage groupie?

[@loots9821]

As long as you were under 14 you were in demand. How effed up is that.

[@tiredofcrybabiesonYT]

I still listen to Gram Parsons, we need more music like this.

[@karicallaway5065]

I know its difficult to accept but girls 100 years ago were getting married at 13 and having children. Thankfully the laws have changed to protect them but when many girls hit puberty they have a strong need for independence and acceptance, which is kind of ironic when you think about it. By the 60s and 70s things had changed slightly but i knew so many teenage girls that were looking to be sexually active by the time they were 13-14, this was in the 80s, and the groupie scene was definitely out of control during this decade as well. Not all girls rebel like this but so many do, myself included. Parents need to try to think like teenagers if they want their teenagers to understand reality like adults, especially if the goal is to keep them safe. So many comments here are saying how unlawful this is but those opinions aren't going to put a stop to it.

[@christopherallen9580]

My paternal grandma was married at 14

[@MyWillypilly]

I hit my teens in the 80s. Middle school girls and high school age boys were hooking up. Father's look out for your daughters.

[@mariebussinger6565]

Marriage has nothing in common with backstage humping.

[@lostinspace699]

and 2nd world war boys were going to war at 14/15 and getting killed but now the world is crap in the west ...

[@txgal6855]

My paternal grandma was married and expecting my father at age 16

[@transparenteye7234]

There was a junkie teenage girl back in the 1970s somewhere in Quebec who was addicted to cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs and was a complete nightmare to musicians when she went to rock concerts on school nights and weekends, same with other celebrities. Those celebrities were glad to have not ever had to encounter her again, she did die from her reckless lifestyle when she was 19 years old back in the 1970s.

[@kingcormack8004]

RIP Cynthia PlasterCaster

[@Maliceuk]

My dads excuse for having groupies was, it gets lonely on the road. My Mum was at home on her own, lonely,she never took a lover to keep her company. And then when I asked if I could go to a disco,I was 14/15, I was told NO by my dad as "he knew what girls my age get up too" . Not knowing what meant at the time, I thought why would girls my age be even speaking to him?

[@BustedFlush7096]

Placidil, I remember those!

[@alchemicalsoul]

Delusion to believe they were doing anything other than seeking attention and validation.

[@JohnGaltGurgi]

It was a different time. My wife lost her virginity at a sleepover at a friends house at 14. To the friends dad. She doesnt regret it. He said she said she was real pretty. And that is all it takes.

[@s.b.sieber2007]

I'm sure her parents would think otherwise if they had known. Does your wife willingly send your children to sleepovers now?

[@sophroniel]

that's incredibly disturbing, and it's even more disturbing you think that was ok...

[@KittyGrizGriz]

That’s so disgusting.

[@rdred8693]

WHAT?! Different time or not, that was her friends father.

[@11219tt]

I think it's important to separate potential trauma and illegal/inappropriate acts. Just because something illegal, immoral, doesn't mean the person experienced trauma. I think it's wrong for us to try and force trauma onto someone.

[@ellajackson4272]

Love Pamela Des Barres and find the groupie interesting even though I don't necessarily agree with it.

[@user-eu8kt3zc7h]

I see that Pamela is still trying to cash in on her lifestyle from 60 years ago. Sad. And yes, I was there.

[@quercus8833]

Entry level age 11, exit level age 14.

[@deathrowlemon7367]

If you’re a good and honest dude you’d talk to a girl like that and tell her what she’s doing is super dangerous and that no, you can’t sleep with her.

[@jimdep6542]

yes and the Beatles called them Apple Scruffs and wrote a song about them. (George Harrison).

[@ryandevins184]

Grunge please do a video on Mary Kay Bergman R.I.P 👑

[@DameOfEverything]

They were merely products to male consumers. And let’s not forget that the age of consent was 18 years old in California during this period. So those “regulars” at the Whiskey were children. A child cannot give consent to an adult. These children were groomed, taken advantage of and disposed of once they fell out of favor with their groomers.

[@LauraRoberts-ed9nj]

Oh how I loved Bay City Rollers when I was 14 right along with 💋 KISS!!!

[@connierenna-xf9um]

I was involved with 70s political reform movements as a musician, and got to meet a lot of celebrities who believed in the same ideologies; but I was far too shy to put the make on anyone even if they were flirty with me. So no, I was never a groupie even though I had plenty of opportunities.

[@lolbored801]

That's so gross. They where just kids.

[@sj122s]

Groupie life wasn't appealing to people focused on what would be best for themselves. Sex, drugs, and rock n roll led to STD's, Addiction, and Headaches.

[@peterwalton1502]

It’s all creepy and probably illegal

[@jimdep6542]

One of the dumbest things you could do as a road musician was to fall in love with a girl ( groupie) while playing on the road and especially geting married to one. When that's your only social life, it's easy to do and happened more often than people ( normal 9 to 5 people) probably know. Girls fresh out of high school many times, were used to putting guys on pedestals, whether it be the star players of the HS football team, or the studs around campus, but now that they're out of school, that idol worship is refocused on musicians playing in their towns. It just might not be that you are not what they think they are in love with, but instead, all the perceived glamour and excitement of that moment in in time. I'd tell any working musician to wait until they retire from music before giving into the domestic drive to get married and settle down. You want someone to be in love with YOU, not your music and surroundings.

[@m.bowyer5045]

No happy endings

[@bobe3250]

How educational 😂

[@TheRastler]

What many band personnel seemed to forget that if it was you Friday it was another member of another band on Saturday, and I suppose back in the 60’s and 70’s age was never mentioned. I know for a fact some girls actually offered themselves for sex.

[@GROW_YOUTUBE_VIEWS_593]

I didn't know I needed this in my life until now.

[@SeaweedHero]

The Age of Consent was raised from 14 yo to 16 yo, in 2006, in Canada. And, for those 12 to 15 years old, the law reads: “A teen under the age of 16 cannot consent to sex with an adult five or more years older.”

[@LeileeBaker805]

Couples approach me more than single men🙄

[@salinagrrrl69]

Out on the road for forty days Last night in Little Rock put me in a haze Sweet, sweet Connie, doin' her act She had the whole show and that's a natural fact. "Sweet" Connie Hamzy Parente

[@benice3268]

I’ve met one of Jimmy pages love child he looks exactly like him

[@cynthiamurphy3669]

Oh please. A 304 is a 304 no matter where in history she lives. What, has no one heard of STDs??

[@johnmurphy9636]

STD stood for Subscriber Trunk Dialing in Australia. Like a trunk call between capital cities. Yeah I know. Just being silly. I also like ATM. Can mean so many things.

[@janetmcl9831]

At that time, there was no STD that couldn't be taken care of by penicillin

[@rdred8693]

What about the disgusting men too? I blame them more b/c they were adults

[@ytubeanon]

this would make for a funny video game

[@richatlarge462]

None of these women/girls seemed very attractive, but I guess you had to be there at the time.

[@zenformind]

they were definitely all stoned lol

[@harmoniabalanza]

when you're high...

[@IainFrame]

Children and drugged-up young women being exploited by vain, selfish popstars and their hangers on. What could possibly go wrong? You had Jimmy Page literally keeping a 14 year old as his sex slave and he gets a free pass from everyone, which is insane.

[@clarkewi]

An amazing era in LA