Here's segment from a documentary about early 1970s groupies, featuring famous groupie Pamela Des Barres (who wrote the entertaining memoir, I'm with the Band: Confessions of a Groupie). I don't think this is from the documentary Groupies, but I may be mistaken. Anyone know where it comes from?

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nehpetsE

Is that a totally blitzed Meg Ryan at 2:17?
franko

that was ten years after? it was hard for me to tell. alvil lee was the shit, yo.
Anonymous

Definitely “Groupies”.
trommelkopf

My guess is that the band at the end is Ten Years After. Alvin Lee used a drum stick on his Gibson 335 on their big tour de force, Going Home. I saw them a few times when I was a teenager in Leicester. I’m getting old…
Enormo

In the 70′s when someone asked you, “Wanna bawl?” you had to.
baberman

and someone just recognized their mother…
nosehat

This clip helps me understand the extreme misogyny of Frank Zappa, especially RE groupies. A little bit, anyway.
Anonymous

In the 70′s, instead of shaking hands, we bawled. It was just how one said “hello”. It was the style at the time.
13strong

God damn that was depressing. What hideous people.

The groupies, most of whom come across as incredibly naive with brains worn smooth by drug use. The musician, lounging like a sexually sedated male lion, whose respect for women in general has obviously been irreperably damaged…

What a horrible, hopeless culture. Thank god it’s over.
Anonymous

Who is the band playing at the end?
Anonymous

This was sampled for the Propellerheads song ‘Velvet Pants’:
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?i=3444769&id=3444793&s=143441
DreamWoven

so good to see harlow again!!!! (2nd interviewee)
Big Ed Dunkel

This is why I love Boing Boing.
Anonymous

This IS from “Groupies”
Anonymous

I’m guessing from the title at the end that it is from “Groupies”.
Manooshi

Isn’t this why every dude since the seventies wanted to be a musician?

Snippet from documentary about groupies

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