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Mark Frauenfelder at 10:40 am Tue, May 12, 2009

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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?