Spend A Night At The Drive-In W/ Groupies!

The 1970 film GROUPIES, plus songs written for groupies and an interview with Pamela Des Barres and Cynthia Plastercaster

The earliest modern music groupies we know of began with Al Jolson who had written in his contract that there would be a woman provided for him before showtime. Next came Sinatra with teenage girls called bobbysoxers, because they wore white socks.

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Photo: Sinatra being manhandled.

Notice the majority of people seeing Elvis in the 1950’s were women:

It wasn’t boys screaming nonstop at Beatles concerts:

What is going on between girls and musicians? It is the women who always discover new trends in pop culture. It was true then, its still true. In the 1980’s and 90’s if you went to a rave the women were about 80% of the audience. 10% were gay men. Men traditionally don’t like change, usually hate new music. If you want to hear a new sound or music follow the women.

In the 1960’s and 70’s rock music still had male swagger, the bands didn’t dress like their audience and the songs were aggressively sexual. Just as there are women who only date bikers, cops and firemen, during this period in rock there were women who turned their sites exclusively towards musicians. Some even collected mementos from their encounters like Cynthia Plastercaster

Rock went emo and swagger ended. The bands were older and there were no new bands on the horizon. With a band you have 4 to 6 chances of sleeping with a band member, with a DJ you have 1. Groupies came to an end but man, did they have a party!

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Frank Zappa put together a band of famous groupies:

Permanent Damage by The GTOs (1969)

The GTOs (Girls Together Outrageously) were an all-girl group from the Los Angeles area, specifically the Sunset Strip scene. Active for only two and a half years (1968–1970) with a single reunion in 1974, their only album, Permanent Damage, produced by Frank Zappa, was released in 1969. Miss Pamela (Pamela Ann Miller) Miss Mercy (Judith Edra Peters) Miss Cynderella (Cynthia Sue Wells) Miss Christine (Christine Ann Frka) Miss Lucy (Luz Selenia Offerrall) Miss Sandra (Sandra Lynn Rowe) & Miss Sparky (Linda Sue Parker). Here is the history of THE GTO’s:

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Behind the paywall: PERFORMANCE with MICK JAGGER

Performance (stylised in promotional material as performance.) is a 1970 British crime drama film directed by Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg, written by Cammell and filmed by Roeg. The film stars James Fox as a violent and ambitious London gangster who, after killing an old friend, goes into hiding at the home of a reclusive rock star (Mick Jagger).

The film was produced in 1968 but not released until 1970, as Warner Bros. was reluctant to distribute the film, owing to its sexual content and graphic violence. It initially received a mixed critical response, but its reputation has grown since then, and it is now regarded as one of the most influential and innovative films of the 1970s, as well as one of the greatest films in the history of British cinema. - Wikipedia