Product Description

Finally, a long overdue return to print for the ultimate groupie memoir: the definitive story of sex and rock `n' roll.
From the day she peeked at Paul McCartney through the windows of a Bel Air mansion, Pamela was hooked. Graduating high school, she headed for the sunset strip and rock and roll. Over the next ten years, she dallied with Mick Jagger, turned down a date with Elvis Presley, had affairs with Keith Moon and Noel Redding hung out with Jim Morrison, and travelled with Led Zeppelin as Jimmy Page's girlfriend - he had "dark chilling powers" and kept whips in his suitcase. She hung out with Cynthia Plastercaster, formed the all-girl group the G.T.O.s, and was best friends with Robert Plant, Gram Parsons, Ray Davies and Frank Zappa.
I'm With The Band is a vivid depiction of the rock and roll lifestyle, told with style by one of the warmest and wittiest women ever to kiss and tell.
"Free love was short-lived and it's a shame … The fascination with that experimental, freewheeling time only grows stronger. Pretty soon those trailblazers - Morrison, Hendrix, Zappa, Gram Parsons, Keith Moon and yummy, young Jagger will be mythologized and made more than human. I hope I brought some warm flesh and blood to the myth, dolls, before it's too late. I wanted to take you there with me, let you feel the blissed-out alchemy in the air, because I was fortunate enough to romp through the modern musical renaissance and live to tell the tale." Pamela Des Barres, from her new epilogue
"Miss Pamela, the most beautiful and famous of the groupies. Her memoir of her life with rock stars is funny, bittersweet, and tender-hearted."

Stephen Davis, author of Hammer of the Gods

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8820 in Books
• Published on: 2008-02-28
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

The Guardian
Pamela's mix of hippie enlightenment and teenage lust is terrific.

Mojo
Warm, affectionate, entertaining, and one of the few music books to talk openly about sex.

Music Week
A kiss-and-tell that doesn't make you want to go and wash your hands.

Customer Reviews

Must Be A Movie
If ever a book deserved to be a movie - THIS IS IT.
It is sexier than a library full of Joan Collins novels and funnier than a Little Britain script.
This story of rock `n` roll excess has got big screen blockbuster written all over it.
Both former strippers turned `actors` Julie Johnson and Courtney Love were born to play Pamela Des Barres.
A fantastic read.

Bring out the flower child you
This is a wonderful book revealing more about the 60s and what it took to be a flower child than many biographies that have fallen from the shelf.

Lady Pamela has a friendly writing style that effortlessly engages you making you laugh, love and cry at the wild excesses at the birth of rock.

The long list of mega famous people she met, kissed and slept with is impressive and could lead you to leap to buy this book.

However being a wild one in the decade of decadence is not as exciting as the back cover would have you believe. Many of the wonderous experiences become quite mundane as encounters with Frank Zappa, Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger et al are told in the same fashion over and over again. The friendly style becomes more and more irritatingly femine as the stories whine on and the book unfortunately becomes a chore.

Simple Review: Incredible tales litter a sweet 1960s diary that ultimately leaves you wanting more.

Frank and Funny Memoir
I love the music, history, fashion and vibe the 60's have cast over society since. As a seventies child i've had to explore the 60's through the recordings and backward gaze of those who were there. Ive explored mainly through music, film and literature, and Pamela Des Barres name is one i often came across. I finally got round to reading this and was surprised to find it such a forthright book on her life and times. A great snaphsot of growing up to be a woman in LA at such a seething time for young people. Famous characters of the era are shown in a light not often portrayed in other books. A little bit salacious but a lot more about the meaning and power of music to move people.