Pamela Des Barres Official

Welcome to the official YouTube channel of Pamela Des Barres—best-selling author, journalist, creative writing instructor, podcaster, rock historian, and perhaps the most famous standard-bearer of a term she wears proudly: Groupie.

Miss Pamela, like the Summer of Love and the Sunset Strip, was born in California. She fell in love with rock ’n’ roll as a little girl in sunny Reseda, swooning along to the dreamy sounds of Elvis and Dion spinning on her turntable. While she was in high school, Pamela’s friend Victor Hayden introduced her to his cousin, the psychedelic pioneer Captain Beefheart, and her odds of living a normal-formal life were obliterated. Eighteen years old, and eight miles high on an intoxicating mix of the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and that burgeoning music scene over the hill, Pamela packed her bags for Hollyweird. It was just down the road by car, but it was a whole different planet from Reseda...

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