Pamela Des Barres

Pamela Des Barres ( born September 9, 1948 in Reseda, Los Angeles, California as Pamela Ann Miller ), also known as Miss Pamela, is an American author and former groupie. Your memories and experiences she has published in several books.

Biography

As a young teenager revered Pamela Ann Miller, the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, where she gushed especially for Paul McCartney and Mick Jagger. About her school friend Victor Hayden, she met Don Van Vliet know who would later be known as Captain Beefheart. By Van Vliet she came up with the Rolling Stones and the rock scene on Sunset Strip in Los Angeles in contact. After her high school graduation in 1966, they sought jobs in the field of music; among other things, she was a nanny for Frank Zappa, who lived with his family in Laurel Canyon.

Groupie

The rock musicians with whom she had affairs, including Jim Morrison, Mick Jagger, Jimmy Page, Keith Moon, Nick St. Nicholas, Noel Redding, Chris Hillman, Gram Parsons and Waylon Jennings, to actors like Brandon DeWilde, Michael Richards and Don Johnson.

GTOs

In Zappa's house she created with girlfriends a flamboyant style of dress; together, they rehearsed dance steps and gave the name " Laurel Canyon Ballet Company ". Tiny Tim used the girls as " Miss" and their first names to address, then gave the nickname "Miss Pamela " - the other girls were in accordance with "Miss Christine", "Miss Lucy" and so on. Zappa urged the group to write songs and record them and suggested the name GTOs before: "Girls Together Outrageously " ( " Girls Together scandalous" ). In 1969 they released their only album Permanent Damage, was already the advance single from Circular Circulation / Mercy 's Tune on the market. The GTOs, one of the first all-female rock groups also performed with Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention.

Actress

In the early 1970s Pamela Miller began working as an actress. It is seen in some movies, including Zappa's 200 Motels ( 1970). In 1974 she had a role in the soap opera Search for Tomorrow.

Family

Pamela Miller married in 1977 the singer and actor Michael Des Barres. They have a son, Nicholas Dean Des Barres. The marriage was divorced in 1991.

Publications

Pamela Des Barres wrote two autobiographical books about her time as a groupie, I'm with the Band (1987) and Take Another Little Piece of My Heart: A Groupie Grows Up (1993 ), and two other books about the music business, Rock Bottom: Dark Moments in Music Babylon and Let's Spend the Night Together: Backstage Secrets of Rock Muses and Supergroupies (2007). She also writes articles for online and print media.