Women, try to keep your deep feelings of jealousy and hostility at bay…you know you wish this was your story.”Īctually, Dave Navarro, I DON’T wish this was my story. “My personal advice to the readers: Men, keep a box of tissue handy while reading this book. …did you do it? I’m serious guys, you’re not going to want to miss out.Īnyway, now that we all have that mental image in our heads, here’s how Dave Navarro decided to end his introduction to I’m With the Band: I want you to picture his face saying the following, and suffer as I have suffered. Before you read the following quote, please do yourself a favor and look up a picture of Dave Navarro. I started out HATING this book, and it’s almost entirely due to a laughably misguided introduction by Dave Navarro.

Which one? Doesn’t matter – Pamela Des Barres has seen him naked, or at least knows someone who has.

Think of a musician from the 60’s or 70’s. (It helps, too, that Des Barres was never hugely into drugs and alcohol, enabling her both to survive long enough to write this memoir and to remember everything clearly) Under the tutelage of Frank Zappa, she and four other girls formed the GTOs, the “music group” (sarcastic quotations because they really never had much of a music career) that became the most legendary groupies of their time. It’s a well-documented memoir, with photos, diary entries, and letters giving the reader plenty of detail into this period of Des Barres life. If you’ve ever watched Almost Famous and found yourself wishing that Penny Lane had written a memoir (or better yet, Sapphire – “Does anyone remember laughter?!”), here it is.ĭes Barres takes us through her life, beginning with her as a teenager, trying to sneak into the Beatles’ hotel with her friends ending with her reflecting on a lifetime spent among musical legends. But somewhere along the line, Pamela Miller became Pamela Des Barres, one of the most legendary groupies who had a front-row seat (or, more accurately, a backstage pass) to the greatest era in rock and roll history.

She had loving parents and a stable home life, and all signs pointed to her leading a perfectly ordinary life. Pamela Des Barres grew up living a comfortable middle-class life in Reseda California.

I'm with the Band by Pamela Des Barres