This is an installment of our ongoing series intended for publication in Rock & Roll Rehab Magazine concerning the experience of and with rock and roll groupies. To begin I have a question; If I, as a fan, have an encounter with a female rock musician does that make me a groupie? Is there such a thing as a male groupie, that is, a heterosexual male groupie? If, as a musician, I happen to have had an affair with a female musician from another band would that make me her groupie or she mine or is the groupie designation negated because of the seeming equality of the relationship? And at what point in a relationship does a groupie, either male of female, cease to be considered a groupie and becomes a boyfriend or girlfriend?
There have been several famous groupies of the Rock & Roll era such as Pamela Des Barres, Sweet Connie from Omaha and the infamous Cynthia Plaster Caster. There are also women who are famous in their own right that may still fall into the groupie category such as Playboy Playmate Bebe Buell, actresses Winona Ryder, Carmen Electra, Tawny Kitaen and Pamela Anderson, and dare I even add Heather Locklear.
It’s funny that the musicians these beautiful and illustrious women dated and even sometimes married are still considered the “desirable” individual in the relationship and not the “lucky bastard” that they actually are. Thus is the power, the magic and the majesty of Rock & Roll.
Send your tales of adventure either as a groupie of with a groupie for inclusion in our series to info@rocknrollrehab.com
There have been several famous groupies of the Rock & Roll era such as Pamela Des Barres, Sweet Connie from Omaha and the infamous Cynthia Plaster Caster. There are also women who are famous in their own right that may still fall into the groupie category such as Playboy Playmate Bebe Buell, actresses Winona Ryder, Carmen Electra, Tawny Kitaen and Pamela Anderson, and dare I even add Heather Locklear.
It’s funny that the musicians these beautiful and illustrious women dated and even sometimes married are still considered the “desirable” individual in the relationship and not the “lucky bastard” that they actually are. Thus is the power, the magic and the majesty of Rock & Roll.
Send your tales of adventure either as a groupie of with a groupie for inclusion in our series to info@rocknrollrehab.com
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