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I'm With The Band by Pamela Des Barres

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Aug 29, 10

bookshelves: music
Read in August, 2010 — I own a copy

After reading a music industry book and then Ozzy Osbourne's autobiography, I fancied something a bit more focussed on the halcyon days of the 60s and 70s LA rock scene. This is certainly that, with the author charting her days as a young teen obsessed with the Beatles through to her numerous rock star liaisons and ultimately her marriage to rocker-turned-actor Michael Des Barres. Once upon a time this was viewed as quite a controversial book, but these days it just seems rather quaint in many respects. The wide-eyed innocence of sorts seems a little put-on at times, but on the whole it is a positive read and one that does a great job of evoking that heady period of the late sixties/early seventies when rock music was arguably enjoying its finest hour. I will admit that the endless recital of famous dalliances tires towards the end, but nonetheless this is still a worthy read.

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