I'm With the Band: Confessions of a Groupie
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slowly my fraudulent composure started breathing by itself. I acted “as if,” until I was.
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I dig musicians, I feel they have the most to offer me mentally and emotionally because they think basically along the same lines that I do; extremely creative people. Music is Life. As Captain Beefheart once said, “God is a perfect musical note.” It’s a shame there’s a whole competitive scene surrounding most musicians. I want to see MJ because he’s a groovy exceptional person. Ah, well . . . life goes on. Groovy?
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Groupies in Los Angeles are crass, supercilious, pretentious, beautiful beyond description or reason, freakish, cultish, aggressive, mad and young. Groupies in Los Angeles are extreme. The GTO’s epitomize an international groupie type, The Freak. It is fitting that these five young women record for a record company
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called “Bizarre,” for that is what they really are, bizarre.
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“We don’t just sleep with them, we go beyond the physical level with all of them and they respect us for that. Musicians are really very intelligent people, and that’s the way we treat them; not like studs. That dehumanizes both us and them.
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Michael was the first man who let me be me; in fact, he let me become me. He adored me more than anybody ever had, and since he adored me first, I got to shine like a pornographic stained-glass window instead of groveling at his feet.
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The very reason I was unacceptable in normal-formal circles was the very reason Michael fell in love with me.