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Written by GUIDO FAWKES   
Tuesday, 14 July 2009 01:34

THE GROUPIES - ALAN LORBER (1969) - EARTH RECORDS

You know when you go into a pub or bar , and theres that one guy sitting on his own - drunk - who can't help but come up to you and delight you with his pearls of wisdom - well on one of those occassions last year I got into conversation with a guy who claimed to have been a roadie to some bands in the 60's and 70's and was still doing the same job now, he told about his experiences back in his hey days and how much things have changed since then - Technology, fashion, quality of music and groupies.

Being someone who has NO experience with groupies, I was automatically interested in how groupies had changed from 40 or so years ago- and he's response to me was "they were an organised liberated front back in those days, groupies these days are very disorgansed and lack strategy" - interesting theory was my immediate thought.

Many moons later I  picked up a copy of The Groupies record above - thinking it was a band called the groupies - Upon receiving the record I realised it was actually a documentary with a few actual groupies from the 60's - immediately i was interested in their commentary their views etc - and then the rambling drunks words all seemed to ring true - he actually knew what he was on about.

listen to documentary

The groupies

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Frank Zappa created a group called the Groupies, made up of actual groupies  - their music was terrible.
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  •   fast man said "......"
    Jul 07 2009 00:59:51
    This is GOLD
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  •   jennytaylia said "interesting"
    Jul 07 2009 02:44:45
    one of them sounds particularly sexy
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  •   Fellow Man said "Hmmm..."
    Jul 07 2009 17:56:14
    I almost find it amusing to entertain the suggestion that groupies were an organised liberated front - I think in reality, rock musicians liberated a lot of ladies fronts.. and backs and bottoms. Then in some terrible misunderstanding, the order of the words got mixed up and the meaning was lost.

    Personally I think that being organised simply justified an otherwise vacuous existence.. it's hard to take a professional groupie seriously knowing their fundamental motivations.. but I'm just glad that the effort was taken to acknowledge the social scene by documentation and actually press it.
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