I'm With The Band

from Paperback edition Editorial Reviews
Fortunately, Des Barres injects humor into these accounts of degradation, which exemplify the subculture of rock music. As a California teenager during the wild 1960s, she attached herself to members of various rock bands and other celebrities. More bragging than confessional, the story explicitly details this particular groupie's sexual exploits with Mick Jagger, the late Brandon de Wilde, Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page (he liked using whips and handcuffs to enhance sex, we're told here), future Miami Vice star Don Johnson and many others. Now in her 30s, Des Barres has recovered from longtime drug abuse as has her husband, Michael, a musician. Though still "making the scene," they have settled down somewhat, as parents of a son. There are profoundly sad, shocking revelations here, and the reader understands why John Lennon glanced at the groupie and her adolescent female gang in 1964, "his face full of contempt and sorrow." Photos not seen by PW.
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Review
"Her prose is…glittery, raw and real." —Indie-music.com


"Should spur enough interest…that…her story can be made into the movie it needs to be." —The WOW Report


"Sunny, uninhibited prose." —Slate.com


"A must-read for all lovers of great music and men." —Playgirl


"Eminently readable, offering all the fun of a trashy read without resorting to sensationalism or mean-spiritedness." —North Bay Bohemian


"Granted it's gossipy, but it's also a worthwhile document of the blossoming of an innocent California flower-child." —Star Tribune


"She charms me every time she refuses to regret. And she regrets nothing." —Los Angeles Times