• From: BELGIUM
  • Registered: 2007-01-27
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Topic: ABOUT GROUPIES AND BANDS, blessing or curse AND FAMOUS GROUPIES.

This a weird thread, but BANDS and GROUPIES, Does it still exist?
The "high lights" for groupies were more situated in the 70ties, but today.
MONEY = POWER = SUCCESS,
- What purpose do they have, and how to become a groupie?
- Is it still a statement that band members point some girls in the audience for a "personal chat" backstage?
- Are they CONTRIBUTING or DESTRUCTIVE. I know they all want THEIR MOMENT OF GLORY, but in my eyes they are just Wh***, and only one thing counts: S  E  X
I know that one groupie was world famous BEBE BUELL, and the ridiculous charade who was the father of her child, now LIV TYLER

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2 Reply by kirria (edited by kirria 2008-05-02 11:52:21)

  • Registered: 2008-04-15
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Re: ABOUT GROUPIES AND BANDS, blessing or curse AND FAMOUS GROUPIES.

I believe that Groupies still exist unfortunately.

If you go to any boy band gig (this also includes bands like Good Charlotte, My Chemical Romance) you will see every girl there with lust in their eyes waiting to be the one escorted back stage to give a BJ to a coked out wanna be rockstar ... whats the point of being one now days? You can sell your story to every tabloid of how you were taken advantage of and get your 5 minutes of fame ...

  • From: BELGIUM
  • Registered: 2007-01-27
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Re: ABOUT GROUPIES AND BANDS, blessing or curse AND FAMOUS GROUPIES.

Welcome KIRRIA and thanks for answering.
It is maybe an unusual thread, but FAMOUS BANDS + GROUPIES = A PHENOMENON
And my question was indeed if this phenomenon still exists. At the end of the 60ties and the 70ties, you had 1 formula: BANDS + GROUPIES = AN ENTITY.

- A CLASSIC = band members pointing some girls in the audience, and they were invited BACK-STAGE, purpose????
- GIRLS (There are probably male groupies too), sitting on the front row of every gig.

In fact not only musicians have groupies, but also people like Andy Warhol, but it always turns around the same thing
MONEY = MORE POWER and just take a look how many people are "friends" as long as you have money and compare this with a dramatic event where your money has gone: HOW MANY so called FRIENDS will remain.
POLITICS = POWER.
In fact it's all around power. I don't know how the situation is in the US, but here in BELGIUM, a girl is chosen to be MISS BELGIUM. She has a boyfriend, and she tells in public how much she loves him to see a few months later that she has a new boyfriend, who has MONEY, a few cars, a big house.
OR also a classic: a 60 year old man, having a fortune AND a girlfriend 25 years old. I knew a man in that position (70 y), and saw one of the most DISGUSTING THINGS I EVER SAW: he was almost beat to dead by his own 3 children, afraid that that girl, 45 years younger, would take a big piece of the money-cake. THIS IS DISGUSTING. His answer is now one of my all time favorite oneliners: She gives me a beautiful time, being so young, I know she didn't take me for my "looks", and I have a great time with her, giving her presents, trips.
In fact these girls taking a rich guy, and marry him are for me "ordinary callgirls"

[color=blue]- GITAARDOCPHIL SAIS: TO CONQUER DEAD, YOU HAVE TO DIE[/color]   AND [color=blue] we are born to die[/color]
- MY GUITAR PLAYS EVERY STYLE = BLUES, ROCK, METAL, so I NEED TO LEARN HOW TO PLAY IT.
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  • Registered: 2009-04-19
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Re: ABOUT GROUPIES AND BANDS, blessing or curse AND FAMOUS GROUPIES.

nancy spungen was a famous groupie. she was involved with sid vicious of the sex pistols and her life ambition was to bag one of the pistols. makes you sick doesn't it.

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