Episode 318 Pamela Des Barres

, born in California, emerged from the 1960s Los Angeles rock scene as both participant and witness. Introduced to Captain Beefheart in high school, she soon immersed herself in the vast Los Angeles demimonde, befriending and dating musicians from to . With , she co-founded the performance collective the , documenting her experiences in diaries that became the foundation of her seminal memoir . She later married —also known to television audiences for his role as the assassin on MacGyver. Pamela herself went on to publish multiple books and establish a career as an author, teacher, and chronicler of rock history, in her role as the definitive voice of the “groupie.”