Bands & Artists Had Groupies

Mudcrutch · March 2021

In the late 60s and 70s through to the early 80s.
It died out as a thing when HIV & AIDS hit the world.
Did female artists and bands have groupies or were they just called stalkers and sex pests?

monquixote · March 2021

Pretty sure it didn't die out.

Look for all the "sensitive" emo bands who have been in the press for abusing underage girls etc.

boogieman · March 2021

It definitely hasn’t died out, I know a lady who is into offering sexual favours to band members, just so she can boast about who she’s had to her friends. (And before the comments start, you’d need to be a reasonably well known name before you’ll get any interest from her.

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guitargeek62 · March 2021

boogieman said:

It definitely hasn’t died out, I know a lady who is into offering sexual favours to band members, just so she can boast about who she’s had to her friends. (And before the comments start, you’d need to be a reasonably well known name before you’ll get any interest from her. )

Good for her!

DrCornelius · March 2021

Pretty sure Janice Joplin was known for enjoying private time with groupies . Slightly more recently the Go Go’s too

EricTheWeary · March 2021

There’s a documentary about the Go Go’s on Sky Arts.

All I know about them is from the book Ska’d for Life when they toured with The Specials and co wrote Our Lips Are Sealed, one of them ( Jane?) was going out with Terry Hall. The Go Go’s put Lips out in the USA and the Fun Boy Three used it in the U.K.

My only vague story about groupies was going to see The Cult. We were seated almost at the side of the stage and could see behind the back drop. At one point this group of ‘rock chicks’ were lined up and then disappeared off backstage at the end of the set. Could have been the caterers for all I knew really!

axisus · March 2021

Pretty sure that female bands didn't ever get the same attention as male bands.

I think it's to do with the power of the figure on stage, and due to historical conditioning women are more likely to be in awe of the chest beating prowess of men than vice versa. I could be talking bollox ....

guitargeek62 · March 2021

^ you are, because I’d absolutely be a groupie for St. Vincent

jonnyburgo · March 2021

I know a girl who claimed to have shagged Bobby Gillespie under the pier at Brighton, Although why you'd boast about doing somebody with the charisma and complexion of a dead grey fish I don't know. It could have actually been a fish?

munckee · March 2021

I’ve tried a few times with Susan Boyle and Jane Macdonald but never made the shortlist.

jonnyburgo · March 2021

I done a 3 way with Michelle McManus and Rick Waller, the juice was flyin' that night, oooowheee!!!

Sassafras · March 2021

I did The Nolans.

Sassafras · March 2021

Women are more discerning, blokes'll shag anything.

Dominic · March 2021

II 'm getting on a bit so it would have to be Dolly Parton for me these days but Grace Jones was wild and intimidating back in the day and Sylvester gave me quite a nasty shock

merlin · March 2021

jonnyburgo said:

I know a girl who claimed to have shagged Bobby Gillespie under the pier at Brighton, Although why you'd boast about doing somebody with the charisma and complexion of a dead grey fish I don't know. It could have actually been a fish?

I'm guessing the tide was high at the time. May have been a seal. Or a seagull.

Panama_Jack666 · March 2021

I shagged that bird from Hanson once.

gazrichards · March 2021

As someone who worked as touring guitar tech in the late 90s to early 00s. Groupies were very much still in existence then - in a rather ridiculous manner actually!!!!

We did a show at that big rock club in Dudley (I always forget it’s name). The stage was above the green room and obviously the band were all in there before me as I was packing up guitars etc. I walk down the stairs expecting to see 5 men getting changed and I witnessed what was the early throngs of an orgy - middle aged rockers and chubby West Midlands women aren’t my thing so I carried on loading the van!

Nitefly · March 2021

Sassafras said:

I did The Nolans.

I used to deliver their weekly copies of Bunty, Judy and Jackie comics. They knew what they were up to, I had to beat them off with a shitty stick.

darthed1981 · March 2021

guitargeek62 said:

^ you are, because I’d absolutely be a groupie for St. Vincent

Wisdom.

darthed1981 · March 2021

Panama_Jack666 said:

I shagged that bird from Hanson once.

Sassafras · March 2021

guitargeek62 said:

^ you are, because I’d absolutely be a groupie for St. Vincent

You're a woman?

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