{"id":429849,"date":"2025-09-16T22:35:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T22:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/429849\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T22:35:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T22:35:13","slug":"pamela-des-barres-names-the-most-sensual-musician-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/429849\/","title":{"rendered":"Pamela Des Barres names the most “sensual” musician ever"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Pamela<\/p>\n

(Credits: Far Out \/ Pamela Des Barres)<\/p>\n

Tue 16 September 2025 19:00, UK <\/p>\n

Pamela Des Barres<\/a>\u2018 recollections are some of the most eye-opening in all of music history. More than just a documenter of groupie antics, she also gave some crucial insight into the scene from the woman\u2019s perspective. <\/p>\n

Even the term itself \u2013 groupie \u2013 has become wildly misconstrued. An issue Des Barres touched upon herself in a previous Far Out interview.<\/a> \u201cPeople don\u2019t understand the term,\u201d she said. \u201cThey think of it as a slutty term, and it\u2019s so not that at all, it\u2019s the opposite of that. It\u2019s just love. It\u2019s really another word for love and the love of the music and the people who make it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Through her chronicles, Des Barres was linked to several of the biggest names in the business, from Mick Jagger to Frank Zappa. She\u2019s one of the biggest music lovers you could possibly think of. She once called Bob Dylan a god, all while knowing that\u2019s quite an eccentric comparison to draw. But she does because that\u2019s truly how she feels, immersed in every sound, every moment she\u2019s ever found herself in the middle of.<\/p>\n

From Des Barres\u2019 vantage point, all of these scenes paint a picture of its hedonistic centre, of how embracing and celebrating sensuality is often weaponised, especially when it\u2019s connected to \u201cgroupie\u201d women. But through sexual revolutions and women\u2019s liberation, figures like Des Barres were a reminder that all it was was a celebration of pure and utter feeling. <\/p>\n

The first time Des Barres saw Jimi Hendrix, she struggled to put into words the sheer electricity she was witnessing<\/a>. She saw, firsthand, the residue of the counterculture movement dissolve into nothing, replaced by something far more primal that reinstated energy in music. There was no place for peace signs and flower crowns where Hendrix stood, at the epicentre of something feral, something that made the guitar look like a gift from heaven itself.<\/p>\n

But nothing compared to when Des Barres caught Jagger in action. Finding her muse on the Sunset Strip, Jagger introduced Des Barres to the most \u201csensual\u201d experience she ever had. In 1969, she wrote in her diary about the experience and how Jagger had put her in a limo to be taken to one of their concerts. She sat with him in his dressing room, where she \u201cmassaged his neck\u201d. <\/p>\n

She was feeling a little paranoid, but all it took to get over her anxiety was a previous quote from Jagger that she lives by: \u201cDon\u2019t worry about what others think of you, or you\u2019ll never get it together yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c[He] is magical, truly spiritually evolved. He awes me,\u201d she wrote, recalling how he was \u201cwearing a long red scarf, and got down on his knees to whip the stage with it during \u2018Midnight Rambler\u2019,\u201d which was \u201cthe most sensual thing I\u2019ve ever seen.\u201d <\/p>\n

Then, in her familiar impassioned state, she vowed her devotion to Jagger over all other rock stars: \u201cI want MJ, why not? About James [Page]\u2026 I AM going to accept it the way it is and groove. I couldn\u2019t be promiscuous anyway, and there is no one I truly desire except the tangy MJ.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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