Jorma stood at the head of the stairs at Airplane House speaking with some people and Sally, at the foot, was giving him some hassle about something. When the Mafia hits a cat, he’s dead.Įven among friends, like Jorma Kaukonen of Jefferson Airplane and Sally Mann, who hangs out with the band, an air of (mock) brutality comes naturally. When a groupie talks about sleeping with somebody, she will often say she hit him - a term which derives from gangster talk. Groupie slang (which derives from rock talk!) might seem to bear this out by its violent undertone.

“They may,” says Rochman, “feel anger or envy, and by sleeping with these fellows they’re showing the gods have clay feet.” In some cases, this may be coupled with negative feelings toward both the musician and his success.

“They treat sex the same way an accountant treats his new Buick,” says Los Angeles Free Clinic psychologist Gerald Rochman - “as a status symbol.” The whole thing can be seen in a homosexual perspective, to the extent the chick is balling rock stars simply to be able to brag to her girlfriends. Groupies may tend to think of themselves as unselfish vehicles of love, but those who’ve studied the groupie ethos see them otherwise. And backstage you go and turn on with them and … Why shouldn’t you? Why play those little games? Like, if they dig you and dig what you’re into, they’ll say, groovy, come on. I don’t think anything of waiting for them to come out on stage and grabbing their arms or copping a feel and telling them what I want. We love groupies.”Īnna: I’m very aggressive. They come to hear you play, they throw flowers and underpants, they give you kisses and love, they come to bed with you. There’s these times when they come around after somethin’ and you’re after somethin’ too, so you get it together and everybody’s happy. “Sure, some chicks are just star-fuckers,” says Country Joe McDonald, “But it doesn’t matter what their motivation is, you know.

Sally: In plastic terms - in sensual terms - where can you get more sensations? You get to ball, smoke dope, dress weird, be groovy, be around nothing but groovy people - all at once. Q: What’s the appeal for a chick in groupie-ing? Even when you’re balling some cat, you’re not balling him, and he’s not balling you, it’s really just two people on different planes with different needs and different fantasies.” It’s a constant frustration, the groupie scene. That’s why groupie chicks are so miserable. “Really being a groupie,” says one chick who is a groupie by the way she lives, if not by her own description, “is like borrowing a series of lives from people and thinking you can be them. That’s why I don’t like the term groupie. Usually, unless I’m really wiped out, I can tell what’s happening up there. They just know that person is on stage, they don’t know his name - or maybe they’ve read it - and they haven’t even taken the time to figure out if his guitar is a bass or lead. I mean, it’s just so basic with most chicks. Like a Japanese Geisha in many ways, and a friend and a housekeeper and pretty much whatever the musician needs.”Īnna: Oh, probably, because you see what most other groupies are into and you just don’t want to be associated with it. After all, a groupie is a non-profit call girl. Musicians should pay more attention to the good thing they’ve got going for them - groupies, I mean. You’ve got to, if you’re going to have anything to offer. You have two or three girl friends you hang out with and you stay as high and as intellectually enlightened as a group of musicians. Says Henri a now pregnant old-timer yenta of the San Francisco groupie circuit, “Being a groupie is a full time gig. Wow!Ī groupie is a chick who hangs out with bands and becoming a good one is not entirely a simple matter. He seemed to dig her, you know you can’t always tell, but he did seem to. She had scored with this cat the first night he was in town. and England would know - but now her status was elevated again. She was already something: She had already balled 17 (or 36 or 117) musicians - four (or 12 or 25) of them real stars, names everybody in the U.S. He was the cat they all were after and she got him! In the groupie’s place in the culture of rock and roll that makes her something. This story originally appeared in the Februissue of Rolling Stone

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