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24-407: One part of the 2006 festival was a reading by author, actress, and musician Pamela Des Barres , known for her top-selling book, I’m With The Band . Winners from 2006 festival include Up, Up and Oy Vey by Simcha Weinstein , a study of how Jewish creators influenced the creation of superheroes, that won the non-fiction category; Marcello The Movie Mouse , by Liz Hockinson and Kathryn Otoshi,

48-592: A Rockin' Memoir (2017). An updated edition of I'm with the Band was released in 2005. Today, Pamela Des Barres continues to author books, contribute to others' works as an editor and consultant, and pen articles for online and print publications. She writes a regular column for Please Kill Me , in which she confessed that she once kissed murderer and former Manson Family member Bobby Beausoleil in Golden Gate Park during his pre-Manson days. In addition to her work as

72-488: A half years (1968–1970), followed by one reunion performance in 1974. Their only album, Permanent Damage , was produced by Frank Zappa and released in 1969. Pamela Miller and Linda Parker met around 1966 while attending Cleveland High School in Los Angeles. Christine Frka traveled to Los Angeles from San Pedro with Sandra Rowe, and both lived in the basement of Frank Zappa's Log Cabin at 2401 Laurel Canyon Boulevard in

96-531: A son, Nicholas Dean Des Barres ( GameFan magazine 's Nick Rox). The couple divorced in the summer of 1991. Des Barres wrote two memoirs about her experience as a groupie, I'm with the Band: Confessions of a Groupie (1987) and Take Another Little Piece of My Heart: A Groupie Grows Up (1993). It is widely believed that Cameron Crowe drew from these memoirs to create the groupie character Penny Lane for his film Almost Famous . Crowe has stated that

120-755: A strong impression at their December 1968 performance at the Shrine Auditorium opening for The Mothers of Invention , Alice Cooper and Wild Man Fischer . A mix of theatrics, singing, dancing, wild costumes, and unusual lyrical content were staples of their act. Their only album, Permanent Damage ( Straight Records ), was produced in 1969 by Zappa with the assistance of Lowell George and Russ Titelman on tracks 7 and 11. The latter track also features Titelman's brother-in-law, guitarist Ry Cooder , and both Cooder and Titelman appear on Captain Beefheart 's Safe as Milk album. Track 5 "The Captain's Fat Theresa Shoes"

144-618: A tale of a furry fan of flicks and the winner of the children's book category; and My Sister's Wedding , by Hannah R. Goodman, winner of the teenage book category. The 2007 Hollywood Book Festival grand prize winner was Will Clarke 's The Worthy: A Ghost's Story. The award was presented by author/actress Michelle Dominguez Greene on Saturday, July 28 at Barnsdall Art Park in Hollywood . The event featured author readings, vendor booths, clowns, face-painting, live music , book publishing panels and book signings. The 2008 Hollywood Book Festival

168-463: A writer, Des Barres also teaches creative writing classes in Los Angeles, as well as in several other cities throughout the U.S. and internationally. She affectionately refers to her writing class members as her "dolls". The GTOs The GTOs ( Girls Together Outrageously ) were an all-girl group from the Los Angeles area, specifically the Sunset Strip scene. The group was active for two and

192-463: Is a GTO comment on Beefheart's taste in footwear (his cousin Victor Hayden had introduced him to Pamela Des Barres ). The songs are mixed with conversations among the members of the group, friends, and others, including Cynthia Plaster Caster and Rodney Bingenheimer . The album features songwriting contributions from Lowell George, Jeff Beck , Craig Doerge , and Davy Jones . A young Rod Stewart

216-453: Is an American rock and roll groupie , writer, musician, and actress. She is best known for her 1987 memoir, I'm with the Band: Confessions of a Groupie , which details her experiences in the Los Angeles rock music scene of the 1960s and 1970s. She is also a former member of the experimental Frank Zappa -produced music group the GTOs . Des Barres' parents were from Kentucky . Just before she

240-619: Is featured on track 14. Permanent Damage was re-issued on CD in 1989 by Enigma Retro . The GTOs performed a one-off reunion show on October 11, 1974 at the Hollywood Street Revival and Trash Dance, a glam rock concert organized by Kim Fowley and held at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles. The lineup featured Miss Pamela, Miss Sparky, and Mackenzie Phillips (who played Carol Morrison in American Graffiti and

264-699: The New York Dolls , the Hollywood Stars , Iggy and the Stooges (with Ray Manzarek of The Doors in the band), Peter Ivers , and Zolar X , with Kim Fowley announcing and Rodney Bingenheimer DJ'ing between sets. The initial sessions leading to the performance and album were coached and rehearsed by Pauline Butcher, who lived in the 'login cabin' owned by the Zappas in the late 60s. She met Zappa in London when he needed

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288-550: The Rolling Stones , she daydreamed of Mick Jagger . A high school acquaintance, Victor Hayden , introduced Des Barres to his cousin Don Van Vliet, better known as Captain Beefheart , a musician and friend of Frank Zappa . Van Vliet, in turn, introduced her to Charlie Watts and Bill Wyman of the Rolling Stones , which drew her to the rock music scene on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles. She started to spend her time with

312-477: The 1970s, Des Barres pursued a career as an actress, appearing in movies (including Zappa's 200 Motels ), doing commercials, and playing a recurring role on the soap opera Search for Tomorrow throughout 1974. She continued to work as a nanny/babysitter for Zappa, who urged her to continue writing the diary she had begun in high school, in which she had faithfully recorded the important details of her life. When her acting career stalled, she continued to work for

336-598: The Byrds and other bands, and when she graduated from high school in 1966, she took various jobs that would allow her to live near the Sunset Strip and take part in the rock music scene. She famously went on to form friendships with many of the great musical artists of that era, and became romantically linked with various notable artists such as Mick Jagger , Jimmy Page , Keith Moon , Noel Redding , Chris Hillman , Gram Parsons , Brandon deWilde , and Don Johnson . Des Barres

360-599: The GTOs' publicity shots. Lucy Offerall also was not an original member but joined after the recording of Permanent Damage. The group initially called themselves the Cherry Sisters but soon changed to the Laurel Canyon Ballet Company. Frank Zappa later changed their name to the GTOs, which he described as "an acronym which, as Stanley Booth wrote, could mean Girls Together Outrageously, Orally, or anything else starting with O." On their album's inner sleeve,

384-551: The Hollywood Hills in 1968. Frka was the live-in nanny for Zappa's eldest child Moon Unit before Miller took over the following year. Judith Peters had emigrated from the Haight Ashbury to Los Angeles due to "boredom", alleging she "couldn't be a hippie forever." Cynthia Wells was brought into the group by Peters after the nucleus of the group had been formed. This accounts for Miss Cynderella's presence in some, but not all, of

408-504: The Zappa family as a nanny for Zappa's children, Dweezil and Moon Unit . On October 29, 1977, she married Michael Des Barres , who had been lead singer first with Silverhead (signed in 1972 to Deep Purple 's record label Purple Records ) and later for Detective (signed to Led Zeppelin's Swan Song Records label), and who, in 1985, was tour vocalist for the Power Station . They have

432-513: The acronym is also defined as "Girls Together Occasionally", "Girls Together Often", and "Girls Together Only". Miss Lucy stated in an interview that the latter name is what it stood for, though it is understood by most that the name on the album, Girls Together Outrageously, is the name of the group. The members were connected by their association with Zappa, who encouraged their artistic endeavors despite their limited vocal skills. The group performed live "only 4 or 5 times", although they created

456-677: The author herself wrote for the magazine . In the captions, she was quoted as saying, "I wanted to be in Playboy when I was younger, but my breasts did not precede me. But now I have semicelebrity tits, so they don't have to be as big." In addition to her memoirs, Des Barres has written three non-fiction books: Rock Bottom: Dark Moments in Music Babylon (1996); Let's Spend the Night Together: Backstage Secrets of Rock Muses and Supergroupies (2007); and Let It Bleed: How to Write

480-435: The character was actually a composite of various women he knew during his time as a teenage rock journalist, including one named Pennie Trumbull who went by Pennie Lane. The memoirs by Des Barres have another connection to the film: actress Kate Hudson read them for inspiration as she portrayed Penny Lane. The March 1989 issue of Playboy magazine featured Des Barres in a nude layout, published together with an article

504-466: Was a regular in the LA glam rock scene). The trio sang the song " Mr. Sandman ," and then stayed on stage to perform as backing vocalists for Michael Des Barres (formerly of Silverhead ), who performed immediately afterward. Miss Mercy and Miss Cynderella showed up unannounced the day of the show and were onstage with the other members, but were not involved in the rehearsals. Other performers included headliners

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528-599: Was also a member of the GTOs , an all-female music and performance art group sponsored by Frank Zappa . The GTOs had only one performance under that name along with the Mothers of Invention , Alice Cooper , Wild Man Fischer and Easy Chair at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, on December 6–7, 1968. The entire concert lasted for six hours. The group dissolved just a month after the release of their first and only album, Permanent Damage , due to some of its other members being arrested and detained for drug possession. During

552-455: Was born, her father moved the family to the Los Angeles, California area, where Des Barres resides to this day. Her mother was a homemaker; her father worked for Anheuser-Busch and was occasionally a gold miner. Des Barres idolized Elvis Presley as a child and the Beatles as a teenager, and she fantasized about meeting and dating her favorite Beatle, Paul McCartney . Later, upon discovering

576-655: Was held on July 11–12 at The Grove at Farmers Market . In 2020 and 2021, the festival was held virtually on Zoom , which was the first time the festival was not held in person. In 2021, the Hollywood Book Festival honored books worth of further attention from the film, television, and multimedia industries. In 2022, the Hollywood Book Festival considered published, self-published and independent publisher non-fiction, fiction, children's, and young adult's books. Pamela Des Barres Pamela Des Barres ( day- BAR ; born Pamela Ann Miller ; September 9, 1948)

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