Groupies (2006) - DVD

What's the best thing about being on tour with a rock band? The travel? Gets tiresome... The money? What money... The girls? Now we're talking. Hey! Especially those dreamgirls of the rock scene known as "Groupies". And here they are, zits and all, hustling their way from sleazy club to sleazier hotel room, in search pf pills, thrills and gossip. There's a wicked role reversal at work here, as the best of sixties British rock musicians are "head" hunted by a hoard of outlandish, outspoken, oversexed man-eaters... not that any of them are complaining. And what, exactly, is in it for these wild women of the night? Simple... "They get to smoke the best dope, F..k the prettiest boys and fly in the tour plane". And no worries... they even carry their own supply of penecillin. Competition is fierce. the bigger the star the higher the score. Weird tales abound. There's the washed out S&M freak reminiscing about back stage flagellation. The runaway schoolgirl who's distraught parents are gradually closing in. The boy groupie beaten up and brokenhearted over his love for Terry Reid, and the most unusual collection of plaster cast momentos you could imagine. Sounds like the stuff of best-selling paperback fiction? Not so. This is real thing. Made in the late sixties "Groupies" is the ultimate expose of back-Stage shenanigans. At times hilarious, at times almost tragic, as we follow the fortunes and dilemas of this supremely hedonistic breed of rock fan on their relentless search for a new kind of kick. Laced with plenty of live footage from various gigs, including the Whisky A Go Go and the Filmores East & West, "Groupies" includes classic performances by Terry Reid, Ten Years After and Joe Cocker. THIS IS ROCK'N'ROLL.