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When super-groupie Pamela Des Barres first released her sexual memoir, "I'm With the Band" in 1987, the book proved quite the name-dropping page-turner. Des Barres recounted her halcyon days traipsing around the world and into the beds of some of the biggest music stars of the late 60s and 70s, including Jim Morrison, Jimmy Page, Mick Jagger, Waylon Jennings and Keith Moon (there was also a major dalliance with actor Don Johnson). The prose was beyond purple. I'll be the first to admit it was impossible to put down.
On her current CD "I'm With the Band" (Warner Audio Video), Des Barres reads excerpts from those memoirs. This CD lacks the total effect of the book - at 72 minutes playing time, Des Barres fits in just a small portion of her bedpost-notching escapades. And then there's her delivery -- a sometimes chirpy, sometimes breathy, sometimes just-plain-dopey voice that frequently sounds like a dial-a-gal reciting a Penthouse Forum letter.
There's also plenty of hysterical, inadvertent humor in Des Barres' overheated storytelling. Her encounter with Jagger is recounted with breathless abandon ("He ordered me two Harvey Wallbangers at a time, and my hands developed a mind of their own. I was transcendental with desire.") After Des Barres leaves a series of semi-pornographic messages on Marlon Brando's answering machine, Brando finally responds by telling her to seek the answers within herself. Taking his advice, Des Barres pursues life with renewed vigor: "Along with...