Becky doing good so far....
I still love Buckcherry. I still want to group for them someday, but right now I have too many other goals to complete. I’ll leave this for now, but I’m sure I’ll come back to it someday.
How I did it: When I was younger I'd follow the Manics with no second thoughts and suprisingly little money. I must say I have gotten into my fair share for scrapes too... from sleeping in ditches, train/ bus stations and random peoples hotel rooms, to almost being done for credit card fraud (innocent!), interviews for documentaries and many more escapades.
Sadly being a real life adult (shudder) means that a lot more planning (and money) has to go into it all now. Organisation is the key... tho it rarely goes completely to plan...adventures! Been touring since I was old enough (14) and had 16 yrs of fun!
Lessons & tips: You don't have to have sexual encounters with a band/ famous person to be a groupie. The term has become derogatory by it's association with a particular sexually-predatory type of groupie. Have some self esteem, have fun, have adventures and create great memories to treasure.
Resources: Teen rebellion/angst, the fearlessness of youth.
When I started following the Manics, the internet was not widely in use. Now you can plan travel, routes etc, get the latest news, meet other fans and a whole host of other things with greater ease.
Becky doing good so far....
I still love Buckcherry. I still want to group for them someday, but right now I have too many other goals to complete. I’ll leave this for now, but I’m sure I’ll come back to it someday.
I really love the best band in this earth : Tokio-Hotel.
I really love Tom kaulitz :)
Becky doing good so far....
Yeah I know, how slutty of me. I don’t care, I want to be a groupie! Not just for any band though, I’d only group for Buckcherry. Just so I could give it up for Josh Todd. The man is pure sex…...
FYI this isn’t my first time wanting to be a groupie either; I wanted to when I was 19 but somehow never got around to it…I still look 18 though, so it’s worth a shot!
like the person below me, my definition of “groupie” doesn’t necessarily involve hooking up or casual sex. not that i think those are bad things….i’m not judgmental about sexual expression at all (& i’m not a prude, haha).
i’m just saying i always thought being a groupie meant following a band or musician along their tour, that’s all. Whether you’re a friend, acquaintance, or fan who’s never met them before. Sexual encounters are purely optional :P
Anyway, if my definition counts then i came pretty close to becoming a groupie a few weeks ago & will get the opportunity to try again next month. one of my favorite progressive hiphop groups (a duo, actually; a dj & an emcee) is involved in the same community activist movement as my friends. after several failed attempts, i finally met them & hung out after one of their shows (an underground hip hop tour feat. Hiero). a joke got carried away, & suddenly we were invited to follow them to Las Vegas (& possibly to Arizona & Texas before they hit the East Coast). but we live in Orange County & it was a sunday night…some people had work the next day. boo.
i was so bummed! i really wanted a random road trip. not to mention i’m in love with the DJ & would follow him anywhere. but their tour is bringing them to CA again next month, yay! they’ll be in the norcal area for 4 days, & this time we’re prepared so my working friends can request the time off. i hope it works out :)
It was with Lavender from Emma’s Dead. It was well worth it.
She’s the best. I love her.
I blogged about this a while back.
http://thongspeed.blogspot.com/2007/01/so-you-want-to-be-groupie_29.html
i think it’s pretty hard do hook up with people from really popular bands. i think you have to go on different concerts from unpopular bands. in a lot of towns are concerts with different bands from everywhere. maybe england, sweden, america. and with this guys it’s easy to talk and all that stuff.
So I’ve been traveling for a while, and I meet this guy rather randomly and we hook up and it’s great, and he offers to fly me to this festival he’s performing at for the next weekend. I accept, we have great sex in his hotel room, I meet and hang out with all the people he’s working with, who are a lot of fun, we get shuttled to the festival every day and I pick constantly at the excellent fruit baskets and drink all day and I have backstage passes to some really well-known acts and that’s that, really. I think it’s important to be low-maintenance and easygoing in a situation like that; the guy I was with had some of his own shit to do and I know he really appreciated the fact that I could handle myself and didn’t have to be looked after.
On the subject of sluttiness, well, at the moment personal freedom is incredibly important to me, I’m used to casual sex, I enjoy it and I like to think my relationship with it is fairly uncomplicated. I’ve found that it takes a guy with a more mature outlook to be able to deal with that and I pick and choose accordingly. I think it’s possible to be promiscuous and treat people with respect, and vice versa, at the same time. And I’m a sucker for charismatic men. Granted, “groupie” is certainly not how I’d like to solely be defined, but it sure made for a hell of a weekend.