pamela ann miller / pamela des barres / miss pamela
The picture on the right is taken from the documentary "Hotel California: from the Byrds to the Eagles", broadcast on BBC4 television on 2008/11/11.
Miss Pamela, as pictured on the GTO's album.

1	gto's: permanent damage     (1969, lp, usa, bizarre 73397 - straight sts 1059) - produced by frank zappa / feat.ian underwood, don preston, roy estrada, jc black, frank zappa
	pamela des barres: i'm with the band - confessions of a groupie     (1995, cd, usa, warner audio video entertainment) - read by pamela des barres
	tony palmer's film of frank zappa's 200 motels     (2010, dvd, uk, tony palmer)
	from straight to bizarre     (2012, dvd, uk, chrome dreams)

i'm with the band, confessions of a groupie by pamela des barres     (1988, book, usa, jove)
playboy (march 1989, magazine, usa) The March 1989 issue of Playboy has a special on Pamela Des Barres.
take another little piece of my heart - a groupie grows up by pamela des barres         (1992, book, usa, morrow)
i'm with the band, confessions of a groupie by pamela des barres     (2005, book, usa, chicago review press) Re-print of the 1988 book. Updated, and with a new forword (by Dave Navarro)
confessions d'une groupie by pamela des barres         (2006, book, france, éditions le serpent a plumes/le rocher) French edition of "I'm With The Band".
let's spend the night together - backstage secrets of rock muses and supergroupies by pamela des barres         (2007, book, usa, chicago review press / a capella) Features Gail Zappa's story.

random notes

2008 12 24

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Recently broadcast on BBC2 and BBC4 (2008/11/01): 'Hotel California: LA from the Byrds to the Eagles', a documentary about how the artists from the Sunset Strip and Laurel Canyon changed the music scene.
The program is all about folk music: The Byrds, Crosby, Stills and Nash, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, etceteras.
There's some comments by Pamela Des Barres, a short interview with Mark Volman, and a one second flash that shows Vito Paulekas during the riots, but not a word about the freak scene, the dancers, The Mothers, The Doors, ...
Just the folk scene.

True, I didn't know that C, S, N & Y lived in Laurel Canyon; I didn't know that The Troubadour was the place to be for all the folkies, and I didn't know that the David Geffen (who started The Roxy) was a manager & owned a record company.
Lots of very interesting info & great footage (Linda Rondstadt singing Lowell George's 'Willin' '), but I still have the feeling that there's too much left untold.
A missed opportunity.