num_pages: 404
description: The best selling author of I'm With the Band, the classic groupie memoir, now writes from the relatively upright perspective of a magazine journalist. Pamela Des Barres recounts the classic tales of rock star overindulgence, and the book's own press material honestly bills it as a compendium of "horror stories." Rock Bottom contains something to offend just about anyone, but, strange to say, the book is actually quite readable as an appropriately skewed history of rock. Des Barres seems to have diligently done her research, talking to the principles of the mayhem, or, in many cases, to their survivors, and does deliver a series of pieces documenting some very dark corners of pop culture.
language: English
title: Rock Bottom: Dark Moments in Music
titlecomplete: Rock Bottom: Dark Moments in Music
genres: History, Pop Culture, Biography, Memoir, Music, Rock N Roll, Biography Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 432
publisher: Penguin Books India