This song is about the self-centered hippie lifestyle 60s and 70s used to live.
Musicians back then openly lived double-lives. They built a career to provide a traditional life for their spouse to maintain appearances, but at the same time desired the free sex, free drugs and free dwelling space to crash in offered to them willingly on the rock by star-crazed groupies.
Hey if the chick was easy enough to stone or even cheaper, a truly devoted fan of the artist and art, she might even do they laundry and get the suitcase packed for nothing.
Key line(s) 'when the shows were over, we had to get back home....' This does NOT represent a wife or girlfriend or even mommy helping him pack and go. What it says is he IS on the road and the last concert date is over, now to depart the road and head home.
"When we opened up the door, I had to be alone." This was the star explaining how he and the band chick got back to her spread, but as soon as they opened the door, he told her he had to be alone. Why? To use drugs? No. To call home (wife)? Yes.
While he was alone making arrangements to be picked up AFTER his flight home, the band chick was busy finishing his jockey shorts and packing his suitcase.
Wives expected their husbands to love them. To be committed to them. Instead, the rock stars all took advantage of young gullible girls while on the road. Fairuza Balk played the character Sapphire in the movie "Almost Famous" for an example.
Who can forget Kate Hudson playing the character of Penny Lane in the same motion picture?
Remember when the band thought they were going to die in a plane crash? Everyone was confessing their misdeeds to each other?
To understand THIS song reflect on the line from the character William Miller after they "insulted" Penny Lane?
""That groupie"? She was a Band-Aid! All she did was love your band. And you used her, all of you! You used her and threw her away! She almost died last night while you were with Bob Dylan. You guys, you're always talking about the fans, the fans, the fans; she was your biggest fan, and you threw her away! And if you can't see that, that's your biggest problem."
"She finally looked at me in love"....the rock star can relax, she won't blow his cover.
This song is about the self-centered hippie lifestyle 60s and 70s used to live.
Musicians back then openly lived double-lives. They built a career to provide a traditional life for their spouse to maintain appearances, but at the same time desired the free sex, free drugs and free dwelling space to crash in offered to them willingly on the rock by star-crazed groupies.
Hey if the chick was easy enough to stone or even cheaper, a truly devoted fan of the artist and art, she might even do they laundry and get the suitcase packed for nothing.
Key line(s) 'when the shows were over, we had to get back home....' This does NOT represent a wife or girlfriend or even mommy helping him pack and go. What it says is he IS on the road and the last concert date is over, now to depart the road and head home.
"When we opened up the door, I had to be alone." This was the star explaining how he and the band chick got back to her spread, but as soon as they opened the door, he told her he had to be alone. Why? To use drugs? No. To call home (wife)? Yes.
While he was alone making arrangements to be picked up AFTER his flight home, the band chick was busy finishing his jockey shorts and packing his suitcase.
Wives expected their husbands to love them. To be committed to them. Instead, the rock stars all took advantage of young gullible girls while on the road. Fairuza Balk played the character Sapphire in the movie "Almost Famous" for an example.
Who can forget Kate Hudson playing the character of Penny Lane in the same motion picture?
Remember when the band thought they were going to die in a plane crash? Everyone was confessing their misdeeds to each other?
To understand THIS song reflect on the line from the character William Miller after they "insulted" Penny Lane?
""That groupie"? She was a Band-Aid! All she did was love your band. And you used her, all of you! You used her and threw her away! She almost died last night while you were with Bob Dylan. You guys, you're always talking about the fans, the fans, the fans; she was your biggest fan, and you threw her away! And if you can't see that, that's your biggest problem."
"She finally looked at me in love"....the rock star can relax, she won't blow his cover.