Rock Bottom

Dark Moments in Music Babylon.

The dark moments of rock history fascinate and tantalise like the pathos of Greek tragedy. The bottom sinks lower, the air seems colder, the bad endings–when they are bad–seem beyond bad. The unlucky practitioners of our most thriving form of communal experience seem to hit rock bottom in ways only the most glamorous among us can–publicly. The stories remain obscure, half-seen in the shadowlands. In her familiar style, Pamela Des Barres shines light on the people whose art remains the background music to our popular culture.