ICYMI: Sweet, Sweet Connie Hamzy, Groupie Extraordinaire, Gone At 66 “And That’s A Natural Fact” – IOTW Report

ICYMI: Sweet, Sweet Connie Hamzy, Groupie Extraordinaire, Gone At 66 “And That’s A Natural Fact”

Monday, 30 August 2021, 21:45 Dr. Tar Uncategorized 37

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Connie Hamzy, one of the most famous groupies in rock history, has died at the age of 66.

Hamzy had her first groupie experience when she was 15 years old, after her mother dropped her off at a Steppenwolf concert.

“She didn’t like to deal with parking. She didn’t like to deal with traffic. So, she’d take me out to the fairground early in the afternoon before the traffic got bad,” Hamzy explained to Little Rock, Ark. TV station KTHV. “We’d go out there and then we’d wander around the backstage area, and one thing would lead to another.”

Two years later, Hamzy was immortalized in the lyrics to Grand Funk Railroad’s 1973 hit “We’re an American Band.”

The song’s opening lines went: “Out on the road for forty days / Last night in Little Rock put me in a haze / Sweet, sweet Connie, doin’ her act / She had the whole show and that’s a natural fact.”

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37 Comments on ICYMI: Sweet, Sweet Connie Hamzy, Groupie Extraordinaire, Gone At 66 “And That’s A Natural Fact”

  4. Whenever I hear the word “groupie” I think of Penny Lane in Almost Famous ,”No, we don’t sleep with the band……….only blowjobs”. No there is a woman with standards.

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  7. Besides the skin flute did she play an instrument?

    Great mother by the way. Supported her daughters interests and never mis-gendered her. Woke before Woke was a thing. GFY!

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  22. We had some deplorable telephone men who would dial random telephone numbers in the P street corridor of DC and proclaim to the answering machines, “I’m so sorry, I just tested positive for AIDS!”, and ring off.

    Wow. I thought it was humorous to put gravel in 4 of Ed’s “hub caps” on his telephone truck. They were not really hub caps, but wheel covers.

    But these guys were laughing about people jumping off the Calvert St. Bridge.

    Each to his own.

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