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Geek Weekly Fanzine presents Rock Critic Interview #4: Margaret Moser of the Austin Chronicle. Even though Margaret is no longer really a rock critic, she was and that's good enough for us. Ms. Moser has written three books and has been writing about the Austin scene for over two decades.

M- But, you know, I was a groupie and I really approached it like... like military strategy!

S- Being a groupie was probably a lot more honorable before punk rock was supposed to make everything eqalitarian.

M- Yes and no, I mean the incidences of clap were just as bad as ever, but it's true that there was an innocence about it that can't exist today and that I really loved and when I finally came to grips with it a few years ago it was because something that Ann Powers had written about Pamela DesBarres and I'd always felt like Pamela DesBarres was like my soul sister, you know, like my role model. Did I need a groupie role model? Boom- here's this beautiful young blonde from southern California, and she fucked 'em all! She showed up at Mick Jagger's hotel room, and he opened the door naked, you know. Bam -- I wanna be like that! So my whole group of girlfriends, the Texas Blondes, were patterned after the GTOs, and we ran havoc in this town in the late seventies and early eighties. It's funny how we applied all that backstage strategy. One of my mottoes is always, "Gimme two backstage passes and I'll get an infinite number of girls backstage." So we used that to great advantage. But I was really good friends with all the promoters in town back then, and it behooved them to have happy musicians, so, you know, when the bands got to town. Jim Ramsey would call me immediately and say. "Will you come meet us at the hotel and bring some of the girls?" So, we'd put on our cute little clothes and go down to the hotel and let them buy us drinks and snort coke or whatever was going on back then. And this is all pretty much pre-AIDS. We were all pretty much out of commission by the time and I was beginning to think about social responsibility, I was beginning to think maybe my drug habits were not a good idea.

J- Kinda fucks up the whole things, doesn't it.

M- We were about fizzles out by '82 or '83. But we had a great four-year run from about '78 to '82. Prime time in this town for rock && roll! Those were great punk rock days.

S- Who were some of your favorites back then?

M- Psychedelic Furs. I loved those guys. REM. Michael Stripe was in love with my roommate back then and he used to call collect all the time. And she always said she was gonna pay for the calls and she never did, so I blame Michael Stripe for the fact that our phone got turned off once. I met John Cale back then. That was a show that

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