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"Do you think Almost Famous accurately portrays the era," I ask.
"I thought they did a marvelous job," she says, "although, they did sugar-coat it. You know, the drugs and the sex and all." She pauses for a moment, scraping her leftovers into a Styrofoam take-out box, then adds: "Keith Moon once fucked me with a banana in a backstage dressing room while a bunch of people watched. They should put that in a movie."
"I never pretended to be anything other than a groupie," she says. "Remember how Penny Lane kept saying, 'We're not groupies, we're Band-Aids?' I met so many gals like that." She pauses, "I'm sorry, but if you're backstage sucking dick, you're a groupie. And that's not a bad thing. Not a bad thing at all."
By the time Hamzy was a senior in high school, she had a solid reputation as the premier groupie in the South. She was mostly known for her oral sex skills. When asked about her technique, Hamzy replies: "Swallow it all. And don't think twice about it. Don't be all mealy-mouthed." During this period, Connie's conservative parents realized that their daughter wasn't just going to concerts, and became determined to curb her increasingly outrageous behavior. The Osmonds were scheduled to play Little Rock, and her parents--out of touch with popular music--didn't want her to go to the show.
"My mother took me to Memphis for the night, to prevent those Mormon boys from corrupting me," Hamzy says laughing. "We stayed at the Holiday Inn Rivermont in Memphis, and the Allman Brothers happened to be staying there too. I met them in the lobby, and I went up to Gregg Allman's room and we had sex while my mother was wondering where the hell I'd disappeared to."
In 1973, Grand Funk Railroad released "We're an American Band," featuring "sweet Connie" in the opening verse. The song became a colossal hit, effectively launching Hamzy into the national spotlight. "The phone started ringing a lot after that," she says. "I'd come home from school and there would be a list of messages about a mile long my mother had taken, from promoters, managers, and guys in bands."
That fall, Hamzy attended the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. While her peers were going to keg parties and cramming for midterms, Hamzy was ditching class to meet Foghat in New Orleans or the Who in St. Louis. In 1974, Hamzy claims that Don Henley booked her a ticket on a commercial flight to see the Eagles play in Chattanooga. When the plane was delayed at a stopover in Knoxville, Henley picked her up in his private jet. "So I get on the plane and it's just me and Henley and the pilot," she says. "Henley and I are in the back, fooling around and making out. We're up in the air and my eyes are half-closed. Then I feel another set of hands on me, and I realize it's the pilot. So I raise up and say, "Who's flying the plane?" And Henley says, 'Don't worry, it's on auto pilot.' So I just went with it."
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