Washington Post: 2004's Sassy, Trashy, Gassy, Flashy Glossies
By Peter Carlson
December 21, 2004

Spin, the rock mag, published the best anthropological article of the year:

"Inside the World of a Rock Roadie" by Rodger Cambria, a former roadie for the Doobie Brothers, Elvis Costello, Celine Dion and a band called GWAR, which performs "decapitations, mutilations and bloodletting onstage." Life as a roadie entails a lot of hard work, plus "illegal narcotics and genital herpes" and the occasional opportunity for sex with the kind of groupies who are desperate enough to sleep with roadies. Cambria offers fond memories of his first groupie. Her name was Bonnie and her aging body was decorated with an eight-inch scar "probably the remnants of a drunken knife fight" and a large tattoo of Burt Reynolds. "When she twisted her torso," Cambria recalls, "the loose skin around Burt's eye folded in such a way that he appeared to be winking."

High Times Magazine
Cannabis Cup News
October 2, 2004

The September issue of Spin magazine had a hilarious feature about the Cannabis Cup written by Rodger Cambria. Well worth getting a copy. Cambria attended the 16th Cup on a low budget travel package....

New York Post - Page 6
By Richard Johnson
January 20, 2005

SUPER groupie "Sweet" Connie Hamzy has provided backstage comfort to members of the Eagles, Led Zeppelin and The Who in her 35-year career, but the 50-year-old rock trollop says not everyone in the business measures up. When Spin magazine's Rodger Cambria asked her which rock musicians were best endowed, she cited Huey Lewis as "huge. And Peter Frampton has the smallest. Poor guy." Ouch!

SPIN magazine (print version)
Letters to the Editor
December 2004

"A Toking of Appreciation"

When I read Rodger Cambria's account of the Cannabis Cup ["Laughing Buddha," Spetember 2004], I hadn't smoked pot for a couple of weeks. One glance at the picture of the cup overflowing with weed and the cat in clogs, and it was a very brief hiatus.

- Caroline Lewis, New York City

Reading Rodger Cambria's adventures in Amsterdam and hearing about the Cannabis Cup almost makes me want to go next year, smoke my brains out, buy clogs, and force my cat to wear them upon arriving home. Thanks for the awesome article, and keep them coming.

- Jamie Trull, Philadelphia

I admire Rodger Cambria's bravery for venturing into the infamous city of Amsterdam for the 16th annual Cannabis Cup. It's one thing for a stoner to attend. It's quite another for a casual user, prone to paranoia and abandoned by a friend, to attempt the four-day feat. The most astonishing part of the whole thing is that he managed to record it all for your readers' amusement.

- Lissa Benavidez, Santa Fe

Frank's Wild Lunch
January 24, 2005

Sweet Sweet Connie

All my Arkansas readers go pick up a copy of SPIN A-sap! Or for that matter, anyone interested in rock-n-roll backstage exploits told by a chardonnay-on-the-rocks-swilling, bong-hitting, tantrum-throwing, white-trashy rock-n-roll blowjob-queen! I am apparently the last AR native on the planet to have heard of Sweet Connie Hamzy, one of the world's most notorious groupies (and an alleged one-time Clintonian make-out victim...how did I miss that??), but SPIN has cured me of that affliction by doing a riotous interview and profile with this Little Rock legend. Sample quote:

It’s 10:30 A.M. on a Friday in Little Rock, Arkansas, and Connie Hamzy is sitting at the bar of the Sticky Fingerz Rock’N’Roll Chicken Shack, telling a story to a small audience of busboys and cocktail waitresses. “So I’m out on the tour bus, smokin’ dope and blowing roadies,” she says in a lazy Southern accent. “And who comes into the back lounge? Neil fucking Diamond.”

Genius. And that's just the first paragraph. A link to the story on spin.com is here, though you have to subscribe or buy the print issue to read the whole story.

Akron Beacon Journal
December 30, 2004

Ah, romance!

The Washington Post credits Spin, the rock mag, for publishing the best anthropological article of the year: Inside the World of a Rock Roadie by Rodger Cambria, a former roadie for the Doobie Brothers, Elvis Costello, Celine Dion and GWAR, which performs ``decapitations, mutilations and bloodletting onstage.''

Life as a roadie entails a lot of hard work, it seems, plus ``illegal narcotics and genital herpes'' and the chance for sex with groupies desperate enough to sleep with roadies.

Will Carroll Presents...
January 31, 2005

Check out the February issue of Spin Magazine, as writer Rodger Cambria catches up with the legendary rock groupie, Connie Hamzy. (see We're an American Band- "Out on the road for 40 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") Much like a favorite album, Connie's hole has spun around on the turntables of rock's biggest stars. Ms. Hamzy was never an elitist, as she wouldn't just sleep with legends like Ringo or Led Zeppelin members, but also would give oral pleasures to Huey Lewis and Dan Fogelberg. She alleges that Little Rock's most eligible married man, Bill Clinton was seduced by her charms. Clinton has denied it to which Hamzy replies "I may be a slut, but I'm not liar."Sadly, the story details how the now 50 year-old Connie still goes to the gigs, but none of the rockers want her to blow them. Oh sweet, sweet Connie.

100 Monkeys Typing
January 26, 2005

Sweet, Sweet Connie. Okay, the entire article isn't online - obviously hey want you to buy the mag to read it. But this article about Connie Hamzy, the infamous Groupie from Little Rock, is both funny and disturbing. And filled with trivia that you won't see anyplace else. Like, who IS the biggest? The smallest? It's just weird that somebody actually knows (Answers: Biggest = Huey Lewis. Smallest = Peter Frampton.) Huey LEWIS?! WHO KNEW?

Independent Film Producer Adryenn Ashley
Interview by Rhys Southan

Q: Can you tell us anything about the movie projects you're involved with right now?

A: The film is called To Love... And Other Disasters. It was written by Rodger Cambria (remember that name, because I predict his writing will take him very far). It is currently in the early stages of pre-production.

The Alexa Diaries
by Alexa
February 14, 2005

Alyssa's party was a lot of fun. I love to talk to my friends. It's never boring. Holly made Alyssa a scarf. Heh, that was cute.

I did really good on my report card so my mom gave me $60. Which is weird because she never gives me money for getting good grades. I mean, it's not like this report card was any better than the rest. It was good, but basically the same as always. But I went to the mall and spent almost all of it on a Jewish restaurant, clothes, music, a Spin magazine and a Thai cookbook. =P

I'm not good at cooking really, but it's worth a try. I can't make grilled cheese forever.

I hate the article in Spin about the Confederate's oldest living groupie, Connie Hamzy. That is very gross. Why would you want everyone to know that the only thing you were ever good at was being a groupie, and that even though you claim to be famous and well known among musicians, every "rock star" that you've slept with can't even remember you? I hadn't even heard of this Connie Hamzy before I read the article, nor had anyone I mentioned the aritcle to. So not only is she a 50 year old whore, she's a whore who isn't even famous for being a whore. And what else could being a whore get you that actually matters besides fame? Not much. In another fifty years when she's dead no one will remember her, because people who actually might have cared about her when she was young will be dead too.

I think Connie Hamzy is the future for a lot of people I know around here. She's so disgusting.