Hard today even to imagine the Pier 62 performance in lower Manhattan from September of 1980. No way they’re setting off explosions and few bands would get 5,000 people out there just for a tour promotion, not even a full concert.
Saw the band at a free, open-air show at the University of Florida on Halloween night 1981. Incredible performance, helped tremendously by the fact that it was Halloween, so the thousands of kids who showed up were ready for something crazier than Jimmy Buffett or the Eagles. Great crowd reaction, everybody rocked out. Then there came the inevitable tempest-in-a-teapot blowback for the entire first week of November about the pyro and destruction at the show. Various administrators expressed concern and issued edicts about prohibiting explosives at campus musical performances. Well done, Plasmatics.
Wendy was the greatest Front Man of her generation. Pure, raw, flame thrower who left it all on the stage every single time. RIP, Wendy, and thanks for the many memories.
Insane that this was on Fridays, an ABC late night show based on the SNL format. I can't imagine any of the 'big three networks' allowing this to air today. Thanks for the transfer/upload.
As chaotic as this was at the time, absolutely this COULD be aired today, and it wouldn't even raise an eyebrow. Great band, but seriously, nothing about this would prevent airplay today.
Could NEVER HAPPEN TODAY Fire Marshall: violations everywhere....discharge of a fire arm....I'm surprised no one got hurt or even killed by that light scaffold falling....shrapnel everywhere , flying debris...chaos! Awesome!
Thanks to UA-cam and to Paul Parker!!!! the memory of this performance was tattooed on my brain and now I'm finally seeing it again after 40 years!?!?!? As good as I remembered it!!!
Me too! And I've seen em all.....from lou Reed to Ravi and sun ra to bowie,iggy was my first concert...miles davis,the dead,funkadelic etc....and this is killer. I remember seeing it when it originally aired and it went way over my head. Love it now though!
When I seen the Plasmatics I was right where she handed the guitar after she chainsawed it in half it was chaos and I still have some flowers from the pots she busted,it was a good time
She didn't just have balls, she had values. She growled at what she saw as destroying humans: consumerism, complacency, She was the voice of freedom through action. She lived and died without compromise.
'Tis the real and essential Hard Core, on the cusp of it, but out of the context of the male-dominated, (little) later homonymous scene. It's as if in NYC 1979-82, they had created an Ultra-Punk strain that shrapnelled in all directions, with a special Metal seasoning on Metal Priestess and Coup d'Etat, where i even seem to sense passages that'd influence groups like the early Carnivore. The Plasmatics are essential and she was one of the greatest Rock artists America ever had. A quarter of a century after her untimely demise, she's still being remembered and that's a sign she acomplished what she had to do on this ball of confusion. Keep that historical memory, it was probably their most explosive period.
caught Wendy in Rochester New York at a dive bar whip cream on her jugs and a strip of black narrow tape on her clam it was the 80s man! everything was up for grabs. I worked 55 hrs. weeks,and partied on speed,weed,blotter acid,Yello jackets,beepers,300 count afeds. GRRRRRRRRRRRRR!
One of those bands who I don't care for musically but have probably influenced everyone I enjoy listening to. Revolutionary stuff, musically and performance wise, for the time.
I got to see a lot of the best Punk bands in the 80's, but I missed out on seeing the Plasmatics, would have been a hell of a show! PS.. I read that the shotgun blast at the end was real.
Friend of mine attended not this Plasmatics show but another one...he was up front and was convinced the shotgun wasn't real, until Wendy blew a hole in the ceiling with it.
You guys do know there is an original music video for this song & I have it somewhere, I just need to find it, but there is one. I wonder why it's not on youtube.
@@damianb2374 Loads of bands that couldn't hold a candle to genius stuff like this. You're crazy if you think what's coming out today is anywhere near this level, or of that by countless bands from this era.
@@johnphantom In my country, there is a band called Zputnik, whose singer really reminds me of Wendy with her style and stage presence. Their music is pretty weird (punk with techno beats and goofy lyrics full of gallows humor) and a lot of punks don’t like them, but they have a cult following. I’ve seen them live last year and it was a blast.
Saw them in Cherry Hill, NJ, Emerald City. The township made blowing up cars on stage illegal the next day.
Hard today even to imagine the Pier 62 performance in lower Manhattan from September of 1980. No way they’re setting off explosions and few bands would get 5,000 people out there just for a tour promotion, not even a full concert.
Saw that show!
Saw her in Boston '85. Up close view of the chainsaw and her awesomeness ✊
Saw the band at a free, open-air show at the University of Florida on Halloween night 1981.
Incredible performance, helped tremendously by the fact that it was Halloween, so the thousands of kids who showed up were ready for something crazier than Jimmy Buffett or the Eagles. Great crowd reaction, everybody rocked out.
Then there came the inevitable tempest-in-a-teapot blowback for the entire first week of November about the pyro and destruction at the show. Various administrators expressed concern and issued edicts about prohibiting explosives at campus musical performances.
Well done, Plasmatics.
IMHO, one of the most underrated bands in Rock history. Extremely skillful artists. Wendy was a living legend. A true rebel queen. Rip Wendy O.
Glory to the Plasmatics for scaring the sh*t out of American audiences everywhere. Thank you xoxo RIP Wendy
Pete Townshend eat your heart out!
Wendy was the greatest Front Man of her generation. Pure, raw, flame thrower who left it all on the stage every single time. RIP, Wendy, and thanks for the many memories.
What a band. What a woman!
Saw them in 1980 at The Calderon, in Hempstead, LI. I couldn't hear for three days. It was amazing.
😅😂😅 awesome! Wish i've seen it!
What a great performer!
She was utterly fearless.
Insane that this was on Fridays, an ABC late night show based on the SNL format. I can't imagine any of the 'big three networks' allowing this to air today. Thanks for the transfer/upload.
I watched this I was 9. I instantly loved them.
My teen years
Fear on SNL has entered the chat.
As chaotic as this was at the time, absolutely this COULD be aired today, and it wouldn't even raise an eyebrow. Great band, but seriously, nothing about this would prevent airplay today.
I remember seeing this on late night TV when I was around 12. I was stunned.
What a fantastic thing it must have been to see these guys live?
Totally! Saw them blow up a cadillac at a show in 1981. AMAZING!
Saw them at CBGB. They took no prisoners. They were just on a different level that you either “got” or you didn’t.
MAKES SLIPKNOT LOOK
LIKE CHOIR BOYS...
Slipknot were great too, it's not a sports contest bud.
@@damianb2374 SNOWFLAKE
@Mr75044 your caps lock is stuck, boomer.
@@damianb2374hes one of those douche bags
Wendy and the Plasmatics made great songs and had fantastic shock value.
That light bridge coming down right next to her... insane or incredible... or both.
I can't imagine that could ever happen today.
Legend!
planned obsolescence or unanticipated lagnappe??
Lemmy loved WOW and WOW loved Lemmy 😊
Could
NEVER HAPPEN TODAY
Fire Marshall: violations everywhere....discharge of a fire arm....I'm surprised no one got hurt or even killed by that light scaffold falling....shrapnel everywhere , flying debris...chaos!
Awesome!
She still deserves all the love
The kind of woman that screams at you to SHUT UP! And you go, "Yes, Ma'am." And they start shredding.
Great as all her DVDs and other sources. How would love she being alive for her and us ❤
I got to see them open for KISS and do this song. Got a pic while Wendy was cutting the guitar.
Always wear safety glasses
Everytime i need to relax my stressed nerves, i come here...ahhhh that's what i needed!😆😆
I have this single on blood spattered vinyl. This is first time I’ve seen them!
I really loved them RIP Wendy 🙏❣️
Saw them in Houston 1981. Awesome, so much fun!
Thanks to UA-cam and to Paul Parker!!!! the memory of this performance was tattooed on my brain and now I'm finally seeing it again after 40 years!?!?!? As good as I remembered it!!!
That Bass player 👍
Jean Beauvoir
That "bass player" funny stuff
I attended a few live shows in NJ in the late 70s, early 80s and this is exactly same line up and show. I was hooked ever since.
Totally unique, you don't see this anymore, just terrific still
And from the year3021 we have the plasmatics
Well this is one of the greatest things I've ever seen.
Me too!
And I've seen em all.....from lou Reed to Ravi and sun ra to bowie,iggy was my first concert...miles davis,the dead,funkadelic etc....and this is killer. I remember seeing it when it originally aired and it went way over my head. Love it now though!
I was at a yard sale and found film negatives of this performance
I appreciate that she carefully handed the body of the guitar to someone rather than just slinging it into the crowd.
My kind of woman. Love u forever, Wendy!!!
Always great stunts. She was a real superwoman.
🤠 Fine Art.
its crazy, chaotic, and insane. I love it
Excellent performance! I adore Wendy O Williams.
She definitely needed safety goggles for the chainsawed guitar.
What a song! What a performance!
When I seen the Plasmatics I was right where she handed the guitar after she chainsawed it in half it was chaos and I still have some flowers from the pots she busted,it was a good time
Happy Birthday Wendy. You are missed!
The aesthetician equivalent of having a cinder block dropped on your face.
Wendy, you didn't just walk to the line. That was the start.
and you stopped, only light years later.
Punk girl above all.
Fuck we loved you!!!.
They seem more deranged and unnerving than all of the other punk, shock-rock and black metal bands that have followed them. 1980!
She didn't just have balls, she had values. She growled at what she saw as destroying humans: consumerism, complacency, She was the voice of freedom through action. She lived and died without compromise.
Now THAT’S a show! Saw them in 1980 and it was all out mayhem! R.I.P. Wendy
'Tis the real and essential Hard Core, on the cusp of it, but out of the context of the male-dominated, (little) later homonymous scene.
It's as if in NYC 1979-82, they had created an Ultra-Punk strain that shrapnelled in all directions, with a special Metal seasoning on Metal Priestess and Coup d'Etat, where i even seem to sense passages that'd influence groups like the early Carnivore.
The Plasmatics are essential and she was one of the greatest Rock artists America ever had. A quarter of a century after her untimely demise, she's still being remembered and that's a sign she acomplished what she had to do on this ball of confusion. Keep that historical memory, it was probably their most explosive period.
@@karllux-d6g да как ты смеешь? А, хотя, продолжай в том же духе, внучек.
@@aleksanterikaansalo I don't care. Only the hearing impaired cannot hear. But still they can't see. ''How dare you?'' - let me freaking laugh.
@@karllux-d6g that feeling when a character totally misunderstands humor...
@@aleksanterikaansalo oh, in that case, glad you agree.
Great bass playing
Live fast - die young... R.I.P. Wendy...
Rest in peace wendy o Williams ❤ 😂
Saw W.O.W. & Plasmatics in S.F. around 1981
saw this show way back long ago. they were amazing.
Stuck for words...x
Great punk band
Hail the Metal Priestess!!!!!!
If you are looking for real hard rock punk you finally founded " the plasmatics"
Descansa en paz Wendy, me hubiera gustado conocerte...
Aivan mahtavaa!!! Viittu miten siisti esitys!!😊
Butcher baby oh yeah! No truer words were ever spoken
caught Wendy in Rochester New York at a dive bar whip cream on her jugs and a strip of black narrow tape on her clam it was the 80s man! everything was up for grabs. I worked 55 hrs. weeks,and partied on speed,weed,blotter acid,Yello jackets,beepers,300 count afeds. GRRRRRRRRRRRRR!
Saw them at the rainbow in LA
Great execution!
One of those bands who I don't care for musically but have probably influenced everyone I enjoy listening to. Revolutionary stuff, musically and performance wise, for the time.
Wendy was badass!! Rest In Peace!!🤘🤘
Absolute legends! Shame they never were on The Jerry Springer Show.😂
And yet G. G. Allín did appear in the early 90s
Ritchie Stotts is my favorite.
The 12 ga shotgun😂. Love Wes!!!
W.O.W. 🖤
Perfect
THE ONE AND ONLY..
W.O.W she kicked ass
amazing really amazing
Oh to be a guitar that Wendy saws tenderly and sensually in half
Incredible ❤🙏💥
Genitorturers took this to a different level but this is good stuff
Now that’s rock and roll !!!!
I still have the bottom half of that Gibson guitar.
@@nathueil1👍👍👍
this kicks ass
The bottom half of that guitar she handed out would be worth quite a few bucks today. Everyone misses you Wendy. X
Gave the guitar the full lumber jack 😮
I got to see a lot of the best Punk bands in the 80's, but I missed out on seeing the Plasmatics, would have been a hell of a show! PS.. I read that the shotgun blast at the end was real.
Friend of mine attended not this Plasmatics show but another one...he was up front and was convinced the shotgun wasn't real, until Wendy blew a hole in the ceiling with it.
They were great!
Probably. It's how she went out.
Yes, sad. Hey check out one of my fave Bands ...Dayglo Abortions song Wendy O, if you have not heard before. Cheers! @@marklutz8499
Pure genius
God bless the Plasmatics.
You guys do know there is an original music video for this song & I have it somewhere, I just need to find it, but there is one. I wonder why it's not on youtube.
Im wait for that
MOM CAN I GET A GUITAR AND A BUNNY SUIT ? AND ACT LIKE AN IDIOT AND MAKE MY PARENTS PROUD OF ME ? HMMMM ?
Plasmatics.most awesome band,coup d'etat was a great album, very underrated
"New hope for the wretched" is very good too.
I found maggots on vinyl,at a flea market, awesome
@@BrianPohorence That is awesome, must be like finding gold!
Awesomeness.
@2.07.......... That fucking rabbit looking at everyone..
Yeah. Everything sucks now.
so stick with FB with all the other grannies. There's loads out there.
@@damianb2374 Loads of bands that couldn't hold a candle to genius stuff like this. You're crazy if you think what's coming out today is anywhere near this level, or of that by countless bands from this era.
@@chrisfurius Check out the Butcher Babies, the musicians that took their name from this song. They bring Wendy's energy.
Ok boomer.
@@johnphantom In my country, there is a band called Zputnik, whose singer really reminds me of Wendy with her style and stage presence.
Their music is pretty weird (punk with techno beats and goofy lyrics full of gallows humor) and a lot of punks don’t like them, but they have a cult following.
I’ve seen them live last year and it was a blast.
Hopefully that was the ENCORE !!
...best Tets evah
I had to find out about Wendy o and gg alin through UA-cam algorithm
I was 15 and my parents Hated Plasmatics Especially after they saw this shit on tv On Fridays
Why are the good live versions of Butcher Baby and Living Dead being pulled, but not the shitty-sounding TV performances from Fridays?
that was cool
And if you haven't seen the movie Reform school girls, you should, since she is in it...😎
Most replayed part is when it ends.
Fuckin awesome!
Was it a real shotgun?
Good old thrash. Till death do us part
Sexiest chainsaw in history.
was that Sicky from the Mentors up there
🖤🔥
A real shotgun? Or just a great pyrotech-timing?
I guess pyrotech.