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.

Saw them in Cherry Hill, NJ, Emerald City. The township made blowing up cars on stage illegal the next day.

@rokyericksonroks

9 ай бұрын

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.

@jb6963

8 ай бұрын

Saw that show!

@Gonzokeywest45

7 ай бұрын

Saw her in Boston '85. Up close view of the chainsaw and her awesomeness ✊

@reprintranch

5 ай бұрын

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.

MAKES SLIPKNOT LOOK LIKE CHOIR BOYS...

@damianb2374

2 жыл бұрын

Slipknot were great too, it's not a sports contest bud.

@Mr75044

2 жыл бұрын

@@damianb2374 SNOWFLAKE

What a band. What a woman!

What a great performer! She was utterly fearless.

Glory to the Plasmatics for scaring the sh*t out of American audiences everywhere. Thank you xoxo RIP Wendy

Saw them in 1980 at The Calderon, in Hempstead, LI. I couldn't hear for three days. It was amazing.

@gazepskotzs4

5 ай бұрын

😅😂😅 awesome! Wish i've seen it!

She still deserves all the love

Wendy and the Plasmatics made great songs and had fantastic shock value.

What a fantastic thing it must have been to see these guys live?

@BuffaloGoodman

5 ай бұрын

Totally! Saw them blow up a cadillac at a show in 1981. AMAZING!

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.

@danscott3880

Жыл бұрын

I watched this I was 9. I instantly loved them.

@chrispieters5170

Жыл бұрын

My teen years

@AtillaGenghisHuyter

Жыл бұрын

Fear on SNL has entered the chat.

@chrisfurius

7 ай бұрын

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.

@ericandrews1661

3 ай бұрын

I remember seeing this on late night TV when I was around 12. I was stunned.

Thanks to KZread 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!!!

Wendy was badass!! Rest In Peace!!🤘🤘

Pete Townshend eat your heart out!

I really loved them RIP Wendy 🙏❣️

Well this is one of the greatest things I've ever seen.

@JohnBock-nq9lr

5 ай бұрын

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!

What a song! What a performance!

Saw them in Houston 1981. Awesome, so much fun!

That Bass player 👍

@jonathankelly4477

10 ай бұрын

Jean Beauvoir

@455SD

Ай бұрын

That "bass player" funny stuff

Great as all her DVDs and other sources. How would love she being alive for her and us ❤

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.

Always wear safety glasses

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!!!.

I have this single on blood spattered vinyl. This is first time I’ve seen them!

My kind of woman. Love u forever, Wendy!!!

🤠 Fine Art.

And from the year3021 we have the plasmatics

Always great stunts. She was a real superwoman.

I got to see them open for KISS and do this song. Got a pic while Wendy was cutting the guitar.

Stuck for words...x

I was at a yard sale and found film negatives of this performance

She definitely needed safety goggles for the chainsawed guitar.

its crazy, chaotic, and insane. I love it

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

Wayy to ahead of its time

Happy Birthday Wendy. You are missed!

That light bridge coming down right next to her... insane or incredible... or both. I can't imagine that could ever happen today. Legend!

@ericpeterson6766

Жыл бұрын

planned obsolescence or unanticipated lagnappe??

@michaellorenzen8200

Жыл бұрын

Lemmy loved WOW and WOW loved Lemmy 😊

@JohnBock-nq9lr

5 ай бұрын

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!

Great punk band

Totally unique, you don't see this anymore, just terrific still

Excellent performance! I adore Wendy O Williams.

Rest in peace wendy o Williams ❤ 😂

Perfect

W.O.W. 🖤

Great bass playing

THE ONE AND ONLY..

Butcher baby oh yeah! No truer words were ever spoken

saw this show way back long ago. they were amazing.

amazing really amazing

Great execution!

The bottom half of that guitar she handed out would be worth quite a few bucks today. Everyone misses you Wendy. X

Incredible ❤🙏💥

Pure genius

Live fast - die young... R.I.P. Wendy...

this kicks ass

Now THAT’S a show! Saw them in 1980 and it was all out mayhem! R.I.P. Wendy

@jocksilver7

Жыл бұрын

'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.

@aleksanterikaansalo

Жыл бұрын

​@@jocksilver7 да как ты смеешь? А, хотя, продолжай в том же духе, внучек.

@jocksilver7

Жыл бұрын

@@aleksanterikaansalo I don't care. Only the hearing impaired cannot hear. But still they can't see. ''How dare you?'' - let me freaking laugh.

@aleksanterikaansalo

Жыл бұрын

@@jocksilver7 that feeling when a character totally misunderstands humor...

@jocksilver7

Жыл бұрын

@@aleksanterikaansalo oh, in that case, glad you agree.

Richie is fantastico

Awesomeness.

W.O.W she kicked ass

Descansa en paz Wendy, me hubiera gustado conocerte...

Ritchie Stotts is my favorite.

The 12 ga shotgun😂. Love Wes!!!

The aesthetician equivalent of having a cinder block dropped on your face.

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.

Saw them at the rainbow in LA

Absolute legends! Shame they never were on The Jerry Springer Show.😂

@TheDriller-Killer

2 ай бұрын

And yet G. G. Allín did appear in the early 90s

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!

...best Tets evah

Now that’s rock and roll !!!!

@nathueil1

Жыл бұрын

I still have the bottom half of that Gibson guitar.

@gazepskotzs4

5 ай бұрын

​@@nathueil1👍👍👍

Most replayed part is when it ends.

Hell yeah

They seem more deranged and unnerving than all of the other punk, shock-rock and black metal bands that have followed them. 1980!

Fuckin awesome!

that was cool

FUCK YES!!

Hail the Metal Priestess!!!!!!

God bless the Plasmatics.

Oh to be a guitar that Wendy saws tenderly and sensually in half

🖤🔥

Butcher Baby!

She is TECHNICALLY more sophisticated than Pete Townshend... 😂

Good old thrash. Till death do us part

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.

@FerreiraWorld

4 ай бұрын

Im wait for that

Genitorturers took this to a different level but this is good stuff

Sexiest chainsaw in history.

@2.07.......... That fucking rabbit looking at everyone..

1981

Oh yeah! Oh no!

But frkg awesome

Seemed like real anarchy..

Plasmatics.most awesome band,coup d'etat was a great album, very underrated

@gazepskotzs4

5 ай бұрын

"New hope for the wretched" is very good too.

@user-hq5rq7bz4u

5 ай бұрын

I found maggots on vinyl,at a flea market, awesome

@gazepskotzs4

5 ай бұрын

@@user-hq5rq7bz4u That is awesome, must be like finding gold!

And if you haven't seen the movie Reform school girls, you should, since she is in it...😎

🤣🤣🤣🤣barking mad ....

was that Sicky from the Mentors up there

MOM CAN I GET A GUITAR AND A BUNNY SUIT ? AND ACT LIKE AN IDIOT AND MAKE MY PARENTS PROUD OF ME ? HMMMM ?

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.

@dondrapersayswhat

Жыл бұрын

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.

@chriswalter4846

Жыл бұрын

They were great!

@marklutz8499

10 ай бұрын

Probably. It's how she went out.

@punkrock4554

10 ай бұрын

Yes, sad. Hey check out one of my fave Bands ...Dayglo Abortions song Wendy O, if you have not heard before. Cheers! @@marklutz8499

Plasmatics chainsaw massacar! Oh yeah oH yeah.!

Pretty fucking massive.

@paulparker3803

4 жыл бұрын

The original "Wendy Williams" with an "O".

Margo was the real deal..

Elle est plus que motivée la petite dame ...