My father promoted them in the northeast and this was my first concert experience at 10. Wow...just W.O.W

I don't remember them doing a solid gold appearance... this is freaking great 🤟

@SGED392

Жыл бұрын

Really.. like was this there big Sell out Hit??? Doubt it ..

@lynndalton733

11 ай бұрын

I just read about them on that show tonight. I don’t remember them at all from the 80s

@cubdukat

Ай бұрын

Yep. It was all downhill for them after that…

Way way way ahead of their TIME....ITS 2020 AND THEY STILL SOUND AHEAD OF OUR TIMES

Marilyn McCoo and Andy Gibb are cracking up during the intro! Can't believe the Plasmatics we're on Solid Gold, lol!

@wesbeech827

3 ай бұрын

Me either!

RIP Wendy, you were truly a goddess.

A hybrid of metal and punk

This would NEVER get aired on today's "uptight" television!!!! Truly VERY ahead of its time!!!! and that Mrs. Cleaver how's the Beaver joke was RAUNCHY as hell and somehow got past the censors!!!! Lol!!!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@jakeoutloud1041

3 жыл бұрын

I disagree... It would definitely AIR... WENDY O WILLIAMS is timeless 😎🤟

I absolutely love the contrast of the intro with the performance and then again with the Wendy & Madame outro. Together they capture something authentic about the early 80s for me, a time when TV was polite yet at the same time people were very open to all forms of alternative and kick-ass art music on mainstream TV when there were only a few channels and no Internet. Wendy you are missed.

@ignorecorporatenews

6 жыл бұрын

oh wake the f up man

@p_e_t_e

3 жыл бұрын

@@ignorecorporatenews lol, go back to sleep man.

@markschroeder5559

2 жыл бұрын

And I can still turn on my TV and see Leave it to Beaver. But no Plasmatics.

@eljanrimsa5843

2 жыл бұрын

@@markschroeder5559 That's why we are here

@MrHorkster

Жыл бұрын

Yeah she looked like she was getting her teeth drilled in that "interview".

I remember seeing this on Solid Gold and was like WTF is going on on! Wendy O Williams was literally insane when she did all those shocking stunts onstage during her live performances with The Plasmatics. She was truly the Priestess of Heavy Metal.

@deathmetaldouglas69

6 жыл бұрын

I saw this in 1981 in 7th grade and it freaked me the fuck out. Watching it now it's even more over-the-top than I remembered. Visually it's crazy but her VOCALS are completely anti-music. Solid Gold was mostly top-40 and on occasion they would show you something wild.

@ignorecorporatenews

6 жыл бұрын

read my comment and grow a brain please

@RobertoGinsburg

5 жыл бұрын

Not Punk Metal?

@sunnyhill5119

2 жыл бұрын

She was way ahead of her time. Her initials spells WOW. She was Madonna before Madonna came along. And just like Janis Joplin....Wendy O. Williams was an Original....nothing like her before her, nothing like her after her. Rest In Peace and Rest In Power, Beloved Wendy❤️💯🤘💪🥰

@billtravis2369

Жыл бұрын

@@sunnyhill5119 Rest in Power. I like that

Holy Crap, my family ,when I was very young, watched this show every week. Missed this!!!!!! I would've remembered that!!! Didn't get into wendy until 1987

I love that this happened! Gotta give it up for the person at Solid Gold who arranged this! Wendy O. Was fucking legit!

@AngelofAnguish

2 жыл бұрын

That's how I felt when Quiet Riot and Twisted Sister appeared! METAL on a MAINSTREAM music show! GOTTA' LOVE IT!

Wendy was too cool for that venue and too cool to be interviewed by that doll. She was on a mission

I watched Solid Gold every week and I don't remember this at all! How wild!

I remember when this first aired on Solid Gold, I read in the TV Guide they would be on. I still love The Plasmatics, through them I found Motorhead.

My God they was so ahead off their time. The people in the audience didn't understand. You're still the best Wendy.

Love her,love the band,saw them a dozen times,still feel sad that she died the way she did.

@timprescott4634

3 жыл бұрын

She went EXACTLY as she intended. Why would that make you sad?

Years later, that 1/2 of guitar sold for $2,000 on Ebay!

Wendy showed up for this performance in her stage "clothes" which featured her breasts exposed in a leather top. Solid Gold refused to let her perform that way, and she refused to change. The makeup dept came to the rescue with a solution that satisfied both sides. They painted Wendy's breasts black! No one noticed. LOL. So in 1981 she became the first women to appear on US TV topless! LOL.

Better than Beyonce.

@NadaliMiNumer2256

3 жыл бұрын

Beyonce is a stinky soft

@gashousegorillas1

3 жыл бұрын

who?

@morbidmanmusic

3 жыл бұрын

Who in their right minds bother comparing the two. What a pointless exorcise.

@richmoreno9938

3 жыл бұрын

By light years!!!

@ricardooliva4034

2 жыл бұрын

None sense. Differents kind of stuff.

Fantastic! I remember seeing this on the show back in the day and the next weekend going out and getting that record. And that was my introduction to the Plasmatics. Loved that crazy performance. RIP Wendy. Oh how I wish you were still here.

Andy gin introducing Wendy is awesome

The last group I ever thought would be on Solid Gold. Wow. Great stuff.

Now that's a real punk performance. Makes Iggy Pop look like Ed Sheerin. Wendy deserves a documentary and to be remembered and celebrated in the punk cannon.

@factorfiction2847

3 жыл бұрын

I'm hip!

@morbidmanmusic

3 жыл бұрын

No, this is more like kiss.chezzy makeup and puck wannabes. But she is good,

@markatkinson9963

2 жыл бұрын

She deserved the payday she never got. Truly she was solid gold.

I remember being up late. Completely fried watching this on tv LOL. Great stuff. Great music great memories

i remember this on tv as a teen. great time to grow up then. Wendy might be gone but She's still loud as ever.

@Hot80s This is proof the cheaziest free tv back then was 100 times better than cable tv that we're forced to pay a arm and a leg for now (the kardashians! yuck!).

@ignorecorporatenews

6 жыл бұрын

or at least as cheezy / shitty / dumb

I love her forevermore RIP

It's impossible for anyone who wasn't around at the time, when the cultural bandwidth was so much narrower, to appreciate how profound a mind-fuck this was. Performances like this simply were not supposed to be shown on television. They weren't even supposed to exist.

I have the lower half of this guitar. Thinking about putting it up for auction. A piece of one of the other ones that she sawed in half sold for 6400 bucks 8 years ago. My half is in great shape and still has the nail in it that held this pic guard on. :P

Maaaaan.....I remember watching this on TV. I had the 1st 2 records on vinyl.

Wow NEVER thought I'd see this again in such superb and awesome quality!! I remember being pumped about this show for weeks way back then, the controversy of a band like this being on Solid Gold, totally awesome!!

Lol @ Andy Gibb’s eye roll and hearing him utter the words “Black Leather Monster” in the intro. Richie Stotts was a 6 ft 7 literal black leather monster in that pointy s&m alien outfit… so killer and love the dichotomy of the Plasmatics on Solid Gold lol

I remember this from when I was about 12. To this day I can't believe this was allowed on TV. I don't think Solid Gold knew what they were getting when they booked The Plasmatics

@ignorecorporatenews

6 жыл бұрын

read my comment above and read some books and wake the f up, PLEASE

@TacomaGraphicArtist

4 жыл бұрын

rj zander You have to understand that this was preMTV, and The Plasmatics were usually not TV friendly. Nirvana was different compared to the hair metal scene but they were not shocking compared to The Plasmatics in the early ‘80’s

@p_e_t_e

3 жыл бұрын

@@ignorecorporatenews hahahah! go fuck yourself. and then take your meds, please.

@dezerep

3 жыл бұрын

They knew!

The funking bar stewards gate-keeping the main media would never let anything so real as this near a TV camera these daze.

I remember seeing this! Always watched Solid Gold.

oh shit andy gibb introducing the plasmatics. I forgot he hosted this for a minute before the cocaine seizure. Saw this back in the day. Miss you wendy xxx

I was at the actual taping of this at Channel 5 studios KTLA on sunset. I saw the plasmatics live 6 times and this taping of 2 songs ....(band was synced Wendy was live) John Beauvior + Stu Deutsch were no longer in the band so this not the same energy or drive from the original plasmatics for me at least ... Love Richie's Stotts though 💪 he's a badass! ⚡👊⚡😎

@justinhoffman429

2 жыл бұрын

They werent the same after. I saw their Valley of the Damned tour and got to meet her. My dad promoted the show and my mom got schooled on veganism. Both of my parents said that she was by far the most down to earth artist they had worked with

Je connais Wendy O'Williams depuis mon adolescence, ça pète la musique 👍👍👍

I love this performance! I remember watching this with my younger brother and our former neighbour at his house on the old 26 inch Admiral colour console tv. Never heard or seen them before then, but loved it, with Wendy in her leather bikini, as I thought at the time. Black paint? I thought it was a leather bra, as did my neighbour. He commented on it, lol. I had a black leather tie I wore in high school which I joked matched Wendy O. Williams bra, lol!

This ROCKS!!

Almost 2024 and still owns it

@ronzombie6541

2 ай бұрын

Now '24.

@firecracker187

2 ай бұрын

@ronzombie6541 it's solid gold!

@firecracker187

2 ай бұрын

@@ronzombie6541 .

many of them are like wtf am i watching lololololol i love it !!

Now that's entertainment.

luv Wendy O.

One of their best ever performances.

Great performance!

Banned in Quincy Ma. Strand Theater Quincy Center, around "83"

I never thought I'd see one of The Bee Gees presenting them lol

@mjrussell414

5 жыл бұрын

WoodRatGirl Not a Bee Gee! A Gibb brother though.

@timbrockmire4497

4 жыл бұрын

Andy Gibb.

@cheapphish

3 жыл бұрын

or Marilyn McCoo for that matter (and Andy).

Can you imagine being the band/act that had to follow this...

@onerandombruh

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe they were like "Hey man, willing to break your guitar on stage?"

@joshstephens3650

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, I feel bad for Ronnie Milsap.

I saw Them in 78.. Awesome... I was front row... grabbed her inside thigh... She Rocked on.... My buddy did It to her but went up too far.. She Broke the mic over his head...lol That is a Real Story!!!

WENDY( RIP)

I remember the first time I seen her was this episode of solid gold when I was a kid living in Washington DC the solid gold audience didn't know what to think rest in peace wow

Love the Plasmatics!!

Love her!! R.I.P Wendy

I remember this when it first aired. Maggots The Record is still my favorite Plasmatics album but love some of the older gems as well. RIP Wendy

Simply one of those bands you either “ get” or you don’t. Loved the briefs worn on the outside by the bass player.

Nothing ever hit Solid fucking Gold like Wendy O Williams and the Plasmatics RIP DOLL

solid gold and i were never the same

Wendy O, wherever you are thank you for being the one and only you.Rock and Roll forever.

I remember when this originally aired in the early ‘80’s. I was 13 or 14. Mind was blown. 🤯

Props to Solid Gold and whoever their booker was for putting on full-on punk rock on a show famous for its MOR taste. And as usual,Richie Stotts was on top form..

Both Andy & Wendy R. I. P. 🙏🙏

Solid Gold USA's Top of the Pops

I just came on to see Andy Gibb! RIP💓

she was wild,wow

What? How come i dont remember this. All i remember of Solid Gold were the dancers and lip syncing. really odd, being that the hosts described what the Plasmatics were known for.

Wendy was the greatest, true PUNK style and aggression, wish they would have stuck with punk as opposed to moving more towards metal... but I guess with the aggro metal was the next logical progression... rip Wendy, truly one of a kind

She changed my life

Metal priestess easily their finest so vinyl record, really really good songs, les beech rhythm guitar god, live vocals here

Wendy ❤

she was Hot,daaaang

@jenniferfelan694

8 жыл бұрын

Oh yes. Wendy O Williams was not only the Preistess of Metal but she was the real deal.

@97warlock

8 жыл бұрын

Yep, I can rest assure that no woman in Rock/pop or any other Genre will make a lasting impression that Wendy left on me. She, to me is the Queen of Heavy Metal & Queen of Punk & Not Marylin Manson nore Lady Gaga or any other artists can top it imo because not only did she do what she did, the stunts etc & breaking boundaries & taboos, but she did them when American was still Chips & Love Boat & Disco Dancing .The timeframe in those days makes everything she did then much more extreme than anything going on nowadays that bands do.

Thanks for your comment!

fuck yeah, they were on solid gold!!!!!awesome

Catchy tune 🤣

@SG1dayagain I rather liked "Hi Mrs. Cleaver, how's the Beaver?". For some reason I don't think Madame was asking about a little boy.

Their songs always had a repetitive form to them, but they are so damn addictive. Stotts had weird solos that rivaled Philo Cramer's.

@lfader

3 жыл бұрын

Ya erratic as all hell but strong chords w/ Wes Beech they were badass!! Beauvior ripped on bass! I was at this taping it was on sunset at KTLA Channel 5 studios.

@joel8750

3 жыл бұрын

@@lfader They would have been incredible live even without all the theatrics! Enjoyable to read that you got to see the most known line-up just before they made a change in direction musically (I personally prefer their Coup D'Etat work the most).

@lfader

3 жыл бұрын

@@joel8750 Whoa instant reply ! 😆 This was still pretty cool even though the band sync this but Wendy's vocals were live I enjoyed just seeing Richie Stotts up there jamming away it sounded like a live track to me they probably recorded earlier! If I remember right Philo is the lead guitarist for Lee Ving & Fear! I love fear. Remember punk solos can't make too much sense or be too technically accomplished or they wouldn't be punk solos right?? 😂😂😂 I was always fascinated still am by Richie Stotts I met him at Perkins palace saw their sound check on his side of the stage it was without Wendy they were rehearsing songs and it was better than the show for me just seeing the band Jam Soundchecks rule! He was wearing Levi's and a t-shirt just a blue Mohawk No TuTu / French Maid outfit/ S+M mask etc.😆 tall guy nice guy - polite. he gave me one of his guitar picks and told me it's from the place he likes to go guitar shopping in New York Manny's! Also saw Wendy after the plasmatics at the Reseda Country Club with Michael Ray on Lead guitar he's he's a badass and that was a blistering set I enjoyed it I didn't know if it was going to be good or not without Stotts. Life was real back then.... miss it ... Take care👍 !!

Totally forgot about SOLID GOLD!

I hear alot of Sweets BURN ON THE FLAME in this song. I never got into them, they did have some bad ass riffs, and Wendy was always great to look at...

thats a keeper

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🙏🏻WENDY 🙏🏻🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

It's really fucking good!

Great rock performance! I wish I was there to see it in person :):):):)

Saludos desde Monte Grande, Argentina!

@juanroman6234

3 жыл бұрын

Saludos desde Jujuy Argentina. .

@damianandres

3 жыл бұрын

@@juanroman6234 Tenes nombre de heroe chabon! Abrazo.

@marcy7879 No the quality is not HD. Just a very clean VHS recording transferred to DVD.

Britney Spears could never top this 😂

@morbidmanmusic

3 жыл бұрын

Which was never the point.

@southfloridaarcheryguy114

2 жыл бұрын

Not for nuthin’ but Brittany shaved her head and beat the shit out of a paparazzi’s car with an umbrella……. Credit where credit is due.

Love it when she chainsaws the f**kin guitar@

I bet my Dad and Mom changed the channel. Otherwise I would have remembered this.

She blew Solid Gold right the fuck up! They thought they were getting “just a girl.”🤣

And if you luv this check out Australia's AMYL & THE SNIFFERS. All lead singer Amy needs is a chainsaw and she could be the new Wendy!

There is nothing more rock n roll then chainsawing a les Paul in half!!

I like her little shimmy & downward tomahawk chop as she screams bloody murder!

I am just thankful that Wendy and G.G. Allin did not have a Love Child together.

Wendy was the only person who could wear a leather outfit and a rhino horn and get away with it.

2:35 - Aw, _man!_ that was hot!!!

@wolfie819

5 жыл бұрын

Because unoryunalty you can't do that to real people on stage😂. Symbolic sacrifice

Andy Gibb never seemed so mundane as when he was describing the Plasmatics while wearing a brown sweater.

Even Pete Townsend or Kieth Moon wouldn't have used a chainsaw!

On solid gold haha 😂 Oooohhh Shock rock haha 😂

Richie looking cool af 😎

Madame???

Is it just me but do Marilyn and Andy look kinda baked at the beginning?

@alexhicks5889

5 жыл бұрын

I think they're stoned with abject fear.

@timprescott4634

5 жыл бұрын

Andy was always baked.