-0015- Plasmatics Are Still Relevant!
I think I should say »Plasmatics are even more relevant today than they were back in the days 45ish years ago!»
I was sent a short clip by a friend from a the small DIY punk event … and I was appalled by the cheer timidness of the band. It was like third graders music class ensamble playing a cover of a rock piece. There was nothing »punk» in the performance. Absolutely way too clean and nonconfrontational to even be considered as punk. Punk as it was originally when I grew up. It was more like a pop song. Not even a pop song with an edge. Fuck, even some Lady Gaga songs have more edge than that … what ever that was.
The woke has managed to kill even punk it seems. At least in this case, that is. Cannot make an generalisation from one short clip of one random performance from some random small event. But it was supposed to be a »punk» event. Yet there was nothing punk to be seen or hear. Not on the stage or in the audience. It was like a hippie fest.
From the shock of all that I immediately thought of Plasmatics and Wendy O. Williams, the goddess of punk and the metal priestess! Wendy on the stage, topless, nipples cross taped with black duct tape, cutting an electric guitar in half with a chain saw … while the guitar was plugged into the amplifier. »Butcher baby!»
Next she would go and blow up a car on stage … »Master plan!»
Full on »in your face» with the music and Wendy’s stage performance. No questions asked nor prisoners taken. True essence of real punk. Establishment criticising uncompromising, sometimes a bit violent even, rebellion. But never destructive, except for the oppressive powers to be and the materialistic hedonism. Anti-commercialism and anti-establishment. Establishment as it is now, and as it was back then.
So … hearing that abomination I had to cleanse my ears and soul with the good old Plasmatics!
First my go to feel good song »The Damned», followed by their second album »Beyond the Valley of 1984» which is a definition of the »fuck you» for the establishment. After Wendy was beaten, twice, by the police and thrown into the jail by small dick feeble “men”. The last song on the album »Pig is a Pig» leaves no questions what took place in January 18th 1981 at Milwaukee. Later the same year the album was released.
No wonder why Wendy has been referred as »a punk nonconformist who never sold out!»
Also Plasmatics are the very reason why Sex Pistols never really did well in US … They had Wendy and the guys. Johnny and the bois didn’t really live up to the mark with their more subtle act :)
Anyway, I’m of an opinion that we are living in the age of where it is definitely the time and place we do need people like Wendy to break the bubble of the woke, which seems to be worse than the small dick patriarchy establishment of 60s and 70s.
Unfortunately I don’t see anyting like this coming. No cojones or determination. Emasculation of the guys, for the sake of “toxic masculinity” and degeneration of the real feminine power has definitely had their toll on the society.
Probably there are some underground basement bands that are carrying the torch of true punk as it was and should be.
Closest to the good old “madness”, I think, are Otoboke Beaver from Japan. Those young women are just mental! Absolutely great musicians and keeping up the tunes and the attitude. Yet they feel like a polished “product” and “a brand”.
But I do love them nonetheless.
That said …
All hail Plasmatics!
All hail Wendy O. Williams!
The punk is dead! Long live the punk!
Yours drooly,
Lobotomy Patient Z