The Jam - Down in the Tube Station at Midnight - Polydor 7" EP - UK - 1978 - NM
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WENDY O. WILLIAMS (WOW) LIVE AND F'ING LOUD FROM LONDON!
Shot
at London’s Camden Palace in London in 1985 and originally broadcast on
Sky TV, the footage captures Williams in a rare and pinnacle moment in
her now iconic and legendary career - with trademarked backbend screams
and scorching vocals at an unmatched, blood-pumping, high-energy
athletic pace. The largely speed-metal set features an appearance by
Lemmy and Wurzel from MOTORHEAD, who join Wendy onstage for the song
“Jailbait,” as well as audience sing-alongs for “Bump and Grind,” with
lead guitarist Michael Ray on Wendy’s shoulders, “Fuck and Roll,” the
song “You’ll Succeed,” a crowd pleaser that never made it onto an album,
Wendy’s “Banana Rap,” and much more.
Wendy’s
musical career began in 1977, when she met radical counter-culture
artist Rod Swenson in NYC and he created the PLASMATICS, a band of
changing musicians around her that revolutionized American culture,
creating a shockwave still felt today. “Way more than a rock band,” as
John Levy said on VH1 some years later, “the Plasmatics were a
phenomenon.” “The Ramones x10, the Sex Pistols x10, the Clash x10,”
wrote Charles Young in Classic Rock.
They introduced the mohawk to mass American culture, fused punk and
metal when those groups hated each other, and produced stage shows which
included Wendy chain-sawing guitars and blowing up full-size cars,
among other things that have never been matched to today. Banned in
London, busted in Cleveland and Milwaukee, Wendy and the Plasmatics were
introduced in 1981 by Tom Snyder on his late-night TV show as “the
greatest punk band in the world.”
By 1982, after the release of two albums (New Hope for the Wretched, and Beyond the Valley of 1984), and an EP entitled Metal Priestess, the Plasmatics released the landmark punk-metal fusion album Coup D’Etat, which the LA Times called
“the best slice of heavy metal since the last AC/DC album,” with
Wendy’s vocals so strong as to make the likes of “Pat Benatar sound like
Judy Collins.” For the next two albums, Williams and Swenson decided
not to use the Plasmatics name, eliminate the theatrics (“been there,
done that”), and focus on Wendy’s vocals.
The first of those albums, the WOW
album, was produced by Gene Simmons of KISS and got Wendy a Grammy
nomination for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance of the year, and was
picked by heavy-metal bible’s KERRANG's
Malcom Dome as “Best Album of the Year.” Wanting to bring back the
speed of the Plasmatics, Wendy’s next album, a full-out speed metal
album, Kommander of Kaos
(KOK), was released the next year. And it was during this period in
1985 that this concert was shot. The show was produced by Philip
Goodhand-Taite and directed by Rod Swenson.
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