Surely KISS fans must know about PLASMATICS, or even enjoy them casually.
For those who don't know...
What were the Plasmatics in 15 minutes.
Enjoy!
©1999 Plasmatics Media, Inc.
℗2026 Hipper Than Hell Records
Recorded Sept. 12th, 1980 at Pier 62, NYC, New York
01 - N.Y. Police Crowd Control Officer [00:00:18]
02 - Helicopter Arrival [00:04:28]
03 - Intro: Plasma Jam [00:05:21]
04 - Squirm [00:06:52]
05 - Tight Black Pants [00:09:04]
06 - Nothing [00:10:50]
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Richie Stotts describing it to journalist Joel Gausten from his blog...
“We got a permit from New York City to film a movie, and we were gonna
do it on the Pier. We built a stage out there. A real freakin’ stage. It
was five feet high and made of plywood, which cost a lot of money. Then
we built all phony stage amps and stuff. Even the guitars we played
were not really real. Then we went to the studio and recorded the songs
we were gonna play. The recorded them without the vocals, because Wendy
was gonna sing live. Then we had to get a PA system out there to play
the music. Then we had a ramp going off the stage, and behind the stage
was the end of the pier and the Hudson River.
In the meantime, we didn’t tell New York City that we put posters all
around saying that there was going to be a free concert by the
Plasmatics. Then we invited Chuck Scarborough and those characters from
ABC, NBC, CBS to come down. We did a press release.
So we built the stage a couple days before. I built part of that stage,
hammering the freakin’ shit in. We built a drum riser, got a cheap drum
set, threw it up there. The plan was for us to do the songs, and Wendy
would go to the front of the pier, get in the Cadillac, drive the car at
us and go up the ramp. Then we’d jump off the stage, everything would
explode and the car would hit this barrier in the back. It was a real
Cadillac, and we wanted to use that for our next show. We buy these
cars, and then we’d drive them to the show and blow them up.
Later on, we got a great pyro guy named ‘Pyro Pete,’ but before him we
had a guy named Rob. We didn’t know much about pyro, but Swenson thought
Rob was taking care of it. And all Rob did was have 10-gallon tanks cut
in half under the stage, and he just poured gasoline in them. This was
not what we expected. If the fire department had seen that, it would
have been all off. There was a tiff before the show, because we were all
nervous.
It was wild, because so many people came. My parents actually came to
this thing. We rented a helicopter, so we’d come down in the helicopter.
We came down and it looked like Woodstock. It was just jam-packed. The
police department was there; the fire department was there. It was
really exciting, and really exciting because we didn’t really have to
worry about playing because it was already taped. (laughs)
We went down there, and we played these songs and it was great. Wendy
goes and gets the car, drives the car up the stage, jumps out and
everybody’s fine. The car goes up the ramp, but doesn’t go up the ramp
the way we thought it would. The whole stage blew up, the gasoline tanks
worked…but the car just kept going and went right into the river.
The whole thing was great!”
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