History Music / ThePlasmatics

* RefrainFromAssuming: "The Damned" is often referred to as "Prisoners of the Damned".

* BigBrotherIsWatching: Their album "Beyond the Valley of 1984" explores [[Creator/GeorgeOrwell Orwellian]] themes.
* CarefulWithThatAxe: Wendy O. could shriek like no other. During the tour to promote "Coup d' Etat" she pushed her vocals so hard she had to follow treatment to avoid permanent damage to her vocal chords.

The Plasmatics were a notorious American PunkRock band, notorious for breaking countless taboos because of their vandalizing stage acts, which even included chainsaws and sexual simulation by their sometimes semi nude lead singer Wendy O. Williams. The band was arrested several times because of public indecency. In 1981 their stage performance in Milwaukee led to the arrest of Wendy O. on charges of indecency, after reportedly "simulating masturbation with a sledge hammer in front of an audience". After resisting being searched she was thrown to the ground and she and her band members were beaten severely. The obscenity charges always led to to the band being acquitted, but made them more infamous.

* UnPerson: Guitarist Richie Stotts was a co-founder of the band, but after the release of "Coup d' Etat" he was edited out of band videos and not referred to by name in a 2006 compulation DVD of the band.

The Plasmatics were a notorious American PunkRock band, notorious for breaking countless taboos because of their vandalizing stage acts, which even included chainsaws and sexual simulation by their sometimes semi nude lead singer Wendy O. Williams. The band was arrested several times because of public indecency. In 1981 their stage performance in Milwaukee led to the arrest of Wendy O. on charges of indecency, after reportedly "simulating masturbation with a sledge hammer in front of an audience". After resisting being searched she was thrown to the ground and he and her band members were beaten severely. The obscenity charges always led to to the band being acquitted, but made them more infamous.

* HelloNurse: During some shows Wendy O. performed in a nurse costume.

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* NippledAndDimed: Wendy is notorious for inventing the "punk rock pastie", a piece of black gaffer tape stuck over each nipple like a physical CensorBox to avoid breaching the letter of obscenity laws. Copied subsequently by other punk and metal performers with similarly body-flaunting habits.

'''The Plasmatics''' were a notorious American PunkRock band, notorious for breaking countless taboos because of their vandalizing stage acts, which even included chainsaws and sexual simulation by their sometimes semi nude lead singer Wendy O. Williams. The band was arrested several times because of public indecency. In 1981 their stage performance in Milwaukee led to the arrest of Wendy O. on charges of indecency, after reportedly "simulating masturbation with a sledge hammer in front of an audience". After resisting being searched she was thrown to the ground and he and her band members were beaten severely. The obscenity charges always led to to the band being acquitted, but made them more infamous.

* [[HeAlsoDid She Also Did]]: Wendy O. appeared in a porn movie, "Candy Goes To Hollywood" (1979), where she had a OneSceneWonder involving ping pong balls. The band also appeared in an episode of ''Series/{{SCTV}}'' and Wendy herself in an episode of ''Series/MacGyver''.

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