{"id":20396,"date":"2022-11-05T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-05T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=20396"},"modified":"2022-11-04T10:59:22","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T10:59:22","slug":"wendy-o-williams-back-on-dvd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=20396","title":{"rendered":"Wendy O. Williams back on DVD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

WARNING: IF YOU DON\u2019T LIKE IT LOUD, HEAVY AND IN YOUR FACE -DESTROY THIS IMMEDIATELY!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n


Nov. 18 is the explosive date of the release of this rare live concert footage of the indomitable High Priestess of Metal, Wendy O. Williams, featuring Special Guests Lemmy and Wurzel from MOTORHEAD, on DVD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Shot at London\u2019s 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 \u201cJailbait,\u201d as well as audience sing-alongs for \u201cBump and Grind,\u201d with lead guitarist Michael Ray on Wendy\u2019s shoulders, \u201cFuck and Roll,\u201d the song \u201cYou\u2019ll Succeed,\u201d a crowd pleaser that never made it onto an album, Wendy\u2019s \u201cBanana Rap,\u201d and much more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Wendy\u2019s 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. \u201cWay more than a rock band,\u201d as John Levy said on VH1 some years later, \u201cthe Plasmatics were a phenomenon.\u201d\u00a0\u201cThe Ramones x10, the Sex Pistols x10, the Clash x10,\u201d wrote Charles Young in\u00a0Classic Rock<\/em>. They introduced the mohawk to mass American culture, fused punk and metal when those groups hated each other, and produced stage shows that 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 \u201cthe greatest punk band in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n


By 1982, after the release of two albums (New Hope for the Wretched<\/em>, and\u00a0Beyond the Valley of 1984<\/em>), and an EP entitled\u00a0Metal Priestess<\/em>, the Plasmatics released the landmark punk-metal fusion album\u00a0Coup D\u2019Etat<\/em>, which the\u00a0LA Times\u00a0<\/em>called \u201cthe best slice of heavy metal since the last AC\/DC album,\u201d with Wendy\u2019s vocals so strong as to make the likes of\u00a0\u201cPat Benatar sound like Judy Collins.\u201d For the next two albums, Williams and Swenson decided not to use the Plasmatics name, eliminate the theatrics (\u201cbeen there, done that\u201d), and focus on Wendy\u2019s vocals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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