Wendy O. Williams was pretty fascinating

Here is a good article about her. Anyone see her live?

I always thought she was fascinating too. Made Madonna’s “shock” gimmicks look like amateur shit.

She was a supporter of gays too and had a Black guy in her group, which is rare for heavy metal.

R35 she pretended to support gay people to boost her fake image, and sjr thought gay men secretly wanted her, much like whoredonna.

The original Wendy Williams. It's odd (and to me annoying) how many names have been recycled. I mean, Steve McQueen?

On SCTV with the Fishin' Musician.

She was fascinating and had such a sad end.

I saw her in a live production of "The Rocky Horrow Show" in St. Louis in the 1980s. I think she was RIff Rff.

Yes, R11 from this thread, so untalented that she's been an influence for over 40 years, yet nobody managed to be better at it than her.

Who did she influence other than your sad ass, r14?

She was unique and ahead of her time in many ways. She did her own stunts. She was a hardcore vegetarian, health food nut. She was an introvert in life, extrovert on stage.

I think she regretted doing Reform School Girls but it is one of my favorites. It's so camp and over the top. She wears thigh high boots in the entire movie - including in the group showers.

Off the top of my head r11, she influenced every heavy and hair metal band of the era. Lady Gaga, Madonna, Miley Cyrus, the costumers on Mad Max and everything they begat and Janet Jackson's dominatrix phase. Oh and influenced you to be an attention whoring threadshitter.

She was kind of the Edie Sedgwick of hard rock.

R17 that is all a figment of your imagination. You really suck.

She's someone who I dearly wish I had been able to meet.

R3 Jean Beauvoir. Jump to 5:45 in the interview, apparently Prince was a fan and reached out to him at one point. Who knew?

R21 did Prince write and produce music for Wendy o Williams like he did for Sheena Easton? He did?! Well, I’ll be damned! Wendy O Williams and the plasmatics influenced Prince too? Well, how about that!

Prince owed everything to the plasmatics. He was a big zero and sought out wow for inspiration and approval. He did the same for juice newton! Yay! Fiction is fun!

R21 that guy can really talk. Not one "uh...like...you know...uh".

Jean Beauvoir talks about rock from a homeless shelter.

Whenever climate change comes up, and it sure does come up a lot these days, I always think of Maggots: The Record. Plasmatics concept album about global worming.

[quote]Williams first attempted suicide in 1993 by hammering a knife into her chest where it lodged in her sternum. However, she changed her mind and called Rod Swenson to take her to the hospital.

I love her already

R27 try it for yourself. It’ll make me love you

I love how OP's article refers to her as a "rock giant" even though nobody listened to or even heard their music at the time, they had no hits and their records didn't sell. They were known SOLELY for her stunts to get attention.

All i really remember about her was her wearing electrical tape over her nipples. I was aware of her in the 80s,but not a fan of her music.

Old me remembers that her suicide got about three paragraphs in some issue of SPIN magazine. 2001?

^^^the rest was about how great Sleater Kinney is. Yawn. Give me Wendy any day.

I remember when she went on People are Talking (Bay Area morning show) & yelled at Debbi (Mrs.) Fields for giving people cancer with her cookies !

Do her cookies give cancer?

Since they filed for Chapter 11, Mrs. Fields has stopped making it's cancer toffee cookies.

She was a staunch animal advocate her died in such a sad way in rural Connecticut. A true pioneer ahead of her time in her attitude, look and lyrics, the Plasmatics especially Wendy weren’t given their due.

The Plasmatics made a lot of TV appearances in the very early 80s. Wendy kind of scared me. I remember them being on the late night Tom Snyder show and they blew something up on stage on “Fridays” (I think that was the show).

I worked for Mrs. Fields in Colorado and met her once. Her cookies were of the highest quality wich is why they were hella expensive even then. She did kinda piss me off when she gave the managers mink teddy bears instead of the bonus they were expecting (my husband was a manager) !

She was great in an episode of McGuyver.

[quote]I worked for Mrs. Fields in Colorado and met her once. Her cookies were of the highest quality wich is why they were hella expensive even then. She did kinda piss me off when she gave the managers mink teddy bears instead of the bonus they were expecting (my husband was a manager) !

You’re kidding! WTF did she think employees were going to do with a mink teddy bear? And was she a bitch?

The idea of Wendy O. Williams making a appearances at Mrs. Field’s Cookies and handing out teddy bears is pretty hilarious.

I saw the Plasmatics live in LA twice; at the Whiskey A Go Go and at a larger venue (Hollywood Palladium, I think).

The Whiskey show was scary because I was right near the stage and I thought that the pyrotechnics singed off my eyebrows (luckily they weren't).

The guitarist deliberately bashed his head with his guitar and played while blood dripped down his face. Don't know if it was real or just stage blood. The show was so loud that my ears were ringing for several hours. WOW's tits were rock hard and ugly.

My main recollection of the other show was that they blew up a car onstage (indoors). Otherwise, the show was not as exciting as the much smaller and raunchier Whiskey performance.

R43 Did they play “Fuck that Booty”?

I remember they had one track where each band member recorded their part in a separate room/studio and the unlistenable track is the result of that experiment.

[quote]I remember when she went on People are Talking (Bay Area morning show) & yelled at Debbi (Mrs.) Fields for giving people cancer with her cookies !

That clip used to be on Youtube. She didn't yell, she was nice and respectful to Fields, but she said she didn't agree with Fields pushing unhealthy foods.

The two hosts (male and female) were the ones offended and told Wendy she could leave if she didn't want to treat Fields with respect. Total dicks.

Oh no R42 ! That was my poor sentence structure ! It was Mrs. Feilds,not Wendy.

And Wendy did walk off, graciously I might add.

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