Just a super quick one.
That’s Wendy O. Williams above, standing on top of a car and about to bring a sledgehammer down on an unsuspecting televisions set. This is just a screen-captured from the video embedded on this old post. The band were out front of a Sam Goody’s on East 42nd Street, just steps off Second Avenue around what some now desperately call “Pix Plaza,” doing a promotional stunt for the release of 1980’s New Hope for The Wretched
I stumbled on the photo below, meanwhile, presumably taken circa their follow-up album, 1981’s Beyond the Valley of 1984. I’m making that assumption given Ms. Williams’ tonsorial presentation -- a brunette mohawk in place her former dyed blonde locks. Again, by my estimation, Wendy is pictured back on East 42nd Street, albeit this time waiting at the southeast corner where The Deuce intersects with Madison Avenue. Ironically enough, I first bought Beyond the Valley of 1984 at a long-shuttered record store just a block or so to the north of that very spot, probably oblivious to the fact that Wendy herself was stalking those very same streets. It would have been something to run into her on the sidewalk (although her base of operations, as I documented a little while back, was way downtown). Still, one just didn’t imagine the Plasmatics walking around Manhattan.
Before I could verify the corner in question, I found an older photograph of practically the very same spot, this one taken, presumably, in the late `70s. That same Duane Read sign is visible in the shot of Wendy.
I haven’t made it back up to that neck of the woods recently enough to capture a glimpse of what that corner looks like these days, but here it was as recently as 2022.
The exhaustive clip below, meanwhile, was released last year in observance of the band’s 45th anniversary.
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