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The Plasmatics: Confessions of a Ballbuster

Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, 7 February 1981

THE AMPLIFIERS are screaming. Well wouldn't you be? Ritchie Stotts in Playboy bunny garb has just mountaineered them; Wendy O Williams in shaving foam that some gallant front rowers are sacrificing their sodas to help rinse off (I'm convinced it's shaving foam though Dave Lee Roth was grinning and smoking a cigarette in the wings) has just had sex with them, and someone's given her a bloody great shotgun and she's just finished ventilating them.

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