Featuring a stageshow that often including the rampant destruction of the symbols of the American dream, such as exploding Cadillacs, sledgehammers to TVs and exploding speakers the Plasmatics were two-thirds performance art, one-third hot, steamy punk. The Plasmatics are credited with bringing the mohawk to the Punk scene, for Wendy O. Williams and the rest of the band, it was about shocking the world out of the complacent lethargy of the 70's and 80's and challenging convention in everything they did.

Quotes:

Ever since I was little, I've always liked to smash things. Basically, I hate conformity. I hate people telling me what to do. It makes me want to smash things. So-called normal behaviour patterns make me so bored, I could throw up! The Plasmatics [her heavy metal rock group] give me a chance to get this violence out of me, and express it to other people. I don't like comformity. I don't like fashion. I don't like art. I do like smashing up expensive things."

(On her past as a live-sex performer): "It was just like working in a donut shop, except you didn't wear a paper hat."