LARKER Issue 1: Times Square

1976. Wendy Orlean Williams arrives at the Port Authority Bus Terminal. She spots an ad in a magazine lying open on the station floor. It was a casting call for Rod Swenson’s experimental Captain Kink’s Theatre. Williams replied to the ad. “I knew right away she was one-of-akind”, Swenson has said. Two years later they formed the Plasmatics. Blowing up cars on stage, bringing the street and its energy into performance. Live at Pier 84, Williams writhes on top of a speaker, screaming into the microphone, just before blowing up a Chevy Nova SS : “You live just for these / You’re a sex junkie / You’ll do as I please / Your name is sleaze, You’re a sex junkie / You’ll do as I please...”