Plasmatics - Dream Lover (Calderone Theatre, NY May 17, 1980)

This video is one of the remaining handful of videos remaining from the Plasmatics early 1980 show at the Calderone Theater in Hempstead, Long Island. The song, Bobby Darin’s “Dream Lover”, one of the very few cover songs the Plasmatics ever did was one of the first songs they ever recorded on Vice Squad Records before signing with Stiff UK to release New Hope for the Wretched. One of the things we see in this video, although, here edited way down in length is the Plasmatics radical, and in those days famous, “noise jam”. The noise jam first appeared on the Vice Squad release “Meet the Plasmatics” () although there coupled with the song “Want You Baby”. Rod Swenson, who produced the record, had an interest in “random generated sounds or noise” as music and so in the recording of Want You Baby during the instrumental portion he turned off the headphones of the band members so none of them co