Legendary talk-show host Tom Snyder has died at 71. Snyder, you may recall was the chain-smoking, slightly clueless talker who hosted The Tomorrow Show on NBC. He was parodied to brilliant effect by Dan Akroyd on Saturday Night Live.
To his credit, and to the pleasant surprise of many (and the unpleasant surprise of many others), he offered up his airtime to a series of punk rock acts in the late '70s and early '80s, giving voice to Iggy Pop, the Clash, the Jam, Joan Jett, the Plasmatics, The Ramones, John Lydon and many more.
Watch here as Wendy O. Willams and the Plasmatics perform "Master Plan," and in the process blow up a car on stage. I'm pretty sure this audience had no idea what hit them.
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