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Plasmatics is a Punk rock act. Their sound grew out of Stand by Your Man, Dan Hartman, The Dead Boys and Patti Smith. Those roots explain a lot about how Plasmatics arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Dead Boys, Vice Squad, GG Allin, Sham 69 and The Casualties, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Anthrax, Butcher Babies and Motörhead, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 13 connections around Plasmatics, reaching back through Stand by Your Man and forward to Anthrax. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Plasmatics connections
Plasmatics grew out of Stand by Your Man, Dan Hartman, The Dead Boys and Patti Smith, shares an orbit with Dead Boys, Vice Squad, GG Allin and Sham 69, went on to shape Anthrax, Butcher Babies and Motörhead. 13 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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