On The Plasmatics guestlist back in 1980

One of the very first bands Maryanne Christiano-Mistretta saw play, back in 1980, was The Plasmatics, at Hole in the Wall, Rochelle Park, New Jersey. Their drummer, Stu Deutsch, had put Maryanne and one of her friends on the guest list so they could get in, and it led to lifelong love of music and a job as a music journalist. Years later, this in turn, would lead to Stu endorsing her first book “On the Guest List: Adventures of a Music Journalist” and then later, Maryanne writing the foreword for Stu’s new book, “My Life as The Plasmatics drummer”.

https://maryannemistretta.wordpress.com/2026/11/12/honored-to-write-the-foreword-in-new-plasmastics-book/

My Life as The Plasmatics Drummer: The Diaries of Stu Deutsch (1978-81) by Stu Deutsch is available now, in all good book and records shops, and direct from the publisher, here.