Given the recent turn of events, Swenson proposed the name Beyond the Valley of 1984 . The tour, in 1981, became “The 1984 World Tour”. In between touring drummers, Alice Cooper ‘s Neal Smith was brought in to drum on the record. The album, with its Orwellian and apocalyptic theme, and songs such as “Masterplan”, “Pig is a Pig” and “Sex Junkie”, was released a few months later. During the album’s recording, the Plasmatics were booked on Tom Snyder ‘s late night TV show , on which the host introduced them as possibly “the greatest punk rock band in the entire world.” Recording engineer Eddie Ciletti mixed the record at the Ranch recording studio in New York as well as the TV sound for the Snyder performance.
The 1984 World Tour
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