everyday is halloween

snl not-ready-for-primetime player john belushi was a fan of hardcore punk. he pulled some strings to get one of his favorite punk bands, fear, to perform on snl on halloween 1981. fear pulled in some punk friends, among them was ian mackaye, of the great d.c. band minor threat, & later a member of fugazi, to be part of their audience to stage dive & slam dance. you can see that fear behaved as their obnoxious selves & snl cut to commercial on their third song, 'let's have a war.' seeing unadulterated, undilated hardcore punk rock on national tv sure as hell scared the fuck out of the audience. perfect for halloween. i think even snl host, donald pleasance [who starred in one of the scariest fucking movies of the latter half of the 20th century, halloween (1978)] seemed nervous as fuck in his introduction of fear. the band delivered as promised on their name.

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