These 12 Famously Naked Rock Stars Can Show Miley Cyrus How It's Done

From performance art to protest to plain old intoxicated exposure- not counting "wardrobe malfunctions" on the order of Lenny Kravitz's sudden meat peek last summer- here are a dirty dozen naked rock stories.





Wendy O. Williams

As the she devil front beast of the punk metal Plasmatics, Wendy O. Williams performed as nude as legally possible whenever and wherever her sensory overload NY wrecking crew stormed a stage.

Often this meant just barely covering her nipples with electrical tape, however, if Wendy could bare all without the cops busting up the show,she went on not just topless, but tapeless.

Wendy's unclothed antics often spilled over into other public appearances and she came by the practice honestly. Prior to the Plasmatics, Wendy featured at various Times Squares peep shows, developing a remarkable muscle control trick in which she could launch ping pong calls from her lady harp. 



Jim Morrison

Rock's most notorious indecent exposure arrest occurred on September 20, 1969, when Doors shaman Jim Morrison reportedly uncaged the Lizard King from his leather pants on stage in Miami, FL.

Morrison denied any such doings, but the next day an irate Miami Herald reported: "Many of the nearly twelve thousand youths said they found the bearded singer's exhibition disgusting. Included in the audience were hundreds of unescorted junior and senior high school girls. Morrison appeared to "go to town" in full view of the audience, screamed obscenities and exposed himself"

The Doors maintain that no such photographic evidence exists, but the case remained open when Morrison died on July 3, 1971.



Grace Slick

Jefferson Airplane's outspoken psychedelic diva occasionally also got out of her top in concert. One famous photo depicts Grace in concert licking a lollipop while popping out her left breast and inviting endless bawdy wisecracks about an "all day sucker" for decades to come (Ok, ok... consider that pun intended, too.)





Marilyn Manson

Satan exposing industrial metal deviant Marilyn Manson was arrested twice in 1995 for indecent exposure on stage, both times in Florida (seriously, I think there's something in the water down there. For real.) and again in 2007 in Rome, where authorities additionally charged him for a 1999 incident in Imola, Italy. Dude can't keep that little devil down!





Iggy Pop

As the freaktastic forefather of shock rock, Iggy Pop has been bursting out of whatever little clothing he sports on stage from his 1960s debute with the Stooges right on up, most likely, to whenever he last gigged.

Sightings of Iggy's iguana in concert as numerous as the shards of glass from the smashed peanut butter jars he used to roll around in. On occasion, fans even hop up on stage and strip down to join him.



Red  Hot Chili Peppers


Even before the Red Hot Chili Peppers broke big musically with their signature punky freaky wig out alt metal slamborees, the band was infamous (or shall I say, skinfamous?!) for their very particular (lack of) stage attire.

The first few RHCP lineups performed in a uniform consisting of "socks on c-cks" and that is is exactly what it sounds like. The band covered their chili peppers with dangling tube socks, hit the stage, and tore it up.



Rage Against The Machine

Ever the political provocateurs, in 1993, RATM used the Lollapalooza tour's Philadelphia stop to utterly bare their feelings (and everything else) in a protest against censorship in general and Tipper Gore's Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC) in particular.

Rather than play a set, singer Zack de la Rocha, guitar ace Tom Morello, bass player Tim Commerford and drummer Brad Wilk stood on stage naked. Duct tape covered their mouths and the letters P-M-R-C were pained in bold relief on their chests.



Perry Farrell

One of Jane's Addiction's most famous album titles slyly declares, Nothing's Shocking. Whatever irony that may contain, when it comes to the fact that Jane's cosmic alt metal kingpin Perry Farrell has frequently sung and strutted for admirers in his althogether... well, yeah... that's nothing really shocking.




Rammstein

German industrial savages Rammstein have featured hardcore penetration in their own music videos and their multimedia blitzkrieg stage shows often incorporate naked bodies of every stripe, including those of the band members.

In fact, nudity is such a Rammstein trademark, that the group sells an officially licensed poster of themselves playing in Das Buff (see what I did there?!)



GG Allin

Punk rock's most ferocious pervert, belligerent miscreant, and all time champion literal shit tosser, GG Allin barfed out his signature brand of assault in rock form while naked way more often than he ever even tried anything will wearing pants.

The essential 1993 documentary Hated: GG Allin and the Murder Junkies chronicles GG's whole sordid saga with hilarious and horrifying aplomb.

It's worth noting that for all of Allin's vile and insane shenanigans, he's got to be admired for constantly revealing and even reveling in the fact that he remains among the least endowed males ever photographed. (There is no shame in his game!)



Stacia from Hawkwind

Volcanically voluptuous stage siren Stacia did not play any instruments (at least not in a musical sense) for pioneering 70s UK space rock overloads Hawkwind. Nonetheless, her wild nude dancing and eye poppingly beyond Russ Meyer curvaceous physique proved as crucial to the group's live shows as their consciousness expanding interdimensional sonic explorations, mind bending psychedelic light projections and astronomical booze bill for one time bass player Lemmy Kilmister.





Ta-Dah the Shit Lady from Butthole Surfers

Texas psych punk skunk metal terror tornadoes the Butthole Surfers proved to be so much

more than a mere band during their 1980s heyday.

While the group itself was a full blown freak collective, the misfits, crackpots, nutjobs, geniuses, and anti social visionaries their live shows attracted and embraced the music and its players although each show provided all involved with a place that felt like home, which it did.

Among the throngs to hurl herself toward Butthole nirvana was a performance artist and reported Times Square peep sow professional (a la Wendy O. Williams) named Kathleen Lynch who reinvented herself as Ta-Da the Shit Lady.

Ta-Da leapt on stage with the Buttholes once, stripped nude, and erupted into a disturbingly unhinged dance. It proved to be a perfect fit. For the next few years, Ta-Dah traveled as a member of the Buttholes' live troupe. Her main instrument, of course, was her naked body- and she could get all kind of sound, and well... other by products out of it.



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