WAS (NOT WAS) SET THE CONTROLS FOR THE HEART OF THE SUN

I thought my eyes were short-sheeting my brain when I read that Was (Not Was) was appearing at the New York Card And Cassette Exchange—known in some circles as the New Music Seminar. But indeed, on a sweaty July evening, a humble multitude witnessed the assault on New York by the wickedest, the most danceably Dadaistic, the most soulfully satisfying, the most consistently and unflinchingly cool band in the history of rock 'n' roll.