Lee Ving, center, and his punk band Fear perform Saturday night at Whisky A Go Go as part of the club’s 50th anniversary. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times) By Randall Roberts .

Punk rock band Fear caused mayhem on Saturday Night Live on Halloween in 1981, bringing a most-pit to Studio 8H for the first time. Days after the show, rumors started to swirl that the band ...

News How Halloween Night Punk Rock Chaos Created SNL’s Most Notorious Moment. 40 years ago, a Halloween SNL appearance from hardcore punk band Fear left a wrecked stage and shocked censors ...

When the influential punk band Fear formed in the late 1970s in the San Fernando Valley, Derf Scratch -- birth name Frederick Charles Milner III -- played bass guitar for the group that helped ...

John Belushi teamed with Lee Ving and the rest of L.A. punk band Fear for the 1981 single "Neighbors." Barbara Biro. For years, Lee Ving, the vocalist and leader of impish punk bruisers Fear, ...

Punk rock band Fear caused mayhem on Saturday Night Live on Halloween in 1981, bringing a mosh-pit to Studio 8H for the first time. Days after the show, rumors started to swirl that the band ...