Devo Drummer

My theory is that he hit it with one of his sticks while doing one of those over-the-head snare hits.
It seemed a bit of a serious injury for that though.

Heh heh...I was at a BUTTHOLE SURFERS concert the night before a job interview, and was still suffering the aftereffects the next morning! (And afternoon, and evening.) I gave the worst interview EVAH, but I pleaded sickness ("migraine", close enough to be true), they gave me a chance, and 15 yrs later I'm still here! Even got a ring to prove it.

Apparently Alan "The Drummer" Myers has passed away from cancer.

http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/2013/06/25/alan-myers-devo-drummer-dies/

;_;

Shit, that sucks!

One of my friends good friend is his daughter. Sad for her and sad to lose one of the greatest drummers ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UKtZwWLMp8

I only found out a couple of years ago, when she told me I just thought it was the coolest thing I'd ever heard.

RIP

http://thedeguti.com/oh%20that%20alan.png

Oh man, RIP Alan, fantastic drummer.

Saw this at a record shop in Pasadena a few months back...

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8295/7805951240_d7e6afbf48.jpg

The contrasting quotes from Mothersbaugh and Casale make it clear who wanted him in Devo and who didn't, which is kind of a bummer.

damn, so sad to hear that. IMO Myers was what seperated great Devo from mediocre Devo.

rip, he was a huge part of what made them a kickass rock band.

I've been saying this all day in various places to various people but...as much as I love drum machines, fairlight's and electronic synth-pop dance music, Devo was a far greater new wave art rock band than they were a synthetic drum machine band.

yup.

i'm doing a review for the reissue of the two Hardcore Devos that argues the same thing - basically that despite the overwhelming perception of Devo as a robotic 80's band, that was really the point where everything started to go sour for them.

I've been saying this all day in various places to various people but...as much as I love drum machines, fairlight's and electronic synth-pop dance music, Devo was a far greater new wave art rock band than they were a synthetic drum machine band.

― dan selzer, Wednesday, June 26, 2013 3:24 PM (7 minutes ago)

So otm.

His part on "Satisfaction" is so ridiculously perfect.

i'm doing a review for the reissue of the two Hardcore Devos that argues the same thing - basically that despite the overwhelming perception of Devo as a robotic 80's band, that was really the point where everything started to go sour for them.

I lobbied for those hardcore devo recs in the 70s weird rock poll (to no avail), but as great as those records are it doesn't change the fact that myers was an amazing drummer. incredible precision.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAhtpJ8A6rI

Their appearance on SNL is so iconic - I saw it as it happened. I was 12 and had NFC what the hell was going on - mind totally blown apart.

Devo on Fridays made me want to be in a band.

that whole period up from the early stuff on Hardcore to about New Traditionalists was all incredible. you can't deny that they became a much different band when Alan Myers joined up. Before they were almost like the Residents! Devo does a lot of quacked out beats and some odd meters, but without Myers in the band they never had that incredible energy that earmarked them at their best (see: the SNL performance of "Satisfaction")

I think the split is Casale's band (rockers and revolutionaries)/Mothersbaugh's band (future musicians and conceptualists) to a large extent, with Myers being a huge part of Casale's concept. Myers also replaced a Mothersbaugh, which balanced out the numbers.

never read an interview with the dude -- was myers a beefheart fan? that's kinda the only thing some of his drumming really sounds like.

^^^ Pretty much anyone who was into "weird music" in the mid-70s was a Beefheart fan afaict.

RIP. Cancer getting another person too young