DEVO TO PLAY LIVE AGAIN!!!

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Simply A-mazing. more later.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 24 July 2004 10:16 (8 years ago) Permalink

Words are not my strong suit at the moment (h-u-n-g-o-v-e-r), but oof was this show ever worth it! Of course, being that my friend John and I had had nothing to eat since lunch prior to the event, by the time the boys were on, I was well droonk. Apologies to anyone I might've unsolicited accosted, offended and/or assaulted. Saw & hung out with Chris & Jody, and briefly ran into Geeta. The rain stopped long enough for the YYY's and Devo and then started again FURIOUSLY right after Devo's last number (a seemingly 75-minute rendition of "Beautiful World" with Booji Boy on vox). The whole show was way better than the Nike pics above would have you believe. They were fucking amazing.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 24 July 2004 10:28 (8 years ago) Permalink

Damn, was thinking of heading there, too! I envy, though with a twinkle in me eye....

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Saturday, 24 July 2004 16:15 (8 years ago) Permalink

Someone already posted photos of the gig: http://member.newsguy.com/~spudgun/photos/devo/index.htm

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 26 July 2004 16:50 (8 years ago) Permalink

Also, you can buy a CD of the show already: http://www.disclive.com/artist.php?artistid=81

$10 says this will show up on BitTorrent within a couple weeks. Everything does.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 26 July 2004 16:52 (8 years ago) Permalink

cool artwork!

― Maneating Leopards of India (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 26 July 2004 21:13 (8 years ago) Permalink

er, it's for downloadable perusal on the 80s and 2000 mp3 newsgroups. and very good it too.

― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Friday, 6 August 2004 07:42 (8 years ago) Permalink

oh, just read the accompanying post with the mp3's. seems the chap is rather peeved at the disclive people.
"I wasn't going to post this because it was a startup company with a
good idea who made it, and Devo is a truly great band, but it turned
out to be kind of a ripoff so fuck them. They bill this as a limited
edition 2-CD set for $25 (+ $5 shipping), or you could just download
it for $18. So I paid my $25 and expected to be able to download it
immediately. Well, they claim they couldn't get the mixing done in
time due to heavy rains, so it was a week late getting online, which
would have been OK provided you got value for your money.

I expected that a 2-cd set of a concert would have at the very least
over 80 minutes of music. Most concerts go 90 minutes to 2 hours.
The actual total time is 67 minutes and 25 seconds, and over 5 minutes
of that is sound from an old video and a pre-recorded intro song,
bringing the total time to a little over 60 minutes of music. Granted,
that's all that Devo played, but why the fuck was it a 2-disc set?
And worse yet, when you download the CD's online, you get 192K MP3's
burned onto your CD with 2-second gaps between each song!!! So I'm
pissed off that they charged double for a single and I'm going to post
this now. These are the original MP3's that you download with their
software, not copies."

and to hear hot in here with are we not mean is quite something

― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Friday, 6 August 2004 07:49 (8 years ago) Permalink

^ that should read jocko homo. it's been a long night.

― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Friday, 6 August 2004 07:52 (8 years ago) Permalink

Haven't received my copy yet, but will post my impressions accordingly.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 6 August 2004 15:17 (8 years ago) Permalink

it was a fantastic show. well worth the $37.50 (advance) ticket price, and i will feel no guilt about downloading the mp3s. :-)

― Elle a chaud au cul (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 6 August 2004 15:25 (8 years ago) Permalink

True'dat! It was a RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE (well, for me anyway).

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 6 August 2004 15:27 (8 years ago) Permalink

3 weeks pass...

alt.binaries.mpeg.videos

go now - one 533 meg avi file.
dunno what the quality is like (currently downloading) but if it's half as good as the audio...

― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Friday, 27 August 2004 11:05 (8 years ago) Permalink

I love that group (the usenet one as well as the band).

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Friday, 27 August 2004 11:46 (8 years ago) Permalink

the video is ripped from tv. bloody good.

― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Saturday, 28 August 2004 00:47 (8 years ago) Permalink

I STILL haven't received my disc yet. Fuckers.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 28 August 2004 01:06 (8 years ago) Permalink

grab the video from the newsgroups or if yr on slsk give me a shout and you can have it

― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Saturday, 28 August 2004 06:56 (8 years ago) Permalink

the fucker FINALLY arrived today. And it's about fucking time, dagnabbit.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 16:36 (8 years ago) Permalink

7 months pass...

Looks like they're playing live again, AGAIN! 2 days in a row in San Diego!! maybe I'll go both days.

======================
"Spuds,

DEVO confirms live dates for 2005:

JUNE 12: Atlanta, GA * Music Midtown Festival
AUGUST 4: Anaheim, CA * HOUSE OF BLUES
AUGUST 5: Anaheim, CA * HOUSE OF BLUES
AUGUST 6: West Hollywood, CA * HOUSE OF BLUES
AUGUST 7: West Hollywood, CA * HOUSE OF BLUES
AUGUST 10: New York, NY * Hammerstein Ballroom
SEPTEMBER 2: San Diego, CA * HOUSE OF BLUES
SEPTEMBER 3: San Diego, CA * HOUSE OF BLUES
SEPTEMBER 5: Seattle, WA * Bumbershoot Festival

Go here for links/info: http://www.clubdevo.com/mp/live.html

COMING SOON:
We will be re-instating CLUB DEVO as a membership club.

This means that spuds who purchase a membership will receive a new CLUB DEVO
packet -Newly designed for 2005! It will include a new CLUB DEVO folder, new
sticker, new letter from General Boy, and more.

We hope to be able to offer this by August, and maybe as early as June.

OTHER NEWS:
Devo-Obsesso.com mentioned in newspapers across the USA in March/April.
More info: http://www.devo-obsesso.com/obsesso/index.html

Hope to see you soon at DEVO show in 2005,

-Michael

Michael Pilmer
Webmaster - DEVO, Inc.
www.clubdevo.com
and
www.devo-obsesso.com"
===============

― tylero (tylero), Thursday, 14 April 2005 16:23 (8 years ago) Permalink

$$$

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 14 April 2005 16:26 (8 years ago) Permalink

I'm all for it.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 14 April 2005 16:28 (8 years ago) Permalink

Seriously. Tickets are around $70.

― Tyrone Willie Demetrius DeAndre DeShawn (deangulberry), Thursday, 14 April 2005 16:30 (8 years ago) Permalink

Money well spent.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 14 April 2005 16:36 (8 years ago) Permalink

i probably won't be around for the new york show but i could very possibly go to one the california dates.

― jody the country girl doll (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 14 April 2005 16:59 (8 years ago) Permalink

3 months pass...

So, is anyone going to the Hammerstein Ballroom show?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 30 July 2005 10:43 (7 years ago) Permalink

i'd love to, but it's so expensive!

― cost fucked madonna (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 30 July 2005 10:46 (7 years ago) Permalink

i was gonna go to bumbershoot, but now that's out. what do you think, alex?

― cost fucked madonna (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 30 July 2005 10:47 (7 years ago) Permalink

Bumbershoot is a crazy ass festival. Last year Pixies headlined, this year Devo? Could I think of any more dissimilar bands? Yeah I probably could but it's too much work.

― Hydrochloric Shaved Weirds (Bimble...), Saturday, 30 July 2005 10:51 (7 years ago) Permalink

And then the year before that it was R.E.M.!!

― Hydrochloric Shaved Weirds (Bimble...), Saturday, 30 July 2005 10:53 (7 years ago) Permalink

devo had to cancel all their september shows, due to circumstances beyond their control, they said -- anyone know what this means?

― cost fucked madonna (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 30 July 2005 10:53 (7 years ago) Permalink

Not only that but they're not coming to the UK whatsoever, as far as i know.

― Kid Twist (kid twist), Saturday, 30 July 2005 11:12 (7 years ago) Permalink

Yeah, I saw that (x-post), but have heard nothing specific. The Hammerstein tickets are expensive, and I hate the damn venue, but....y'know....fuck, it's Devo. I haven't been to many shows lately, so I could certainly rationalize me way into going. I doubt it's sold out (I couldn't help noticing new posters around town advertising it....I'm guessing ticket sales are sluggish).

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 30 July 2005 17:52 (7 years ago) Permalink

I'm guessing ticket sales are sluggish

I'm guessing most of their fans are using their freedom of choice to stay home and watch the 1980 live dvd.

― cost fucked madonna (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 30 July 2005 21:37 (7 years ago) Permalink

more yuks: they should call this tour "oh no! it's expensive"

― cost fucked madonna (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 30 July 2005 21:39 (7 years ago) Permalink

"jocko homo? if i buy these tickets i'll be jocko HOMELESS!"

― cost fucked madonna (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 30 July 2005 21:44 (7 years ago) Permalink

Hahahahahahahahahahaha

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 30 July 2005 22:10 (7 years ago) Permalink

New Materialists

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 30 July 2005 22:11 (7 years ago) Permalink

"eliminate the ninnies and the service charges!"

― cost fucked madonna (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 30 July 2005 22:16 (7 years ago) Permalink

Lootie Now for Our Future

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 30 July 2005 22:18 (7 years ago) Permalink

$55.00 a ticket: BE STIFFED!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 30 July 2005 22:19 (7 years ago) Permalink

"ok relax... and ASSUME the position... $55 admission!"

― cost fucked madonna (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 30 July 2005 22:20 (7 years ago) Permalink

"Through Being Poor"
"Cash U Want"
"S.I.W. (Swelling Itching Wallet)"
"Bank Patrol/Mr. IRA"
"The Day My Baby Gave Me a Lucrative Stock Tip"

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 30 July 2005 22:23 (7 years ago) Permalink

three cheers!
they're yellin' again
three cheers!
they'll be at it to the end

so drink some big beers and go crazy tonight
they're all dressed up and they'll be gettin' it tonight
big swingers in double knits tonight
big babies gonna get in a fight
actin' crazy bustin' up the chairs
doubled over gettin' sick on the stairs
they know the limits 'cause they cross them every night
the dull sensations as it turns real hot
why, the guys in the back with their heads on the floor
surrounded by their buddies they're all hollerin' for more
whoa whoa whoa
it's mr. h's ballroom

party time turn the music up loud
party time lose your head in the crowd
yellin' laughin' tryin' hard to act smart
put 'em under pressure and you watch them fall apart
freeze! come on out of there
freeze! you ain't goin' nowhere
freeze! put your hands on your head
freeze!
it's mr. h's ballroom

whoa whoa whoa
it's mr. h's ballroom

― see what i did there? (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 30 July 2005 22:26 (7 years ago) Permalink

"clear channel corporate anthem"

― cost fucked madonna (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 30 July 2005 22:32 (7 years ago) Permalink

so who (if anyone) is going to see 'em in NYC?!?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 7 August 2005 20:31 (7 years ago) Permalink

55 smackaroonies, d00d...

― my favorite cover band, crystal shit (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 7 August 2005 20:33 (7 years ago) Permalink

i ended up not going to the la gig
i got wastered instead
saved $80

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Sunday, 7 August 2005 21:29 (7 years ago) Permalink

3 years pass...

DEVO ANNOUNCE NEW STUDIO ALBUM TO DEBUT FALL 2009
SXSW PRESS CONFERENCE AND KEYNOTE PANEL CONFIRMED FOR THURSDAY MARCH 19 AT AUSTIN CONVENTION CENTER
ONE-NIGHT-ONLY SXSW PERFORMANCE SET FOR FRIDAY, MARCH 20 AT AUSTIN MUSIC HALL
U.K. PERFORMANCES ON TRACK FOR MAY INCLUDING A HEADLINING SPOT AT 'ALL TOMORROW'S PARTIES'

De-evolution has finally arrived...and who better to guide us through the mess than DEVO.
What the iconic new wave, art punk pioneers cautioned us about almost 30 years ago is no longer a humorous theory. It's pretty much fact--we now live in a devolved world that's getting wackier each and every day.

The fall of 2009 will bring a new DEVO studio album, their first one since 1990's Smooth Noodle Maps. It'll mark their first new music since the strong fan reaction that greeted the 2007 single "Watch Us Work It," their first new song in 18 years and one that was produced by Sweden's TeddyBears (Robyn). They're now in the studio putting the finishing touches on their new album (title TBA).

The five-piece--featuring co-founders and songwriters MARK MOTHERSBAUGH (lead vocals, synthesizer innovations) and GERALD CASALE (lead vocal, bass) and rounded out by BOB CASALE (guitarist), BOB MOTHERSBAUGH (guitars/vocals) and JOSH FREESE (drums)--are set make a special U.S. appearance at SXSW this year including a press conference (4:00pm) and keynote panel (5:00pm)--moderated by radio veteran Nic Harcourt--set for Thursday, March 19 at the Austin Convention Center (500 East Cesar Chavez St.). They'll follow that up with a Friday, March 20 one-night-only SXSW concert at the Austin Music Hall (208 Nueces St.). Pre SXSW, DEVO fans in Dallas can catch a special one-off show on Wednesday, March 18 at the Palladium Ballroom.

In May, DEVO will head to the United Kingdom for a series of dates. On Wednesday, May 6, DEVO will perform their debut album, the seminal Q: Are We Not Men, We Are Devo! in its entirety from beginning to end at London's Kentish Town Forum. Released in 1978, the seminal album produced by Brian Eno and recorded in Germany features such notable tracks such as the band's cover of The Rolling Stones' "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction," "Mongoloid" and "Jocko Homo." Next up on Friday, May 8, they'll headline the All Tomorrow's Parties festival in Somerset at the Butlins Holiday Centre.

Formed in 1972 in Akron, OH, DEVO--short for "de-evolution"--began as an art project cautioning that humans were devolving and regressing into a herd mentality of American society, not evolving. A conceptual band from the beginning, DEVO were ahead of their time, incorporating elaborate aesthetics into their live shows and seamlessly combining their music with visuals years before MTV or any music-video culture existed. Indeed, the group's first appearance at Kent State University in 1973 was recorded with a black and white portable video system. Societal satirists, DEVO's lyrical mix of comedy and quirky wit, warned of the dangers of rampant capitalism in "Whip It" and "Freedom of Choice", and the devolution of society in "Jocko Homo" and "Beautiful World." Onstage in their early incarnation, the group began with a mixture of synthesizers and rock instruments; as they developed in the late seventies and early eighties, DEVO became one of the first American acts to perform using only synthesizers. DEVO have now returned with an evolved look, ready to impact the vastly devolved world we now find ourselves trying to navigate.

― unperson, Tuesday, 10 March 2009 21:15 (4 years ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

v. excited

― warmsherry, Tuesday, 21 April 2009 23:21 (4 years ago) Permalink

interestingly they are using the brilliant US sleeve and not the fucking awful UK sleeve for the advert.

― mark e, Wednesday, 22 April 2009 07:48 (4 years ago) Permalink

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