DEVO TO PLAY LIVE AGAIN!!!

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LIVE PERFORMANCES BY:
A FLOCK OF SEAGULLS
GENERAL PUBLIC
TONE LOC
THE RUN HIT WONDERS
TOMMY TUTONE

This sounds like less of a good idea now.

regards,

REB

The "rap battle" they "hosted" was the definite highlight, as it was all quite overweight South Knoxville, well, fair-goers. It was incredible.

Mothersbaugh: They love all that stuff. We were inspired by artists like Andy Warhol who mixed all the different mediums. He walked that line between commercial art and fine art all the time. We used clip art in our graphics when we played at punk clubs back in the '70s—like '50s housewives dusting or sweeping, doing inane things around the house. So when we heard the [Swiffer] concept, we thought, "Oh, they're doing something where, if it were 1977, we would have died and gone to heaven if we would have had that to show before we came out on stage."

http://www.adweek.com/aw/magazine/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000447506

That'll be the Portland in Oregon rather than the one in Dorset, sadly.

Tickets go on sale here (Chicago) tomorrow and I won't be able to get them myself. Should I bother begging someone to get them for me??

unless you are dying to look at those handsome gents that are DEVO.

I'll do that for George Clinton and co. or whomever else plays there these days (I don't think I've bothered going to Summerstage since the mid-90's), but for Devo, sorry.....gotta be closer.

TO PURCHASE TICKETS:
Tickets will be available at the Roseland Ballroom box office without service charge on May 1st from noon to 4PM ONLY. Roseland Ballroom is located at 239 West 52nd Street. For more information call (212) 777-1224.

Any remaining tickets will be available beginning Monday, May 3rd at the Irving Plaza box office without service charge. Irving Plaza is located at 17 Irving Place at 15th Street. For more information call (212) 777-1224.

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But I want to go to this. But I swore we wouldn't take a vacation this year. But it's DEVO and the YYYs! But it's expensive! But it's my birthday (kind of)! I don't know what to do!!!!

I'd rather gouge out my eyes than see Stellastar.

Get a flat tire? It's Stellastar's fault. Did you dog die? Blame Stellastar.

It was annoying enough when Jonathan Fire*Eater did it!

I'm actually relieved it isn't. Keeps the riffraff out. It'll still be hot and crowded, but perhaps the audience won't be QUITE as rude and boneheaded as the usual "I'm only here cuz it's free" Summerstage turnout.

Really anything would be better than the last time I saw Devo. The spuds were great, but the Violent Femmes and Ween opened up (this was in '97 or '98 or so). I'll take Yeah Yeah Yeahs fans over Violent Femmes fans ANYTIME.

so did they consult with Shellac for setting this show up? Will there be Pop Tarts or Krispy Kreme donuts available for the devo-tees?

http://the-wall.net/%7Edevo-obsesso/images/latest_news/nike_la_4-04/laplaca_urge2.jpg

July 18, 2004 -- This week might seem like an odd time for Devo's return to New York City, where they last played well over a decade ago.

After all, the band's early '80s heyday - when their record "Freedom of Choice" went platinum, driven by the frenetic smash single "Whip It" - is long gone, and Devo hasn't released a new record since 1988.

But Jerry Casale, who founded the band with Mark Mothersbaugh in the early '70s, when the two were art students at Kent State University, figures Devo's appearance at SummerStage this Friday is perfectly timed.

After all, the edgy art-rock band was built around the concept of "de-evolution" - a belief that mankind is in a continuous state of regression - and Casale points out that recent events prove they were more right than they'd ever imagined.

"Considering the kind of corporate feudal state that we live in today, our predictions came, unfortunately, all too true," Casale told The Post, speaking on the phone from his Los Angeles home. "At one time we were supposedly at odds with the culture and we were futurists, and now all we are is the house band for a devolved world.

"We just sit in amazement saying, you know, we did warn people, but we never thought it would go this far."

The SummerStage show doesn't necessarily mark a reunion for Devo, which also plays Thursday as the headliners of Run Hit Wonder, a Nike-sponsored Central Park road race featuring appearances by such early '80s flash-in-the-pan bands as Flock of Seagulls and Tommy Tutone.

The band, which currently plays some half dozen shows a year at odd special events, never exactly broke up.

But as their popularity waned in the late '80s they "went into some kind of hibernation," said Casale, and ceased touring and putting out records.

"No matter what we did, people either ignored it or critics didn't like it. We couldn't get the right kind of offers for touring, and radio was going in a whole other strange direction, and it just became obvious," said Casale. "It was kind of like Luke Skywalker when he jumps into the void because he sees he can't win, so he dives into the void to fight another day."

Devo busted out the jumpsuits and the flower-pot hats in 1996 to play a number of shows on the Lollapallooza tour, which offered them a chance to connect with some of the many younger bands that have cited the band's quirky, robotic electro-pop as an influence. (Beck, Moby, Nirvana, Sonic Youth and Soundgarden are counted among the band's fans, and their influence can be heard in newer bands like the Hives and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, who will open the SummerStage show.)

But mainly Casale and Mothersbaugh have been devoting themselves to their new careers - Mothersbaugh as a composer of film and TV soundtracks, Casale as a director of music videos and television commercials. Still, Casale doesn't rule out a new record at some point in the band's future. "I would never say never," he says.

So is he surprised to still be at it more than two decades after the subversive group of spud-fixated art geeks in yellow jumpsuits became unlikely chart-toppers?

"No, I'm Devo whether I want to be or not," he says. "Devo is a state of mind."

sans energy dome tho sadly

What's the usual Summerstage protocol during these kinds of conditions?

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

http://www.disclive.com/images/large_DV.jpg

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

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...

======================
"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"
===============

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

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

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.

http://www.atpfestival.com/sized/files/img/events/20090506-devodlb_670x0.jpg

v. excited

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

Got all misty reading this thread.

ATP needs to get the Q: Are We Not Men show in America for reals.

Seconded

DEVOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I want to see these bastards live again as a p

Download of new song "Fresh"

http://splash.clubdevo.com/olympics/

Did anyone here go to the gig at the Fourm? it was intense.

The new songs are actually not bad in my opinion. I mean, who really gives a shit about new Devo material at this point anyway, but they are better than 95% of the last two albums. I really think that production is their main focus now. They have become masters of the ultraslick movie soundtrack whooshiness thing but I wish they would think about getting a cool, creative producer to work with them instead of doing it themselves. That would perhaps put their creativity back into the songwriting, arrangements and so on. Their best stuff was always done with big-name producers with lots of ideas and their own sound.

The best song they have recorded in the last 20 years was Huboon Stomp from the South Park Chef Aid disc - but that was an old song, written in the mid-70s. And it is really mad. These new songs are quite sedate in comparison. They try to make them as exciting as possible by polishing them to perfection, but it's the lacklustre songwriting that causes them to fall short.

Still like them though.

Voting starts tomorrow on the twelve songs that will make the upcoming album:

http://songstudy.clubdevo.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fO9GEicoX0c

Ugh. Auto-tuned DEVO is not what I was hoping for. I'm doing the study now and so far I've heard one song I like out of sixteen.

My favorite was Sumthin, but there were at least ten I honestly felt good voting for. And then another two that would be my preferred filler.

I'm a big fan, but this is an over-produced post-Shout parody of themselves. Bummer.

Fresh was my favorite. Sumthin starts with the Whip It beat :(

I'm a big fan too, but I guess I'm too generous.

Cap'n Save-a-Mothersbaugh

Auto-tuned DEVO

I think these may be the worst words in the English language (and also why I am not going to hit "play")

Sorry to be a spoiler Spacecadet. It's not criminal over-use of auto-tuner. But it is there...