Devo: C or D? S & D etc.

duh.

you'd think people had never seen a french word before.

D-E-V-O?

Interesting side point- beginning of last year I think, they we're doing musicians alphabetically on VH1... I started watching around V for some reason just so I could laugh at Vanilla Ice, and right after Vanilla was Weird Al. So having been a huge Weird Al fan as a kid, I stuck around to watch what they had to say. At one part they started talking about Al's song "Dare to be Stupid", and how it was inspired by his long time love of Devo, and it was sort of his way of paying homage to them. They then played clips of the original video, which of course made it all click for me. The clips were then followed had by a brief clip from an interview with Mark Mothersbaugh talking about how Weird Al approached him with the song, and played it for him. Mark said it was "one of the most beautiful things I had ever heard... and I hated him for it."

So those really interested might want to bother to look up "Dare to be Stupid"

Devo were great. Underrated guitar player, too.

You can google it.

Try Wikipedia.

"Devo actively embraced the Church of the SubGenius in the early 1980s. In concert, Devo often performed as the opening band for themselves, pretending to be a Christian soft-rock group called "Dove (the Band of Love)". They also recorded "E-Z Listening Muzak" versions of their own songs to play before their concerts. In 2001, members of Devo formed the surf band The Wipeouters, claiming that it was actually a reunion of the first gararge band they formed while in their early teens."

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I just bought the reissue of 'The Complete Truth About...' on a loan (tee-hee!), and I've been scarred for life just by going through it in a hurry. Has anybody seen that "Through Being Cool" video? Two words: BRAIN DAMAGE (in a good way... like LSD, ya know!). Everybody should see this should they have the chance, now that it's on DVD. Being drugged outta your mind would probably help also. It is surprisingly disturbing, moreso than you would expect... even for someone like me.

http://www.newsobserver.com/lifestyles/story/2261615p-8641132c.html

evidence here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/chattycathy7575/sets/938749/

It didn't work. Almost everything on those albums is just not Devo-ish at all.

I'm getting into Devo again after not listenening to them much for about a decade. I've got that Complete Truth DVD coming in the mail, hopefully tomorrow.

Uncontrollable Urge live in San Diego in 1981. My uncles were at this concert. Sadly, I was only 7 years old at the time, and could not go. :(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BmxN3E548I

Yeah, I want to hear some live stuff and the Hardcore demo stuff.

devo : seriously fuckin' classic.

Anyway, CLASSIC, of course. Esp the Hardcore Devo stuff, the initial round of videos and the first couple/three albums. Love to hear some of the early-early live shows mentioned upthread.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkZwHVM64qg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oQql7XXx88

wow, talk about missing the entire point

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9Ir60XdUCM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utrTwJ6p0Jg&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMk_Y0WzIrA&mode=related&search=

i have been looking to download it for months now and can never find it.

devo = super.

Point is that DEVO were proud of being uncool (by conventional standards, anyway). See "Through Being Cool" and basically their whole persona. They presented themselves as this angry, sarcastic bunch of outsiders, not asking for entrance to cool culture, but laughing at it from the outside.

??? I'm sure I'm missing something here...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZejmxvQAwY

also, regarding the rough sound quality: I've kind of wondered if parts of the Hardcore comps were actually re-recorded since noticing that "Fountain of Filth" sounds like it was from a much later session. "I Need a Chick" specifically, the drums on that are nothing like the other tracks, and surely that sample at the end isn't from the 70's?

listening to it now. really happy that the version on here is much less ambiguous than the previous version i heard - this is _definitely_ a satire on people who see androgyny as a threat, people who think it, I don't know, disfigures the face of man and woman, or something. it's actually really interesting because the attitude it's parodying _does_ strongly resemble the stupid shit bigots say about gender non-conforming people today.

sound quality is predictably rough but is _way_ better than the bootlegs of a lot of this material.

Consumer alert on the new 50 Years Of De-Evolution LP box set just released (via the Hoffmanites). Apparently "Smart Patrol" fades out at the end and "Mr. DNA" is dropped, which is just plain crazy to me. Also, all the New Traditionalists tracks are running fast.

whoa yeah, "Smart Patrol" is listed at 3:43, that's a baffling decision. I have never really thought of them as two separate tracks.

wonder if speeding up the NT stuff is because they felt it was too slow to begin with? I'd heard the tapes were damaged, or something...wonder if the CD's like that

anyway, I'm not really interested in this, looks to be very little new there. if you ask me they need to reissue Recombo DNA and/or Something For Everybody

basically just some single edits and a '74 version of "i'm a potato"?

Re: New Tradionalists tape damage

New Traditionalists was the band's first fully self-produced album. It was recorded on a then-new brand of 2-inch tape from 3M. Unfortunately, when Devo began recording the vocals for the album, the edges of the tape had begun to disintegrate. After asking Warner Bros. if they could start over and re-record the album from scratch and being denied, Devo transferred all the work they had done to digital reel-to-reel tape and finished the album via digital recording at the Record Plant in Los Angeles, California.

Which IIRC caused the original vinyl/cassette release to sound a little muddy, and hich they were able to correct on the last CD master.

Anyone else see Mark Mothersbaugh, Peter Conheim and Gerald Casale premiere the new restorations of their films at MoMA tonight? It was pretty nice - sold out but luckily they squeezed in a lot of people waiting in the standby line. (Spotted Steve Shelley in the audience - didn’t realize he was a big Devo fan.)

At one point, someone mentioned Gerald’s brother, Bob, and he said even though it’s been nearly ten years since his passing, he still hasn’t removed his number from his phone. Thought that was pretty sweet.

Wow @ this. Jerry Casale interviewed on the BBC... in 1970!

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

"Next: UFO Expert"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1AdD6EfVuQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-aQkQrZP24

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKvYRDhPt_0

THAT'S where it came from!

Always time to post this again. 100% wholesome that everyone should watch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Thy0gQzqgY0

Great watch, sad to see he passed on a few days.

Saw the new Devo documentary last night, felt like a 5 star music doc to me on first watch, as someone who had some of the records but not read too deeply about all the history I learnt a lot about the band and it was full of great footage with lots of laugh out loud moments.

a lad i know did devo x slipknot years ago. i still crack up hearing this. : https://soundcloud.com/savaloy/devknot-girl-u-left-behind

I really enjoyed it but it was a bit bittersweet for me. I'd heard of Devo but just thought they were another new wave band until I started talking to my late wife around 2002 and she was no you gotta listen to them, they're amazing, and telling me about Booji boy and Bobs 1 & 2 and General Boy, so seeing all of that on screen really took me back. Just after we got together I found Are We Not Men on vinyl and they were definitely one of "our bands".

Seems to be a theme this week as I finally saw Redd Kross (who were fucking great btw) which was another band she told me I needed to listen to, that she grew up seeing in LA

Expanded Recombo DNA incoming: https://www.futurismoinc.com/product/devo-1

That’s lovely Colonel!

So what *is* up with that Devo doc? I know it's played some film fests, and last I heard, months ago, they were (obv.) trying to sell it to streaming. But it's been over a year since Sundance.

Meanwhile, I guess there is a tour, a continuation of a farewell tour (they're playing Soldier Field this summer, opening for My Chemical Romance, wtf). Who is playing drums? You'd think Josh Freese now has Foo Fighters conflicts. (Or maybe Grohl is taking some time off for whoopsie-daddy duty.)

Peter Conheim, Devo's archivist, regularly talks to fans in this thread on the Steve Hoffman forum. He went by "Wayne Neato" for a while, then finally revealed his true identity in order to address questions related to the archival screenings Devo had at MoMA, AFI in Silver Springs and elsewhere, and since then he's regularly communicated with the fans who post in that thread. Someone asked him about the doc and this was his response:

Wouldn't we all like to know. Unfortunately, it has still not been sold to any distributor yet. The movie business is in total freefall, with documentaries particularly hard sells. Terrible timing. And the fires certainly won't help matters over the next couple years.

*He's gone by "Wayne Neato" for a while

Awww I remember when he was in Negativland!

I saw him today at a memorial for a mutual friend and he said there’s going to be a screening of restored films at Ann Arbor soon.

Conheim just posted this:

Good news: the DEVO documentary has apparently been sold and so will be available soon. Details will follow eventually.

As mentioned by Sara, the restoration program is coming to the Ann Arbor Film Festival with some new additions to the program. Only FOUR days away and Mark Mothersbaugh and Gerald V. Casale will be in attendance in conversation with archivist Peter Conheim.

The doc is up on Netflix and it is pretty great