evidence here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/chattycathy7575/sets/938749/
― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Thursday, 15 September 2005 14:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Thursday, 15 September 2005 18:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Thursday, 15 September 2005 18:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 15 September 2005 18:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Soukesian, Thursday, 15 September 2005 21:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Marmot (marmotwolof), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 07:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― passiflora incarnata (get bent), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 07:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marmot (marmotwolof), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 07:42 (seventeen years ago) link
It didn't work. Almost everything on those albums is just not Devo-ish at all.
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 08:12 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― Marmot (marmotwolof), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 08:41 (seventeen years ago) link
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
― tylero (tylero), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 08:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― mark e (mark e), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 08:49 (seventeen years ago) link
Yeah, I want to hear some live stuff and the Hardcore demo stuff.
― Marmot (marmotwolof), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 08:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 09:56 (seventeen years ago) link
devo : seriously fuckin' classic.
― mark e (mark e), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 10:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 14:24 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― Adam Beales (Pye Poudre), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 15:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 15:09 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkZwHVM64qg
― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 15:12 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oQql7XXx88
― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 15:14 (seventeen years ago) link
wow, talk about missing the entire point
― passiflora incarnata (get bent), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 15:21 (seventeen years ago) link
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=
― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 15:22 (seventeen years ago) link
i have been looking to download it for months now and can never find it.
devo = super.
― nijoli (nijoli), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 15:26 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― Adam Beales (Pye Poudre), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 15:28 (seventeen years ago) link
??? I'm sure I'm missing something here...
― Adam Beales (Pye Poudre), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 15:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 15:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 15:31 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZejmxvQAwY
― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 15:33 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIMttc0ciKU
― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 15:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― Adam Beales (Pye Poudre), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 15:45 (seventeen years ago) link
Song's called Goo Goo Itch - that might be why you can't find it? Search for Hardcore Devo and you should be abe to get it!
>> devo = super.
Oh yeah.
― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 15:59 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_k8JAMGXiI
Thank you YouTube
― tylero (tylero), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 19:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― Chris H. (chrisherbert), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 19:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson: Sassy and I Don't Care Who Knows It (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 20:08 (seventeen years ago) link
Suffice to say it is awesome. The early part of the show mostly covers "Freedom Of Choice" material with the band rocking out on synths and keyboards. Gradually it becomes more like the 77-79 era and they move to heavy guitaring on the stuff from the first two albums, including some rarer songs like "Pink Pussycat". A couple surprises for me were how good Mark Mothersbaugh was as a singer, and how fucking tough Bob Mothersbaugh is as a guitarist. The solos on "Blockhead" and "Smart Patrol" are mindblowing. He well deserves the cover shot.
I think the brilliant "Urgh, A Music War" clip of "Uncontrollable Urge" is from this show (not sure though - it's been years since I saw that film.
My opinion is that almost everything is great up to and including "Oh No It's Devo" but they completely lost the plot after that. Total Devo is an absolute dog. Shout and Smoothnoodlemaps have one or two good songs each and are generally not as offensive. Search for "Are You Experienced" and "Devo Have Feelings Too" respectively.
The more recent Devo history is a McCartney-esque mix of inspired anthologising, depressing mythologising and embarrasing nostalgia outings.
In the first category the items to claim are the aforementioned live 1980 DVD, the "Hardcore" series, the Rhino Handmade cd that included the complete original recording of "Freedom Of Choice" with live drums, guitars etc and a ton of other goodies, and the best of the various "official bootlegs" available here: http://www.boojiboysbasement.com/
By the way the early, early live shows aren't that hot really other than for historical interest. The very first "Sextet Devo" 1973 Kent State show is on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_M9ZMo5TiU
In this lineup is Bob Lewis, who successfully sued them in the late 70's for intelectual property theft of the whole "Devolution" stuff.
― everything (everything), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 20:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 20:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 20:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― Zachary Scott (Zach S), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 23:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 11 January 2007 00:18 (seventeen years ago) link
I completely agree with this.
― polyphonic (polyphonic), Thursday, 11 January 2007 00:31 (seventeen years ago) link
(back in the day i think that XTC were the closest we came to the band everyone likes -- certainly they bridged otherwise pitiless foeships)
― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 11 January 2007 00:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marmot (marmotwolof), Saturday, 13 January 2007 11:21 (seventeen years ago) link
And the vids from New Traditionalists were indeed the best.
― Marmot (marmotwolof), Saturday, 13 January 2007 11:23 (seventeen years ago) link
So here's a bit of lost Devo lore -- the video for "Dr. Detroit," the theme song from the Dan Ackroyd piece of suck of the same name:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5aEBT3l3qg
Lost because it's not on the DVD video collection and they make no mention of it being missing for one reason or another (unlike the "Are You Experienced?" cover, which they specifically say is missing for rights reasons). Never saw it at the time but I do remember the song getting some top 40 airplay up in upstate New York, oddly enough!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 03:16 (sixteen years ago) link
"oh no, no the yellow plastic unit!"
― Alex in NYC, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 04:04 (sixteen years ago) link
Alex, has the 'weird' version of "Secret Agent Man" ever been released on any musical format or just as a soundtrack to the video?
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 04:36 (sixteen years ago) link
I was thinking it was on one of those great Rhino collections like Recombo DNA or Pioneers Who Got Scalpted. But apparently it's not.
― Nate Carson, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 05:09 (sixteen years ago) link
What is this C or D shit anyway? If we're talking letter grades, they were A+ on the first two releases. A on the next two. C+ at worst by the time of Shout.
Interviewed Jerry last year and saw them in a theater in Seattle. Fucking awesome for geezers playing punk. Great set list, and very few stage props. Just two solid hours of slaying hits with Josh Freeze on the drums.
― Nate Carson, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 05:11 (sixteen years ago) link
I get it now (classic or dud, etc). Whatever, nevermind.
― Nate Carson, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 05:59 (sixteen years ago) link
That I'm aware of, the video version of "Secret Agent.." only exists as...well...the video. I want to say that that was by design for a while -- that they were going to release things solely as videos (a then newfangled medium) as opposed to conventionally releasing records, but I might be projecting there.
― Alex in NYC, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 13:19 (sixteen years ago) link
basically just some single edits and a '74 version of "i'm a potato"?
― Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 26 October 2023 16:57 (six months ago) link
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.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 26 October 2023 17:01 (six months ago) link
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.
― birdistheword, Sunday, 28 January 2024 04:27 (two months ago) link
Wow @ this. Jerry Casale interviewed on the BBC... in 1970!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqiMHbvpQQg
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Friday, 1 March 2024 20:18 (one month ago) link
"Next: UFO Expert"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1AdD6EfVuQ
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 06:46 (one month ago) link