― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 30 April 2004 17:23 (twenty years ago) link
― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 30 April 2004 17:26 (twenty years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 30 April 2004 17:39 (twenty years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 30 April 2004 17:42 (twenty years ago) link
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!!!!
― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 30 April 2004 18:02 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 30 April 2004 19:33 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 1 May 2004 18:20 (twenty years ago) link
― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 1 May 2004 19:13 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 1 May 2004 19:16 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 1 May 2004 19:17 (twenty years ago) link
― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 1 May 2004 19:21 (twenty years ago) link
― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Saturday, 1 May 2004 19:25 (twenty years ago) link
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 1 May 2004 19:26 (twenty years ago) link
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.
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 1 May 2004 19:28 (twenty years ago) link
It was annoying enough when Jonathan Fire*Eater did it!
― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 1 May 2004 19:31 (twenty years ago) link
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 1 May 2004 19:33 (twenty years ago) link
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.
― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 1 May 2004 19:34 (twenty years ago) link
― NUMBER 1 TERRY RILEY FAN (ex machina), Saturday, 1 May 2004 19:35 (twenty years ago) link
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.
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 1 May 2004 19:39 (twenty years ago) link
― NUMBER 1 TERRY RILEY FAN (ex machina), Saturday, 1 May 2004 19:44 (twenty years ago) link
― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 1 May 2004 19:44 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 1 May 2004 20:40 (twenty years ago) link
― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 1 May 2004 20:44 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 1 May 2004 20:51 (twenty years ago) link
― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 16 July 2004 18:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 16 July 2004 18:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 16 July 2004 18:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 16 July 2004 18:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 16 July 2004 18:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― kephm, Friday, 16 July 2004 18:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 16 July 2004 19:22 (nineteen years ago) link
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?
― old fashioned glazed lhasa apso (donut), Saturday, 17 July 2004 01:36 (nineteen years ago) link
http://the-wall.net/%7Edevo-obsesso/images/latest_news/nike_la_4-04/laplaca_urge2.jpg
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 17 July 2004 05:43 (nineteen years ago) link
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."
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 22 July 2004 00:23 (nineteen years ago) link
sans energy dome tho sadly
― geeta (geeta), Thursday, 22 July 2004 03:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 22 July 2004 13:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 23 July 2004 15:05 (nineteen years ago) link
What's the usual Summerstage protocol during these kinds of conditions?
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 23 July 2004 15:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― Nick Apollo Forte (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 24 July 2004 02:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― Brian Turner (btwfmu), Saturday, 24 July 2004 02:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 24 July 2004 10:16 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Saturday, 24 July 2004 16:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 26 July 2004 16:50 (nineteen years ago) link
$10 says this will show up on BitTorrent within a couple weeks. Everything does.
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 26 July 2004 16:52 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.disclive.com/images/large_DV.jpg
― Maneating Leopards of India (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 26 July 2004 21:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Friday, 6 August 2004 07:42 (nineteen years ago) link
I expected that a 2-cd set of a concert would have at the very leastover 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 minutesof 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'sburned onto your CD with 2-second gaps between each song!!! So I'mpissed off that they charged double for a single and I'm going to postthis now. These are the original MP3's that you download with theirsoftware, not copies."
and to hear hot in here with are we not mean is quite something
― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Friday, 6 August 2004 07:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Friday, 6 August 2004 07:52 (nineteen years ago) link
Fresh was my favorite. Sumthin starts with the Whip It beat :(
― Nate Carson, Thursday, 8 April 2010 21:05 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm a big fan too, but I guess I'm too generous.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 8 April 2010 21:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Cap'n Save-a-Mothersbaugh
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 8 April 2010 21:07 (fourteen years ago) link
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")
― falling while carrying an owl (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 8 April 2010 22:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Sorry to be a spoiler Spacecadet. It's not criminal over-use of auto-tuner. But it is there...
― Nate Carson, Friday, 9 April 2010 19:20 (fourteen years ago) link