Jim Pappas then again, im of the groucho marx camp, any club that would have me as a member i wouldnt want to join.screw the r&r hall of fame.weres ted nugent??
R and R hall of fame is all watered down now just like everything that's "popular" nowadays. These guys put on a show for the crowd, and sound just like the album when they play in concert. Nuff said
WOW!! This is one of the greatest DEVO performances I've ever seen!! One track right into the next without missing a single beat!! Still light years ahead of ordinary humanoids, mind -freaking BLOWN!!
So very fortunate to have seen Devo on this very tour Dec. 29, 1978 Q; Are We Not Men? A;We Are Devo ( Painter's Mills Music Festival) Owings Mills, MD. Way ahead of their time and intellect.
For me, "Paranoias" is the highlight of this great recording. I like a clean, technically excellent guitar solo as much as anyone, but man, Mark literally tears it up here! Looks like he even broke his low E string. Clearly, the audience did not know what to make of what they were seeing, which is probably the way the band wanted it.
I would give my left nut to see a band today with this much energy and creativity. I can't think of a single band after the 80s that had me asking both "what the hell is this?" and "man, these guys are amazing!" Devo was my first concert in the early 80s. Fantastic.
Devo has always been underrated, and not appreciated for the true artistic devotion they had for performance, and art. They always impress me, no matter how much time has passed. Devo, in every sense is classical music.
0:21 (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction 3:08 Too Much Paranoia's 5:44 Uncontrollable Urge 9:02 Mongoloid 12:14 Jocko-Homo 16:22 (no music) Interview 18:42 Come Back Jonee 22:13 Boojie Boy - The Words Get Stuck in My Throat
THIS is what DEVO is. Driving rhythms, with heavy guitar use and wild synth layers. The gold standard for techno-punk. So much energy in this performance. Saw them in Chicago ten years ago. Best concert I ever saw.
@@JMarinelli Actually, since I wrote that comment I decided to delve into their catalog and give a listen. It changed my mind. I now think they are phenomenal. I wish I had discovered all of their music years ago instead of just the most popular songs. I had no clue they had so many great songs in their album's deep tracks!
Funny, I was just thinking the same thing as the camera panned behind him... For drummers who think you're good... you may be good, but whip that out. And keep it going. Heh...
@@justjeph6927 there's an article out there that has an interview with Jagger from around 1977 where he is asked about DEVO and, his answer is pretty detailed. I realize that the majority of Some Girls was either comprised of previously recorded/demoed songs or, demos of ideas that Keith and Mick had introduced to the band at the beginning of the Some Girls recording sessions...BUT, tracks like "Shattered" and, the solo Jagger compositions "Lies" "Respectable" and, "When The Whip Comes Down" were admittedly influenced by the punk rock movement. Bizarrely enough...the other significant influence on Jagger (who was the main driving force behind the album) was disco. Ronnie Wood's gnarly bassline to "Shattered" is pretty punk rock in attitude and sound IMO. It was only a few years after Some Girls that Ronnie Wood cut the 1234 album that Alan Myers played drums on (alongside Charlie Watts and Jim Keltner!) Don't forget that the B52s 2st album and, especially "Rock Lobster" was a tremendous influence in getting John Lennon in the studio and recording what would become "Double Fantasy"
@@justjeph6927 can't find the Jagger thing...but here's Jerry talking about he and Mark obtaining Jagger's permission to release the DEVO version of "Satisfaction" www.dailyrecord.co.uk/entertainment/celebrity/mick-jagger-danced-around-the-office-1062872
43 years later...A-f----ing MAZing!!! Saw them live around 1980. 80 minutes of the most power-packed energy of all time. You INVOLUNTARILY jumped up and started bouncing even you didn't dance. Around that time I recall fans of Springsteen boasting how he would play 3+ hours. I remember thinking "I'd rather have 80 minutes of THIS any day!"
That's so wild. On Satisfaction Mark is playing a Gibson Firebird with the top bout removed., just the neck-thru and the lower bout to hold the electronics. I've never seen that before. What a phenomenal band. They changed the way I listened to and made music.
Bought that first record, put it on, and it kinda creeped me out at first. But then I just couldn't stop listening to it..even the de-evolution thing was getting into my brain as I saw the world around me. Anyway, best thing to come out of Akron since Firestone!
Whoa, every performance I see leaves me more speechless. I am thankful for RU-vid for giving me a new found appreciation for Devo as musicians and performers. I've been a fan since I was 12, but I never got to see them live. I can honestly say after all these years of loving their music I didn't realize just how dynamic they were as a live band. True artists and entertainers. Every note of this show was perfection. That audience realized somewhere around the point where they wanted to rip their clothes off what they were witnessing. 😮 I thought it was funny, endearing and.. I'm not gonna lie, kinda sexy to see them back each other up and start kicking some folks in the head! 😅 Maybe this audience didn't realize they were dealing with brothers? Pick on one, you pick on the others! Love me some Devo!
people who never saw them don't realize this band was tight & on point every nite. i've seen Devo 4 times. 1st time(i almost lost my mind) in Philadelphia.this audience didn't dance much,but knew their part. i give Devo a 10 score audience gets an 7.75. Love this Band!! R&R HOF
Amen to that. I have been a fan since I was 4 years old and saw their video for Whip It on Friday Night Videos in 1979. I went to the record store the very next day with my parents and got the 45 and played that thing until the grooves were nearly gone. They were a force back in their early days. Alan Myers was an incredible drummer. Bob Mothersbaugh is an amazing guitarist. Playing this music while doing all of the synchronized moves, all while wearing those suits under the blazing hot stage lights.
yeah same here and i would've killed to see them in the late 70's especially but i was too young. i was big into punk and alot of DEVO's following were punk rockers.
The great thing about their cover of Satisfaction is that it told us who Devo was - because we had no idea wtf they were. They took a song we all knew and showed us their interpretation.
I saw Devo at the Santa Monica Civic. The energy was out the charts. One of them was playing a guitar that was a neck on a 2x4 if I remember correctly. I also saw the same one kicking someone that tried something like grabbing him or something similar. They were no joke. It was so loud my hearing took days to adjust afterwards. One of the best concerts I ever saw.
@@mongoloid1369 Don't remember, but some investigating could determine the year within one or two. I imagine around 1980? Most likely, as I was soon drummer for Nina Hagen in an audition in late 1980, so it was before that I think. I saw so many mind melting concerts at the civc; Frank Zappa, Queen, Devo, etc...
I saw this live, on tv, in 78, every Sunday morning on tv , there were live concerts from the Week-end, great times, you could hear the concert live on the radio, the day before and then watch the live act on tv the next day!!!
Nice to see Gerry and Bob1 kicking the crowd in the the head during Uncontrollable Urge. Thats the sort of audience participation you just don't see anymore, bless 'em.
just dawned on me, these guys have wireless mics and guitars, and it was 1978? cutting edge technology then, and very unreliable but they seem to have mastered it.Devo are overlooked on justb so many levels!
@fm'latghor Why are you being an asshole for no reason? It isn't cutting edge tech because it's 42 years ago. And why are you talking about the use of bluetooth 11 years after this show? Finally, if you knew anything you patronising cock, you would know that wireless units were first used in live shows in the mid to late 70s. Just like this show. I just looked it up. If you're going to correct someone do your research.
WONDERFUL old DEVO footage.. thank you so much for sharing. It doesn't get any better than clear old concert footage featuring classic songs and a bunch of Frenchies ripping DEVO's trousers off whilst the band kick them away ✌🏻🤖👆🏻>>>>>>>😝>>>>>>> 🥔 x
DEVO has been around for almost fifty years and still no one has ever sounded like them. And considering we're now going through times where even things like breakfast items and sports teams names are making people lose their shit, we're truly going through some serious de-evolution.
Behind all the gimmicks, the energy domes, the tyvek suits, there is some very tight music happening. I love Devo's music, and i have done so since 1978. Devo are severely underrated.
One word, subversive genius ❤🤩 I saw them at university isla vista CA around 1979, one of the best shows ive ever seen. Joe walsh was there, and they asked him to come out, but he never did.
I don’t like google, but this is why I appreciate youtube: for the possibility to find this great extraordinary music. I’m getting a DEVO fan!!!! Can’t hardly stop watching and listening.
French TV was ahead of it's time, things like Devo live, airing at noon every saturday was nuts, brilliant, everything and more. There's footage of the clash on the same TV show available
@@pedroleal7118 True ! I don't why I thought it was on TF1 . I even bought the full collection of the DVDs a few years ago... I never missed any of these incredible shows at that time, and the same for Les Enfants du Rock afterwards. They were fundamental for my musical culture.
@@christophegirard994 Mee too, there was 'Feedback' (with van Hallen debut generic!) and 'Loup Garou', friday night on the radio, and then sundayb morning the live act!
As a french, this video is a pure gem. However, i'm so sad that Devo totally avoid Europe this recent years. I will pay much to see them live before they retired!
This isn't music; it's performance art! How far ahead of the curve were these guys? Amazing concert. You really can't disconnect the music from its performance. That's what makes it art. richard -- (on the subject of Joshua Abraham Norton, the Emperor of the United States, 1859-80) Delirium: He’s not mine, is he? His madness… his madness keeps him sane. Dream: And do you think he is the only one, my sister? - Neil Gaiman, “Three Septembers and a January”, in _Fables_&_Reflections_, Sandman vol. 6
Superbe . J'avais completement oublié ce groupe et pourtant qu'est ce que j'ai écouté l'album : peut etre plus de cent fois : Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! On sent bien la touche Brian ENO .
For ME this first album is LEGENDARY. One of the best albums ever made. Duty Now.. was different. Then Freedom of Choice more mainstream but still good. But they strayed away from the experimentation displayed on songs like Paranoias, Jocko Homo, Shrivel Up etc. Especially the later 80s. Amazingly they got the MOJO back in 2010 with Something For Everybody and even MORE SO with the unfortunately overlooked Something ELSE For Everybody!
Great how last song audience didnt kno wot 2 think...right ? Behind great classic rolling stones like guitars riffing right ? 2 ahead of its time ??? ...yes !!!!!!!
8:14 That moment when even Devo want the 4th wall and audience/artist separation to stay intact. Even while using Dada and post-modern methods to deconstruct rock n roll. Don't touch the band...
I've seen 'em all, the best progressive and new wave bands of the 70's and 80's. First time I saw Devo (of many times) in 1979, Alan absolutely blew me away - which I totally did not expect. The only way I knew he was breaking drumsticks was seeing them fly through the air. He was a huge part of their sound, and I think even went unappreciated by the band to some degree. It's no coincidence that their loss of chart momentum was also tied to moving all electronic, including moving him to an electronic drum kit and programmed percussions. Alan is easily top 10 for me, possibly top 5. Bruford, Pert, Palmer, Collins, Meyers... Yeah, that'd work.
@@slidetek Alas, I was just as guilty. I just took his drumming as basic, no frills, gets the job done. It was only after watching Josh play (he's pretty animated) that I've come to appreciate Alan's contribution to what made Devos music so great. Now I crave to see any footage of him playing. As usual, like you said, drummers rarely get any sort of respect, so there ain't much out there.
