It's amazing,it's 2021,I'm 67,I remember getting Devos first album in the 70s.I thought they were just some novelty band that wouldn't stand the test of time.I didn't really start realizing these guys were very good and intelligent till 4 years ago.Ive listened to their music for the first time and really like most of it.
what a boomer. I very almost almost shut down the Siouxsie and the Banshees gig at the first WOMAD festival by climbing way up into the stage rigging when I was 5 and lost my mother for nearly 2 days. happy times. would kill to be at this DEVO gig.
Man, just think about 1977 New York. On one weekend, you could catch the Ramones, Talking Heads, Devo, and Patti Smith, all in the company of no more than 75 other people.
@@oswing They don't exist and won't ever in this timeline. If they did, in the future, then we would have seen a bunch of oddly dressed, old, tourists in the back of our shows. We didnt.. Thus no time machine.
@@sammencia7945 I know, how sad... But then I was 15 and living in Belgium ... no chance. But I saw Joy Division in 1979 and their very first concert out of the UK ! and Wire, The Fall etc...
@@oswing How fantastic for you! I knew of Joy Divisions North Anerica tour and planned to go up to NYC from VA to see it. Did manage to see Wire in 86 and 2001. Walked in as Reuters roared to life. They played many tunes from PF that tour.
I remember them as the weird underrated group that was out there at that time. Yet, as time went by they seem to have prevailed and come to their own unique way to become an iconic band. God bless DEVO.
@@JackFromBeatStrings Most of the live shows were at a faster tempo too!! Although Whip It is the same beat (with an occasional " (3e) & a 4 & " for the fill), the wrists do get a little tired.
They played a lot of shows in the Akron Oh area, at the campus clubs..that's where they really polished their act,.. They probably did play Kent campus often but they owned Akron, ruled it.. I snuck in to a show in '75 or '76, too long ago to remember exactly. I was 13 or 14, what a night. While playing Boogie Boy or Boogie Baby, wow so many yrs gone by, can't remember the title. Baby mask on face, singer went thru crowd w/bag collecting money donations, hilarious.
I didn't see them until 1980 at Macky auditorium. At lot of people thought they just a had a quirly style vis a vis the Satisfaction song, but obviously these guys wer real rockers big time
...like watching something from another planet, oh yeah Planet devo in the same constellation as Planet Claire. split my eardrums to this in 1980, never heard things same since. out.
This really does look like from '53. Gut feelin' That's about the second half of this video. Message to your movement really gets my goat. Rotten to the core. This video is digable and it's wowable like Malibu in '65.
and not to mention, the GREATEST HIP-HOP ever produced. until the you know hew(media powers) KILLED it........ hew wants ALL the people getting together and truly enjoying themselves..
Before Smooth Noodles and that shit. They were a definite musical force to reckon with in the US punk scene. I'm talking the 70s not 2000 era emo. Some very original ideas that inspired many.
4 months after winning at the Ann Arbor Film Festival. That got Bowie and Iggy interested. Bowie couldn't get out of a prior committment so Eno produced the lp at Bowie's suggestion. Imagine that you are SO good that Eno is your "safety" producer.
+K O'Sumthin Like early Tacoma bands Faster Pussycat & Supersonics, there was a single mic on the entire drum set. One of the inspirations for Kurt and Nirvana.
@@victorialarsen6135 Gladly! You may have heard of Bing Crosby? :-) He was born at 1112 North J St. in 1903 in a house his father built. I wonder if it's still there? The Wailers started in 1959 and attended Stadium HS. The Sonics, as mentioned, inspired many later bands. Fun fact: the guy playing the screaming sax in "Have Love, Will Travel" left the band to get his commission in the US Air Force in 1967 and flew combat sorties over Vietnam. Nirvana played their first big gigs at 5441 South M St. Which is also where they finally settled in that name. That's just a quick summary. What do you think of your hometown now? :-D
Imagine taking 4k video of a concert today and watching it 50 years later and noticing the similarity in the difference of quality between this video and videos made in 2021.
One of my favorite DEVO Song's. any guitar players notice, Guns and roses One in a Million is The same chord progression Exactly.A little trivia there as if one even compares to the other. IMO anyway.
Folks------this is as Art as it gets in the Music biz-----defies belief.....despite the mainstream--it somehow was able to rise above the mediocre turd machine the industrial music complex----------------trust your senses----
