You’re right mark, doggie submission is never a good place to be. Devo came and did what they had to do, but the big record labels squeezed them dry like lemons. Despite that, Devo has changed my life and made it so much richer. Thank you Devo. Your struggle and sacrifice was not in vain.
Mark's idea of the military industrial complex was way ahead of it's time. These guys had the right idea of what the New World Order's intent was all along. To De-evolve. To take away everything we've fought for like freedom of "eveything" not just choice.
that was cool! i wasn't expecting the songs at the end (even though the description says so) and to see them all lit up instead of in the dark was great! ya know, i saw them recently and i gotta admit, i never gave alan myers the respect as a good quality solid drummer until i saw josh freese (who does represent alan very well) playing with the group. since then, i've noticed how tight and almost drum machine like alan was. this video offers a rare glimpse at alan doing it well. rest in peace alan myers and bob 2.
I saw them live in 1978, 1979, 1981, 2006, 2007. And even though in 2006 and 2007 Josh was great, it was quite clear that the *heart* and *soul* of DEVO was Alan. His parts were genius, his energy limitless, his playing tight, tight, tight, and flawless in execution. His sound was powerful and punishing, especially the way he played and tuned his toms. Witness the actual *pummeling* he gives us in Wiggly World. And. I challenge *any drummer* to *successfully* pull off the drum parts, including the fills, to their cover of Satisfaction. That entire drum part is truly revolutionary thinking. He actually articulated the rhythm of *dissatisfaction* on the kit. DEVO did not need drum machines. They had Alan. For me, there was drumming in the "popular modern domain" before Alan, and then drumming after Alan. But no one has picked up where he left off. Thank you Alan.
It's the "Freedom of Choice intro" they used to play before Whip It in 80-82 shows, check out live performances of this era. I don't think they ever played the actual Freedom of Choice song live before the 00's.
It would be nice to have some artists as self-aware as Devo today, you know, expose a bit more of the big picture in pop culture, tired of the woke crap.
6:00 must have been a real downer, to be saddled with a "we built this city," style "best of," that you're NEVER gonna be able to shake. ..the who shook "my generation," zep got to perform minus "stairway," its just that DEVO never HAD a definitive hit before..
the last song before it cuts out is Girl You Want. It goes, look at you and your mouth watering, look at you and your mind slaving, why dont you admit it‘s all over, just the girl you want.
The “jump the shark” album was New Traditionalists. I disliked “through being cool”, and “working in a coal-mine”. The album sounded different than even Freedom of Choice. I KNEW as a young man, and huge fan...that they’d changed. And they NEVER recaptured the sound, the angry-spud mentality...the first (3) albums embodied.
John Bandera No way....Beautiful world, Jerkin’ back and forth, Going under, Love without anger.....New Traditionalists was NOT jumping the shark. Same with Oh No.....Shout was jumping the shark.....
