I don't think there was ever a more precise, robotic drummer that could just go like that. Peart may have been more technical / layered, but I can't think of a song where Peart just sits there for 3 minutes straight playing with the repetitive precision of a Roland drum machine lol. The first time I heard Devo was FOC era stuff, and I thought for sure Whip it was a drum machine. It's not. lol still blows my mind
In today's 2022 world, everything is so contrived as far as the rhythm and sound and delivery. Devo could make a comeback if they were just starting, because their approach to music was so fresh. Nobody is going to perform on stage like this, and nobody's going to make something different like this today.
The way both Bob 1 and Gerald are in perfect sync during the guitar solo and nailed in perfect timing is so damn good you can actually see Mark fist bump Gerald at 1:58. This was definitely them at their finest, probably the last time they were full of so much energy talent and youth. And as other's have mention the drums are perfect!
I didn't see that fist bump until you pointed it out. And dude on the upstage synth didn't even need to stop his badass dance moves. In all seriousness, this is an amazing video.
I've watched this so many times and still, I can't get over how damn tight the drums are. Just spot on, that rhythm just propels this song. One thing I love about a lot of music from this era is the great drumming. This is a prime example.
Love reading the compliments on Alan Meyers. A phenomenal drummer who made it look easy- it wasn’t!! R.I.P. Alan. P.S. All time Devo classic performed to perfection!
She sings from somewhere you can't see She sits in the top of the greenest tree She sends out an aroma of undefined love It drips on down in a mist from above She's just the girl, she's just the girl The girl you want
5 geeks with no auto-tune or backing track laying it down and blowing away the vast majority of modern acts. I was in Eastern Europe this summer and every (and I mean every) bar and business was playing 80's music. Long live the 80's!!! It's crazy how accurate the drummer is for a live performance.
Back in the day before the manufactured pop stars existed and you had to have musical talent. The cream always rose to the top. Great memories, their hats always reminded me of 'Bill and Ben the Flowerpot Men' if you know what I am referring to, then you're old also.
As a drummer since i was 12. I fell inlove with devo for the marks amazong work on the synth. Didnt hurt beaing able to learn the square like structure of the guitar sheet music .
So good!!! I watched it again at 0.75x speed and it still sounds great at a slightly slower tempo. More to appreciate. ❤️ // Edit: Just remembered that they did slow down the tempo live in later years.
Back in 1980 when they would played whip it off the same album at the skating rink I always had to get on the floor and skate as fast as I could and hang those curves like my life depended on it great memories!
DEVO's "Girl U Want" is hilarious when you realise it inspired Tyler Spencer to write "Gay bar" as he heard the lyrics wrong, now I know that I can't unhear it and it's hilarious.
New Wave was exactly like this. The future of music on stage but the audience are all dressed like 1977 high school students. This is at start of promo push for lp. Before Whip It chart success.
Never saw them, but I get the impression that DEVO, sounded better live than on their records. They're records to me were so,so, but live they look like an interesting band to see, see.
Back then, the made for TV production had no idea that their jerky stop motion camera would be so awkward and confusing to someone watching in the age of streaming -I kept on thinking there was something wrong...
I watch this video, first, because Devo is the greatest performance band of European descent of all-time, and just to see Bob II's head in the groove. You can't teach it.
Just can't seem to find the slower version. It has kick-ass rock guitar and best vocals. The MP3 info says it's from a movie sound track but be buggarred if I can find it on YT.
IMHO Devo's LIVE performances of Girl U Want and Gates of Steel on Fridays are their BEST ever - stone cold TIGHT - I saw this as a kid when it first aired on ABC, was a huge fan then, still a fan now. We're all DEVO.
![Devo - Gates of Steel (Live on Fridays 1980) [HQ]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/PBoj-JzQDnc/mqdefault.jpg)
Can we take a second and appreciate how tight that drummer is!
When NASA needs to reset their clocks they give him a call
I watched this on the night it was 1st broadcast, extremely high on the LSD and believing that The Devo was talking to me personally. Good Times 😂
Dude that's effin hilarious. I too have had experiences like that. I hope you are well today.
They were.
@@mitchyoung93 Really. That's how good art comes across.
Look up their collab with Neil Young. It’s a fvcking trip. On LSD? Good lord😂😂😂
Haha I had the tape barely a teen lol
You swear it's a drum machine but no it's human. Incredible drummer in DEVO
Yep, these guy were tight.
I don't think there was ever a more precise, robotic drummer that could just go like that. Peart may have been more technical / layered, but I can't think of a song where Peart just sits there for 3 minutes straight playing with the repetitive precision of a Roland drum machine lol.
The first time I heard Devo was FOC era stuff, and I thought for sure Whip it was a drum machine. It's not. lol still blows my mind
Fact's
The Human Metronome Alan Myers RIP
Alan was the man!
In today's 2022 world, everything is so contrived as far as the rhythm and sound and delivery. Devo could make a comeback if they were just starting, because their approach to music was so fresh. Nobody is going to perform on stage like this, and nobody's going to make something different like this today.
Check out the Polysics.
@@Azerod
I MY ME MINE
Devo, I really loved their keyboards, it's why I still play
The way both Bob 1 and Gerald are in perfect sync during the guitar solo and nailed in perfect timing is so damn good you can actually see Mark fist bump Gerald at 1:58. This was definitely them at their finest, probably the last time they were full of so much energy talent and youth. And as other's have mention the drums are perfect!
I didn't see that fist bump until you pointed it out. And dude on the upstage synth didn't even need to stop his badass dance moves.
In all seriousness, this is an amazing video.
Fist bumping from six feet away that is the essence of DEVO
Incredible instrumental hook.
Absolutely brilliant 2023
Devo Dropped the mike!
❤Thank you, Violet!
Gramma: What do they have those
flower pots on their heads for?
10 year old me: Gramma! It's DEVO!
I want an energy dome. Anyone else?
I've watched this so many times and still, I can't get over how damn tight the drums are. Just spot on, that rhythm just propels this song. One thing I love about a lot of music from this era is the great drumming. This is a prime example.
They called the drummer a human metronome.
Oh that Alan!
To this day I say Allen is one of the most underrated drummers ever
@@tonda9915 yes he is VERY underrated!🥔
This band was super tight live-amazing!
Alan Meyers, one of the BEST metronome quality drummers to ever live. R.I.P.
Could not agree more! Simply great!
Alan, Jaki and the drummer from Idles
The human metronome in action
man, he's so good
I'm a huge drumming fan, and he's sick as hell. Very impressive! The whole band plays tight as hell.
Who needs a drum machine when you are the drum machine.
Absolutely! This and Gates of Steel from a performance on Fridays are outstanding. So tight.
I keep coming back to this version because of that high hat
How can ANYONE get sick of this performance? Alan is truly a human metronome, and Bob 1's overdrive on "the cloud" is fierce. I am Devo.
We're all are DEVO ☠️💣☠️
Devo Mega
Selin Moije Schule Mathe Deutsch?
Good Answer
Make America Devo Again!
Love reading the compliments on Alan Meyers. A phenomenal drummer who made it look easy- it wasn’t!!
R.I.P. Alan.
P.S. All time Devo classic performed to perfection!
I listened to hundreds of bands in the late 70s and 2 stick out today at my age of 58... B-52s and DEVO!
You forgot SPLIT ENZ and THE CARS!
I think Mi sex & Puesdo Echo liked them
Awesome. Any band that can reproduce live, the album quality sound, is aces in my book 👍🏻😀
As we humans continue to devolve, it becomes clearer that Devo was genius.
They should by rights be hailed as prophets
the drummer Allen is literally a metronome - his meter in so precise you'd swear its a drum machine.
One of the best punk rock guitar riffs ever.
So seamless yet so robotic and calculated
If you've never heard of the band crack cloud, I think you'd probably dig their first album. Check out drab measure if you feel like it.
The punk covers of Gates of Steel are epic! A little more up-tempo
Indeed! All time Devo classic tune!
This is the Best performance of the song, thank you so much for posting such a high quality recording! You’ve made my day
Agree 100%. They were absolutely bloody brilliant on that show.
The second set was insane as well on the same night, uncontrollable urge from their first album
It sounds exactly like the recording , im impressed
R.I.P. Alan Myers and Bob (Bob 2) Casale.
Awesome! Looks better than any of the other uploads I’ve seen
She sings from somewhere you can't see
She sits in the top of the greenest tree
She sends out an aroma of undefined love
It drips on down in a mist from above
She's just the girl, she's just the girl
The girl you want
5 geeks with no auto-tune or backing track laying it down and blowing away the vast majority of modern acts. I was in Eastern Europe this summer and every (and I mean every) bar and business was playing 80's music. Long live the 80's!!! It's crazy how accurate the drummer is for a live performance.
1:29 the drummer face!!
Kinda looks like my Accountant on speed :/
lol
Damn! I saw this when it came out! I was a HUGE Fridays fan! DEVO Rulz!!!
Got this on on vinyl from way back then... my fav!
Good Lord, that was Fantastic !
RIP Bob 2 and Alan you are sorely missed.
This band was so ahead of it's time.
They stil are ☠️💣☠️
Because....THEYRE FROM THE FUTURE! :D
@@Jacksmusicshack ☠️💣☠️
Seeing them live really imprinted how talented they were as musicians. The entire show felt like it was in a studio. I believe it was 1981.
Title of the video LITERALLY says 1980
@@kenm2709 I think they were referring to when they, personally, saw them live.
I love Mark Mothersbaugh.... Devo is sooo BITCHEN!!!
Back in the day before the manufactured pop stars existed and you had to have musical talent. The cream always rose to the top. Great memories, their hats always reminded me of 'Bill and Ben the Flowerpot Men' if you know what I am referring to, then you're old also.
2:36 That adorable eye flutter xo
Perfect Devo
We are not men we are Devo…….
Are we not men?
The timing of the riff and the drums still seems so hard to fathom after all these years. Pure brilliance.
As a drummer since i was 12. I fell inlove with devo for the marks amazong work on the synth. Didnt hurt beaing able to learn the square like structure of the guitar sheet music .
Ahhhh, analog oscillators slightly out of tune. That was my childhood.
Great vid I use to what the Devo Fridays vid way back on YT and it was really grainy and poor but this is great quality thanks!
Revolutionary at the time..
Devolutionary*
The drummer is awsome
Wore out the Album Freedom of Choice🇦🇺
one of the rare bands to have the drummer be the best musician
They’re all phenomenal!
I saw them at Dallas, Tx's Agora Ballroom around 1980.
I am totally digging the keyboard players twitch moves.
yo thanks for the upload!
pure greatness
Bob Casale (Bob 2) looks so handsome in this clip.
So good!!! I watched it again at 0.75x speed and it still sounds great at a slightly slower tempo. More to appreciate. ❤️ // Edit: Just remembered that they did slow down the tempo live in later years.
that was cool slowed down…
@@chrisj.9129 Try it at 1.25x - still sounds great!
0.75 x is dope too, but the full speed of this performance gets me so amped lol love Devo!
The drum machine is cheating!
Oh wait-
Lol I thought the camera effects in the beginning was my internet cutting 🤣
This performance was the first time I ever heard DEVO.
ARE WE NOT MEN?!?
Back in 1980 when they would played whip it off the same album at the skating rink I always had to get on the floor and skate as fast as I could and hang those curves like my life depended on it great memories!
WE ARE DEVO!
These guys will always be on another level!!!
Wireless keyboards I guess...Lol...
DEVO's "Girl U Want" is hilarious when you realise it inspired Tyler Spencer to write "Gay bar" as he heard the lyrics wrong, now I know that I can't unhear it and it's hilarious.
So polished, so tight. Fkn impressive
Great song
That guitar player has some sick moves.
Mark’s ARP Odyssey is so out of tune! So brave using those early analog synths. What a nightmare touring with them!
Utter genius
Killer tune. Bravo.
The flowerpot men
In one word...GENIUS!!!
Love DEVO!!
HOT FUCKEN DAMN
Devo mic drop.
Devo=true music and musicians
Fridays was a great show and this song is perfect.
New Wave was exactly like this.
The future of music on stage but the audience are all dressed like 1977 high school students.
This is at start of promo push for lp. Before Whip It chart success.
If only Devo didn't put such heavy emphasis on synthetic drums in the late 80's we would have had years more of Alan Myers in the band :(
Never saw them, but I get the impression that DEVO, sounded better live than on their records. They're records to me were so,so, but live they look like an interesting band to see, see.
Back then, the made for TV production had no idea that their jerky stop motion camera would be so awkward and confusing to someone watching in the age of streaming -I kept on thinking there was something wrong...
DECONSTRUCTED POP
I watch this video, first, because Devo is the greatest performance band of European descent of all-time, and just to see Bob II's head in the groove. You can't teach it.
Robert Palmer's version was my introduction to this song - this is the first time I've heard the original...
Just can't seem to find the slower version. It has kick-ass rock guitar and best vocals. The MP3 info says it's from a movie sound track but be buggarred if I can find it on YT.
Great.
I’d say everyone in that audience instantly turned into Spud Boys and Spud Girls after this amazing performance.
ICYMI: Soundgarden covered this.
Even IF synchronizers/metronome is in there,a drummer has to be way tight and still deliver the human touch and feel to the song
2:45 Makes my heart warm.
Excellent performance. Maybe perfect.
after home taping this, the album version was disappointing
Why do I see #reviewbrah #thereportoftheweek in the lead singers face. aye yie yie! Aloha~~ from Hawaii~~
Interesting that they have the click track loud and live also....
IMHO Devo's LIVE performances of Girl U Want and Gates of Steel on Fridays are their BEST ever - stone cold TIGHT - I saw this as a kid when it first aired on ABC, was a huge fan then, still a fan now. We're all DEVO.
Tank girl✌
Sometimes it is hard to explain to anyone I learned keyboards because of Devo
Happy Birthday Bob Mark Mothersbaugh 11-08-2019
If that isnt one of the best live clips ever...im not here.
wish I'd seen this band live in their heyday
They define COOL.
Is Bob 2 playing a Prophet 5?
Such a simple guitar lick made such a great song.
omg yeah hell yeah