Single-handedly making nerds cool. Sure Pere Ubu were cool. And Electric Eels and Mirrors. And Rocket From The Tomb. But Devo made straights wish they were nerds. And Devo had a complete, cohesive, fully-formed image, attitude and concept nobody could top.
Yeah this one's great because it's at a much slower tempo, so you can really hear all the weird intricate parts coming together. It's got a whole different feel. Great stuff
Their real "hardcore" period came about two years after this, during the tour for the Duty Now LP... the string of shows began in July 1979 and by the second week of the tour, the band had ratcheted the tempos up to an almost absurd pace, with "Come Back Jonee" and "Mr. DNA" flying by at well over 200 beats per minute... there's a fantastic set from this period, recorded at the Palladium in Dallas in early August '79, that's up on UA-cam and is a must-hear. The gig begins with projections of each of DEVO's music videos (at the time) in succession, then the band comes out and leaps into an ultra-gritty, embryonic version of "Going Under"... and it only gets better from there.
It's almost impossible to believe this was almost a half-century ago, in spite of the fact I'm 61 and first heard them in '77 or '78, and as they did for many it changed the course of my life. After Prog and Glam I was ready for something edgier, eventually descending all the way into Hardcore and as I've aged I've grown into more New Psychedelic or whatever they are, the Black Lips and Black Angels. Devo still sounds great. After 45 years. Crazy.
I'm 59 and feel the same. What a amazing time for music. I know everyone says that but man mid 70s thru 80s.....things ended,started,blended, morphed...I was really open minded and soaked it all in.
Awesome, I still have a lot of Devo vinyl bootleg albums! Those were the things to collect in the 70’s!! Even though the sound quality was crap, Devo’s sonic energy prevailed and I became devolved...
Growing up in the 60’s I saw my share of the great bands. Hendrix, Tull, Blind Faith, Airplane, Zeppelin etc. BUT then I found DEVO. After that my prior musical tastes made me want to puke. This band changed everything. This is an edit one year later…..while DEVO certainly was extraordinary and a true awakening ( like taking psychedelics ) I must correct myself. At the time I had grown tired of the over-produced bands I previously mentioned and new wave was like fresh air. Still decades later you cannot dismiss the classic rock bands from the late 60’s early 70’s. It was a wonderful time to be young and discover new music. I am very thankful for that.
Interesting. I have a little different perspective because of my age Im 59. really didn't start getting into this until late 79-80. It absolutely changed everything. I've really grown to appreciate this early incarnation of the bands sound. You really can feel the punk influence over a Kraftwerk one.
Questa band ha cambiato la storia della musica Tutto il Punk e la " new wave " in Italia ha preso ispirazione da loro TOP ten in assoluto Thanxxx Devo ❤
Incredible, the joy they brought to my life surpasses almost everything else, the Stones, early Pink Floyd, Kraftwerk and Devo are a great gift to the World
Compare this to the 5/28/77 show at Eagle Street Saloon (released as Miracle Witness Hour) and see how the band made HUGE strides once hitting the coasts.
@@LFrench I heard that, because David Bowie couldn’t produce their album because of timing, he sent Eno to seem them live at Max’s. However now that I think about it, I believe that would have happened a year later
@@arpodyssey7913 the timeline is something like… November 15th 1977: Bowie MCs a devo gig, after been given a tape of them by Iggy Pop… February 1978: Brian Eno records, funds, and produces DEVO’s first album in West Germany August 1978: after massive legal battles between multiple record label, Virgin Records and Warner Bros release the debut album.
Keep in mind that Talking Heads 77 material had been in circulation a good while already and might have influenced Mark and Bob1. They caught up quickly, but at this stage were well behind.
Hmm, yeah I’m not too sure about that. Pretty much all of the material from DEVO’s first album was written in Ohio between 1974 to May of 1977, and Talking Heads ‘77 didn’t come out until September. Talking Heads played in New York a few times in July of ‘77 whilst DEVO were there, so they could’ve seen eachother, but I imagine that considering DEVO’s style was already pretty much fully developed, and that they already had their first album written there wasn’t much of an influence. A reminder that devo are the guys who wouldn’t even let Brian Eno influence their sound (and he was the producer!) I think that maybe Talking Heads influenced their albums from Duty Now onwards, but Are We Not Men (and the material performed in this show) was likely not. There’s also the chance that they were given a bootleg of TH whilst in Ohio, but I don’t know enough about the 1970s Ohio tape trading scene to know about that.
@@newhank21 I believe that. David Byrne is kind of missing a personality of his own. Check out what he was doing with TH in 75, and compare it with Devo in 1975. Talking Heads were being very uninteresting while Devo were being wild and wilfully antagonistic.
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Mark is a true savant when it comes to the real time live manipulation of that synth!
The number one song that week was "Gonna Fly Now" Theme from Rocky, as a point of reference to what this crowd was experiencing. Mind-bending!
Single-handedly making nerds cool. Sure Pere Ubu were cool. And Electric Eels and Mirrors. And Rocket From The Tomb. But Devo made straights wish they were nerds. And Devo had a complete, cohesive, fully-formed image, attitude and concept nobody could top.
Love the improvised solo in early Satisfaction performances.
I love it too!
Yeah this one's great because it's at a much slower tempo, so you can really hear all the weird intricate parts coming together. It's got a whole different feel.
Great stuff
That was the Hard Core phase of DEVO, my favourite
Their real "hardcore" period came about two years after this, during the tour for the Duty Now LP... the string of shows began in July 1979 and by the second week of the tour, the band had ratcheted the tempos up to an almost absurd pace, with "Come Back Jonee" and "Mr. DNA" flying by at well over 200 beats per minute... there's a fantastic set from this period, recorded at the Palladium in Dallas in early August '79, that's up on UA-cam and is a must-hear. The gig begins with projections of each of DEVO's music videos (at the time) in succession, then the band comes out and leaps into an ultra-gritty, embryonic version of "Going Under"... and it only gets better from there.
It's almost impossible to believe this was almost a half-century ago, in spite of the fact I'm 61 and first heard them in '77 or '78, and as they did for many it changed the course of my life. After Prog and Glam I was ready for something edgier, eventually descending all the way into Hardcore and as I've aged I've grown into more New Psychedelic or whatever they are, the Black Lips and Black Angels. Devo still sounds great. After 45 years. Crazy.
They were so ahead of their time, unbelievable...
I'm 59 and feel the same. What a amazing time for music. I know everyone says that but man mid 70s thru 80s.....things ended,started,blended,
morphed...I was really open minded and soaked it all in.
59:22
Don't go poopoo my pants. I won't go poopoo your pants.
Early devo at its infancy
Awesome, I still have a lot of Devo vinyl bootleg albums! Those were the things to collect in the 70’s!! Even though the sound quality was crap, Devo’s sonic energy prevailed and I became devolved...
Might you consider uploading them here?
IF you can't upload them, would you be interested in selling them??!??!
Theyve evolved so much since then.
You know every one of them (especially MM) are on the spectrum.
Growing up in the 60’s I saw my share of the great bands. Hendrix, Tull, Blind Faith, Airplane, Zeppelin etc. BUT then I found DEVO. After that my prior musical tastes made me want to puke. This band changed everything.
This is an edit one year later…..while DEVO certainly was extraordinary and a true awakening ( like taking psychedelics ) I must correct myself. At the time I had grown tired of the over-produced bands I previously mentioned and new wave was like fresh air. Still decades later you cannot dismiss the classic rock bands from the late 60’s early 70’s. It was a wonderful time to be young and discover new music. I am very thankful for that.
Interesting. I have a little different perspective because of my age Im 59. really didn't start getting into this until late 79-80. It absolutely changed everything. I've really grown to appreciate this early incarnation of the bands sound. You really can feel the punk influence over a Kraftwerk one.
This is just awesome thank you so much for the upload.
Devolved
I use to hang out there alot back in the late 70s
Questa band ha cambiato la storia della musica
Tutto il Punk e la " new wave " in Italia ha preso ispirazione da loro
TOP ten in assoluto
Thanxxx Devo ❤
Incredible, the joy they brought to my life surpasses almost everything else, the Stones, early Pink Floyd, Kraftwerk and Devo are a great gift to the World
This performance blew my mind! I didn’t know it! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Exactly 29 years later I would be born
Compare this to the 5/28/77 show at Eagle Street Saloon (released as Miracle Witness Hour) and see how the band made HUGE strides once hitting the coasts.
And THEN compare this to the August shows at Mabuhay Gardens and it’s ANOTHER huge stride
probably from my recording shared on boojiboysbasement and other places
Too far ahead of their time .
Now that's punk
Is this the show where Eno was sent to see them live?
I didn’t know he ever saw them live
@@LFrench I heard that, because David Bowie couldn’t produce their album because of timing, he sent Eno to seem them live at Max’s. However now that I think about it, I believe that would have happened a year later
@@arpodyssey7913 the timeline is something like…
November 15th 1977: Bowie MCs a devo gig, after been given a tape of them by Iggy Pop…
February 1978: Brian Eno records, funds, and produces DEVO’s first album in West Germany
August 1978: after massive legal battles between multiple record label, Virgin Records and Warner Bros release the debut album.
I don’t know anything about Eno seeing them play live, but if he did at all… it’s most likely their November 15th gigs.
I was born in Ohio on this night
Keep in mind that Talking Heads 77 material had been in circulation a good while already and might have influenced Mark and Bob1. They caught up quickly, but at this stage were well behind.
Hmm, yeah I’m not too sure about that. Pretty much all of the material from DEVO’s first album was written in Ohio between 1974 to May of 1977, and Talking Heads ‘77 didn’t come out until September.
Talking Heads played in New York a few times in July of ‘77 whilst DEVO were there, so they could’ve seen eachother, but I imagine that considering DEVO’s style was already pretty much fully developed, and that they already had their first album written there wasn’t much of an influence. A reminder that devo are the guys who wouldn’t even let Brian Eno influence their sound (and he was the producer!)
I think that maybe Talking Heads influenced their albums from Duty Now onwards, but Are We Not Men (and the material performed in this show) was likely not.
There’s also the chance that they were given a bootleg of TH whilst in Ohio, but I don’t know enough about the 1970s Ohio tape trading scene to know about that.
@@LFrench Also follow up that its the opinion of Jerry that David Byrne likely copied Mark's stage mannerisms
What a load of crap you chat
@@newhank21 I believe that. David Byrne is kind of missing a personality of his own. Check out what he was doing with TH in 75, and compare it with Devo in 1975. Talking Heads were being very uninteresting while Devo were being wild and wilfully antagonistic.
Wasn't the bulk of the Duty Now material written around the same time as Are We Not Men, long before either album was recorded?@@LFrench
Alan Myers.
on point
preach!
Look at the ," drumm-uh " ! Indeed.