on a vhs tape. Which is where I saw it almost two decades before youtube existed. my copy was even worse quality than this fourth or fifth generation copy
After all these years of assuming that they were a mostly-techno band, I honestly believe that Devo is, first and foremost, one of the best punk bands ever to come straight outta Akron, OH. RIP Bob Casale. #Devo
Sorry but if you've ever thought of DEVO as a techno outfit shows you're lack of understanding of what techno is? They were always more in line with the punk and new wave movements.
Without a doubt. The way they rebelled agains, it at least pointed out, the shallowness of much of the values for the baby boomer/flower power generation is very much in the punk, post-punk or hardcore ethos
I seriously get shivers every time I watch this. Probably my all-time favorite Devo song, with an extra long intro, and such emotion in the performance. For people who really GET how awesome Devo was/is, this was a pivotal moment.
One of the raddest early U.S. punk artifacts. This version gets so wild and intense it almost makes the Dead Boys sound tame....DEVO during this period were so off the hook, so badass, it's absurd...
Im only 18 but this is easily one of my favorite songs ever. The personality in the singing, the catchy guitar, their whole aesthetic, they’re incomparable.
@@rickprice893I'm 17 and have been a fan since I was 12/13. been really happy to see that Devo has influenced newer bands I love like The Coneheads and Uranium Club.
Incomparable is the perfect word to describe Devo. When I was 20 I interned on a show called “The Cutting Edge” which was an alternative music showcase that ran monthly on MTV. Devo was on the show and I was able to meet them. Polite and friendly. I’m nearly 62 now and in the nearly 50 years since the above video was shot, nothing’s been lost. Play Devo for your kids some day! My 21-year-old loves them.
This is my favorite Devo song. Imagine tripping and speeding in Radio City Music Hall in the 80s losing your mind dancing and jumping and singing through this song. That was me
Saw them live in 1979. Speaking as a drummer, I don't think I have ever seen a tighter band. Man, they were playing some really hard stuff...and they nailed it like it was nothing. And jumped around with funny hats on too...
Wow... what a difference a year makes..... I saw them in 78 at Sheffield Civic Hall UK and they played their album perfectly...and with the yellow boiler suits... And made a major impact on my life eversince.......
@@OnlyEdandTheAlmost hey I mean, not all hip hop is like that, the stuff from up to the early 90's sure as hell wasn't dreary, most modern rap "music" is godawful though.
It was an incredible time, I cherish the late 70s early 80s punk. Fortunately I went to a few very early Devo shows. Iconic! I worked on the Dean Stockwell movie Human Highway in 1982. Devo with Neil Young, some videos are on UA-cam. I got to spend hours with Devo for over a month during that time. They got to know my friend Bruce Conner who made his own video for the song Mongoloid also on UA-cam. Bruce made movies with scrap 35mm movie film. Devo loved Bruce. I was from San Francisco, my good friends were the Avengers, Mutants and I knew the DKs too.. Three of the best bands from SF. So many more . Those years at the Mabuhay Gardens and after hours at TargetVideo in the Mission district were some of the best years of my life. RIP Dirk Dirkson.!! Target Video, Joe Rees....,Iconic stuff! Many of his videos are on UA-cam.
This wasn’t shot on VHS - it wasn’t invented yet. Most likely a Sony portable open tape system with separate camera and recorder. A friend’s Father had one.
@@johnspooner1403 In the description it says "bad quality video from old VHS cassette... but rare" Sounds like the original was transferred to VHS at some point.
I saw them in early 1979, and the level of anticipation in the audience before they came out was amazing; everyone knew that Devo was something unique and special. The concert was electrifying.
melodiantime Am I the only one who hums...duh duh duh dum at the end? Every time I see this it makes me think Devo were the best US 'punk' band ever. Ah come back Jonee.
Saw them in 78. One of the most memorable gigs I ever attended. Bunch of hippies started throwing suff at them on the stage so others in the crowd started throwing stuff at the hippies. Happy days.
It was fun when all this stuff surfaced, looking like nothing that had come before. I remember seeing Devo on SNL and everyone talking about it the next Monday at school. It was a great time.
Very true. DEVO were truly doing something *COMPLETELY* new. Even most of the other (then) new punk bands weren’t exactly breaking all ties with the past. Most of them were just doing an angrier, louder version of the garage bands from the 60’s. DEVO and a select few others, like Wire in England and the Screamers in L.A. were basically throwing away everything that had come before and doing something totally new and original. I remember how blown away I was back then with their whole thing - their look, their sound, and the whole de-evolution concept. They managed to keep it pretty fresh and challenging all the way up until roughly 1981.
@@Brewzerr Not exactly 'throwing away everything' . But definitely reworked some things. e.g. 'Uncontrollable Urge' is Led Zeppelin 'Misty Mountain Hop' riff . But , yes , they were making a statement by de-volving it .
+flyingmerkel6 DEVO did indeed invent time travel...Pretty sure potatoes are at least 40% of the equation. I was only two earth years of age at the time of this recording...yet...here I am...in the future.
This is the PERFECT version of this song!! Alan Meyers is the most amazing drummer ever. Just watching him in this video is not fit for words. I just keep watching it over and over he is about to tear that kit to shreds!!! I LOVE IT!!!
@@Tinyhall1 really? They were at uni during the kent state massacre. Which I just checked was in 1970. So MM was 20. Which makes sense. Wrote this comment when I was 19. Think I needed to see myself in them then. Barrelling into my mid 20s now, your reply is actually quite heartening. Thanks for responding
Kudos to the guys who filmed this. Cameras in 1977 were large and heavy, and needed a separate recorder for on-location shooting; a two-person job. Camcorders weren't invented until 1983.
This looks like Super 8, which was a bit more compact, though expensive to develop in color. Thus black and white here. Black and white could be developed in a home lab rather than requiring expensive commercial processing.
@@TheEricleegreen No, this isn't Super 8; that is not a film image. It almost certainly was recorded using a Sony Portapak, - an open reel videotape machine, one version of which came with a battery pack. Lots of artists (including Nam June Paik and Max's regular Andy Warhol) and public access stations used Portapak machines. There's a surprisingly amount of footage from them on UA-cam, including much of a show by Bette Midler at the Continental Baths. I hope this footage has been preserved and cleaned up as much as possible.
The Sheeple think Devo is Whip It. they'll never know. Mr Kamikaze Me Dna , Blockhead. she's just a girl Beautiful World etc etc. And I ask as they askex Are we not men?
Saw them live in the summer of '80 on the Freedom of Choice tour. Great, tight band and a terrifically inventive presentation. Still a fan after all these years.
Back in the 70's Playboy magazine had an article about interesting gifts you could buy. One of them was you could hire a Devo to play at your birthday party, just 25,000 plus transportation. What a bargain!!!
I keep coming to that, I try to make a post and realize I can't say enough. I could write a book and it wouldn't come close to expressing how completely awesome this crappy black and white ate up video is. I think your statement is as close to perfect as possible.
Has to be one of my favorite songs from Devo......this is my get on a highway and put my foot to the floor song. Nothing like having the windows down, and this song cranked when going 140 mph! :) Yeehaw!
just great ! thanx alan, thanx devo. Band members may pass on but their music will never die, Devo is such a great source of inspiration! I discovered them in 2005 at the age of 15 and i never stopped listening to them. Devo just like Talking Heads, Silver Apples or the Residents (and many others) have the power to never get old and affect deeply any generation of monkeys. RIP
Between the 1:04 step up on the crescendo , or the 1:30 grip switch on the drum sticks, or the way Alan Meyer's has the cymbals swaying @ 2:18 this is the greatest build up I have see lol
Oh man, early Devo. So damned inventive and variable, and when they wanna let rip… Just love when those drums thump in at 5.32 over the thrash guitar - the crowd just starts jerking in time - they can’t help it - f*cking awesome!!!
Devo was the first concert I ever went to, Christchurch, New Zealand, 1980. When they sang "We are DEVO" it was the greatest thing ever. This old concert footage is musical perfection! Like Robert Capa's D-Day landing photos, their technical imperfection defines what we experience. DEVO defines my generation!
Not "Perhaps" The most under-rated and misunderstood band in history but that actually worked well for them. There is no way to account for the influence they had on everything that followed them. The fusion of electronics and punk ... ah, words fail.
I do not know but I am coming back to Devo since my childhood. Ones one guy told me it was good. Yes, he was right. I listen to Devo even more often now than before. I like it.
Wow! Testament to how good these guys are/were. This song sounds pretty much like it did on the record including the segway into Slap Your Mammy. I was in a high school band in the 80s and played Gut Feelin at parties and it was always a favorite, people screamed for it by name. Our 3-piece hardly did it justice but the energy of this song still always rocked the house. Rock on DEVO!
Saw them in 1980 when I was in high school and ushering at the Fox Theater in Atlanta. We saw a lot of concerts there, Devo was the best. No one really appreciated how good their music was back then, thought they were just a novelty act, but they could rock!
The intro to this song can NEVER be too long!
💯
This is why UA-cam exists. Where else would you be able to see this?
In your head after eating 'shrooms in the forest?
Originally yes. Then it was bought out...
on a vhs tape. Which is where I saw it almost two decades before youtube existed. my copy was even worse quality than this fourth or fifth generation copy
I had the first record on 8 track
I was 14 and immortal, and look now - I'm still alive.
bravo. you must be like a century old!😂
I was 15, and amazingly enough...I'm still breathin 😎
@@drcobra-dc6uy I was 22 and I still race bicycles!🤣
After all these years of assuming that they were a mostly-techno band, I honestly believe that Devo is, first and foremost, one of the best punk bands ever to come straight outta Akron, OH. RIP Bob Casale. #Devo
I suspect you've hit the nail on the head. Remember they started as through making a film about a band at art school rather than being musicians.
Damn ass straight
Sorry but if you've ever thought of DEVO as a techno outfit shows you're lack of understanding of what techno is? They were always more in line with the punk and new wave movements.
Jacques Dray oh no bro. bob done kicked the bucket? - That's the most tragical news in modern history!
Without a doubt. The way they rebelled agains, it at least pointed out, the shallowness of much of the values for the baby boomer/flower power generation is very much in the punk, post-punk or hardcore ethos
I seriously get shivers every time I watch this. Probably my all-time favorite Devo song, with an extra long intro, and such emotion in the performance. For people who really GET how awesome Devo was/is, this was a pivotal moment.
💜☠️💜😎
Seen them live their 1st show in southern ca
And a few more after to
sooooo good ❤
Yup. Still play this at least once a month. Love it.
Gold
Thousands of great drummers but only one Alan Myers. RIP Alan and Bob. Devo was truly meant to be.
He was the spiraling tension of every arrangement. Insane build up and crescendos. A master.
One of the raddest early U.S. punk artifacts. This version gets so wild and intense it almost makes the Dead Boys sound tame....DEVO during this period were so off the hook, so badass, it's absurd...
Im only 18 but this is easily one of my favorite songs ever. The personality in the singing, the catchy guitar, their whole aesthetic, they’re incomparable.
@@rickprice893I'm 17 and have been a fan since I was 12/13. been really happy to see that Devo has influenced newer bands I love like The Coneheads and Uranium Club.
You got great taste, Kid!!
At 23 I hope you still got it on your hit list the album one
Incomparable is the perfect word to describe Devo. When I was 20 I interned on a show called “The Cutting Edge” which was an alternative music showcase that ran monthly on MTV. Devo was on the show and I was able to meet them. Polite and friendly. I’m nearly 62 now and in the nearly 50 years since the above video was shot, nothing’s been lost. Play Devo for your kids some day! My 21-year-old loves them.
Cool. Keep listening
A little piece of music history.
I was in San Diego in 2010 and saw DEVO. I was sad when they didn't play this.
It's Punk, it's Surf, it's geek... Fantastic.
It's PuRFeek
@@repairdepartment5918one word poem. Nice
There definitely is a surf element to some of their songs!
It's art.
Sk8
I saw them Sheffield UK 1978. Still recovering. Mind Blown!!! FOREVER!!!!
The future still hasn't caught up with Devo.
It won't, because the future is devolving
💯
Of course. Just look at their shirts that say EV.
The man speaks truth.
This is my favorite Devo song. Imagine tripping and speeding in Radio City Music Hall in the 80s losing your mind dancing and jumping and singing through this song. That was me
You must be a prize today after destroying so many brain cells on stupid drugs as a child. You ARE devo.
This is FABULOUS!! Makes me feel 14yrs old again!!
This song is one of the best build ups ever.
The absolute best! Second place...Free Bird.
Agreed
Truth
I agree, but I feel compelled to mention WHITE RABBIT, and Cinderella’s big score(sonic youth)
It's diametrically perfect. The vocals come in at exactly the mid point of the song.
Ahhh 70’s fun my brain and ears rerun . Devo thanks for bringing it .
Devo is way under estimated. The musicality is amazing. One of the all time best bands on the planet.
Saw them live in 1979. Speaking as a drummer, I don't think I have ever seen a tighter band. Man, they were playing some really hard stuff...and they nailed it like it was nothing. And jumped around with funny hats on too...
Wow... what a difference a year makes..... I saw them in 78 at Sheffield Civic Hall UK and they played their album perfectly...and with the yellow boiler suits... And made a major impact on my life eversince.......
The tension keeps building, finally culminating in the best song transition ever.
What a time to be living when punk music was around and bands like this existed. It made you feel alive.
Now we have hip-hop. Dreary, dreary hip-hop.
@@OnlyEdandTheAlmost hey I mean, not all hip hop is like that, the stuff from up to the early 90's sure as hell wasn't dreary, most modern rap "music" is godawful though.
It was an incredible time, I cherish the late 70s early 80s punk. Fortunately I went to a few very early Devo shows. Iconic!
I worked on the Dean Stockwell movie Human Highway in 1982. Devo with Neil Young, some videos are on UA-cam. I got to spend hours with Devo for over a month during that time. They got to know my friend Bruce Conner who made his own video for the song Mongoloid also on UA-cam. Bruce made movies with scrap 35mm movie film. Devo loved Bruce.
I was from San Francisco, my good friends were the Avengers, Mutants and I knew the DKs too.. Three of the best bands from SF. So many more
. Those years at the Mabuhay Gardens and after hours at TargetVideo in the Mission district were some of the best years of my life.
RIP Dirk Dirkson.!!
Target Video, Joe Rees....,Iconic stuff!
Many of his videos are on UA-cam.
And there was always somebody rolling thru town, and you could see 'em in a dirty, sweaty, smoke filled bar for a 3 dollar cover!
@@TheRoafer Target video was such a delight!
When he sang, "hhhbllreladdaaa beelaamaagg soallaakpp" It really got me. Truer words were never spoken. A poet for the ages.
The world needed Devo.
The world still needs Devo!
God I hope this stuff is still around a thousand years from now so people will know what mankind is capable of.
it is then they will surely understand what human DEVO really means
The mark of a great band is their music still rocks your soul 44 years later.
Mothersbaugh. What a great front man, what a great live band. By the time I saw them live (1980) their live act was truly performance art.
Watching this on a crappy VHS tape is absolutely perfect. Raw gold.
Now it's a digital filter.
This wasn’t shot on VHS - it wasn’t invented yet. Most likely a Sony portable open tape system with separate camera and recorder. A friend’s Father had one.
@@johnspooner1403 In the description it says "bad quality video from old VHS cassette... but rare" Sounds like the original was transferred to VHS at some point.
Analog reel to reel video.
Nothing crappy about VHS, I was there, even had Betamax. Analogue is real. Digital is subjective to 'correction'.
This is chaos made into order and art. Nothing done today can match it.
I had the privilege of seeing these bad boys in Sheffield England 1978 ~ I still havn't recovered!!!!
My mum wouldn't let me go to that gig (Was 14 at the time), at the City hall if I remember correctly.
josie parkin I was lucky enough to see them at the rainbow theatre in finsbury pk London 1980.
josie parkin 1980 for me
Paramount Theatre, Portland Or 1982
I saw them in early 1979, and the level of anticipation in the audience before they came out was amazing; everyone knew that Devo was something unique and special. The concert was electrifying.
Devo is criminally underrated.
Awww, DAD. We're ALL DEVO!
Not any more!!!! Obsessed with this band r n
53 likes no dislikes.
Not by me, Frankie Moz. I still love this.
Devo real good. U feel better?
Amazing video.... Amazing band.. Greetings from Chile 2021
Found this 5 years ago. Coming back nearly every day. Devo at its best.
their drummer is fantastic. rock solid.
When I liked this video I said "better late than never"...
Born in 1962 and got to live through all of it growing up in SoCal.
Happy Birthday, Mark Mothersbaugh! This is my favorite Devo song!!! 🤘🤘🎼🎶💙
This is priceless!!! DEVO was the greatest punk band ever!
Best live version of this tune I've ever heard! 🎸⚡ 🔺
LaBaye 2x4 guitar!! Awesome vintage axe!!!
This is a piece of history. The scratchy black and white film just adds to to the feeling. Slap your baby down again.
GREAT, BLACK AND WHITE, GREAT SOUNDS FROM DEVO, SAW THEM LIVE IN 1979 IN GLASGOW.
AWESOME!
melodiantime
Am I the only one who hums...duh duh duh dum at the end?
Every time I see this it makes me think Devo were the best US 'punk' band ever.
Ah come back Jonee.
melodiantime Where? The Apollo was probably too big. Got a gut feeling that it was a Sauchiehall Street venue.
All the same it would be great if they had a multitrack setup to capture the audio
Saw them in 78. One of the most memorable gigs I ever attended. Bunch of hippies started throwing suff at them on the stage so others in the crowd started throwing stuff at the hippies. Happy days.
It was fun when all this stuff surfaced, looking like nothing that had come before. I remember seeing Devo on SNL and everyone talking about it the next Monday at school. It was a great time.
Very true. DEVO were truly doing something *COMPLETELY* new. Even most of the other (then) new punk bands weren’t exactly breaking all ties with the past. Most of them were just doing an angrier, louder version of the garage bands from the 60’s. DEVO and a select few others, like Wire in England and the Screamers in L.A. were basically throwing away everything that had come before and doing something totally new and original. I remember how blown away I was back then with their whole thing - their look, their sound, and the whole de-evolution concept. They managed to keep it pretty fresh and challenging all the way up until roughly 1981.
@@Brewzerr Not exactly 'throwing away everything' . But definitely reworked some things.
e.g. 'Uncontrollable Urge' is Led Zeppelin 'Misty Mountain Hop' riff . But , yes , they were making a statement by de-volving it .
They were on Fridays in 1979. What year were they on SNL? I'll have to look it up.
Punk and rock and new wave. Hard to wrap my head around. Love them.
If they ever invent time travel. I know where I'm going.
+flyingmerkel6 DEVO did indeed invent time travel...Pretty sure potatoes are at least 40% of the equation. I was only two earth years of age at the time of this recording...yet...here I am...in the future.
+flyingmerkel6, me too, me too!! :)
flyingmerkel6 devo is from the future bro... duh
You got me. However, we're now living in the future- and it sucketh greatly.
Devo was fucking right.
possibly greatest band ever. no-one like them at all. punk rock at its finest.
This is the PERFECT version of this song!! Alan Meyers is the most amazing drummer ever. Just watching him in this video is not fit for words. I just keep watching it over and over he is about to tear that kit to shreds!!! I LOVE IT!!!
The most original band I have heard in the early 80’s. Amazing music
This genuinely awe inspiring. A bunch of teenage art students unleashing their raw fucking talent
MMothersbaugh- 27 yrs old in '77, check the rest of the ages. Sorry it took me 4 years to comment.
@@Tinyhall1 really? They were at uni during the kent state massacre. Which I just checked was in 1970. So MM was 20. Which makes sense. Wrote this comment when I was 19. Think I needed to see myself in them then. Barrelling into my mid 20s now, your reply is actually quite heartening. Thanks for responding
@@Neuroticmancer there is still time for your Max's debut my brother hope it is going well
@@Neuroticmancer Grad school.
by the time Whip It came out in 1980, the band was well into their 30s.
the drums at the beginning of Slap Your Mammy are so raw! excellent!
Kudos to the guys who filmed this. Cameras in 1977 were large and heavy, and needed a separate recorder for on-location shooting; a two-person job. Camcorders weren't invented until 1983.
This looks like Super 8, which was a bit more compact, though expensive to develop in color. Thus black and white here. Black and white could be developed in a home lab rather than requiring expensive commercial processing.
@@TheEricleegreen No, this isn't Super 8; that is not a film image. It almost certainly was recorded using a Sony Portapak, - an open reel videotape machine, one version of which came with a battery pack. Lots of artists (including Nam June Paik and Max's regular Andy Warhol) and public access stations used Portapak machines. There's a surprisingly amount of footage from them on UA-cam, including much of a show by Bette Midler at the Continental Baths. I hope this footage has been preserved and cleaned up as much as possible.
My guess is this was shot on a 1/2” VHS Panasonic Camcorder. The audio sounds pretty good. Thanks for sharing this rare footage.
@@brainworthy the first camcorders were available in 83 ish? This is 77?
The Sheeple think Devo is Whip It. they'll never know. Mr Kamikaze Me Dna , Blockhead. she's just a girl Beautiful World etc etc. And I ask as they askex Are we not men?
Maybe the best rock and roll song of all time.
Saw them live in the summer of '80 on the Freedom of Choice tour. Great, tight band and a terrifically inventive presentation. Still a fan after all these years.
Amazing from day one
Yes it was
Day one was way before the 80s & MTV, and they are not a onehit wonder....
@@doctorinsomnia5410You're really mining the hidden truths there
Same with you
Amen to that,you chose wisely,for their was a time in the seventies and early eighties when andwhere time stood still pure magical
What a performance! My favorite song of
theirs.
Back in the 70's Playboy magazine had an article about interesting gifts you could buy. One of them was you could hire a Devo to play at your birthday party, just 25,000 plus transportation. What a bargain!!!
Priceless!
Love joy Division,love this.im from Scotland.🏴🏴🇺🇸🇺🇸
my 5 year old son loves DEVO! It's one of the only bands he knows the name of.
Think of the era this was...we may never see this kind of unfiltered originality again
I do not care how much my kids laugh at me, DEVO will always be cool and I will always play it loud ! Spud forever.
Still the best !
Fucking incredible. The most underrated American rock band ever!
That Gut Feeling intro is pure bliss.
PURE AGRREMENT WITH YOU, THE BEST.
Gets me everytime. It's weird it's like it gives me a feeling of nostalgia for a time in which I didn't even exist
It just goes on, and on, and on, and makes me wonder "Why couldn't it have been part of the official version??" So perfect.
Intro Has Rush Over Tones.
Greg X But it is part of the official version
1977 video content, perfect! Back in the day!!!
Devo were so tight, even way back near the beginning, incredible.
This thing is nuts! I agree! Blam
Holy crap! That was the best Devo video I ever saw!!
I can’t even put in to words how good this is.
I keep coming to that, I try to make a post and realize I can't say enough. I could write a book and it wouldn't come close to expressing how completely awesome this crappy black and white ate up video is. I think your statement is as close to perfect as possible.
Yes, agreed to my extent of existence
Absolutely fucking bitchen!!!
Do the words get stuck in your throat?
I saw them au Palace in Paris, France.... It changed my life. 1978 I think.
That jungle-punk metronome will echo forever. Thank you Alan!
Has to be one of my favorite songs from Devo......this is my get on a highway and put my foot to the floor song. Nothing like having the windows down, and this song cranked when going 140 mph! :) Yeehaw!
Balls to the wall rock n roll right there!!!!
best clip ever of an amzing band
just great ! thanx alan, thanx devo.
Band members may pass on but their music will never die, Devo is such a great source of inspiration! I discovered them in 2005 at the age of 15 and i never stopped listening to them. Devo just like Talking Heads, Silver Apples or the Residents (and many others) have the power to never get old and affect deeply any generation of monkeys.
RIP
_residents commercial album_
I was twelve years old and listening to disco, of all things.
It was only two years later that I discovered Devo,... and everything changed.
Between the 1:04 step up on the crescendo , or the 1:30 grip switch on the drum sticks, or the way Alan Meyer's has the cymbals swaying @ 2:18 this is the greatest build up I have see lol
Alain From France,
Thank You.
There are songs that make your body move all by its own without you even noticing. This is one of them.
Oh man, early Devo. So damned inventive and variable, and when they wanna let rip… Just love when those drums thump in at 5.32 over the thrash guitar - the crowd just starts jerking in time - they can’t help it - f*cking awesome!!!
Devo was the first concert I ever went to, Christchurch, New Zealand, 1980. When they sang "We are DEVO" it was the greatest thing ever. This old concert footage is musical perfection! Like Robert Capa's D-Day landing photos, their technical imperfection defines what we experience. DEVO defines my generation!
Best musical expressionist on the planet for absolutely ages mate.
Perhaps one of the most under-rated bands?
Three under-rated bands: Devo, Renaissance, and October Project.
Not "Perhaps" The most under-rated and misunderstood band in history but that actually worked well for them. There is no way to account for the influence they had on everything that followed them. The fusion of electronics and punk ...
ah, words fail.
Certainly one of the best and rightfully inluential bands of all times, bit underrated? How?
@@qpouvtmvoelxjtu458 They should be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
@@haybill3000 Very true!
They were off the charts weird for 1977. They deserved a better audience that night.
What a band they were. Just hanging there in time forever. Well done Devo.
Nominate for the R&R HOF this year. DEVOTEES and Spuds, get over there and vote often.
I had the privilege of seeing them live twice and both times they Rocked the house down.
Tonight is the first time I’ve ever seen this. Very cool ! Thanks for posting.
I do not know but I am coming back to Devo since my childhood. Ones one guy told me it was good. Yes, he was right. I listen to Devo even more often now than before. I like it.
One of the first bands I saw when I moved to NYC in 1978... I knew then that I was in a whole new world. :)
Wow! Testament to how good these guys are/were. This song sounds pretty much like it did on the record including the segway into Slap Your Mammy. I was in a high school band in the 80s and played Gut Feelin at parties and it was always a favorite, people screamed for it by name. Our 3-piece hardly did it justice but the energy of this song still always rocked the house. Rock on DEVO!
Oh for a time machine. That's where I'''d go. To that show!
Absolute mastery. Going from here to programmed drums proves de-evolution.
Gets better every time I hear this tune! Legendary artists
That was badass. Still feels fresh and full of energy
Wow...killer version of one of there best songs
One of the greatest intros in rock n roll. Bob Mothersbaugh a highly underrated guitarist.
It was actually Bob Casale who took Mark Mothersbaugh's chord progression and turned it into this surf-rock inspired intro.
I'm here because of the closing credits to the Dogtown documentary... Thanks for the great share.
Simply awesome! I'm at a loss for words. Waaaayy ahead of their time!
I cannot get enough of this band right now.
Saw them in 1980 when I was in high school and ushering at the Fox Theater in Atlanta. We saw a lot of concerts there, Devo was the best. No one really appreciated how good their music was back then, thought they were just a novelty act, but they could rock!