Here I come once again to save the day!!! The song is literally nothing more than Ray Scott's "powerhouse". It's from the 1930s! I think the story is set in post-Nazi Germany ("my fraulein done told me/when I was in goosesteps/she said I would gas them"), but was actually an allusion to the American soldiers coming home from Vietnam and being greeted with nothing good. Yes, this is the 1977 re-take. Devo is notorious for re-recording songs like that. There are no surviving photos of Jungle Jim's drum set, but here's what I can gather: It was made of Remo roto toms (Jerry says they were practice pads, but they look more like the roto toms to me) and mounted onto a stand made of auto exhaust/muffler components. Jim glued acoustic guitar pickups to the drum heads, which I THINK he ran through a home-made drum module made out of a dismantled MiniMoog. (Jimmity Jim was big into circuit bending before that idea even existed.) He also used fuzzboxes, wah-wah pedals, and an echoplex. He had an acoustic set as well (which he used with The Jitters) and I'm pretty sure he just took the cymbals from that and played them with his electronic set. That photo was shot during "Too Much Paranoias". Notice how nobody's near any microphones, Mark's turning the knob on his EHX Frequency Analyzer, and Jerry is in mid-jump. There's only one song they ever pull that stuff off.
Thanks for... yes... saving the day again! I'll try to draw out what the drum set most likely looked like using the design from S.A.M. and your evidence and holy crap you gathered a lot of info off his drum set. WHERE DO YOU FIND THIS? Also, I'll fix some info in the description :)
Maxwell M., I hope there are surviving photos. I'd pay actual money just to get my hands on them! If anything, they're with Jim who is most likely clueless on just how big the fanbase is and how many people appreciate the music they were hated for in the 70's. They'll probably surface one day in the future, just like all those pictures of them live in 1976-1977. That'd be cool if it was a live picture too, if these potential pictures ever surface :3
Ian Weil Bobbi Watson might have any pictures of it. She was Devo's amateur photographer back then. Jim's well aware of the fanbase. He's attended DEVOtionals and he's given some interviews in the past few years. He works for an engineering firm nowadays!
Did you see the color photos of them in 1976 on the Devo Doc. page? They're pretty cool. It also shows COLOR FOOTAGE from Max's Kansas City,1977, in one of the previews
I think of this and the Hardcore Live version as the definitive one. Those backing vocals really make it so much more exciting, plus I love the extra "Powerhouse" lick at the beginning.
Oh yeah... About the song: The jazzy feel to the song is actually pretty cool. It makes it feel like it's from the 50's, when I always felt the "story" took place. I prefer the "official" by only a little, but probably because I've been listening to that for years. Sorry... but sometimes my descriptions get so carried with other things which aren't usually about the song. Also, if you have any further info on this recording, tell me!
Here I come once again to save the day!!!
The song is literally nothing more than Ray Scott's "powerhouse". It's from the 1930s! I think the story is set in post-Nazi Germany ("my fraulein done told me/when I was in goosesteps/she said I would gas them"), but was actually an allusion to the American soldiers coming home from Vietnam and being greeted with nothing good.
Yes, this is the 1977 re-take. Devo is notorious for re-recording songs like that.
There are no surviving photos of Jungle Jim's drum set, but here's what I can gather: It was made of Remo roto toms (Jerry says they were practice pads, but they look more like the roto toms to me) and mounted onto a stand made of auto exhaust/muffler components. Jim glued acoustic guitar pickups to the drum heads, which I THINK he ran through a home-made drum module made out of a dismantled MiniMoog. (Jimmity Jim was big into circuit bending before that idea even existed.) He also used fuzzboxes, wah-wah pedals, and an echoplex. He had an acoustic set as well (which he used with The Jitters) and I'm pretty sure he just took the cymbals from that and played them with his electronic set.
That photo was shot during "Too Much Paranoias". Notice how nobody's near any microphones, Mark's turning the knob on his EHX Frequency Analyzer, and Jerry is in mid-jump. There's only one song they ever pull that stuff off.
Thanks for... yes... saving the day again! I'll try to draw out what the drum set most likely looked like using the design from S.A.M. and your evidence and holy crap you gathered a lot of info off his drum set. WHERE DO YOU FIND THIS?
Also, I'll fix some info in the description :)
Ian Weil Some interviews from Mark, Jerry, General Boy, and Jim himself, and intensive scouring of Guitar Center's percussion listings.
Maxwell M., I hope there are surviving photos. I'd pay actual money just to get my hands on them!
If anything, they're with Jim who is most likely clueless on just how big the fanbase is and how many people appreciate the music they were hated for in the 70's.
They'll probably surface one day in the future, just like all those pictures of them live in 1976-1977.
That'd be cool if it was a live picture too, if these potential pictures ever surface :3
Ian Weil Bobbi Watson might have any pictures of it. She was Devo's amateur photographer back then.
Jim's well aware of the fanbase. He's attended DEVOtionals and he's given some interviews in the past few years. He works for an engineering firm nowadays!
Did you see the color photos of them in 1976 on the Devo Doc. page? They're pretty cool. It also shows COLOR FOOTAGE from Max's Kansas City,1977, in one of the previews
I think of this and the Hardcore Live version as the definitive one. Those backing vocals really make it so much more exciting, plus I love the extra "Powerhouse" lick at the beginning.
Oh yeah... About the song: The jazzy feel to the song is actually pretty cool. It makes it feel like it's from the 50's, when I always felt the "story" took place.
I prefer the "official" by only a little, but probably because I've been listening to that for years.
Sorry... but sometimes my descriptions get so carried with other things which aren't usually about the song.
Also, if you have any further info on this recording, tell me!
My new favorite from DEVO
It's more It's more
also Residents and Snakefinger Bad Day In Bombay
was thinking the same after hearing Im A Potato
0:18 “Come On Boys”
una foto sola?
wow i just heard this yesterday. Mozart had too many notes...Devo gots too many hits
BooYah!