I’d adore to experience it again!

Awesome hey? I was 13 years old.

YES indeed 🤓

Alan was a machine.

And a powerful metronome he was. Alan had that rare combination of power *AND* precision. For being a man of rather diminutive stature, he sure could hammer those skins in the most brutal way. He was just amazing.

Alan was a legend.

Alan was one of the all time greats. Sorely overlooked, even in hindsight. He was mindblowingly amazing and had a very unique style.

They were intellectual without being "artsy"... they were just brilliant. And you could say they came along at the perfect time.( something I always say about Adam and the Ants who was so GREAT live) But Devo was so far ahead of their time ANYtime would have been the perfect time. I saw this tour and the 'conveyor belt' tour... absolutely phenomenal

Well said.

- I first heard and taped DEVO on the John Peel show in 1979 and my world was never the same, absolutely formative.

If humans have been so sophisticated why is Devo invisible? It's like we have all these chronological musical breakthroughs with sampling and beat matching wirelessly transmitting, it's like they have an asterisk next to their name

It was INSANELY fresh and new and challenging. Same with Talking Heads.

Mr kasuboski you must not looking for something else cos rock n roll full of it. Let punk out of the game of rock n rollers. Devo provides it.

​@@dimitriosalexiadis2300 I love Devo!!!

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In 78, Devo were among the best rock bands of the time. As years went n on they lost their rock edge and leaned into the more electronic aspects of their sound, but those first two albums are absolutely amazing. As close to perfection as was possible at the time.

Well 1978 was kind of "the time" for a few bands - but ... I see your point!

Bob 1 is the coolest member of Devo.

So rock n roll

Bob 1 has the most interesting voice in Devo and that says a lot

Somehow Bob ended up with the Ohio country drawl, but Mark didn't.

i love his vocals on secret agent man. and of course, his guitar work.

its 2022 and the world is more Devo than ever

We are Devo

Devo now for the future...

2023!

Do you wear a hat? Do you have a job? Do you bring home the bacon?

Awesome

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That would be Mark Mothersbaugh. He also did the intro to Pee Wee's playhouse.. He's awesome..

Isn't it strange and telling that you might be right?

I’ve never been big on the usage of labels, but if a label must be applied to DEVO, wouldn’t “proto-punk” apply a bit more accurately than “post punk”? They were doing this stuff as early as 1973, though they didn’t become well known (outside of Northern Ohio) until ‘77. I dunno. Personally I think the only label that truly describes DEVO is… DEVO.

Right on!

I played drums in a school band, and we did Devo, Sex Pistols and our own songs, at our 1980 school farewell. I remember doing Mongoloid dinstinctly. We freaked everyone out.

Mark Mothersbaugh called him "the human drum machine"

@@puma7346 Too bad he replaced him with the electronic one.

Not everyone could get all the way through "Satisfaction."

@@Mucving You beat me to it. By living out their own devolution philosophy, they devolved to the point where an organic drummer became obsolete.

I was about to say the same thing, but the words got stuck in my throat.

Indeed that, ahead of their time for sure also

@@davidgaar8570 DEVOOOO

Absolutely...the energy is unbelievable!!!

@@jmorra This is indeed a great show, but if you really want to experience Devo at their most transcendent peak, search KZfaq for their performance at the Palladium in Dallas, TX on August 3, 1979. The following night's show is also up on YT, but the Aug. 3 set sounds better, and the performance itself is absolutely incendiary. They do most of the songs from this set, plus a bunch from the Duty Now LP and 5-6 unreleased tunes as well. The recording captures the music videos that the band projected onstage before the show, too. A must-hear for any Devo fan. Three other really phenomenal sets available on YT: November 3, 1978 at the Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis (professionally recorded by Warner Bros. but never formally released), November 10, 1978 at the Old Waldorf in SF (taken from a fantastic sounding radio broadcast), and July 17, 1980 at the Orpheum in Boston (same as above).

Yeah I saw them at the Cotati Cabaret with maybe 300-400 other people in like, maybe ‘90? For sure up there with Talking Heads Stop Making Sense at the Greek for best show ever.

The 2nd album wasn’t too shabby either. The 3rd album is where things started ‘de-evolving’. Still a few good songs, but it started going downhill pretty quickly from there. The 4th album (New Traditionalists) is where I get off the boat.

I think the second album is their peak!

@@Ted_Selke Agreed. It’s been my favorite for well over 40 years. The first album is a classic, and deserves it’s reputation, but Duty Now is a bit of an improvement. The songwriting is every bit as good as the first album, but it has a higher level of energy and a more spartan production that captures a more live feel.

The archives of this program are available on the site of the archives of the French public television: madelen.ina.fr/collection/chorus

@@Frilouz79 merci

@@Frilouz79 - In Caracas, Venezuela, we had a similar show on _Canal Cinco_ (which was the station’s name, on top of it broadcasting over channel 5), which aired late on Sunday nights, I think-late on a weekend night, at any rate-called _La Musica Que Sacudió el Mundo,_ and it used to re-air some episodes of _Chorus,_ in addition to episodes of music shows from the Netherlands, Spain, Uganda, Brazil, all over the world, as well as some local shows. (Queen playing at the Poliedro was a highlight.) The point is, _Canal Cinco_ was kinda the arts channel, a sort of PBS, with state financing but run independent of-and often counter to-the state, and boy, in hindsight what a glorious time the ‘70s were for popular art: everyone breaching class and race and gender barriers, during which time transgressive art could have mass appeal and bring people together AND invite them to think. I don’t think we’ve had that feeling globally in some time … it got squashed in the ‘80s, with studios cranking out mindless drivel again, but it saw a brief resurgence again in the ‘90s, only to quickly get buried again under pablum. We’re overdue for another global cultural renaissance … at least, I _hope_ there’s another one coming soon! Anyway, sorry for the long reminiscence mixed in with a little agitprop … mostly I wanted to thank your compatriots for the excellent music show, but also it’s nice to correspond with someone who might remember the mood of the ‘70s. It was so palpably different from the mood of the last 40 years. I feel kinda bad for folks born in the ‘80s or later who’d have no sense-memory of earlier decades, of a time when it felt we were already living in the future, and on the cusp of great things. Again, I hope we see a renaissance of that feeling soon. It was nice to live in Caracas and feel like, across the world, other people were on the same page about bringing the world together into a better future.

@@Frilouz79 Thank you for this. Only if Beat-Club would learn a thing or two and not have their dvds unreasonably expensive

DEVO tried to warn us

​@@carolwolf9614they warned us, but we didn't listen.

Still DEVOted :)

What city is Sheffield

@@mongoloid1369 The city of Sheffield in the UK...

@@mongoloid1369 Sheffield.

No, I didn’t! That’s great! 😂

At 8:06 when they do the formation for Uncontrollable Urge, they get their clothes ripped off and find it hard to do the movements. I thought Gerry was going to kick someone and Bob 1 stopped as well.

@@barrydawson7393 Bob 1 definitely kicked people. I've seen him get very phyisical with the audience and fans. He kicked a friend of mine in the head.🤣

It stands to reason that a band like DEVO would be expert at dealing with hecklers. They were brave enough to bring this look, sound, and philosophy into the public eye as early as 1973, in Ohio of all places. I’m sure they must have known from the get-go that they were going to get some backlash, especially in those pre-punk days when “serious rock fans” were far less tolerant of anything that deviated from the usual bedenimed fare of the day. On top of being highly intelligent, original, and tight, DEVO had big, round, planet-sized *BALLS*

Thanks, yeah someone gave me a DVD of the full show so I could post it... some of it is VHS quality, and a little out of sync but it’s fine

@@LFrench She’s out of sync!

@@LFrench that was me, enjoy my friend.

I wish I could've seen DEVO at this stage of their career.What a show & what great songs.

@@davidvasquez8658I was more than great!

I turned 11 years old in 1978. I know that for me, I definitely would have appreciated DEVO (in a live setting), though I may not have fully comprehended all of the rhetoric at the time.

Although, I did see a video of their techno Devo concert, and Jerry has an EB-3, I do have to doubt that it's his original one.

I do.

I saw them in Central Park with the cool hats!

One huge tragedy is the lack of footage of the 1981 tour. And 1982 had just the Halloween broadcast that was full of technical errors.

It helps that from day one they heavily utilized multimedia platforms. Video was a big part of their marketing strategy. They were pioneers in that category. By the time MTV went on the air for the very first time in August ‘81, DEVO already had an album’s worth of music videos completed, not to mention a couple of short films and several fully documented concerts (like this one).

No credit for being one of the best, most rockin' punk bands either. Music video pioneers, New Wave pioneers too. That's 3 musical revolutions all rolled into one.

RnRHOF is a joke

@@IAgreeLetsGoBrandon Yep. It’s just a place where music industry scumbags can get together to jerk off each other’s egos, while charging $10K a seat to the friends and families of the bands they induct. I know it’s never gonna happen, but I wish people would just ignore that horrible establishment.

I too had thighs that tight in 1978. 😂😂😂

The late 1970’s in Southern California was a beautiful time.

Smegma

We’ve been de-evolving for a very long time. I’m pretty sure that by 2030, if we haven’t completely annihilated ourselves into extinction or have been wiped out by climate disasters, we’ll at last make that quantum leap to returning to primordial goo.

I concur and well said!

Look up their Mabuhay Gardens show - KILLER!

They were punk as fuck back in the 70s. I still consider them one of the great punk bands of all time.

Yeah, the whole labeling thing gets rather tedious and irrelevant at a certain point. DEVO were just DEVO. They informed punk, and conversely punk informed them (especially when they relocated to Los Angeles and saw the Screamers in action)… but were they really a ‘punk band’? Personally I think slapping that label on them is confining and dismissive, even if it’s meant as a compliment. DEVO predated punk, and shared more in common with what came in punk’s wake than with the initial movement. Again, labels are tedious. People place far too much emphasis and importance on them.

Special orders don't upset us.. Pure class

YES! 👍🏻

The Hives: Hold my beer

😂😂😂

The man's got moves

Jerry is devo. He consistently seems to be the most into it.