This aged well, in there 60’s, world pandemic, these nerds always know more than they let on...

@AndieZ4U2

Жыл бұрын

*have always known

It's astonishing how far ahead in time these geniuses were / are , absolutely one of the Greatist Bands of all time...... J.d from Youngstown ohio.

DEVO studio was in MDR industry park off Washington Blvd on Redwood.. behind MP I worked at MoPro… remember hearing the Spudboy rehearsing.. Jerry is a very nice guy.. We’re All DEVO⚛️🥔

Wow! Look at Mark's hair! Beautiful

@JewlofTheNile914

5 жыл бұрын

I know right.dude's off the hook.

That's how I discovered Devo.They were connected to Brian Eno and in 1979,in the advent of the VHS player,Secret Agent Man and Jocko Homo was on an underground music show.Blew my nine year old mind.Still watch it once or more a week when I'm near a PC,Nerdy Punks,but very fine at it.Love the guys,so original.

17:15 Crazy eyes and then... "uh,oh... I thinks it's my mother" ! x)

Hendrix was not just a guitar player he was an amazing songwriter ….people often forget this

0:35 Devo predicts the bug. "Mutants affected by some yet unamed environmental disease".

@tomallen5837

3 жыл бұрын

lol, "...if we can even talk"

Brilliant

The way Jerry silently points to Mark when asked about the Fairlight says so much about the album's shortcomings

@cnfuzz

5 ай бұрын

First the drummer was replaced by lm1 , then the whole band was pushed out by Mark and his low bandwidth chipmunk sampler

Now it can be told: DEVO was the most influent post-punk band EVER

These guys are overdue for a biopic I would totally totally totally watch it!

@404TVfr

2 жыл бұрын

We nearly had one. There was a documentary all filmed aand edited, but currently remains unreleased.

@JunkyardKid

2 жыл бұрын

@@404TVfr Mark is holding up the release.

Often imitated, never duplicated. I'm sure they watched all the same movies as me when they were kids, "Forbidden planet", "This Island Earth", "Planet of the Vampires", "Attack of the flying saucers" etc.There were some great bands in the 80s like Missing Persons, and the Talking Heads. But the most thought provoking combination of music and entertainment is from DEVO. Even the interviews are entertaining. (and educational)

Ohhh the irony of Gerale wearing a Best Buy Suit!!!

Amazing that a tragedy like Kent State inspired them to create art that still influences us today. Mark’s recording studio in West Hollywood is filled with vintage synthesizers.

Freakin genius’

I like Jerry's Bob Dobbs Slack Pin from the Church of the Subgenius. DEVO is the nicest, coolest, and aware Group of guys on the planet. They were the original conspiracy "theorists." My favorite band ever!!!

@noneofyourbusiness4616

4 жыл бұрын

prominent conspiracy theories, including the conspiracy theories that led to the Nazi Holocaust, date back hundreds of years before Devo

Glad to see supported professional film students by doing video interviews with them so they can hone their skills.

@rliptak2

3 жыл бұрын

Both these guys were art students at kent state so I'm not surprised they would do interviews with students

Awesome such great quality.

I actually started with a PAiA kit, patching everything. Then I was able to move on to an ARP 2600. Finally, when I got my own, it was polyphonic.

Amazing video quality!!!

MM: "Good clean re-education images..."

As much as I love Devo this was about the time their music and reputation started going downhill. Some people say it ended with New Traditionalists but I disagree. Anyone who can't dig "Oh No It's Devo!" is plain not alive. "Shout" on the other hand is eh...

@JCStorm76

2 жыл бұрын

Shout isn’t as bad as people make out.

God, Mark's Hair looks like he'd been sleeping on it for 12 hours then took a walk through a turbine wind tunnel. Love it

@JewlofTheNile914

5 жыл бұрын

Lol lol lol 😂😂😂

I'm from Cleveland ( near Akron). Very subtle but the dude in the yellow shirt has a Cleveland (regional) accent. Gotta be from the area to realize probably. But, I'm howling. Devo is my local hometown act. Ha.

@JeffSkilling69

Жыл бұрын

Everytime I read the comments on a Devo interview, people always mention their accent. I'm from Cleveland as well and was wondering what the Cleveland accent is. I know it's very midwestern because my nonmidwestern friend makes fun of me for saying pop instead of soda, but I always wanted to know what else is indicative of it.

@dinacarr2734

9 ай бұрын

He sounds kinda PA to me.

I 😍 devo,I have their CD.

@johng618

5 жыл бұрын

which one?

@JewlofTheNile914

5 жыл бұрын

@@johng618 freedom of choice album,whip it is my favorite one,

That's such a great, earnest, explanation, Gerry!

I never appreciated how much hard work and creativity went into their stage shows. I know that by 1984, they were no longer relevant on the charts or on MTV, but by then they must have had millions of fans from the '78 to '81 era and I bet the shows around '84 etc. were great

@Doctor_Subtilis

7 жыл бұрын

TommyTwobats fans don't disappear. Just less exposure.

@timhall6413

6 жыл бұрын

They didn't do any shows between '84 and '88.

@InfiniteRhombus

6 жыл бұрын

they didnt tour for shout but they toured for the next album after that and there are loads of videos of it, and i say as a devo fan that it wasn't good at all

@williamherr1369

6 жыл бұрын

They still r

@hubbsllc

3 жыл бұрын

The shows I saw in support of NT and ONID in the early 80s were amazing experiences. What was wild for me was that especially the first time, Atlanta's counterculture - which I had simply never had firsthand exposure to - turned out in droves. And it was real counterculture, not just what got repackaged and picked up on (the second time around, it was more like the repackaged).

I'm gonna be frank here...Gerald Casale is rockin' a rather Space Cowboy Beebop outfit here if you ask me! Another prediction perhaps?!

I love these guys but they remind me that I've led a pretty boring life. These guys had a vision and made it happen with very little compromise. Jerry's new stuff is awesome invisible man.

fairlight, a fav of kate bush

Cover of Morning dew on smooth noodle is great as well

Now that is a PC(in background)or perhaps Fairlight?

@kellphil76

4 жыл бұрын

Saw Herbie Hancock play one on Sesame Street on time. You can find the clip on KZread

Devo always ahead of there time, wow so relevant rn, in this covid 19 time! Bernie 2020 the only honest truth teller!

Dewlap..

0:31 wow. 😳. 2020.

Behind them, the Fairlight CMI that ruined Shout, causing their career tailspin.

@JCStorm76

7 ай бұрын

I like Shout

@Quants0

7 ай бұрын

i like the fairlight cmi

Fairlight was back in the days when Australian technology was Australian, until they sold out for the mighty dollar and Japanese synths just copied the technology like the Chinese do now.I suppose this made synth technology affordable but unfortunately also generic.

@noneofyourbusiness4616

4 жыл бұрын

The only people who could afford Fairlights were rock stars. There is nothing more inherently generic about playing a song on a sampler than there is about playing a song on a guitar. Any problem with generic sounds is a problem with human creativity, not on human access to technology.

Holy crap is that an AS400 computer?! 😂

You're up to 3 Hard Disks a day! LOL! That was probably like 800K....

why the hell would you interview someone and make the interviewers questions difficult to hear? lol - gerry calls him "off camera man"

@jcee

4 жыл бұрын

You still see that in a lot of band interviews today! So annoying!

@rockets4kids

3 жыл бұрын

Back in the day when video cameras were expensive and you could only afford to rent one it was common to put the camera on the interviewee, do the interview, then go back and put the camera on the interviewer to record the questions -- which were often revised from what was asked to better suit the answer.

@SuperScottCrawford

3 жыл бұрын

@@rockets4kids apparently, they forgot that second, indeed crucial, step.

@rockets4kids

3 жыл бұрын

@@SuperScottCrawford That does appear what is going on here as this is edited video. However it is not uncommon for raw (unedited) footage to be found in an archive and uploaded to youtube.

Look like the Devo duo were on a media blitz - here's another interview - same outfits - kzread.info/dash/bejne/k2x1uqSrZNu6dqQ.html

@occommunitycats7616

2 жыл бұрын

Love their colorful suits!

"uh oh, it's my mother"

THIS LOOKS LIKE 1990?

@caseysmith544

6 жыл бұрын

Chippy Choppy. That is the beauty of Devo, they were always 4-6 years ahead of time, even with the album they made in 2010 the band was about a 4-5 years ahead of where they needed to be with the songs off that album, it was not till 2015 that Rock songs started having that same sound, and the oddity that went on a few years later with Remix's of the songs by Techno Artists and using parts of those songs for techno songs. You can tell by the computer though it is before the 1990's as by 1990 most newer type computers have a screen that even computer users today would recognize. My parents had a used Macintosh 30 until 1995, but my dad upgraded the computer in 1990 when he got it with more memory. The clothes though look like something from the late 1980's to 1990 however, the Glasses that Mark wears are unique and most of the pairs he wore did not get copied into main stream fashion as those big plastic glasses were all the rage until 1995 or so. I should know, My mom had two pairs of those Glasses with the big frames and when she was done with them in 1995-1996 she gave the frames to her mother for her newer glasses she wore until 2000. Then when those came back in style she pulled out the frames as she needed a new prescription again.

@JewlofTheNile914

5 жыл бұрын

I know that,s what makes them so special until this day,they,re stuck back in time,which is unique.

@JewlofTheNile914

5 жыл бұрын

@CHIPPY CHOPPY exactly dude.

@occommunitycats7616

2 жыл бұрын

Look at the old computer back there, running DOS

@Druffmaul

2 жыл бұрын

The Brian Eno/Dune soundtrack mention is a big clue that it was 1984.

just axe me :D

35yrs later, no mutations

@lostinspacerobinson1527

3 жыл бұрын

You sure about that?

They r making it difficult for my guys devo. That's not kool.