Really cool how Mike Douglas was not a condescending jerk like so many other TV hosts. This was obviously not his music scene but he remained respectful and asked interesting questions. The man was a class act.
I was thinking something similar. He wasn't concerned about booking acts that aligned with his personal tastes. I mean, John and Yoko co-hosted the show with him for a week. It's a style of talk show that you don't see anymore.
I cant believe that I'm seeing this. The night this came on, my mom was ironing. Devo came on and she asked, "what in the hell are you watching?" No joke, no lie. I said," Mom. I'm watching history. " Still, cannot believe this is on my phone and in my face right now
You were correct more than you know. The lead singer with the glasses is like the Bill Gates of music. I'd be shocked if he is not a billionaire. He flies under the radar doing music for cartoons and movies. Never hear his name, but you have heard his work 1000 times and did not know it.
@@chriswesterfield2042 Mark Mothersbaugh does the “RUGRATS” and did “Pee Wee’s Playhouse”, plus a host/plethora of our kiddie related musical Soundtracks way, WAY too numerous to mention. Alongside Mothersbaugh, there is Danny Elfman (former lead singer of OINGO BOINGO), who is much more than likely even more successful at creating childrens movie soundtracks, along with,(yet once again) an incredible number(s) of successful movie soundtracks that I would have to mention, probably outnumbers his closest ‘competitor’, that being Mothersbaugh, by a decent to incredible number(s) of musical projects. Both are Men with Musical Missions and have clearly shown that they are the top Two to call upon when a professional Soundtrack for a upcoming Movie venture is in the works.
I thought Merv Griffin had a better show beginning in the late sixties. As a former professional big band singer he had a huge stress on having musicians on his show. When Chick Corea came out he had him on once a week for months. Merv was on late in the afternoon, not like late show talk show hosts. He also featured his band as part of the show, getting them to talk live onstage, having one of the best trumpeters in the world as his band-leader.
@@johnwattdotca It really threw me on this clip to hear Mike's band start into their own sax-driven version of "Whip It"! ln general, though, talk show hosts of the time like Mike, Merv and Dick Cavett were there to be open-minded and share interesting new viewpoints, not exploit and mock them as has been typical since (I assume it was) Phil Donoghue and Geraldo Rivera began to go down the path that led to Springer, Maury and their current offspring infesting the game. De-evolution indeed!
He may have looked "square" but he was a pretty open minded guy. I remember seeing a clip of him chatting with Tom Waits and of course he had John Lennon and Yoko Ono for a full week.
@@jvblhc: I never said he looked square, but I know what you mean. Merv Griffin had the same businessman look, and at the time so did George Carlin and Willie Nelson. I would describe Mike Douglas as an afternoon show, not a soap opera.
one of the tightest bands ever, live. TV live sound sucks so anyone who performed in the 80s lip sync'd. DEVO was an art band so lip syncing actually fits in with their sense of irony.
I can't even comprehend creating such pioneering and original music in 1980. I know many people don't get it. Think about the 1970's just ending and coming up with this. Amazing band.
@doubleheadergr It was an implosion/rebellion from disco right. There was so much creativity in the 80's. People think of it as cheesy but you had punk, reggae, new wave, rap. What an exciting time in music.
@@ThenVersusNow_ People often overlook all the weird and creative stuff from the early 80's and focus on the hair metal and mainstream synth pop that got big in the late 80's.
It never really hit me just how clever they really are till now. Everything about them was self invented right down to the stylized movements. I love how they stayed in character even when the hosts came on stage to greet them.
I’ve been a DEVOTEE since ‘79. I never saw this episode of Mike Douglas. Mike was a favorite of my Mom’s. He showed such respect and open mindedness toward the spudboys. Very impressive.
Same here - I didn't know they had ever lip-synched a performance. I bet they hated doing anything that cheesy. They were already pretty tired of WB by then, I'm sure.
Mike was a consummate professional in his line of work. Unlike so many of the other mainstream talk show hosts of the day (and really, today as well), he gave all of his guests equal treatment, meaning that he was always respectful and courteous, no matter how ‘different’ or outlandish his guests were. He was a class act.
You've gotta love the red flowerpots. Mark Mothersbaugh is a freaking genius. Impressive how welcoming Mike was. And John, who was a huge star at the time, was also quite respectful. This was an extremely left field band back in 1980.
Jerry and Mark have previously warned against using energy domes for planting flowers. They have no drainage, which is bad for the root system. Also they're top heavy when filled with dirt so it'd likely fall over - bad for your flowers too.
The Energy Dome concept was Jerry's idea, if I am not mistaken. He said it was inspired by an Art Deco light fixture from his Catholic grade school he attended.
Incredible live show. Saw them in Austin and one of them left the stage, a little later the crowd starting going crazy. He was in the balcony with a rope like you see in gym class with knots. The band just keeps jamming and he is looking over the railing of the balcony with that rope. I'm thinking no, really? Yea, he ties off the rope and climbs the 20 feet or whatever down into the audience. The song is the Devo song and he is screaming "Are we not man?" and the crowd is shouting "We are Devo!" over and over as he makes his way through the crowd back to the stage. I have been to hundreds of concerts and that is one of the most serious lights out performances I have seen.
"We didn't know how accurate we were about de-evolution. In the last 3 years there has been more of it than we could have imagine." That was 1980. Hang on to your socks, you haven't seen anything yet.
I remember being a 11 year old kid when this came out, I was watching it on TV with my dad, I think they where on Saturday night live, one of these TV shows, & even my dad liked it, and I was thinking wow these guys are way out there, I remember not knowing what to make of them, cuz they where so different, but I just knew I liked it,😎👍, they even had cordless mics, in 1980, they were really ahead of their time weren't they!?💯👍
Interesting that Mark Mothersbaugh, once again, decided to basically be silent in a TV major interview (as he did some others at the time). I love it when he and Jerry are both responding, but Jerry was always a much better media interviews than Mark (unless Mark was really in the mood to talk, which seemed to only happen when the boring & routine Devo questions were NOT asked, lol). Jerry (during one on one interviews) is amazingly deep and philosophical....both of them are quite intelligent in somewhat different ways. Overall this video is a nice capture of that Freedom of Choice era, thanks for posting it.
I liked when the Devo dude said that people threw bottles at them early on, and mike said "Oh that explains why you guys adopted wearing those hats" Classic Mike Douglas at his best! LOL.
Good news though is that Behringer are pretty much cloning them and selling them for a fraction of the price of the original. I have a "Pro 1" and the sound's totally authentic to the original.
Jerry (1980): "We didn't know how accurate we were about de-evolution. In the last three years more of it has gone on than we ever imagined". I'd love to know what Jerry thinks about the 41 years since...
Just to note for those first watching/getting into DEVO, I'm pretty sure this was dubbed over the single. No cut on the band, those guys could play live anywhere anytime and actually did at garages and dive bars all over Kent, Akron and NE OH. A lot of talk shows were not set up to have live music back then brining up all the equipment to the 38th floor of building for a 4 min performance was a lot of cost and time. I think SNL and Fridays were always live performances.
I remember when they first hit the airwaves. So glad they turned their synth thing, into something that caught on in popular culture, and made them some money. Opened the doors for many that followed.
Alan always sits quietly at the end of the line. 3:53. Which is weird because if you ever saw a Devo performance live at their peak, you know that he's the force that held the whole thing together.
Mike Douglas was amazing. When he went on it was always Sly Stone who filled in. He had an extremely open-mind about music and where it was heading. My punk band years ago actually played the theme song to this show
The contrast between Mike and Letterman talking to these guys is night and day...Mike is interested...and Dave is just indifferent and confused, Mike was 10 years Dave's senior, yet he's more with it than Dave ever was.
I recall being an audience member on an episode of Mr. Douglas’s show around this time. He was very gracious and welcoming with the audience off camera. A true gentleman.
My Dad heard Me listening to the 8-Track and said "What IS that?''........then asked if We could listen to the whole tape! He was 41 at the time and LOVED it! He said some of it sounded like his 50's Rock and he Dug it!
Absolute pinnacle of interviewing prowess. Many feared to appear as it might leave their career in ruins, if it seemed the mighty Mr.D. gave you a thumbs down. Undoubtedly the most powerful kingmaker in the annals of recorded television.
All I have to say is that EVERYBODY looks awesome in an energy dome. When I wear that thing nothing but smiles and open doors. Got out of a speeding ticket without saying a word. At the airport just wisked right out of line. Guys said...."You seem like you're in a hurry. Gotta be somewhere, right? Well, you just go on ahead. Ain't stopping a DEVO Fan." TRUE FACT..... Walk up to food counter... BAM... we have to make a fresh pizza. Got one left off the last pie. Here you go. On the house. Toss in a soda to wash it down? 😳....... 😌😆☝️🌟
@@marcusmaddox2176 Just a reminder to pick your battles. Choose your mutations wisely. Reserve your energy that escapes from from your spine at the base of your neck. It's just representational.
I love the way SCTV made fun of these weird combinations of variety show host and rock acts (mostly Mike Douglas and Merv Griffin). Rick Moranis's Merv Griffin was hilarious - and the episodes were always among the funniest things SCTV did. And this is really, really weird.
If there were ever an unlikely venue for Devo to play, I would have to say The Mike Douglas show would be it! Can't believe he booked them! TBH, didn't even know Mike Douglas was still on in 1980! And those plant pots on top of their heads always cracked me up, those guys were off of their rocker!
Wow these guys are great live. They sound exactly like the album. Amazing. And they didn't even have to have their electric guitars plugged in to anything
Well....that is the talk show circuit. Thus they pointed out that they were lip syncing and that at a real live show they play with real synths, drums , guitars and vocals.
@@TheChristafershawn very strange to me . I mean I understand why they do it. Its so much easer production wise, but my God if it isn't the cheesiest of the cheese.
As important (and you can capitalize the i) in the US as Kraftwerk in Europe. This group remains an exquisite assembly of creative individuals in the History of Popular Music, not as anonymous as, say, the Residents, but unanimous in genius, they were a clockwork thinktank lubricated engine. Working full time at a pre-cog powerplant. Duty now for the future. They warned us all...
The mention of Ohio and especially Kent State was the big pink elephant in the room. Really feel for Jerry whenever he had to mention their roots. I still remember being a little kid when Whip It came out. It was a really crazy cool time. Love Devo. Gutted I missed their London show 2 months ago.
Ya know, Mr.Schneider seemed genuinely interested, after Whip It he was engaging one of the Bobs about the keytar, chatting. He actually put out a couple country records that weren't panned, so there's oddly enough some (kinda) common ground, what with chicks chasing you always, big cocaine tab, multiple pools at multiple houses, big smack tab, paparazzi, dui's, fights, lawsuits, A.A./rehab, management issues, leaked sex tapes, prescription drug reliance, etc.
This interview is so much different from the one they did with David Letterman. Whereas Mike is respectful and interested, Dave was kind of a smart aleck through the whole interview. Here we are over 40 years later and Devo is still touring in 2024!
I'm glad Mike didn't say the typical flower pot thing about the energy domes. First he calls it a "hat", then "helmet". Which is exactly what I thought, when seeing them for the first time as a 12 year old in 79. A space helmet.
Really cool how Mike Douglas was not a condescending jerk like so many other TV hosts. This was obviously not his music scene but he remained respectful and asked interesting questions. The man was a class act.
I was thinking something similar. He wasn't concerned about booking acts that aligned with his personal tastes. I mean, John and Yoko co-hosted the show with him for a week. It's a style of talk show that you don't see anymore.
Yup 100%
Too bad his son didn't get these qualities. An a-hole to the nth degree
@@kailexx1962 Mike Douglas & his wife Genevieve (nee Purnell) had 3 daughters. No sons. Maybe you're thinking of Kirk Douglas?
Check out Mike with Frank Zappa and/or Alice Cooper. Mike D. was a great TV talk show host, for sure.
I cant believe that I'm seeing this. The night this came on, my mom was ironing. Devo came on and she asked, "what in the hell are you watching?"
No joke, no lie. I said," Mom. I'm watching history. "
Still, cannot believe this is on my phone and in my face right now
I think the Mike Douglas show was on during the afternoon.
@@Lazyeyewitness it was. If I remember correctly, the sun was going down. It was dusk. So maybe like 4:30ish
Mike Douglas was syndicated, so you had to check local listings.
You were correct more than you know. The lead singer with the glasses is like the Bill Gates of music. I'd be shocked if he is not a billionaire. He flies under the radar doing music for cartoons and movies. Never hear his name, but you have heard his work 1000 times and did not know it.
@@chriswesterfield2042 Mark Mothersbaugh does the “RUGRATS” and did “Pee Wee’s Playhouse”, plus a host/plethora of our kiddie related musical Soundtracks way, WAY too numerous to mention. Alongside Mothersbaugh, there is Danny Elfman (former lead singer of OINGO BOINGO), who is much more than likely even more successful at creating childrens movie soundtracks, along with,(yet once again) an incredible number(s) of successful movie soundtracks that I would have to mention, probably outnumbers his closest ‘competitor’, that being Mothersbaugh, by a decent to incredible number(s) of musical projects.
Both are Men with Musical Missions and have clearly shown that they are the top Two to call upon when a professional Soundtrack for a upcoming Movie venture is in the works.
I love how Scheinder is fanboying out on Gerry. He's genuinely interested in the art and music.
Mike Douglas was the best and most open minded talk show host of that time. He welcomed acts and talent from all walks of life.
He had Genesis on his show in 1977, way before they'd gone full pop.
I thought Merv Griffin had a better show beginning in the late sixties. As a former professional
big band singer he had a huge stress on having musicians on his show. When Chick Corea
came out he had him on once a week for months. Merv was on late in the afternoon, not like
late show talk show hosts. He also featured his band as part of the show, getting them to
talk live onstage, having one of the best trumpeters in the world as his band-leader.
@@johnwattdotca It really threw me on this clip to hear Mike's band start into their own sax-driven version of "Whip It"!
ln general, though, talk show hosts of the time like Mike, Merv and Dick Cavett were there to be open-minded and share interesting new viewpoints, not exploit and mock them as has been typical since (I assume it was) Phil Donoghue and Geraldo Rivera began to go down the path that led to Springer, Maury and their current offspring infesting the game. De-evolution indeed!
He may have looked "square" but he was a pretty open minded guy. I remember seeing a clip of him chatting with Tom Waits and of course he had John Lennon and Yoko Ono for a full week.
@@jvblhc: I never said he looked square, but I know what you mean. Merv Griffin had the same businessman look, and at the time so did George Carlin and Willie Nelson. I would describe Mike Douglas as an afternoon show, not a soap opera.
Musical geniuses way ahead of their time. I'm so glad I got to see them a half dozen times.
me too!
Still have It's a beautiful world and working in a coal mine on my everyday playlist!!!
@@randywissler9923 Gates Of Steel is on my permanent play list. 'Half a goon and half a god' ruclips.net/video/uqoH4rvXxpU/видео.html
@@johng618 me 3!
the reason ENO found them perfect
Devo ushered us into the 80's. Thank you.
they were so ahead of their time that they didnt even have to plug in their insturments
I noticed that myself but dude could lip sync like nobody’s business
Nice!
one of the tightest bands ever, live. TV live sound sucks so anyone who performed in the 80s lip sync'd. DEVO was an art band so lip syncing actually fits in with their sense of irony.
my least favorite devo song
I can't even comprehend creating such pioneering and original music in 1980. I know many people don't get it. Think about the 1970's just ending and coming up with this. Amazing band.
@doubleheadergr It was an implosion/rebellion from disco right. There was so much creativity in the 80's. People think of it as cheesy but you had punk, reggae, new wave, rap. What an exciting time in music.
Yeah, Devo was completely out of left field and everybody knew about them.
@@ThenVersusNow_ People often overlook all the weird and creative stuff from the early 80's and focus on the hair metal and mainstream synth pop that got big in the late 80's.
It never really hit me just how clever they really are till now. Everything about them was self invented right down to the stylized movements. I love how they stayed in character even when the hosts came on stage to greet them.
I’ve been a DEVOTEE since ‘79. I never saw this episode of Mike Douglas. Mike was a favorite of my Mom’s. He showed such respect and open mindedness toward the spudboys. Very impressive.
Same here - I didn't know they had ever lip-synched a performance. I bet they hated doing anything that cheesy. They were already pretty tired of WB by then, I'm sure.
Mike was a consummate professional in his line of work. Unlike so many of the other mainstream talk show hosts of the day (and really, today as well), he gave all of his guests equal treatment, meaning that he was always respectful and courteous, no matter how ‘different’ or outlandish his guests were. He was a class act.
I miss the 1980's really bad.
I'd give an arm to go back and do it again
Leopard prints and wild girls named Sheena. Yep. Them was the daze.
MTV f**ked up music in the 80's
@@michaelfrazia4569 doing it again with one arm might take the shine off it, no? 😂
@@JohnnyF71 lolllllll....so worth it!!!!!
You've gotta love the red flowerpots. Mark Mothersbaugh is a freaking genius. Impressive how welcoming Mike was. And John, who was a huge star at the time, was also quite respectful. This was an extremely left field band back in 1980.
Jerry and Mark have previously warned against using energy domes for planting flowers.
They have no drainage, which is bad for the root system. Also they're top heavy when filled with dirt so it'd likely fall over - bad for your flowers too.
The Energy Dome concept was Jerry's idea, if I am not mistaken. He said it was inspired by an Art Deco light fixture from his Catholic grade school he attended.
Incredible live show. Saw them in Austin and one of them left the stage, a little later the crowd starting going crazy. He was in the balcony with a rope like you see in gym class with knots. The band just keeps jamming and he is looking over the railing of the balcony with that rope. I'm thinking no, really? Yea, he ties off the rope and climbs the 20 feet or whatever down into the audience. The song is the Devo song and he is screaming "Are we not man?" and the crowd is shouting "We are Devo!" over and over as he makes his way through the crowd back to the stage. I have been to hundreds of concerts and that is one of the most serious lights out performances I have seen.
I saw them in the 80's and again around 2009. They were essentially the same shows with nearly the same set list.
"We didn't know how accurate we were about de-evolution. In the last 3 years there has been more of it than we could have imagine."
That was 1980. Hang on to your socks, you haven't seen anything yet.
41 years ago. Incredible.
It doesn't seem that long ago, does it?
I remember it like it was yesterday.
Gerry: "Brothers raise your hands."
Mark & Bob 1: [hug]
Me: ❤
Only show I ever had 1st row seats was for DEVO in Tulsa around 1980. Freaking amazing. My 20 something kids still love them.
Mike Douglas was a Class Act!..🖤X
I remember being a 11 year old kid when this came out, I was watching it on TV with my dad, I think they where on Saturday night live, one of these TV shows, & even my dad liked it, and I was thinking wow these guys are way out there, I remember not knowing what to make of them, cuz they where so different, but I just knew I liked it,😎👍, they even had cordless mics, in 1980, they were really ahead of their time weren't they!?💯👍
Are we not men? No, we are Devo!
Waaay ahead of their time. What's really cool is the level of respect and genuine interest from Douglas and Snyder.
Interesting that Mark Mothersbaugh, once again, decided to basically be silent in a TV major interview (as he did some others at the time). I love it when he and Jerry are both responding, but Jerry was always a much better media interviews than Mark (unless Mark was really in the mood to talk, which seemed to only happen when the boring & routine Devo questions were NOT asked, lol). Jerry (during one on one interviews) is amazingly deep and philosophical....both of them are quite intelligent in somewhat different ways. Overall this video is a nice capture of that Freedom of Choice era, thanks for posting it.
Man I MISS the 80's. Someone please build that damn time machine already!
Devo and Bo Duke together? I never expected to see that.
I thought he was actually really nice to DEVO. He also reminded me of a blonde Henry Cavill a bit too!
exactly.
Until he laughed, I didn't realize that the John next to Casale was John Schneider. I thought maybe Mike had a sidekick like Ed McMahon.
I've never seen this - it's CLASSIC. I do recall them on Letterman and I think I remember them on Merv Griffin, but this is crazy awesome.
One of my all time favorite bands, I'm from Youngstown ohio, I love me some Devo !!!
Auto mowdown, down in Youngstown.
@@nance64 no doubt , I'm from the south/ west side, you from y-town ?
from massillon, used to party up in Kent
@@mjproebstle groovy !!
I liked when the Devo dude said that people threw bottles at them early on, and mike said "Oh that explains why you guys adopted wearing those hats" Classic Mike Douglas at his best! LOL.
I'm sure grateful for video tape and it's ability to capture. Thanks for posting this
Ol’ Duke boy was excited about Devo
He was like a big adorable puppy here lol
Those wonderful anaologue synths will command a fortune now.
That one on a guitar strap is actually a British synth called a "Wasp"
Good news though is that Behringer are pretty much cloning them and selling them for a fraction of the price of the original.
I have a "Pro 1" and the sound's totally authentic to the original.
Jerry (1980): "We didn't know how accurate we were about de-evolution. In the last three years more of it has gone on than we ever imagined".
I'd love to know what Jerry thinks about the 41 years since...
@xxx ooo cheers, I'll check that out 🙂
I saw these guys in 1981 at the Place Theater in Albany NY, it's still one of my all time favorite concerts!!
Saw them im Detroit. Just so good. Great production by Eno on the albums.
Take away the funny hats and you have pure geniuses. Long live Devolution
Check out the "99% invisible" podcast "Devolutionary Design". I howled! LMFAO. Whoo.
they were so ahead of their time
This was a GREAT interview! I can't believe this was 41 years ago. I loved DEVO and the Dukes of Hazzard! HELL YEAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
One of the best gigs I've ever been to was Devo around this time at Southampton UK, no support just two great sets.
Just to note for those first watching/getting into DEVO, I'm pretty sure this was dubbed over the single. No cut on the band, those guys could play live anywhere anytime and actually did at garages and dive bars all over Kent, Akron and NE OH.
A lot of talk shows were not set up to have live music back then brining up all the equipment to the 38th floor of building for a 4 min performance was a lot of cost and time.
I think SNL and Fridays were always live performances.
Devo was live on "Fridays" they did "Uncontrollable Urge!" It can be found on RUclips! Enjoy!
Great interview! Mike is a class act, and John is super chill and very genuine..
I remember when they first hit the airwaves.
So glad they turned their synth thing, into something that caught on in popular culture, and made them some money.
Opened the doors for many that followed.
They were an awesome band, and I feel very fortunate to have seen them in Detroit about the same time this song came out.
My very first concert was seeing DEVO at the Paramount Theater in Portland, OR in 1980. I was 17. Loved it! I believe the ticket was $8.
Same
Alan always sits quietly at the end of the line. 3:53. Which is weird because if you ever saw a Devo performance live at their peak, you know that he's the force that held the whole thing together.
not a live performance. lip synching to the single.
@@nigelbarker4405 he's not stating it's a live performance. Jesus, are your reading skills that bad.
The MD house band doing their rendition of Whip It is cool too! That tight sax! Insane!
Mike Douglas was amazing. When he went on it was always Sly Stone who filled in. He had an extremely open-mind about music and where it was heading. My punk band years ago actually played the theme song to this show
The contrast between Mike and Letterman talking to these guys is night and day...Mike is interested...and Dave is just indifferent and confused, Mike was 10 years Dave's senior, yet he's more with it than Dave ever was.
Never got Letterman,always seemed cranky and full of himself.
Excellent observation.
My first Concert at the Forum in Los Angeles in 1980. I was kicked out by security. Still saw most of the show.
I was there too!
I recall being an audience member on an episode of Mr. Douglas’s show around this time. He was very gracious and welcoming with the audience off camera. A true gentleman.
Wow! DEVO and John Schneider?! Oh man the house band plays whip it with a big ol' smooth sax solo Yeah!!
My Dad heard Me listening to the 8-Track and said "What IS that?''........then asked if We could listen to the whole tape! He was 41 at the time and LOVED it! He said some of it sounded like his 50's Rock and he Dug it!
DEVO == boss. Wonderful interview.
Gerry Casale was one of the early pioneers of the music video.
Their signature number? How I feel about this pandemic!
i cant belive mike actually aknowleged they were lip syncing
I wonder how that song could have been done live IF it could have been done live.
@@KabobHope .... It was different but very good.
He didn't seem to care too much for that question.
I mean...no istruments plugged in made it fairly obvious.
It was obvious, but I think the follow up question was a bit insulting; of course they can play live.
Devo great post punk
When you appear on The Mike Douglas Show, you've made it!
Mike who?...
Absolute pinnacle of interviewing prowess. Many feared to appear as it might leave their career in ruins, if it seemed the mighty Mr.D. gave you a thumbs down. Undoubtedly the most powerful kingmaker in the annals of recorded television.
Great video to the audio Spuds...
DEVO s music
Allways reminds me of
a well oiled Machine !
I think they influenced Rammstein
All I have to say is that EVERYBODY looks awesome in an energy dome. When I wear that thing nothing but smiles and open doors. Got out of a speeding ticket without saying a word. At the airport just wisked right out of line. Guys said...."You seem like you're in a hurry. Gotta be somewhere, right? Well, you just go on ahead. Ain't stopping a DEVO Fan." TRUE FACT..... Walk up to food counter... BAM... we have to make a fresh pizza. Got one left off the last pie. Here you go. On the house. Toss in a soda to wash it down? 😳....... 😌😆☝️🌟
Is that REALLY what those hats were called ?
@@marcusmaddox2176 Just a reminder to pick your battles. Choose your mutations wisely. Reserve your energy that escapes from from your spine at the base of your neck. It's just representational.
@@marcusmaddox2176 Yes.
That hat should be re-named "positive energy dome".
@@lincbond442 Hey hey. That's a pretty good suggestion. No matter what it going on, its ALWAYS time for DEVO. 😁👍
Hearing the Mike Douglas band play WHIP IT was hilarious! 😂
I love the way SCTV made fun of these weird combinations of variety show host and rock acts (mostly Mike Douglas and Merv Griffin). Rick Moranis's Merv Griffin was hilarious - and the episodes were always among the funniest things SCTV did.
And this is really, really weird.
Damn they cut off the cool video they made!
Thanks for posting this!
Fun fact: Their hats were inspired by a step drill bit.
Devo,,, Devolusion I remember he was influenced by a book I read,,, The beginning was the end, cool book,possibly banned now, honestly
Watching on the 41st anniversary of the release of Whip It! How can it have been that long?
Wow! That was a leap back in time.
I HAVE DEVOLVED !
Always loved these guys.
I was about 14 at the time and even I was a little confused. Mike Douglas was class! He even got in a few zingers.
That Keytar player must have practiced for hours
If there were ever an unlikely venue for Devo to play, I would have to say The Mike Douglas show would be it! Can't believe he booked them! TBH, didn't even know Mike Douglas was still on in 1980!
And those plant pots on top of their heads always cracked me up, those guys were off of their rocker!
thank you for sharing!
Wow these guys are great live. They sound exactly like the album. Amazing. And they didn't even have to have their electric guitars plugged in to anything
Well....that is the talk show circuit. Thus they pointed out that they were lip syncing and that at a real live show they play with real synths, drums , guitars and vocals.
@@TheChristafershawn very strange to me . I mean I understand why they do it. Its so much easer production wise, but my God if it isn't the cheesiest of the cheese.
@@drop830 Agreed.
It's funny comparing this older style of interview to how Letterman did it shortly thereafter. He'd be throwing grenades at these boys.
Oh yeah, Devo is sooooo good.
Greatest Band.
As a UK Spud,it's brilliant being able to watch shows like this as we don't see them in the UK.
Love Devo.
They are don't look serious but t hey are very serious about politics and many issues.
Cool band!! That devo hat is an icon of the 80s.
haha "who ate the donut?"
"my next guest is a nuclear physicist"
Good ol Stanton Friedman
Forty four years ago. Amazing how on point these guys were. Devolution. Yes, uh huh, and correct.
Mark went on to do the music for the Rugrats TV program
That was forty one years ago. I was still in the navy.
As important (and you can capitalize the i) in the US as Kraftwerk in Europe. This group remains an exquisite assembly of creative individuals in the History of Popular Music, not as anonymous as, say, the Residents, but unanimous in genius, they were a clockwork thinktank lubricated engine. Working full time at a pre-cog powerplant. Duty now for the future. They warned us all...
Give the past the slip...
Sounds like a great idea!
I dunno.....the present is a bit grim.
@@2112res Jebus Criss? Jebus H. Criss? I thought you were dead.
So much for THAT book...
Mike Douglas was more hip than David Letterman. On a fuckin'g daytime show. Treated Zappa and Sly and DEVO like the people they are.
The mention of Ohio and especially Kent State was the big pink elephant in the room. Really feel for Jerry whenever he had to mention their roots. I still remember being a little kid when Whip It came out. It was a really crazy cool time. Love Devo. Gutted I missed their London show 2 months ago.
There’s nothing like young Devo
This is genius.
I still listen to them!!
Never thought I'd ever see Devo sitting next to Shecky Greene, let alone John Schneider!
Ya know, Mr.Schneider seemed genuinely interested, after Whip It he was engaging one of the Bobs about the keytar, chatting. He actually put out a couple country records that weren't panned, so there's oddly enough some (kinda) common ground, what with chicks chasing you always, big cocaine tab, multiple pools at multiple houses, big smack tab, paparazzi, dui's, fights, lawsuits, A.A./rehab, management issues, leaked sex tapes, prescription drug reliance, etc.
I did not get on the Devo train. Metal is where it was at. This gave the nerds something to aspire to.
...GAY
This interview is so much different from the one they did with David Letterman. Whereas Mike is respectful and interested, Dave was kind of a smart aleck through the whole interview. Here we are over 40 years later and Devo is still touring in 2024!
I'm glad Mike didn't say the typical flower pot thing about the energy domes. First he calls it a "hat", then "helmet". Which is exactly what I thought, when seeing them for the first time as a 12 year old in 79. A space helmet.
So much for a shot of their video - Money Money Money
UFO expert Stanton Friedman.
I wondered if I was the only one who noticed... :)
Wow, Devo really embark on an amazing marketing campaign during that part of their career.
Wow that is a strange guest line up.