Jim Pappas then again, im of the groucho marx camp, any club that would have me as a member i wouldnt want to join.screw the r&r hall of fame.weres ted nugent??
R and R hall of fame is all watered down now just like everything that's "popular" nowadays. These guys put on a show for the crowd, and sound just like the album when they play in concert. Nuff said
So very fortunate to have seen Devo on this very tour Dec. 29, 1978 Q; Are We Not Men? A;We Are Devo ( Painter's Mills Music Festival) Owings Mills, MD. Way ahead of their time and intellect.
WOW!! This is one of the greatest DEVO performances I've ever seen!! One track right into the next without missing a single beat!! Still light years ahead of ordinary humanoids, mind -freaking BLOWN!!
I would give my left nut to see a band today with this much energy and creativity. I can't think of a single band after the 80s that had me asking both "what the hell is this?" and "man, these guys are amazing!" Devo was my first concert in the early 80s. Fantastic.
Devo has always been underrated, and not appreciated for the true artistic devotion they had for performance, and art. They always impress me, no matter how much time has passed. Devo, in every sense is classical music.
43 years later...A-f----ing MAZing!!! Saw them live around 1980. 80 minutes of the most power-packed energy of all time. You INVOLUNTARILY jumped up and started bouncing even you didn't dance. Around that time I recall fans of Springsteen boasting how he would play 3+ hours. I remember thinking "I'd rather have 80 minutes of THIS any day!"
Whoa, every performance I see leaves me more speechless. I am thankful for RUclips for giving me a new found appreciation for Devo as musicians and performers. I've been a fan since I was 12, but I never got to see them live. I can honestly say after all these years of loving their music I didn't realize just how dynamic they were as a live band. True artists and entertainers. Every note of this show was perfection. That audience realized somewhere around the point where they wanted to rip their clothes off what they were witnessing. 😮 I thought it was funny, endearing and.. I'm not gonna lie, kinda sexy to see them back each other up and start kicking some folks in the head! 😅 Maybe this audience didn't realize they were dealing with brothers? Pick on one, you pick on the others! Love me some Devo!
people who never saw them don't realize this band was tight & on point every nite. i've seen Devo 4 times. 1st time(i almost lost my mind) in Philadelphia.this audience didn't dance much,but knew their part. i give Devo a 10 score audience gets an 7.75. Love this Band!! R&R HOF
Amen to that. I have been a fan since I was 4 years old and saw their video for Whip It on Friday Night Videos in 1979. I went to the record store the very next day with my parents and got the 45 and played that thing until the grooves were nearly gone. They were a force back in their early days. Alan Myers was an incredible drummer. Bob Mothersbaugh is an amazing guitarist. Playing this music while doing all of the synchronized moves, all while wearing those suits under the blazing hot stage lights.
yeah same here and i would've killed to see them in the late 70's especially but i was too young. i was big into punk and alot of DEVO's following were punk rockers.
Nice to see Gerry and Bob1 kicking the crowd in the the head during Uncontrollable Urge. Thats the sort of audience participation you just don't see anymore, bless 'em.
The great thing about their cover of Satisfaction is that it told us who Devo was - because we had no idea wtf they were. They took a song we all knew and showed us their interpretation.
One word, subversive genius ❤🤩 I saw them at university isla vista CA around 1979, one of the best shows ive ever seen. Joe walsh was there, and they asked him to come out, but he never did.
I saw this live, on tv, in 78, every Sunday morning on tv , there were live concerts from the Week-end, great times, you could hear the concert live on the radio, the day before and then watch the live act on tv the next day!!!
just dawned on me, these guys have wireless mics and guitars, and it was 1978? cutting edge technology then, and very unreliable but they seem to have mastered it.Devo are overlooked on justb so many levels!
@fm'latghor Why are you being an asshole for no reason? It isn't cutting edge tech because it's 42 years ago. And why are you talking about the use of bluetooth 11 years after this show? Finally, if you knew anything you patronising cock, you would know that wireless units were first used in live shows in the mid to late 70s. Just like this show. I just looked it up. If you're going to correct someone do your research.
WONDERFUL old DEVO footage.. thank you so much for sharing. It doesn't get any better than clear old concert footage featuring classic songs and a bunch of Frenchies ripping DEVO's trousers off whilst the band kick them away ✌🏻🤖👆🏻>>>>>>>😝>>>>>>> 🥔 x
THIS is what DEVO is. Driving rhythms, with heavy guitar use and wild synth layers. The gold standard for techno-punk. So much energy in this performance. Saw them in Chicago ten years ago. Best concert I ever saw.
@@JMarinelli Actually, since I wrote that comment I decided to delve into their catalog and give a listen. It changed my mind. I now think they are phenomenal. I wish I had discovered all of their music years ago instead of just the most popular songs. I had no clue they had so many great songs in their album's deep tracks!
French TV was ahead of it's time, things like Devo live, airing at noon every saturday was nuts, brilliant, everything and more. There's footage of the clash on the same TV show available
For ME this first album is LEGENDARY. One of the best albums ever made. Duty Now.. was different. Then Freedom of Choice more mainstream but still good. But they strayed away from the experimentation displayed on songs like Paranoias, Jocko Homo, Shrivel Up etc. Especially the later 80s. Amazingly they got the MOJO back in 2010 with Something For Everybody and even MORE SO with the unfortunately overlooked Something ELSE For Everybody!
0:21 (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction 3:08 Too Much Paranoia's 5:44 Uncontrollable Urge 9:02 Mongoloid 12:14 Jocko-Homo 16:22 (no music) Interview 18:42 Come Back Jonee 22:13 Boojie Boy - The Words Get Stuck in My Throat
This isn't music; it's performance art! How far ahead of the curve were these guys? Amazing concert. You really can't disconnect the music from its performance. That's what makes it art. richard -- (on the subject of Joshua Abraham Norton, the Emperor of the United States, 1859-80) Delirium: He’s not mine, is he? His madness… his madness keeps him sane. Dream: And do you think he is the only one, my sister? - Neil Gaiman, “Three Septembers and a January”, in _Fables_&_Reflections_, Sandman vol. 6
@@pedroleal7118 True ! I don't why I thought it was on TF1 . I even bought the full collection of the DVDs a few years ago... I never missed any of these incredible shows at that time, and the same for Les Enfants du Rock afterwards. They were fundamental for my musical culture.
@@christophegirard994 Mee too, there was 'Feedback' (with van Hallen debut generic!) and 'Loup Garou', friday night on the radio, and then sundayb morning the live act!
Superbe . J'avais completement oublié ce groupe et pourtant qu'est ce que j'ai écouté l'album : peut etre plus de cent fois : Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! On sent bien la touche Brian ENO .
Great how last song audience didnt kno wot 2 think...right ? Behind great classic rolling stones like guitars riffing right ? 2 ahead of its time ??? ...yes !!!!!!!
I think Red Hot Chili Peppers were definitely influenced by Devo. The early guitar sound of Hillel Slovak and the manic stage performance are here from Devos first album. There is also a bit of the Ramones here live in Devos sound that I never noticed on the recordings.
They seem to have been incredibly ahead of the times!! Ironic they are called Devo!! I think they influence the Ramones at least in the two court sensibility influence..
Put. Devo. In. The. Rock. And. Roll. Hall. Of. Fame. NOW!
Seriously
Jim Pappas then again, im of the groucho marx camp, any club that would have me as a member i wouldnt want to join.screw the r&r hall of fame.weres ted nugent??
Weres GG allin? Lol
R and R hall of fame is all watered down now just like everything that's "popular" nowadays. These guys put on a show for the crowd, and sound just like the album when they play in concert. Nuff said
@@gamblinggator3177 i'm all for that shit face being inducted.
Not bored after 40 years of absolute devotion
Me neither, and I've never seen them live
You mean de-evolution? XD
So very fortunate to have seen Devo on this very tour Dec. 29, 1978 Q; Are We Not Men? A;We Are Devo ( Painter's Mills Music Festival) Owings Mills, MD. Way ahead of their time and intellect.
WOW!! This is one of the greatest DEVO performances I've ever seen!! One track right into the next without missing a single beat!! Still light years ahead of ordinary humanoids, mind -freaking BLOWN!!
YEAH NO SHIT. they were very unique and you could say ahead of their time. all nerds and geeks too.
I agree. It's one of the best things I've ever seen.
True pioneers of modern music. Very important they are the foundation many have built upon.
I would give my left nut to see a band today with this much energy and creativity. I can't think of a single band after the 80s that had me asking both "what the hell is this?" and "man, these guys are amazing!" Devo was my first concert in the early 80s. Fantastic.
Polysics and Man or Astroman? are good.
Right, I couldn't say that about Nirvana, etc..the so-called next musical 'revolution' to come along...
Try king gizzard and the lizard wizard!
Also a bit surprising given that they were mid to late 20s here, Gerry Casale was 30, not late teens early 20s. Great segment.
DITTO. 1st gig I went to; DEVO Toronto Canada 81 & 82, and Manchester England 2006.
Devo has always been underrated, and not appreciated for the true artistic devotion they had for performance, and art. They always impress me, no matter how much time has passed. Devo, in every sense is classical music.
It’s punk rock baby
Devo is capital-A Art first and foremost, obviously a "punk" band but so much more. Their conceptual work is as insightful as the songs are catchy.
43 years later...A-f----ing MAZing!!! Saw them live around 1980. 80 minutes of the most power-packed energy of all time. You INVOLUNTARILY jumped up and started bouncing even you didn't dance. Around that time I recall fans of Springsteen boasting how he would play 3+ hours. I remember thinking "I'd rather have 80 minutes of THIS any day!"
DEVO did NOT come from New York, London or LA.
A band this wonderfully bizarre could only come from northeast Ohio. ☺ ❤👍
Along with Joe Walsh, Chrissie Hynde, The Dead Boys, Trent Reznor, Marilyn Manson, and Tracy Chapman.
You had me at Joe Walsh. I believe they came from Akron, Ohio?
@@davidvasquez8658 Joe and Devo had their beginnings in Kent, Ohio, home of Kent State University. Northeast Ohio. The home of Rock and Roll!
Whoa, every performance I see leaves me more speechless. I am thankful for RUclips for giving me a new found appreciation for Devo as musicians and performers. I've been a fan since I was 12, but I never got to see them live. I can honestly say after all these years of loving their music I didn't realize just how dynamic they were as a live band. True artists and entertainers. Every note of this show was perfection. That audience realized somewhere around the point where they wanted to rip their clothes off what they were witnessing. 😮 I thought it was funny, endearing and.. I'm not gonna lie, kinda sexy to see them back each other up and start kicking some folks in the head! 😅 Maybe this audience didn't realize they were dealing with brothers? Pick on one, you pick on the others! Love me some Devo!
how old be ye now?
people who never saw them don't realize this band was tight & on point every nite. i've seen Devo 4 times. 1st time(i almost lost my mind) in Philadelphia.this audience didn't dance much,but knew their part. i give Devo a 10 score audience gets an 7.75. Love this Band!! R&R HOF
@@jaxdragon1723 dude, I heard they are nominated this year! They better get in already!!
Amen to that. I have been a fan since I was 4 years old and saw their video for Whip It on Friday Night Videos in 1979. I went to the record store the very next day with my parents and got the 45 and played that thing until the grooves were nearly gone. They were a force back in their early days. Alan Myers was an incredible drummer. Bob Mothersbaugh is an amazing guitarist. Playing this music while doing all of the synchronized moves, all while wearing those suits under the blazing hot stage lights.
yeah same here and i would've killed to see them in the late 70's especially but i was too young. i was big into punk and alot of DEVO's following were punk rockers.
This never gets old
Unlike us, eh? Lol
What a great performance. Devo is no joke!
Devo is timeless , what a good live band.
Nice to see Gerry and Bob1 kicking the crowd in the the head during Uncontrollable Urge. Thats the sort of audience participation you just don't see anymore, bless 'em.
Yellow Jackboots They kind of had to, the audience ripped the pants off them!
Lol
Lol 😉😉
That's Punk right out of the LA clubs of late 70s early 80s.
breaking the norms the late 70s was great for music
Mick Jagger not only endorsed this version of Satisfaction, but danced to it when he heard it.
I saw that! How could he not love it. Like Paul Simon when he heard Disturbed cover Sound of Silence. It's the ultimate compliment.
The great thing about their cover of Satisfaction is that it told us who Devo was - because we had no idea wtf they were. They took a song we all knew and showed us their interpretation.
Satisfaction! I defy *anyone* to try and sing Babybabybabybaby... as fast and as long as it is done here!!!
Maybe Jim Carrey could?
The concert that changed my life. It opened my ears to a new kind of music: New wave then industrial music, dark wave, baroque opera...
and those drums, so brilliantly different and accurate!
One word, subversive genius ❤🤩
I saw them at university isla vista CA around 1979, one of the best shows ive ever seen. Joe walsh was there, and they asked him to come out, but he never did.
I saw this live, on tv, in 78, every Sunday morning on tv , there were live concerts from the Week-end, great times, you could hear the concert live on the radio, the day before and then watch the live act on tv the next day!!!
one of my all time favorite bands!
holy sh*t, the french reporter is wearing a mask!
Another time traveller going back to a better time with better music.
Great show!! I miss these days...Maybe the mask was some schick? i don't think their was any "Flu" in '78 but maybe i forgot?... Naaa. IDK so.
@@ryry998 We've all done it.
just dawned on me, these guys have wireless mics and guitars, and it was 1978? cutting edge technology then, and very unreliable but they seem to have mastered it.Devo are overlooked on justb so many levels!
And so recognized on our levels, John D!😎
@fm'latghor Why are you being an asshole for no reason? It isn't cutting edge tech because it's 42 years ago. And why are you talking about the use of bluetooth 11 years after this show? Finally, if you knew anything you patronising cock, you would know that wireless units were first used in live shows in the mid to late 70s. Just like this show. I just looked it up. If you're going to correct someone do your research.
oh my God what a stage show !!! wow they are great live !!!!
WONDERFUL old DEVO footage.. thank you so much for sharing. It doesn't get any better than clear old concert footage featuring classic songs and a bunch of Frenchies ripping DEVO's trousers off whilst the band kick them away ✌🏻🤖👆🏻>>>>>>>😝>>>>>>> 🥔 x
next time someone laughs when i tell them DEVO is one of the best bands of all time I'm gonna show em this video hot damn
Je les ai vus au palace la même année , mon premier concert !
Their energy was fantastic.
What a fabulous upload! Such a tight, powerful performance. Really, they were at the height of their powers, as someone mentioned elsewhere.
THIS is what DEVO is. Driving rhythms, with heavy guitar use and wild synth layers. The gold standard for techno-punk. So much energy in this performance. Saw them in Chicago ten years ago. Best concert I ever saw.
If Devo was the best concert you ever saw it must be the only concert you ever saw. LOL.
Lucky you, dude. Couldn't get near a show in '78..they were in clubs then
John Welch You clearly don’t understand their potato.
Techno punk? You just had to put them in a category, didn't ya?
@@JMarinelli Actually, since I wrote that comment I decided to delve into their catalog and give a listen. It changed my mind. I now think they are phenomenal. I wish I had discovered all of their music years ago instead of just the most popular songs. I had no clue they had so many great songs in their album's deep tracks!
Nei primi 5 posti tra le band di tutti i tempi ❤❤❤
This is a masterful performance.
Saw them in Philly in the '70s, great band live.
How are these guy not in the Rock Hall of Fame?
Wow, never have I seen the footage of the concert be so high quality in the ten years that it has been passed around on this site, before.
This is the one to see
spud boys gonna pass you around sweety
Excellent! What the French must have thought about us Americans!
Fantastic performance!
Ron Christoffel shocked! scared, curious, amazed, baffled,confused, entertained
French TV was ahead of it's time, things like Devo live, airing at noon every saturday was nuts, brilliant, everything and more. There's footage of the clash on the same TV show available
Yah, see, we're not all stoo-ped. Oui, oui!
Awesome 👍 it's too much Paranoia my favourite
For ME this first album is LEGENDARY. One of the best albums ever made. Duty Now.. was different. Then Freedom of Choice more mainstream but still good. But they strayed away from the experimentation displayed on songs like Paranoias, Jocko Homo, Shrivel Up etc. Especially the later 80s. Amazingly they got the MOJO back in 2010 with Something For Everybody and even MORE SO with the unfortunately overlooked Something ELSE For Everybody!
I would say these are the best Live versions I have seen of "Mongoloid", "Jocko Homo", and "Too Much Paranoia"..
0:21 (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
3:08 Too Much Paranoia's
5:44 Uncontrollable Urge
9:02 Mongoloid
12:14 Jocko-Homo
16:22 (no music) Interview
18:42 Come Back Jonee
22:13 Boojie Boy - The Words Get Stuck in My Throat
Small update: 22:13 is Booji doing "Red Eye Express"
Some heroes need no capes. Thumbs ups wouldve sufficed. But you went above n beyond. Thanks you!!
@@bensmoif 25:00 words get stuck.,.
i wonder why no 'GUT FEELING' that was one of the greatest performances of this entire gig.
This is great
This isn't music; it's performance art! How far ahead of the curve were these guys?
Amazing concert. You really can't disconnect the music from its performance. That's what makes it art.
richard
--
(on the subject of Joshua Abraham Norton, the Emperor of the United States, 1859-80)
Delirium: He’s not mine, is he? His madness… his madness keeps him sane.
Dream: And do you think he is the only one, my sister?
- Neil Gaiman, “Three Septembers and a January”, in _Fables_&_Reflections_, Sandman vol. 6
I love all of this but the Boojie Boy performance is slaying me!!!
I'm 60in soon still rockin
I wish I had seen them this early, but I was about ten. I didn't see them until the New Traditionalists tour.
I remember this TV show, Chorus, on the French TV as if it was just yesterday... I was 15. What a shock! TF1 was great at that time...
I think it was Antenne 2 not TF1...Avec Antoine de Caunes et Jacky, quand ils étaient jeunes...!
@@pedroleal7118 True ! I don't why I thought it was on TF1 . I even bought the full collection of the DVDs a few years ago... I never missed any of these incredible shows at that time, and the same for Les Enfants du Rock afterwards. They were fundamental for my musical culture.
@@christophegirard994 Mee too, there was 'Feedback' (with van Hallen debut generic!) and 'Loup Garou', friday night on the radio, and then sundayb morning the live act!
They were tight!
Incroyable! 🧟♂️
Such an EPIC performance!, pure gold
Superbe .
J'avais completement oublié ce groupe et pourtant qu'est ce que j'ai écouté l'album : peut etre plus de cent fois : Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!
On sent bien la touche Brian ENO .
Those outfits ... it's like Rollerball without rollerskates!
6:31 wireless microphone. Crazy stuff for the 1970s.
HOLY SHIT! THAT WAS INTENSE!! They don't make them like they use to.
Check out Omni! They have a somewhat similar sound... Not as energetic though
Devo always great live
creative genius very big influence on discord,punk, new wave waaayy out there right with the other greats love you guys forever......
and they were so good on stage !!!!!!!!!
0:01 About 7 seconds of "Beatown" by XTC
They weren't punks. They were punk scientists!
Great how last song audience didnt kno wot 2 think...right ? Behind great classic rolling stones like guitars riffing right ? 2 ahead of its time ??? ...yes !!!!!!!
Yeah, it's cool watching the kids getting into more and more as they play..it's like, 'this is OUR music!'
Yay yay yay yay yeeya. Uncontrollable Urge. Fantastically good vid.
Amazing performance.
Back when the band was the act, not the audience.
The start of industrial music.
How great! Thank you!!
My French teacher in 1979 asked me if I could explain DEVO to her because her friends in France were gaga over the band
That’s an XTC song being played in the intro! Beatown, to be precise. Love it!!
HOLY HELL! Red Eye Express goin lightspeed, amazing.
Devo ! Twist the gates of steel by the way I know this is before that I just said that because that's my favorite song LOL just to clarify
God fathers of punk and inspiration for new wave....
Outstanding, thank you so much for this.
Devo is popular in France and to a smaller audience in America. The " rock 'n roll hall of fame sold out to globalist corporate music interest
Best live band ever? Holy fuck!
I Fucking Love DEVO
LOVE!
I think Red Hot Chili Peppers were definitely influenced by Devo. The early guitar sound of Hillel Slovak and the manic stage performance are here from Devos first album. There is also a bit of the Ramones here live in Devos sound that I never noticed on the recordings.
La télévision Française à bien changer :o\
DEVO サイコー
Devo is Perfect for a French Audience
Yeah, all those New Wavers, Zeh Lov Eet!!
They seem to have been incredibly ahead of the times!! Ironic they are called Devo!! I think they influence the Ramones at least in the two court sensibility influence..
beautiful so sad it's over and thank you
speechless
The most French American band.
Vive l'devo!
Best band ever sorry for led Zeppelin 😊
Made nerds cool.
💥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥💨
It takes *massive* precision too look that dorky.
Imagine being at this show trippin balls...and seeing Boojie Boy for the first time. Yea....
EXELLENTISSIME.............. WAOOOOOOOOOOOOO VIVE EL LSD
Lovely 😊
Good News DEVO has now over 100000 Votes Vote DEVO in
Thanks Spuds
I just realized they played a XTC song at the beginning xd
Godammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmn this cranks.
DEVO even predicted the aerobics trend of the 80s at 22:35
08:14 are we skipping the trouser stealing thing??
16:24 TV DUDE INVENTED THE COVID MASK OMGGG
Great!
Now it Can Be Told-they stayed slim sweating in those suits.
And Stripped-Down Mark played on...
Holy yoder! I knew they were ahead of their time, but check out the f*cking OFFICIAL DEVO COVID-19 MASK @ 16:24!!!