Gerry's little "YOU, YOU, YOU!" is such a genius move for some reason. it pumps up the listener in a really subtle way, and it can only work in a live performance
The magic and mystery of Devo. Their music was so futuristic sounding you absolutely forgot they were using musical instruments and were in fact darn good musicians. I don't care how many folks will never "get" them. They are one of a kind and I'm glad I do!!
After humanity destroys itself (nuclear war, Covid-19, meteors, zombies, Trump gets re-elected--pick your Apocalypse), a few centuries later alien archaeologists will be digging through the remains of our civilization and come across the broken remnants of artifacts that seem to have no purpose but to make noise. From what they can piece together from their incomplete understanding of our written languages, they figure out that the inhabitants of this world had something called "Muzick"...and these noise-production devices are what they used to create it. Intrigued, a team of researchers will do their best to rebuild these devices, using technology far beyond that which was used to make them in the first place... When the devices are ready, and the scientists begin their experiment, it's too bad there won't be anyone to tell them that they're playing an exact reproduction of DEVO.
Well the crowd at The Free Trade Hall in Manchester in 1978 got them immediately...and I still do 😛This video never fails to bring a smile to my face and yes they could really play live Wonderful stuff
I can't say exactly how many times I've seen this video... it's probably somewhere in the realm of like 50...but I cannot get enough of it!...it's so clever!...so funny.. it's so entertaining that it's just immaculate!!
wow, i saw them like 45 years ago, tripping my balls off and thought everything i saw was from the drugs. obviously i was very wrong. but they were fucking awesome, that i remember for sure.
I know this has been said a million times before. But there never has been or will be another band like Devo. Their stage presence is incredible. Truly a greatly talented group of performers. These guys are artists.
they just don't do live performances like they used to. Many band do concerts where they just perform their song and live, not even preparing any dances or stage decorations or whatever. But they get thousands of people to want to join their concerts.
If you haven't heard Devo and all of its artist are highly celebrated. Part of the reason you get to watch this video is in fact because of recognition
The very first concert I experienced live...1981. F ing Amazing!!!. Dead Kennedy's show #2 . and so on into SF hardcore. And it started with the I hate Pop attitude of DEVO.
They were amazing live, early on. I was all over those gigs in Ohio. There were a few groups I knew right away I needed to see pronto, cuz soon they'd be away and big, and this was one such group. They did great stuff with odd scraps! It always sounded fine, and I recall there were always real drums. Real percussion, yes.
now bands with giant treadmills are cutting edge stage shows...So far ahead still. All the matching 'uniforms' is pretty cool. We are still de evolving.
Idk, evolution might be a slow-motion ekg-looking thing, vacillating up and down, with a series of lager, more drawn out sine waves; the planetary heartbeat, with the individual chamber valves clapping and creating echoes...
Love the OK-Go treadmill track? I love it myself, but now I know it wasn't the first time a treadmill was used as a music video prop! My beloved Devo ahead of the crowd.
devo was always about the visual presentation and the show.. if you only listen to devo you aren't getting the whole package. many people thought they weren't serious because of this .. but that was only because those people didn't understand what they were trying to do.
Saw this show @ the Forum 1981 and transformed me from casual fan to avid fan. Kinda like when I saw Sparks live for the first time. These guys did 3 stage and costume changes during the show, had an awesome light show and rocked every one of their best songs while playing 2+ hours. One of the concerts from over 500 that I remember like it was yesterday
I’m 50 and growing up in the 80’s the only song I’d heard from Devo was Whip It which was ok. Over the last couple weeks I’ve realized I totally missed out on an extremely cool and VERY GOOD band. Better late than never I guess.
I saw devo at cruel world 2022. They absolutely BLEW MY MIND. I’m hey had such a wild energy live. There was even a mosh pit for Mr DNA!!!! Absolutely made a lifelong fan outta me that day.
I know I let you tell me what to do You were confident you knew best Now things aren't working like you want them to Your confidence is what I detest You got me lookin' up high You got me searchin' down low You got me I know you know You got me jerkin' back 'n' forth You told me, people like to suffer You told me that's the way it is You said that things were getting better You said I should accept all this You think it's funny But what I say is true The reason that I live like this Is all because of you You got me lookin' up high You got me searchin' down low You got me, I know you know You got me jerkin' back 'n' forth There is a thought that keeps me thinking Like a stone inside my shoe It is a vision reoccurring A dirty window I can see you through You think it's funny But what I say is true The reason that I live like this Is all because of you You got me lookin' up high You got me searchin' down low You got me, I know you know You got me jerkin' back 'n' forth You got me lookin' up high You got me searchin' down low You got me, I know you know You got me jerkin' back 'n' forth
No doubt about it - this is my absolute fave Devo tune. Going Under is a close #2. I wish I had seen this concert... (I got to see a Total Devo one which was great, but man this is incredible)
BIG Devo fan here. Light years ahead of the curve. Brilliant.insightful,ironic lyrics.Unbelievably tight band and largely underappreciated. I also like subversion of wearing matching attire at a time when such a thing had pretty much vanished from rock music.
I saw them on this tour with the treadmills... Out of all the concerts I've seen in my many years this one ranks at the top. Saw them in the Memorial Auditorium in Sacramento, CA. I also remember their appearance on Fridays - great stuff! I do find it funny how they avoided close-up camera shots of Gerald as he was doing his jerkin' dance moves. :)
Al Harrington Gerry was working it pretty hardcore and was told to behave lol!! Yeah this is what is so amazing about these guys and being 100% authentic in form, so much talent and geniuses for most people lesser minded to comprehend.. but for those of us who dared to brave the truthfulness is to simply answer one question.. and if you don’t know what that question is or how to respond by this point in time, chances are you only wear shoes without laces. Hey nothing wrong with Velcro, or if you just aren’t able to figure how the bunny ear method actually is going to keep your shoes safely tied. Just sayin
Alan Myers at 1:20 showing how great he was. DEVO did not get enough credit on how tight they were musically and their showmanship was always something else. I remember watching this show when I was a kid. Good stuff!
I remember seeing Devo in the Old Gym at Nevada (UNR). I couldn't get any of my friends to go because they thought of Devo as a passing fad. I'm so glad I went, it is still one of the best shows I ever saw.
slobomotion Being from Cleveland they were a local band. I saw them a number of times way before MTV caught on. Many "dumps" always a great show. Really nice guys too. Saw them the night George the first got elected (84 I think) at Peabody's Down Under in the flats and it was the best concert I ever saw. They had enough amps to play the Coliseum which explains my hearing loss. Opened with an amazing acoustic version of Jocko Homo.
John Doran Yep! This was one of those groups where I made every effort to take time, travel and pay to see them, because I knew they'd either soon be hugely famous OR they might break up and I was kind of a glutton!! Some of the groups I happily saw in NE Ohio were the B-52s (whom I knew in NYC but I would go back to Ohio to visit family), Iggy Pop, Patti Smith, Pere Ubu, Devo, Rubber City Rebels, 15-60-75, and anything Peter Laughner was doing. (I missed Blondie -- my tickets got to me too late -- missed Roxy Music and a few others.) The venues were frequently grim!
Same here, October 1981. In my city the ABC station was channel 6, which is simulcast over FM radio at about 88 MHz (that's where the audio channel happens to be), so I was able to record this on a cassette, which subsequently wore out from being overplayed. ;)
I saw it when it originally aired too and I remember it well for the extended drum intro, and how freakin' amazing it was. I wonder if Devo recorded this drum intro on any of their albums? I hope this episode (#40) will be released on video someday. (I bought SNL Season 4 just to get an early Kate Bush appearance.)
DEVO made it GREAT to be a GEEK! They were SO far ahead of the curve bands even NOW are struggling to catch up. I remember watching this performance on FRIDAYS followed by "We're Through With Being Cool" then "Working In A Coal Mine" which were BOTH in the movie HEAVY METAL. Those were heady times indeed!
Funny but highly, highly intelligent! An unbeatable combination. I am no music snob yet I feel people that don't understand Devo , like them or not, are not high on the ( de ) evolutionary scale!
One of the best thing about Devo shows - and this performance is a great example - was that even though they'd reel out songs from their catalog they'd also do things you wouldn't have heard before or adapt one of their songs into something you haven't heard before. Their live album NOW IT CAN BE TOLD ends with an absolutely banger of a medley that weirdly (and awesomely) includes "Somewhere" from WEST SIDE STORY.
The synth bass in Jerkin Back and Forth is my favorite Devo bass sound. So ballsy. ANNNNND I'm learning from this video that it seems to played on a Roland Jupiter 8 with the arpeggiator on!?!? THAT'S why it sounds so dang tight.
I find 'Fridays' to be an interesting show. I'm easily sure it wasn't about laughs mostly, but about being interesting. The intro theme of 'Fridays' is also interesting theme, a cross between Disco and Rock. DEVO will always be interesting to me as a later generation fan. I'm 37.
If it isn't, she's an unbelievable lookalike! All the more weird as I've been watching lots of analysis videos of Kubrick's "The Shining" lately......featuring Shelley Duvall among others of course.
They were always fun to watch and listen to. I remember back in the early 80s, my best friend had a 1972 Oldsmobile powder blue convertible with a big block (429 ?) engine. We would ride around on spring and summer days with the top down drinking beer or liquor while listening to Devo. We were in our prime - early 20s back then and were invincible and oblivious to mortality. God, what I would give to go back in time just for one more day like that. Best friend, awesome ride, good music, sunny days, liquor and plenty of pussy for us both! It's a damn shame that every day in our lives can't be like that.
![DEVO- "Jerkin' Back 'N' Forth"/Interview 1982 [Reelin' In The Years Archives]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/5alca90qqPo/mqdefault.jpg)
Gerry's little "YOU, YOU, YOU!" is such a genius move for some reason. it pumps up the listener in a really subtle way, and it can only work in a live performance
The magic and mystery of Devo. Their music was so futuristic sounding you absolutely forgot they were using musical instruments and were in fact darn good musicians. I don't care how many folks will never "get" them. They are one of a kind and I'm glad I do!!
They are just so damn unique and mesmerizing, not enough adjectives could do justice, ya know?
After humanity destroys itself (nuclear war, Covid-19, meteors, zombies, Trump gets re-elected--pick your Apocalypse), a few centuries later alien archaeologists will be digging through the remains of our civilization and come across the broken remnants of artifacts that seem to have no purpose but to make noise.
From what they can piece together from their incomplete understanding of our written languages, they figure out that the inhabitants of this world had something called "Muzick"...and these noise-production devices are what they used to create it.
Intrigued, a team of researchers will do their best to rebuild these devices, using technology far beyond that which was used to make them in the first place...
When the devices are ready, and the scientists begin their experiment, it's too bad there won't be anyone to tell them that they're playing an exact reproduction of DEVO.
Well the crowd at The Free Trade Hall in Manchester in 1978 got them immediately...and I still do 😛This video never fails to bring a smile to my face and yes they could really play live Wonderful stuff
Just this side of mind control 😠😜😈💕💕💕💕
Judging by their popularity and the fact they're still even relevant today leads me to believe people "get" them
Ohio's Own !!!! I'm remember watching this on TV & them doing "Going Under", which is my favorite DEVO song.
I can't say exactly how many times I've seen this video... it's probably somewhere in the realm of like 50...but I cannot get enough of it!...it's so clever!...so funny.. it's so entertaining that it's just immaculate!!
Jerkin' Back And Forth and Love Without Anger were my two favorites from New Traditionalists album. Beautiful World and Race Of Doom really great too.
R.I.P BOB 2
Saw this live back in the day on Fridays
wow, i saw them like 45 years ago, tripping my balls off and thought everything i saw was from the drugs. obviously i was very wrong. but they were fucking awesome, that i remember for sure.
I saw this concert at the Forum.
Got to love the treadmills !!!
Devo never made one bad song
I know this has been said a million times before. But there never has been or will be another band like Devo. Their stage presence is incredible. Truly a greatly talented group of performers. These guys are artists.
they just don't do live performances like they used to. Many band do concerts where they just perform their song and live, not even preparing any dances or stage decorations or whatever. But they get thousands of people to want to join their concerts.
Not a hair out of place!
Bruce Gordon 😄
He overdosed on too much hair lacquer...
@it's rick.hentai on Instagram yes. Modeled after JFK.
@@peytbass That's odd I always thought this "hairpiece"was a dig at Ronald Reagan
Allan Meyers was one wicked talented drummer!
agreed - if the band's style was more complicated , instead of basic new wave, he could've showboated with the best
That is one seriously underappreciated drummer.
Allen was the best. He did some great stuff with Yamamoto after her left the band. It's on RUclips.
i appreciate him and you
Alan is up there with some of the greats. One can only imagine what would've happened if he stuck around after Shout.
If you haven't heard Devo and all of its artist are highly celebrated.
Part of the reason you get to watch this video is in fact because of recognition
Yes with the comment on these drums. Such a steady beat.
Does Alan miss a beat? I don't think so.
most under rating winner of the faster drummer award ever...
The Human Metronome!
Of of the best drummer ever
@@doorran He's criminally underrated. The whole band is criminally underrated it hurts!
Oh, that Alan!
The critics trashed everything that they did but. the people of the US have the final word, we love them!
I am now 60 and I still watch videos and listen to DEVO. This band was way ahead of it's time and is very unique in their style of imagery and music.
as well
Nothing like Devo; before, or since.
The very first concert I experienced live...1981. F ing Amazing!!!. Dead Kennedy's show #2 . and so on into SF hardcore. And it started with the I hate Pop attitude of DEVO.
WE ARE DEVO FRIEND!
Who gave that drum machine a human body?
How does he not bust the drums?
A human metronome if there was ever one to exist! Alan M....
How good was Allan Myers and the entire band were awesome !
human drum machine. amazing live band.
Alan later quit because Mark did want to replace him with a drum machine.
30 years old and still ahead of their time.
It's 2020. We are now living in Devo time
@@flyingmerkel6 kraftwerk sounds 70s while devo allways sounds ahead
I'm still
climbing the wall,
futilely waiting for ONE last Kraftwerk release before Ralf calls it a day - or he teams up mit Florian again ...
40 years and counting
talent hits a mark others can't reach
genius hits a mark other's can't see.
thanks jay-z
This band had only one Mark.
but many scores. they hit every note here :-)
Devo is timeless.
Touché
I saw this tour in 1981. It blew me away when they came out on the treadmills. So far ahead of their time.
Ya , now I know where the keyboard player for Rammstein got the idea from.
Me too in 81. The tower in philly. Too young to really appreciate greatness. Ty
Lucky 5:01
A synthesizer band legendary for its great live rock shows. Devo broke all the rules!
Alan is still one of the most underrated drummers of all time.
Absolutely
Alan is like me, doing machine work, nice and Precise! An OUTSTANDING drummer!
Couldn't agree with you more!
The percussion at the beginning of the video was very Tribal.
And now Charlie Watts is up there with Alan, Neil, Bonham and legendary timekeepers and epic anchors to their bands distinct sound.
Sick Drums! Love the fact that that they went for real percussion.
They were amazing live, early on. I was all over those gigs in Ohio. There were a few groups I knew right away I needed to see pronto, cuz soon they'd be away and big, and this was one such group. They did great stuff with odd scraps! It always sounded fine, and I recall there were always real drums. Real percussion, yes.
I hear that Alan. The original drummer used to live down the street from Captain Beef Heart and the GoGo's so, creative 80's heaven. Basically.
That VHS scratchiness is actually kind of fitting for this video. Great song, by the way.
very slack
Even the tape is DEVO.
@@princeofcupspoc9073 conspiracy theory: everything is devo
I've seen enough concerts to be half deaf. Hands down the best live band I ever saw. Thanks Bob, RIP.
What fantastic stage design... if only the whole tour had been filmed!!
Devo exerts more energy live than on the album version... amazing showmen!!
This was on a TV show called Fridays.
I wish there was a cleaner version: I’ve watched this video at least 20 times over the years. Even the intro portion is awesome
DAMN THIS IS BRILLIANT even after all these years!
Little makes me happier than watching Jerry perform.
CLASSIC..!!!! they were tight and very original.MUCH RESPECT.
now bands with giant treadmills are cutting edge stage shows...So far ahead still.
All the matching 'uniforms' is pretty cool. We are still de evolving.
Actually we are Devolving
Oops, didn't notice you broke it into 2 words
Idk, evolution might be a slow-motion ekg-looking thing, vacillating up and down, with a series of lager, more drawn out sine waves; the planetary heartbeat, with the individual chamber valves clapping and creating echoes...
Its darkly interesting that they look like they're a nuclear accident cleanup crew. lol.
Gerry Casale - the best!
RIP Bob Casale
And Alan Myers. He was totally SLAMMING in this one!
Still gives me chills and an uncontrollable urge to dance 38 years later!!
It's weird when the future seems old.
lol I love the comment!
Best comment ever,the future is past now!
Yeah, there is now a whole generation who has never seen the OKGO treadmill video...
Love the OK-Go treadmill track? I love it myself, but now I know it wasn't the first time a treadmill was used as a music video prop! My beloved Devo ahead of the crowd.
+Brook Valentine seen it a kraftwerks vid
devo was always about the visual presentation and the show.. if you only listen to devo you aren't getting the whole package. many people thought they weren't serious because of this .. but that was only because those people didn't understand what they were trying to do.
only difference is devo used them in a live show,ok go just did it for a music video
Also, chronology.
Ann-Margret in 'Bye Bye Birdie'
Saw this show @ the Forum 1981 and transformed me from casual fan to avid fan. Kinda like when I saw Sparks live for the first time. These guys did 3 stage and costume changes during the show, had an awesome light show and rocked every one of their best songs while playing 2+ hours. One of the concerts from over 500 that I remember like it was yesterday
Saw the same 1981 New Traditionalists tour - agreed, one of the THE best concerts in my four decades of seeing shows!
abby glory
sparks blew me away the first time i saw them
Sparks love
always warms
the cockles of my heart!!
2021 and still going strong!
Great documentary out about Sparks. Netflix or Prime.
Had no idea how amazing they were
It's like surfing music for the anti-social!
real love! for Jerkin Back and forth
cjpenning couldn't of put better myself
NOT!
No this is music real music the stuff today is anti social!
That would be the Wipeouters. Devo had that base covered, too.
Keep coming back for that drum intro.
I’m 50 and growing up in the 80’s the only song I’d heard from Devo was Whip It which was ok. Over the last couple weeks I’ve realized I totally missed out on an extremely cool and VERY GOOD band. Better late than never I guess.
Same here
I saw devo at cruel world 2022. They absolutely BLEW MY MIND. I’m hey had such a wild energy live. There was even a mosh pit for Mr DNA!!!! Absolutely made a lifelong fan outta me that day.
Pure geek sugar. So damned goofy and fun. What a talented group of spuds. Love this.
Geek..sugar..
Don't say that.
Saw this great "New Traditionalists" concert in 81-82. They were on the treadmills for numerous songs
O' 🍀🍀🍀 Sullivan
I did, in New Zealand, still one of my favourite concerts, they threw hats into the crowd, wish I could’ve got one, I will look for one
Jerry's dance moves are almost hypnotic...
All I can think about is gman swaying from side to side.
Same
Ayy
i honestly watch this just about everyday, twice a day. thank you for posting this gem!
I know I let you tell me what to do
You were confident you knew best
Now things aren't working like you want them to
Your confidence is what I detest
You got me lookin' up high
You got me searchin' down low
You got me I know you know
You got me jerkin' back 'n' forth
You told me, people like to suffer
You told me that's the way it is
You said that things were getting better
You said I should accept all this
You think it's funny
But what I say is true
The reason that I live like this
Is all because of you
You got me lookin' up high
You got me searchin' down low
You got me, I know you know
You got me jerkin' back 'n' forth
There is a thought that keeps me thinking
Like a stone inside my shoe
It is a vision reoccurring
A dirty window I can see you through
You think it's funny
But what I say is true
The reason that I live like this
Is all because of you
You got me lookin' up high
You got me searchin' down low
You got me, I know you know
You got me jerkin' back 'n' forth
You got me lookin' up high
You got me searchin' down low
You got me, I know you know
You got me jerkin' back 'n' forth
sounds like my first marriage....
Rest in Musical Paradise Bob Casale! Thanks for sooooo much great music and memories!
I saw this tour. Unbelievable! Every other DEVO show, or any rock show I have seen since has been anti-climatic.
I know. It's beyond description. Spellbinding.
Belong in the HOF
3:07 - wow, that is a great grungy analog keyboard sound
No doubt about it - this is my absolute fave Devo tune. Going Under is a close #2. I wish I had seen this concert... (I got to see a Total Devo one which was great, but man this is incredible)
Dont forget timing x!
Devo was so cool that nobody notices what a great love song this is.
Love song?... it reminds me of my ex..
Best fkn band I ever saw, 6 times was not enough
That intro was a real treat--I'd never heard it anywhere before this :)
Goin Under!
Rock of ages
Me too. Way cool. Just when you think they can't get any better....
Huh? It's The Theme from the Adventures of the Smart Patrol: ruclips.net/video/gLQYezAQzDU/видео.html
it's the song "the super thing" from the same album.
5 minutes of bliss. Thanks.
BIG Devo fan here. Light years ahead of the curve. Brilliant.insightful,ironic lyrics.Unbelievably tight band and largely underappreciated. I also like subversion of wearing matching attire at a time when such a thing had pretty much vanished from rock music.
Cool! Devo was one of the best new wave groups of that great musical era of the late 70s/ early 80s.
How come we don't synthesizers much any more??
I got the album for my 15th birthday. This is still my favorite song on the album and one of my fav songs ever.
Devo - where use of the "treadmill" originated💞❣️😎
OK, everybody say it with me, yeah, you know what it is... "We're all DEVO!". Still love this band.
Saw them in Boston in 1980 for this tour
Still one of the best bands and shows I’ve ever seen and I’ve seen many.
I saw them on this tour with the treadmills... Out of all the concerts I've seen in my many years this one ranks at the top. Saw them in the Memorial Auditorium in Sacramento, CA. I also remember their appearance on Fridays - great stuff! I do find it funny how they avoided close-up camera shots of Gerald as he was doing his jerkin' dance moves. :)
Al Harrington Gerry was working it pretty hardcore and was told to behave lol!! Yeah this is what is so amazing about these guys and being 100% authentic in form, so much talent and geniuses for most people lesser minded to comprehend.. but for those of us who dared to brave the truthfulness is to simply answer one question.. and if you don’t know what that question is or how to respond by this point in time, chances are you only wear shoes without laces. Hey nothing wrong with Velcro, or if you just aren’t able to figure how the bunny ear method actually is going to keep your shoes safely tied. Just sayin
Alan Myers at 1:20 showing how great he was. DEVO did not get enough credit on how tight they were musically and their showmanship was always something else. I remember watching this show when I was a kid. Good stuff!
Devo always asked a lot from its drummers.
I remember seeing Devo in the Old Gym at Nevada (UNR). I couldn't get any of my friends to go because they thought of Devo as a passing fad. I'm so glad I went, it is still one of the best shows I ever saw.
Listen to that moog scream
If you ever heard that in some of the dumps they played in brilliantly early on, you had a thrill!
slobomotion Being from Cleveland they were a local band. I saw them a number of times way before MTV caught on. Many "dumps" always a great show. Really nice guys too. Saw them the night George the first got elected (84 I think) at Peabody's Down Under in the flats and it was the best concert I ever saw. They had enough amps to play the Coliseum which explains my hearing loss. Opened with an amazing acoustic version of Jocko Homo.
John Doran
Yep! This was one of those groups where I made every effort to take time, travel and pay to see them, because I knew they'd either soon be hugely famous OR they might break up and I was kind of a glutton!! Some of the groups I happily saw in NE Ohio were the B-52s (whom I knew in NYC but I would go back to Ohio to visit family), Iggy Pop, Patti Smith, Pere Ubu, Devo, Rubber City Rebels, 15-60-75, and anything Peter Laughner was doing. (I missed Blondie -- my tickets got to me too late -- missed Roxy Music and a few others.) The venues were frequently grim!
They certainly knew their way around them. I think they had an endorsement deal with Moog.
It screams because they ran it through overdrive guitar pedals , some bands like ultravox ran their synths through miked guitar cabinets
Very cool. I remember being blown away by this when it aired. Great time to be a DEVO fan
Damn, they had to be stone cold sober to pull that off, lol!
WOW ! ! ! I remember watching this when it aired originally...
Same here, October 1981. In my city the ABC station was channel 6, which is simulcast over FM radio at about 88 MHz (that's where the audio channel happens to be), so I was able to record this on a cassette, which subsequently wore out from being overplayed. ;)
Shamak
COOL!!!
futuregirl3 I
I saw it when it originally aired too and I remember it well for the extended drum intro, and how freakin' amazing it was. I wonder if Devo recorded this drum intro on any of their albums? I hope this episode (#40) will be released on video someday. (I bought SNL Season 4 just to get an early Kate Bush appearance.)
Me too! I thought I was only DEVO fan on campus until my art teacher mentioned them in class.
I love how Devo was talking straight to everyone
DEVO made it GREAT to be a GEEK! They were SO far ahead of the curve bands even NOW are struggling to catch up. I remember watching this performance on FRIDAYS followed by "We're Through With Being Cool" then "Working In A Coal Mine" which were BOTH in the movie HEAVY METAL. Those were heady times indeed!
Once again I have the privilege of basking in the weird genius that is Devo. Awesome performance!
The hair, the costumes, the treadmills! Probably the funniest band ever. Genius.
Funny but highly, highly intelligent! An unbeatable combination. I am no music snob yet I feel people that don't understand Devo , like them or not, are not high on the ( de ) evolutionary scale!
Alan Meyers, totally under rated drummer!
Very underrated
My three all-time favorite drummers are Alan Meyers, Herb (Tim Alexander) from Primus, and Vinnie Paul from Pantera (RIP).
"FRIDAYS" was the SHIT!
I LOVE Gerry's "DANCE" he does on this song! GODS I MISS these guys and this time! {Sigh}
Jerkin back forth is all Gerry Casale, it's his song,, kinda makes the album, the critics trashed it but who cares?
Would anyone describe the lead singers moves as modified ska? It's awesome in any case.
One of the best thing about Devo shows - and this performance is a great example - was that even though they'd reel out songs from their catalog they'd also do things you wouldn't have heard before or adapt one of their songs into something you haven't heard before. Their live album NOW IT CAN BE TOLD ends with an absolutely banger of a medley that weirdly (and awesomely) includes "Somewhere" from WEST SIDE STORY.
My favourite album. Thanks for uploading.
Welcome to the future...which hasn't happened yet.
40 years damn!!!
No one today can give me same shivers
It *does* give shivers. Whenever they went "off-book" in a show like they do here it's absolutely thrilling.
I never realized how good the drummer is! Don't even know his name! Devo is awesome!
Those drum fills though
My dad always told me how he saw devo perform on treadmills. This is awesome to see haha.
Faboulous DEVO. Are we not men? we are DEVO
tighter than the album...height of their powers
Anyone else hear the Team Fortress outro inspired by 4:31?
Still love Devo, more than ever!
The synth bass in Jerkin Back and Forth is my favorite Devo bass sound. So ballsy. ANNNNND I'm learning from this video that it seems to played on a Roland Jupiter 8 with the arpeggiator on!?!? THAT'S why it sounds so dang tight.
so this is where OK Go got the idea?
+zenuke Those rolling sidewalks were soooooo futuristic back the the 70's and 80's.
I didn't see this comment until after I made mine. Great minds and all that.
I guess so!
Duh
OK GO CAN GO AND FUCK OFF!
Allen was such a powerful drummer!!!
I find 'Fridays' to be an interesting show. I'm easily sure it wasn't about laughs mostly, but about being interesting. The intro theme of 'Fridays' is also interesting theme, a cross between Disco and Rock.
DEVO will always be interesting to me as a later generation fan. I'm 37.
Is that Shelley Duvall applauding in a plastic Devo wig in the last second?
Shelley Duvall! That's so crazy, you're probably right.
If it isn't, she's an unbelievable lookalike! All the more weird as I've been watching lots of analysis videos of Kubrick's "The Shining" lately......featuring Shelley Duvall among others of course.
Rogue Male do you remember Shelly Duvall’s bedtime stories on VHS? Oh they were amazing!!!
wow I love the set
And yes folks… That was the 80s. Totally original, fun, artistic, and yet to be repeated, yet often copied in today’s music..
Hall of fame time,
They were always fun to watch and listen to. I remember back in the early 80s, my best friend had a 1972 Oldsmobile powder blue convertible with a big block (429 ?) engine. We would ride around on spring and summer days with the top down drinking beer or liquor while listening to Devo. We were in our prime - early 20s back then and were invincible and oblivious to mortality. God, what I would give to go back in time just for one more day like that. Best friend, awesome ride, good music, sunny days, liquor and plenty of pussy for us both! It's a damn shame that every day in our lives can't be like that.
Wearing the Kennedy hair