Should I go see Devo live?

I 've just spent a $100 to see the Stones for the umpteenth time, so I feel like $80 might not be too unreasonable ... but, fuck.

Then again, everyone else on here has probably seen them fiftybillionty-two times at acoustic performances in their living rooms when the band was all of 12 years old & performing under another name...so what do I know.

It's Devo, you should go.

What's this $80 shit? For one night? One band? That's obscene.

Devo - Ani DiFranco - Son Volt - Tift Merritt - Brazilian Girls - Flatstock - Digable Planets - STREB - The Decemberists - Ted Leo/Pharmacists - Poet Populist - DeVotchKa - The Gospel Hummingbirds - 1 Reel Film Festival - Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion - Ink Spot - Keren Ann - Sonny Landreth - Billy Preston - The Duke Robillard Band - Billy Joe Shaver - Mavis Staples - Vis à Vis Society

house of blues blows, but fat old devo sound exactly as good as skinny young devo. they're just great musicians and performers; they've never had anything else to coast on. it's not like they were ever sex symbols or anything.

Oh, I know. I was teasing a bit. Mostly, I was wondering if their age has caught up with them a bit. Maybe the Devo hats and jumpsuits don't look so good stretched out over bloated, old bodies? I primarily brought that up because it might be more of an indication of the crowd (especially on Sunset Blvd) that "fat old Devo" would draw. I'm imagining a crowd full of that Big Entertainment exec from the "Worried Man" video.

Still, $80.00? That seems strikingly opposed to their original aesthetic.

You missed the point. I can afford it. $80 is not a lot of money. I'm just wondering if it is worth it.

Perhaps you mean to hurl the Lightning Bolt joke at Jon? I like Devo much more than I like Lightning Bolt, $80 tickets or not.

This is true. I'm pretty sure that I'll go. Or else, I may choose to see Lightning Bolt one hundred times.

Give'em a few years.

Lighting Bloat

haha! that's ok, i like double cheeseburgers.

as she once said "I'd rather see fat old devo then over 90% of all other bands"

http://photos16.flickr.com/19625621_76ebd2ceb4_o.jpg

$93.40!!

seeing them live at primavera aweek ago or so solidyfied my fandom. seriously brilliant.

They were astonishing at Primavera. Bob's boner was totally justified.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3030/2546376620_870d424ea3.jpg

going.

wtf @ that picture

the fact they're old actually improved the live experience - added to the weirdness for me anyhow.

I saw them a year or two back. They were fantastic.

I'm going to their Brooklyn show -- which is similarly expensive.

I think they're one band who are seriously worth the money.

I was just about to comment on the inappropriate hotness of Bob 1 until I looked further down. Best thing about the picture is clearly the other Bob's transfixed expression.

Saw them on their last UK tour. Do it!

$93.40!!

Wow, a 25c discount for you guys. Probably bumps up to $115 or so with booking fees and transaction fees and postage fees (nb: in Australia they charge you the same extra fee for you picking up the tickets from the box office yourself, or for them posting them to you)

Went to the UK tour last year and wished I'd done more dates. Superb entertainment.

saw them at a festival last year and they blew pretty much all the other bands off the stage, so much fun.

Lightning Bolt would have to pay me $80.00 before I'd sit through one of their shows.

this ^^^

Who's goin'?

I'll be the guy wearing a white Killing Joke shirt. Come find me.

twist away the gates of steel

I'm goin'. It's a long walk home for you though, Alex.

not me :(

Hope you're enjoying Dan Deacon too, Alex...

Man, Brooklyn sucks!

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They pulled the plug, and forcibly took the mic out of Booji Boy's hand at exactly 10 p.m. (denying Devo the opportunity for an encore). God forbid we ruffle the feathers of the dwellers of the newly erected space-age condos that surround the park.

Herewith a needlessly lenghty extrapolation on same.

really looking forward to seeing the hardcore stuff at the wiltern tonight. who's seen them on this tour so far?

I saw the majority of the Oakland show (missed the first quarter). It was extremely fun and good. Hope they keep touring. Would have liked to hear Mongoloid, not sure why they aren't doing that since it was on the Hardcore comp. Wouldn't have killed me to hear Gates of Steel and Freedom of Choice too, but otherwise no complaints.

i overheard someone in line say that devo did "mongoloid" as a second encore at one of the shows.

damnit

no second encore in Oakland though people were begging for it.

anyone have a set list?

http://www.setlist.fm/setlists/devo-53d68b21.html

not sure why that doesn't have oakland on it. but according to those, they haven't done a second encore anywhere.

it was in denver.

http://www.heyreverb.com/blog/2014/06/24/devo/91077/

couldn't go see them in Denver, but this is kind of cool - will have to go check it out.

Devo co-founder Mark Mothersbaugh wanted to do something special in advance of “Myopia,” his first-ever gallery show at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver on Oct. 31. Something that reflected his whimsical, bizarre, brilliant cultural contributions. Something musical.

“I bought this old disc-cutter from the ’40s that you could can cut (vinyl) 45s on, and I bought some old jukeboxes from the ’50s that I liked the look of because they weren’t the ones with the bubbles and the art deco stuff,” Mothersbaugh said last week from the lobby of the Grand Marriott in downtown Denver, just a few hours after Devo played Summit Music Hall.

“My thought was, ‘What if I cut discs where I record the content only onto that disc, and so they’re like one-shot, test-pressings on soft vinyl? It doesn’t matter what you get on the discs, let’s just record a bunch and see what happens.’”

Mothersbaugh quickly met his self-imposed challenge with dozens of discs featuring private Devo rehearsals, unreleased bits of music from his scoring for Wes Anderson films, stream-of-consciousness prose, one-off songs and more.

He filled the custom jukebox with 120 tracks — or 60 different 45-RPM vinyl singles with two songs per disc — and shipped it to Denver so it could debut shortly before Devo’s June 23 Summit show (part of the band’s “Hardcore ’74-’77″ tour).

The jukebox, a restored, 1950s-era AMI Multi-Horn High Fidelity machine, was installed a little over a week ago at hip LoHi bar Forest Room 5, and will move around to different area watering holes at regular intervals.

denver gets all the good stuff

ha i dunno about that, but this is pretty neat.

the last time I almost saw Devo was like 25 years ago, they played Chrissy Field in SF for an EArth Day thing, but couldn't actually play on stage because it started raining. So they just stood there for a bit and then left. Really glad I finally got to see them after skipping several of their shows over the past few years. This set was really powerful, zero kitsch. Hope they keep going.

did this ever get mentioned here?

http://variety.com/2014/scene/news/devos-gerald-casale-launches-50-by-50-wine-brand-in-style-1201169586/

http://pmcvariety.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/devo.jpg?w=640&h=360&crop=1

http://images.winemag.com/California-2013/The-Napa-Valley/TourGuide.jpg?ver=1391117111

Pic with Mothersbaugh belongs in Men Who Look Like Old Lesbians.

I still want to know what was going on with that Bob boner pic upthread

Or is it just that he got a boner while playing live