Devo - Live Clip M-80 Festival Devo As Dove 1980 video free download

Matthew Carr

on that one devo dvd this video is longer and booji boy comes out, but mark, gerry, and the bobs are all there WHO IS BOOJI BOY?! 

Maxwell M.

That concert was from 1975, where they were going to get unplugged no matter what. The first three years of Devo were full of conflict and hostility.

PnxNdd420

I know what you mean. They're so into their own gimmick it almost comes off as a joke. They really believe in being DEVO... Maybe that's where you get the Andy Kaufman feeling, like, he was so into his character he literally couldnt stop the showmanship

Nora Streed

Oh wow. This clip says 1980, so I am putting the #cherrywinemusic tag on it, but I think the show actually took place in the fall of 1979. I was at this show - it was a 2-day thing called M-80 (or Marathon 80) and it was 2 solid days of New Wave/punk weirdness. Including DOVE, which was DEVO, but apparently there was some kind of contractual problem between the conference and the label, and they couldn't perform under their own band name. Or something. So anyway, here's DOVE/DEVO doing a Woody Guthrie song.

GREG FREEMAN

My favorite Devo song.

Shelley Owen

Carter Family original.

warthogphil

Whenever I hear anyone try to say "Devo isn't punk rock, they're new wave", I just want to smack them in the head. It don't get any punk rockier than Devo.

mysketchbook

@jbrown1169 They probably met Kaufman at a Fridays appearance. I like to think their paths crossed at some stage. Can you imagine how great that would have been?!

hc2333

I was there, it was explained that their label wouldn't let them perform at M80, so they were DOVE instead of DEVO for the show, which gave them ideas for the fun "Love Dove..." and the evangelist look for a great satirical statement on that... their show was pure genius as always.

spwb2k

the apotheosis of nerd cool, decades ahead of their time.

dawggybonz

30+ years ago

Mike RL Agenda

@jbrown1169 Devo = Punk Rock Baby :D

empiricalproof

@jbrown1169 Yeah and I love the music video they did for Neil Young? that featured Booji Boy as a nuclear plant worker on a routine waste dump. The best thing about this song is its unspoken punchline (in the album version)i.e. "I'm not going to be worried long because we're all going to die horribly, thanks to you huboons."

MrJacMac1986

@pluffmudsc Yeah it does sound like Bob Weir singing

jbrown1169

@polkaholic My bad, I didn't know for sure when the concert was, the description said it was 1980 not 1979. Still, people were probably waiting for the hits off of Are We Not Men, and Duty Now For The Future, not this. I'm not saying everybody didn't get it, but I'm sure a good deal of them were scratching their heads.

jbrown1169

There's something very Andy Kaufman-esque about Devo somtimes. You have to remember at the time 90% of people just wanted to hear them sing Girl U Want and Whip It, then they come out as a "Dove The Band Of Love" and play a Kingston Trio cover. People didn't always get Devo back then. There is a track on The Mongoloid Years where a promoter gets mad at them and unplugs them during their set, and a shouting match ensues. They just did their own thing, like it or not.

Tom Rochester

It's actually on the 'Pioneers who got scalped' anthology. Oh and the new album is just out, can't wait!

HerschelMatthews

yes, I hear it... Weir's guitar... & voice. Of course Jerry's in back of the amps twistin one up! I love Devo.

freewill911

Very cool. Reminds me of an old Talking Heads song...

gary wilhite

back when you couldn't curse, original lyrics..."everything is fucked up!"....timeless ;)

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Devo - Smart Patrol / Mr. DNA (live 1980)