Early Devo (photo: Allan Tannenbaum)
Devo Live 1980 on DVD
Devo Live 1980 available on DVD
This DVD includes a full length concert from 1980 supporting their breakthrough album Freedom of Choice. Rock music visuals on TV at the time were usually relegated strictly to the weekend, on Saturday Night Live, Don Kirshner's Rock Concert, the Midnight Special, or Fridays. And mostly, it was either straight-ahead live performance footage, or else blah lip-synched stuff, with the musicians playing to an empty arena on the afternoon of a show. This all changed with Devo.
Even if you missed catching DEVO live and ‘in the flesh,’ you had a decent chance to see them on the tube, as they were one of the few acts to appear on all of the aforementioned programs. The only problem was that bands were only given a handful of songs to perform on these shows. That’s where Live 1980 comes in handy. It’s becoming rare nowadays for full-length shows to have survived from this era, but that’s what this DVD is all about – a full-length live set, just as Whip It was beginning to make DEVO a household word. And while all the group’s hits up to this point are included, hardcore spuds will enjoy such run-throughs of the obscurities It’s Not Right, Pink Pussycat, and Swelling Itching Brain.
Preview clip: http://musicvideodistributors.com/media/Devo-GatesOfSteelLarge.wmv
TRACKLIST:
Whip It
Snowball
Its Not Right
Girl U Want
Planet Earth
Swelling Itching Brain
Secret Agent Man
Pink Pussycat
Blockhead
(I Cant Get No) Satisfaction
Uncontrollable Urge
Mongoloid
Be Stiff
Gates of Steel
Freedom of Choice
Jocko Homo
Smart Patrol/ Mr.DNA
Gut Feeling/Slap Your Mammy
Come Back Jonee
Tunnel of Life
Devo Corporate Anthem
BONUS: Dove - The Band of Love from M80 Concert in 1980, Praying Hands & Shrivel Up
