#Art Devo 1973-1977

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Devo - Space Junk (Early version)

Art Devo 1973-1977

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is the art devo (1973-1977) box set going to be on this year's meme mashup and how many songs

no (I don't know what you're talking about. but from that name alone I don't trust that it's from this year)

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"DEVO" Documentary Opens 55th Nashville Film Festival on 9/19/2024

On the opening night of the 55th Nashville Film Festival on September 19, 2024, "DEVO," a documentary about the 80s band directed by Chad Smith, was screened. The documentary premiered originally on January 21, 2024 at Sundance. DEVO, the band,  formed in 1973 in Akron, Ohio.  The band's formation stemmed from the political unrest at Kent State, Ohio, that led to the May 4th, 1970 deaths of 4 students (and the wounding of 30 others). The students of Kent State, including the Mothersbaugh boys, were demonstrators against the Vietnam War. Nixon had expanded the war in Vietnam without an act of Congress.  The war was killing an entire generation of United States youth via the draft in an unpopular unwinnable war. The students set fire to the ROTC headquarters and burned the building down. Nixon sent in the National Guard, which fired on the unarmed students. The chaos in the world caused band members to feel that, instead of progress, things were going backward. They used the term De-evolution, which was eventually shortened to DEVO. AHEAD OF THEIR TIME Through the years, the band worked to satirize society. They admit, “We did some absurd things.” In explaining the famous “energy hats" and the lacquered hair-dos that the band wore (based on JFK's hair, not Reagan's), the group admitted, “We like ironic humor. It was a cheap way to amuse ourselves---very Meta." The group was anti-punk rock. (“We’re the fluid in the punk enema bag.”) Over the years, DEVO saw the future of film in music and began making music videos, which were eventually shown on MTV (MTV didn’t exist when the band first formed).  This idea of merging film with music was ahead of its time, although the Monkees,  the Beatles, and the Velvet Underground inside Andy Warhol's studio were also moving in that direction. Not only was the band ahead of the curve in using music videos to promote themselves (most of which were directed by Gerard Casale), but DEVO contributed to the birth of electronic music. Jim Mothersbaugh created circuit bending before there was a name for that process. He went to a muffler shop to build a guitar that was a precursor of the Moog synthesizer. The film reminded me of the SXSW documentary “Resynator,” helmed by Alyson Tavel, recounting her father Don’s similar pioneering efforts to create the first Moog synthesizer. (Highly recommended). FAMOUS FANS After a video that the band submitted won an award at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, their fortunes improved. Famous fans included David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Jack Nicholson, Mick Jagger, Dennis Hopper, Leonard Cohen and Neil Young. Over the years, the band made appearances on “Saturday Night Live,” David Letterman’s “Tonight” show, daytime talk shows like Merv Griffin, “American Bandstand” and many others. Neil Young put them in a movie entitled “Human Highway” in 1977 (released in 1982) where the members of DEVO wrote their own parts and portrayed nuclear garbagemen. Q&A During the post-film conversation with three members of DEVO the trio shared some amusing details of what they term the “headache” solo.  This episode is shown in the film. The small audience of 12 people dwindled to 6 people when the band played only electronic high-pitched sounds.  As Mark Mothersbaugh said, “ The bit ran five times as long as we thought it would. It was Supreme Dada---like Andy Kaufman performance art.” CONCLUSION This documentary about a band that is best known for their #14 Billboard Hit “Whip It” contained so many film clips that assembling it must have been a gargantuan task. It is an object lesson in emphasizing the necessity of good marketing, good management, and good legal advice in the entertainment field. (The management and the legal advice seem to have been MIA). That, as much as anything else, led to the death of DEVO---(if they are really and truly dead, a debatable point.) As Mark Mothersbaugh said, “Somebody decided that DEVO should die.  We succumbed to the same reality we were satirizing.” He added, “DEVO didn’t officially end” and said, perhaps prophetically, “It’s better to burn out than to fade away.” DEVO, the band, has been nominated for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2018, 2021 and 2022. A solid opening for the 55th Nashville Film Festival on Thursday, September 19, 2024.         Read the full article

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Song Name: Auto Modown AKA "Auto Mo-down" Appears On: Hardcore DEVO Vol. 1, 74-77. "Auto Modown [Early Version]"(2:09) appears on Art Devo 1973-1977 Run Time: 2:01 (compilation version) Year Recorded: 1974 (compilation version) Years Performed: [1] 1975, 2014 setlist.fm stats Writing Credits: Gerald V. Casale Sung By: Gerald V. Casale Personnel: 1975* Gerald V. Casale - electric bass, vocals Mark Mothersbaugh - electric keyboards (officially released version) Bob Mothersbaugh - electric guitar

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“Post-Punk,” it seemed evident to me even at the beginning, and more and more so as I went deeper and deeper, was the real musical (if not popular) phenomenon, and also that it had roots and tendrils that reached far wider both into the past and around the world.  Indeed, I’d come to love Talking Heads and Wire and Raincoats simultaneously with so much music that seemed more immediately connected to it than three-chord thrash: Roxy Music, Velvet Underground, Bohannon, Can, Miles Davis, and on and on, such that the “year zero” hype for 1977 (or maybe late 1976) always rang false.  Equally, the “Post” part was out of whack: all this amazing music was the direct continuation of artful music that stood apart from psychedelia and roots rock and hippie rock and show-off prog, bound by a spirit of exploration.

Various – ‘Post-Punk: 1968-1977’ (Post-Punk Before Punk)

Part I

01 [0:00:00] Brian Eno – “Third Uncle” (‘Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)’, 1974) 02 [0:04:50] David Bowie – “Breaking Glass” (‘Low’, 1977) 03 [0:06:35] Faust – “It’s A Rainy Day, Sunshine Girl” (‘So Far’, 1972) 04 [0:14:05] Red Krayola – “Dairymaid’s Lament” (‘God Bless the Red Krayola…’, 1968) 05 [0:16:35] Television – “Elevation” (‘Marquee Moon’, 1977) 06 [0:21:35] Silver Apples – “Lovefingers” (‘Silver Apples’, 1968) 07 [0:25:33] Devo – “Social Fools” (‘Hardcore Devo Vol.1’, 1974) 08 [0:29:10] Cluster – “Caramel” (‘Zuckerzeit’, 1974) 09 [0:32:20] Augustus Pablo – “Skateland Rock” (‘This Is Augustus Pablo’, 1974) 10 [0:35:30] Chrisma – “C. Rock” (‘Chinese Restaurant’, 1977) 11 [0:41:00] Laurie Anderson – “Break It” (‘It’s Not The Bullet’ 7″, 1977) 12 [0:45:35] Debris’ – “One Way Spit” (‘Debris’, 1976) 13 [0:48:10] Heldon – “Mechamment Rock” (‘It’s Always Rock’n’Roll’, 1975) 14 [0:51:40] Death – “You’re A Prisoner” (‘…For The Whole World To See’, 1975) 15 [0:54:00] This Heat – “Horizontal Hold” (BBC) (‘Made Available’, 1977) 16 [1:02:20] Can – “Vitamin C” (‘Ege Bamyasi’, 1972)

Part II

17 [1:05:50] Suicide – “Che” (‘Suicide’, 1977) 18 [1:10:40] Annette Peacock – “Been & Gone” (‘I’m The One’, 1972) 19 [1:13:00] Tim Buckley – “Song to the Siren” (‘Starsailor’, 1970) 20 [1:16:25] Neu! – “Negativland” (‘Neu!’, 1972) 21 [1:25:55] Wire – “Mannequin” (‘Pink Flag’, 1977) 22 [1:28:30] Kraftwerk – “Antenna” (‘Radioactivity’, 1975) 23 [1:32:10] Talking Heads – “I Want To Live” (Demo) (‘CBS Demos’, 1975) 24 [1:35:55] Chinaboise – “Girl You Got It (So Go Get It)” (‘The Greatest Story Ever Told’, 1975) 25 [1:38:10] John Lennon – “Well Well Well” (‘Plastic Ono Band’, 1970) 26 [1:44:05] Yoko Ono – “Potbelly Rocker” (‘Feeling the Space’ sessions, 1973) 27 [1:46:40] Pere Ubu – “Heart of Darkness” (’30 Seconds Over Tokyo’ EP, 1975) 28 [1:51:20] Modern Lovers – “Someone I Care About” (‘The Modern Lovers’, 1972) 29 [1:54:55] Ultravox – “Hiroshima Mon Amour” (‘Ha!-Ha!-Ha!’, 1977) 30 [2:00:00] Nico – “Janitor of Lunacy” (‘Desertshore’, 1970) 31 [2:04:00] Lou Reed – “The Bed” (‘Berlin’, 1973) 32 [2:09:50] The Stooges – “I Wanna Be Your Dog” (‘The Stooges’, 1969) 33 [2:12:55] Roxy Music – “For Your Pleasure” (‘For Your Pleasure’, 1973)

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Happy Birthday ♉️ to Mark Mothersbaugh @markmothersbaugh @clubdevo 🖤 who spent a harrowing 18 days at LA’s Cedar-Sinai hospital last year in June nearing death while battling Covid. I’m certainly glad that he recovered and it should be noted that he is a legend and a pioneer of musical genres and art. As a co-founder, lead singer, guitarist and keyboardist of Devo he has been the multi-instrumentalist creative force behind the band’s music. He met his other co-founding bandmates Gerald Casale and Bob Lewis while attending Kent State University as an art student. It was around the time of the Kent State shootings in 1970. A friend of Casale’s, Jeffrey Miller was shot and killed by Ohio National Guardsmen and hence it spawned the idea of the “devolution/de-evolution” of the human race as a conceptual art project. Mark joined the concept with post-structuralist ideas lending his quirky humor with introducing the “Jocko Homo Heavenound” pamphlet. The project eventually became Devo in 1973 and the pamphlet would be the inspiration for the song “Jocko Homo”, the B-Side to “Mongoloid” which was Devo’s first single in 1977. Devo had a very quirky dissonant sound and stage antics with dry surrealist humor and satire early on which caught the attention of David Bowie in 1976 after the short film The Truth About De-Evolution. Both Bowie and Iggy were key to getting them signed later to Warner Bros. and Brian Eno went on to produce the first album Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! with some help from Bowie. Mark brought the Minimoog Model D into the fold and along with proto-punk and punk rock elements in instrumentation, ushered in a new sound as they were one of the first bands in the 70s to embrace synthesizers and give them a more futuristic edge. As one of the most influential bands, they have been associated with many genres. They are also famously known for their red terraced energy dome hats. Aside from the phenomenal Devo and solo albums, he has written musical scores for TV, film and video games with his production company Mutato Musika. In 2014 he was quoted saying he’s done over 150 art gallery shows displaying his visual art… 🖤⚡️🎹
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🏴‍☠️ (at Akron, Ohio)
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Max’s Kansas City

Max's Kansas City fue un club nocturno y restaurante situado en la 213 Park Avenue South, en Nueva York, el cual se convirtió en punto de encuentro para músicos, poetas, pintores y artistas en los años 60 y 70. Fue inaugurado por Mickey Ruskin (1933-1983) en diciembre de 1965 y cerrado en 1981.

Max's rápidamente se convirtió en un lugar frecuentado por artistas y escultores del New York School, como John Chamberlain, Robert Rauschenberg y Larry Rivers, cuya presencia atrajo a otras celebridades y personalidades de la alta sociedad, como los críticos de arte Lucy Lippard, Robert Hughes, Clement Greenberg, los comerciantes de arte Leo Castelli y David Whitney (cuyas galerías estaban al otro lado de la calle) y el arquitecto Philip Johnson.

Mickey Ruskin y John Chamberlain

También fue uno de los lugares favoritos de Andy Warhol y su séquito, quienes se apropiaron de la parte trasera del local. The Velvet Underground tocaban allí regularmente, incluyendo su último show con Lou Reed antes de que abandonara la banda, en el verano de 1970.

Paul Morrisey, Andy Warhol, Janis Joplin Y Tim Buckley, 1968

Fue el hogar de la escena glam rock, con artistas como David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Alice Cooper o the New York Dolls. Otros artistas que tocaron allí a lo largo de los primeros años de los 70s fueron Patti Smith, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Marley, etc.

David Bowie, Iggy Pop y Lou Reed

Patti Simth y Tom Verlaine, 1975

Robert Gordon, Tommy Dean, Bruce Springsteen y Dee Dee Ramone

Pero en 1974 Max’s había perdido popularidad entre el público y la era del glam rock comenzaba a decaer. El legendario establecimiento cerró en diciembre de ese mismo año y se convirtió en oficina del político Ed Koch.

Max's Kansas City reabrió en 1975, ahora propiedad de Tommy Dean Mills, quien inicialmente pensó en convertirlo en discoteca. Peter Crowley fue contratado para fichar bandas para el local.

Bajo la dirección de Crowley el club se convirtió en uno de los lugares de nacimiento del punk, debido a la actuación de artistas como the New York Dolls, Patti Smith, Ramones, Television, Blondie, Talking Heads, Devo, Dictators, Misfits y artistas de fuera de la ciudad como the Runaways. Después de la ruptura de Sex Pistols, Sid Vicious tocó allí en solitario.

New York Dolls

Nancy Spungen y Sid Vicious

El local original  volvió a cerrar en Noviembre de 1981 y actualmente alberga un Green Café koreano.

Mills reabrió el club el 27 de enero de 1998, en una nueva localización, 240 West 52nd Street, y volvió a cerrar rápidamente, debido a la pérdida de la esencia original y la decadencia del punk.

En 2000, Acidwork Productions Inc, una compañía de producción fundada por Neil Holstein, comenzó a trabajar junto con Victoria Ruskin (primo segundo e hija de Mickey Ruskin) en un largometraje documental sobre Mickey Ruskin y sus numerosos establecimientos, incluyendo Max's Kansas City.

En 2001, Yvonne Sewall-Ruskin estableció el Proyecto Max's Kansas City, en memoria de su difunto esposo, para mantener el espíritu de la filosofía de Ruskin de ayudar a artistas necesitados. El proyecto, una organización sin fines de lucro, proporciona fondos de emergencia y recursos para artistas en crisis, con el fin de empoderar a los adolescentes a través de las artes.

Vídeos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chd_JUkec8M New York Dolls, 1973

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0a22CrMf4s Ramones, 1976

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIdYKV0PajI Devo, 1977

Fuentes:

https://elpais.com/cultura/2017/05/23/actualidad/1495534405_689382.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max%27s_Kansas_City

http://maxskansascity.com/

http://classic.maxskansascity.com/index2.php

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/05/arts/design/05maxs.html

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Su actuación en Como gustéis(2006) le valió una nominación al Globo de Oro en 2008.Howard logró más reconocimiento por parte del público con sus papeles en Spider-Man 3(2007), Terminator Salvation (2009), Eclipse(2010), The Help (2011) y en Jurassic World(2015). Ayer cumpliría años Lou Reed (1942 - 2013)fue un poeta, cantante, guitarrista y compositor de rock, considerado el padre del rock alternativo, primero como líder del grupo The Velvet Underground y luego en solitario.Enormemente influyente en la cultura popdesde la década de 1960, entre sus discos suelen destacarse Transformer (1972), Berlin(1973), Rock'n'Roll Animal (1976), Live: Take No Prisoners (1978), New York (1989) y, entre sus actuaciones en directo, el concierto ofrecido en el Meltdown Festival en 1998: Perfect Night Live in London. Nacido en Brooklyn, residió habitualmente en Nueva York; ciudad cuya faceta menos amable plasmó en muchas de sus letras. Hizo colaboraciones y contactos con creadores como Andy Warhol y David Bowie. Su original estilo e influencia le generó gran fama entre las vanguardias musicales posteriores, fama a la que no fue ajena su ajetreada vida personal durante sus años de mayor éxito. Sin embargo, Reed fue considerado habitualmente como un músico «de culto», ajeno en parte a las listas de éxitos y el marketing de las multinacionalesdiscográficas. En su época de The Velvet Underground (1964-70) escribió canciones especialmente reconocidas, como "Heroin", "Rock and Roll", "I'm Waiting for the Man" y "Sweet Jane". Su mayor éxito comercial, sin embargo, es una canción posterior: "Walk on the Wild Side" (1972), que dio visibilidad a la prostitución y la transexualidad; una temática que hasta la fecha la música rock no solía abordar. Ayer cumpliría años Karen Carpenter ( 1950 - 1983)fue una exitosa cantante y baterista estadounidense famosa por el dúo The Carpenters conformado por ella y su hermano, Richard Carpenter.

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Uncontrollable Urge DEVO Rock Story

(1978)

Nuestra Historia del Rock reivindica una de las mejores bandas de Rock "alternativo" de todos los tiempos:

DEVO!

Para algunos desconocidos, para otros, poco reconocidos o simplemente olvidados, pero para nosotros, Devo debe ser considerado como uno de los grupos más innovadores, genuinos e influyentes en la Historia del Rock. 

Un poco de Historia

El término Devo proviene de "De-evolution" (D-evolution) es decir, regresión humana. Un concepto satírico y filosófico de finales de los sesenta sobre la especie humana, la sociedad y su retroceso. Una época en la que no faltaban noticias "indignantes" como la masacre de Kent, en la que unos jóvenes pacíficos y desarmados que se manifestaban en contra de la guerra de Vietnam y Camboya fueron vilmente tiroteados por las numerosas ráfagas de la Guardia Nacional de Ohio. El espeluznante episodio dejó cuatro muertos y nueve heridos graves.

4 de Mayo de 1970: Matanza en Kent (Kent State Shootings)

Sucesos como éste, indicaba a las claras que en lugar de evolucionar, "de-evolucionamos"... Lo malo es que todavía hoy, por desgracia, esto sigue teniendo bastante sentido. Con motivo de esta nueva corriente "devoluconista", dos estudiantes "anti-regresivos" llamados Gerald Casale y Bob Lewis decidieron impulsar una banda a la que llamarían: DEVO.

DEVO comenzó su carrera musical a comienzos de los años setenta en la ciudad norteamericana de Kent (Ohio). En su primera actuación, en el Festival de Artes Escénicas de Kent de 1973, la banda se presentó como un sexteto compuesto por el compositor Lewis, el polifacético Casale, su hermano Bob Casale (guitarra), Mark Mothersbaugh (cantante), Rod Reisman (batería) y Fred Weber (voz). Pero esta formación de seis jamás volvió a juntarse ya que DEVO se reinventó como un cuarteto compuesto por dos pares de hermanos: Mark y Jim Mothersbaugh (percusión); y Gerald y Bob Casale (guitarra). Tras muchos conciertos juntos, la banda empezó a conseguir cierto reconocimiento, pero en 1976 las cosas empezaron a cambiar cuando la banda apareció en una especie de cortometraje realizado por Chuck Statler titulado The Truth About De-Evolution ("In The Beginning Was The End: The Truth About De-Evolution") en el que se mostraban dos canciones de Devo: Secret Agent Man y Jocko Homo.

Este "psicótico" corto de casi 10 minutos de duración ganó un premio en el Festival de Ann Arbor de ese mismo año y eso atrajo la atención de algunos Genios como David Bowie o Iggy Pop, los cuales les ofrecieron un contrato con la mismísima Warner Music. En marzo de 1977 Devo publicó su primer sencillo: Mongoloid, en el que incluyeron como Cara B: Jocko Homo proveniente del corto The Truth About De-Evolution..

Primer single de DEVO

1978 fue un año muy importante para Devo. Primero nos sorprendieron de lo lindo con otro sencillo, una especie de versión (¿o parodia?) del inolvidable (I Can not Get No) Satisfaction [tono que publicamos hace poco tiempo aquí en Tonos-Gratis] de los Rolling Stones. También ese mismo año sacaron al mercado un Ep titulado B Stiff con otro sello independiente, y por fin, gracias a ese acuerdo con Warner, Devo lanzaría su primer Lp: Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! bajo la producción del compositor británico Brian Eno. ¡Vaya lujo! El éxito de la banda comenzó a materializarse, sobre todo en Europa, obteniendo más reconocimiento incluso que en los Estados Unidos. Lo malo de aquel momento fue que el co-fundador, Bob Lewis, salió "tarifando" y "pleiteando" de la recién consolidada banda.

Tercer álbum de Devo (1980)

En 1979 se publicó su segundo álbum Duty Now for the Future y en 1980 llegaría la fama global con el pletórico Freedom of Choice. Este disco contenía canciones como Whip It!, que posiblemente sea la canción más recordada y rememorada de Devo. Un detalle curioso de Whip It!, que se podría traducir algo así como "azota", es que el público la interpretó erróneamente como una canción "sadomasoquista". Y la cosa no quedo ahí ya que cuando se decidió grabar un videoclip con esta canción, los propios Devo se no se cortaron un pelo y salieron dando latigazos, como podéis ver a continuación:

Por último, y por citar otro "padrino" que encumbró la carrera de Devo, hablaremos del guitarrista y cantante canadiense Neil Young, quien les invitó a participar en su película Human Highway, una especie de comedia musical en la que Neil firmó bajo el seudónimo de Bernard Shakey y que fue estrenada en 1982.

Cubierta de la cinta VHS

A partir de los 80, Devo continuó publicando más discos con mayor o menor éxito. El sonido de la banda fue transformándose y evolucionando para quedar enmarcado en la línea New Wave (Nueva Ola) en la que la banda siempre tuvo claro que quería estar. Pero la gracia, el estilo y el espíritu del sonido de DEVO tiene mucho que ver con la filosofía alternativa con la que encaraban géneros tan variados como el Rock, el Punk, el Pop, la música disco, la electrónica o la música experimental.

En concierto (2010)

Terminamos esta sección con los terribles decesos sucedidos. Alan Myers, tercer percusionista de Devo murió de cáncer en junio de 2013 y Bob Casale murió en febrero de 2014. Una auténtica lástima porque la banda aún seguía en activo.

Discografía

1978 - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!

1979 - Duty Now for the Future

1980 - Freedom of Choice

1981 - New Traditionalists

1982 - Oh, No! It's Devo 

1988 - Shout

1988 - Total Devo

1990 - Smooth Noodle Maps

2010 -  Something for Everybody.

Uncontrollable Urge

Ha sido realmente difícil elegir un tema para confeccionar nuestro Tono ya que el repertorio de DEVO es muy sustancioso. No queríamos destruir o partir una canción, tampoco queríamos ofrecer un riff en concreto, pero al final, tras volver a escuchar Uncontrollable Urge nos dimos cuenta de que se podía "abreviar" lo suficiente como para servir de tono de llamada sin desgraciar el tema original.

Uncontrollable Urge es la primera canción de un álbum sublime: Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!, en España conocido como P: Somos Nosotros Hombres? R: ¡Nosotros Somos Devo!, un disco que no recaudó demasiado en su época pero que sin embargo, es un Disco que merece la pena tener ya que se ha convertido en un disco de culto. Aquí os dejamos un oferta del CD a 8 euritos:

COMPRAR DISCO DEVO

En fin, aquí os dejamos con nuestra adaptación de Uncontrollable Urge y hasta la próxima historia.

ESCUCHAR TONO DEVO:

DESCARGAR TONO

LA HISTORIA DEL ROCK:

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the art devo (1973-1977) box set just released this year actually. see it's backlog unreleased stuff. it costs one hundred dollars but there's a vinyl rip on youtube with like 500 views. i still hope it's on this year's mashup though.

is the art devo (1973-1977) box set going to be on this year's meme mashup and how many songs

no (I don't know what you're talking about. but from that name alone I don't trust that it's from this year)

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"DEVO" Documentary Opens 55th Nashville Film Festival on 9/19/2024

On the opening night of the 55th Nashville Film Festival on September 19, 2024, "DEVO," a documentary about the 80s band directed by Chad Smith, was screened. The documentary premiered originally on January 21, 2024 at Sundance. DEVO, the band,  formed in 1973 in Akron, Ohio.  The band's formation stemmed from the political unrest at Kent State, Ohio, that led to the May 4th, 1970 deaths of 4 students (and the wounding of 30 others). The students of Kent State, including the Mothersbaugh boys, were demonstrators against the Vietnam War. Nixon had expanded the war in Vietnam without an act of Congress.  The war was killing an entire generation of United States youth via the draft in an unpopular unwinnable war. The students set fire to the ROTC headquarters and burned the building down. Nixon sent in the National Guard, which fired on the unarmed students. The chaos in the world caused band members to feel that, instead of progress, things were going backward. They used the term De-evolution, which was eventually shortened to DEVO. AHEAD OF THEIR TIME Through the years, the band worked to satirize society. They admit, “We did some absurd things.” In explaining the famous “energy hats" and the lacquered hair-dos that the band wore (based on JFK's hair, not Reagan's), the group admitted, “We like ironic humor. It was a cheap way to amuse ourselves---very Meta." The group was anti-punk rock. (“We’re the fluid in the punk enema bag.”) Over the years, DEVO saw the future of film in music and began making music videos, which were eventually shown on MTV (MTV didn’t exist when the band first formed).  This idea of merging film with music was ahead of its time, although the Monkees,  the Beatles, and the Velvet Underground inside Andy Warhol's studio were also moving in that direction. Not only was the band ahead of the curve in using music videos to promote themselves (most of which were directed by Gerard Casale), but DEVO contributed to the birth of electronic music. Jim Mothersbaugh created circuit bending before there was a name for that process. He went to a muffler shop to build a guitar that was a precursor of the Moog synthesizer. The film reminded me of the SXSW documentary “Resynator,” helmed by Alyson Tavel, recounting her father Don’s similar pioneering efforts to create the first Moog synthesizer. (Highly recommended). FAMOUS FANS After a video that the band submitted won an award at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, their fortunes improved. Famous fans included David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Jack Nicholson, Mick Jagger, Dennis Hopper, Leonard Cohen and Neil Young. Over the years, the band made appearances on “Saturday Night Live,” David Letterman’s “Tonight” show, daytime talk shows like Merv Griffin, “American Bandstand” and many others. Neil Young put them in a movie entitled “Human Highway” in 1977 (released in 1982) where the members of DEVO wrote their own parts and portrayed nuclear garbagemen. Q&A During the post-film conversation with three members of DEVO the trio shared some amusing details of what they term the “headache” solo.  This episode is shown in the film. The small audience of 12 people dwindled to 6 people when the band played only electronic high-pitched sounds.  As Mark Mothersbaugh said, “ The bit ran five times as long as we thought it would. It was Supreme Dada---like Andy Kaufman performance art.” CONCLUSION This documentary about a band that is best known for their #14 Billboard Hit “Whip It” contained so many film clips that assembling it must have been a gargantuan task. It is an object lesson in emphasizing the necessity of good marketing, good management, and good legal advice in the entertainment field. (The management and the legal advice seem to have been MIA). That, as much as anything else, led to the death of DEVO---(if they are really and truly dead, a debatable point.) As Mark Mothersbaugh said, “Somebody decided that DEVO should die.  We succumbed to the same reality we were satirizing.” He added, “DEVO didn’t officially end” and said, perhaps prophetically, “It’s better to burn out than to fade away.” DEVO, the band, has been nominated for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2018, 2021 and 2022. A solid opening for the 55th Nashville Film Festival on Thursday, September 19, 2024.         Read the full article

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"DEVO" Documentary Opens 55th Nashville Film Festival on 9/19/2024

On the opening night of the 55th Nashville Film Festival on September 19, 2024, "DEVO," a documentary about the 80s band directed by Chad Smith, was screened. The documentary premiered originally on January 21, 2024 at Sundance. DEVO, the band,  formed in 1973 in Akron, Ohio.  The band's formation stemmed from the political unrest at Kent State, Ohio, that led to the May 4th, 1970 deaths of 4 students (and the wounding of 30 others). The students of Kent State, including the Mothersbaugh boys, were demonstrators against the Vietnam War. Nixon had expanded the war in Vietnam without an act of Congress.  The war was killing an entire generation of United States youth via the draft in an unpopular unwinnable war. The students set fire to the ROTC headquarters and burned the building down. Nixon sent in the National Guard, which fired on the unarmed students. The chaos in the world caused band members to feel that, instead of progress, things were going backward. They used the term De-evolution, which was eventually shortened to DEVO. AHEAD OF THEIR TIME Through the years, the band worked to satirize society. They admit, “We did some absurd things.” In explaining the famous “energy hats" and the lacquered hair-dos that the band wore (based on JFK's hair, not Reagan's), the group admitted, “We like ironic humor. It was a cheap way to amuse ourselves---very Meta." The group was anti-punk rock. (“We’re the fluid in the punk enema bag.”) Over the years, DEVO saw the future of film in music and began making music videos, which were eventually shown on MTV (MTV didn’t exist when the band first formed).  This idea of merging film with music was ahead of its time, although the Monkees,  the Beatles, and the Velvet Underground inside Andy Warhol's studio were also moving in that direction. Not only was the band ahead of the curve in using music videos to promote themselves (most of which were directed by Gerard Casale), but DEVO contributed to the birth of electronic music. Jim Mothersbaugh created circuit bending before there was a name for that process. He went to a muffler shop to build a guitar that was a precursor of the Moog synthesizer. The film reminded me of the SXSW documentary “Resynator,” helmed by Alyson Tavel, recounting her father Don’s similar pioneering efforts to create the first Moog synthesizer. (Highly recommended). FAMOUS FANS After a video that the band submitted won an award at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, their fortunes improved. Famous fans included David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Jack Nicholson, Mick Jagger, Dennis Hopper, Leonard Cohen and Neil Young. Over the years, the band made appearances on “Saturday Night Live,” David Letterman’s “Tonight” show, daytime talk shows like Merv Griffin, “American Bandstand” and many others. Neil Young put them in a movie entitled “Human Highway” in 1977 (released in 1982) where the members of DEVO wrote their own parts and portrayed nuclear garbagemen. Q&A During the post-film conversation with three members of DEVO the trio shared some amusing details of what they term the “headache” solo.  This episode is shown in the film. The small audience of 12 people dwindled to 6 people when the band played only electronic high-pitched sounds.  As Mark Mothersbaugh said, “ The bit ran five times as long as we thought it would. It was Supreme Dada---like Andy Kaufman performance art.” CONCLUSION This documentary about a band that is best known for their #14 Billboard Hit “Whip It” contained so many film clips that assembling it must have been a gargantuan task. It is an object lesson in emphasizing the necessity of good marketing, good management, and good legal advice in the entertainment field. (The management and the legal advice seem to have been MIA). That, as much as anything else, led to the death of DEVO---(if they are really and truly dead, a debatable point.) As Mark Mothersbaugh said, “Somebody decided that DEVO should die.  We succumbed to the same reality we were satirizing.” He added, “DEVO didn’t officially end” and said, perhaps prophetically, “It’s better to burn out than to fade away.” DEVO, the band, has been nominated for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2018, 2021 and 2022. A solid opening for the 55th Nashville Film Festival on Thursday, September 19, 2024.         Read the full article

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Devo

I Devo sono un gruppo musicale statunitense formatosi ad Akron (Ohio) nel 1972.

Il loro stile musicale è stato classificato come punk, art rock o post-punk, ma sono per lo più ricordati come una delle band-simbolo della New wave. Sono oggi considerati dalla critica un gruppo fondamentale per l’evoluzione del rock contemporaneo.

Il gruppo viene fondato da Gerald Casale, Bob Lewis e Mark Mothersbaugh, nel 1972.

Il nome “Devo” viene dal termine “de-evolution” (de-evoluzione), teoria secondo cui l’umanità, invece che continuare ad evolversi, avrebbe cominciato a regredire, come dimostrerebbero le disfunzioni e la mentalità gretta della società americana. Tale teoria era frutto di uno scherzo di Casale e Lewis, nato nella fine degli anni sessanta, quando i due frequentavano la Kent State University.

La prima formazione prevedeva sei componenti: i fratelli Gerald e Bob Casale (basso e voce il primo, chitarra, tastiere e cori il secondo), Bob Lewis (chitarra), Mark Mothersbaugh (voce, sintetizzatori e chitarra), Rod Reisman (batteria) e Fred Weber (voce). La loro prima performance avviene nel 1973 al Performing Arts Festival della Kent State University.[6] Dopo questa prima esibizione, il gruppo abbandona Reisman e Weber, e ingaggia Jim Mothersbaugh alla batteria elettronica e Bob Mothersbaugh alla chitarra, entrambi fratelli di Mark. Negli anni a venire, il gruppo passerà attraverso cambi di formazione, che vedono, tra gli altri, l’abbandono di Jim Mothersbaugh, ed esibizioni dal vivo conflittuali.

Nel 1976 viene reclutato il batterista Alan Myers alla batteria, che sancisce una formazione solida che durerà dieci anni circa.

Lo stile del gruppo, ironico, pungente, irriverente e critico nei confronti della società moderna, inserito in un contesto estetico che rimanda a una sorta di fantascienza al limite del kitsch, gli fa guadagnare la simpatia di artisti noti come Neil Young e David Bowie, nonché apparizioni in film dei quali Mark Mothersbaugh curerà la colonna sonora. Il gruppo sarà anche pioniere nell’uso del videoclip, il più noto dei quali, Whip It, godrà di una massiccia presenza nei primi mesi di vita di MTV.

Nel 1977, grazie anche a Bowie e Iggy Pop, ottengono un contratto con la Warner Bros. Il loro primo album, Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! viene prodotto nientemeno che da Brian Eno. L’anno successivo sono ospiti del Saturday Night Live, dove si esibiranno in una cover di (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction dei Rolling Stones.

Nel 1984, lo scarso successo commerciale del sesto album Shout e l’abbandono del batterista Myers, costringono il gruppo a rinunciare al tour di promozione, con conseguente pausa delle attività. Nel frattempo, Mark Mothersbaugh si diletta nella produzione di musica per la televisione, nonché di un progetto solista, Musik for Insomniaks.

Nel 1987 il gruppo si riforma con un nuovo batterista, David Kendrick, precedentemente con gli Sparks. L’anno successivo esce Total Devo, che contiene brani che compariranno in alcuni B movie come Slaughterhouse Rock e The Tapeheads, con John Cusack e Tim Robbins.

Nel 1990 esce Smooth Noodle Maps, che non raccoglie grandi consensi di pubblico e critica, e l’anno successivo il gruppo si scioglie nuovamente. Successivamente, Mark Mothersbaugh fonda uno studio di registrazione per produzioni musicali commerciali, il Mutato Muzika, insieme col fratello Bob e Bob Casale. Lo studio lavora principalmente per produzioni televisive come sigle, programmi, cartoni animati, videogame e film, tra cui alcuni di Wes Anderson. Nel frattempo, Gerald Casale intraprende una carriera come regista di spot pubblicitari e video musicali, per gruppi come Rush, Silverchair e Foo Fighters.

Nel 1995 il gruppo appare nella colonna sonora del film Tank Girl, e l’anno successivo si esibisce al Sundance Film Festival e al Lollapalooza proponendo alcuni classici del periodo tra il 1978 e il 1982.

Pur non pubblicando album fino al 2010, il gruppo produce una serie di singoli per compilation, produzioni televisive, spot pubblicitari per aziende come Dell e la multinazionale Target.

Nel 2006 collaborano con la Disney per un progetto chiamato Devo 2.0, un gruppo composto da bambini che suonano classici dei Devo.

Nel 2008 l’azienda McDonald’s propone un personaggio in omaggio che indossa l’Energy dome, il tipico copricapo dei Devo in plastica rossa a forma di ziqqurat circolare. Il gruppo intenterà una causa alla multinazionale, che successivamente alcuni blog riporteranno come “amichevolmente risolta”.

Nel 2010 esce il loro ultimo album Something for Everybody, a vent’anni dal precedente.

Nel 2013 il loro ex batterista Alan Myers muore a causa di un tumore cerebrale.

Il 17 febbraio 2014 muore improvvisamente Bob Casale, membro fondatore del gruppo, per arresto cardiaco.

https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devo Devo (/ˈdiːvoʊ/, originally /diːˈvoʊ/) is an American rock band formed in 1972, consisting of members from Kent and Akron, Ohio. The classic line-up of the band included two sets of brothers, the Mothersbaughs (Mark and Bob) and the Casales (Gerald and Bob), along with Alan Myers. The band had a No. 14 Billboard chart hit in 1980 with the single “Whip It”, and has maintained a cult following throughout its existence.

Devo’s style, over time, has shifted between punk, art rock, post-punk and new wave. Their music and stage show mingle kitsch science fiction themes, deadpan surrealist humor, and mordantly satirical social commentary. Their often discordant pop songs feature unusual synthetic instrumentation and time signatures that have proven influential on subsequent popular music, particularly new wave, industrial and alternative rock artists. Devo was also a pioneer of the music video, creating many memorable clips for the LaserDisc format, with “Whip It” getting heavy airplay in the early days of MTV.

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Devo

I Devo sono un gruppo musicale statunitense formatosi ad Akron (Ohio) nel 1972.

Il loro stile musicale è stato classificato come punk, art rock o post-punk, ma sono per lo più ricordati come una delle band-simbolo della New wave. Sono oggi considerati dalla critica un gruppo fondamentale per l’evoluzione del rock contemporaneo.

Il gruppo viene fondato da Gerald Casale, Bob Lewis e Mark Mothersbaugh, nel 1972.

Il nome “Devo” viene dal termine “de-evolution” (de-evoluzione), teoria secondo cui l’umanità, invece che continuare ad evolversi, avrebbe cominciato a regredire, come dimostrerebbero le disfunzioni e la mentalità gretta della società americana. Tale teoria era frutto di uno scherzo di Casale e Lewis, nato nella fine degli anni sessanta, quando i due frequentavano la Kent State University.

La prima formazione prevedeva sei componenti: i fratelli Gerald e Bob Casale (basso e voce il primo, chitarra, tastiere e cori il secondo), Bob Lewis (chitarra), Mark Mothersbaugh (voce, sintetizzatori e chitarra), Rod Reisman (batteria) e Fred Weber (voce). La loro prima performance avviene nel 1973 al Performing Arts Festival della Kent State University.[6] Dopo questa prima esibizione, il gruppo abbandona Reisman e Weber, e ingaggia Jim Mothersbaugh alla batteria elettronica e Bob Mothersbaugh alla chitarra, entrambi fratelli di Mark. Negli anni a venire, il gruppo passerà attraverso cambi di formazione, che vedono, tra gli altri, l’abbandono di Jim Mothersbaugh, ed esibizioni dal vivo conflittuali.

Nel 1976 viene reclutato il batterista Alan Myers alla batteria, che sancisce una formazione solida che durerà dieci anni circa.

Lo stile del gruppo, ironico, pungente, irriverente e critico nei confronti della società moderna, inserito in un contesto estetico che rimanda a una sorta di fantascienza al limite del kitsch, gli fa guadagnare la simpatia di artisti noti come Neil Young e David Bowie, nonché apparizioni in film dei quali Mark Mothersbaugh curerà la colonna sonora. Il gruppo sarà anche pioniere nell’uso del videoclip, il più noto dei quali, Whip It, godrà di una massiccia presenza nei primi mesi di vita di MTV.

Nel 1977, grazie anche a Bowie e Iggy Pop, ottengono un contratto con la Warner Bros. Il loro primo album, Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! viene prodotto nientemeno che da Brian Eno. L’anno successivo sono ospiti del Saturday Night Live, dove si esibiranno in una cover di (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction dei Rolling Stones.

Nel 1984, lo scarso successo commerciale del sesto album Shout e l’abbandono del batterista Myers, costringono il gruppo a rinunciare al tour di promozione, con conseguente pausa delle attività. Nel frattempo, Mark Mothersbaugh si diletta nella produzione di musica per la televisione, nonché di un progetto solista, Musik for Insomniaks.

Nel 1987 il gruppo si riforma con un nuovo batterista, David Kendrick, precedentemente con gli Sparks. L’anno successivo esce Total Devo, che contiene brani che compariranno in alcuni B movie come Slaughterhouse Rock e The Tapeheads, con John Cusack e Tim Robbins.

Nel 1990 esce Smooth Noodle Maps, che non raccoglie grandi consensi di pubblico e critica, e l’anno successivo il gruppo si scioglie nuovamente. Successivamente, Mark Mothersbaugh fonda uno studio di registrazione per produzioni musicali commerciali, il Mutato Muzika, insieme col fratello Bob e Bob Casale. Lo studio lavora principalmente per produzioni televisive come sigle, programmi, cartoni animati, videogame e film, tra cui alcuni di Wes Anderson. Nel frattempo, Gerald Casale intraprende una carriera come regista di spot pubblicitari e video musicali, per gruppi come Rush, Silverchair e Foo Fighters.

Nel 1995 il gruppo appare nella colonna sonora del film Tank Girl, e l’anno successivo si esibisce al Sundance Film Festival e al Lollapalooza proponendo alcuni classici del periodo tra il 1978 e il 1982.

Pur non pubblicando album fino al 2010, il gruppo produce una serie di singoli per compilation, produzioni televisive, spot pubblicitari per aziende come Dell e la multinazionale Target.

Nel 2006 collaborano con la Disney per un progetto chiamato Devo 2.0, un gruppo composto da bambini che suonano classici dei Devo.

Nel 2008 l’azienda McDonald’s propone un personaggio in omaggio che indossa l’Energy dome, il tipico copricapo dei Devo in plastica rossa a forma di ziqqurat circolare. Il gruppo intenterà una causa alla multinazionale, che successivamente alcuni blog riporteranno come “amichevolmente risolta”.

Nel 2010 esce il loro ultimo album Something for Everybody, a vent’anni dal precedente.

Nel 2013 il loro ex batterista Alan Myers muore a causa di un tumore cerebrale.

Il 17 febbraio 2014 muore improvvisamente Bob Casale, membro fondatore del gruppo, per arresto cardiaco.

https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devo Devo (/ˈdiːvoʊ/, originally /diːˈvoʊ/) is an American rock band formed in 1972, consisting of members from Kent and Akron, Ohio. The classic line-up of the band included two sets of brothers, the Mothersbaughs (Mark and Bob) and the Casales (Gerald and Bob), along with Alan Myers. The band had a No. 14 Billboard chart hit in 1980 with the single “Whip It”, and has maintained a cult following throughout its existence.

Devo’s style, over time, has shifted between punk, art rock, post-punk and new wave. Their music and stage show mingle kitsch science fiction themes, deadpan surrealist humor, and mordantly satirical social commentary. Their often discordant pop songs feature unusual synthetic instrumentation and time signatures that have proven influential on subsequent popular music, particularly new wave, industrial and alternative rock artists. Devo was also a pioneer of the music video, creating many memorable clips for the LaserDisc format, with “Whip It” getting heavy airplay in the early days of MTV.

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