DEVO - Lets hear some chatter folks

[kosmo vinyl]

the crowd was a bit like the New York Dolls show, a fairly wide age range... best comment I over heard right before the band started was paraphasing "Oh I just noticed the video screen, they a bit arty"
 
 The audience was also digging the DJ who I believe was Twangirl...
 
 Will look for a setlist, the best place to find one is the Devo email list but to get approved for it requires filling out a questionnaire which I couldn't be bothered with when getting it...
 
 Anyone know what the band was pumping through the PA before they came on?  It was very Devoesque...

[Bags]

Originally posted by revcbl:
  The point is, NO SHOW is worth 55 bucks, I mean come on, if you folks down in the birthplace of Ian Mackaye don't know that, who the hell does? The aforementioned music festival was $70 for three days and, like, a million bands.

I am so fucking sick of reading this same old rant..."This 18-day festival with 179 bands was only $20 -- how can they charge $50 for blah blah 'show I don't need to see if I think it's too expensive' blah blah blah...
 
 
 

This a plea to all of you: take the money and give it some 18-year-old kids making weird sounds in their basements. They need it a lot more and that's what made Devo cool in the first place.

If you spent more time here, you'd see that most of do that as well.  So speak from whereth you knoweth.

[Bags]

Yeah, $55 is steep, but it was Sunday night so the hour and five minute set didn't bother me that much.  I could have used 3 or 4 more songs, but they really pack a whollop into a short set.  There was great energy all through the club -- made me imagine how insane the shows in their heyday would have been.  Jaguar indicated as much...
 
 Glad I went, good show, sorry for the drummer and wish I'd gotten a superball!

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

So let me get this straight.
 
 They played for one hour, with no openers. The drummer played (ineffectively) with a broken hand. The band looked like fat, old middle aged accountants. The incredible video show that was supposed to set the club date apart from a festival date didn't work. Sounds like one hell of a rock and roll extravanganza!!! All for only $55. That's probably more than most of their fans pay a Mexican to do a day of yardwork at their house.
 
 Where is the fan outrage? I guess a roomful of Weird Al fans would tend to set the bar pretty low as to what constitutes a "good show".

[kosmo vinyl]

First of all no openers and short shows were standard for Devo in the past.... The drummer was hardly impeded by injury, he just didn't rock to 11... the energy was still there, they just didn't bounce as high... the shows of past with videos were highly planned affairs which the band probably didn't have the time to do this timeout... and take your shit somewhere else

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

Short performance with nothing for openers. I guess Devo fans are as forgiving of Devo performance as their wives are of theirs.
 
   

Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
  First of all no openers and short shows were standard for Devo in the past.... The drummer was hardly impeded by injury, he just didn't rock to 11... the energy was still there, they just didn't bounce as high... the shows of past with videos were highly planned affairs which the band probably didn't have the time to do this timeout... and take your shit somewhere else

[kosmo vinyl]

it has more to do with sonic overload then anything.. their shows were always intense and fairly loud affairs... it was also very hot in the club last night

[Bags]

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
 The incredible video show that was supposed to set the club date apart from a festival date didn't work.

It worked on Sunday...

[nkotb]

While it might have smarted a bit to drop $55 on one show, I don't have any regrets.  Devo ran through every song I would have wanted to hear (except Space Junk, which would've sent me into a fit of insanity) with an intensity that I wouldn't have thought they could muster at their age.  And the drummer's hand must have been feeling better, because he was using it a good bit, not only drumming with both hands, but using the broken one for most of the big cymbal crashes.  All in all it was money well spent; plus, you gotta figure those tear-away yellow jumpsuits are expensive to replace.

[Bags]

Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
  it has more to do with sonic overload then anything.. their shows were always intense and fairly loud affairs... it was also very hot in the club last night

Yeah, what was that?  Did the band request it??  It was really, really hot...

[kosmo vinyl]

one can only run the a/c so hard, seeing as hot it was outside it much be a bitch to cool a room that large with so many bodies in it.

[Here's the thing]

While I am new to the site, I have seen over 500 shows in my 40 years. Many at the old club, and too few at the current location. One thing that seems to beg for a comment... It is really odd to complain about a show you did not attend. The club is fantastic, the staff is always respectful and in control, and the band still has the talent and energy to put on a fantastic show. I hope everyone who attended has as much fun as I did!

[Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface]

Originally posted by phillidan:
   One thing that seems to beg for a comment... It is really odd to complain about a show you did not attend.  

We've had people give concert reviews of concerts they didn't attend before. The revisionist history runs rampant.

[B.I.G. Entertainment]

The set list from both nights, not necessarily in order and perhaps missing a song or two:
 
 That's Good
 Goin' Under
 Whip It
 Blockhead
 Jocko Homo
 Girl U Want
 Gates of Steel
 Smart Patrol/Mr. DNA
 Gut Feeling/Slap Your Mammy
 Freedom of Choice
 Come Back Jonee

[Bombay Chutney]

Uncontrollable Urge
 Mongoloid