YouTube is a monstrosity but there sure is a lot of cool stuff. Here's part of the very first Devo video (The Truth About De-Evolution), the one that (in my opinion) started the video music revolution.
Now it looks pretty strange, then it was shocking. In a great way. Like many revolutions, music video soon turned into the monster that it tried to slay. But Chuck Statler and Devo had a remarkable effect. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRguZr0xCOc They started as more or less a mutant hippie blues art student band. With a mini-Moog! This is their first show in 1973. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_M9ZMo5TiU What *were* they putting in the water in central Ohio then? Robert Christgau in the Village Voice and Howard Wuelfing in our own Unicorn Times in DC (where I edited Howard's stuff) were writing about Devo and the Rubber City Rebels, Pere Ubu, Dead Boys, all this stuff coming from there, of all places. I have to think this was an essential part of the aural landscape in the midwest that helped give techno its start. OK, enough reminiscing for now. fh ----------------- >http://www.youtube.com/watch?vµ4rB64fXY4 >gil scott - we almost lost Detroit >this was 1990, I swear the man hasn't lost a touch if his charm and >voice. Detroit roots for real this song. > > >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vE21mRGXpdY >awesome views of the city. The perspectives make it look spooky. > > >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3B8JLBM02s >devo's great. I want a dj desk like that big computer console. > > >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lytgjRgRrXo >amp's chest hair is mad nappy. Almost Bobby Mcferrin, but not quite as >peasy. > >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OBhasMraMY >the guys that originally made me want to go to Detroit. This is the >original video for this hard to find (not now I guess eh?) > >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD-Ve_j4H2o >"unofficial" video for deetron. I like the track and the video is >fitting, even if it isn't official. > > >K > > > > > > >**Tug Your God Out** > >
