DEVO Live French TV 1978

[@jimpappas7296]

Put. Devo. In. The. Rock. And. Roll. Hall. Of. Fame. NOW!

[@shawnrazzore7522]

Seriously

[@jclm4188]

Jim Pappas then again, im of the groucho marx camp, any club that would have me as a member i wouldnt want to join.screw the r&r hall of fame.weres ted nugent??

[@gamblinggator3177]

Weres GG allin? Lol

[@erichfischer8064]

R and R hall of fame is all watered down now just like everything that's "popular" nowadays. These guys put on a show for the crowd, and sound just like the album when they play in concert. Nuff said

[@davidstarr4620]

@@gamblinggator3177 i'm all for that shit face being inducted.

[@JohnMcPhersonStrutt]

Behind all the gimmicks, the energy domes, the tyvek suits, there is some very tight music happening. I love Devo's music, and i have done so since 1978. Devo are severely underrated.

[@chrisknefel8432]

So very fortunate to have seen Devo on this very tour Dec. 29, 1978 Q; Are We Not Men? A;We Are Devo ( Painter's Mills Music Festival) Owings Mills, MD. Way ahead of their time and intellect.

[@jean-charlesvuillemot6720]

J'avais 14 ans et je regardais Chorus le dimanche matin, c'a été mon éducation musicale...DEVO nous a foutu une claque !!!

[@patricecharpentier1315]

Itou...

[@whatitisbuddy9785]

Alan Meyers. Innovative, solid, one of the best ever

[@kevmac1230]

In Websters Devo should be next to the word Original.

[@EugeneLorey]

Yeah, and he was basically driven out of the band.

[@TheSlandis]

Mick Jagger not only endorsed this version of Satisfaction, but danced to it when he heard it.

[@davidvasquez8658]

I saw that! How could he not love it. Like Paul Simon when he heard Disturbed cover Sound of Silence. It's the ultimate compliment.

[@jesserothbeind950]

WOW!! This is one of the greatest DEVO performances I've ever seen!! One track right into the next without missing a single beat!! Still light years ahead of ordinary humanoids, mind -freaking BLOWN!!

[@MrHobo71]

I agree. It's one of the best things I've ever seen.

[@oatmilk169]

I would give my left nut to see a band today with this much energy and creativity. I can't think of a single band after the 80s that had me asking both "what the hell is this?" and "man, these guys are amazing!" Devo was my first concert in the early 80s. Fantastic.

[@lucifersam7946]

Polysics and Man or Astroman? are good.

[@justjeph6927]

Right, I couldn't say that about Nirvana, etc..the so-called next musical 'revolution' to come along...

[@kjar2114]

Try king gizzard and the lizard wizard!

[@KydenBufect]

Also a bit surprising given that they were mid to late 20s here, Gerry Casale was 30, not late teens early 20s. Great segment.

[@redwingrob1036]

DITTO. 1st gig I went to; DEVO Toronto Canada 81 & 82, and Manchester England 2006.

[@woip7761]

The concert that changed my life. It opened my ears to a new kind of music: New wave then industrial music, dark wave, baroque opera...

[@jchrisiciplan]

Not bored after 40 years of absolute devotion

[@justjeph6927]

Me neither, and I've never seen them live

[@oliverreno4734]

You mean de-evolution? XD

[@excelsior2511]

Devo has always been underrated, and not appreciated for the true artistic devotion they had for performance, and art. They always impress me, no matter how much time has passed. Devo, in every sense is classical music.

[@thenobullshtchannel8768]

It’s punk rock baby

[@leobrochu6634]

Devo is capital-A Art first and foremost, obviously a "punk" band but so much more. Their conceptual work is as insightful as the songs are catchy.

[@lindaboo4657]

43 years later...A-f----ing MAZing!!! Saw them live around 1980. 80 minutes of the most power-packed energy of all time. You INVOLUNTARILY jumped up and started bouncing even you didn't dance. Around that time I recall fans of Springsteen boasting how he would play 3+ hours. I remember thinking "I'd rather have 80 minutes of THIS any day!"

[@tetedepoulet8651]

The great thing about their cover of Satisfaction is that it told us who Devo was - because we had no idea wtf they were. They took a song we all knew and showed us their interpretation.

[@marSLaZZ66]

....that "sick cow" guitar sound on "too much paranoia !!!....superb !!!

[@JohnSmith-mx8wp]

For me, "Paranoias" is the highlight of this great recording. I like a clean, technically excellent guitar solo as much as anyone, but man, Mark literally tears it up here! Looks like he even broke his low E string. Clearly, the audience did not know what to make of what they were seeing, which is probably the way the band wanted it.

[@dougsmith7083]

Bob 1 might be as underrated a guitarist as Alan Myers is as a drummer! Both = phenomenal 🔥🔥

[@euggiemonad2523]

Now THIS was not lip synced! The opening act was incredible, the robot moves were so ahead of their time.

[@bombadil669]

Devo is timeless , what a good live band.

[@uncromulent]

This is a crazy-good 28 minutes of Devo at the height of their live powers, creativity and craziness. The Booji Boy stuff is irreplaceable.

[@cornbobrimlove7892]

The beat to Satisfaction is so hard to get with......genius

[@SuperScottCrawford]

no other devo drummer does it quite right. which is a bit strange, because on the video, you see what he's doing. maybe it's coordination.

[@justjeph6927]

Yah..wonder if Mick and the boys like it..

[@stephens5378]

Funny, I was just thinking the same thing as the camera panned behind him... For drummers who think you're good... you may be good, but whip that out. And keep it going. Heh...

[@dougsmith7083]

@@justjeph6927 there's an article out there that has an interview with Jagger from around 1977 where he is asked about DEVO and, his answer is pretty detailed. I realize that the majority of Some Girls was either comprised of previously recorded/demoed songs or, demos of ideas that Keith and Mick had introduced to the band at the beginning of the Some Girls recording sessions...BUT, tracks like "Shattered" and, the solo Jagger compositions "Lies" "Respectable" and, "When The Whip Comes Down" were admittedly influenced by the punk rock movement. Bizarrely enough...the other significant influence on Jagger (who was the main driving force behind the album) was disco. Ronnie Wood's gnarly bassline to "Shattered" is pretty punk rock in attitude and sound IMO. It was only a few years after Some Girls that Ronnie Wood cut the 1234 album that Alan Myers played drums on (alongside Charlie Watts and Jim Keltner!) Don't forget that the B52s 2st album and, especially "Rock Lobster" was a tremendous influence in getting John Lennon in the studio and recording what would become "Double Fantasy"

[@dougsmith7083]

@@justjeph6927 can't find the Jagger thing...but here's Jerry talking about he and Mark obtaining Jagger's permission to release the DEVO version of "Satisfaction" www.dailyrecord.co.uk/entertainment/celebrity/mick-jagger-danced-around-the-office-1062872

[@youngKarl007]

One word, subversive genius ❤🤩 I saw them at university isla vista CA around 1979, one of the best shows ive ever seen. Joe walsh was there, and they asked him to come out, but he never did.

[@sigsigsputcat1946]

I saw Devo at the Santa Monica Civic. The energy was out the charts. One of them was playing a guitar that was a neck on a 2x4 if I remember correctly. I also saw the same one kicking someone that tried something like grabbing him or something similar. They were no joke. It was so loud my hearing took days to adjust afterwards. One of the best concerts I ever saw.

[@mongoloid1369]

What year??

[@EdwoodCA]

It's a rare, La Baye guitar, model called the 2x4. So, resembling a 2"x4" in shape, but a bit wider than 4".

[@Percopius]

@@mongoloid1369 Don't remember, but some investigating could determine the year within one or two. I imagine around 1980? Most likely, as I was soon drummer for Nina Hagen in an audition in late 1980, so it was before that I think. I saw so many mind melting concerts at the civc; Frank Zappa, Queen, Devo, etc...

[@dipsydoodle7988]

Whoa, every performance I see leaves me more speechless. I am thankful for KZbin for giving me a new found appreciation for Devo as musicians and performers. I've been a fan since I was 12, but I never got to see them live. I can honestly say after all these years of loving their music I didn't realize just how dynamic they were as a live band. True artists and entertainers. Every note of this show was perfection. That audience realized somewhere around the point where they wanted to rip their clothes off what they were witnessing. 😮 I thought it was funny, endearing and.. I'm not gonna lie, kinda sexy to see them back each other up and start kicking some folks in the head! 😅 Maybe this audience didn't realize they were dealing with brothers? Pick on one, you pick on the others! Love me some Devo!

[@SuperScottCrawford]

how old be ye now?

[@jaxdragon1723]

people who never saw them don't realize this band was tight & on point every nite. i've seen Devo 4 times. 1st time(i almost lost my mind) in Philadelphia.this audience didn't dance much,but knew their part. i give Devo a 10 score audience gets an 7.75. Love this Band!! R&R HOF

[@dipsydoodle7988]

@@jaxdragon1723 dude, I heard they are nominated this year! They better get in already!!

[@machinelanguage5108]

Amen to that. I have been a fan since I was 4 years old and saw their video for Whip It on Friday Night Videos in 1979. I went to the record store the very next day with my parents and got the 45 and played that thing until the grooves were nearly gone. They were a force back in their early days. Alan Myers was an incredible drummer. Bob Mothersbaugh is an amazing guitarist. Playing this music while doing all of the synchronized moves, all while wearing those suits under the blazing hot stage lights.

[@wetkoff6209]

next time someone laughs when i tell them DEVO is one of the best bands of all time I'm gonna show em this video hot damn

[@bestfilmclips9064]

breaking the norms the late 70s was great for music

[@jacksaintjack2844]

What a perfect anti statement to all the hair/spandex bands at the time. DEVO. Pure creative genius from an unknown dimension.

[@pedroleal7118]

I saw this live, on tv, in 78, every Sunday morning on tv , there were live concerts from the Week-end, great times, you could hear the concert live on the radio, the day before and then watch the live act on tv the next day!!!

[@pedroleal7118]

one of my all time favorite bands!

[@rocketrose2165]

That's so wild. On Satisfaction Mark is playing a Gibson Firebird with the top bout removed., just the neck-thru and the lower bout to hold the electronics. I've never seen that before. What a phenomenal band. They changed the way I listened to and made music.

[@markkozee]

No that's not what MM is playing at all

[@patagonianratz]

Yeah it’s just got a shiton of pedals taped to it

[@justjeph6927]

Bought that first record, put it on, and it kinda creeped me out at first. But then I just couldn't stop listening to it..even the de-evolution thing was getting into my brain as I saw the world around me. Anyway, best thing to come out of Akron since Firestone!

[@applechoral]

Idk what that axe is but I want one

[@justjeph6927]

Nerd rock at its best, kiddies! 1978: senior year, freshest music we had heard in a loong time. Total daps to DeVo!!

[@ast-og-losta]

This never gets old

[@justjeph6927]

Unlike us, eh? Lol

[@kellythompson1441]

True pioneers of modern music. Very important they are the foundation many have built upon.

[@benborntorock923]

and those drums, so brilliantly different and accurate!

[@dannyinaus]

0:21 (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction 3:08 Too Much Paranoia's 5:44 Uncontrollable Urge 9:02 Mongoloid 12:14 Jocko-Homo 16:22 (no music) Interview 18:42 Come Back Jonee 22:13 Boojie Boy - The Words Get Stuck in My Throat

[@bensmoif]

Small update: 22:13 is Booji doing "Red Eye Express"

[@willymack44]

Some heroes need no capes. Thumbs ups wouldve sufficed. But you went above n beyond. Thanks you!!

[@DaveAnchovies]

@@bensmoif 25:00 words get stuck.,.

[@sanchopp]

J'adore leur performance. Des Artistes avec un grand A.

[@yd3346]

Merci d’écrire en français dans ces commentaires.

[@paulcardsfan]

oh my God what a stage show !!! wow they are great live !!!!

[@LaughingStock_]

What a fabulous upload! Such a tight, powerful performance. Really, they were at the height of their powers, as someone mentioned elsewhere.

[@vicesquadpunk]

WONDERFUL old DEVO footage.. thank you so much for sharing. It doesn't get any better than clear old concert footage featuring classic songs and a bunch of Frenchies ripping DEVO's trousers off whilst the band kick them away ✌🏻🤖👆🏻>>>>>>>😝>>>>>>> 🥔 x

[@morganfisherart]

Satisfaction! I defy *anyone* to try and sing Babybabybabybaby... as fast and as long as it is done here!!!

[@justjeph6927]

Maybe Jim Carrey could?

[@Gnomaxx]

Discovered them at this moment. Chorus was my wikipedia :) Devo for ever

[@TheGAK62]

DEVO did NOT come from New York, London or LA. A band this wonderfully bizarre could only come from northeast Ohio. ☺ ❤👍

[@AlanBrown-yg7rl]

Along with Joe Walsh, Chrissie Hynde, The Dead Boys, Trent Reznor, Marilyn Manson, and Tracy Chapman.

[@davidvasquez8658]

You had me at Joe Walsh. I believe they came from Akron, Ohio?

[@AlanBrown-yg7rl]

@@davidvasquez8658 Joe and Devo had their beginnings in Kent, Ohio, home of Kent State University. Northeast Ohio. The home of Rock and Roll!

[@antondillet466]

I don’t like google, but this is why I appreciate youtube: for the possibility to find this great extraordinary music. I’m getting a DEVO fan!!!! Can’t hardly stop watching and listening.

[@justjeph6927]

No need to stop, AD. Just keep on enjoying these midwestern genii

[@neckthrough1]

What a great performance. Devo is no joke!

[@Hackedaccount7372]

There's never going to be another band like them... :-(

[@WinslowLeach1974]

DEVO has been around for almost fifty years and still no one has ever sounded like them. And considering we're now going through times where even things like breakfast items and sports teams names are making people lose their shit, we're truly going through some serious de-evolution.

[@arcorman]

superb !!!!!!!!

[@yellowjackboots2624]

Nice to see Gerry and Bob1 kicking the crowd in the the head during Uncontrollable Urge. Thats the sort of audience participation you just don't see anymore, bless 'em.

[@griffinm4224]

Yellow Jackboots They kind of had to, the audience ripped the pants off them!

[@KurtSlotkowski-hj8jd]

Lol

[@justjeph6927]

Lol 😉😉

[@KydenBufect]

That's Punk right out of the LA clubs of late 70s early 80s.

[@martinripley8689]

Excellent. So many bands can't carry off studio 'performances' live. This lot can and some.

[@ammasdtr19]

devo live is another universe than studio devo

[@lucifersam7946]

Wow, never have I seen the footage of the concert be so high quality in the ten years that it has been passed around on this site, before.

[@Pbken]

This is the one to see

[@erikknudson3077]

spud boys gonna pass you around sweety

[@stefdebonnac6166]

Superbe . J'avais completement oublié ce groupe et pourtant qu'est ce que j'ai écouté l'album : peut etre plus de cent fois : Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! On sent bien la touche Brian ENO .

[@benborntorock923]

just dawned on me, these guys have wireless mics and guitars, and it was 1978? cutting edge technology then, and very unreliable but they seem to have mastered it.Devo are overlooked on justb so many levels!

[@justjeph6927]

And so recognized on our levels, John D!😎

[@fuckamericanidiot]

@fm'latghor Why are you being an asshole for no reason? It isn't cutting edge tech because it's 42 years ago. And why are you talking about the use of bluetooth 11 years after this show? Finally, if you knew anything you patronising cock, you would know that wireless units were first used in live shows in the mid to late 70s. Just like this show. I just looked it up. If you're going to correct someone do your research.

[@bertrandrulaud1896]

Je les ai vus au palace la même année , mon premier concert !

[@r.wesleydukes2825]

Saw them in Philly in the '70s, great band live.

[@patrickleitgeb]

This is a masterful performance.

[@jasonm1288]

Awesome 👍 it's too much Paranoia my favourite

[@stapledtodeath]

Ahead of their time, we are all d e v o

[@thisisobviouslynotmyrealname]

Ahead of any time

[@fstover5208]

Their energy was fantastic.

[@ronchristoffel]

Excellent! What the French must have thought about us Americans! Fantastic performance!

[@jclm4188]

Ron Christoffel shocked! scared, curious, amazed, baffled,confused, entertained

[@fevriertheo1414]

French TV was ahead of it's time, things like Devo live, airing at noon every saturday was nuts, brilliant, everything and more. There's footage of the clash on the same TV show available

[@justjeph6927]

Yah, see, we're not all stoo-ped. Oui, oui!

[@pjmuck]

Amazing.

[@JSE2015]

This is great

[@grantdaldry3187]

I'm 60in soon still rockin

[@christophegirard994]

I remember this TV show, Chorus, on the French TV as if it was just yesterday... I was 15. What a shock! TF1 was great at that time...

[@pedroleal7118]

I think it was Antenne 2 not TF1...Avec Antoine de Caunes et Jacky, quand ils étaient jeunes...!

[@christophegirard994]

@@pedroleal7118 True ! I don't why I thought it was on TF1 . I even bought the full collection of the DVDs a few years ago... I never missed any of these incredible shows at that time, and the same for Les Enfants du Rock afterwards. They were fundamental for my musical culture.

[@pedroleal7118]

@@christophegirard994 Mee too, there was 'Feedback' (with van Hallen debut generic!) and 'Loup Garou', friday night on the radio, and then sundayb morning the live act!

[@woodsripper]

holy sh*t, the french reporter is wearing a mask!

[@ryry998]

Another time traveller going back to a better time with better music.

[@jaxdragon1723]

Great show!! I miss these days...Maybe the mask was some schick? i don't think their was any "Flu" in '78 but maybe i forgot?... Naaa. IDK so.

[@paulbeardsley4095]

@@ryry998 We've all done it.

[@timchurchill6975]

AMAZING BAND..

[@prokesuk]

I wish I had seen them this early, but I was about ten. I didn't see them until the New Traditionalists tour.

[@4tuneagent]

I would say these are the best Live versions I have seen of "Mongoloid", "Jocko Homo", and "Too Much Paranoia"..

[@josephhargrove4319]

This isn't music; it's performance art! How far ahead of the curve were these guys? Amazing concert. You really can't disconnect the music from its performance. That's what makes it art. richard -- (on the subject of Joshua Abraham Norton, the Emperor of the United States, 1859-80) Delirium: He’s not mine, is he? His madness… his madness keeps him sane. Dream: And do you think he is the only one, my sister? - Neil Gaiman, “Three Septembers and a January”, in _Fables_&_Reflections_, Sandman vol. 6

[@heyzeus3363]

Ne sommes-nous pas des hommes? Nous sommes Devo

[@bumblebeemoi]

MAI OUI!

[@yellowjackboots2624]

Nous sommes les sange

[@redwingrob1036]

TU LE DIT BOUFFI!

[@johnwelsh2769]

They were tight!

[@aldobertoli6235]

Such an EPIC performance!, pure gold

[@thomaspollocknageoire4206]

and they were so good on stage !!!!!!!!!

[@markcastelane8284]

creative genius very big influence on discord,punk, new wave waaayy out there right with the other greats love you guys forever......

[@bryanfriedman4831]

What a great show! Wish I was around.

[@qb3334]

As a french, this video is a pure gem. However, i'm so sad that Devo totally avoid Europe this recent years. I will pay much to see them live before they retired!

[@bipcuds]

Those outfits ... it's like Rollerball without rollerskates!

[@arcade85_]

6:31 wireless microphone. Crazy stuff for the 1970s.

[@AcmePotatoPackingPocatello]

Yay yay yay yay yeeya. Uncontrollable Urge. Fantastically good vid.

[@fstover5208]

Amazing performance.

[@skipperson4077]

I love all of this but the Boojie Boy performance is slaying me!!!

[@Bowler6611]

For ME this first album is LEGENDARY. One of the best albums ever made. Duty Now.. was different. Then Freedom of Choice more mainstream but still good. But they strayed away from the experimentation displayed on songs like Paranoias, Jocko Homo, Shrivel Up etc. Especially the later 80s. Amazingly they got the MOJO back in 2010 with Something For Everybody and even MORE SO with the unfortunately overlooked Something ELSE For Everybody!

[@carloslozada2121]

Devo always great live

[@veriteri32]

How great! Thank you!!

[@OnlyEdandTheAlmost]

Back when the band was the act, not the audience.

[@dundergod]

Brilliant ! ! ! ! !

[@johnfletcher2122]

That’s an XTC song being played in the intro! Beatown, to be precise. Love it!!

[@butters395]

if they loved jerry lewis.....u know they're gonna like these guys ! 😋👍

[@ronaldwilliams9331]

Devo ! Twist the gates of steel by the way I know this is before that I just said that because that's my favorite song LOL just to clarify

[@kobalt77]

Outstanding, thank you so much for this.

[@finkboy66]

How are these guy not in the Rock Hall of Fame?

[@silvasonicsurfa]

Awesome vid, thx for sharing!

[@darrenkelliott2459]

Imagine being at this show trippin balls...and seeing Boojie Boy for the first time. Yea....

[@glennlammonby6771]

Too Much Paranoias is out of this world. Bizarre yet exhilarating at the same time.

[@randyhill6157]

Great how last song audience didnt kno wot 2 think...right ? Behind great classic rolling stones like guitars riffing right ? 2 ahead of its time ??? ...yes !!!!!!!

[@justjeph6927]

Yeah, it's cool watching the kids getting into more and more as they play..it's like, 'this is OUR music!'

[@claudioortolan2110]

Nei primi 5 posti tra le band di tutti i tempi ❤❤❤

[@rogerwalnut]

0:01 About 7 seconds of "Beatown" by XTC

[@mandobizar]

HOLY SHIT! THAT WAS INTENSE!! They don't make them like they use to.

[@luizspindola]

Check out Omni! They have a somewhat similar sound... Not as energetic though

[@barrymchugh4490]

Definitely before their time! They might not like it but their kids sure do!! #Devo Rocks!!

[@steveclapping]

J'adore j'adore j'adore !

[@fuckyoujesus666]

HOLY HELL! Red Eye Express goin lightspeed, amazing.

[@paulmcginn5146]

beautiful so sad it's over and thank you

[@jwolthers]

LOVE!

[@芝池裕教]

DEVO サイコー

[@windrider23]

The start of industrial music.

[@JoeGomez1]

Devo is Perfect for a French Audience

[@terrypussypower]

Yeah, all those New Wavers, Zeh Lov Eet!!