Mark Mothersbaugh Interview, June 1988

[@orchidb.6060]

So glad I bought a devo's greatest hits album 3 years ago, took a risk buying it only knowing the song whip it. One of the best music decisions I've ever made.

[@JasonJayJJ1]

The album "Oh No It's Devo" is a greatest hits album in of itself. Produced by one of the best rock/pop producers of all time...Not Brian Eno.

[@ВладимирКруглов-к9о]

@@JasonJayJJ1 Fully agree. fantastic album, unjustly maligned and denigrated. Recommended without reservations!

[@EugeneTriboulet]

Maybe you are ready for the Devo Hardcore vol. 1-2 album !

[@williamdaniel8666]

You are such a risk taker!

[@The_OneManCrowd]

@@JasonJayJJ1 Yep. My favorite Devo album.

[@somattalistenta]

Such a genuinely beautiful creative man. Being a graphic designer too it's no wonder I loved their sound, lyrics and look.

[@occommunitycats7616]

Mark is adorable! I saw them play the Coach House in 1989. Really small venue. Seen them 6 or 7 times since, most recently 9/25/21 at the KZbin Theater in LA. LOVE DEVO!!!!

[@FrenchToasted1995]

him fripp, emerson and metheny are my influences

[@cruxie1]

Gentle genius, thank you for writing the score of my youth...

[@rickderringer6662]

I remember listening to "shrivel Up" in 1978 with friends and just laughing, they were crazy and totally unique

[@airtow6766]

My God, his definition of devolution was 100% correct all along.

[@checkyourhead9]

So cute 💜

[@lensmith1870]

I had an incredible time pure genius

[@misanthrope.]

Mark is too cute

[@mikemeengs5720]

I met the band and got my Duty Now album signed by them back in 1980 or so. It was a promotion at a record store, and there were maybe ten people there! Crazy quiet. I still have the vinyl!

[@NullStaticVoid]

I was 12 when I saw them the first time. It was my first concert. New Traditionalist tour. Amazing live show, Mark gives 120% at every performance back then. Now he just does 105% because he's understandably an older fellow. But when he got up on stage with Massive Hot Dog Recall last weekend he was belting it out pretty good.

[@japoople]

I love that hat he's wearing

[@Scabrous77]

Love it!

[@huwzebediahthomas9193]

Very likable fella.

[@dcashley303]

Great interview, thanks spud!

[@Bikewithlove]

The thing I like about DEVO is that they really know their de-evolution.

[@LFrench]

The talk of them having just done the Total Devo tour probably places this at February 1989? I think

[@lensmith1870]

I played music and was also a promoter back in the day, and l hired Devo and met you mark we did two shows a night for three days Raincross Square Riverside California, incredible great time the girl got onstage not your lights over we had to call the last night off boy did they are at outside of the Arena at night the people did not get in to see the last show

[@h9ooo]

Wow, I've never seen this before!

[@MrAdrienmartinez]

"Ronald Reagan and Ronald McDonald" I died. Love him.

[@rebeccaatkinson4531]

TRUE WHEN U THINK ABOUT IT AND RONALD RHYMES WITH DONALD.....BOTH CLOWNS. THAT WEREN'T AND AREN'T ....N I C E

[@herculesrockefeller8969]

In the still you used for this video, he looks like a young Karl Malden.

[@jameshill6260]

...but without the nose.

[@elderlypoodle9181]

Yes. The humour.

[@stevedonahue7956]

how can someone be so cool and so nerdy at the same time......a walking contradiction....

[@Chordonblue]

The Talking Heads had that vibe as well...

[@coldacre]

how is cool & nerdy a contradiction? the hell?

[@trashyraccoon2615]

Nerds are the smart ones who change the world

[@JC-xc8rx]

@@Chordonblue talking heads was just imitating these guys

[@kmac3215]

👍

[@plan9guitar600]

Switched on guy!

[@QuarrellaDeVil]

Would have loved to have seen General Boy make an appearance, à la "Patton", with the big American flag in the background as he spoke of de-evolution.

[@Bipbop66]

Why is life around us falling apart, but since we have the new iphone, then things around us don't look so grave anymore...

[@Chordonblue]

Can you say that now, in 2020? With our cities on fire, a killer virus, and political chaos?

[@haolekoa737]

Things still look grave, it's just no one is looking at them, they're all looking at the screens of said iphones... Bread & circuses has reached a whole new level.

[@paulcrosslin6011]

Funny how they never talk about the National Guard shootings at the campus of Kent State .. Or Going to Germany to record in Brian Eno's studio at the behest of David Bowie .. Devo has always stood on their own merit and #blessed am I to have experienced full blown DEVO. great fucking band.

[@rebeccaatkinson4531]

Really I heard An interview today where they did. Can't back up what you say???

[@heterosapien]

Amazing how Mark's head looks more darwinianly evolved than most humans, even though Devo's theory, sorry, truth, is not related to Darwin's theory, to me Mark is a genius

[@whatsupguys8547]

Was that his Michael Stipe REM look?

[@jimbailey5681]

This was three years before Stipe started sporting this look

[@motodork]

He was correct about technology.

[@dominiquerichmond8570]

Sims 2 anyone?

[@LFrench]

...he pronounced irony weird

[@ButterknivesDEVO]

eerony

[@thefantasticbrowndirt]

[@rebeccaatkinson4531]

RONALD REAGAN WAS RONALD MCDONALD TO ME ALSO LOL

[@TheBigMclargehuge]

I feel like Mark and I wouldn't be friends.

[@guymontag9577]

He's a bit too much to the left, siding with several fascist politicians. Too bad, I like their material.

[@The_OneManCrowd]

@@guymontag9577 Me too. Love the music, not into their politics.

[@PennsylvaniaHistoryBuff]

@@The_OneManCrowd And comments like “Love the music, not into their politics” just prove de-evolution is real.

[@trashyraccoon2615]

@@The_OneManCrowd The music and politics are kind of inseparable. It’s a political art band for gods sake

[@rolfhoffmann4294]

mike perone was right

[@ljr1200]

WRONG--- "debu" means fat, not "debo". デブというのは太った人ですね。"チビ、デブ、ブス“ means "devolved America".....

[@MidiFister]

im viewer 666!!! HAIL DEVO