Devo - Smart Patrol / Mr. DNA - 1978 - France

[pebbypoo]

I think the guitar sounds in the audience must be overdubbed. Great Job.

[pebbypoo]

@pebbypoo Probably Keys.

[Jhensy2012]

Beneath it all, they were a great rock band, a high-powered machine.

[myzakm]

1 person is hopelessly lost for disliking this.

[fuckamericanidiot]

damn you warner bros, devo were never meant to make pop music, freedom of choice makes me angry. just two years later and they're a comparative snore fest compared to this

[PCshenanigans]

Bob1 DOMINATES this song on every video of a live performance that i've seen...this is like HIS song... its my all time fav. DEVO song.

[savetheoceans1]

Dudes- Devo is once again blaring out of the stereo( great having a teenager in the house) forgot how much these guys appreciated Kaptian Kopter & Commander Cassidy in Potatoland!....

Long live the Derevolution in Scotland

[Siste4366]

I have heard DEVO nearly 25 years or so (i just knew MONGOLOID)not.I agree with you bootlegapples!!!I am from Germoney,so excuse any grammatical faults

[elricochico]

so bloody amazing

[peterguzinher]

Suburban robots who monitor reality!!! They KNEW the future......... This performance needs to be remastered to vinyl.

[xThakmere]

This was absolutely nuts. It just makes it MORE of my favourite Devo song. I concur though, someone needs to get a better/the original copy of this and remaster it. From what I've seen so far it's way too awesome.

[bryanconnors333]

Top of their form! Bob 1 is out-of-control!

[bootlegapples]

...not just far ahead of their time...far ahead of this time even

[MowgliX]

Great band, great song!

[nexus20]

around after 3:45 to 4:05

[DraskyVanderhoff]

They Kick ever single Newton Law !!! Their Cinetic is so bizarre. We need more of this !!!!

[TheItalix]

Their body language is so strange. It's hard to believe they emerged out of that Kent State Hippy scene.

[punkfootofnose]

this is completely and totally awesome

[simonsieverts]

unbelievable performance. 

[fuckamericanidiot]

how cool is bob1

[URNmyRVM]

nick1137, yeah, being dropped from the label would've enabled them to return to their creative license - they've bitched about their label demanding a certain sound on albums since then.

[nick1137]

i disagree that whip it was the worst thing to ever happen to this band because i think without it this band would have been dropped from their label

[fuckamericanidiot]

@nick1137 i think to be signed to a major label was the beginning, although i may never had heard them

[URNmyRVM]

the worst thing that ever happened to Devo was "Whip It" being such a big hit. So many people think they're oddball one-hit wonders, when it fact they're the owners of a ton of downright dirty rockin' punk gems!

[richiebear1969]

@URNmyRVM I totally agree with you. The worst thing to happen to Devo and The Talking Heads was the commercial success of a big hit.

[prickyinsult]

one of their best songs and albums

"we shove the poles in the hole"

[tms870]

"im only a spud boy, looking for the real tomato" DEVO in concert Tempe town lake Sept 18 i hope they do a bunch of this old school shit......

[tms870]

these guys ARE  so badass

[NBM3]

Highly advanced.

[acutchin]

No one on this thread understands my potato...

[JohnnyLovelyOfficial]

this is the greatest song ever made

[1devo6587]

notice that durring the 2nd solo to this song [the mr dna solo] bob1s guitar comes unpluged, thats why you dont hear nothing once hes in the crowd, also durring the 1st solo at the 3:17 mark, bob 1s strap lock fails and he nearly drops the guitar on the ground, thats why he quickly finished off the solo and ran back to his mic on the stage, still an awsome performance!

[jamesbluntslunts]

bob1 is playing the entire time he's in the crowd and pushed back again lol

[aflockofmusic2]

whoa! did someone pull bob 1 into the crowd or did he trip.

[Gjeorje]

HA! nihilistic self-debasement at its best.I lov it when Bob kamikazis into the audience, inviting them to join them in self-destruct mode. The spiritual descendants of the Marx brothers.

[michelmischa]

from the desk of general boy: "DUTY NOW FPR THE FUTURE!" :-)

[CAPITALISTagenda]

NOBODY UNDERSTANDS MY POTATO :( :( :(

[michelmischa]

we´re the smart patrol ! :-)

[bacofishtaco]

@CAPITALISTagenda

It's okay, you'll find a real tomato someday. We all do.

[CAPITALISTagenda]

@bacofishtaco THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT! :) :) :)

[michelmischa]

Looking for a real tomato !! :-))

[HarryUpHarry]

I think you're just a spudboy!

[shadowhalfcast]

i've just watched this about 20 times in a row

[utdougie]

I know the feeling!!!

[mhofkp]

my god, how does this work so well??? everything they are doing just works! if it wasn't for growing up on devo, i may have ended up normal! praise "BOB"...

[SkatePunkMan1980]

This makes me want to go find an empty concrete pool and drop-in! "We need to sacrifice ourselves so many others may live!" D-E-V-O: the most under-appreciated, brilliant, New Wave-Techno-Punk group ever!

[Jemmer1000]

Wait a minute, something's wrong.

[78topper]

OMG these guys could BRING IT

Early DEVO is F'ing hard to beat.

[blastinashatner]

fuck...

[cograilfan]

the shirts, suits, sox, pads, helmets, shoes, and 3d glasses i can take, but those shorts are just WEIRD!

i wish wiggly world was recorded, it was played, but apperently cut from the overall television broadcast, along with the corperate anthem. Secret agent man was also supposed to had been played during a sound check at this conert. which would had been fucking awsome to hear

[sharikmarius]

Wasn't weird at the time. Most male athletic shorts were like that. Check out the basketball and jogging shorts of that era.

[TalkingDevoB52]

I think cog is kinda missing the point, i really dont think that band at ANY point was trying to look cool, the point was more I think to not look cool and to be uniformed with the band. And the shorts arent even that bad anyway

[1devo6587]

you nailed it right on the head!

[1devo6587]

your welcome! and about the obsesson,i know how you feel,my obsession finaly died down after i got all of the albums! although im still a huge fan of devo!

[TalkingDevoB52]

Let's see, I got every album except Underground Devo Vol. 1, for vids I have Live 1980, the Complete Truth, Devo Live, and a VHS of Are U Experienced along with three posters and two shirts. And I also made a version of this get up they wear a lot and the Whip It video turtlenecks. Do you think I qualify ? ?

[TalkingDevoB52]

Oh and a copy of the book by Oscar Kiss Maerth The beginning was the End where a lot of the ideas came from. It's neat.

[conservativefloozie]

Funny how Bob Lewis, who had read "The Beginning Was The End" and turned Jerry on to it, was able to later sue DEVO for the theft of "HIS" intellectual property and win! Seems to me that Lewis got the idea from Maerth.....

[TalkingDevoB52]

THANK YOU, been saying the same for a long time

[1devo6587]

dude,you definatly qualify! i dont even have all of the viedo tapes yet,heck,i dont have nearly as much merchendice as you have!! the olny merchendice i have are: a radition suit that i caught in a devo consert,a homemade radition suit,energy dome,2 devo shirts,and a poster! you sir are a huge spud! do you know where i can get that book The beginning was the End?

[TalkingDevoB52]

I got mine by checking Amazon and Ebay randomly until someone or some store decided to sell it I believe mine was mailed from California but I guess that doesnt really matter. Anyways if you want a copy good luck and the movies are all on Amazon including VHS's. I actually do not have an energy dome I must admit but to be entirely honest I dont mind looking awfully silly but those are a little much for me to walk around in. I guess you can make them ? ? I dunno, anyways thanks.

[1devo6587]

your welcome! and you read it wrong,i diddnt make my energy dome,i baught it in the devo consert i went to,olny my one radition suit ,but,i olny wear them durring holloween,devo conventions,conserts,etc. otherwise i agree,id look pritty werd walking around in the public in those,lol!

[Obinjess]

There are two kinds of people in the world: 1) those which know this is one of the most badass groups ever. 2) those who are hopelessly lost and must be converted into Devo fans. We all know what must be done.

[inthecan]

FUCKING AWESOME! thank you for posting this, holy shit.

[DragoonNoR]

Yeah! Smart Patrol/Mr. DNA is the best song ever by DEVO. I saw them live in Frankfurt Germany (1990) while I was in the military overseas. They blew the roof off the place! I met one of the guys - Gerald Casale. He was awesome. *D*E*V*0* !!!

[HumanoidXP6]

DEVO 4 EVER

[HarryUpHarry]

I'd like to see them live, but the shorts, the goggles and the pointing disturb me ;-)

[Pitumisio]

6:43 of pure Bob 1. You know what's got in his hands? A 1967 LaBaye 2x4 guitar that is the Ferrari of strings.

[1devo6587]

do you know if they still make the labaye

2x4?

[jp00349]

don't think so, John Birch still makes the Super Yob, check that too

[uzimother]

this is f**kin quality :D

[adoganalog]

Man oh man, I saw them twice during this era- both times at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago.

I can remember every second of them doing these songs ( in particular) as if it were yesterday. The second time Mark had a sampler taped to his chest - pushed one finger down for some awesome circuit bent noise, and shouted 'Ted Nugent ! Ted Nugent !'

Devo was God. Tripping madly didn't hurt the experience, to be sure.

He's an altruistic pervert !

[forrestluvspogs9]

I love the early punk Devo. They started a whole new wave of music but eventually became victims of the mid 80's "New Wave" sound that became popular.

My #1 favorite band of all time.

[DarkXGlitched]

Even so, Devo was one of the pioneers of that 80's "New Wave" sound. I like both, but I too prefer their early "electro-punk" sound.

[Pitumisio]

Amen bro. Same here.

[artophonic]

This footage Rocks!!!!! the first time I saw DEVO was late night after a party in the seventies, they were performing Jocko Homo on Don Kirshner's rock concert...I remember saying, "What the F*ck was that?" I got hooked immediately...then they did a little cover spot on 60 minutes about new wave, then I finally found the LP We are DEVO...fan for life.

[TyroneSandalphon]

is this not 1979 ?

[askl23]

No, even though this song appeared on 1979's "Duty Now for the Future", Devo had been playing some of these songs since the early and mid 70's.

[gugalpm]

I wish I could flag this video for being too awesome! =p

[retromaster2000s]

Awsome footage Devo's best song Classic highly underatted band in The U.S. too which sucks.

[TheOnlyLMV]

DAMN Bob 1 is so fucking punk! Smart Patrol is always a radtacular performance!

[1devo6587]

i LOVE THIS SONG!

[TheReverendBizarre]

Dude, I love you! This concert is the best DEVO-live-footage ever recorded. Oh, and answer the freaking PM, will you? ;)

[1devo6587]

YOU SAID THAT RIGHT!