Devo - Live Clip M-80 Festival Devo As Dove 1980

Live clip at the M-80 festival with Devo as Dove playing the song "It Takes A Worried Man" in 1980.

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• Devo
• Dove
• Love

[jbrown1169]

There's something very Andy Kaufman-esque about Devo somtimes. You have to remember at the time 90% of people just wanted to hear them sing Girl U Want and Whip It, then they come out as a "Dove The Band Of Love" and play a Kingston Trio cover. People didn't always get Devo back then. There is a track on The Mongoloid Years where a promoter gets mad at them and unplugs them during their set, and a shouting match ensues. They just did their own thing, like it or not.

[MyConversation]

You're obviously an idiot markussis.

"I never saw worse grammar"

[hc2333]

I was there, it was explained that their label wouldn't let them perform at M80, so they were DOVE instead of DEVO for the show, which gave them ideas for the fun "Love Dove..." and the evangelist look for a great satirical statement on that... their show was pure genius as always.

[spwb2k]

the apotheosis of nerd cool, decades ahead of their time.

[dawggybonz]

30+ years ago

[Mikeol2006]

@jbrown1169

Devo = Punk Rock Baby :D

[empiricalproof]

@jbrown1169

Yeah and I love the music video they did for Neil Young? that featured Booji Boy as a nuclear plant worker on a routine waste dump. The best thing about this song is its unspoken punchline (in the album version)i.e. "I'm not going to be worried long because we're all going to die horribly, thanks to you huboons."

[MrJacMac1986]

@pluffmudsc Yeah it does sound like Bob Weir singing

[chh5555]

@polkaholic Cool, I was there too! Remember like it was yesterday! I was playing in 1of the bands (not DOVE)... it was a great time to be alive and in mpls.

[jbrown1169]

@polkaholic My bad, I didn't know for sure when the concert was, the description said it was 1980 not 1979. Still, people were probably waiting for the hits off of Are We Not Men, and Duty Now For The Future, not this. I'm not saying everybody didn't get it, but I'm sure a good deal of them were scratching their heads.

[polkaholic]

@jbrown1169, one minor point: I was at this show, fall of 1979. Some people may have been waiting for Mongoloid or Jocko Homo, but the Freedom of Choice album (with Whip It, et al) wasn't released until the following summer.