Big Mess (DEVO) - unofficial backing video

In November 2008, I directed a fundraiser at the University of Arkansas for the Box Theatre, a small independent theatre production group in Fort Worth, TX. The fund raising event was a reenactment of the 1982/1983 "OH NO!..." tour created by new wave/post-punk group DEVO. The show included a twenty song set, several costume changes, mixed media, and plenty of great live music. The first seven songs included in the set list were accompanied by seven different videos, which played perfectly in sync with the music our musicians performed while simultaneously being projected on a large screen on the back of the stage. This particular clip is the video I created for the song "Big Mess." The music heard in the video is the click-track that kept the show's musicians in time with the video, and was used in the live show (I also included the keyboard solo in the video to give it a small amount of variety).

The footage seen inside of Cowboy Kim's head throughout the video was either taken from the Prelinger Archives or from other DEVO videos (mainly Beautiful World and The Men Who Make the Music).

Special thanks to Alex Brunelle of Booji Boy's Basement for supplying me with footage from the infamous 1982 3-Devo show. You can get a copy of the show on DVD @ http://boojiboysbasement.com/videopages/DVD19.html

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• DEVO
• Theatre
• Mark Mothersbaugh
• Jerry Casale
• OH NO! It's DEVO!
• 3-Devo
• cover
• tribute
• Prelinger

[hollywoodsheraton]

this is the best video i have ever seen here.

[sswanso]

@hollywoodsheraton Glad you liked it :)

[flagwaver1969]

Groovy. Saw them at the Warfield in 1982.

[sswanso]

@flagwaver1969 I just saw them at the Warfield this last weekend. They still sound great.

[piemakesmelol]

this video is great, forget all the haters it'd just be great if you put the original song over it ;)

[sswanso]

@piemakesmelol Probably, but WBR would probably make me remove it if I tried :/

[buffjoe420]

Dare to be Stupid

[sswanso]

@wedberg1 Any chance you could be more precise about what you didn't like about it? It's hard to learn from my mistakes if you're just going to announce your bodily reject.

[jackerx5]

@ABon1212 well they are

[JustGreatMusic87]

AWESOME devo song AMAZING video ;D

[mfactor88]

@Fooblestheclown beatles were of their time, DEVO were ahead of their time(thats why they were never as big as the beatles....but time will tell:) m50

[tacomadc]

Is this their midi backing track live? I'm guessing that's what it is!  Cool.

[ABon1212]

@Fooblestheclown i dont kno if u were being sarcastic but i now assume u were 

[Fooblestheclown]

@ABon1212 ........greatest band of all time. 

[ABon1212]

@Fooblestheclown dumbest comment ever possibly

[verapamil07]

It is a great track, "W" is the right guy for this clip, man with the vision and the gun, crazy 100%.

Thanks for this masterpiece.

[Fooblestheclown]

Devo are better than the Beatles.