DEVO - Lets hear some chatter folks

Short performance with nothing for openers. I guess Devo fans are as forgiving of Devo performance as their wives are of theirs.

Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
First of all no openers and short shows were standard for Devo in the past…. The drummer was hardly impeded by injury, he just didn't rock to 11… the energy was still there, they just didn't bounce as high… the shows of past with videos were highly planned affairs which the band probably didn't have the time to do this timeout… and take your shit somewhere else

it has more to do with sonic overload then anything.. their shows were always intense and fairly loud affairs… it was also very hot in the club last night

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
The incredible video show that was supposed to set the club date apart from a festival date didn't work.

It worked on Sunday…

While it might have smarted a bit to drop $55 on one show, I don't have any regrets. Devo ran through every song I would have wanted to hear (except Space Junk, which would've sent me into a fit of insanity) with an intensity that I wouldn't have thought they could muster at their age. And the drummer's hand must have been feeling better, because he was using it a good bit, not only drumming with both hands, but using the broken one for most of the big cymbal crashes. All in all it was money well spent; plus, you gotta figure those tear-away yellow jumpsuits are expensive to replace.

Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
it has more to do with sonic overload then anything.. their shows were always intense and fairly loud affairs… it was also very hot in the club last night

Yeah, what was that? Did the band request it?? It was really, really hot…

one can only run the a/c so hard, seeing as hot it was outside it much be a bitch to cool a room that large with so many bodies in it.

While I am new to the site, I have seen over 500 shows in my 40 years. Many at the old club, and too few at the current location. One thing that seems to beg for a comment… It is really odd to complain about a show you did not attend. The club is fantastic, the staff is always respectful and in control, and the band still has the talent and energy to put on a fantastic show. I hope everyone who attended has as much fun as I did!

Originally posted by phillidan:
One thing that seems to beg for a comment… It is really odd to complain about a show you did not attend.

We've had people give concert reviews of concerts they didn't attend before. The revisionist history runs rampant.

The set list from both nights, not necessarily in order and perhaps missing a song or two:

That's Good
Goin' Under
Whip It
Blockhead
Jocko Homo
Girl U Want
Gates of Steel
Smart Patrol/Mr. DNA
Gut Feeling/Slap Your Mammy
Freedom of Choice
Come Back Jonee

Uncontrollable Urge
Mongoloid

The set list from both nights, not necessarily in order and perhaps missing a song or two:

That's Good
Goin' Under
Whip It
Blockhead
Jocko Homo
Girl U Want
Gates of Steel
Smart Patrol/Mr. DNA
Gut Feeling/Slap Your Mammy
Freedom of Choice
Come Back Jonee

Also, played… at least on Saturday:

Uncontrollable Urge
Satisfaction
Mongoloid

The shows were great. Enough said.

As for the ticket price, whatever. Besides, the core DEVO fan demographic is 35+ (older … and, perhaps, wiser), which means more disposable income and probably fewer events/concerts coming to town that actually inspire them to head on out into the night.

One thing will never change, that's for sure: the check-me-out-I'm-cooler-than-thou criticism of what music other people listen to, their physical appearances and how they choose to spend their money. The smug music fanatics who pride themselves on knowing the minutiae of, like, every band that ever formed, fell apart, regrouped or dissipated into oblivion (and who engage in loud conversations that are nothing but bouts of sad one-upsmanship and check-out-my-encyclopedic-knowledge-of-like-everything-from-MST3K-to-G.G. Allin-to-The-Bacon-Brothers) will always be a part of the music scene. It's OK for a teenager or 20-something who hasn't been around the block and is still poking around to find an identity; but to hear it from older people queued up for a DEVO gig or milling about the floor of Nightclub 9:30 or posting on an Internet bulletin board or wherever makes me smile quietly to myself (with an admittedly hypocritical sense of irony).

As for my own bigotry, I'll take a corpulent member of DEVO over a self-satisfied, tattooed, jive-talkin', I'm-in-the-know social fool any day of the week.

Choose your mutations carefully.

If you are referring to my comments…I was not at the concert, and am not complaining about the concert. I was merely repeating the comments of others.

Originally posted by phillidan:
While I am new to the site, I have seen over 500 shows in my 40 years. Many at the old club, and too few at the current location. One thing that seems to beg for a comment… It is really odd to complain about a show you did not attend. The club is fantastic, the staff is always respectful and in control, and the band still has the talent and energy to put on a fantastic show. I hope everyone who attended has as much fun as I did!

it was a goodl, punchy show, but yes, some of them look like they should hit the stairmaster once in a while.

and what is with the crowd????

Talk about a dork-o-rama….

One little mini-mothersbaugh in a hawaiian shirt was totally mental. He rudely jammed himself in front of us, knocking into a beer held by this girl next to me. I said something like, "hey, watch it," and he totally exploded. Got in my face and screamed at me, "WHERE DO YOU WANT ME TO GO?????" Mind you, this guy is about half my height.

Then he started accusing me of threatening him. He cowered to the floor and covered his head, pointing at me, making a big scene about how I was threatening him. Then he told the people in front of us to protect him from me, and…. took the space in front of them.

I thought it was a mental scam to get closer to the stage, but he spent much of the show looking back at me and cowering, so maybe he was just a nut.

I'm wondering, what would the club do in a case where one patron accuses another of harrassing and/or violent behavior? (Assuming, of course, security saw no such contact because it is a total fabrication)

Yeah, there was a guy next to me doing big motion new wave dancing – i.e., taking up lots of space. Granted, this was near the very back where there's more of that kind of room, and I enjoy seeing someone appreciate the show so much. But what I found funny is that he had a cast on one arm, and when someone came near and sort of threatened some of his dancing space, he held up his arm until they went away, as if to say "hey, lookie lookie, I'm injured here. I need my space or I may hit you with this rock-hard arm cast when I flail about my arms…"

And then another guy in front of me with his girlfriend would NOT move to let a guy carrying three beers cross in front of him. The stationary guy was funny…he was so adamant, as if he truly believed the guy (who just needed to pass by) was going to position himself right in front of the couple, happily drinking all three beers himself. Even when the beer guy got by and headed away, the stationary guy retained this insulted look on his face.

People can be really idiosyncratic at shows…

J'Mal, your story is rather similiar to what happened to us at the last show we were at…

We had been standing near the front at a three band show for about two hours. The show was sold out and packed. We were standing next to a couple of rather short women. There was also a large group of people near us, a couple of whom we had chatted with briefly between bands.

As the headliner was about to go on, a couple of big haired hags came pushing through the crowd, doing the pretend to be meeting someone up front, then stopping. They stopped in such a way that they both obscured the view of the short women, and had their boobs practically sticking into my wife's back.

My wife told them they needed to move on, the refused and started giving shit back to her. A couple of the people we had chatted with started mocking them and telling them to move on. Finally, they did.

But five minutes later, just as the headliner started playing, 9:30 staph came and pulled us out of the audience and took us to the back, saying that there were two crying women who my wife had elbowed. Total bullshit fabrication. Man, I tell you…what women get away with when they turn on the tears. We told the staph person our side of the story, and they weren't convinced. Luckily, one of the people we had been standing next to heard that we had been whisked away, and came to the back and corroborated our story. And we were set free.

Also, lucklily, we managed to squirm our way back to where we had been standing.

The end.

Originally posted by J'Mal:
it was a goodl, punchy show, but yes, some of them look like they should hit the stairmaster once in a while.

and what is with the crowd????

Talk about a dork-o-rama….

One little mini-mothersbaugh in a hawaiian shirt was totally mental. He rudely jammed himself in front of us, knocking into a beer held by this girl next to me. I said something like, "hey, watch it," and he totally exploded. Got in my face and screamed at me, "WHERE DO YOU WANT ME TO GO?????" Mind you, this guy is about half my height.

Then he started accusing me of threatening him. He cowered to the floor and covered his head, pointing at me, making a big scene about how I was threatening him. Then he told the people in front of us to protect him from me, and…. took the space in front of them.

I thought it was a mental scam to get closer to the stage, but he spent much of the show looking back at me and cowering, so maybe he was just a nut.

I'm wondering, what would the club do in a case where one patron accuses another of harrassing and/or violent behavior? (Assuming, of course, security saw no such contact because it is a total fabrication)

Originally posted by J'Mal:
One little mini-mothersbaugh in a hawaiian shirt was totally mental. He rudely jammed himself in front of us, knocking into a beer held by this girl next to me. I said something like, "hey, watch it," and he totally exploded. Got in my face and screamed at me, "WHERE DO YOU WANT ME TO GO?????" Mind you, this guy is about half my height.

Then he started accusing me of threatening him. He cowered to the floor and covered his head, pointing at me, making a big scene about how I was threatening him. Then he told the people in front of us to protect him from me, and…. took the space in front of them.

I thought it was a mental scam to get closer to the stage, but he spent much of the show looking back at me and cowering, so maybe he was just a nut.

This is one of the funniest stories I've read in a long time. Two thumbs up for sharing!

I enjoyed both stories and am glad that the other people you were talking to stepped up and helped you guys out.

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
My wife told them they needed to move on, the refused and started giving shit back to her. A couple of the people we had chatted with started mocking them and telling them to move on. Finally, they did.

it's a good thing you or celeste didn't light up a cigarette … i sent the 930 staff your photos, and if you pull that kind of shit again, expect to be booted … or punched in the nose by me … asshole …

Yes, the people around us were cool, and 9:30 staph handled the situation professionally and fairly.

Originally posted by Rob_Gee:
I enjoyed both stories and am glad that the other people you were talking to stepped up and helped you guys out.