Devo live at the Uptown Theatre, Napa Valley, California, 15 January 2012.
I was lucky enough to record a bunch of shows for Devo during their California tours of 2011 and 2012. They're a great bunch of guys, they had a great tour crew, and the album that they'd recently released and were touring in support of, Something for Everybody, is an amazing album and is still in high rotation at my house 10 years after its release.
This concert was when Devo was in their hard rock phase, due primarily to Bob1 turning up the distortion knob on his distortion stomp box to maximum. It's not really a sound that suits them I think.
But the good news is that his guitar is buried in the mix more so here than the other Devo recordings I made, and the synths are more prominent as well, which makes for a more pleasing combination. This is my favorite recording that I made of them because of that.
If you want to hear Devo sound like a heavy metal band, go find that abomination of a recording of them at The Observatory in Orange County as recorded by Moshcam. It's all over YT. I have no idea who mixed that recording or why they thought it was a good idea to make Devo sound like Meshuggah.
Personnel on this recording:
Mark Mothersbaugh: vocals, synths, guitar
Bob Mothersbaugh (Bob1): guitar, vocals
Jerry Casale: bass, synths, vocals
Bob Casale (Bob2): guitar, synths
Jeff Freidl: drums
(0:00) Don't Shoot (I'm a Man)
(5:25) Peek-a-Boo!
(8:33) What We Do
(11:47) Goin' Under
(15:26) Fresh
(18:15) That's Good
(22:05) Girl U Want
(25:25) Whip It
(28:20) Planet Earth
(31:15) planetary interlude
(34:00) Satisfaction
(37:30) Secret Agent Man
(41:13) The Uncontrollable Urge
(45:00) Mongoloid
(49:54) Jocko Homo
(55:20) Smart Patrol / Mr. DNA
(1:02:28) Gates of Steel
(1:06:30) Corporate Anthem
(1:07:43) Freedom of Choice
(1:13:25) Beautiful World (with Booji Boy)
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